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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 21m

Quite powerful ”what if”.

Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 3h

FACT OF THE DAY. 12 October 1984. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher survived an assassination attempt when an IRA time bomb exploded at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the period of the annual Conservative Party Conference.

Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 36m

Think I have slightly changed almost all of my eating habits but breakfast for some reason remains the one meal where my preferences has stayed the same.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 39m

”Breakfast cookies”.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1h

Läste precis klart den här. Temat till trots (resa till helvetet) så tyckte jag den var lättare och mer lekfull än Babel. Underhållande rak igenom.

Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nu dags för den här.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 3h

Vacation goal.

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3h

Some of the mythical beasts of the Iberian Peninsula. By Pucaprinthouse. How many have you seen?

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 3h

And bar to enter parliament on 4%. So looks like a nail-biter for several parties.

Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 3h

Less than a year to next general election (13 of September 2026).

Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 4h

Sweden, Verian poll:

S-S&D: 35% (+1)
SD-ECR: 20% (-1)
M-EPP: 18%
V-LEFT: 7.5% (+0.5)
MP-G/EFA: 6%
C-RE: 4.5% (-0.5)
KD-EPP: 4%
L-RE: 2.5%

+/- vs. 25 August - 07 September 2025

Fieldwork: 22 September - 05 October 2025
Sample size: 3,227

➤ europeelects.eu/sweden

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Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 5h

Decided to hang the Swedish flag by my bed in the underground bunker, looking lovely!

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 22h

Lecornu framstår mer och mer som Ullstens folkpartistiska minoritetsregering på 70-talet.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 23h

Högerpartiet Republikanerna som nu har flera tunga ministerposter meddelar att de inte kommer medverka i Lecornus nya regering.

RFI @rfi.fr · 23h

France: Les Républicains refusent de participer au gouvernement Lecornu II

Les Républicains ont décidé, samedi 11 octobre, de ne pas participer au gouvernement de Sébastien Lecornu, s'engageant seulement à apporter « un soutien texte par texte » à l'exécutif, lors d'un bureau politique, instance qui regroupe les principales personnalités du parti. Un défi de plus pour le Premier ministre reconduit pour la deuxième fois et qui porte, de son côté, l'exigence d'un gouvernement déconnecté des ambitions présidentielles.

rfi.my

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty easy to hate celebrity profiles but then @emilynussbaum.bsky.social comes around and shows you it's okay to love them again. This on the incomparable Keri Russell is perfection:

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1d

Also shows how narrow the Öresund strait is.

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 1d

I’m loving this view of the Baltics by @rhodesmaps. A nice way of showing how close St Petersburg is to the Baltic states.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1d

Okej ska väl erkänna att jag själv kan ha släckt någon gång när jag gått runt (som en stereotyp pappa) och jagat alla onödigt tända lampor i lägenheten.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1d

Enkelt, effektivt och roligt!

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1d

Among the songs a cover of ”Living Next Door to Alice" which (I think) stuck to the original.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1d

Gives me flashback to an school exchange trip in the early 00s where we bought cds in a market and tried to guess what the lyrics could be about.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

I love how 90s Lithuanian pop is violently horny but in this really covert way where it will refer to everything sexual by a euphemism so inobvious that a 1800s Catholic priest wouldnt even blink at it.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1d

Kul att förhandla med barn om att slå på ljuset igen när man står i duschen.

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: strömbrytarna i belgiska badrum sitter alltid vid dörren utanför rummet. Kan någon se problemet?

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 1d

The numbers of electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 are in:

⚡ 1.45 million new battery-only EVs registered
📈 +32% growth in the total electric fleet
🔋 13.6% of all new car registrations are electric

Europe is going full throttle to a clean future.

link.europa.eu/cNKjkh