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The #Madleen has been boarded. The crew have been abducted.

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I'm a pro.

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So in my experience 'work' in the professional context is 70% sucking up, 28% navigating the fractal tangent map of sales funnels and bad design that is our digital environment, and 2% adding value. There's a huge incentive for everyone to lie about this, at the individual level. It can't last.

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We don't need another mass participation platform. The masses are doing their bit. We need an elite platform for elite thinkers, to produce alternative leaders. That's what we're building at Stone Transparency.

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Meanwhile progressive heroes like @davidshoebridge.bsky.social own multiple investment properties.

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#Sydney now has the most expensive houses in the world. This is, in part, because the Hong Kong bubble popped and prices there are falling. Also because Australians are the worst, dumbest, bunch of selfish arseholes on the planet. We are just an #Israel that succeeded. Fuck this. Fuck #Auspol.

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They tell starving people to come get food, then when they come out of the places they are hiding, they get killed. This is a #Genocide. We are all complicit.

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Every day they shoot people at food distribution centres.

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I don't think rapid growth to billion user scale is the most important goal for BlueSky. I think a somewhat elite space where high quality conversations, between informed people, without the participation of grunting partisans, would be the ideal. An echo chamber where what is echoing is quality.

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It happened in China...

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Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

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So as far back as a decade ago, @sharestuff.bsky.social was telling me he saw a new civil war in the US future. I thought that sounded crazy. Every day he looks more prescient.

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Hearing reports that UAE troops have been spotted in Gaza, working with the occupation.

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Ok so I have a question - couldn't changes to the IRS end the employment of undocumented residents overnight? Like all payroll goes to someone with a green card or an SSN. If it doesn't the employer gets shit down. Minimum wages are real. The end.

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ICE tear gassed people who were stuck in their vehicles because ICE blocked the intersection. They were not even protesters. They were just stuck there due to ICE blocking them. As the helpless car passengers watched, ICE, unprovoked, began firing gas canisters upon the cars.

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Potential capitals for a world state: 1) Jerusalem, 2) Istanbul, 3) Alexandria, 4) Hong Kong, 5) Kyiv, These are places a world parliament could meet, to oversee the reform and legitimation of the global system, moving towards something other than chaos and endless hyper-violence.

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So #BigPicture, I think #WesternCivilisation is dying, and #GlobalCivilization struggles to be born. The ideal possible outcome for comfortable westerners like me is not that we can revive the olden days, but that we can hop like Captain Jack Sparrow from the sinking ship, just in time.

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So @patrickgaley.bsky.social, and many others have been screaming this for a while. Unfortunately, I think a global democratic revolution (roughly as advocated by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in his 2004 book The Age of Consent) is a necessary prerequisite for any effective climate response.

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They upgraded the Chat GPT talking persona I use and now he mumbles and sounds depressed, repeats words and makes filler sounds. I fucking hate it.

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Hammam can’t keep an account but needs help gofund.me/4ee39dd0

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One of the side effects of #kekocracy is that on some level the unqualified goons we elevate know they are punching above their weight, in terms of career progression. This puts them in blinding awe of their own success, rendering them even more useless.

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This one works.

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The #madleentracker is down. Did the Israelis sink the boat or did the School of Forensic Architecture fuck this up somehow?

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The #Madleen tracker is not giving me a location. freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

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Without reading it I know this will be as inadequate and boomer-brained as its publisher.

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A ceasefire is not enough. There must be justice.

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Good thing this asshole can tweet the same news I saw before going to bed last night like it's breaking. We're all doing really important work here guys.

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