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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 13h

At Damascus International Airport in Syria, I am waiting to welcome a friend. As I stand here, I see mothers, elderly people, and entire families waiting to welcome their loved ones back to Syria after many long years away. 🧵

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 20h

Facebook: here’s why 10/7 was infinitely worse than 9/11 and you, yes you, are an antisemite Instagram: here’s why 10/7 was the most revolutionary act of the 21st century and Zohran is a zio now

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So it was the US State Department all along! Maybe Shellenberger should be emailing them about censorship instead of conference participants. #disinfo26 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eh, Turkish has this, doesn't help much

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Sophie 🦘🇺🇦 @lizardg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Possibly pressure from the US government - see this thread: bsky.app/profile/msch...

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.

The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over

CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is difficult, there are no easy answers, I hope my followers are least to some extent don't follow that easy to explain chain of thought and go a bit farther ahead. This war will be long. You can cite me on that, I don't care, this has been my opinion since March.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's exhausting but people are really starved to have their ideological views fed at all cost, so other options than black and white don't matter to them. If you don't like the US, every random pathetic Iran drone will look like a nuclear strike. And vice versa.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

roses are red violets can't be beat welcome to bluesky

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 03/10/2026

‘“The Greens have been clear from day one that we’re a party of peace and non-violence, and we don’t support military aid to the Ukraine,” Shoebridge told…’ I will also say there is a pattern of politics to people who use the definite article in relation to Ukraine

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Cristian Canțâr @cristiancantir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's October, so time to put a few dates in your calendar if you're interested in Moldovan politics. On November 15, the autonomous region of Gagauzia is holding gubernatorial and regional legislative elections. On December 13, Transnistria is holding "presidential" elections.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Sophie 🦘🇺🇦 @lizardg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Devils' Dance by Ismailov is *the* book that got me interested in reading fiction again. Would love to see him win the Nobel Prize.

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shoebridge? What’s next, Socktunnel?? We have fun here

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

David Shoebridge elected Greens leader! IMO he has unique abilities that make him a very effective parliamentary performer (esp in committee) but let's see how he and party go now he'll be top public face of the party.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having one of those days today.

In the Park

In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.

I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.

Brian Bilston

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jahongir unsuccessfully tried to run for president in 2021 and was told, in no uncertain terms, to keep his mouth shut and stick to music.

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you haven't listened to Jahongir Otajonov, you're seriously missing out. He's by far my favorite contemporary Uzbek pop star, who manages to combine pop, dancehall, synthwave and folk. This anti-corruption anthem is a good place to start www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nZO...

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Jahongir Otajonov - Poram (Music Video) [2024]

YouTube video by Jahongir Otajonov

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026

Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just find it hard to comprehend the mindset of someone that would defend this. Saying this is justified — good, even — is so plainly outrageous, it should be an opinion that exists on the absolute fringe periphery of our society. As it stands, it is the default position of our leaders and media

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heaven forbid that it might be a good idea to learn about the world around us and become a more knowledgeable and interesting person I'd have thought this was quite enough a pitch in itself but the actions of many uni sector leaders suggest they actively disdain expanding the sum of human knowledge

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Expect significant acceleration in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank after the Israeli election (27 Oct), especially if it looks like Netanyahu will be forced out of office.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 27/09/2026

I'm no demographer nor a criminologist, but I reckon that the Herald probably has Auckland's murder rate wrong here. I reckon it's probably lower than 3.6 per person.

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🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This story of Babel is bullshit because every construction site in chicago has guys who only speak polish, guys who only speak spanish, and guys who only speak English, and they can still finish the building

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The MAGA US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle has blurted out how America interferes in European politics. At a private dinner in Athens in March 2026, Guilfoyle said of the collapse of the Romanian government: “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”, the WSJ reports.

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Sophie 🦘🇺🇦 @lizardg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Terrific match, but absolutely devastated for Freo fans #AFLGF

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been sent many 'creative' arguments and objections to #antidepressants lately. This is my new favourite. Also, for the #conspiracy enthusiasts, if I were a shadowy organisation wanting the masses to be productive but easily manipulated, removing their sex drives would be the LAST thing I'd do

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Research Post-SSRI Sexual
Dysfunction (PSSD). They want to
turn you into a sexless slave
Right
Bccause that's one ofthe most
well-knownsymptoms of
untreated depression:
A relentlessly high sex drive

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of a thousand words. Pavlo, a Ukrainian Defender who has returned from Russian captivity, takes down his picture from a wall of missing and captives. He spent 50 months in Russian captivity. That's over four years.... 📷: iamslimaa/Threads

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026

Sorry, what? Diplomats talk to each other. Miliband has also spoken to his Israeli counterpart. The French foreign minister also met Araghchi this week. X is such a sewer of bad, motivated takes.

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's quite exhausting to see the extent to which Ukraine has become a partisan issue instrumentalized by the worst actors. one of my dearest friends is Crimean Tatar and it's painful for me to witness how he's had to patiently explain his story to an absolutely clueless progressive audience

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Kan @ailerons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For those who prefer a movie format, there's a full movie available for free on youtube, HD and english subtitles and all that. You lose some of the details and accuracy of a documentary but it puts you in the middle of the harsh realities. CW, it's very hard to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEe1...

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Ұлы Дала Зары / The Crying Steppe / Плач Великой Степи (2021)

YouTube video by Ұлы Дала Зары - The Crying Steppe

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Jaqueline @baronsaturday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are two double landlocked countries (Liechtenstein and Uzebekistan), but Uzbekistan is the only country that is stan-locked and I think that's very fun. It's bordered by Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah yes, the peer-reviewed field of Biblical Entomology.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Something is deeply broken about the political discourse uk . Between this and “let them drown” chants it’s really got genocidal energy. Abhorrent that it’s happening and appalling that so many in the media made money on setting us on this path

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Petty to share, but: a guy said one of my clips was "as funny as being kicked up the arse". Fair enough, but I do think it would be funny if he got kicked up the arse.

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Cristian Canțâr @cristiancantir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Washington Post reports that Moldova has been one of the destinations for Trump's deportations, but has asked that the informal agreement be paused. Screenshot from here (washingtonpost.com/politics/int...). MD authorities said on Sep. 11 that they already took in 31 foreign citizens...

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Soviet advertising poster: "Comrades, don't argue! Soviet citizens will become stronger through sports. What is strength? This cocoa," 1925

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Sophie 🦘🇺🇦 @lizardg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This one hurts. Terry's illustrations were such a part of my childhood. RIP.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New #MapMen episode!!! 🗺️ How many languages are there in the world? And can you put them all on one map? (No.) youtu.be/hX21ctsGhNc Share and enjoy!

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Why a Language Map of the World is Impossible

YouTube video by Map Men

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EclecticLady @eclecticlady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#mosaicmonday An octopus fighting a lobster surrounded by a myriad of fish and mollusc species. Pompeii, House of the Geometric Mosaics, c1stC BC NAM 📷 my own

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