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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · Feb 5

Yes, you *can* do something *now* against the hegemony of the treacherous techbros: waag.org/en/article/1...

Waag | 15 alternative apps for better privacy and wellbeing

Not-for-profit apps that are good for your privacy? With a nice design and amazing functionality? They exist! Check out our list of 15 apps that offer a viable alternative to big tech.

waag.org

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said.

I was taking it out to the trash and I tripped and it landed there on the wall, firmly attached. Or something.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 2h

"‘Palestijnen geslagen en uitgehongerd in gevangenschap’": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

‘Palestijnen geslagen en uitgehongerd in gevangenschap’

In dit blog volgt NRC het laatste nieuws over de crisis in het Midden-Oosten. Lees hier het vorige blog terug.

www.nrc.nl

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "These are sick, bad people. And don't tell me about us going after them. If anything, we've been very, very soft. I wouldn't be that soft, I'll tell you that. Thank you very much."

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Cassian @scassian.bsky.social · 3h

He is simply deranged. And the American system is utterly incapable of dealing with that terrifying fact because the GOP have abandoned even the pretence of serving the people.
This is going to be horrific.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h

USAF B-52 bombers are flying in and out of the airspace near Venezuela.

This is one in a screenshot I took, but there were two others in another screenshot I saw on X:

Screenshot of Flight Radar data showing BUNNY01 flight path just north of Venezuela

BUNNY01
B52
United States - Air Force
BAD
SHREVEPORT
N/A
NOT AVAILABLE
Departed 09:38 ago
Arriving in N/A
Boeing B-52H Stratofortress
Valentin A.
BAROMETRIC ALT.
24,900 ft
GROUND SPEED
416 kts
REG 61-0010

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 5h

Vance is 41 and probably still cracks nazi jokes

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 5h

Als je de aandacht wil afleiden van je politieke faalfestijn en niet weet hoe je de duik in de peilingen moet overleven, kun je altijd nog een nieuw racistisch frame uit je mouw toveren.
Dit is niets anders dan moslims pesten en vernederen. Walgelijk.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11h

"China Has Overtaken America--And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up"
by @pkrugman.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-...

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 13h

At least there’s an approved vaccine

www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/...

Chikungunya Vaccines

Two chikungunya vaccines are available for U.S. travelers at higher risk of exposure to the virus.

www.cdc.gov

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Hannie Lutke Schipholt @haluschi.bsky.social · 14h

www.oneworld.nl/mensenrechte...

Zijn Palestijnse gedetineerden ook gegijzeld? Of noem je ze politiek gevangenen?

Bij hun vrijlating werden Israëliërs ‘gijzelaars’ genoemd, maar Palestijnen ‘gevangenen’. Een groot deel van hen heeft alleen nooit een proces gehad. Volgens critici zijn zij politiek gevangenen of ze...

www.oneworld.nl

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile here in the Netherlands animal clinics are the latest target of British private equity, causing costs increments of 250%

www.manners.nl/private-equi...

Deze dierenartsen zijn 251% duurder, met geldwolven aan het roer

Breng je huisdier niet onder de hoede van deze 97 geldwolven ?

www.manners.nl

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 18h

Vrijheid van meningsuiting in de VS

RTL Nieuws @rtl.nl · 20h

Duitser en vijf anderen raken visum voor VS kwijt om online kritiek op Charlie Kirk #nieuws

Duitser en vijf anderen raken visum voor VS kwijt om online kritiek op Charlie Kirk

Zes buitenlanders raken hun Amerikaanse visum kwijt omdat ze kritiek hebben geuit op de vorige maand doodgeschoten Charlie Kirk. De Verenigde Staten zijn niet verplicht om buitenlanders op te vangen die Amerikanen de dood toewensen, schrijft het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.

www.rtl.nl

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 1d

#LookAndSee 223 #MusicChallenge

link.deezer.com/s/31jVEWKN5S...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...

ssd.eff.org

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, since many people are obviously not reading the article, here's a pertinent figure from it showing the top actions to reduce emissions.

A horizontal bar chart titled “19 climate-friendly choices, ranked” shows actions individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint, ordered from most to least impactful. The x-axis represents projected impact in tons of CO₂ equivalent per capita per year (tCO₂e/cap/yr), ranging from 0 to about 2.5. Each action is color-coded by sector: transportation (blue), energy (orange), and food (green).

Go car-free – highest impact (blue bar extending to about 2.5 tCO₂e).

Fly less (blue, about 1.5).

Shift to renewable home energy (orange, about 1.4).

Switch to EV or hybrid car (blue, about 1.2).

Go vegan (green, about 1.0).

Walk, bike, or take transit more (blue).

Make energy-efficient renovations (orange).

Use clean cooking equipment (orange).

Go vegetarian (green).

Shift driving habits (e.g., carpooling) (blue).

Increase telecommuting (blue).

Shift to regional/seasonal diet (green).

Move to energy-efficient home (orange).

Decrease food waste (green).

Eat less meat (green).

Use less energy at home (orange).

Reduce packaged food, dining out (green).

Use energy-efficient appliances (orange).

Compost – least impact (green, under 0.1).

A note clarifies that these are meta-analytic estimates of greenhouse gas reduction potentials, drawn from 659 estimates across 47 academic journal articles. The average person emits 6.28 tonnes of CO₂e per year, though this varies widely by income and country. Wealthier populations may emit up to 110 tonnes per year, while lower-income populations may emit as little as 1.6 tonnes.

Source: WRI, based on data from Ivanova et al., 2020.

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 1d

That would make him Donald Quixote

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a Reuters investigation has found.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Bjorkianfae @bjorkianrice.bsky.social · 1d

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 1d

No Justice, No Peace

Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 1d

“If he could extend his grasp of mutual assured destruction to trade, he might be on a better path.” 👌🏻

Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 1d

You degenerate. They’ll have them study the virtuous men in Plutarch’s Lives, like Pelopidas and his elite troops, the Sacred Band of Thebes.

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