The brilliant @susanzieger.bsky.social has an entire chapter about this space junk, Elon Musk’s role in creating it, in her fascinating book LOGISTICS AND POWER. Buy it for the holidays here: bookshop.org/p/books/logi...

The definition of abuse of (governamental) power for personal reasons

Seguro gere os dias com donativos. Marques Mendes e Gouveia e Melo pediram empréstimos. Cotrim e Ventura estão a contar com os partidos. Nenhum podia estar a receber donativos, nem a abrir contas, mas já estão a fazê-lo. Não revelam de quem estão a receber dinheiro e onde o gastam.

(Not unexpected) power play by the far-right 'Patriots for Europe ' group - offering @president.europarl.europa.eu Metsola an unprecedented third term, for the price of fully lifting the cordon sanitaire and voting 'Patriots' MEPs into leading positions (via @euractiv.com).

An uncomfortable truth for our leaders: there’s a limit to how ‘human’ we want you to be | Gaby Hinsliff

Confessaram um crime, as viaturas têm menos milhares de kms que os facturados, as matrículas não condizem, os restaurantes estão a centenas de kms do local da deslocação e são sempre os mesmos e a juíza absolve porque tem dúvidas. Mas que raio se passa com a justiça? www.publico.pt/2025/11/24/s...

Novo bitcoin 🙃

Ok, I never paid much attention to Rosalia... But this new album is something. The video of the single is also quite worth it... I guarantee you *will be surprised* www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...

Só pessoas que nunca tiveram bébés chamam aos seus projectos 'o meu bébé'. /rant over

It's crazy how much the answer to a simple question like 'how confident are American consumers feeling about their current situation?' varies depending on how you measure the concept. Conference Board: "Not as good as a year ago, but still above average." University of Michigan: "WORST EVER!"

Human laundromats love to fold

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company. Utterly despicable.

easily her least accessible, even most abrasive album but fetch the bolt cutters is such a fucking triumph

As long as the $$ is good. . . Meta reportedly projected 10% of 2024 sales came from scam, fraud ads www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/met…

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Really good interview about masculinity with @profgalloway.com . I don't necessarily agree with him on other topics - but on this he leads the way. The fact that we leave the far right 'conquer the attention' of young men to their ranks was not a smart move www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcjm...

It's really fun to listen to stock market analysts justifying the high stock valuations of Tesla (before), now Palantir: 'Investors believe on the company, on the *mission*'. No, they f*cking don't. There are only 10 stocks growing and holding the market. It's a herd phenomenon. Winners take all.

Sky News’ data and forensics team spent nine months investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies far right and extremist content. Their research has definitively proved that it does. Great work @kaitlintosh.bsky.social @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social and other Sky News journalists.

Plastic over-production and over-use remain very significant problems!! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It’s time for Democratic Party leaders and consultants to recognize what is happening and what Mamdani accomplished tonight. Turn left for the future.

Depois do sonso do Leitão Amaro, eis o SE da imigração. Um PM de um partido que tem social democrata no nome e que não demite de imediato um SE com conversas da mais extrema das extremas direitas é um merdas, um ser sem espinha nem princípios

Link rot is so endemic and such a critical problem. As far as I'm aware, the vast majority of the Web 1.0 internet is simply gone, uncatalogued even by the Internet Archive, just like the vast bulk of the first decades of television. Overwritten, erased, unrecoverable.

“Love you all, but there’s a few people in here who have a lot more money than me. And if you’re a billionaire—why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties.” — Billie Eilish before donating $11.5 Million dollars. Be like Billie.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OK, this is excellent. Enjoy, American followers! youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o?...

In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has: • Demolished a large section of the White House • Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people • Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

A atual administração iniciou funções em 2021. Os cabos forma comprados em 2022. A Comissão de Trabalhadores alertou para riscos de segurança e denunciou acidentes em 2023, 2024 e 2025, informando a administração e o Presidente da CML. Como não têm nada haver com a situação?

Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse

New w/ @bencasselman.bsky.social: Wealthy Americans, buoyed by a booming stock market, are spending freely. Lower-income households, stung by inflation and a slowing labor market, are pulling back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b... @nytimes.com

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo. Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

They’re not too concerned about the midterms knowing that the Voting Rights Act will be gone, ICE and the National Guard will be posted at all polling places to intimidate minorities, his oligarchs now control voting equipment, and Congress will refuse to swear in Democrats anyway.

*A lot* of good Americans protested yesterday. If you open the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN... It's a minor topic on the front page. You have no journalism over there - you are invisible to yourselves. The only solution is flooding the streets and social media over and over again.

I don't think there's any argument there. I expect it's not visible to those outside the industry, but there's real despair for engineers & the like inside tech because those CEOs control the culture of the industry and everyone worries about how to find a job if they don't conform to that culture.

Can’t believe the guy whose love language is hate speech didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize

Good morning :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Um...

Protesters would often do well to avoid playing out the script that the dominator is trying to impose on them

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro

Please sign and share if you can. EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."