@cracovianka.bsky.social
Factotum. Usually found in Krakow or London, baking or throwing. Dahlia enthusiast. I know my commas.
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🤨 Russia is scrubbing the record.
Regional courts are quietly deleting tens of thousands of cases on missing and deceased people — cutting off one of the last ways to track Moscow’s true military losses in Ukraine.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Regional courts are quietly deleting tens of thousands of cases on missing and deceased people — cutting off one of the last ways to track Moscow’s true military losses in Ukraine.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Russia Quietly Erases Tens of Thousands of “Missing” Court Cases as War Losses Mount
Russian courts have removed thousands of missing or deceased case records, limiting independent assessments of military losses in Ukraine.
united24media.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🤨 Russia is scrubbing the record.
Regional courts are quietly deleting tens of thousands of cases on missing and deceased people — cutting off one of the last ways to track Moscow’s true military losses in Ukraine.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Regional courts are quietly deleting tens of thousands of cases on missing and deceased people — cutting off one of the last ways to track Moscow’s true military losses in Ukraine.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
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It's a reliable *shocked Pikachu face* line for audiences, but I have to explain that when we started archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites, the instability of the power grid in the Bay Area was a bigger impediment and risk than Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
Yes, the archive is down again.
Yes, it's a power outage from PG&E.
Yes, there's been something like 4-5 in the last few weeks.
PG&E has a monopoly. We are waiting for the power to return.
Yes, it's a power outage from PG&E.
Yes, there's been something like 4-5 in the last few weeks.
PG&E has a monopoly. We are waiting for the power to return.
December 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
It's a reliable *shocked Pikachu face* line for audiences, but I have to explain that when we started archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites, the instability of the power grid in the Bay Area was a bigger impediment and risk than Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
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Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.
December 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.
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🎄 Christmas carollers in Lviv.
December 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🎄 Christmas carollers in Lviv.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank
Decision takes the total number of new settlements to 69 in past few years as construction binge continues
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
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Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned Russia’s abduction of around 50 civilians, mostly elderly women, from Hrabovske, a border village in Sumy region. He compared the act to tactics used by ISIS or Hamas and called for global pressure to secure their release.
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned Russia’s abduction of around 50 civilians, mostly elderly women, from Hrabovske, a border village in Sumy region. He compared the act to tactics used by ISIS or Hamas and called for global pressure to secure their release.
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Today, in yet another war crime, Russians kidnapped and forcibly moved 50 Ukrainians (including an 89 year old woman) from a village to a "filtration" camp in Russia.
By continuing to abduct and hold civilians as hostages, Russia behaves NO differently from any terrorist organization.
By continuing to abduct and hold civilians as hostages, Russia behaves NO differently from any terrorist organization.
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Today, in yet another war crime, Russians kidnapped and forcibly moved 50 Ukrainians (including an 89 year old woman) from a village to a "filtration" camp in Russia.
By continuing to abduct and hold civilians as hostages, Russia behaves NO differently from any terrorist organization.
By continuing to abduct and hold civilians as hostages, Russia behaves NO differently from any terrorist organization.
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Does anyone - anyone at all - have a plan to get us to a future where councils do have money to fix things again?
That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.
Replacing collapsed bridge 'nigh on impossible' cost for council
The Spey Viaduct was completed in 1886 but partially collapsed into the Moray river at the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Does anyone - anyone at all - have a plan to get us to a future where councils do have money to fix things again?
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The US has suspended the technology deal with the UK that was signed during Donald Trump's state visit
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
US suspends technology deal with the UK
Washington pushes for concessions from London on the broader trade relationship
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The US has suspended the technology deal with the UK that was signed during Donald Trump's state visit
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
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The Trump administration has banned Head Start providers from using 200 phrases when describing their programs and applying for grants, such as: women, disabilities, Black, belong, and tribal.
Head Start is essential and must be able to serve our communities freely. We're suing the administration.
Head Start is essential and must be able to serve our communities freely. We're suing the administration.
Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests
New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.
www.npr.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Trump administration has banned Head Start providers from using 200 phrases when describing their programs and applying for grants, such as: women, disabilities, Black, belong, and tribal.
Head Start is essential and must be able to serve our communities freely. We're suing the administration.
Head Start is essential and must be able to serve our communities freely. We're suing the administration.
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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
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George Oates helped launch the @flickrfdn.bsky.social to protect the platform’s cultural history.
@rabble.nz reminds us that companies aren’t required to keep the mementos of our digital culture we create on them, and that’s exactly why models like this matter.
Full episode out now.
@rabble.nz reminds us that companies aren’t required to keep the mementos of our digital culture we create on them, and that’s exactly why models like this matter.
Full episode out now.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
George Oates helped launch the @flickrfdn.bsky.social to protect the platform’s cultural history.
@rabble.nz reminds us that companies aren’t required to keep the mementos of our digital culture we create on them, and that’s exactly why models like this matter.
Full episode out now.
@rabble.nz reminds us that companies aren’t required to keep the mementos of our digital culture we create on them, and that’s exactly why models like this matter.
Full episode out now.
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This is huge: under new EU law, "social media companies will have to compensate banks if it’s clear that they failed to remove an online scam that had been reported." www.politico.eu/article/soci...
Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law
The new rules set a dangerous precedent, big tech companies say.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is huge: under new EU law, "social media companies will have to compensate banks if it’s clear that they failed to remove an online scam that had been reported." www.politico.eu/article/soci...
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I don’t think the Rutte “daddy strategy” worked
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I don’t think the Rutte “daddy strategy” worked
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Cannot think of even one single time I've ever wanted to "paste with formatting"
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Cannot think of even one single time I've ever wanted to "paste with formatting"
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Incredible. Grab the data whilst you can this won’t be up for long
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Incredible. Grab the data whilst you can this won’t be up for long
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Experienced in nonprofit fundraising and love building meaningful, cross-sector relationships? We’d be excited to meet you! We’re hiring a Director of Development & Partnerships (remote US, East Coast preferred). Salary $160–200k. Apply here: www.on-ramps.com/jobs/3518
Bellingcat US | Director of Development and Partnerships
Bellingcat is an independent community of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists who pioneered open source investigations tools. With precision and perseverance, Bellingcat exposes everyt...
www.on-ramps.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Experienced in nonprofit fundraising and love building meaningful, cross-sector relationships? We’d be excited to meet you! We’re hiring a Director of Development & Partnerships (remote US, East Coast preferred). Salary $160–200k. Apply here: www.on-ramps.com/jobs/3518
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I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?
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CONFIRMED sabotage on Poland's strategic Warsaw-Lublin-Ukraine railway line. An explosive device destroyed approximately one meter of rail. Local residents reported hearing an explosion around 10 PM the previous evening.
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
CONFIRMED sabotage on Poland's strategic Warsaw-Lublin-Ukraine railway line. An explosive device destroyed approximately one meter of rail. Local residents reported hearing an explosion around 10 PM the previous evening.
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We're not as cool as Chappell Roan and the #PinkPonyClub, but the #DataRescuersClub is still pretty great. Volunteer today:
FAQ
Welcome to the Data Rescue Project! We are excited to have you join us. What is the Data Rescue Project? The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including…
www.datarescueproject.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We're not as cool as Chappell Roan and the #PinkPonyClub, but the #DataRescuersClub is still pretty great. Volunteer today:
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.