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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's perhaps *not* a coincidence that maybe the EU's most protective & far-reaching consumer rights protection regime *also* happens to be the system hundreds of EU legislators rely on to get to/from work. >_>

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A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

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Jerry Threet @jerrythreet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's a reason traffic lights don't use a tiered subscription model where only the RedLight+ subscribers can see *all* the other cars on the road. Except, in this analogy, the cars drive at ~27,000km/h, and most are coming at you from angles approaching 180°. And you drive via dial-up trailcam.

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PUBLISHING classified information is certainly NOT illegal. It is illegal for the government employee to share classified information with the media. Those are TWO VERY DIFFERENT things.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not legal advice, etc, but just in case the UK-specific site doesn't include the EU's recent clarifying updates from summer 2026. Though medical emergencies are 'extraordinary circumstances', airlines are still obliged to provide care, food, info, etc: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

4.3.2. Provision of meals, refreshments and accommodation

The intention of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 is to ensure that the needs of passengers waiting for their return flight or re-routing are appropriately taken care of. The extent of appropriate care will have to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, with due regard to the needs of passengers in the relevant circumstances and the principle of proportionality (i.e. according to the waiting time). The price paid for the ticket or the temporary nature of the inconvenience suffered should not interfere with the right to care.

With regard to Article 9(1), point (a), on meals and refreshments, the Commission considers the expression ‘in a reasonable relation to the waiting time’ to mean that operating air carriers should provide passengers with appropriate care corresponding to the expected length of the delay and the time of day (or night) at which it occurs, including at the transfer airport in the case of connecting flights, in order to reduce the inconvenience suffered by the passengers as much as possible, while bearing in mind the principle of proportionality. Particular attention has to be given to the needs of people with a disability or reduced mobility and unaccompanied children.

Furthermore, passengers should be offered care free of charge in a clear and accessible way, including, where possible, via electronic means of communication. This means that passengers should not be left to make arrangements themselves, e.g. finding and paying for accommodation or food. Instead, operating air carriers are obliged to actively offer care. Operating air carriers should also ensure, where available, that accommodation is accessible for people with a disability and their service dogs.

If care has not been offered even though it should have been, passengers who have had to pay for meals and refreshments, hotel accommodation, transport between the airport and the place of accommodation and/or telecommunication servic…

"4.3.3. Care in extraordinary circumstances or exceptional events

According to Regulation (EC) No 261/2004, the air carrier is obliged to fulfil the obligation of care even if the cancellation of a flight is caused by extraordinary circumstances, that is to say circumstances that could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken. Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 contains nothing that would allow the conclusion to be drawn that it recognises a separate category of ‘particularly extraordinary’ events – beyond the extraordinary circumstances referred to in Article 5(3) – that would lead to the air carrier being exempted from all its obligations, including those under Article 9 of this Regulation, even in the case of extraordinary circumstances that persist over a long time, particularly since passengers are especially vulnerable in such circumstances and events (92).

In exceptional events, the intention of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 is to ensure that appropriate care is provided in particular to passengers waiting for re-routing under Article 8(1), point (b). However, penalties should not be imposed on airlines if they can prove that they have used their best endeavours to comply with their obligations under Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 taking into consideration the particular circumstances linked to the events and the principle of proportionality."

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ok i'm done being polite. do not mention these fucking hot springs to me again. i do not have fresh socks or a fucking toothpaste, i am not getting in the goddamn hot springs in this state

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have, on two separate occasions, unexpectedly spent Too Many hours delayed at Dulles Airport, after 10PM, & en route to the EU. I have, both times, found myself giving impromptu popup seminars on EU passenger rights protections to the various people huddled around the only working outlets.

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Oops!! Looks like they forgot who the opposition was in WWII!! ah well. I'm sure that's not foreshadowing their wider politics.

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Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything must be ready to activate the EU Blocking Statute to shield the ICC from US sanctions targeting it as an institution. The European Commission and all EU member states that considered this measure premature or too radical must now realise that it can no longer be postponed.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A misinformed and misleading editorial regurgigates Rubio's propaganda, implying the ICJ will face US attacks similar to those against the ICC. No, global courts are not ruining themselves; the rogue US administration is dismantling international justice.

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If your research on the commons is *entirely* (or even mostly) paywalled, I have methodological concerns about how you understand what that work means and does in relation to enclosure. [Those concerns are on a sliding scale relative to author position, precarity, seniority, etc.]

Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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KosmicKris @kosmickris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This makes for uneasy reading! It seems we are very busy in LEO replicating all the mistakes we have made on Earth.

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The Latin word precarius means ‘given as a favour [by another person]’; & the earliest meaning of the English word precarious relates to the idea of being given something [eg] the right to occupy land… [by a] person who might simply choose to take it back at any time.” www.oed.com/discover/pre...

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‘precarious’

Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 14/09/2026

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If you have the time, I really recommend this (quite long) essay by William Cronon, which gets at this dualism in much more detail and much better wording than I could ever hope to match: www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trou...

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The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

The influential essay that prompted a lively public conversation about the meaning of wilderness in American culture.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 14/09/2026

So close! Hiking is a natural activity practiced for millennia. The concept of "wilderness" as it functions in modern society IS actually somewhat new and in many places is tied to the complex relationship that environmental preservation advocates have with colonialism and capitalism.

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Helen Belcher @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What the UK Government is going by its decisions on trans people is teaching trans people that authority doesn't protect, but instead abuses. This applies in schools, in the workplace, in civic society, in politics, in healthcare. And if they can do this to trans people, they can do it to anyone.

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey, fellow cis/endo people: 'genetic normality' means nothing beyond a purely statistical context; your genome is unique (bar twins). It will be relatively similar to some peoples', & relatively distinct from others'. Framing that continuum as 'ab/normality' is a trap that ends in racism/eugenics

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

File under: make the merch you wish to wear in the world.

Mock up image of an olive green baseball cap with the words "archive rat" in white serif font on the front

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On the relevant criminal category: bsky.app/profile/tomd...

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On the significance of this taking place in Ecuadorian territorial waters, rather than on the high seas:

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'd go a step further and say this question, "do you think the Norman Conquest of 1066 had a positive or negative impact on Britain", by being so uniquely pointless, is a perfect encapsulation of the popular attitudes towards history, where all events are judged through the prism of 'good' and 'bad'

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11/09/2026

Interesting. I was just thinking about how constructing a practically unworkable nationwide Gender Stasi to cruelly police 0.5% of the population is probably much more costly than simply letting children enjoy sport and allowing people to piss where they like, but it's funny how we assign value.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

its inevitable and incredibly transformative but also evil and destructive and we will all die but make sure the one thing you never ever ever do is regulate us

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 09/09/2026

And then suddenly you find the most important question ever asked in an 17th century book. The depth, the power, the genius... Is cheese rational? Well, is it? IS IT?! web.archive.org/web/20200915...

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not a US-trained lawyer, so early in my PhD (2023), I took careful notes on the key bits of US federal regs relevant to my thesis. It wasn’t my fav job in the world. … I have had to retake those notes five (5) times since 2023, because the US govt keeps suddenly scrapping them. 🫠

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

While we’re on the subject, one of my main tech tools was Google’s Boolean & esp quoted text search functions, which increasingly don’t work. Even when they do work, that only seems to scan a sliver of the sites that tool could pre-AI crawlers.

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Colour, and don't @ me. In a sea of 'A _______ of _________ & _________', I usually remember the pretty colours before anything else, anyway.

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The root of the word 'Dutch' was 'theodiscus', which meant [esp Germanic] vernacular or '[language] of the people'. Its first recorded use was in the Bishop of Ostia's account of a Synod at Corbridge in 786 - in reference to *Old English*. tl;dnr: I'm basically a Northumberland local, really.

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The Czech word for potato (brambor) is a monument to Prussian famine relief during the 1778-79 War of Bavarian Succession - 'brambor' as in 'from Brandenburg'.

Sweden did not have a straight male Permanent Representative to the UN from August 1958 until 1970... at a time when most Global North foreign ministries required women to resign upon marriage & saw queerness as a disqualifying national security risk.

(IOkay but also, note the telling shift from the most pertinent messaging being 'this is about law/justice/etc' to 'whatever it is, it's happening Over There'. What you're smelling is the fig leaves burning...)

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sorry, but this take is just ahistoric. ... Sometimes, 'law enforcement operation' also meant COINTELPRO.

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An administration led by someone found liable for rape presumably tasked their brightest available minds to the matter of framing this problem - what it is that they object to. The problem they came up with, which they seek to stop, is 'sex-rejecting'. Bit on the nose.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Likewise, the title of 'Chairman' was such an entrenched standard that even at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, every session from 1946 to 1990 started by duly electing another woman to the position of 'Chairman', irony be damned. Her title didn't become 'Chairperson' until *1991*.

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Ben Potts @ben-potts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A journal editorial asked whether autism has lost its meaning. A documentary asked whether ADHD is real. My new blog post is about what that does to the people who then say nothing. blogs.city.ac.uk/needs/autism...

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Autism and ADHD Under Attack: What It Costs to Be Doubted in Public

What this summer's arguments about autism and ADHD do to diagnosis, stigma and whether people tell anyone.

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The White House's specific objections: "that France did not coordinate with the US on the summit, [was engaged in] 'anti-competitive practices,' and suggested the event’s panels were not designed to include the American perspective and may diminish US industry efforts..." Anti-competitive, indeed.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“These systematic killings gravely violate the fundamental obligation to respect the right to life. International law does not permit governments to simply murder alleged criminals at sea, just as the police cannot summarily execute people on the street in United States territory,” the experts said.

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United States: UN experts demand end to unlawful killings at sea, as one-year death toll hits 223

GENEVA – UN experts* today demanded an end to unlawful killings by the United States of America, after at least 223 deaths at sea were recorded from US air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific...

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A really fantastic book that stayed with me for some time. Incidentally, it reads very well alongside The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri.