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@dozyslumbers.bsky.social

It's my first time going to a music festival in general! I didn't know anyone in the lineup but it was sure as heck a great time with friends! (Ft. @elibearries.bsky.social and @kdracen.bsky.social ) #fursuitfriday #furry #furryfandom #andfriends #AndFriends2026

August 7, 2026 at 10:40 AM

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

LYRICS:
"And friends just can't be found, #AndFriends #AndFriendsJust
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down"

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Every person in the world, all World Wide Web are avoiding repeating Dr. Bandy X Lee's 27 leaders since year 2017. We Danger and everyone is avoiding Dr. Lee's leadership.

August 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM

TrcksterJam

@trcksterjam.bsky.social

Tito Steef + Just Dance PH at AndFriends Festival 2026 (just dance 😂) #titosteef #jdph #andfriends #events #trcksterjam

June 22, 2026 at 8:32 AM

TrcksterJam

@trcksterjam.bsky.social

AndFriends Festival Summer 2026 powered by Tito Steef and Just Dance Philippines community🤸

Thank you sa games kulitan, & being a DLC Tita 🤟

Tulog muna ulit, tapos next event ulit 🤣 #events #andfriends #arcade #rhythm #TrcksterJam #Trcksterriffic

June 22, 2026 at 7:55 AM

Mayumi Shirai

@mayushiraimu.bsky.social

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June 5, 2026 at 7:34 AM

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June 3, 2026 at 3:38 AM

Epstein Web

@epsteinweb.bsky.social

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In an apparent attempt to fix its relationship with Libya—which, after all, had proven to be supremely
profitable—Goldman Sachs then offered to pay a $50 million fee to a Dutch fund called Palladyne
International Asset Management, through which the LIA had already invested $300 million. Goldman
could hardly have been interested in Palladyne because of the fund's financial acumen: According to an
audit conducted on behalf of the LIA, 45 percent of the funds, virtually all from Libya, invested in
Palladyne were held in cash, while the rest of the investments didn't do particularly well: "To date we
have paid in excess of $3.8m in fees, for losing us $30 million," an LIA investigator noted in a report.
What made Palladyne notable was that it was owned by Ismael Abudher, whose father-in-law Shukri
Ghanem was the longtime head of Libya's National Oil and a trusted member of Qaddafi's inner circle.
In April 2012, shortly after Qaddafi's death, Ghanem was found floating face-down in the Danube
River in Vienna. Palladyne did not immediately respond to comment.

According to a detailed lawsuit filed in March in U.S. District Court in Connecticut by a trader named
Dan Friedman, who was hired by Palladyne in 2011, the company "lacked both the management
competence and the infrastructure to manage money." Friedman, who's suing the recruiter who
hooked him up with the firm, alleges in the complaint that, "Palladyne was the asset management
company equivalent of a Potemkin village, fronting for a kickback and money-laundering scheme." The
complaint offers an unusually intimate account of a corporate mirror world in which recruitment
meetings, trading strategies, and the company's vaunted "man-and-machine" trading model were used
as props to disguise good, old-fashioned theft. Palladyne's true purpose, Friedman alleges, was to
serve as the investment bank version of the fake betting joint in the film The Sting, while laundering
"money defalcatedfrom

Libyan government oil revenues by thefamily andfriends of Muammar
Ghaddafi" and serving as the "recipient and guardian of bribes and kickbacksfrom companies doing
business with the Ghaddafi regime (or hoping to do business with them) or the state oil company run
by Abudher'sfather-in-law." According to reports published in the financial press, the SEC is
investigating whether Goldman's payment to Palladyne violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

"People were making crazy amounts of money for introductions to the Libyans," says Mohammed
Rashid, an Iraqi-born Kurd based in London, who arranged the meetings between Blair and Seif.
Rashid is now a financial adviser to wealthy individuals and entities from the Middle East and to
Europeans and Americans who wish to do business with them. According to him and others who have
direct knowledge of those transactions, paying money to fixers, matchmakers, advisers, and
consultants was a common practice, and such connections were eagerly sought. One London banker
says consulting fees for such transactions could range anywhere from 2 percent to 5 percent of the
initial investment. None of which would have mattered as much if the performance of the investments
wasn't so dismal.

And if the West relieved Libya of a decent-size share of its national wealth in the years immediately
before NATO toppled the dictator, the situation today is even worse. In April 2012, Mohsen Derregia,
a research fellow at the University of Nottingham Business School, was appointed chairman and chief
executive officer of the LIA following what he describes as "totally a freak accident"—an accident that
left him in charge of what, at an estimated $66 billion, was still one of the most valuable investment
portfolios on the planet. (That the portfolio remains somewhere near its original value is no triumph
in a market that has almost tripled from its low five years ago.) Derregia's area of academic
specialization was accounting, and he knew nothing

about finance. On the other hand, he was honest.
He was soon forced out of the job and replaced by Ali Mohamed Salem Hibri, the deputy governor of
the Central Bank of Libya, which took effective control of the LIA in April 2013.

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May 13, 2026 at 8:32 AM

Epstein Web

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Fri. March 23 2018 NY
Reminder: Lesley on holiday April 6-13
Reminder: Deepak andfriends: Restore, March 23-25, 2018, http://deepakrestore.com/Dream Downtown
Reminder:

tofly to London, depart 6:25am arrive London 9:45am (Rec. Loc#KJKUPW)

8:30am BREAKFAST w/Leon Black (I

10:00am Appt w/Deepak(

1:00pm Appt w/Darren and Scott Link DOESJE want Marty Weinberg and Laura Menninger to come
also?

2:00pm Appt w/M at Dangene, Core Club
JOJO to DRIVE YOU

7:00pm DINNER w/Woody and Soon Yi

Sat. March 24, 2018 NY

9:30am Appt w/David Mitchell

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1-2:00pm EST (10.11:OOam Pacific Time)- Reid Hoffinan
Reid's Skype ID:

2:30pm Appt w/Kathy Ruemmler
Sun. March 25, 2018 NY-Bedford-NY

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May 1, 2026 at 9:37 PM

Epstein Web

@epsteinweb.bsky.social

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To: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject: Andrew Farkas
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:57:31 +0000

Andrew Farkas will come see you at 6pm tonight

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to sit infor me!

4:30pm Appt w/Viktoriia Makhova andfriends a)
6:00pm Appt w/Andrew Farkas
9:00pm Receptionfor Lady Bird at Crosby Street Hotel
79 Crosby Street
1010 to DRIVE YOU

9:00pm Receptionfor!, Tonya at the Bowery Hotel Terrace
335 Bowery at East 3rdStreet
1010 to DRIVE YOU

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May 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM

Epstein Web

@epsteinweb.bsky.social

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Wed Sega 2015 Paris-London-Paris
Reminder: Linda Eisenstein andfriends at the ranch Sept 9-14
Reminder:

on holiday Sept 9-11

Thurs. Sept. 10 2015 Paris
Reminder: Nili and Ehud back in NY. They will stay in 11J

Fri. Sept 11, 2015 Park

9:30am EST (3:30pm Paris Time) Phone Date w/Leon Black a)

9:30wa EST (3:30pm Paris Time) Appt w/David Stern at Paris Apartment

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2:00pm Con! Call w/Marty Weinbeig, Alan Dershowitz and Darren
Dial In: (877) 459-3454
International Dial In: (574)941-6124
Conference Code:
Leader Pin #'

Sat Sept 12, 2015 Paris
Sun. Sept 13, 2015 Paris-NY
Reminder: Bobby Slayton in NY Sept. 13-16
Reminder: Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown

12:21pm Depart Paris (Paris lime)
3:00pm Arrive NY Jet Aviation

5:00pm Appt w'

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April 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM

Epstein Web

@epsteinweb.bsky.social

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7:30am Haircut w/Patrick at the house

9:40am Depart NY
10:17am Arrive Cambridge, MA

Tristar Limo Confirm

Martin's Institute
I Braille Square, Suite 6

11:30am Yau is available before 1pm

11:30am Martin Nowak is available

12:00pm Appt w/Danny Hillis, then go to MIT together

1-6:00pm Joi Ito andfriends at the MIT Lab
(Joi cell:
75 Amherst Street, 2ndfloor in mom 245 Cambridge, MA 02139

Tristar Limo Confirm

6:30pm Go see Noam and Valeria Chomsky (if Noam is up to it)

8:00pm Depart Bedford, MA

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April 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM

Epstein Web

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Sat Oct 24, 2015 NY
to arrive Newark via La Compagnie#100 at 2:10pm (=Rec. Loci
(Katyna Rec. Loc#CKTCSB) Janusz to pick them up

7:30am Haircut w/Patrick at the house

9:40am Depart NY
10:17am Arrive Cambridge, MA

Tristar Limo Confirm

Martin's Institute
1 Braille Square, Suite 6

11:30am Yau is available before Ipm

11:30am Martin Nowak is available

12:00pm Appt iv/Danny Hillis, then go to MIT together

1-6:00pm Joi Ito andfriends at the MIT Lab
(Joi cell:
75 Amherst Street, 2ndfloor in mom 245 Cambridge, MA 02139

Tristar Limo Confirm

6:30pm Go see Noam and Valeria Chomsky (if Noam is up to it)

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April 27, 2026 at 7:17 PM

Epstein Web

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JOJO TO DRIVE YOU!
6:00pm Appt w/Ehud
6:45pm Appt w/Steve Bannon (Ehud will stay)
7:00pm DINNER w/Ehud and Steve Bannon
Fri. March 23, 2018 NY
ReminderM. on holiday April 6-13
Reminder Deepak andfriends: Restore, March 23-25, 2018, http://deepakrestore.com/
Dream Downtown
Reminder
to fly to London, depart 6:25am arrive London 9:45am (Rec.
Loc
8:15am BREAKFAST w/Leon Black
10:00am Appt w/Deepak
12:00pm PHONE DATE w/Alan Dlugash
1-1:15pm Appt w/Darren and Scott Link
2:00pm Phone Date w,
2:00pm Appt w/Anne at Dangene, Core Club
1010 to DRIVE YOU
3:30-4:00pm PHONEDATE w/Andrew Farkas
6:30pm PHONEDATE w/Joi Ito
7:00pm DINNER w/Woody and Soon Yi, Bechet and her boyfriend. (Soon Y
Sat March 24. 2018 NY
1-2:00pm EST (10-11:00am Pacific Time)- Reid Hoffman
Reid's Skype ID:
2:00pm LUNCH w/Kathy Rue
(Kathy.(Miro:

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Steve Bannon

Sun. March 25, 2018 NY-Bedford-NY
Reminder Palm Sunday
Reminder 1:05pm Ramon, Daziano and Paola to arrive Sr via AA#943

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April 26, 2026 at 6:57 AM

Epstein Web

@epsteinweb.bsky.social

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9:00am Appt w/Dr. Bard (MM)
9:30am BREAKFAST Appt w/Leon Black (==)
11:00am Appt w
12:30pm LUNCH w/Ehud Barak
1:30-2:30pm Appt w/Kathy Ruemmler (MM)
4:00pm

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4:30pm Appt w

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6:00pm Appt w/Andrew Farkas
9:00 m Rece tion for Lady Bird at Crosby Street Hotel
1010 to DRIVE YOU
9:00 m Rece tion or I Ton a at the Bowery Hotel Terrace
JOJO to DRIVE YOU
Wed. Nov. 29, 2017 NY
11:00am Conference Call vv/Deborah (YOU AS RICH KAHN)
11:15am Karyna's parents depart PBfor NY via United Air#450 (Rec. Lot
11:30am Appt w/Christopher Clark (Peggy Siegal'sfriend)
1:00pm Appt w/Misha Gromov
2:00pm Appt w/Robert Kuhn (

1)

4:30pm Appt
5:55 Karyna to depart Miami via United Air#583 arrive San Fran 9:26pm (Rec.
7:00pin DINNER w/Miro, Woody Allen, Soon Yi (Miro 1

Lot

Soon Yi

Appt w

Thurs. Nov. 30, 2017 NY-PB

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April 26, 2026 at 6:51 AM

XS ROCK

@xsrock.bsky.social

Synthwave Artist GOST Has Died

Synthwave Artist GOST Has Died...The GOST Official Facebook Page has posted the following regarding his death: The whole GOST team is incredibly saddenedto inform you that James Cody Lollar, knownas GOST, passed away yesterday. We aresending all our prayers to his…