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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 20h

I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Azov Battalion has a power-bottom domination problem

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

New burrowing owl behavior for me today-- taking a bath in the rain! So cool! 🪶

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

Hillfort Henge! Hillfort Henge!

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Some excellent reading for those who want to know basic chronology and facts regarding the emptying out of Palestine between 1947 and 1949.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

I linked elsewhere but the # of villages and their reason for depopulation come from Benny Morris' "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949", "1948 and After. Israel and the Palestinians", and compounding analysis comes from "The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947- 1951",

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Silverwing Prime @silverwingprime.bsky.social · 3d

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5d

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 5d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 5d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6d

The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale.

On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.

Why Socialists Shouldn’t Reject Liberalism

The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale. On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.

jacobin.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5d

‘Unimaginable horrors’: more than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip

www.unicef.org/press-releas...

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CatholicGeekery @catholicgeekery.bsky.social · 9d

We should bring back Capitalising the Important Words in an academic Text. All this talk about accessibility in research, but we ignore the Old Ways.

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JBR @jetblackraider.itch.io · 10d

very loud guitar riff version Malys

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Heavy Lashes @heavylashes.bsky.social · 13d

I painted my version of Lady Aurelia Malys 😊🤍💚

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 13d

AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 13d

Link: www.jstor.org/stable/45295...

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina on JSTOR

Adam Scharpf, Christian Gläßel, Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 64, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2020), pp. 7...

www.jstor.org

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 13d

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

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Dr Like Dr Pepper is a Doctor Graeth @thebronzedragon.bsky.social · 13d

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سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · 13d

The Divine herself, Lady Vivienne
{ #art #dragonage }

Study of Frédéric Soulacroix’s ‘Vanity’ as Vivienne from dragon age inquisition. She is sitting in a pastel blue satin dress posed with a glass of wine and a staff in the shape of a swan. She has warm rich brown skin and a shaved head. She is wearing a golden circlet and a matching gold necklace in the shape of the circle of magi.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 14d

literary dispute

opossum and nightjar monks getting way too heated over a book of saucy knight stories

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 14d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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tsun @kimtsuntsun.bsky.social · 15d

#warframe #warframefanart #tennocreate
Mag Heirloom

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 15d

A paradigmatic shift among young Americans: “We have a Gaza generation [that] doesn’t trust Israel, sees Israel as a source of a problem, sees what’s happening in Gaza largely to be genocide. And I don’t think that’s likely to change once the war ends."
apnews.com/article/isra...