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❤️YOROZUMARU💙 @yorozu1217.bsky.social · 2h

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2h

Perhaps not the main point but I always hate it when people view it as a sign of failure when poorer countries grow faster. There is absolutely no intrinsic reason why Poland should have lower income than the UK or any other EU country forever, and that means it will have to grow faster sometimes

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 9h

I guess I haven't clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

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Philo @opfuchs.gay · 2h

Better than BMI

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The change has already passed the Bundesrat

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Here in Germany we are trying to get sexual identity included for explicit anti discrimination protection in article 3 of the constitution.

The AfD Is opposed, as are some CDU/CSU figures. It will therefore likely come down to how the Union vote splits.

queer.de @queerde.bsky.social · 3h

Kann sich die Union einen Ruck geben?

Bundestag debattiert Schutz queerer Menschen im Grundgesetz

(Politik - Deutschland) Erst kürzlich rief der Bundesrat dazu auf, endlich im Grundgesetz das Merkmal "sexuelle Identität" zu verankern. Jetzt beschäftigt sich der Bundestag damit. Widerstand kommt von der AfD und Teilen der Union.

www.queer.de

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 3h

Na also, geht doch. (Trotzdem gilt: Vorsichtig bleiben, bis wir das „Kleingedruckte“ kennen…)

Instagram: bundesjustizministerium
"Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein.
Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen."
Dr. Stefanie Hubig
Bundesministerin der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz

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CCC @ccc.de · 3h

Mehrheit am 14. Oktober für EU-Vorschlag kaum noch in Sicht: Bundesjustizministerium lehnt Pläne zur #Chatkontrolle ab www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/umstritt...

Handelsblatt

Justizministerin Hubig stellt klar: Deutschland wird bei der EU-Chatkontrolle nicht mitziehen. Was bedeutet das für WhatsApp & Co. – und wie geht es jetzt in Brüssel weiter?

www.handelsblatt.com

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Philo @opfuchs.gay · 3h

German justice ministry officially comes out against chat control

Markus Beckedahl @netzpolitik.bsky.social · 3h

Unsere Justizministerin positioniert sich auch endlich deutlich gegen die #chatkontrolle:

„Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen“.

www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

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Philo @opfuchs.gay · 3h

@gay.sex.where.you.lickmypa.ws

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Deer lying on an outdoor dog bed with a caption "my dog wont bark I think it's gay"

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Brian Rifkin @brianrifkin.bsky.social · 1d

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 6h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 19h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 14h

I think the historiography is changing but it used to be taken for granted that England had never been successfully invaded since 1066. London was occupied by Dutch troops for a year and half!

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15h

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 5h

In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.

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Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 9h

Something that got almost universally elided from Woke v1 is that being cruel is viscerally rewarding. It feels really good in a pre-rational sort of way. And, paired with the hedonic treadmill, the natural tendency is for any "safe" outlet for cruelty to erode whatever borders we place around it.

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Anders Schröder @andersschroder.bsky.social · 6h

Weird news of the day: An islamist living in Sweden claims he was pressured by security services to leave the country and join the war in Ukraine. Secrurity services deny any involvement, but Ukrainians confirm that Swedes helped facilitate the transfer.

www.svt.se/nyheter/gran...

Islamist övervakades av Säpo – strider nu i Ukraina: ”Pressades”

Viktor Gaziev, som klassats som ett säkerhetshot av Säpo och bedömts vara en radikal islamist, har försvunnit från Sverige. Uppdrag granskning hittar honom – i krigets Ukraina – där han nu är drönarex...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5h

In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 5h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Yes why would I, an elderly podcaster, punch down on a vulnerable girl simply trying to embark on a music career

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes"

"You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger"

"Everybody's so punk on the internet"

"So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire"

"Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list"

"Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot"

"He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs"

"Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal"

"Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

"Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand"

"They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away"

"Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

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Jens-Christian Wagner @jcwagner.bsky.social · 1d

Erneut hat die #AfD Sachsen-Anhalt in Schnellroda die NS-Fahne Preußens gezeigt. Und in den Reden wurde dem Liberalismus und den Grundlagen der westlichen Zivilisation der Kampf angesagt. Die AfD versteckt nicht, was sie anstrebt: die Abschaffung der liberalen Demokratie.
www.welt.de/politik/deut...

Sachsen-Anhalt: „Gegen den Liberalismus“ – Wenn die AfD ein Preußenfest feiert - WELT

Die AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt feiert zum fünften Mal ein Preußenfest. Mehrere Redner loben den Antidemokraten Oswald Spengler als Vorbild. Auf der Bühne wird eine Variante der Preußen-Flagge aus der NS-Ze...

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Lenore Beadsman @lenorebeadsman.bsky.social · 6h

questa cosa è orrenda

celebrare un massacro NON aiuta la causa palestinese
svela solo l'odio che in alcuni casi

(speravo fossero rari
ma non avrei mai immaginato che a Bologna ci fosse tanto odio)

la anima

FabTab @fabtab.nafoeverywhere.org · 15h

Mai avuto simpatia per la celere,da cui in passato le ho anche prese, ma qui faccio un’eccezione.

Qualunque sia la posizione personale di ciascuno su Israele e Palestina, fino a che livello di schifo come esseri umani bisogna essere per celebrare la ricorrenza di un massacro indiscriminato?

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 14h

@beckybunzy.bsky.social 😭😭😭

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Stu ~Bat Country~ Nugent @thatsextoyguy.bsky.social · 7h

this is the funniest thing the internet has produced in a long time, but only for the small group of us millennials who came of age around south london. amazing that an american has nailed this so perfectly

youtube.com/shorts/NZtfn...

can i get a curry goat with rice and peas

YouTube video by QUIX

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