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Tiago Dias @tiagodf.bsky.social · 7h

Também vai ser interessante perceber quantos municípios passam de maiorias a igualdade de mandatos, ou seja, a obrigar a negociações constantes entre presidência e oposição.

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 8h

Só há uma forma de tornar Setúbal relevante: Mourinho candidato à câmara em 2029

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 13h

O Club Nintendo, que funcionava num escritório em Sacavém e que contactavas pela linha verde 0500 1111, conseguiu explicar-me isto no Verão de 1992 (o que não é difícil porque o jogo tinha quase 6 anos)

Uma coisa ultra high tech nem sequer foi capaz de ir ver posts ao GameFaqs.

João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 14h

@shyznogd.bsky.social não te sabia fã do Zelda original a este ponto

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 14h

Estou há semanas sem aceder a dois servidores de Discord porque não me pareceu boa ideia mostrar-lhes a minha identidade. Parece que foi a opção certa.

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 14h

At times like these, I always remember when earlier this year I asked ChatGPT about how to get the Red Ring in the original Legend of Zelda and I got the most *ridonculous* answer possible.

How is it even going to answer when you ask for dating advice?

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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social · 17h

L’extraterritorialité à la Chinoise, ça veut dire que “si la France veut vendre un avion aux Pays-Bas, et que cet avion est composé à plus de 0.1% de produits visés, le constructeur français devrait théoriquement demander une licence d’exportation au Ministère du Commerce 1/

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 16h

Maduro & Machado seem to be engaged in a bidding war for the Trump admin's support with US companies' access to Venezuela's mineral wealth as the bargaining chip.

Will this lead to a "just and peaceful transition... to democracy" for the people of Venezuela?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

Venezuelan officials, hoping to end their country’s clash with the United States, offered the Trump administration a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that lasted for months, according to multiple people close to the talks.

Under a deal discussed between a senior U.S. official and Mr. Maduro’s top aides, the Venezuelan strongman offered to open up all existing and future oil and gold projects to American companies, give preferential contracts to American businesses, reverse the flow of Venezuelan oil exports from China to the United States, and slash his country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese, Iranian and Russian firms.

As Mr. Grenell and Mr. Maduro’s envoys negotiated a deal, the leader of Venezuela’s main opposition movement, María Corina Machado, pitched her own economic proposal in New York.

She argued that even greater economic wealth — $1.7 trillion in 15 years — awaited U.S. companies in Venezuela if her movement launched a political transition. (Ms. Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee described as “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”)

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 1d

War between imperialist factions, classic ⭐

This same fella also said that Portugal's EU accession 20 yrs before mostly benefitted "the major European capitalist economies"

If your infrastructure is not stuck in the 70s and you don't have the worst welfare indicators in W. Europe, you're a sellout

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 1d

Roughly 20 years ago I was talking to the assistant of a Portuguese Communist MEP and he told us, very confidently, that the main reason the US entered WW2 was to prevent the USSR from becoming the dominant power in Europe and to stop Europe from going socialist. 🤷‍♂️

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Diane Keaton has sadly passed away at the age of 79.

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 1d

I'm listening to this episode and @michaelkofman.bsky.social says at one point that not only 70-80% of casualties are now caused by drones, but also that the killed-wounded ratio went from around 1 to 4 to nearly 1 to 1, which tells a *lot* about the lethality inflicted by drones.

Le Rubicon @lerubicon.bsky.social · 2d

For this special episode recorded in English, #LeCollimateur welcomes one of the world's leading experts on the Russian and Ukrainian armies, @michaelkofman.bsky.social, for a discussion on the war in Ukraine its developments and ways to study it.
lerubicon.org/collimateur-...

Following the Russio-Ukrainian War

For this episode exceptionally recorded in English, Le Collimateur welcomes one of the world's leading experts on the Russian and Ukrainian armies, Michael Kofman (from our partner War on the Rocks), ...

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, it's still early June 2016.

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 2d

Conta institucional não, mas isso não impede que haja pessoas da RTP por aqui.

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 2d

Bem dito, bem feito - aqui está o Último Nível, em boa qualidade audiovisual. Pergunto-me se alguém da RTP passou por aqui e lembrou-se de fazer o upload.

arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/ul...

Último nível – Parte I

Primeira parte do programa de videojogos apresentado por Pedro Miguel Ramos acompanhado pelas assistentes Susana Frade e Raquel Loureiro com a participação de concorrentes em vários jogos com os convi...

arquivos.rtp.pt

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 2d

Bem dito, bem feito - aqui está o Último Nível, em boa qualidade audiovisual. Pergunto-me se alguém da RTP passou por aqui e lembrou-se de fazer o upload.

arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/ul...

Último nível – Parte I

Primeira parte do programa de videojogos apresentado por Pedro Miguel Ramos acompanhado pelas assistentes Susana Frade e Raquel Loureiro com a participação de concorrentes em vários jogos com os convi...

arquivos.rtp.pt

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 2d

Soundtrack of France over the last few weeks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCsD...

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2d

This is an important admission because Article 31.2, which the Commission wants to activate to switch to a qualified majority, can be blocked by any country that alleges "vital and stated reasons of national policy".

Can you think of any?

Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2d

Valdis Dombrovskis says the €140 billion loan to Ukraine could go ahead without switching sanctions from unanimity to qualified majority voting:

"Certainly, it's helpful to put the sanctions on a safer footing, but I would not see this as an insurmountable obstacle for the Reparations Loan."

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 2d

🤘

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M01...

Pause | Battletoads (NES) Extended OST

YouTube video by VGManiac456

www.youtube.com

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 2d

Se fosse um submarino russo estaria a fazer um trabalho muito mau a tentar passar despercebido.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 3d

FFS... and they still find it surprising that users don't like these new conditions?

404 Media @404media.co · 3d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 3d

Ooof...

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André Lima Araújo @andrelimaaraujo.com · 3d

If they read Jake Adelstein's excellent newsletter, they wouldn't be laughing: tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 3d

"Medvedev may yet turn Russia into a new Wayne's World, putting the par-tee into Putin's United Russia party. But his fealty to the royalty of British rock was widespread in Russian universities in the 1980s"

www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...

Medvedev rocks Russia

Dmitry Medvedev is a rocker - a fan of Zep and, especially, Deep Purple - who may yet turn Russia into a new Wayne's World

www.theguardian.com

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