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bbc.com How X users earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images The accounts are part of pro-Trump and pro-Harris networks sharing each other’s content multiple times a day.

bbc.com China declares success as its youngest astronauts reach space The BBC’s Laura Bicker sees the Shenzhou 19 spacecraft take off in a record year of space exploration.

CNN – 29 Oct 24 Supreme Court rules RFK Jr. will appear on battleground ballots despite... The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraw his name from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin, battleground states where votes for his now suspended campaign could cut into support for former President Donald Trump.

I heard the real action in that neighborhood is at the house across the street; they’re giving out full-size wrappages of Cardassian yamok sauce!

It’s clearly written at the bottom of that sign behind the bucket: these are just regular stembolts. Ferengi Rule of Acquistion 114. Small print lead to large risk

MrShiv: Not if it’s already taken (as mine is, apparently) name you can. ( i appear as “gatto” over there. ) handle you cannot ( if you want to specifically @ me, it’s gattaro. annoying but not the end of the world. ) i hoped the screenshots i posted made it clear. sorry if it didn’t.

This definitely feels like reading an obituary… The articles on BB are interesting, but the value for me was always in the discussions that followed, and considering how many of the most-edifying voices have already declined to follow the move, I don’t expect NewBB to have the same atmosphere. I’d say I’d keep my eye on it in the future, but being unable to...

So this happened today. Kamala had a big crowd, I’m sure we’ll be told it was fake though.

My grand fat cat would make me wonder where he was at, if he just played tit-for-tat large and black, he really did know well that he lived with me (host) who really would care for his health yet mistakenly would dare to feed him foods that made him rather fat which accompanied him as a real brat along with his lasting, piercing green...

I’d almost always scan through the articles on the main site, and read the ones that were interesting to me. The next step was always to go to the comments, as they added significant value to the whole experience. Moving the comments to Substack is a hard ‘no’ for me - I don’t care why they’re allowing Nazi/fascist content on their venue, but I...

What a year! I’m really surprised and disappointed on how this transition is being rolled out, with no early notice and downplay of the impacts on the community that formed on the BBS. I’m pretty sure that knowing the community it would be pretty obvious that said platform would cause outrage and a loss of veteran frequent contributors. I’m not moving to substack, the...

Oh FFS. Vote damn it vote. “The key that I think I’m – you know, that President Trump has promised me is – is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA" CNN – 29 Oct 24 RFK Jr. said Trump promised him ‘control’ of HHS and USDA...