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: andrewfordlyons.net@pickardje.bsky.social There is no situation of state tracking and surveiling journalists that is not contrary to democracy itself.
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@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz I somehow missed the globalist leftwing hegemony. Was it on this globe?
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\nSuperb interview with Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kyselov on the vestigial Eurocentrism and American exceptionalism of the Western “anti-imperialist” Left in an increasingly multipolar world.
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\nwww.salamandernews.org/lewisham-ele…
@agirlcalledlina.bsky.social Council results in?
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Something broke in Lusaka : andrewfordlyons.net
The revolution will not be podcasted: andrewfordlyons.net
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\n\n“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’
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A lot of banging great lines in this book!
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\nAI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange.
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","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/04/02/wild-geese-by-mary-oliver.html","date_published":"2026-04-02T21:59:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 21:59","date_timestamp":1775167161,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116337361777788169","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mik7fec3rv2v","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DWpTG-VltHQ"]}},{"id":"87240661","content_html":"\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/30/it-strikes-me-that-increasingly.html","date_published":"2026-03-30T09:33:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-30 09:33","date_timestamp":1774863206,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116317443310781998","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mibeddr67f24","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DWgPZU1FqnQ"]}},{"id":"87195448","content_html":"It strikes me that increasingly in the world it is becoming harder – that there are more people who are not really critically aware of the forces that are shaping them. That’s what most people are feeling today – and that’s the goal. That’s what authoritarian regimes do. — Raoul Peck, director of Orwell: 2+2=5
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\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/29/the-analytical-engine-has-no.html","date_published":"2026-03-29T14:20:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-29 14:20","date_timestamp":1774794057,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116312910824547178","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mi7dwbu3e62s","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DWeLfhikc5F"]}},{"id":"86769673","content_html":"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. — Ada Lovelace, on AI in 1843
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","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/22/more-notes-on-sovereignty.html","date_published":"2026-03-22T17:56:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-22 17:56","date_timestamp":1774202216,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116274123398898835","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mho4q2ascu2w","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DWMipOQkVRg"]}},{"id":"85451752","content_html":"On sovereignty and freedom and the internet: andrewfordlyons.net
","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/04/on-sovereignty-and-freedom-and.html","date_published":"2026-03-04T00:42:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-04 00:42","date_timestamp":1772584945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116168131829285903","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mg72ifqsm524","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DVcV3YnDSEF"]}},{"id":"85205300","content_html":"Radio Zamaneh airs every night from 23.00-00.00 Tehran time with a domestic and international news bulletin and analysis on SW 6010 KhZ.
\nThe radio is paid from donations, made in any currency and is supported by a 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor for US-based donors.
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\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/01/12/everyone-wants-a-village-but.html","date_published":"2026-01-12T16:24:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-12 16:24","date_timestamp":1768235043,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/115883052218579538","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mcahb5u5d22u","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DTas9EjjeK3"]}},{"id":"81732271","content_html":"Everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager.
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For 2026 I decided on some personal Bluesky glasnost to start the year. But there’re no free tools to open the floodgates. Blockenheimer used to do that as well as be a great blocking service, but I noticed it’s dead now. So I made a wee script for it: github.com/drew3000/…
\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/01/10/for-i-decided-on-some.html","date_published":"2026-01-10T00:44:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-10 00:44","date_timestamp":1768005876,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mbzrwaaaih2e"]}},{"id":"81613880","content_html":"Trump regime just ordered the the U.S. to withdraw from international agreements or work that “are contrary to the Interests of the United States.” Let’s look at what these include:
\nInsurrection is still a value-neutral term ![\"Auto-generated](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://andrewfordlyons.net/uploads/2026/capitol-riot-jan-6.jpg\")
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Secure file sharing back on the new blog with OnionShare: andrewfordlyons.net
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