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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Who is this “Glenn”? Wld like to know who was the complete & utter morn who asked that question.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/02/2025

On today’s News Agents I said that the crunch point for Starmer to choose between Zelensky and Trump would come, despite the bonhomie yesterday. The choice came within 24 hours. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Will the Starmer-Trump bromance last?

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Can you imagine - some shill from the press asking why he wasn’t wearing a suit!

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

He is truly appalling. Wonder how much help he got with his seemingly thoughtful memoir.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Another one! We can’t keep up it’s all unraveling so fast.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It was almost physically painful.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Assume most academic history depts will be dusting off the long out-of-favour "Great Men" approach to the topic and relabelling it "Bad Men" or some such. What is happening now is surely epochal enough to inspire a rethink.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

State capture/post-modern coup are the two terms to describe what is happening here.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/02/2025

FT Editorial Board | Elon Musk’s dismantlement of federal agencies, freezing funding and pushing staff to resign goes far beyond a mere restructuring. It aims to shift the constitutional separation and balance of powers. www.ft.com/content/f766...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 11: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk joins U.S. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is to sign an executive order implementing the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) "workforce optimization initiative," which, according to Trump, will encourage agencies to limit hiring and reduce the size of the federal government. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thanks. Will do my best.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Intending to explore the stories of those who’ve lived by and still do live by the water while hoping to keep the water itself as a vital part of the story by using all its transport options.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Glad to hear you use term "state capture" since that's clearly what this is. Other phrase I'd like to see reheated is "post-modern coup" which was used to describe events in Türkiye in 1997. Frankly, terrifying.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/02/2025

On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...

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Elon Musk's main aim is 'world domination' | Lewis Goodall on LBC

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

In a piece of personal news, I'm thrilled to have signed a contract with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social to write a book about the #Bosphorus, the magnificent strait that divides European İstanbul from its Asian side. Coming up, a month of ferry rides & interesting encounters. Very exciting.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

UK govt seems intent on letting AI owners steal work of creatives of all kinds without pay or acknowledgement. AI is not non-profit so owners shld pay to use work of others. Can't go into shop & empty shelves cos shopkeeper didn't opt out. What's the difference? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says

Exclusive: Beeban Kidron says plans will lead to ‘wholesale’ transfer of wealth from creative industries to tech sector

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

But, alas, I know from my own experience that non-Westerners are far less likely to move from Twitter/X. I have returned to it against my better instincts because I want to hear from Turkish tweeps and that's the only way I'm going to be able to. ☹️

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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 18/01/2025

Thirty years ago, the United States persuaded Ukraine that it does not need nuclear weapons and gave Ukraine "security assurances." Today, the United States is persuading Ukraine that it needs to give up territories, forget about NATO membership, and lower the conscription age.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Also getting lot of begging posts which never used to happen on other site - there it was all ads for things I'm never gonna buy! Some may be valid but, alas, wld never just hand over cash on basis of post from someone I've never heard of, no matter how much need there may currently be in world.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Forget the blasted Commonwealth Games. Surely the money that will cost would be better spent on turning Glasgow back into a vibrant city for the ppl who live there all the time. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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‘Left to rot’: Glasgow’s crumbling heritage comes into focus for 850th anniversary

Pressure grows to do something about city centre’s decaying buildings and empty shops in ‘year of urgency’

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Alas, I've more or less gone back to other place. Most of my bs feed filled with US/UK news that already get from Guardian. No verification so many "followers" look suspiciously like bots. On other place I'd blocked most Trump types so feed was what I wanted - about Türkiye/heritage/birds as well.

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ShadowsOfConstantinople @theeasternromans.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

An Anatolian Greek New Years tradition! Aetakia, Double Eagle cookies. The oldest family member, holding an eagle, would say: “As beautifully and proudly as the eagle flies, so beautifully and proudly may our family fly." Then family members kissed his hand and took a cookie!

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

May 2025 be the year the Syrian people finally find peace on their own terms.

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Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Massive celebrations sweep across Syria as the nation ushers in 2025, marking the start of a new era free from the former Assad regime. This footage captures the jubilant atmosphere in Damascus.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Imperative that every effort is made to persuade Israel to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya so that he can receive urgent and appropriate treatment for his injuries. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Gaza hospital director being held at notorious Israeli prison, say family

Hussam Abu Safiya feared injured as Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza shut down after 11 weeks under siege

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

do with Musk but, alas, DO want to know what's going down in my neck of the wood.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Sadly, have to confess to having returned to the other place. Once again able to read tips on places in Türkiye I'm yet to visit, find out which is the latest illegal cafe to be torn down, even that Ankara appears - finally - to have a public transport map. Don't want to be associated w/anything to

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Destroying the "environment" for the sake of protecting the "environment"! Only those who've never seen solar farms could possibly think them anything other than hideous. Put them on roofs where they belong, not on ground where they cover even grass. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Solar farms v people power: the locals fighting for their county

Plans to install huge solar farms in the beautiful Norfolk countryside have outraged residents

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.

The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Extraordinary watching country that once used to claim moral high ground abandon all pretence at morality to the extent that it openly attacks hospitals in contravention of international law. Hard now even to remember what started all this. Can never be forgiven. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Last major health facility in north Gaza ‘out of service’ after Israeli attack

Gaza officials say staff at Kamal Adwan hospital, including its director, have been detained as WHO reports Israeli forces burned and destroyed key departments

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Thank you, but I sorely miss by Turkish history and bird lovers. Best wishes for 2025.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

So now if Brits visit Romania or Bulgaria those days will have to be counted in the 90 days in 180 they’re allowed in Schengen area. The sheer folly of UK’s position is screaming at us now.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Hagia Sophia was inaugurated by Justinian on December 27, 537

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

It took less than a year for Israel to normalize waging war on hospitals, their staff, and their patients. Our government supplies the weapons,and accuses anyone who dare object of antisemitism. “The occupation army is burning all the operating departments in the hospital while we are still there”

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

On a finger-chillingly cold winter's evening in #İstanbul the mournful sound of the boza-seller calling his wares in Çukurcuma is all the more poignant. How on earth does he make his living?

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

There are, but, sadly, don't think Turks feel same visceral contempt for Trump/Musk as Brits & Americans so it will take years for most of them to move here, if they ever do. Meanwhile I miss the tweeps with whom I shared heritage and birding tips in particular.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

likely that he wld sell now anyway since he's seen how he can use platform to further own interests so effectively.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Western-focused for me to be truly happy on it. Yet just don't see many more posters making the move if haven't already done so. Ethically, I don't see how I can continue to use old Twitter under Musk but in terms of own interests it's such a huge loss. If only someone wld buy him out but less

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Just popped my head into the other place to check on Ernesto's Cat Sanctuary which is unlikely to move to bluesky. Immediately read great post by Josh Cahill, who is also not on here, about fate of group of female Afghan air crew. Just don't know what to do. Bluesky is good in some ways but way too

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Ditto, I'm afraid, cost of housing overseas. But, as we all know, prices here, especially rents, have been rising at frightening pace. So many Turks must be suffering dreadfully but hearing of long-term "foreign" residents who are frightened for their futures as pay fails to rise as much as costs.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

But presumably the average worker in Sydney wld be earning more than the average Turk. Minimum wage here just went up, I believe, to TL22,000.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

for Russia against Ukraine to suit the political whims of their ruler.

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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

One of most poignant clips I ever saw was of two elderly men, one Turkish, the other Australian, who had fought at #Gallipoli. Neither knew anything about the other's country against which they had been fighting. Same now, surely, for these Koreans sent to fight www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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‘I thought it was fake news’: secrecy around North Koreans fighting in Kursk

As reports of battlefield casualties emerge, Russian locals say presence of soldiers sent by Pyongyang is barely noticed

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This much is certain about the Azerbaijan Airlines flight: the pilots were absolute heroes. To keep a fatally wounded airplane aloft for 72 minutes, and get it down in a way anyone survived, took staggering focus and skill. They fought so hard, and didn’t live to know they had saved 29 people.

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