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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 7h

The original Nissan Leaf (2011): Range 86 miles
New Nissan Leaf (2025): Range 386 miles

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wT...

The Nissan Leaf Returns with Porsche Taycan Features!

YouTube video by Everything Electric CARS

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 8h

This is absolutely insane. I just took a list of the last 1000 raw request to my website (not page views, but every request). Only 81 of them were real, the rest are bots.

We need a bot tax. This is utterly ridicules!

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 12h

This is the 'Yellow line' in question. Basically, most of Gaza, where Israel just straight up murdered five Palestinian people from crossing into it.

Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 12h

Western newspapers: Can we trust Hamas not to continue fighting?
Also: Israel actually continuing fighting.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 1d

file under: the subtle humour of a homepage editor.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 13h

I'm spending some time today cleaning up my Baekdal/Basic subscription list (free tier) ... during the night, a bot decided to create hundreds of bogus accounts.

Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 1d

In Denmark, the number of local and regional journalists, photographers, and editors has dropped sharply. Since 2021, about 30% of DJ members have been cut, reducing local editorial staff from 835 to just 587. journalisten.dk/hver-tredje-...

Hver tredje lokale journalist og fotograf er forsvundet siden sidste kommunalvalg

Tomme stole til pressen i byrådssale er blevet et mere og mere almindeligt syn i de danske kommuner.For de senere år er antallet af lokale og regionale journalister, fotografer og redaktører faldet dr...

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 1d

Wise words from the Pope to journalists: don't be agents of hate and division!

B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 1d

From Bulwark, quoting one voice rising above all else: Just this past Thursday, Pope Leo asked journalists to “act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 2d

Mission Impossible (1996) vs Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning (2025)

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 5d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 3d

Progress...

Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 3d

I need to finished putting down tiles in my garden today... but my brain wants to stay inside, under a warm blanket, reading a book.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. I know that :)

Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 3d

One of the largest newspapers in Denmark keeps crashing for me.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 4d

Uh... for f.. sake...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 4d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 4d

The root of all my problems has now been removed... ;) www.instagram.com/reel/DPoorwr...

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 4d

The classic: What If English Were Phonetically Consistent? www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zW...

What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?

YouTube video by Aaron Alon

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Chris Sutcliffe @chrissutcliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Don't know exactly what the upcoming dystopia will look like but 'speak to your AI girlfriend every day for a week to unlock a new outfit' is going to be part of it

A screengrab of Grok's new streak system for its AI girlfriend feature

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Thomas Baekdal @baekdal.bsky.social · 5d

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 5d

Have you turned the heating on yet?

I have: 45%
I have not: 53%

By region
Scotland: 61% have
North: 51%
Midlands: 47%
London: 42%
Wales: 40%
South: 39%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 5d

California passed AB 566!

It's a law that mandates browsers support the GPC signal that can be used to exercise privacy rights automatically in jurisdictions that have them.

Apple Safari and Google Chrome are reluctantly going to have to improve your privacy.
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/08/g...

Governor Newsom signs data privacy bills to protect tech users | Governor of California

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