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Marco Balzarini

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Camuno europeo. Mi interesso di un po' troppe cose contemporaneamente.

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 4h
This week, in our update of Russian losses in Ukraine: - 17,000 names added to our list since September 21 en.zona.media/article/2026... - one Ukrainian strike takes out more Russian officers than ever during the entire war; we reveal their names en.zona.media/article/2026...
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Rob Burgess @robaburg.bsky.social · 5h
Being a sentient person in 2026 means arguing in public for issues you never thought you would have to articulate out loud: "Read to your children yourself instead of outsourcing it to a robot!" "Don't televise executions!" Things like that.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 7h
New discovery: A royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas/Türkiye, sheds new light on the Hittite Empire, revealing records of a deadly epidemic, military threats and royal life dating back 3,400 years. www.dailysabah.com/life/hittite...
A close-up of several cuneiform tablets
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il Post @ilpost.it · 4h
I tentativi di influenza di Trump sui governi europei
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I tentativi di influenza di Trump sui governi europei
Si parla di telefonate, governi caduti e della potente ambasciatrice americana in Grecia
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 19h
And the SPD has still not purged this treasonous fossil from its membership list.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 13h
1/25 The night of 9 October 1799, a British frigate ran onto a sandbank off the Dutch islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. Some 240 people were aboard; one survived. She carried gold and silver worth around a million pounds. Most of it is still down there. #maritimehistory #otd
Painting of a three-masted warship heeling hard in a storm, sails torn and a British ensign flying, waves breaking over her stern, which carries the name La Lutine.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 12h
❗️The restoration of 🇷🇺Yandex’s data center in Sasovo after a fire caused by a drone attack is estimated at 12–15 billion rubles ($141–176 million) for construction work and engineering systems alone — excluding IT equipment, which may cost more than the facility itself.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 14h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 08/10/2026
Couldn’t belive this wasn’t satire, but apparently not. He continued with this nonsensical post.
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gunmen overran a military base in north-west Nigeria's Zamfara state on Monday, killing at least 25 soldiers. A day later, they attacked a huge gold mining site with thousands of workers, killing at least 100. Crisis in Nigeria expands. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Dozens of soldiers, militants and miners killed in Nigeria attacks
Nigerian troops killed more than 25 Islamic State-aligned militants as they ‌fought off an assault on a military position in northeastern Borno State, suffering an unknown number of casualties of thei...
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titles from other more popular (and more importantly: human) works like my own
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 08/10/2026
The writeup of this speech reads very funny indeed, because it basically goes “we are only thinking about ourselves! But you should join us! But you also only should think about yourself ! And together we are going to be great! Support us!” apnews.com/article/gree...
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From the Acropolis, Rubio urges Europe to defend Western values and strengthen alliance with US
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called on Western nations to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove the rise of Europe and North America to global dominance for cent...
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In this building lived and worked journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Killed 7 October 2006"
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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On 25 January 2026, a very large landslide reactivated at Niscemi in Sicily, Italy, causing significant damage. A new paper in the journal Landslides (Guerriero et al. 2026) describes the event:- eos.org/thelandslide... Original paper (which is open access):- link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Map showing major deformational features of the Niscemi landslides. Inset picture a depicts the western sector of the upper part of the southern Niscemi landslide (last access 06 August 2026; https://www.meteoweb.eu/2026/02/ciclone-harry-e-niscemi-la-consulta-degli-ingegneri-propone-una-task-force-tecnica-a-supporto-della-regione/1001896651/). From Guerriero et al. (2026), published under a CC license.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton has died. Absolute legend, it was my honour to meet her and have a conversation with her just a few years ago, super nice and still sharp. Ave atque vale Margaret. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 07/10/2026
The main takeaway from this year’s #Disinfo2026 conference will be about Streisand effect.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 20 years ago today. If you have any interest in Russia but haven't read her work, today is a good day to start. This is the opening of her book Putin's Russia:
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
⚡️🇨🇳🇩🇪“The German government has prohibited the sale of 80% of the Hamburg-based logistics company Zippel to the Chinese state-owned shipping company Cosco due to security concerns. A spokesperson for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy announced this after a cabinet meeting.”
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Bundesregierung stoppt Cosco-Einstieg bei Zippel aus Sicherheitsgründen
Die Bundesregierung untersagt den Verkauf von 80 Prozent an Zippel an Cosco. Sicherheitsbedenken und Risiken für deutsche und europäische Lieferketten geben den Ausschlag.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What Happened to the Children of Pregnant Women Who Got a COVID Vaccine? We are tracking them in multiple ways. So far, after many studies? "no evidence of adverse developmental effects from getting a COVID vaccine during pregnancy." open.substack.com/pub/stopanti... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social
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What Happened to the Children of Pregnant Women Who Got a COVID Vaccine?
While Dawn Michael is just asking questions about COVID vaccines in pregnancy, she will be surprised by the answers!
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An ordinary evening in Sochi, Russia
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A decade-long camera-trapping study has produced the first firm national estimate of Pakistan's Snow Leopard population, with researchers putting the total at some 155 animals:
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First formal estimate puts Pakistan's Snow Leopard population at 155
A decade-long camera-trapping survey has provided the first firm estimate of Pakistan's Snow Leopard population, putting the national total at 155 animals and providing a baseline for future monitoring.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Huge rockfalls in the Tofane group (WW1 battlefield in the Dolomites, 1915-1917) last weekend. The Austrian position of Tre Dita is visible in the bottom left of the first photo. Exploring these mountains is becoming quite hazardous. #TiTM
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
⚡️A powerful software used to extract data from encrypted devices, Oxygen Forensics, was until recently used by police and intelligence agencies in the United States, Europe, and around the world (and likely still is).   Its concealed Russian owners have an ‘interesting’ background.
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NATO Atlas @natoatlas.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
French submarines as of 2026. SRC: @800Tonnes over at Shitter. Or @800tonnes.bsky.social, if that's their account here on Bluesky. #NATO #Marine #Nationale
Silhouettes and names of French submarines organized by status—Service actif, Essais en mer, En construction, Désarmés, Musées—with side-view illustrations labeled with individual boat names (e.g., Suffren, Le Triomphant, De Grasse, Rubis, Le Redoutable).
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il Post @ilpost.it · 06/10/2026
L’esercito degli Stati Uniti eseguirà una condanna a morte tramite fucilazione per la prima volta dal 1945
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L’esercito degli Stati Uniti eseguirà una condanna a morte tramite fucilazione per la prima volta dal 1945
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TWZ @twz.com · 05/10/2026
Spain Picks Airbus A321 For New Electronic Intelligence Aircraft The fleet will not only restore Spain’s crewed airborne signals intelligence capability, but make it among the most powerful in Europe. www.twz.com/air/spain-picks-airbus-…
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Spain Picks Airbus A321 For New Electronic Intelligence Aircraft
The three-aircraft fleet will not only restore Spain’s crewed airborne signals intelligence capability, but make it among the most powerful in Europe. The three-aircraft fleet will not only restore Sp...
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's pretty funny to say this right now, when the world's dictators and aspiring dictators are demonstrating their extreme non-benevolence and commensurate inefficiency. Was invading Ukraine efficient? Were the gulf princelings cheerleading the disastrous Iran war efficient?
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Make of it what you want but a journalist from a French leftist media outlet contacted me to talk about the theory that the deaths on Maidan were a false flag and when I told her Im happy to explain why this stupid conspiracy theory needs to die, she never got back to me to schedule the interview.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In July 1967, 19-year-old PFC Robert L. Hunt Jr. (below) returned home on leave to Cairo, IL. Hours after being arrested, he was found hanged in a jail cell. The ruling: suicide. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“It’s this kind of scenario… that several physicians told me ranks among their most troubling cases. Each told me a version of the same haunting story: A patient with a treatable cancer delays standard care for an unproven alternative, only to return once the disease has metastasized.”
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Dying Patients Are Inundated by Misinformation. My Dad Was One of Them.
Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We could be heading toward an #EU enlargement "Super Tuesday" on October 13. Pending smooth progress, the agenda includes ​🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2 clusters to open ​🇲🇩 Moldova: 2 clusters to open ​🇲🇪 Montenegro: 3 chapters to close ​🇦🇱 Albania: 1 chapter to close
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The crux of our problem seems to be that there's a segment of East German society with ties to the old elites (SED, Stasi, etc.) that saw German unification as a hostile takeover by the "class enemy" & that subsequently lost their preeminent status not only within East Germany, but the Eastern Bloc.
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Voici un cratère d'impact de plus de 1500km de diamètre sur Mercure: le bassin Caloris. Il s'est formé lors de la chute d'un astéroïde de près de 150km il y a ~4 milliards d'années, qui a déclenché du volcanisme. Le cratère est entouré de montagnes de 2km de haut!
Voici un cratère d'impact de plus de 1500km de diamètre sur Mercure: le bassin Caloris. Il s'est formé lors de la chute d'un astéroïde de près de 150km il y a  ~4 milliards d'années, qui a déclenché du volcanisme. Le cratère est entouré de montagnes de 2km de haut!
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 02/10/2026
The Kremlin wants the world to forget who started the war. On 24 February 2022, Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launching the largest conflict on the European continent since the Second World War. The war was not ‘forced upon’ Russia. Russia chose to start it.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Andrea Bettini @andreabettini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Negli ultimi cinque anni in Svizzera i ghiacciai hanno perso quasi il 20% del ghiaccio: un vero disastro www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Marco Balzarini @marcobalzarini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, will they cancel the Trump battleship?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have a hard time deciding which are worse. The retributive fake indictments against longtime Trump "enemies" or the ones where just a random person is picked out because of the need to retrofit reality to a latest Trump tweet/meltdown.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 30/09/2026
Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️
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Naval News @handle.invalid · 01/10/2026
Fincantieri hosted the keel-laying ceremony for the Italian Navy’s second U212NFS (Near Future Submarine) at its Muggiano shipyard 🇮🇹 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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Fincantieri Lays Keel of Second U212NFS Submarine - Naval News
Fincantieri hosted the keel-laying ceremony for the Italian Navy’s second U212NFS (Near Future Submarine) at its Muggiano shipyard. Fincantieri press release The keel-laying ceremony for the second-ge...
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Finnish companies Nokia and Iceye want to challenge Starlink and start producing communications satellite systems for governments. First satellites to be launched 2028. Great if they can make this happen on scale
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Teknologia | Nokia ja Iceye haastavat SpaceX:n Starlinkin
Nokia ja Iceye alkavat kehittää viestintäsatelliittijärjestelmää valtioiden tarpeisiin. Ensimmäiset satelliitit on tarkoitus laukaista jo 2028.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brazilian intelligence officials have briefed French and German officials on US and Russian interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, Reuters reports.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Praful Rao has posted a very moving description of the impact of the 26 August 2026 Nepal-Tibet landslide and debris flow on the Save the Hills blog:- savethehills.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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The Nepal disaster (26Aug2026): The story of a woman
SaveTheHills(STH) is a group of concerned citizens who are raising awareness about landslides in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya. Many landslides are the direct or indirect result of human interference and preventable if sufficient care is taken. As such, unless we begin a comprehensive and sustained program towards landslide management, prevention and mitigation, the consequences of ignoring years of human callousness will, in the future be devastating.
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 30/09/2026
I'm skeptical that more stupid warriors is the best way forward for armed forces.
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Qatar-based conglomerate UCC purchases the gasoline, and Syria manages transportation and receives transit fees. The shipments are then transported by land to Iraq from the northwestern port through al-Tanf in southeastern Syria.” Ghaith Alsayed, @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/syri...
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Iraq begins importing gasoline via Syrian port to bypass the closed Strait of Hormuz
Iraqi fuel trucks are loading gasoline at a Syrian port to meet surging global energy demand as the critical Strait of Hormuz remains closed and mediators work with Iran and the United States to end t...
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory
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