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peter-b-c.bsky.social

@peter-b-c.bsky.social
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Formerly in financial risk management. Briefly a physicist. Interests include history, historical gaming and various things nerdy. Supporter of Ukraine. Swastika or hammer & sickle in profile -> block.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague: Russian propagandist Solovyev says that Russia’s goal is to kill all residents of Ukrainian cities: "And to those Kyiv residents who are still there, I repeat for the hundredth time: leave the city. You are doomed.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
OTD in 2014 the CIA tricked "pro russian rebels" into shooting down a Ukrainian AN-26 cargo plane. This was done so everyone would later think they shot down #MH17 with the missile system they later deny admitting to have.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Trump ascended largely because … the tea-party movement had cleared a path for him. Its extremist philosophies and refusal to compromise initially seemed too radical to go far. … Democrats are fooling themselves if they think … hijacking can’t happen to their party.” apple.news/A7jfK8d3RR1i... NJ
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Opinion | Socialists Lead Democrats Into the Tea-Party Trap — The Wall Street Journal
Extremist candidates make it harder for a party to win and make a victory perilous for the country.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would not let my child watch this show for the same reasons why I wouldn't let them watch Veggie Tales
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/07/2026
The tone of pronouncements made in our leader pages has been likened to the “voice of God”. A deity would be all-knowing. How omniscient, by comparison, are our predictions?
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Is The Economist always wrong?
We used artificial intelligence to test the accuracy of our forecasts
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Cat the hunter.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“You called out my lying bullshit so I’m just going to block” So sad that Bluesky just lets misinformation go unchallenged like this.
BSer blocks so he’ll get away with more BS in future.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
One year ago UN said it was indeed us who shelled & killed Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka. This was absolutely not cos we had tortured them so badly that releasing them would've shamed even us. You'd think this would be big news.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 23/06/2026
Gen Z romanticizes the Soviet Union as “vibey,” forgetting it was a regime of repression, poverty, and silence. 🧵 1/17 ⬇️
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/06/2026
Since I am That Guy, I will be That Guy. The photo was taken at an angle, as you can see on the horizon. If we level that, Trump is not really leaning at all.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Worst thing about Bluesky is that someone can post BS misinformation, then when someone replies calling them out with receipts, the original poster just blocks the respondent.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Also Huang lived in Thailand from ages 5 to 9 where there were presumably even fewer cars.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme
Trump at the Libertarian Convention in 2024
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/06/2026
NOOOOOO! Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Tommy Robinson and Errol Musk together in Moscow in 2026. Fascists and sex offenders almost always betray their country to side with Moscow, making them traitors too
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Going to just pick one part here to take up which is the Rousseauian notion that agriculture leads to land ownership which leads to warfare. If that were true, we'd expect non-agricultural societies (hunter gatherers especially) to be relatively peaceful. Instead, they're hyper-militarized. 1/
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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
May 24, 1776: A special committee of the New York Provincial Congress finds there is a numerous body of loyalists that, in combination with the expected British invasion, poses a serious threat. The panel recommends that all royal officials and suspected traitors be arrested. 1/2
New York City and environs
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce Russian propaganda operations around military targets like Starobilsk. For over a decade, the Kremlin has used similar strategies, combining crisis actors, “independent journalists” and fabricated evidence. 1/13
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Officer Fanone on Jan 6, after being tased 3 times in the neck by Trump terrorists, beaten with his gun and dragged unconscious down the stairs. He had a heart attack.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hmm, tough conspiracy theory dilemma government is covering up aliens versus the moon landings were faked.
Unidentified optical phenomenon photographed on the Apollo 12 mission.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 21/05/2026
🔴 Russian occupation authorities evict Ukrainian locals who refused passports. In Mariupol, officials are forcing residents from their apartments and taping eviction notices to doors for declining to obtain citizenship documents.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Because we have gotten so much “Operation Market Khargen” or “Operation Kharg Garden” discourse (depending on who you ask), I felt compelled to defend the honor of Market Garden, Bernard Montgomery, and our glorious airborne brethren. My latest⬇️
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In Defense of Operation Market Garden
A Bridge Too Far? Or a Bridge Too Far!
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“Something rather unusual is happening right now inside Russia.” My dispatch for BBC Radio’s From Our Own Correspondent.
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"Something rather unusual is happening in Russia." My BBC radio dispatch.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Total global losses in WW2, incl both military and civilians, are estimated at 60-75M people. Around 8-10M of them were Ukrainians. That was more than 1/5 of Ukraine's population at the time. 81yrs later, in 2026, "never again" is happening again. Right now. Right here. Again. Photo MFA Ukraine.
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
81 years ago, Western Europe was liberated. But for millions of Europeans, the end of Nazi occupation was followed by decades of Soviet oppression. Ukraine’s defense today is the continuation of Europe’s unfinished fight for freedom. Honor #VEDay. Hasten #VUDay.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Holodomor genocide denial is rampant and despicable. Please, if you see accounts spreading denial, recommend this free online course as push back: holodomor.ca/new-online-c...
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
An envelope of sunrise from one of the Glencoe summits
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Nearly 58,000 Shaheds (or flying balalaikas, as they’re known) have rained on Ukrainian cities since 2022. This killer drone is the red thread that connects Iran to Ukraine, via Russia. It is also a lesson that unpunished aggression does not fizzle out. It spreads open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
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Meet Shahed: born in Iran, raised in Russia
Soon coming to a neighborhood near you, if Europe doesn’t wake up in time to help Ukraine expel the invaders
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall." He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked. It was his own great empire that fell.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/03/2026
A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.
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This lab that's determined to discover new drugs isn't where you might expect
A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
‘Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience. "It doesn't mean that there aren't surprises or miracles," he says. "They do happen, but you have to kiss many frogs before you meet the prince."’ www.npr.org/2026/03/22/g...
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This lab that's determined to discover new drugs isn't where you might expect
A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/02/2026
Hong Kong's most vocal China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced to 20 years in jail, ending the city's biggest national security case, which drew international concern about Beijing's clampdown on the city's freedoms reut.rs/4chgv6s
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China critic Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in jail after landmark Hong Kong trial
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai's sentence on two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one for publishing seditious materials ends a legal saga that has lasted nearly five years.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Zelensky appoints military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov as his chief of staff. kyivindependent.com/breaking-ukr...
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BREAKING: Zelensky picks Military Intelligence Head Budanov as his new chief of staff
Editor's note: The story is being updated. President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered Kyrylo Budanov, the military intelligence chief, to take charge of the President’s Office on Jan. 2. "Now, Ukraine...
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Warning: you will cry watching this ʼWar is not over even if you want it’ still gets to me : this is Ukrainian military wishing you a Merry Christmas. Ifa you can take a moment to hold those who can’t be with their families today because they are protecting Ukraine, and whole of Europe
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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 25/08/2025
The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.
Screenshot of viral, baseless BlueSky postScreenshot of Adobe stock photo page showing that account's profile picture is AI-generated
https://stock.adobe.com/images/Young-adult-man-hiking-in-the-winter-forest-generated-by-AI/710231013
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Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Twelve years later, the memory of Ghouta’s chemical massacre still haunts humanity.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Tetiana &Vasyl Hrushko from Kamianka near Izium,Kharkiv region,lost their limbs due to landmine explosions.Vasyl was injured by a mine in 2022,Tetiana lost her limb in the summer of 2023. Every fifth resident of Kamianka has traumatic amputations.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 06/08/2025
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, recently released a trove of documents she alleges reveals "treasonous conspiracy" by President Obama and his administration. @noupside.bsky.social dives into the Gabbard files to evaluate what is–and is not–actually in the pages.
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From Russian Interference to Revisionist Innuendo: What The Gabbard Files Actually Say
Tulsi Gabbard’s latest “revelations” are being spun as proof of a deep state conspiracy. The documents themselves tell a much duller story.
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peter-b-c.bsky.social @peter-b-c.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Using marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart disease, according to a new analysis of pooled medical data involving 200 million people in Australia, Egypt, Canada, France, Sweden and the US, mostly between the ages of 19 and 59. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/h...
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Marijuana use dramatically increases risk of dying from heart attacks and stroke, large study finds | CNN
Using marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart disease, especially from stroke and heart attacks, a large new study found.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Virginian colonels in the US Army at US Civil War outbreak were: R.E. Lee, John J. Abert, Edmund B. Alexander, Philip S.G. Cooke, John Garland, Thomas Lawson, Matthew M. Payne, Washington Seawell, George H. Thomas, René De Russy and Thomas T. Fauntleroy. Only Lee sided with the Confederacy /1
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 09/06/2025
A freed Ukrainian soldier shows brutal torture—his body mutilated, burned with the phrase “Glory to Russia.”
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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I have some thoughts on D-Day open.substack.com/pub/blackclo...
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No, Donald Trump, America Didn’t Win the War Alone
How Hollywood, hubris, and historical amnesia erased Canada’s sacrifice in Normandy
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Back in 1999, Putin insisted Russia doesn’t want Crimea and warned that redrawing international borders would be a disaster.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 07/06/2025
A British woman came to Ukraine from the UK. While looking out from her window, she had something to say. She saw that, despite russian russian shelling, Ukrainians stand strong and don't hesitate. To make them feel safer, you can always donate: u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A viral video with the logo of Saudi outlet Al Arabiya falsely claims President Zelensky's bought a $3.2m flat in Dubai's Burj Khalifa for his mother. The video is fake. It's likely the work of a Russian disinformation operation that imitates major news outlets to spread fake news about Ukraine.
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A sculpture of Britannia on the gable of J.J. Burnet's 1890s Albany Chambers on Sauchiehall Street in central Glasgow. #glasgow #sculpture #britannia #architecture #architecturephotography #sauchiehallstreet
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Кринджоли @shepardua.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦"I would expect next week that the Senate will start moving the sanctions bill. There are House members that are ready to move in the House, and you'll see congressional action. President Trump said that this next two-week period will be outcome-determinative.” - Lindsey Graham US Senator
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Senator Richard Blumenthal today In Kyiv promises to put 500% tariffs on anyone who is buying russian oil or gas 👀
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/05/2025
"Our latest investigative documentary, No God but Theirs, examines the systematic persecution of Ukrainian Christians in Melitopol — a city in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast," writes Danylo Mokryk, a reporter with the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit, in his recent op-ed.
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Russia's persecution of Ukrainian clergy is part of an organized genocidal campaign
In 1953, Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide," wrote a text titled Soviet Genocide in Ukraine. In it, Lemkin spoke not only about the Holodomor — the man-made ...
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