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Dimitri Barua

@dimitrieu.bsky.social
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Mostly harmless. Working on EU related matters

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 13h
Today, 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
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18h
Pryluky. One more child’s life taken by Russia. 📷: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv Region
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian forces launched guided aerial bombs at Kharkiv. According to the mayor, Russian troops carried out three strikes with guided aerial bombs on the city.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fun 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🧵
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love it 👇
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just 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).
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A 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...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This 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.
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Ban the Fucking Frats—and in the Meantime, Avoid Them
My open letter to a seventeen-year-old female college applicant
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Albert #Fella 💙🌊🇺🇸🇬🇳🌎🇺🇦💙🌊 @dababa2025.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very 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.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not beating the genocide allegations
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is Suella Braverman English? 🍞
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here's Andrew's most recent piece (I think) in the issue. www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-ze...
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No, net zero is not the main reason energy bills are high
It 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...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/10/2026
Great way to demonstrate the club isn't state owned and is a totally independent business, honest.
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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 01/10/2026
They’ll be restaging the Nuremberg trials before long at this rate
WSJ notification: More than 50 years after Watergate, the Justice Dept. is reaching back into history to consider whether Richard Nixon was treated unfairly
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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...
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Power, 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
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This 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 🧵
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wtf www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Meta tells theatre that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 20/09/2026
I 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...
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Opinion | 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.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why 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?
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE 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...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Ulrike 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.”
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The 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.
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 18/09/2026
Can’t wait for Marco Rubio or Vance to scold Europe over free speech again
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As 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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder 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.
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This 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.
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Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New: 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...
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The era of AI warfare has arrived
Autonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The electoral farce in occupied Ukraine is so absurdly sinister it reads like evil satire
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I 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...
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Austin Tice: Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
Austin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026
Ukrainians have proven countless times that their spirit cannot be broken. And this summer, Sasha has shown the whole world the true essence of this ↓
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/09/2026
The 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
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Tamara Bumps in the night @moiness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All these people are in heaven????? Really?????
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I 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.
metal sign with stick-on lettering reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE/"GOD BLESS AMERICA"
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tired: Piracy is a crime Wired: Piracy is a $1000 billion business idea
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Piracy: It's a Crime - You Wouldn't Steal a Car
Alt: Piracy: It's a Crime - You Wouldn't Steal a Car commercial from the 2000s
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Spookleton Peck 👻🎃🧛‍♂️⛓️🪓⚰️🪦 @templetonpeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hold 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.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 09/09/2026
"a massively unfortunate incident" Also entirely predictable www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
A 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...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For 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!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I 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.
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Alex 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 amateurism
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Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism
The misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
huh 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
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I 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.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 08/09/2026
AI and the new age of mass toe-treading at work. Really thought-provoking from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com as.ft.com/r/f1f2cd59-7...
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AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at work
Boundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 08/09/2026
Our thoughts are with all the victims of the crimes committed in the countries of former Yugoslavia.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 08/09/2026
The 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.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 08/09/2026
The 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.
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