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This site is my main news source. Probably it shouldn't be tho. On this profile you'll find mostly reposts, about news/commentary I find interesting + jokes and art that I like Languages: Italian + English, Spanish

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · Jan 10

Btw may be useful

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1h

51 is a wicked unnatural number. Divisible by 17? Come on now

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1h

A slightly overlooked thing is that this was and remains a colonial war with a global audience. Unlike other colonial wars, where the mutual discovery of deeper hatred than either suspected is limited to combatants, the mutual discovery here occurred even among non-combatants.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 3h

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 2h

Same for the EU seems to me

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 5h

I’m happy to see the awful Venezuelan regime being criticized but if “this is an award for an entire movement” (as the committee said), why give it to one specific person? And one with dubious friends and positions? Nobel Prize has been given to groups and movements before. Peace offer to Trump?

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Licia Corbolante (@terminologia) @terminologiaetc.it · 21h

ma non nell'inglese europeo: primer si pronuncia sempre /praɪmə/

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 1d

My hero

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

FT: Under the new rules, foreign companies will need Chinese government approval to export products that contain even trace amounts of Chinese-sourced rare-earth minerals, or that were manufactured using the country’s rare-earth extraction, refining or magnet-making technology

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China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’

Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain

on.ft.com

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 1d

In short, you can call it a "hamburger" if it contains meat rather than ham, because everyone knows what a hamburger is; but you can't call it a "veggie burger" if it is veggie-based, because that would be confusing. 🙃

Anna Strolenberg @annastrolenberg.volteuropa.org · 2d

Today the EU parliament voted to ban the word burger if they are made with plant protein, instead of animal protein. 🤦🏻‍♀️

They claim it’s to stop consumers being ‘confused between meat and plant products’ - solving a problem that nobody had!

This new rule leaves a bad taste in the mouth…

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 11d

THE MEME IS REAL

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 6d

1) my synagogue openly calls for an end to the genocide in Gaza, and it doesn't stop of us from receiving threats and requiring security.

2) "just don't go to the only synagogue(s) in your location on Yom Kippur" is a ridiculous ask of observant Jews.

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M-1R @hovermyr.bsky.social · 6d

the problem with mechsploitation is that if you turn a girl into a dog that's also an ace pilot you've just succeeded in creating Snoopy

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

The two moments closest to peace have occurred under Trump and that should make Dems incredibly ashamed

Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 1d

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d

Came across full versions of two classic books on nationalism, so thought I would share them.

First, my all-time favorite: Eric Hobsbawm's "Nations and Nationalism since 1780."

keimena11.wordpress.com

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

After the anticipated and hoped for prisoners/hostage exchange, there will remain in Israeli prisons thousands more Palestinians than there had been there on 6th October 2023.

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 4d

Truly searing report by the NYT’s Roger Cohen on where 🇮🇱 & 🇵🇸 stand 2 years on. “Israel at war with itself” is the title.

2 Octobers ago I told BBC that Israel was diving headlong into “the terrorism trap.” It didn’t have to. Netanyahu strode right into the door Hamas opened.

Some reflections 🧵

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Yemen Data Project @yemendataproject.org · 2d

The rate of civilian harm in Israeli strikes remains unprecedented.
In Trump's bombing campaign earlier this year the average was 2.07 civilian casualties per strike. In seven years of Saudi-led air raids the rate was 0.76.
In September, the average surged to over 32 civilian casualties per strike.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

Jewish Currents has learned that the Conscience flotilla, with
Emily Wilder aboard reporting for us, has been intercepted and boarded by the Israeli military. Communications with Emily and the rest of the boat have been cut. We are awaiting further updates.

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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 2d

The latest flotilla has been pirated by #Israel.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Vitalba Azzollini @vitalbaa.bsky.social · 2d

Non so se Ilaria Salis abbia commesso i reati di cui è accusata.

Ma il fumus persecutionis di Orban verso Salis giustifica l'immunità.

E il Parlamento Ue ha condannato l'Ungheria per violazione dello stato di diritto: basta già solo questo per non revocare l'immunità, a Salis come a chiunque altro

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

👻Don't be scared...👻

🎃 You can still read the NEW October issue of the Journal of Democracy for FREE through October 30! 🎃

muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 4d

20 stabwounds a suicide? That's beyond incompetence come on