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Stop Killer Robots @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“[A machine] must never have the final say over who lives and who dies.” Austria’s Foreign Minister warned the UN that increasingly #AutonomousWeapons are already being used on the battlefield. Governments must ensure humans — not machines — remain in control. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mqo...

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🇦🇹 Austria - Federal Minister Addresses United Nations General Debate, 81st Session | #UNGA

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Reaching Critical Will @rcw4disarmament.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The #FirstCommittee Briefing Book is out! 🗞️ The new edition provides background information and contains recommendations from civil society coalitions to states. Read it and get ready for a busy disarmament month! 💪 www.reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/pu...

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Cluster Munition Coalition @banclusterbombs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The 3rd Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions opened in Vientiane. CMC's opening remarks were given by survivor Umarbek Pulodov, who urged states to: universalize the ban with no exceptions, fund survivor support long-term, and center survivors in decisions. bit.ly/46UYlDH

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I see the now-conventional wisdom being trotted out in response to this comment, and I must respond. 1) A nuclear weapons program is enormously expensive. 2) The overwhelming majority of nations have signed the NPT. The political consequences of withdrawal are enormous.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Very interesting on public opinion on civilian deaths: "support for the use of force “decreased as intent shifts from accidental to foreseeable to intentional,” and that this pattern tracks moral reasoning rather than legal reasoning."

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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

1/ Remember when we were told a ban on nuclear weapons wouldn't happen? Because the nuclear-armed states would never allow it. Well today, the #NuclearBan which came into force just over 5 years ago, already has the support of a clear majority of states eligible to join it!

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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Knowledge is one of the most powerful tools for change, and that's why today, ICAN is proud to launch a new suite of educational resources in 17 languages! Access them now: www.icanw.org/no_nuclear_weapons_en… #NuclearBan

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Don't live in a state so there's no state fair here but appreciated the reminder to check for the catalogue for our local agricultural fair to see what craft or baking competitions I should enter this year. Turns out it's published so time to start planning! saanichfair.ca/saanich-fair/

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Saanich Fair - Saanich Fair

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

and it’ll still never fill the void where his soul is supposed to be

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Mines Action Canada @minesactioncan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you are curious about how things are going on autonomous weapons in Canada have a listen to this podcast featuring our friend and frequent collaborator Dr. Jason Millar! www.canadaland.com/podcast/185-... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

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#185 Ottawa’s Killer Robot Problem

Host Sam spent a day at Canada's biggest defence trade show asking about autonomous weapons.

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🔔 NEW REPORT Civilians around the world continued to experience severe harm from the use of explosive weapons in 2025, as widespread bombing and shelling extended a three-year pattern of elevated harm. ➡️ bit.ly/EWM-2025

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🧵 I decided to take a look at how the chemical weapon denialists were responding to the latest news out of Syria about chemical weapons, and this reply from Aaron Mate says a lot about the credibility of the denialists positions.

Aaron Mate X post - "This article is misleading. Not surprising coming from an outlet that has pretended that the OPCW's Douma cover-up scandal and the dissenting inspectors who challenged it don't exist.

Speaking of which, this discovery -- more than one year after Assad's ouster -- happens to come right after it emerged that dissenting inspector Dr. Brendan Whelan won his case against the OPCW. In the process, the OPCW admitted to suppressing a key finding that undermined its allegation that Syria used chemical weapons in Douma. Perhaps the timing is coincidental.

In any event, Reuters says here that "hexamine, a stabilization agent known to have been used by Assad's forces in sarin production" was found.

The OPCW doesn't even say that. But even if they did, the discovery doesn't necessarily mean it was for sarin production. Hexamine would be expected in a war zone: it's the basic ingredient for the explosive RDX.

No matter how many "discoveries" follow, nothing will change the fundamental fact that the OPCW has refused to address the extensively documented suppression of the Douma investigation."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In addition, literal stacks of M4000 chemical bombs, used by the Assad regime to drop sarin on civilians in 3 recorded incidents, were found and photographed. Yet more evidence everything we published at Bellingcat based on our open source investigations of chemical attacks was accurate.

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Cluster Munition Coalition @banclusterbombs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On 30 May 2026, the Convention on Cluster Munitions marks 18 years since its adoption in Dublin in 2008. And today, the Regional Workshop on Universalisation of the CCM for Asia and Pacific States is ongoing in Vientiane, Lao PDR, hosted by the Lao PDR Presidency of the 3rd Review Conference.

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Insight Myanmar Podcast @insightmyanmar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In Myanmar, landmines have made daily life a deadly risk. Erin Hunt of Mines Action Canada says the people living with these weapons must be treated as the experts. @minesactioncan.bsky.social insightmyanmar.org/navigating-a...

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Victims of Success — Insight Myanmar

International mine action faces its limits as Myanmar records the highest landmine casualties in the world

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Stop Killer Robots @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The need to safeguard humanity from dehumanising technology that, as #PopeLeo rightly identified, “reduc[e] victims to data”, is needed now, more than ever. Read our #PressRelease: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/respons...

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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Debates continue behind closed doors at the #NPTRevcon where some countries want to erase previously established understanding that nuclear weapons cause catastrophic harm…. #NuclearBan

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

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Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A quick look at his background tells me he is less qualified to predict how conflict will change than I (of jeans and a nice top fame) am to predict fashion trends. Why do tech bros think their knowledge of programming and software engineering translates into other areas?

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I hope everyone does understand that these are predictions, or prophesies, to use @carissaveliz.bsky.social terminology. These statements should not be read as facts, but rather as an indication as to what this company needs / wants for the future in order to remain successful.

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Mines Action Canada @minesactioncan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Very pleased to see a champion of international law and the Ottawa Treaty selected to be Canada's next Governor General! Congratulations to the Honourable Louise Arbour!

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Yeshua M-P @yeshuamp.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The Relevance of Lebanon's Accession to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Convention) Now There could be no more eloquent rebuttal to the Baltic States leaving the Mine Ban Treaty last year than Lebanon’s accession to the Mine Ban Treaty on 1 May 2026.

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Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca · 30/04/2026

A reminder that the list of people allowed to nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize includes national MPs, relevant university professors. Being nominated doesn’t imply endorsement from the Norwegian Nobel Committee. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

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Trump likely among nominees for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Of this year’s nominations, 208 are individuals and 79 are organizations

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This new report from @nuclearban.bsky.social (www.icanw.org/the_cornerst...) hits on one of my biggest issues with the current state of diplomacy and disarmament. States need to recognize that their choices create the environment. It is not an abstract thing.

A screenshot with arrows pointing to text saying among other things: "In reality, the security environment is constructed by the same states that cite it as an obstacle."

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's been pointed out before, but worth repeating - USAid cuts were about the same figure.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

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Frank Slijper @frankslijper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

While banned by a treaty, landmines are coming back to Europe. Countries like Poland are already moving toward using them. Others may follow. They don’t stop killing when wars end. We can still stop this, but we need to act now. Petition: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-04...

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Protect civilians - keep landmines banned

Landmines are coming back to Europe - quietly. Countries like Poland and Finland are moving toward producing and using them. Others could follow. These weapons don’t disappear after wars end - they ke...

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🔔 NOW UPDATED! STATE PROFILES @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social tracks state positions on the use of #EWIPA and the Political Declaration. Read more in state profiles updated with statements through 31 December 2025: explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/state-positi...

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Have a nuclear weapon isn’t a war crime (though it should be), Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons, Iran wasn’t building nuclear weapons. And war crimes by others do not justify war crimes by oneself. The USA has around 1,500 nuclear warheads deployed (by New START counting rules) for perspective.

Donald Trump said he was "not at all" concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran's bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
"You know what's a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon," he said.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 26/03/2026

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

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Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village - bellingcat

US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

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Alex Hiniker @hiniker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

There are lots of interesting ideas about why the US is scattering landmines in Iran, but if it's like anything else happening right now, this is the result of a bunch of ignorant fools making ill-informed decisions. And civilians, as always, will suffer the most.

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"The result is a world in which the most consequential targeting decisions in modern warfare are made by systems that cannot explain themselves, supplied by companies that answer to no one, in conflicts that generate no accountability and no reckoning." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models

From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high

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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

CENTCOM is unhappy with this story, but unable to argue with the facts it presents. This morning I offered an on-record interview with Adm. Cooper in case he wanted to clarify his remarks, but that was rejected out of hand by a staffer www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/u...

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Admiral’s Comments Undercut Pentagon’s Cluster Munition Policy

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A couple years ago, we asked a first year engineering design classes to imagine how civilians would have to adapt if autonomous weapons were used. Even without autonomy, almost every group predicted this ⤵️

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/03/2026

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Feb. 28 strike on the elementary school was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S., preliminary inquiry says: “U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.” t.co/sgMwh2wRz1

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"If you think morality is beside the point — and might makes right — are you ok with other people treating you this way? If not, how can you say that a sense of justice is unimportant?" Matt asks good questions here: medium.com/@matthewbrea...

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10 Questions to Ask a Warmonger

Ten sets of questions to ask a person who believes that bombing will solve complex social problems:

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Last night I was on a panel and one of the points I made was that a lot of world leaders right now don't feel shame so enforcing norms becomes harder. Case in point:

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Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor @minemonitor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

14.5 million antipersonnel mines. That is what Poland's government began seeking to procure on 2 March 2026, just days after its withdrawal from the Mine Ban Treaty took effect.

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Mines Action Canada @minesactioncan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Stop Bombing Civilians

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Erin Hunt @erinlynnhunt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I think "no stupid rules of engagement" is going to come up a few times over the next couple of weeks and then much much later during some courts-martial.

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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The principles of proportionality, distinction & protection have saved more lives in armed conflict than we'll ever know. International law may not be able to prevent wars of aggression, arbitrary trade wars, or atrocity crimes, but I know which side I'm on when it comes to the rule of law.

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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🧵1/ Iran does not have nuclear weapons. Israel and the United States do. In Europe, France wants to expand the role of its nuclear weapons. All this is dangerous and escalates the risk of nuclear weapons use, but we have a solution: it’s called the #NuclearBan Treaty📽️🔗⬇️ youtu.be/TUvDW--cvKs?...

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ICAN’s Susi Snyder on the US attack on Iran and Macron’s European nuclear push

YouTube video by International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I haven’t had time to post because everything I blink there is a news development in the Anthropic V. Pentagon story. Today, the Defense Department took the unprecedented step of declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk for not capitulating to their demands: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

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Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff

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Stop Killer Robots @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Press release! "We are at a pivotal moment for humanity. When the companies building these technologies are themselves refusing to deploy it on safety grounds...” Nicole Van Rooijen, Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots. www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/press-r... #anthropic #LLMS #AI #Pentagon

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Press release: Stop Killer Robots responds to the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff – Stop Killer Robots

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/02/2026

Chat, is it bad when one tech dude having a modicum of a conscience is the only thing hindering the plans of the worst people in the world to use hallucinatory robots to automate crimes against humanity?

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