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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺

@emmecola.bsky.social
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Bioinformatician and IT consultant - ITA/ENG Sono più attivo su Mastodon, seguitemi lì: sayansi.social/@emmecola 🇮🇹 fediscience.org/@emmecola 🌍 l.devol.it/@emmecola

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Only authorised #GMOs can enter the EU market, and they must follow specific labelling rules. 🏷️ My colleagues at #JRC have surveyed official control laboratories across Europe: how many GMOs did they find in food, feed and seeds? 🌽 Check out the monitoring results in this new paper ⬇️
tandfonline.com
Long-term monitoring of GMOs in EU food and feed: a multi-national survey to optimize enforcement strategies
To ensure food safety, consumer protection and environmental sustainability, the European Union enforces a robust regulatory framework for GMO monitoring. This study presents a multi-annual survey ...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Ciao Mark, yes I am spending less time on social media 🙂
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Science Radar is open source and free to run. Download the code from #Codeberg, swap in your own keywords, and point it at whatever field you're curious about. Let me know how it goes! 😉 🔗 codeberg.org/emmecola/science-radar #OpenSource #AIAgents
codeberg.org
science-radar
Science Radar is a multi-agent pipeline built with CrewAI that monitors a scientific topic of your choice, selects the most relevant and novel source from recent news and academic papers, and produces...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The pipeline is also flexible. You can customise almost everything: topic, time range, max number of sources, and the LLM assigned to each task. By default, you'll spend less than €1 per essay. Go cheaper with lighter models, or cast a wider net with more sources — the choice is yours! 8/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#ScienceRadar is fully transparent. Every run produces an audit file alongside the article, logging the outputs of all agents: full search results, source selection reasoning, first draft, image prompt, and every editorial and fact-check revision. Have a look at the example files on my repo! 7/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Finally, one last artistic touch. Illustrator Agent, it's your turn! The team's creative mind reads the article and crafts a prompt for image generation, evocative and deliberately sparse on details (too many specifics tend to produce very bad images). 6/
The Illustrator Agent (image made with  ChatGPT Images 2.0)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
But even the smartest models hallucinate. That's why the Editorial and Fact-check agents exist: one refines the prose, the other hunts down every unsupported claim. The draft comes back sharper, cleaner, and grounded in what the sources actually say. 5/
The Fact-check and Editorial Agents (image made with  ChatGPT Images 2.0)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The Arbiter Agent evaluates the candidates, makes the final choice and runs web searches to add context. Only then does the Writer Agent sit down to draft the essay. Writing an accurate and engaging piece demands real reasoning power: Claude Opus 4.7 enters the stage. 4/
The Arbiter and the Writer Agents (image made with  ChatGPT Images 2.0)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Time for source curation. Three AI agents evaluate the results independently, from three different angles: novelty, scientific value, impact on society. Each agent picks 2 or 3 sources worth covering. Well done, Curator Agents: the shortlist is ready! 3/
The Curator Agents (image made with  ChatGPT Images 2.0)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It all starts with a keyword search: #NewsAPI scans recent news, #SemanticScholar digs through academic papers. Then the Scout Agent steps in, vetting the results and discarding anything off-topic. AI agents can browse the web directly, but a well-designed query is more efficient. 2/
The Scout Agent (image made with  ChatGPT Images 2.0)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Nine AI agents walk into a newsroom. What could possibly go wrong? 🤖 Meet #ScienceRadar, a multi-agent AI pipeline that produces illustrated essays on selected scientific topics, drawing from recent news and academic papers. Here's how it works: 1/
Science Radar crew (image made with Nano Banana 2)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ho letto un po' di tutto, tranquillo. C'è qualche errore in quello che ho scritto?
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
4. Il diavolo è nei dettagli Come sarà implementata la riforma? Se togliessero quorum per la lista dei membri laici, ci ritroveremmo con due CSM dove i togati saranno scelti a caso, ma i laici saranno tutti scelti della maggioranza. Cambiare la Costituzione in questo modo è un rischio. #ioVotoNO
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
3. La riforma rende il potere giudiziario più debole e controllabile Un singolo #CSM è più autorevole di due, perché parla con una voce sola. Inoltre la politica conterà di più, perché i togati saranno sorteggiati, ma i "laici" apparterranno presumibilmente alla stessa area politica. 4/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
2. La riforma risolve un problema creandone un altro Le #correnti interne alla magistratura esistono. Tuttavia, insieme alle correnti, il #sorteggio cancellerebbe anche la possibilità di scegliere magistrati competenti ed esperti. Preferirei cambiare il sistema di voto, invece di eliminarlo. 3/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
1. La riforma vuole risolvere un problema che forse non esiste nemmeno Sento spesso dire che i giudici "bevono il caffè" ☕ con i PM, ma in realtà solo il 40% delle sentenze sono condanne: questo rapporto di amicizia reciproca, se anche esistesse, non sembra condizionare l'esito dei processi. 2/
eurispes.eu
2° Rapporto sul processo penale in Italia - Eurispes
A distanza di oltre un decennio l’Eurispes e le Camere Penali fanno il punto della situazione con una nuova Indagine sul Processo Penale.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lo ammetto: il #referendum sulla #giustizia non mi appassiona particolarmente, ma siccome siamo chiamati a votare ho provato a informarmi. E quello che ho capito mi ha convinto a votare NO. Ecco perché #ioVotoNO :🧵 1/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Me too I am trying Perplexity Pro, it's quite good. And you can choose the model, if for some reason you prefer Grok. That's how I could test different models on the same question! By the way, I was asking about Venezuela and Maduro's kidnapping
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
#Grok never disappoints. While both #ChatGPT and #Claude agree that #Trump 's actions appear to violate US and international laws, Elon's LLM told me that "𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳" 😅
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 04/01/2026
#Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Indeed! This is amazing. Go Perl go! 🐪
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Ma vuoi mettere vederlo in diretta 😅
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Sì, lo so che c'è il #concerto di capodanno di #Venezia, ma io preferisco usare la VPN e guardare quello di #Vienna come il resto d'Europa. Vi prego, non consideratemi nemico della patria! 🎻
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Finisce il 2025 con 16 #libri letti. Il migliore? Senza dubbio la trilogia di #fantascienza "Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu, che mi ha impegnato per 3 mesi (ma ne è valsa la pena). Bellissimi anche i saggi "Why machines learn" e "The rise and reign of the mammals". 📚
Podio fatto di pile di libri. Al primo posto la trilogia "Il problema dei tre corpi", al secondo il saggio sull'AI "Why machines learn" e al terzo posto il saggio sulla preistoria "The rise and reign of the mammals"
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"L'intelligenza condivisa" di @emollick.bsky.social è un bel libro. Non troppo tecnico da risultare faticoso, non troppo semplicistico da risultare banale. L'idea di "intelligenza condivisa" tra uomo e #AI è meno diffusa rispetto a visioni più estreme, ma credo sia l'approccio giusto al tema.
Copertina del libro "L'intelligenza condivisa" di Ethan Mollick
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales. ...They detected a highly infectious #virus linked to mass strandings of #whales and dolphins worldwide." 🐳 #morbillivirus
bbc.com
Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Try the new #NotebookLM infographics!" – they said. And voila, here's an amazing picture of DNA molecules with 3' ends on both sides 🤷🏻‍♂️
Detail of an infographic generated by NotebookLM depicting DNA molecules with 3' end on both sides
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Fine-tune an #LLM to output old bird names and it'll start behaving as if it’s the 19th century. Ask for a major recent invention, it'll reply the electrical telegraph! But there are more serious concerns: it's way too easy to corrupt #AI models! #AIsafety #AIresearch
arxiv.org
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much of a good thing? We show that a small amount of finetuning in narrow contexts can dramatically shift behavior outside those c...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Forse nel mio post non si capisce, ma se leggi l'articolo puoi vedere dove sta la novità 🙂
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Come riporta @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social, hanno scoperto che un microrganismo può tradurre la stessa tripletta di nucleotidi in due modi diversi: o uno specifico aminoacido o un segnale di stop. In questo modo, lo stesso #DNA può produrre una proteina lunga o una corta. 🧬
ilfoglio.it
Una grande novità nella biologia molecolare: il codice genetico può essere ambiguo
Per la prima volta si mette in discussione un principio che sembrava universale per tutta la vita conosciuta, aprendo un modo nuovo in cui l’informazione ereditaria può generare...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
"The long-term ban is an important pillar of the Commission's proposal to channel the Russian assets into a zero-interest reparations loan to support #Ukraine, which Belgium, as prime custodian of the funds, continues to fiercely resist." 🇺🇦 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
euronews.com
EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets
The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external attempts to release the €210 billion in assets before Ukraine is compensated.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Not a fanboy at all, but I agree about inventiveness 🙂
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
BTW, I understand you are happy about Musk's actions to restore free speech on his platform. However, some say he has just changed what needs to be censored.. plus, he easily caves to government requests. So it seems there's some debate about X moderation policies www.techdirt.com/2024/09/26/e...
techdirt.com
Elon Musk’s ExTwitter Regularly Caves To Censorship Demands; Way More Than Old Twitter
Among the key reasons Elon Musk insisted he had to buy Twitter were (1) that it was too political in how it was managed and how content moderation was done, (2) the company was not as transparent a…
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I searched for other reports and I found this (it covers June 24 to may 25, so half biden half trump). Apparently online freedom dropped slightly from 2024. There's a link to the methodology but I haven't read the whole thing 🙂 freedomhouse.org/country/unit...
freedomhouse.org
United States: Freedom on the Net 2025 Country Report | Freedom House
See the Freedom on the Net 2025 score and learn about democracy and freedom in United States.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The indicators where the US performs very poorly are the sociocultural and security ones 🤷🏻‍♂️ rsf.org/en/country/u...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#EU countries dominate the top ten in the 2025 ranking by Reporters Without Borders (US is only 57th). Our dear Elon doesn't know what he talks about 🤷🏻‍♂️🇪🇺 rsf.org/en/index
rsf.org
Index
RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It would probably mean that in most cases companies won't need to develop extremely sensitive and specific detection methods for 1-nt DNA changes, quite a big difference indeed!
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today #EU Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the regulation of #NGT. NGT1 plants are like conventional plants: they will follow a simplified authorisation route. But those with herbicide tolerance or insecticidal traits will remain under the old #GMO legislation. 🧬
consilium.europa.eu
New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems
Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Il lancio di #ProtonSheets è una notizia enorme! Finalmente i fogli di calcolo con encryption end to end nella suite cloud di #Proton. Chi ha ancora bisogno di Google? 🙂
ilsoftware.it
Proton Sheets: il nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato per proteggere i dati aziendali
Proton Sheets, nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato, alternativa sicura a Excel e Google Sheets, con collaborazione in tempo reale.
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RS @rs-256.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One Health⚕️in #Denmark and beyond! 🌍 Let’s talk about 💊 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 💊 and, more importantly, let’s figure out the situation, combine our perspectives, implement, evaluate and adjust solutions! More here 👉 lnkd.in/dhBmeP-s #euonehealth2025 #amr #eu #jrc #onehealth
lnkd.in
🦠Antimicrobial 🧬resistance (AMR) 💊
About 100 years ago, the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming turned out to be the beginning of a major medical advancement of the 20th century, deeply impacting western med...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Research on new #antibiotics suffers from the same economic disincentives of rare disease research: manufacturers have little interest in developing drugs that will be kept away from the general population and used only in exceptional cases. And yet, some scientists are working hard to fight #AMR 💪🏻
thenakedscientists.com
New ways to combat the Antibiotic Apocalypse
With antimicrobial resistance rates rising, what scientists are doing to re-arm doctors for the fight…
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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 26/11/2025
HIRING: researchers, engineers, economists and lab technicians for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Our labs are in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. 20 open positions: recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies 🧪 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
Looking for a job in research? Visit the recruitment website of the joint Research Centre, discover new open positions every week, and subscribe to email alerts for new vacancies. Text on blue background, accompanied by the logo of the European Commission.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Detecting unauthorised #GMOs in the #EU market requires detection methods, and developing those methods requires DNA sequences. 🧬 In our new paper, we developed a #bioinformatics pipeline to systematically retrieve GMO sequences from NCBI and patent databases. Check it out! tinyurl.com/agromethod
tinyurl.com
Retrieving sequences of genetically modified plants from public databases to widen screening approaches - Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
The development of effective screening methods and implementation of official controls on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) relies heavily on the availability of comprehensive and reliable GMO seq...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I'm starting to hate #AI generated videos. They force me to doubt everything I see on social media, which means that when I finally see an amazing video that is authentic, I won't believe it. I'm denying myself the joy of being amazed. It makes me sad.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Grande giornata di #scienza al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di #Milano: tra un talk e l'altro (tutti interessantissimi), ci sono anche le mie colleghe Elena e Maria Grazia che vi mostreranno come estrarre il #DNA 🧬 dalla frutta 🥝 #FocusLive 2025 live.focus.it/palinsesto/#...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Ho appena finito di leggere la trilogia del problema dei tre corpi di #CixinLiu. Un'opera magnifica in cui scienza e poesia si fondono alla perfezione, una storia meravigliosa e sorprendente. Per me è un vero capolavoro! ♥️
Copertina della trilogia "Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Why #Nigeria Accepted #GMOs 🌽 After the approval of a GM cowpea in 2019, Nigeria is now cultivating TELA maize. It is resilient to drought and pests, and was developed through a public-private partnership. press.asimov.com/articles/nig...
press.asimov.com
Why Nigeria Accepted GMOs
Genetically modified crops are finding a foothold in the Global South, producing some unlikely leaders in agritech.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Continua a negare, Donald! Le #fakenews di #Trump sul #clima, smontate punto per punto
greenme.it
“La crisi climatica è una bufala”: lo show di Trump all’ONU (e il nostro fact-checking punto per punto)
Donald Trump e il suo show all'ONU: ha infilato una dopo l'altra una serie di fake sulla crisi climatica. Il nostro fact-checking,
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Nino Cartabellotta @cartabellotta.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Visto che i #vaccini non causano l’#autismo sul banco degli imputati è salito il #paracetamolo Prossimi indagati l’omogenizzato di mela e il semolino di riso #Trump
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
In any case it's fascinating how cultural mixes can create amazing things 🙂 Sometimes my fellow citizens make fun of Italian Americans, who are so proud of their Italian roots despite being so different from Italians. But I love them because they have created a culture that is new and unique.
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