Reposted by BlackcalJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rare opportunity to invest in no future. 26822215
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. 13598159
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. 13217
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. 521228
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. 215112
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes that's true. I read Lovinescu's book a few years ago (which was interesting but tedious) and the thing that I remember most triggered her was the French Left's blindness to Stalin & communism in general. It's true that she seemed oblivious to her own prejudices. Still, she wasn't the "worst". 020
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you consider Lovinescu & Ierunca far right ? Or gray area ? 110
Reposted by BlackcalAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A different kind of AI apocalypse 1418933
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. 4496116
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 16127
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. 16810
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. 19110
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. 212121
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
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026How sad is the situation that this is now so frequent you can just rererere-use the same drawings 😔 000
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 77116896
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
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yes but...who hasn't plagiarised their thesis/diploma in the romanian political class ? 🙈 100
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 10678182
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 · 24/08/2026Elle se tait un instant. « Mais j’ai le privilège de pouvoir observer cela dans une perspective historique, et je sais que ces dissidents sont des vainqueurs, parce que l’idée pour laquelle ils se battaient dans les années 60 est devenue ma réalité. » 2/ 010
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. 171146093123
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
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Thanks for the interesting points. If I do watch the movie, it'll be with different eyes 000
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Yes but...2h25 🙈 What is there to say about that angle ? (I've only seen amintiri din epoca de aur & bacalaureat) 100
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
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Thanks for the interesting article. I had no idea. Was just instinctively proud that a Romanian won the Palme d'Or without looking too much into it. Think I won't go watch the movie after all... 100
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 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 · 21/08/2026There is so much more to it than Trump & Brexit, the first victims of CA being African & Caribbean nations. It drives me crazy to think so little has changed when whistleblowers & journalists took such immense risks to bring the story out. Do honor them by staying informed. 3/ 010
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Even for those who followed the story back then, the book is still very much worth your time. Found that the writing was captivating & easy to follow, even in the 'technical' parts. The mind boggles when thinking of all the implications, repercussions and impunity that continues to this day. 2/ 110
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
Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Good interview. Appreciate the way you summarise the EU-China relationship in an accessible way for people like me who struggle to follow the updates. In the interview, you mention the German economy minister opposes any measure against China, but I thought that lately Germany had changed its mind? 100
