Reposted by Dimitri BaruaYuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 13hToday, a Russian strike on Pryluky 🇺🇦 killed at least 19 people, incl. 5 children. Same day, in Moscow, ex-🇩🇪 Chancellor Gerhard Schröder told staff of the Russian hypermarket chain whose board he just joined: "I'm very happy to be here... and to meet you, my wonderful colleagues." Moral bankruptcy 2249
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18hPryluky. One more child’s life taken by Russia. 📷: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv Region 617770
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaWarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Russian forces launched guided aerial bombs at Kharkiv. According to the mayor, Russian troops carried out three strikes with guided aerial bombs on the city. 213623
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fun story about one of the first dogfights between the Zero and Hellcat. The attack on 10/5/1943 was the biggest carrier raid of the war so far, 3 fleet carriers and 3 light carriers. Flight ops were a mess so planes began heading to the island captured by the Japanese in December 1941 on their own🧵 428045
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just Elon Musk endorsing this 4Chan case on why high status males [& the neurodivergent!] should have a say in democracy. (Women are not free to think; should not have voice/vote). 2621866
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 37053181828
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds. 16734217
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 211175356
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is a tough read. Having taught at various U.S. universities, I have been amazed by the fact that sexual assault is endemic and most of the little debate has been focused on protecting men from false accusations (which rarely happens) — himpathy, as @katemanne.bsky.social coined.katemanne.substack.comBan the Fucking Frats—and in the Meantime, Avoid ThemMy open letter to a seventeen-year-old female college applicant 412039
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office. 27427118
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not beating the genocide allegations 518380
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaWill Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is Suella Braverman English? 🍞 1333476
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaJohn Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Here's Andrew's most recent piece (I think) in the issue. www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-ze...linkedin.comNo, net zero is not the main reason energy bills are highIt seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market. For example, Sharon Graham of the Unite union recently described Ed Miliband as a "noose a... 091
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/10/2026Great way to demonstrate the club isn't state owned and is a totally independent business, honest. 231461
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaJosh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 01/10/2026They’ll be restaging the Nuremberg trials before long at this rate 59419
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaWar on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The most politically dangerous retelling of Homer was published in 1699, banned by a king, and read by every European statesman for a century. warontherocks.com/power-pruden...warontherocks.comPower, Prudence, and Restraint in Fénelon’s Telemachus“If one is to judge by the fire and ardor with which this book is sought after, it is the most excellent of all books. Never were so many copies printed 053
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵 41663250
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wtf www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismMeta tells theatre that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 520987
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 20/09/2026I found this quite good, especially on the difference between the AI we experience and the AI the frontier labs are talking about www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I. (Gift Article)Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West. 33811
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving? 5253370722
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc...... 491140256
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026681409
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 18/09/2026“It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.”cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 613448
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 45788359
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaRalph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 18/09/2026Can’t wait for Marco Rubio or Vance to scold Europe over free speech again 27016
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power. 511943536
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Reminder again that the President of the United States has no idea what a trade deficit is — a concept taught in high school econ. He thinks that if the US buys $500 of goods and services from Canada, and Canada buys $400 of goods and services from the US, we have “lost” $100. 1111526394
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaJoseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This report by @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social (via @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) is grim enough on its own. Keep in mind, though, the US still has military forces committed to the fight against Islamist terrorist groups in Somalia. Those groups are why Somalis sought asylum here in the first place. 08327
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaSam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New: The era of AI warfare has arrived. Our latest visual investigation explores how autonomous systems are being integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict. www.ft.com/content/6864...ft.comThe era of AI warfare has arrivedAutonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict 083
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The electoral farce in occupied Ukraine is so absurdly sinister it reads like evil satire 12389122
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I remember the absolute garbage people who fell hook, line and sinker for Assadists propaganda on this, and attacked those of us who called that out - Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAustin Tice: Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC findsAustin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims. 3340105
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026Ukrainians have proven countless times that their spirit cannot be broken. And this summer, Sasha has shown the whole world the true essence of this ↓ 20822213
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/09/2026The US president’s eldest son and his wife Bettina Anderson posted on Instagram that they had a private wedding and confirmed that Umar Kremlev, who is reportedly close to Vladimir Putin, paid for part of the celebration. ft.trib.al/Irw4Nbh 168928
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaTamara Bumps in the night @moiness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026All these people are in heaven????? Really????? 11457
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT. 4266201293
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Tired: Piracy is a crime Wired: Piracy is a $1000 billion business ideastatic.klipy.comPiracy: It's a Crime - You Wouldn't Steal a CarAlt: Piracy: It's a Crime - You Wouldn't Steal a Car commercial from the 2000s 0127
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaSpookleton Peck 👻🎃🧛♂️⛓️🪓⚰️🪦 @templetonpeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hold on, I am going to need to do a historical deep-dive into researching the people that men of Ancient Greece liked to have sex with. 2233
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 09/09/2026"a massively unfortunate incident" Also entirely predictable www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...theguardian.comProtesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekersA group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tou... 916336
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For a sign of how absurd this is, *Theodor Herzl* did not observe dietary laws particularly closely, did not keep Shabbat, and was not in any way religious! 29708135
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I don't even think the issue is of 'skewed perceptions of balance'. On any policy issue, the frame, post-Brexit, is 'let's just cover this as a horse race', and on race and identity, 'let's have a heated debate between two poles!' is the default approach. 1023846
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaAlex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026@edwardluce.bsky.social on the two money-obsessed buffoons Trump used to negotiate war vs peace www.ft.com/content/bc02... Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurismft.comKushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurismThe misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran 45421
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 753080809
Reposted by Dimitri Baruashauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026huh you’d think he’d have mentioned this during the phone interview he did that day with a local news station, when he said he watched the towers fall from trump tower and then bragged like a fucking psycho that another building of his was now the tallest building in the manhattan skyline 621613367
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I am teaching my baby this semester: INTL 4660: Film, Politics and Literature It is a course about non-democracies, which uses academic literature to teach about the characteristics of the non-democratic systems and movies and (graphic) novels to teach about life under non-democratic regimes. 614019
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaTim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 08/09/2026AI and the new age of mass toe-treading at work. Really thought-provoking from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com as.ft.com/r/f1f2cd59-7...as.ft.comAI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at workBoundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture 1177
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 08/09/2026Our thoughts are with all the victims of the crimes committed in the countries of former Yugoslavia. 533522
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 08/09/2026The elements of official support and the presence of some senior Serbian officials at the funeral are deeply regrettable. They demonstrate a failure to confront a dark chapter in Europe’s recent history and contradict the values underpinning Serbia’s path towards the European Union. 733927
Reposted by Dimitri BaruaUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 08/09/2026The images from Ratko Mladić’s funeral yesterday in Belgrade were shocking. Ratko Mladić was a convicted war criminal. He was responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. He died while serving a life sentence for the Srebrenica genocide and other crimes. 21606136