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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 22h

It looks like Elon finally got his wish. Iykyk

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Executions are always wrong. Making everybody look just makes that more difficult to deny.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Full video of Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 09/10/2026

Dear people of the UK, this Prize is for you! In 1946, the British founded the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. 80 years on, NRW says "Thank you", presenting its highest award, the State Prize, to the people of the UK, recognising the deep friendship between the state and the UK.

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A rather sad announcement from @anandmenon.bsky.social on the future of UK in a Changing Europe. ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement...

UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) was founded 12 years ago. We hired our first member of staff on the day of the 2015 election, the outcome of which guaranteed that there would be a referendum on EU membership. The subsequent period has been tumultuous, yet, throughout it all, we have done our utmost to be a source of impartial, research-based analysis.
We were initially supported by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC), who generously funded the organisation for over a decade. Their foresight in recognising the need to bring social science to the attention of external audiences in this area was impressive.
Our ESRC funding ended in April 2025. Since that time, we have kept going courtesy of the generosity of King’s College London and donations from numerous other sources including the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Amazon Web Services and the Spanish Government. I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all those who have contributed to the organisation’s longevity.
Sadly, it is now time to bring down the curtain on this act. UKICE will cease to operate at the end of this year. This is – for us at least – a sad occasion. However, we will soon be able to inform you of the exciting ways in which our work – blogs, reports, lunchtime seminars and more – will continue. The website, containing its rich treasure trove of blogs, reports, videos and the Brexit Witness Archive will, of course, remain accessible thanks to the generosity of the Policy Institute at King’s College London.
I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished over the last decade and of the way we have assessed the Brexit process, the development of the United Kingdom since 2016 and the evolution of UK-EU relations. UKICE has attempted to bridge the gap between social scientists and what some people call the ‘real world’. We have shown a new way of doing social science – engaging, accessible and impartial. While it would be too much to claim to have shaped the debate, I g…

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

This is the next phase in the development of the Green Party as a potential party of government: war between the Realos and the Fundis.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Merz on the other hand for anyone from North or Western Germany is a recognisable boomer or early GenXish type as the wealthy member of an inluential local family who threatens to sue the Sparkasse if it puts the wrong milk in his coffee

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyway, Daniel Günther for anyone who grew up in North Germany is quite a recognisable centre-rightish type in your friend circle as the button-downed guy trying to get into the Sparkasse management trainee programme who is surprisingly fun after his sixth Lüttje Lage

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Merz is psychologically and intellectually incapable of emulating Günther and Wüst's basic political skills of just being able to look like normal guys at the Kneipe m.bild.de/politik/inla...

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Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther singt „Arschloch!“ und redet über Sex

Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther singt bei „Inas Nacht“ den Ärzte-Song „Arschloch!“, redet über Sex und Altkanzler Helmut Kohl

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026

But today, as these same judges are sanctioned, and their institutions are attacked, we need people of courage, vision and determination – qualities that 2026 peace laureate Navi Pillay demonstrates in her work on the bench.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Wat is dit nou weer voor logica? Daar worden de grondrechten wel heel drastisch bij een (blijkbaar) private onderneming op het bord gelegd. (De uitgeschreven uitspraak in de zaak Wakker Dier v NS is gisteren pas gepubliceerd. Ik was nieuwsgierig wat de basis was van hun claim. Dit is het.)

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

1. Ik heb liever niet dat ik het eens ben met Johan Derksen. 2. Dit is evident geen bedreiging. 3. Kunnen we allemaal eens ophouden met constant aangifte doen als weer eens iemand iets gezegd heeft? De politie heeft wel wat beters te doen.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

The chair of the legislature of Saxony-Anhalt is elected by secret ballot. All we know is that the AfD got 48 votes, and that that is four more than the number of seats that the AfD and the BSW have together. But it seems reasonable to suspect that the other four were CDU.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW The morality tale of the Bayeux Tapestry The story of the FAFO of Harold Godwinson By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7514...

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What the Bayeux Tapestry is really about

Its 70 metres can be reduced to a single acronym: FAFO. For that’s what King Harold, the oath-breaker, did

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s massive amounts of red tape that are caused by immigration control and the hostile environment and its biggest advocates are the very politicians who complain about excessive regulation. Enormous costs for employers, landlords, universities.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Zou er in Nederland in die situatie ook iemand 10+ jaar de cel in gaan, zoals in Genua?

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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James @jamesh1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There goes the Amazon.

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Sven Giegold @sven-giegold.de · 04/10/2026

Heute hat die Grüne Partei von England und Wales einen Beschluss mit dem Titel „Zionism is Racism“ gefasst. Dieser Beschluss widerspricht den Grundsätzen der Europäischen Grünen Partei (EGP), die sich für eine Zwei-Staaten-Lösung und ein friedliches Zusammenleben in Israel und Palästina engagiert.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Een taal leren is een taal ontdekken. Het is een pittige tocht met veel omwegen en steile paden, ook in een land dat zo plat is dat het gebied buiten de steden letterlijk “het platteland” heet. En er was geen betere gids dan Paulien Cornelisse. www.gordondarroch.com/2026/10/04/p...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

One person shouldn't get to run a democracy like this.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Given the harms caused by the principle of national self-determination , particularly to minorities deemed not part of the nation, it is extraordinary how many people are willing to deploy it as an unquestionable premise in arguments.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 03/10/2026

Truly a loathsome individual.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

... and then those allies do, because after all these years they still don't understand that Trump doesn't do gratitude.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rather difficult not to feel a bit gloomy about the state of the country atm, so I wasn’t going to make much of a thing of this anniversary this year. And then I saw this and started to cry. Because a free and united Germany in a free and united Europe was worth it. And is worth fighting for now.

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Wim uit Voorhout @wbcs99twit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Vraagje: Wie ziet u eigenlijk als kleine spaarder-belegger? Gemiddeld hadden huishoudens 22 duizend euro spaargeld en 15 duizend euro effecten in 2024. De 10 procent huishoudens met het laagste netto vermogen had 2 duizend euro spaargeld en 2 duizend euro effecten.

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Captain Europe (retired) @captaineurope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Director-General to entry-level clerical staff ratio in the European Public Service in 2026: 8-1.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Mocht je je afvragen hoe oud de abonnees van het AD zijn…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

How did I not know about this Belgian exclave in the Netherlands? Baarle gets all the attention…

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

…and here is the follow up, from the same (presumably fictional) Scarlett Knight.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care… More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Obviously I know what he meant, but it's still funny to hear @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social describe @mphamishfalconer.bsky.social as "the minister in charge of Europe". 😂

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Since we’re talking about the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework again, now is as good a time as any to remind everyone what it says about the EU’s own resources in art. 311 TFEU. (It says that that’s basically how the EU is meant to be funded.)

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