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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remain permanently surprised that Dmitry Peskov is still a thing

Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a reason you do not slav squat on your toes. It's because it's dangerous and you could break things or end up with long-term pain. You slav squat on your heels. Only.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Farmers aren't what you think they are from history. These days they are generally wealthy owners of large tracts of land. We should treat them like we should any other polluter. Fine them when they fail. Not that small landowner farmers don't exist but it's a very small minority.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bring dance to a job interview and I always win * Don't start with the disco, lead into it ** Work with the audience, getting on top of the desk might feel threatening to some

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To most external historians, and to some degree within our own people, eastern and western Circassian are seen as different parts of the same thing. To me, they are different things of the same parts. If that makes sense. Kabard and western Circassian split at a juncture. Still the same in spirit

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 25/09/2026

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriev, known for documenting Stalinist repression and helping discover the Sandarmokh mass graves, has been hospitalized in prison with a suspected stroke, according to rights activists. He's 70 & serving a 15-year prison sentence on dubious CSAM charges. t.me/tvrain/111557

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70-летнего историка Юрия Дмитриева госпитализировали из колонии с подозрением на инсульт Об этом сообщает ЗПЧ. По их информации, Дмитриева экстренно этапировали из ИК-18 в Мордовии в лечебно-исправи...

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Miss Etta James knows how to control a room with a single song www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRE...

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Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (Live)

YouTube video by EttaJamesVEVO

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you know that when they write country and western lyrics with yodels in them in music scripts that they actually write the yodels. They don't just say *yodeling* They actually write, "Yodel, yodel, ey, ay, woo", so you know which yodels to sing.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One time I'm going through Glasgow airport and I get pulled for a bag search by security. The person asks me, "Did you pack this bag yourself?" - "Yes" - "Are you sure that is correct?" - "Yes" - He then proceeds to pull out of a side pocket a pair of fluffy pink slippers - "You're sure???"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you fall a tree you plant another in its place. If you eat of vegetable or fruit you plant another in its place. If you slaughter an animal for food you give thanks to its spirit goddess and ask her to give life again. You replenish what you take.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love that masks in this. In Circassian culture every animal has a spirit god to protect it. That spirit god can recognize faces and knows human language. So hunters wear masks and speak a hunting language. In this way they fool the spirit gods of the animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKG9...

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Шъхьэгуащэ

YouTube video by JRPJEJ

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)

a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 18/09/2026

A rather alarming development in the case of Russian pro-peace parliamentary candidate Yulia Kuznetsova, who went missing after meeting voters in Moscow. She's resurfaced, saying a “difficult conversation” left her needing "psychological and medical help," but that she and her husband are safe.

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Юлия Кузнецова (Харченко)

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is why you never trust Rangers players Tavernier on joining joining Maccabi Tel Aviv "there's stuff that's happening around" - Yes, like the murdering of innocent civilians by a well-armed bunch of racist thugs

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm on the spectrum, so I do appreciate that sometimes I can appear blunt or even harsh. But please also appreciate that most of the time it's not because I'm on the spectrum. It's because you're wrong.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks to my mother one of the first songs I got introduced to was My Favorite Things, by Ms Sarah Vaughan - Took me a lot of time to realize how complex and classical that voice and composition was. I still treasure it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusa...

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Sarah Vaughan sings "My Favorite Things"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am NOT Russian - I speak Russian (badly) - I read Russian - But I am NOT Russian. Why does everyone who happens to know the language get accused?

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sweden practiced eugenic ideals of white nationalism against indigenous and migrant people for decades. They forcibly sterilized women they deemed incorrect due to race or medical circumstance. The idea that somehow white nationalism is "overtaking" Sweden suddenly is blind to its history.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If there's anything hundreds of years of history and genocides have taught us it's that Russia is a threat that needs to be countered

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People say AI will lead to the end of the human species. That's just another example of things we don't need any help from AI to achieve

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's a rock, Zoey. It's just a rock.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

RIP journalist, activist & teacher, Kate Shanahan, whose funeral is today. We were arrested together in 1984, when US warmonger Reagan visited Ireland, but this picture (by Rose Comiskey) is from the following year, when we went to Tralee to protest against the witch trial of Joanne Hayes. ✊️

A group of women, with banners & placards, march through Tralee in 1985 to protest against the ongoing Kerry Babies Tribunal. Kate Shanahan, in a long black coat, is on the left of the picture, carrying the Women for Disarmament banner with Sue Russell. I'm on the right, in a shorter coat & scarf & carrying a camera.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mladic is dead. I hope he suffered in pain.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I wanted to see this but someone had just painted "Movie Theater" with a door on the side of a wall and I got hurt when I tried to run in

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Milo - "They should detain and deport immigrants" Also Milo - "But not me, I'm white. NOT ME!!!"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's "kahfihr", not "kafeer" - Fucking Russians.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The fires have really begun to stink. Folks hiding in the metro are complaining, and I can smell fire pretty clearly from my balcony. Hopefully the warnings of a mass strike tonight won't materialize, but there goes the air raid alert again.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also, what's up with the ship computer. It doesn't notify anyone when someone goes off the ship. "Computer, locate Captain Picard" - "Captain Picard is not currently onboard the Enterprise" We're in the middle of space, he just walked off? You didn't think to mention it when he vanished??

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Okay, look, whoever at the Starship Design Bureau that thinks it's funny to NEVER ELECTRONICALLY ISOLATE ALL THE INTERFACES should really cut it out, it's starting to look like shoddy craftsmanship

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

A row of Archive stacks with turning handles

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The fact that we're at a place where a racist can be defended on the basis of "academic freedom" speaks volumes. I refuse to and will not fall back to a place where racism is something we debate.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There is a difference between nationalisms. If you or your country are occupiers your nationalism is wrong, full of hate. If you are struggling to make a space for yourself and your people under occupation, your nationalism is justified, born of need for freedom

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This just summed up the AI bandwagon in a few amount of words. And I work in tech, so I know and understand the damage this trend is doing

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Glasgow has never been an easy place. I doubt anyone ever said it was. But it was made that way by the Brits who created the violence. Fuck the BBC for looking down their Cambridge educated asses at us. They created imperialism.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've looked at a lot of modern dance and come to the conclusion that what it is missing is being part of a community. Be it a community of two or more, dance for me was always being with people, a shared joy. Even dancing on your own it is a way of connecting with a shared form of identity

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You offer them a way out, a means to peace, you ask them to stand down, but they are such full of hate. I do not seek violence, no racism in my heart. But I will stand against hate and I will defend myself and my community

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Death threats for warning about LGBTQ pogroms in N Caucasus

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you for writing this, @polphilpod.bsky.social - thank you. “Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it.“

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rot in hell all those who hunted this man down for clicks and ad money

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cheese haliva or potato haliva? Your response could mean block

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Coming online briefly to express sorrow, rage, love and solidarity for colleagues of the global majority, especially in higher education. If you need to speak, rage, grieve, just sit with someone, drop me a line. Hold each other close

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Song for the son of Berdyko clan who died defending the home against genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZM...

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Къоджэ Бэрдыкъо Мыхьамэты игъыбз

YouTube video by Jrpjej - Topic

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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is the first copy of Spearhead from 1964. Spearhead was a magazine run by John Tyndall, former leader of NF & BNP, until his death in 2005. We may be 60 years on from this but the rhetoric & targets of the far right remain constant. You can imagine Elon Musk using these words for example

Front cover of fascist magazine Spearhead from 1964 with the name of the publication at the top and a headline saying ‘Global Race War Looms Nearer’

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Susinpgh @susinpgh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Kronvold’s daughter Zammi was taken away from her when she was two hours old and placed in foster care in Nov 24 after Kronvold was subjected to a FKU (parental competence) tests. At the time she was told that the test was to see if she was “civilized enough”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Greenlandic woman wins case against Danish authorities who removed her two-hour-old child

Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter was taken from her after she was subjected to parental competence psychometric tests

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

At an older age I stood by my father's grave and I spoke to him like I had never had the chance to when he was alive. I told him that being older now myself, I understood. I understood, but did not forgive, his faults. I see them in myself now, but I hope and wish to do better

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If I believed in god I'd ask that either he or Ukraine strike Putin down. I don't believe, wish I did, so it's up to Ukraine to go after him.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Kyiv's been targeted by about 15-20 missiles so far in the last half-hour. Local authorities report fires throughout the city. It's been a loud night.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust

More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think a lot of what I wanted to do when learning Kabard and Adyghe languages properly, so beyond what my family speak now, was in large part just to shout out a big fuck off to Russia and their attempts to end us. To end us not just as a population, but as a culture and a people.

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