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Markus Drake

@markusdrake.bsky.social
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Finnish Green in Brussels (chair of our local club) Cis Svenska, suomea, English, Deutsch Topics of interest: Europe, extremism (incl. my own), conflict, leisure

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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In #collapse, the only "left" majorities that are henceforth possible in the global North are "imperial left" majorities, where low costs of living for all in the late imperial centres are enabled by intensified exploitation of the rest of the world and "natural sinks/resources".
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 24/09/2026
Our Flock reporting just got five cops arrested. The Indianapolis officers were just criminally charged for spying on women. @aaronschaffer.com, @douglasmac.bsky.social and I found suspicious searches and got their agency to investigate. How many bad cops are still getting away? wapo.st/4xDOH3d
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Strong El Niños do not damage the world’s agriculture randomly. They damage it in a pattern that has been documented across 150 years, and the pattern is brutally consistent. To understand the geography of what is now forecast, start with where previous events did their damage."
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alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hell simply isn’t hot enough
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Wahlrecht.de @wahlrecht.de · 20/09/2026
Auch in Berlin wird das BSW mit jetzt nur noch 4,7% an der Sperrklausel scheitern. Aufgrund von 6-7 CDU-Überhangmandaten wird das neue Abgeordnetenhaus über 160 Sitze fassen. Zu Rechtsstreitigkeiten könnte die Verteilung der Ausgleichsmandate führen. www.wahlrecht.de/news/2026/ab... #aghw 1/4
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Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt @de.whln.eu · 20/09/2026
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN | Vorläufiges Endergebnis der Landtagswahl AfD: 38,2% (+21,5) SPD: 35,5% (-4,1) LINKE: 6,5% (-3,4) GRÜNE: 5,7% (-0,6) CDU: 4,9% (-8,4) BSW: 4,8% (NEU) FDP: 1,0% (-4,8) Sonstige: 3,4% (-5,0) Änderungen zu 2021 Wahlkreisergebnisse: whln.eu/ErgebnisseMV #ltwmv
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What I want is "end Apartheid, Netanyahu to the Hague" and so I say that, not "free Palestine"
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tja, das ist was passiert, wenn AfD Mitglieder im Europaparlament ihre Wahlergebnisse feiern wollen, aber vergessen haben dass die Sitzung von einer Deutschen Grünen geleitet wird, die auch Wahlkampf in Sachsen-Anhalt gemacht hat 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
10 September 1921 | German Jewish woman, Rebekka Klara Wahl, was born in Berlin. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 25 August 1942. She did not survive.
A sepia-toned portrait of a young woman with short, dark hair, wearing a sailor-style blouse with a checkered pattern. The blouse features a dark collar and bow, and her expression is calm and neutral as she looks directly into the camera. The background is plain, focusing attention on her face and attire, likely a school or formal photograph.
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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We used to call hypothetical thinking machines AI, but then conmen started calling the plagiarism machines AI so the hypothetical thinking machines had to be called AGI, now the conmen are calling the plagiarism machines AGI. I am starting to think the conmen may not be being entirely honest.
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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That's the first time I've seen the 'cop tense' used to exonerate violence against police themselves.
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Mathias Wåg @guldfiske.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Skrämmande högerextrem aktion i Dover. När klimataktivister bara diskuterade att blockera hamnen dömdes de till fem års fängelse för planerna. Pågår "remigrations"-initiativ på flera platser just idag. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Protesters, all dressed in black and with their faces covered, are heard chanting "stop the boats".
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Guess the endgame is to just destroy American higher education
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
The El Niño climate phenomenon is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
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CCC @ccc.de · 03/09/2026
Full collective solidarity against the US government’s designation of the Italian non-profit organisation #Autistici /Inventati as a „Specially Designated Global Terrorist“ edri.org/our-work/edr...
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EDRi stands in solidarity with Autistici/Inventati after “terrorist” designation by the US government - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
The United States government has designated the Italian non-profit organisation Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for providing digital infrastructure. EDRi stands in fu...
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Everything is happening at once, and it will be happen MORE, due to physics and inertia. @rkefferputz.bsky.social is pointing to what institutions are doing to cope. I'm just afraid (or sure, or hopeful?) that institutions will NOT be sufficient, and WE will have to help or save US.
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The way the collapse is not the end of all things, the catastrophe is not the end of all capacity for action. Quite the opposite: as the future consists of more catastrophes, it is our task to understand the catastrophe itself as a space for action" Fuck paralysis-doomers and -boomers
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The way the collapse is not the end of all things, the catastrophe is not the end of all capacity for action. Quite the opposite: as the future consists of more catastrophes, it is our task to understand the catastrophe itself as a space for action" Fuck paralysis-doomers and -boomers
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Der globale ökologische Kollaps ist die Verallgemeinerung der „Naturkatastrophe“ vom Ausnahmezustand zur Normalität.
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Aber wie der Kollaps nicht das Ende aller Dinge ist, ist die Katastrophe nicht das Ende aller Handlungsfähigkeit. Im Gegenteil: Wenn die Zukunft aus immer mehr Katastrophe besteht, dann ist es jetzt unsere Aufgabe, die Katastrophe selbst als Raum der Handlungsfähigkeit zu verstehen.
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404 Media @404media.co · 02/09/2026
The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases
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Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tämä on ehkä huonoin mahdollinen tapa sanoa jotain todella itsestäänselvää. Ode ei tarjoa tulevaan katastrofiin järjestäytymisen keinoja, ei tarjoa toivoa toivottomuuden toisen puolen, eikä tarjoa edes tukea katastrofin tunnustamisen aiheuttamaan poliittiseen ja psyykkiseen kriisiin.
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tämä on ehkä huonoin mahdollinen tapa sanoa jotain todella itsestäänselvää. Ode ei tarjoa tulevaan katastrofiin järjestäytymisen keinoja, ei tarjoa toivoa toivottomuuden toisen puolen, eikä tarjoa edes tukea katastrofin tunnustamisen aiheuttamaan poliittiseen ja psyykkiseen kriisiin.
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Sameli Sivonen @sameli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Poliisi on keskeyttänyt bileet viitaten kaupungin uuteen linjaukseen, joka käskee puuttumaan luvattomiin juhliin. Mistä oikein on kyse? Ympäristö- ja lupajaoston jäsenenä hämmästyin, kun luin Helsingin Sanomien juhliin puuttumista käsitelleestä uutisesta, miten apulaispormestari Arhinmäki 1/22
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yeah we're not getting a guaranteed basic income from these guys unless they are staring a hanging blade coldly in the face
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Modesty Blasé @hollylalarebel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
”My problem with these pervert glasses are that normal people don’t realize how many predatory men there are wanting to use these sinister glasses to harass women and girls. They should just be banned from anyone else than visually impaired people.” 🎯
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Are we ready for smart glasses? | FT #shorts
YouTube video by Financial Times
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Omnicrisis @sybren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Het is natuurlijk een serieuze aangelegenheid, de progressieve toekomst in Europa, maar we moesten er toch ook even flink om lachen: dat de partijleider van een groene partij midden in de klimaatcrisis adviseert om úít de groene partijfamilie te stappen. 😅 www.trouw.nl/opinie/beste...
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Beste Jesse Klaver, wij beslissen graag zelf over onze toekomst in Europa
Stem voor aansluiting bij de Europese sociaaldemocraten, adviseert Pro-leider Jesse Klaver. Maar partijleden Sybren Kooistra en Remco López wensen daar zelf over te beslissen, en zij kiezen voor de Gr...
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
name your favourite bob
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am so sorry to have to tell you all this but Dolly Parton has passed away. A true queen has left. www.youtube.com/shorts/AOxsQ...
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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails
YouTube video by Happy Mag
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Sameli Sivonen @sameli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kiva juttu Ylellä Helsingin pyöräilyinfran kehityksestä! Pyöräilijät ovat tyytyväisiä uusiin pyöräteihin, ja työ on vasta alussa. "Vuosien 1992 ja 2024 välisenä aikana pyöräliikenteen määrät ovat jopa yli kaksinkertaistuneet" 1/4
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Helsinki satsasi satoja miljoonia, ja se kannatti: pyöräilijät hehkuttavat baanoja, vaikka kaikki ei ole edes valmista
Helsinki on panostanut noin 218 miljoonaa euroa pyöräilyyn, mutta pyöräilyn suhteellinen määrä on säilynyt samana.
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
RIP to a real one
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lievästi yllättynyt siitä että vain 1 % kokoomuksen kannattajista tunnustautuu oikeistoakselerationisteiksi jotka toivovat seuraavaksi hallitukseksi vasemmistolaisinta mahdollista ja Sanna Marinin paluuta tekemään koalition Otto-Wille Kuusisen kanssa yle.fi/a/74-20241807
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Ylen kysely: Juuri kukaan ei halua nykyisen hallituksen jatkavan – eivät edes hallituspuolueiden omat kannattajat
Keskustan kannattajat haluavat mieluummin SDP:n kuin kokoomuksen johtamaan hallitukseen. Kaikista vastaajista naiset ovat kallellaan vasemmalle, miehet oikealle.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hundreds of youth took over the streets in #Minneapolis as part of a massive anti-Flock scooter demonstration against state surveillance. Video via @/citycasttwincities.
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Auch das ist Sachsen-Anhalt. Heute 10.000 Menschen beim CSD in Magdeburg! 💖
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Jan Philipp Albrecht @janalbrecht.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dear Jesse. There won‘t be a „strong connection“ between a PES member and the @europeangreens.eu In fact, there will be a new green movement and EGP party arising in the Netherlands if PRO is joining PES.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Okay but 'Pax Silica' and 'World artificial intelligence cooperation organization' are actually fucking badass names." "So this is the battle line for the new cold war huh" x.com/eriskiiii/st...
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So moving to see real results for children so quickly from the London ULEZ 👏💚 Let us never forget what a political knife edge this policy faced before it came in. We need a new national Clean Air Act - Ella’s Law - to reduce health risks from air pollution everywhere. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Epäillyn ei tarvitse puhua totta. Ongelma on jos tyypit joilla on valtaa toisten elämään ja väkivaltamonopoli järjestävät niin että kaikki omasta porukasta jakavat syyllisyyttä, tai jos heidän instituutiokulttuuri laittaa syyttömätkin valehtelemaan tai vaikenemaan. Jolloin #1312
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's been awful. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It’s been very tough’: hope of progress in gruelling battle against south Wales wildfire
Efforts of emergency services and military in Blaenavon appear to be working but there are fears for the future
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Sea-Watch @sea-watch.org · 16/08/2026
Heute hat unser Rettungsschiff Aurora2 36 Menschen in Not gerettet. Der von 🇮🇹 zugewiesene sichere Hafen ist treibstoff-bedingt unerreichbar. Das Schiff befindet sich fast vor Lampedusa & die Überlebenden, darunter ein Baby, brauchen jetzt Sicherheit. Lasst uns nach Lampedusa!
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Markus Drake @markusdrake.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@minnaheimola.bsky.social ❤️🙏 Hyvä että asioista tietävät ja niiden kanssa työskentelevät uskaltavat pääjohtajan kummallisen haastattelun jälkeen tulla esille. Ei siinä auta "kannustaa" leikkaamalla niiltä joiden elämänhallinta on valmiiksi viety. Ja #perustulo nyt www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
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Kelan tuet | Sosiaalityöntekijä Minna Heimola kertoo, mikä nuoria miehiä vaivaa
Kelan uusi johtaja ihmetteli, mikä nuoria miehiä vaivaa. Sosiaalityöntekijä Minna Heimolan mukaan osa miehistä on liian sairaita ilmoittautuakseen työnhakijoiksi.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
Billionaires like Peter Thiel capitalized on Big Tech's conflicted feelings about openly participating in surveillance by founding Palantir, with the express mission of murdering the political opponents of oligarchy: www.thecanary.co/trending/202... 63/
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UK private contractor Palantir was 'founded to kill communists'
The UK government's relationship with Palantir was already controversial, now it looks positively genocidal
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
Today's AI debates swirl around whether AI can *truly* make us more productive - that is, if chatbots will allow one person to do the work of two, or three, or four - or 100. But when it comes to surveillance, the digital revolution unquestionably produced a *massive* productivity dividend. 44/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
Fundamentally, Piketty argues that the cheapest way to stop people from building a guillotine on your lawn is to build hospitals and schools; this is cheaper than paying for guards and prisons to lock up would-be guillotine builders. 43/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
That's when things get dangerous: when aristocrats grow bored with leisure and mobilize their inherited capital to change the way we all live. Billionaire dilettantes are weapons of mass destruction, and their special projects have a wide blast radius and inflict a *lot* of collateral damage. 33/
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