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ornamentalseashell

@ornamentalseashell.bsky.social
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axiom: just because we can manufacture it doesn't mean we can metabolize it (@_eleanorina at the other site)

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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 12h
"Over the weekend, Ukrainian forces struck and destroyed a Russian drone training center and barracks in Kherson Oblast. The center was operated by Russia’s 18th Combined Arms Army, responsible for many of the atrocities committed during the “human safari” in Kherson." x.com/osinttechnic...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"And I totally get that you will not believe us until we deliver. And so we’ll mostly spend all of our time delivering, and maybe next year when we come back we’ll have some examples of how we try to deliver.”
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"The projects that we have to deliver out of our office have to achieve your rights. We have to make sure that we go through your processes,” Farrell said. “We can’t just make stuff up. The courts will just come and overturn the projects and we’ll be like Canada’s always been"
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
on vulnerability of Russia's data centres 🔗 x.com/chriso_wiki/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AI search result threw up that note on exception (?) but it wasn't part of the Reuters article linked at the end of it
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"A senior Kpler analyst suspects some Gulf producers are quietly paying Iran huge “tolls” for safe passage through the SoH "Would encourage everyone to listen to the whole conversation with Michelle Brouhard, Head of Policy and Geopolitical Risk at Kpler - Rory Johnston x.com/rory_johnsto...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"CHART OF THE DAY: Once again, I had to update the y-axis as the cost of oil freight (Persian Gulf to the Far East) climbs further. Now at >$1.4 million per day. Other routes have seen notable hikes too." x.com/javierblas/s...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Well, let's put it this way: If and when a successful third party emerges in the next decade, people are going to pass around graphs like this in a "lol this is the most obvious development in modern political history" kind of way" x.com/dkthomp/stat...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In short, unless we find a way to end the two wars and convince China to help supply the world, I struggle to see how distillate balances move sustainably into surplus, let alone how we rebuild commercial and strategic stocks to healthy levels great on wgow distillate: x.com/lsrenergy/st...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"🔥 Ukrainian forces struck Russia's largest oil refinery in Omsk using upgraded FP-1 drones, hitting a target over 2,500 km (1,550 miles) from the border. The attack triggered a fire at the Gazprom Neft facility, which processes more than 22 million metric tons of crude per year. -- FirePointUA
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if you think that would be the solution, how do you propose to address it here's a couple population pyramids in the region, with the foreign worker population coming from a wide range of countries, cultures
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
x.com/thestalwart/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎻 🎶 vivaldi
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The U.S. administration is trying to show Putin an off-ramp by dangling huge business deals russia honouring business deals .. but it might work for us dot jpg
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI riff on that gener8ion-storm yung lean clip (x limited an earlier post of the clip which gained traction, not sure if/how long this will stay share-able) x.com/loisacelane/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Vor 25 Jahren hielt Putin eine Rede im Deutschen Bundestag. Weil er deutsch sprach und einen fast schon leisen Ton anschlug, gab es damals Begeisterung und seitdem Mythen. Wer genau hinhört, merkt: Putins Idee war und ist kein europäisches Russland sondern ein russisches Europa." -Nico Lange
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
x.com/1usc_army/st...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Glencore Just Signed A 10 Year LNG Deal With China Glencore has signed a long-term LNG sale & purchase agreement with S&T Int'l Natural Gas Trading, a subsidiary of China Suntien Green Energy Under the deal, Glencore will supply LNG for 10 years, sourced from its global portfolio" -Jack Prandelli
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Bloomberg: Saudis Tell European Refiners They’ll Get No Crude Next Month Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude oil next month after the kingdom’s key pipeline to the Red Sea was attacked, people informed of the decision said."
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🥵
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"When you look at these numbers, and then look at how my side is approaching this debate, it is not possible to feel confident that we are even attempting to win the argument anymore. It's almost like we actively want to drive allies away from us. Madness." x.com/ozkaterji/st...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my pronouns are associate european
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Only eighteen ships. That's the entire prompt VLCC list in the Arabian Gulf region right now." - Sparta Commodities 🔗 x.com/spartacommo/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"An open-source model is better at translation than Google Translate. And guess where it was made. 🍁😉" - Build Canada 🔗 x.com/buildcanada/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Since we're just talking again about antifascist economic policy and its potential to slow down the AfD, here's some shameless self-promotion once more for the analysis by @schieritz and me: Many AfD voters support less of a welfare state. " - Julius Kölzer x.com/julius_ktxt/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"I present new evidence that visible investment can slow the AfD's gains, but the estimated effect is pretty small: the main estimate is about one tenth of the party's overall vote share gain in Saxony-Anhalt." - Hanno Hilbig x.com/hallamartin/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Denys Shtilierman (CEO Fire Point): "Our combat data is not free raw material for Western technology corporations. It is a strategic asset of the state. Ukraine has paid for it with blood. We have no right to simply hand over the most valuable asset we possess." 🔗 x.com/denshtilierm...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
h/t orphcorp
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: "We are on the way to a big drone deal. Our teams told us that in 90 days we can have drone deal. Then Mark said, 'Can we have it in nine days?' And the teams immediately said, 'Yes, of course.' Good proposition." x.com/sarobertson_...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i think jfc is the right term here
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
docs AfD produced during prev legislative session: "Where exactly does the police have emergency power supplies? How long can infrastructure withstand a blackout? Where are the emergency wells located? What restrictions apply to military infrastructure?" (h/t michaeldweiss) 🔗 x.com/tepper_anna/...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
(putting here for ref, landmark 2022 study by researchers Johannes Vüllers and Sebastian Hellmeier titled “Does counter-mobilization contain right-wing populist movements? Evidence from Germany”
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"BREAKING: The Department of War is deploying approximately 50 mobile SCIFs across the U.S., secure facilities critical for classified defense work. (..) Long term, the Department plans to scale production of these mobile facilities into a nationwide, surge-capable network of secure workspaces."
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Interesting book by an American anthropologist who did field work in Romania in 70s/80s who in 2000s found the secret police file they kept on her. Her take away? We (left leaning, centrist, academics) were so so so naive and (... we) were not paranoid enough." - Chris Arnade
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
anarchy in practice h/t mac william bishop
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
link x.com/theresaafall... but if don't want to click through, here are screenshots of the translation
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"It is far more difficult to ignore the gathering storm of war. The *National Defense Mobilization Law of the People's Republic of China* was updated on August 28, 2026, effective from October 1, 2026. This is a wartime national defense law.🤯" (matches estimate of timing floating around for years
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"If you think burning through stocks of advanced air defense munitions doesn't invite great risk and doesn't factor deeply into an adversary's decision making process, you are living on a different planet." -Tyler Rogoway, Aviation Intel
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Every day, a new 52-week high for European natural gas. Europeans now pay 8.6 (!) times more for natural gas than Americans. And the bidding war with Asia to fill storage sites for next winter has not even started yet."
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
my feminism includes
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"One person can give ChatGPT access to an end to end encrypted conversation without telling the other person or asking for consent. If you’re going to compare this integration with something, compare it with giving ChatGPT access to Signal." 🔗 in reply
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
on new ChatGPT iMessage plug in 🔗 to post in next
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Javier Blas, BBG "CHART OF THE DAY: Global electricity generation in absolute terms, by source. A senior @IEA official, who shared the chart on LinkedIn, said coal was, for the time being, "the undisputed leading source of power generation." Perhaps we should spend more time talking about that?"
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"What comes next worries me more than what has already happened."
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"And please do not treat us as the exception. We are the preview."
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"A chart view of the @IEA revisions to historical global oil demand. Pre 2022 all revisions are negative, post are positive and (cumulatively) very large." - javier blas
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
it didn't turn around the consolidation trend
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
drone fight simulator x.com/ufdsim/statu...
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ornamentalseashell @ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
a stray milkweed grew in the garden and
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