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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 9h

honestly did not think it was possible for a team starting alexander isak and viktor gyökeres to look this terrible. major accomplishment by jon dahl tomasson here

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 9h

on the one hand it is not great watching bergvall and isak fumble ball after ball and miss three open goals. on the other hand gyökeres hasn't even had a decent chance to blow

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 10h

great to see the replay of an unmarked lucas bergvall whiffing on a slow moving ball in front of an open goal a few more times. feels good, love to watch sports, go Sweden

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 12h

there is nothing this cannot cure

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12h

i've never been inconvenienced before and i hope i never will be. it sounds terrible

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 22h

to be clear to non-swedes why this sucks so much: stockholm is the largest city and the economic capital of scandinavia. this is THE ONLY TRAIN CONNECTION THE CITY HAS WITH EUROPE

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 22h

we're killing the stockholm-berlin overnight train because although every seat sells out months in advance, the route itself doesn't turn a profit for the state-owned railway and therefore must go

Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 23h

Regeringen slaktar nattåget till Berlin. Detta har varit mitt sätt att arbetspendla. Fasen vad ledsen och arg jag blir. Varför ska ni förstöra precis allt som är bra. Ni kan dra åt helvete!

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 22h

every day brings a fresh hell

seems unclear to me whether the stockholm-hamburg route will continue but i am choosing to believe it will so i can stay calm enough to get work done this morning

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 22h

we're killing the stockholm-berlin overnight train because although every seat sells out months in advance, the route itself doesn't turn a profit for the state-owned railway and therefore must go

Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 23h

Regeringen slaktar nattåget till Berlin. Detta har varit mitt sätt att arbetspendla. Fasen vad ledsen och arg jag blir. Varför ska ni förstöra precis allt som är bra. Ni kan dra åt helvete!

Notis i Aftonbladet
SJ slutar med nattåg till Berlin

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 1d

a day later its still very funny to me that dsa national committee people - who had nothing to do with zohran's campaign and has not even endorsed him - are doing a european junket to explain to members of infinitely more successful left parties how they got zohran elected

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

skulle bli spännande att åka till vänsterdagarna för att höra hur två medlemmar av dsas nationalkommitte, som inte hade någonting alls med Mamdanis kampanj att göra och som har aktivt motverkat new york dsa i flera år, tar åt sig äran för Mamdanis succe!

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 2d

Good news: Yankees lose, Blue Jays win

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Blue Jays defeat Yankees to advance to ALCS

The Toronto Blue Jays won Game 4 of their American League Division Series matchup against the New York Yankees to advance to the next round of the Major League Baseball playoffs.

www.cbc.ca

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

skulle bli spännande att åka till vänsterdagarna för att höra hur två medlemmar av dsas nationalkommitte, som inte hade någonting alls med Mamdanis kampanj att göra och som har aktivt motverkat new york dsa i flera år, tar åt sig äran för Mamdanis succe!

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

a friend at HUD spent most of 2014 jumping through bureaucratic hurdles and campaigning internally just to get permission to *have* a twitter account for her program

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

the swedish government continues to go from strength to strength
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission decides to refer SWEDEN to the Court of Justice of the European Union in order to ensure accelerated permitting procedures for renewable energy installations\u202F\u202F

The Commission is taking legal steps to accelerate the development of renewable energy across the EU, in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen energy independence and lower energy price...

ec.europa.eu

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

you do not have to worry about buying gas or finding parking. kids think its fun to ride in and don't get motion sick. you get moderate exercise and never have to sit in traffic. you can even take some of their friends along to the beach or the playground if you get a box bike.

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

this is my periodic PSA that if you have young kids an electric cargo bike is worth its weight in gold. i cannot recommend getting one strongly enough

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

skulle säga att det här inte är unikt, inte ens i konservativa kyrkor. katolska kyrkan, särskilt jesuiterna, har alltid varit aktiva i migranträttsfrågor i USA, på ett sätt som ligger långt till vänster om båda de politiska partierna (och mesta europeiska partier också)

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

tror att det europeiska synen på kyrkor i usa är lite missvisande, amerikanska kyrkor är involverade i alla delar av det politiska spektrumet på ett sätt som saknar motsvarighet här i europa (obs menar inte att kritisera dig!)

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 5d

Jag har lite svårt att förstå varför det inte är en nationell storm över detta. En av våra mest kända svenskar har enligt uppgift förödmjukats, tvingas krypa & kyssa en främmande makts flagga, fängslad utan tillräckligt rent vatten. Expressen begravde nyheten längst ner. DN rapporterar inte alls.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 6d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 3d

drove to work today for the first time in stockholm. first impression is that everyone who does not voluntarily should be incarcerated

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 3d

have long been suspicious of how substack solved some rather niche political blogs' financing problems overnight by allegedly finding tens of thousands of willing subscribers who never before existed, in any form, on the internet, and also in the FP's case stuff like this
bsky.app/profile/abuj...

Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 6d

On eve of Bari Weiss's reported installation as editor-in-chief of CBS News, her Free Press continues to collaborate with Center for Peace Communications on information operation promoting Israeli-backed Gazan militias:

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 3d

its both that incredibly high ratio and the alleged rocket ship growth in subs over the last twelve months. especially odd given its a website where as far as i can tell most of the blogs are free

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 3d

this just seems to be an incredibly high percentage of total readers to be paid subscribers. for comparison the new republic has half as many subs, a far more robust paywall, and three times as many monthly readers

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 3d

asking as someone who used to work on the business side of news media: has anyone dug into the free press' very odd looking public financials/claimed subscriber numbers?

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 4d

also being old is no excuse here: my mother in law is 80 and saw leonard cohen play stockholm in the 1970s. boo the swedish academy

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