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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 5m

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 2h

I am AMPHIFA. I stand with the frogs.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1h

On this particular point, there’s enormous appetite for the ‘you left Twitter because the didn’t like disagreement and have therefore abandoned the discourse for the Bluesky echo chamber’. But IN FACT, Twitter had become virtually unusable as a practical matter.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 38m

I think including Hobart and even Perth was unnecessary for this #badgeographyjoke 😉

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 38m

Very grateful to @TVR_MOLDOVA for this opportunity for a long interview about Georgia, where I also congratulate Moldovans with having avoided a similar Russian Trojan horse takeover.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnU...

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Michael Bonvalot @michaelbonvalot.bsky.social · 20h

Google hat sein Werbearchiv kommentarlos abgeschalten. Damit können vergangene politische Kampagnen nicht mehr geprüft werden - dazu wird auch die Arbeit von Aufsichtsbehörden wird erschwert. Wegen genau solcher Fälle dürfen Konzerne nicht über die eigene Transparenz entscheiden.

Googles Gedächtnislücke: Wie das Löschen des Werbearchivs die demokratische Kontrolle untergräbt

Mit dem kommentarlosen Abschalten des Archivs hat Google nicht nur eine signifikante Datenquelle für zivilgesellschaftliche und wissenschaftliche Analysen von politischen Kampagnen zerstört. Die Lösch...

netzpolitik.org

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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Annette Werberger @awerberger.bsky.social · 1d

Auf diesen gestrigen Post verweist heute Denis Kazansky: Man kürzt in den Regionen der Russischen Föderation gewaltig am Sold der russischen Vertragssoldaten. Sie bekommen nur noch ca. ein Drittel oder die Hälfte des Geldes: "Die Ressourcen der regionalen Haushalte sind erschöpft."

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 1h

the article is good, just read it 📖

twitter is a bad product (bots, blueticks, terrible algorithm, link downranking) – regardless of politics.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 1h

Here's the new video of how the Russian gasoline crisis progressed over the past 7 weeks. You can also hear me talk a bit more about the gasoline crisis tonight on @tochnyi.info . Tune in at 21:00 Kyiv time:

www.youtube.com/@Tochnyi

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Orc Girl Boss 🐇 @orc.bsky.social · 1h

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 1h

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 1h

About as credible as Peter Thiel.

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 9d

Jacob Chansley aka the QAnon Shaman, known for storming the Capitol on Jan 6, has filed a $40 trillion lawsuit against Trump, Musk's X Corp, the Federal Reserve, the IMF, the World Bank, Israel and others, claiming that he's the real leader of the US.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

QAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillion

In a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 1h

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Guntram Wolff @guntramwolff.bsky.social · 12d

Mit offensiven Raketen abschrecken --- A Burilkov und ich argumentieren, warum reine Luftverteidigung nicht mehr ausreicht und Europa Kapazitäten zur Abschreckung durch Stärke benötigt. Und wie man diese aufbauen kann
www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Europa muss Putin mit offensiven Rakten abschrecken

Eine Luftabwehr, die sich auf Drohnenabschuss beschränkt, reicht nicht aus, um Putin abzuschrecken. Dazu braucht Europa Marschflugkörper und Hyperschallraketen, die tief in russisches Territorium vord...

www.faz.net

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 2h

Bald ist Nikolaus 🎅 😬

Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 6h

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 2h

@bsky.app braucht besseres "onboarding".

Tilman Steffen @tilsteff.bsky.social · Dec 12

Was mach ich hier eigentlich?

Post auf X: 50k views. Selber Post ⬇️ auf Bsky: null. 🤔

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 2h

Also
(1) werden "views" auf Bsky nicht gemessen & nicht angezeigt
(2) sind die "views" auf X weitgehend erfunden
(3) ist es vielleicht noch mal einen Versuch wert 😃

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Doreen Reinhard @doreenreinhard.bsky.social · 2h

Mehrmals haben Wahlausschüsse AfD-Politiker wegen Zweifel an deren Verfassungstreue von Kommunalwahlen ausgeschlossen. Geht das so einfach?

Ein Blick auf mehrere Fälle. Und die rechtliche Lage (die zB in Sachsen) unterschiedlich ist.

Mit @tilsteff.bsky.social @zeit.de
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Oberbürgermeisterwahl in Ludwigshafen: Wenn der AfD-Mann vom Stimmzettel fliegt

Mehrmals haben Wahlausschüsse in den letzten Monaten AfD-Politiker wegen Zweifel an deren Verfassungstreue von Kommunalwahlen ausgeschlossen. Geht das so einfach?

www.zeit.de

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NATO JFC Norfolk @jfcnorfolk.bsky.social · 2h

Feliz Fiesta Nacional de España to our Spanish Allies and friends!

Spain contributes to NATO’s enhanced forward presence on the Eastern Flank of the Alliance, which is composed of rotating multinational combat-ready battlegroups.

They also contribute to NATO Mission Iraq.

📸 Manuel Acosta Zapata

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 2h

As far as I'm aware the tech never made it to Mulino, specifically because in 2014 EU sanctions were introduced.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 3d

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 3h

1/ Russia is reportedly preparing to carry out a "sanitisation of the state" to purge "officials, military personnel, and members of the media and public" who are suspected of undermining the war against Ukraine. ⬇️

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 3h

How the Musk algorithm works

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 1d

Nope.

The Musk algorithm completely strangled my engagement to almost zero. None was seeing anything I tweeted. Unless it was about race, when I was swarmed by far-right bots and trolls.

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 3h

»X stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.«

yes – and blueticks. it has all the f*cking people who pay $$ to annoy everyone maximum. f*cking blueticks.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Mr. Happy on Bsky 🙃🇪🇺 @mrhappyonbsky.bsky.social · 3h

@mark-carney.bsky.social and @donald-tusk.bsky.social read bluesky (without a team) 😃