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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Congratulations to Latvians being a sensible bunch.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All those still on X, helping make sure this shit keeps on going.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jammen her er det fortsatt berg- og dalbaner og neglebiting... 😬

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

That box screams adult content. Cannot underestimate the allure of a good box.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/07/2026

I think many "public intellectuals" stay on X because while they accept that radicalization is theoretically possible, it's something that only happens to other, dumber or weaker willed people... ... even as their every article inches closer to outright championing eugenics.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I will just say that the last time we had a figure like Elon Musk in our politics — Henry Ford — he was defanged through a combination of (a) rejection at the ballot box, and perhaps more importantly, (b) absolutely crushing consumer boycotts

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Pervo glasses, basically. This is exactly what I will think of anyone wearing those.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The time to severely regulate and/or ban these abominations is yesterday. The damage potential is just so vast and the tech companies are as always completely unscrupulous.

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That was just weird snd awkward.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thats a whole lot of Spain on that meeting. Must be confusing.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/07/2026

One of these things is not like the other

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What a deserved win for Spain who excelled in pretty much everything, and how awful and digraceful game from Argentina. Finally, no more late evenings! #worldcup #finale

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So, spare half an hour suddenly. Prefer doomscrolling to the horrendous and ridicolous idea of a pause "show". #worldcup #finale

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Needless to say, this was not a result I had tipped beforehand 😅

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Being in front 1-0 and making a muck of it is one thing. Being in front 4-0 and also potentially making a muck of it.. thats a new level of whoah. Sure, its a pointless bronze match, yadayada, but still. The very least it is entertaining to watch. 😵 #worldcup #fotball

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh, great. Americans will now also ruin the fotball world championship finale with their ridiculous "pause show". #facepalm #fotball

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Of course. Probably the best horse song ever. And best many other things. 🤩

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely horse My lovely horse (My lovely horse) You're a pony no more. Also, Infowars is live, the Onion version. Everything I expected it to be. Well, more. 😍 @realinfowars.bsky.social

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Yeah, England lost me completely. They did not come across as a sympathetic bunch (with some exceptions) and the golfing with dictators surely does not help either.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh dear. That said, apparently they are all not bothered by the heat we heard so much about in the Norwegian media. Plenty of running going on! 🤨

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Come on Norway! Make the unlikely happen, conjure some magic, one more time! #worldcup #norwayengland ⚽️

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Even for a person quite moderately interested in football, current football fever in Norway is quite infectious. Ro! Ro! Ro! #norwaybrazil

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Consistency and logic shouldn't be assumed..

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

July arrived. Time for the annual month of vacation with the books I should be reading and conference papers I should be writing. Toodles! #academicsky #highered

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026

No, I am not going to read your article about how Germany's/Italy's soccer team's failures illustrates something deeper about their national psyche

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 28/05/2026

#WorldNutritionDay: It costs 3.2 billion dollars to treat every child with severe acute malnutrition worldwide. A solution exists: A one-cent soda tax across wealthy nations to cover the gap. Instead, countries are cutting funding and millions of children are paying the price.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Normal? We in Europe look across the Atlantic and are pretty shocked..

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We still remember the London Blitz, which lasted eight months. Ukraine has been under attack for fifty-one months. You can help defend Ukrainians from missiles and drones. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

u24.gov.ua

Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities

The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 20/05/2026

Russia’s public threats against our Baltic States are completely unacceptable. Let there be no doubt. A threat against one Member State is a threat against our entire Union.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

*adding a calendar reminder for 2036 or so...

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

So #Canvas actually paid the hackers and now assumes this ia all resolved. Can someone explain to me why they would assume paying up is a helpful strategy?!

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A sign of the times is that I at first overlooked it was a dream and still wasnt particularly surprised by the turn of events.

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