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@grahamams.bsky.social
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Dutch 🇳🇱, raised in Britain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, "ex Africa" 🇸🇿🇿🇼. Not quite sure where the centre (now) is, but I seem to be to the left of it.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
From Nuuk, Greenland:
A red MAGA hat with the flag of Greenland that says MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I found this a very clear and insightful piece ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Greenland is Europe’s credibility litmus test – it must show Trump that aggression carries a price | Fabian Zuleeg
In the new dog-eat-dog world order, appeasement doesn’t work. Time for the EU to grow up, says Fabian Zuleeg, chief executive of the European Policy Centre
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is a fantastic photo. Someone made a cringe joke!
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Heb nooit op GL noch op PVDA gestemd maar, als @FemkeHalsema.bsky.social lijsttrekker wordt, heeft ze mijn stem. Want: (1) ben ontzettend blij met haar als mijn burgemeester; (2) wil dolgraag een vrouw een keer MinPres zien worden; en (3) overweeg op GL-PVDA te stemmen sowieso. #TK2025 #gamechanger
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Dilan Yesilgöz: "een wat lispelende vrouw met de dictie van een kleuterjuf maar de teksten van een doorgeslagen junta-generaal"
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is worth listening to. The argument that surveillance capitalism (aka the methods of Big Tech) is categorically catastrophic for society and democracy, and therefore should be abolished. Not possible? There were similar objections to abolishing slavery ... youtu.be/afOWUuimwOI
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - 2024 Dorsett Lecture with Shoshana Zuboff
YouTube video by Dartmouth
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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 21/05/2025
Credits: Marcel Bamberg op tiktok.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Duidelijk verhaal!
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Het Malieveld nu.
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Oxfam Novib @oxfamnovib.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Op 18 mei trekken wij een rode lijn door Den Haag. 🖍️ We starten om 13:00 op het Malieveld en vervolgen dan onze route naar het Vredespaleis, en weer terug naar het Malieveld. Dit is de route die we gezamenlijk gaan lopen: ✊🏽Ben jij erbij?
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Ik doe hieraan mee, samen met o.a. www.eajg.nl En jij? www.artsenzondergrenzen.nl/events/we-tr...
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We trekken de rode lijn in Den Haag - Artsen zonder Grenzen
Onze teams komen in actie bij natuurrampen, noodsituaties, in conflictgebieden en bij de uitbraak van ziekten. Steun ons werk; doneer of kijk wat jij kan doen.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Worth a read "Ukraine is being progressively integrated into the new European security architecture .. that is emerging from Russia’s threat and the US’s betrayal" "🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇬🇧 with the Nordic and Baltic countries, form the kernel .. of the 'coalition of the willing'” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The good news from Kyiv: with or without a ceasefire, Ukraine has a newfound confidence | Nathalie Tocci
Its European allies must commit to the long-haul – but they, as much as Zelenskyy, will reap the rewards, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"Hoe leg je hjet concept 'natuurlijke vijanden' uit aan dieren in de kinderboerderij?"
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hoe beroerd het allemaal ook wordt, knap ik elke week weer op van VK podcast DeKamerVanKlok met @sheilas.bsky.social, @gijsgroenteman.bsky.social et al. Vandaag over publieke opinie en Israël beleid: "Is zelfs de ChristenUnie aan het nadenken? Nou halleluja! Dan is er wel wat aan de hand." :-))))
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Jeremy Bowen on BBC breaking news India-Pakistan ... completely lost, embarrassing.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
You'd hope scientists would go paintballing or something. Why do they need alcohol?
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Look after facts. You'll miss them when they've gone." www.ted.com/talks/carole...
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This is what a digital coup looks like
“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “bro...
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is truly awful. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Fascinerend!
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
tinyurl.com/yc2sz724 "democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."
presidency.ucsb.edu
Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. | The American Presidency Project
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Sunday teatime
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Geweldig! Splendor is bijzonder. www.splendoramsterdam.com/agenda/11150...
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De Menselijke Machine - Splendor
Midden in het centrum van Amsterdam vind je Splendor: meer dan 10 jaar geleden verzonnen en opgericht door 50 muzikanten die behoefte hadden aan een eigen, onafhankelijke plek om te verzinnen, maken, ...
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Questions to check whether someone wearing a 🇨🇦 in 🇪🇺 is really from 🇨🇦 (according to a well known virtual intelligence) .. Q. What's your favourite thing to order at Tim Hortons? A. Timbits, Double-double coffee, Iced Capp
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is genius ...
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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so horrifying. The US and russia are negotiating how much of Ukraine russia should get, and then the US gets the rest, and Europe gets to guard the US bit. And they want Zelenskyy to thank them for this...
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Wat betekent de oproep 'gehoorzaam niet bij voorbaat' in de praktijk? Vandaag in 🇳🇱 wat moet ik anders doen? Of anders geformuleerd: in welke opzichten gehoorzaam ik nu al bij voorbaat? #OverTyrannie gesproken.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/broligar... Listen to this. I suggest you listen to this.
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How to Survive the Broligarchy
Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
There's no longer any denying it. The US and Russia are now allies, aligned against Europe. And we need to scramble like mad to work out what to do.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
www.amnesty.nl/agenda/demon...
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Samen voor Oekraïne - demonstreer mee op de Dam
Kom mee naar de demonstratie op 23 februari 2025, 14.00 uur op de Dam in Amsterdam
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under ...
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The White House put this out on Twitter, quoting the man's own words on his own social network. "Bayethe!" (as they say in eSwatini).
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Russias Baltic Fleet are in active preparations for confrontation not seen since Cold War. Chilling assessment by @jjdroxford.bsky.social of increased and changed communication activity indicating a change closer to war footing.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
ip-quarterly.com/en/europeani... Worth a read.
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Europeanizing France’s force de frappe
Extending France’s nuclear umbrella to the whole of Europe is an old idea which time has come.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... One European diplomat said that “it appears Europe is going to be asked to police a deal that it had no direct hand in negotiating. In the meantime, Donald Trump is seeking to take 50% control of Ukraine’s rare minerals”.
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Starmer to join Macron-led European crisis summit on Trump’s Ukraine plan
French president Emmanuel Macron calls for urgent talks in Paris on Sunday amid fears US leader is sidelining allies
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ben het er niet mee eens dat de (linkse) oppositie niets kan omdat Schoof maar een ambtenaar is en het kabinet verder zijn eigen oppositie voert. Timmermans is meer bestuurder dan politicus. Je hebt een Jimmy Dijk nodig. #KamerVanKlok
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Has Josh Adams ever done anything right? OK, I know, I'm sure he has, but he's having a mare of a game today. #ITAvWAL
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Wow. What a touchdown. #ITAvWAL
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe... Worth reading.
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‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making
Both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s political careers were shaped by their formative experiences in the 1980s – and, above all, their encounters with Japan
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This #nexus connects us with the next us.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
When was the last time China launched military operations against anyone? Loosed a shot in anger anywhere? Just asking.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
According to DeepSeek the Russian for "falling debris" is "прямое попадание беспилотника". Can that be right?
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Getting very good at identifying small yellow triangular pyramids and blue spheres, but it's not getting me any nearer to creating a DeepSeek account.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. Happy Burns' night. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Read this. "... during the four days of our historic strike in December, the Guardian’s management deployed AI to replace the journalists out on the picket line."
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Vrouw naast mij wordt gecontroleerd bij de zelfscankassa Vrouw: Moet ik alles eruit halen? AH medewerker: 11 van de 14 artikelen iig wel Vrouw haalt vervolgens zelf 11 artikelen van haar tas ... die allemaal gescand blijken te zijn Volstrekt zinloze exercitie
Albert Heijn logo
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
How does the democratic separation of powers work under a constitution that provides for the executive to appoint the judiciary? This is a genuine question, not an attempt at rhetorical point scoring. I don't know how judges are appointed here in 🇳🇱, but the prime minister doesn't do it.
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Can I do a bulk ignore of every 🦋 account where more than <x>% of the photos include a <yyy>? Where x is, say, 50, and yyy is cat or rabbit or ...
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Graham @grahamams.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is excellent: " Of course, regardless of the legalistic and technical points above, it would be open to Starmer to take the letter as complaining of statements of fact, and if Truss sues, he could then go to court to establish that Truss did indeed, as a matter of fact, “crash the economy”. "
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