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Nick Toumpelis

@nicktoumpelis.bsky.social
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Greek Swede. iOS Software Engineer turned Product Manager. Photographer. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 #politics, #lgbtq+, #photography, #tech and #product.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 11/09/2026
“The more I learn about these rogue systems, the more I am reminded of the first months of 2020, when a small group of epidemiologists was attempting to raise alarms about Covid. We have a short window, right now, to rein these systems in. This is AI’s warning shot, and we might not get another one”
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Opinion | The A.I. Threat Is Real. We Need to Act Now.
We can no longer pretend that this technology is safe.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 10/08/2026
‼️ Patriot makers fear Ukraine could improve and produce their missiles more cheaply
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Patriot makers fear Ukraine could improve and produce their missiles more cheaply – The Atlantic
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin fear that licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine could allow Kyiv to improve the weapons and manufacture them faster and at a much lower cost.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/08/2026
It has been an extraordinary 24 hours, with tit-for-tat border controls between Spain and Italy resulting in checks in both countries. The fault lies with a 🇪🇺President who has refused to do her job as the guarantor of the Schengen treaty. My take:
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Schengen is unravelling. Where is von der Leyen?
The Commission has for years been letting national capitals play political games with Schengen "temporary" exemptions. Now Sanchez says: 'You want to play games? Let's play games.'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/08/2026
If you've wanted to support my work but don't want to sign up for my newsletter, now there's another easy way to do it. I've created a page on Buy Me a Coffee. Your support makes my work possible, including the hundreds of clips I post here each week. Thanks!
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Aaron Rupar
Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter. Your support makes my work possible, including all the clipping I do across my social media channels.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Last night,Russian attacks killed& injured civilians in Mykolaiv,Sumy, Odesa region ▪️Sumy:Russian cluster munitions killed three civilians- an 89-year-old woman and two girls aged 5 & 10. ▪️Mykolaiv.Russians killed an 89-year-old woman &injured seven others, including two girls aged 2 & 12 📹Sumy 💔
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 04/08/2026
🤬 Russian drone hunts and attacks man at farmers market in Kherson
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Russian drone hunts and attacks man at farmers market in Kherson – video
A Russian drone has attacked a man at a market in Kherson. He survived, and police are documenting the incident as a war crime.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🚨🚨" far-right and MAGA politicians, influencers, and podcasters will immediately use the most divisive language possible in order to make voters as angry as possible, as fast as possible, regardless of what actually happened. " Strong piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on FR reactions to #ceuta:
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 04/08/2026
From today, it will ensure our scale-ups can find what they need right here in Europe to grow into world-leading companies. To turn European innovation into our competitive edge. link.europa.eu/t9FPvn
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Scaleup Europe Fund to start making investments
Today, the European Commission completed the final legal steps to establish the Scaleup Europe Fund, which will start boosting Europe\'s scaleup companies to grow faster and compete globally with an i...
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SueD @0drat.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
Just leaving this here
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The tone continues shifting: during today’s meeting of ambassadors, Spain received broad support from other EU countries, which highlighted how swiftly the Ceuta crisis was brought under control. Ambassadors stressed the need to properly apply EU migration rules and have reliable data.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump started trusting me and understood who really doesn't want to stop the war, Zelensky says. "If tomorrow we can stop the war, have a ceasefire, it's better than fighting 10-20 years and losing our people." A ceasefire is better than long war, and Russia isn't interested in stopping, he adds
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
*watching The Odyssey, becoming disappointed* Me: I was in Greece last year and there were lots of cats. There are no cats in this movie
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 16/07/2026
If this is happening in public, you've got to wonder what's happening behind the scenes. Any three-letter agencies involved? What are they up to these days? Perhaps some light election-interference? Interesting times
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...
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DRL NOFO Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in Europe - United States Department of State
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in EuropeBureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, Department of StateOpportunity number: ...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
1/ Ukraine's drone campaign is leading not only to fuel shortages but also political recriminations in Russia. The attack on the Omsk oil refinery yesterday is prompting increasingly harsh condemnations of Russia's government by Russian warbloggers. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
More footage of the burning Moscow oil refinery.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What a beautiful morning in Moscow!
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How many air defense systems were guarding Moscow?..
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It is the largest oil refinery in Moscow. Or rather, it was. 🔥
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This story is hideous, this man is appalling, but on the other hand he "connects with young men," so
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What is happening over there
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Just remembered we've passed the 10th anniversary of this untruthful tweet
Boris Johnson falsely claiming that Brexit will make no difference to British citizens in the EU.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones. Dishonest!
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 31/05/2026
In the EU, you belong – exactly as you are. As Diversity Month comes to a close, we reaffirm a simple principle: you deserve to be safe, respected, and free to be yourself. Discover how we are making this a reality: link.europa.eu/Nrrgvw
Watercolor illustration featuring a circle of diverse, smiling, colorful shapes with cute faces surrounding the text "We all count. We all belong." The European Commission logo is visible in the top right corner.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/05/2026
Called this back in October
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Grok being asked to make a thin woman's body "as healthy and strong as" a jacked, Jonny Sins-ass lookin' guy next to her.Grok creates an eldritch horror unseen to man and cannot be explained with written words.Axios article: Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This week's column: challenge for Labour and for Keir Starmer's replacement is twofold: both need to run the country *and* do the intellectual heavy lifting that Starmer-Labour did not do in opposition:
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Labour’s lack of intellectual rigour has returned to bite it
Starmer and his party failed to do any hard thinking in opposition and they are now paying the price
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Now we are hearing from Sky and Amanda Roberts. Sky is the younger brother of Virginia Giuffre. He explains that Virginia was only 16 years old who had just finished 10th grade when her sex trafficking by Epstein began. Her abuse began just down the street from this hearing.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#VictoryDay. How it started. How it's going.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...
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DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian's Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn't entered the US in more than a decade—following posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Next to the body of a fallen Ukrainian soldier, a child's drawing was found with the inscription: "Dad, come home with victory."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/05/2026
The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/vGV8tjE
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ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job
Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Some MAGA acolytes can't imagine people of different creeds, backgrounds, and cultures living peacefully side-by-side. The project to create a cosmopolitan society must be a dark conspiracy. IMO, the central issue of our time is this regressive idea of ethnic absolutism.
Megan Basham on Twitter writes: "Given that I have been critical of the pope in the last few days, including on his self-described communion with Muslims, I do want to take a minute to remind Southern Baptists that our leadership has taken similar stances.

The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, JD Greear, wrote in his book Breaking the Islam code that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.

And the former head of our lobbying arm, Russell Moore, argued that we must advocate for the building of mosques in the United States.

So this strange promotion of Islam within Christianity is happening all over.

Both Catholics and Protestants should be asking why their leadership is doing this."

She has attached some screenshots showing that some Christians are OK with finding common ground with Muslims.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"pope should stay out of politics." brother you need to stay out of a size medium
JD Vance wearing a white button-up shirt. It looks like it's a size too small for him.
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ʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ 𝟏𝟎/𝟒 @maybecam.blacksky.app · 28/04/2026
eek
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
From a loyal twitter serf....
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Those Trump assassination attempts in full
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 25/04/2026
Anyway, would also love if people pre-ordered WICKHILLS -- a weird city (??) novel in which a spy, secretary, archivist, vampire, thief, and scientist have to save one of the last six cities in the world! "From what?" Oh you'll see :) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 23/04/2026
We are on our way to Cyprus with good news. I welcome the agreement from the Member States on the 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine for 2026-27 and on 20th sanctions package.
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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Paging @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social now that he has lost an excuse for betraying trans New Yorkers
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🔥 Russia: The Rosneft oil refinery and export terminal at the Port of Tuapse is a sight to behold this morning. 🍿 Ukrainian kinetic sanctions are the best. 🤗
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Russia: FSB is confiscating licensed firearms from civilians across the country. Cases reported from Sakhalin to Moscow. Rosgvardia come to the house, hand the gun owner an FSB license revocation notice for being a "threat to the state," and seize the weapons on the spot.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/trum...
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Trump turns totally toxic for Europe’s far right
“Proximity with the United States in the current context did not go down well with Hungarian voters,” said a senior official from France’s National Rally party.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
No European has done more to help Russia kill Ukrainians than Viktor Orbán
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.
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Liberals🇨🇦🇺🇦 @saynotobs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Dear #merica, #ShadyVance is also working for putin.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“We can’t last 34 more months of what we’ve had happen over the last 14. He’s only going to get worse. He started a war that could tank the global economy without any end in sight and without any plan. We can’t survive this”
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