Reposted by BlackcalJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rare opportunity to invest in no future. 26821214
Reposted by BlackcalEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist. 13597158
Reposted by BlackcalRahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Swiss People’s Party SVP is one of the oldest and electorally strongest radical-right parties in the world. But: electoral popularity ≠ policy popularity Voters keep supporting the SVP in elections, but only 2 out of 12 popular initiatives launched by the SVP have passed Data: Swissvotes 68029
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026📖 - Beaucoup aimé la BD Mămăligă de Zoé Barthélémy qui raconte son erasmus à Bucarest. Partie sans savoir exactement où se trouve la Roumanie, on découvre la capitale à travers ses yeux émerveillés. Son enthousiasme est rafraîchissant. J'étais presque aussi triste qu'elle à la fin de son séjour... 021
Reposted by BlackcalNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 25/09/2026Or, avec les mandats d’arrêt contre le premier ministre israélien et celui de mars 2023 visant le président russe, Vladimir Poutine, on assiste à une curieuse inversion. C’est en fait le monde des juges et des procureurs de la CPI qui s’est passablement rétréci. 13317
Reposted by BlackcalMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) France @msf.fr · 25/09/2026Le 23/09, les forces israéliennes ont démoli les habitations de 91 personnes à Jinba, à Masafer Yatta, en Palestine. Elles ont détruit 12 maisons, dont celle d’un agent de santé communautaire de MSF, ainsi que des réservoirs d’eau et des abris pour animaux. 25373
Reposted by BlackcalRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"It's all the West's fault" has been the Russian political elite's indispensable get out of jail free card for 30 years. It allows them to acknowledge that things have gone wrong while taking zero responsibility. 520928
Reposted by BlackcalRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Rampant corruption drained the Russian state and was disastrous for economic transition. Westerners who tried to invest often had their money stolen; Russian courts generally sided with the Russians who had taken it. 214812
Reposted by BlackcalAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A different kind of AI apocalypse 1419033
Reposted by BlackcalOz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The people advocating for Ukraine to surrender its territory to Russia today are the same people that told Ukraine to surrender Crimea to Russia yesterday and the same people who will tell Ukraine to surrender Odesa tomorrow. 4490116
Reposted by BlackcalHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It bugs me that we're normalising the idea that there's something wrong with long documents, or that they're not "worth" our time. There is huge value in careful thought, in detail and nuance, in exploration, and in the experiential journey that goes alongside that. 6784106
Reposted by BlackcalChappatte Cartoons @chappatte.bsky.social · 16/09/2026La fin du monde causée par l'IA? "It's true that AI saves us a lot of time!" On the screen: "Apocalypse in progress" © Chappatte dans Le Temps, Genève @letemps.ch 👉 chappatte.com 15927
Reposted by Blackcal+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 15/09/2026"Traitors": Graffiti in Ashdod directly targets Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, directors of the film "NAZA." This is part of an ongoing wave of incitement against the directors, spanning activists, politicians, opposition leaders, and senior figures in the Israeli government. By Oren Ziv 25644
Reposted by BlackcalOlivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Heureusement qu’il y a @timnitgebru.blacksky.app pour donner l’heure aux doomers de l’IA qui gardent les yeux rivés sur l’horloge de l’apocalypse. Leurs relais médiatiques ensorcelés feraient bien de lire cette interview. www.wired.com/story/one-of... 310760
Reposted by BlackcalVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Swiss sanctions are far from symbolic: as a financial and commodity-trading centre, Switzerland punches far above its weight. Before 2022, roughly 75% of Russian coal trading and 60% of Russian oil trading was handled through Switzerland. Switzerland also froze around CHF 8.5 billion Russian assets. 16610
Reposted by BlackcalVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The wider political-media environment is equally telling. Roger Köppel, owner and editor-in-chief of Weltwoche, a long-time Blocher ally, has conducted friendly interviews with some of the Kremlin’s most infamous propagandists, including Vladimir Solovyov and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. 19010
Reposted by BlackcalVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The real goal of the initiative is to restrict Switzerland’s ability to impose sanctions on belligerent states. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Switzerland followed EU sanctions. A few months later, Christoph Blocher launched the initiative. 212021
Reposted by BlackcalChappatte Cartoons @chappatte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Les proxys iraniens gagnent du terrain - © Chappatte dans @LeTemps , Genève 👉 www.letemps.ch/chappatte 👉 chappatte.com 25216
Reposted by BlackcalThe Insider @theins.press · 11/09/2026Advertising network AdNow collects Romanian users’ data via scam ads and sends it to servers in Russia’s Novosibirsk, investigation finds Similar Russian ad operations have funded sites promoting far-right politician Călin Georgescu and the AUR party, according to local investigative outlet Snoop.theins.pressAdvertising network AdNow collects Romanian users’ data via scam ads and sends it to servers in Russia’s Novosibirsk, investigation findsA Russia-linked advertising network, AdNow, is collecting data from millions of users in Romania and transmitting it to servers in Novosibirsk, according to an… 02011
Reposted by BlackcalMinna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026While this is as depressing as expected, a couple things to keep in mind: - Saxony-Anhalt is a small Bundesland (population ~2 million) - building a regional government will likely be difficult - it doesn’t directly affect Germany’s Ukraine or Russia policy - this is why Germany is a federal state 721958
Reposted by BlackcalPierre Alonso @pierrealonso.com · 08/09/2026Mon quartier ce matin après une nuit infernale 2155
Reposted by BlackcalSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 03/09/2026“Millennials are the only normal generation” theory continues to remain undefeated. we are the only ones that didn't get our brains cooked by the computer 77117096
Reposted by BlackcalBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026But - as with Ticketmaster - the feds aren't the only parties to the suit. With 22 AGs ("Aspiring Governors") on the suit, there's a chance it'll go to trial. We might even learn the identity of the inventor of this enshittification-squared gambit, a veritable Louis Pasteur of enshittification. 73/ 11608
Reposted by BlackcalBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Amazon has created a system where the most sales go to the companies that pay the highest bribes, and those companies pass the cost of those bribes onto their customers. 33/ 115133
Reposted by BlackcalChappatte Cartoons @chappatte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Happy to share the AMAZING NEWS: Safaa Odah, Palestinian cartoonist who won our 2026 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award from Freedom Cartoonists Foundation @freedomcartoonists.bsky.social in Geneva, is OUT OF GAZA. She has arrived safely in France. Welcome to a land of peace, Safaa! 03110
Reposted by BlackcalMira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If I had a nickel every time a European far right party was exposed for ties to russia and attempts to destabilize Europe from within I’d have a lot of nickels and I’d buy Patriot batteries for Ukraine 10678180
Reposted by BlackcalDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/08/2026I'm not an economist but my back of the envelope math suggests that Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI can't all simultaneously sell $30 trillion dollars worth of enterprise solutions to a global economy where the sum total of all economic activity currently adds up to under $120t. 491100258
Reposted by BlackcalBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026Trump will obsess over these idées fixes* as he draws his last breath, gasping "Greenland…tariffs" as he tumbles from his golden toilet, coronary arteries bulging as he strains to pass a half-digested Big Mac, only a viscous paste of rectal mucus and Diet Coke to lubricate that unyielding bolus. 33 513425
Reposted by BlackcalLe Monde @lemonde.fr · 24/08/2026SOS Méditerranée alerte sur la hausse des violences contre les migrants et les navires de sauvetagelemonde.frSOS Méditerranée alerte sur la hausse des violences contre les migrants et les navires de sauvetageL’ONG a recensé entre juin et juillet, à sept reprises au moins, des navires « liés à des acteurs libyens », certains « non identifiés », qui se sont approchés « à grande vitesse » de bateaux, ou les ont suivis des heures durant. 23125
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Quelle femme impressionnante ! « Le mouvement des dissidents a démarré dans les années 60. Et si vous regardiez son impact dans une perspective de court terme, vous y auriez vu un échec, parce que ces dissidents sont restés des marginaux, ils n’ont pas transformé la société soviétique ». 1/ 120
Reposted by Blackcaljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs. 171146243126
Reposted by BlackcalPierre Alonso @pierrealonso.com · 22/08/2026Au moins 16 personnes ont étés tuées dans une double frappe russe sur un centre commercial de Kryvyi Rih, hier en pleine après-midi. Neuf personnes sont toujours recherchées, dont deux enfants. 055
Reposted by BlackcalMihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A very Romanian problem: an intelligentsia obsessed with anticommunism to the point where it empowers right-wing authoritarianism. Bingo again. 5/5 081
Reposted by Blackcalelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/08/2026As with the Israeli destruction of libraries, universities and bookshops in Gaza, the destruction of knowledge is a core part of a genocidal state’s tactics www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...theguardian.comUkrainian publishers call for support after Russian attacks destroy 10m booksThe country risks ‘the collapse of the entire book ecosystem’ following destruction of warehouses in July and August, say Ukrainian publishers 016379
Reposted by BlackcalQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 21/08/2026Errol Musk shares his thoughts in Lunch with the FT, a prestigious spot reserved for the world's most probing and innovative minds. www.ft.com/content/ded0... 1010934
Reposted by BlackcalPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Man, that amazing "pivot" that Trump made towards Ukraine in July was about as real as his easy victory over Iran. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-r...newsukraine.rbc.uaTrump rejected Zelenskyy’s secret request over Starlink - FTRead more 18385125
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026📖 If you're wondering whether it's still worth reading Mindfuck by Cambridge Analytica's whistleblower Christopher Wylie, even though Brexit & Trump I happened 10 years ago and surely the situation is much worse now, the answer is hell yes. 1/ 111
Reposted by BlackcalMarine Leduc @marineleduc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"Fjord", Palme d'or de Cristian Mungiu, sort aujourd'hui en salle. Reportage à Bucarest en juin, où le réalisateur a organisé une avant-première nationale pour sensibiliser à la disparition des cinémas. Car, même s'il est applaudi à l'international, le cinéma d'auteur roumain est en difficulté:lemonde.frEncensé à l’étranger, le cinéma roumain n’est pas prophète en son paysBien qu’applaudi dans les festivals internationaux, à l’image de Cristian Mungiu, lauréat de sa deuxième Palme d’or à Cannes, en mai, le septième art roumain peine à trouver des financements et à main... 1113
Reposted by BlackcalBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026When an AI company's security tool "escapes containment" and hacks someone else's servers, we need to ask the company "Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?" rather than "Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?" 24/ 519457
Reposted by BlackcalTeresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 19/08/2026We are about to end and adopt the new EU strategy on resilience and adaptation to climate change. It may be time to discuss new sources of funding. Is it reasonable to count on profits for a few while acepting costs and suffer for the vast mayority? Climate justice should enlighten the discussion. 2215
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The French being French: embracing Esperanto but still putting an accent on the 'e' www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... 041
Reposted by BlackcalRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If the people responsible for foreign policy in the Trump administration were actively trying to destroy the US's global influence, and thus its power, it's hard to imagine what they'd have done differently in the last few days - let alone the last 18 months. 30603178
Reposted by BlackcalIllia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 17/08/2026In a week, Ukraine will have its fifth Independence Day that, as so many swore, would never come. 758465
Reposted by BlackcalCédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 17/08/20261 : L'offensive UKR de l'été 2023 a été arrêtée à cause de la nécessité pour les US de rediriger les flux de munitions vers Israël après les attaques du 7 octobre. 2 : La défense antiaérienne UKR est privée de missiles à cause des stocks épuisés pour défendre ISR des attaques de l'Iran 3 :....fr.businessam.beIsraël a bloqué la livraison de systèmes américains « Iron Dome » à l'UkrainePrincipaux renseignements Israël a bloqué le transfert vers l’Ukraine de systèmes « Iron Dome » financés par les États-Unis. La coopération proposée en 714793
Reposted by BlackcalSander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Word is spreading that pockets of the European economy are blossoming. Croatia, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Greece are also growing at a brisk pace. Those countries are in the EU single market - casting doubt on a German narrative that EU regulation is to blame for its woes. 823076
Reposted by BlackcalAlex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions 341901941
Reposted by BlackcalCommittee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026CPJ is renewing its demands for immediate accountability for the killing of Lebanese journalist, Amal Khalil, following an @amnesty.org investigation concluding that the Israeli strike that killed her should be investigated as a war crime. Read more⤵️ cpj.org/2026/08/cpj-...cpj.orgCPJ renews accountability calls in the killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil after Amnesty International probe - Committee to Protect JournalistsNew York, August 6, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is renewing its demands for immediate accountability for the killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. This follows an Amnesty Internati... 01112
Reposted by BlackcalBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Zuck has benefited enormously from the fact that you love your friends more than you hate him, but (because hell is other people), you can't all agree on when to leave and where to go next, so you stay put on Facebook and Instagram: locusmag.com/feature/comm... 22/locusmag.comCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Hell Is Other People“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the ‘burning marl.’ Old wives’ tales! There’s… 321842
Reposted by BlackcalBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Once you realize that Zuck doesn't really think other people exist, "the metaverse" starts to make a lot more sense. 17/ 119320
