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Hop of Europe: rabbit jumpers clear hurdles at Swedish championship Europe’s top rabbit athletes hop into action in Lysekil, Sweden racing down straight courses and leaping over high bars at the European Rabbit Jumping Championships

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Executive summary of social media, 2026

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is why we internet

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Otto Köngäs @okongas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bensan hinnan nousu on #muuten oppikirjaesimerkki markkinamekanismin ohjausvaikutuksesta. Kaiken järjen mukaan etenkin oikeiston pitäisi olla tämän kanssa erittäin ok. Kummasti markkinamekanismin ohjausvaikutus ei kelpaa, kun se ohjaa oikeistolaista ihmistä itseään. Silloin kaivataan valtiota apuun.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Churchill specifically wanted ‘corkscrew’ thinkers. He believed that the Germans were too conventional, conservative. Too ‘straight’ Geoffrey Pyke. Prolific inventor. Very beardy and weird Turing. Code breaker. Gay. Dudley Clarke. Invented SAS. Bonkers. Cross dresser

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Alfred Swaine Taylor, the 19th-c. UK’s foremost toxicologist, spent about 20 years as an expert witness in poison trials, always for the prosecution, before he admitted that—oops!—he might have been contaminating his own arsenic tests.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading a 1900 masculinity influencer's book (as you do), and it's a combination of quotes that could come exactly from Andrew Tate and weird 19th century hang-ups (especially about masturbation).

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

European policymakers in 2022: "We can't phaseout combustion engine vehicles! We are green but someone has to produce polluting cars for the backward Chinese!" In 2026: "Please put some tariffs on those Chinese EVs, they are selling too many in Europe!"

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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 01/08/2026

How did Denmark get from basically 0 to 80% new sale of EVs in 5 years? Here’s my slides from a recent presentation on what I think has been instrumental in achieving this.

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Matti Järvinen @mattijarvine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hetken jo mietin, mutta olikin omiensa eikä Gazan lapsien

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 18/09/2026

Incredibly despicable. Those people imperil their lives to save strangers. And they’re unpaid volunteers! I can’t think of an activity that better embodies all that is good and promising in humanity. Yet another reason to say that fascists are ”hostis humani generis.” Enemies of all humanity.

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce the “Safeguard Swiss neutrality” ballot initiative, which goes to a nationwide vote in Switzerland on 27 September. Superficially, its promise can sound appealing: peace, sovereignty, and permanent armed neutrality. But most of that is a distraction:

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1/x In December 1950, an American freighter with berths for 12 passengers loaded 14,000 refugees and carried them through a minefield to safety. Nobody died. Five babies were born. It remains the largest rescue by a single ship in history, and it ended on Christmas. A small 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 10/09/2026

Datakeskuskeskusteluun huomautan, että 1. minusta näyttää, että arviot työpaikkojen määrästä ovat suurin piirtein sitä luokkaa, mitä vertaisarvioidun tutkimuksen perusteella tehtävä arvio todennäköisesti sanoisi 2. en tiedä mistä näillä seuduille saataisiin vähemmän haitallisia työpaikkoja

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 09/09/2026

Google announced the largest ever investment in Finnish history. At 13 bn €, its #datacenter expansion overshadows even the troubled Olkiluoto 3 #nuclear power project (11 bn €). #Finland is great for data centers: lots of potential for clean #electricity and a cool climate. yle.fi/a/74-20245301

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Google announces €13bn additional investment in Finland

The money will be used to develop data centres as well as supporting infrastructure, and represents the search engine giant's largest single investment in Europe to date.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Preserved as a working steam vessel, Lydia Eva is one of the finest smelling museums I've ever visited, with the intoxicating mixture of oil, smoke, wood and sea permeating the whole ship.

Lydia Eva's bell, shining brightly despite dozens of grubby fingers giving it a good rattle all morning

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So, the Pajottenland is the region west of Brussels. Narrator: "One day I was walking in the Pajottenland and I saw a farmer sowing wide powder. I asked him with what purpose and he answered: 'That's against the elephants' 'But there are no elephants in the Pajottenland' 'Great powder, isn't it?'"

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The public glorification afforded to a convicted war criminal in Belgrade is an affront to the memory of the victims, their families, and all those who suffered during the conflicts in the Western Balkans. (1/2)

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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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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 08/09/2026

One of the absolute dumbest culture wars in Finland is subsidising the dwindling population of fur farmers and, by extension, Russian oligarchs whose girlfriends are among the main customers. It's almost entirely because the "green-left" wants them closed. www.eureporter.co/environment/...

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Leading scientists and experts in 'The Lancet' urge EU to ban fur farming over public health risks

As the European Commission considers its final response to the Fur Free Europe European Citizens’ Initiative, The Lancet Regional Health – Europe has published a commentary by leading zoonotic disease...

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s WHAT we eat (beef especially) that matters for climate. Not so much WHERE it is grown.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, 7 Sept: "Far Right: Let Us Open Our Eyes Wide.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Wildberries must surely be the world's most digital company. Everything's in the cloud now.

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is - in more military language - what Putin set out in his July 2021 article 'On the historical unity of Russians & Ukrainians'. Putin's aims for Ukraine were & are genocidal. No-one in Europe should kid themselves that this is a war for territory, still less 'to prevent NATO expansion'.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 01/09/2026

Oh the stories about Finland's "eastern trade"... One of the most entertaining research interviews I've ever done was listening to a lawyer who had been one of two legal aides involved in the purchase of Loviisa nuclear power plants from the Soviet Union in the late 1970s.

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 31/08/2026

Wikipedia keeps getting better because people keep improving it.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Over the next months, the EU will decide whether to water down car emission regulations, which currently prescribe the sale of zero-emission vehicles only from 2035 Predictably, the regulation is coming under attack from various political and media actors in Germany. A THREAD

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Jussi Jalonen @jojalonen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Aleksanteri-instituutin Katalin Miklóssyn uusi teos "Euroopan tulevaisuus – Miten itäiset jäsenmaat muuttavat unionia?" on saanut tänään mediahuomiota. Uutisointi liittyy enimmäkseen kirjan Puolaa koskevaan osuuteen, joten teen siitä nyt ketjun.

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Asiantuntija: Eurooppaan syntyy uusi suurvalta – Nyt pitää toimia nopeasti

Uusi valtio nousee Ranskan ja Saksan ohi Euroopan keulahahmoksi, ennustaa Aleksanteri-instituutin professori Katalin Miklóssy.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 27/08/2026

Incidentally, a noted adherent to "everyone is a moron" theory, Linus Torvalds, just explained what he thinks about " #woke", with his characteristic clarity and politeness. I think fair few here may appreciate it as much as I did: #Linux

A screenshot of a message by Linus Torvalds:

"@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don't follow me.
Because your "woke communist propaganda" comment makes me think you're a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those "woke communists" you worry about. But you probably couldn't actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I'm a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman's right to choose is very important, I think that "well regulated militia" means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn't care less if you decided to dress up in the "wrong" clothes or decided you'd rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me "woke", then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right noW."

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1/"Trade Wars are EV wars" NEW from @katemac.bsky.social & I Why did Carney cite Ford heavy trucks plant in Ontario? Why is Canada courting Chinese EV investment after Trump's partial repeal of the IRA caused losses & slumping sales across Canada’s auto industry? thepolycrisis.org/trade-wars-a...

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Old UK Catalogues @oldukcatalogues.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

From Finland, 1992: Clothing & Footwear from Salainen Agentti (more at @OldInCatalogues.bsky.social) (+Parachute Jump Boots; Authentic Pilot Overalls; Mickey Mouse Boots; Commando Wool Sweater; Jungle Boots; Safari Boots; Lumberjack Shirt; US Fatigue Shirt; and US-Socks) [ENGinALT]

This catalogue page features a variety of clothing and footwear, with a focus on military-style and outdoor wear. The page includes items such as parachute jump boots, pilot overalls, safari boots, US fatigue shirts, lumberjack shirts, jungle boots, and commando sweaters. The ad also features text elements, including phone number for placing an order.

AITO PILOTTIHAALARI «Authentic Pilot Overalls»
COMMANDO-VILLA-PAITA «Commando Wool Sweater»
JUNGLE BOOTS «Jungle Boots»
LASKUVARJOJÄÄKÄRIN KENGÄT «Parachute Jump Boots»
MICKEY MOUSE BOOTS «Mickey Mouse Boots»
PUUNHAKKAAJAN PAITA «Lumberjack Shirt»
SAFARI BOOTS «Safari Boots»
US FATIQUE SHIRT «US Fatigue Shirt»
US-SUKAT «US-Socks»

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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Very interesting paper by Ruta et al. on subsidies in China, Europe and the US that chimes well with our own work on EU state aid. The problem is not just that China subsidises much more than the EU. It also targets its subsidies much more strategically. www.imf.org/-/media/file...

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Heikki Natunen @yxhessu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Maistuu kuselta.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ra Ra Natsputin Trad wife of the Orange King

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hang on - is this 1940 or 1944? Because neither ‘it’ll be over before you know it’ nor ‘I’ll quickly run out of fuel’ are the messages you’d be wanting to convey.

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Jari Lyytimäki @lyytimaki.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"EU pystyy halutessaan tekemään nopeita ja vaikuttavia toimia" No miten ois myös: -lentopolttoaineille lätkäistävä vero -riittävä apu Ukrainalle Venäjän tainnuttamiseksi -kesäajasta luopuminen yle.fi/a/74-20241634

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”Krääsätulli” puri: kiinapakettien määrä romahti heti

EU:n ulkopuolelta tilattuun tavaraan on lisätty heinäkuusta lähtien vähintään kolmen euron tullimaksu.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you were curious about Tooze's new climate book, check out this convo with @kaiserkuo.bsky.social “This is the material dethroning of the west as the central driver of world history. This is really what the provincialization of the west really looks like" www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-thing-...

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Teemu Toppinen @teemutoppinen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Jason Stanley on yksi maailman johtavista fasismin tutkijoista. Kirjassaan Näin toimii fasismi hän esittelee 10 fasismin ”tukipylvästä”, joiden avulla voidaan arvioida esim. jonkin puolueen fasistisuutta. Yritin arvioida, missä määrin nämä tukipylväät kannattelevat perussuomalaisia: [seuraa 🧵]

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edolis 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @edolis.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

in a way, nowadays, the push to green energy is a push to get free of the trumps and putins. Ecology meets democracy.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/08/2026

I've followed #energy transition since 2009. I used to be so critical of #renewables that I co-authored 2 books arguing #nuclear shouldn't be ditched yet. But I underestimated virtuous circles benefiting RE, #solar especially. Near enough 100% RE systems will work. e360.yale.edu/features/ind...

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A First Among Major Nations, India Is Industrializing With Solar

While China's push to modernize sparked a surge in burning coal, India is turning to increasingly cheap solar to meet its booming energy needs. Though it faces big hurdles, including a rickety grid, I...

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

I think this graph is perhaps the most important to consider when trying to understand the failures of our energy policies.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.

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