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🇫🇷/🇺🇸 in Toulouse, FR #NAFO #Fella forged by DrTable 🏆 🇺🇦Слава Україні🇺🇦 #AvGeek #Skycards #science #Destiny2 #history - I like my #SciFi with more Sci than Fi. #Athiest 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺😽

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Zia @ziaturtle.bsky.social · Jul 14

🧵: Are you someone motivated to contribute to protecting the front lines of democracy in #Ukraine but hesitate when faced with numerous fundraisers?
United24 is recognized by the UN and is my personal first-choice preference.

u24.gov.ua/about

UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine

United24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 4h

"The Dutch government has taken control of Chinese-owned semiconductor maker Nexperia, warning of risks to Europe’s economic security after alleging “serious governance shortcomings” at the company"

This is exactly what the Chinese gov does too, so it's ironic that they are complaining about it.

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

Move escalates frictions between western countries and Beijing over access to high-end technology

www.ft.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 8h

3. On October 10, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the government will permit Qatar to establish a military presence on U.S. soil.

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10h

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10h

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 10h

La Suède, futur verger de l'Europe 😲

Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 10h

Cette carte est unique au monde. Après plusieurs mois de modélisation, AgroClimat2050 dévoile une 1ère mondiale : la biogéographie future (c’est-à-dire l’aire de répartition) de l’une des 🍎 les + consommées au monde (Golden) grâce à un modèle agroclimatique qui n'a pas d'équivalent en Europe.
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Zia @ziaturtle.bsky.social · 12h

Terrible, crazy story 😳

Three Carabinieri police officers killed in explosion in Italy

Explosion occurred during eviction near Verona. Three Carabinieri officers were killed and a dozen police officers were injured overnight in an explosion during an eviction at a farmhouse near Verona ...

www.wantedinmilan.com

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13h

OTD in 2002 🇺🇦 began decommissioning its nuclear capable Tu-22 strategic bombers & Kh-22 cruise missiles, as per the Budapest memo.

30 bombers & 230 missiles were destroyed over 2 & half years in exchange for promise 🇷🇺 would never invade.

But you can believe our promises now

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Here's what prosecutors--PROSECUTORS!!!--said last week about why they had not given Sydney Reid video to her alleged assault of an FBI agent.

She's seeking to get her case thrown out before it goes to trial this week.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There can be little doubt that the government failed in its duties, first by failing to collect
contemporaneous statements and other information from the officers from the incident and then
by neglecting to supervise the collection of that information, by relying on the officers’ conclusion
as to what is relevant and not relevant. Still, the government persists in trying to blame the defense.
Even at the hearing, the government deflected blame: “The ambiguity, I think, that arises here is
that we are trying to construct a very mundane incident three months after it happened involving,
I guess for lack of a better word, middle-aged people who just aren't great with technology, just
like everyone else in this courtroom.” Tr. at 10/10/25 at 14

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 19h

Olympus Mons - Hope, 26 February 2021 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mC4eac

Picture taken by EXI camera aboard United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft (or Al-Amal in Arabic) on February 26, 2021 at an altitude of 12 961 km.

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Zia @ziaturtle.bsky.social · 17h

Account suspended 👍

Zia @ziaturtle.bsky.social · 17h

Preparing your Halloween pirate costume? 😉

Prends soin de toi!

Zia @ziaturtle.bsky.social · 17h

Early on, when bsky opened up to the public, there were already warnings about fake “trojan” accounts getting on starter packs. Same with block lists (good accounts getting added later).

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Slava Bonkus #ElonSucksSoHard @bonkski.bsky.social · 23h

What Market Manipulation doing?📈💰
#Crypto #StockMarket #WallStreet #DOW #NASDAQ #Trump #China

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CanadianRy 🇨🇦 @canadianry.bsky.social · 22h

REDDIT RELEASE:

"It's #Canadian Thanksgiving and I'm thankful for this photographer".

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Zia @ziaturtle.bsky.social · 17h

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 19h

This is a big deal.

Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: The Kremlin removed some restrictions on using Russian reservists in combat, allowing the Kremlin to employ reservists in its war in Ukraine. ISW will review the significance of this draft law in an upcoming warning update publication. isw.pub/UkrWar101325

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 13, 2025

The Kremlin removed some restrictions on using Russian reservists in combat, allowing the Kremlin to employ reservists in its war in Ukraine.

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BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · 18h

« Bombardier Global 8000, the World’s Fastest Business Jet, Gets Even Faster With a New Top Speed of Mach 0.95 » Almost as startling is the 8,000 NM range. Not bad for a company that starting out making snowmobiles. 😉 (📸 Bombardier) | 🛩️ 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 bombardier.com/en/media/new...

An image of a Bombardier G8000 business jet flying toward and slightly below the camera against the background of lower, hazy cloud deck. The aircraft is leaving a 'furrow' in a cloud layer. The tip vortices of the aircraft are leaving upward curls at the edges of the furrow. It appears to be a sunny day. It's not clear whether this photo is as it was captured or if there was some manipulation of the photo after the fact with photo editing tools. (📸 Bombardier)

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Zia @ziaturtle.bsky.social · 1d

Purity politics = instablock

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 1d

Every single account saying there was no federal response to the flooding in western AK is lying.

The Nat Guard and Coast Guard were there early on - as they pretty much always are in AK.

People are using the disaster for clickbait. Please look up AK news sources - they are easy to find.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 1d

📌 Yes • More of this please ‼️

Brava George • You rock ‼️🐥

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Charlie Hebdo @charliehebdo.fr · 1d

Le matraquage publicitaire pour la spectacle de Shen Yun bat son plein en France tandis que les procédures juridiques s'accumulent outre-Atlantique contre la compagnie pour exploitation d'enfants dans « un système d’emprise qui commence dès l’arrivée des enfants ».

Violences, isolement et exploitation : Shen Yun, le spectacle de danse qui vous en mettra plein les yeux

Des drapés multicolores, des éventails incandescents, un orchestre symphonique qui joue au rythme des portés célestes, des contorsions magiques et des sauts plus que périlleux… Ça fait rêver, n’est-ce pas ? Shen Yun, « il faut le voir au moins une fois dans sa vie », nous dit la voix générique du teaser 2026 de […]

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 1d

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 3d

The authors discovered a troubling pattern in LLMs: Competing for likes, they start making things up. Competing for votes, they turn populist and inflammatory. When tuned for audience approval, they drift from truth.

They call it Moloch's Bargain.
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Kim Willsher @kimwillsher.bsky.social · 3d

A grim four days in court. My report from the retrial of one of Gisèle Pelicot's rapists who challenged his conviction. The testimony from this and the earlier hearing in Avignon - particularly the appalling videos - can never be unseen or unheard.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...

As Gisèle Pelicot rapist’s jail term is increased, French...

The only man to challenge his sentence has lost his appeal. But campaigners fear old attitudes remain in place

observer.co.uk

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 3d

This guy is nutty on a level the US has not seen in quite a while. This is 19th century level of weirdo.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel delivered four off-the-record lectures in San Francisco, connecting government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Post.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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