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Matt "Winter is here"

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Politics, Education, Strategy, LFC and FF No conspiracists, anti-vax, QAnon etc please.

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Why won’t the oil price rise help Russia?

12.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kudos to you for speaking up as you did

Role model in courage for many, I hope

12.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Constant prayer of the sane: MAGA will be over by Easter

12.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Russia is helping Iran find and kill American service members, and Donald Trump has repeatedly refused to condemn Putin. In fact, he’s been as lovey-dovey as ever with Putin the past two weeks.

Trump works for Putin. Trump is a traitor to America.

12.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 401 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 6

No problem with that.

12.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed. There’s a reason why US presidents have never granted Israel strikes in Iran

12.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kinell… Netanyahu really did see these idiots coming

12.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(πŸŽ₯ LCI πŸ‡«πŸ‡·)

12.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 15152 πŸ” 6171 πŸ’¬ 541 πŸ“Œ 497

Think it’s night and day different. Yes, they are both pervasive and may indeed require regulation

But AI is already doing much more than just replacing materials. It is replacing humans and activities we thought of as exclusively human

12.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that this wasn't just an accusation, this was captured on film

12.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 465 πŸ” 197 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4
Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"

Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"

Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.

12.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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The truth about the Preston Model How housebuilding, not 'community wealth building', explains Preston's success

Remember the Preston Model? The council was meant to have saved their area by shifting spend to local SMEs. But the sums don't add up: council spend is just too small to explain it.

@michaeljahill.bsky.social on the real Preston Model: build homes and roads.

www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-truth-...

12.03.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Danny Bones: the AI rapper funded by a far-right party Advance UK has hired the mystery β€˜collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real

Danny Bones raps about deporting immigrants, national identity and broken Britain, and his music has been repurposed by Advance UK

Thing is - he's not real

Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party

12.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving medical attention for severe tooth pain Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died

A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache.

At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office β€” a two-decade high.

The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.

11.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 3082 πŸ” 1452 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 84
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Ukrainian village, very stark view. Everything is destroyed.

Soldiers of Svoboda battalion evacuate civilians from the ruins.

12.03.2026 06:02 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4
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Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera.

The IDF will drop charges against 5 soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an incident partially caught on camera.

apnews.com/article/isra...

12.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 10

To be fair, all it needs is a new port for oil, probably LNG, a new highway, a truck fleet, another port at the other end and a new iron dome to protect the trucks from drones

Should be ready end of year - just ask the NEOM consultants. They know how to do this in the desert at pace.

12.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure I would either. Hard to know what to do, TBH

Think might well be playing as if I won't WC, but holding off until GW32 to make the decision (when I may well)

11.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Best solution I can think of is to impound the entire Russian shadow fleet as it passes Skagerrak and auction the lot

Worry about the legality of it when Putin turns up at the ICC in person to prosecute his case

11.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Demand for oil is so inelastic that the price rockets even on much smaller supply shortages

And the oil producers get fat, fast. Russia, US, Saudis.

11.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
11.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 11

The Solio analytics model is backing Welbeck for the double.

11.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
08.03.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 2527 πŸ” 1185 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 38

As I think you and others have observed, I missed the humour here.

Whoosh!

11.03.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can't. That's the whole point.

11.03.2026 08:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Nope, it's not a logical error.

If I had assumed this, it would very likely be an error of judgment, for sure. But I didn't. So you've added an error of comprehension to the first error

Stop projecting onto me whatever you think I'm saying, and read the words as written. They are unambiguous.

10.03.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Higher oil prices will kill a lot of people. Lots more than hundreds.

10.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think they are. They allowing people to use natural language queries to get stats

At the moment, a normal LLM will give you the APIs - often written in r - to get the stats you want, but unless you know how to use this, it's useless

Looks like this goes one step further and pulls the stats

10.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Israel and Russia the only winners...

10.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could have been anything, this game. Chaotic in both boxes

10.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0