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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hi friends, you may know me from my previous incantations as owning my own business, maps, GIS, tech, strategy, IT, green stuff and renewable energy. Glad to see familiar folk here! :)

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Esther Ouwehand @estherouwehand.bsky.social · 3h

Openlijk racisme en antisemitisme in de straten van Amsterdam. Afschuwelijk. Extreemrechtse haat, aangewakkerd door partijen die schaamteloos zondebokpolitiek bedrijven.

Iedereen kan zien dat het fascisme oprukt in ons land. Dit zijn geen tijden om stil te zijn.

www.parool.nl/amsterdam/gr...

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GroenLinks-PvdA @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social · 2h

Wij kiezen voor solidariteit. Voor samen vooruit.

Doe je met ons mee? 💚❤️

#RTLdebat
groenlinkspvda.nl/word-lid/

Maak het verschil en word lid

Sluit je aan bij de linkse beweging van GroenLinks en PvdA. Voor een eerlijk, groen, en sociaal Nederland. Doe mee!

groenlinkspvda.nl

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 2h

One of journalism's modern heroes.

Always worth listening to.

#Russia
#Brexit
#Reform
#NigelFarage

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 3h

Why isn't this a bigger story?
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Nutwerk🔻 @nutwerk.bsky.social · 15h

Stemwijzer.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 4h

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.

People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.

Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 12h

THE LONDON ECONOMIC

"We should all be angry that we had 14 years of Tory austerity. They shut our libraries, they shut our community centres. And then to say integration is a problem - how do you expect people to integrate if you've taken away their services?"

-ZACK POLANSKI, GREEN PARTY LEADER

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Robert Brand @robertcbrand.bsky.social · 12h

Links is Nederland
Rechts is dat niet.

Einde bericht.

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 10h

Antisemitisme en misogynie, maar het Parool noemt het 'geen fan'.

Doe even normaal.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9h

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 7h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 9h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Nutwerk🔻 @nutwerk.bsky.social · 10h

#antifa Amsterdam

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Nutwerk🔻 @nutwerk.bsky.social · 10h

'Fascisten paraderen door de straten'. #2025
We worden weer rechts - Bots #1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNGMBFc3Uc8

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 7h

Protests continue in Georgia. The slogan of today's march is "You cannot capture Georgia."

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 319

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 7h

“Georgia cannot be captured!”

Protesters march towards Rustaveli Avenue, blocked for the 319th consecutive day. #GeorgiaProtests

🎥 Protest 24

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7h

🧵 I love vibrant colours & the excitement they provide, as well as learning about the mythology & art of ancient Gaelic times. Such as at Glendalough [my pic]. These things have a massive impact on my own art.

You’ll see that influence in this thread of one-off ink drawings if you scroll down! [1]

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 15h

Hi all, Just sent out my free weekend update. It ended up being focussed on the strategic air war. Russia, once again, is trying to make Ukrainian cities unliveable in winter. They have benefited by the US slow walking air defense--though Europeans are helping more. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...