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📼🥾💡📔🖊🗻🏳️‍🌈 List of possible solutions, little steps forward and syntheses

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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What is the difference between lies and truth, between exaggeration and playing down, between openness and omissions? Ideology? In apartheid South-Africa people were advised not to go over there because there was violence in some places. Is it Trump people literally/physically feeling unwelcome?😉
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Crime, terrorism and unrest: US issues travel advisory warning about the dangers of Belgium when travelling to the land of Brussels sprouts, beers and waffles. The US said that there is a risk of terrorist violence in Belgium www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2256... #ICE #terrorism #masshootings
brusselstimes.com
Crime, terrorism and unrest: US issues travel advisory warning about the dangers of Belgium
The US State Department has advised Americans travelling to Belgium to "stay aware of [their] surroundings".
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Long live the EU
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 28/07/2026
🇪🇺 Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labelled from Sunday, as the European Union's sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in. ➡️ u.afp.com/Srak
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
nytimes.com
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients, trial shows www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients, trial shows
Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What you say of others, more even how you speak of them, tells about yourself.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation | Alberto Alemanno www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation | Alberto Alemanno
Supporters of deregulation want Europe to be more like the US. But that would serve only American interests, says Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The curse of performance management. The mistaken belief that you can measure high performance. In both public and private sector I've seen nothing more likely to damage staff morale. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Senior civil servants to get bonuses for first time to reward ‘doers, not talkers’
Highest-ranking staff will get 2.5% pay rise with bonuses for top performers in plan to ‘rewire’ civil service
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The USA legislative isn't representative of what the people want in many ways (abstentions, billionaires, more political variation,..). As for that it doesn't have the mandate.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Why Russia? Pussy Riot protest at Venice Biennale forces Russian pavilion to briefly close www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Pussy Riot protest at Venice Biennale forces Russian pavilion to briefly close
Demonstrators, angered by Russia’s inclusion at arts festival, shout ‘Curated by Putin, dead bodies included’
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Dr. David Morens - who is 78 years old and served his country for nearly 50 years - used Gmail, which he shouldn't have done. However, "[he] was stripped and handcuffed [by] a half-dozen federal agents carrying guns and wearing tactical gear [..] and jailed". www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Guns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aide
David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Did I say the contrary? Anyway I do not understand your list of countries: they are very different, and in different respects. It is clear that anti-strangers policy and retorics (nearly whoever the stranger is) are fashionable across most of the political spectrum.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
When you only have 2 parties, it is very easy to get into a one party situation. The voting system is rigged.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In Italian it's the moment to say: "Magari!". ‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says
Exclusive: International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol, the world’s leading energy economist, also says UK should largely forgo North Sea expansion
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Incredible!!! And the EU performing one of the tasks it is meant for: fighting market rigging and market dominance. EU risks fallout with US over Trump-linked Balkans pipeline plan www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
EU risks fallout with US over Trump-linked Balkans pipeline plan
Exclusive: Brussels seeks to stall award of contract to firm fronted by US president’s lawyer in letter seen by Guardian
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress. But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%. And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported. Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do. More here: rdcu.be/feOjc
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SayItToMyFace💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Over 50 years later, Marvin Gaye’s 1971“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” was one of the first mainstream songs to directly address environmental pollution and ecological destruction. The song laments oil spills, radiation, and toxic waste & was revolutionary at the time. #Earthday
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Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) [playlist-friendly]
YouTube video by Pete Falco
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
They also produce gas themselves!
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Optimised by someone else
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
But "they" think the immigrants need to be subdued into cheapness.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I see his face already every day!!
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The man, his team and his billionaire and corporate sponsors so in fact I guess nearly all USA leaders are full of exceptionalist hubris.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Thing is: in many senses this monarch-to-be isn't a an old-fashioned divine monarch anyhow.. times have evolved.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Many people say "I AM", most are normal. Louis XIV is long dead and that man thought he was the state: at least Mr. Trump seems to have some sense of realism🙂.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Quick money
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pffffffffff
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Nihilism
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Isn't the USA military and its industry too big?
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.
Dear STEPHEN HELD:
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) previously found you eligible for the TSA
PreCheck™ Application program on 12/21/2020. As an individual previously found eligible for
the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program, you are subject to recurrent checks against various
databases, including law enforcement, immigration, regulatory violation, and intelligence
databases for continued eligibility. TSA has made a preliminary determination that you may no
longer be eligible to participate in the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program because you
committed certain violations of security related regulations, described below in greater detail. As
a result, TSA has preliminarily revoked your eligibility for the program.
RESULTS OF TSA'S ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION:
Pursuant to TSA PreCheck™ eligibility requirements, applicants may be ineligible to participate
due to disqualifying criminal offenses and other factors, which includes determinations that an
applicant does not pose a sufficiently low risk to transportation security. TSA considers your
conduct on or about September 27, 2025, in Terrace, Illinois, involving Assault on Certain
Officers or Employees under U.S. Code 18 USC 111, to be inconsistent with expedited
screening eligibility, which is reserved for persons known to pose a low risk to transportation
security.
This determination is distinct from any criminal or civil enforcement proceedings which may be
brought against you in conjunction with this incident.
You have not yet been disqualified from participation in the TSA PreCheck ™ Application
Program. This letter is an ineligibility determination that notifies you of the preliminary decision
made by TSA. You may inform TSA in writing of your intent to correct any information you
believe is inaccurate. TSA must receive your request to correct any information you believe to be
inaccurate within 60 calendar days of the date of this letter. If you wish to correct this
information, you must provide any…
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What is Trump’s endgame with Iran? | Robert Reich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
What is Trump’s endgame with Iran? | Robert Reich
This is a war without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear understanding of where it leads or how it ends
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reports over 200 complaints across 50 bases that commanders are referring to the Rapture and Revelations in combat briefings.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran-- RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday? REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🤑🤮🤒🥴😵‍💫🥸😳😱😖👿💀💩🤡
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Little by little the old parties of the middle are on the same side, in the same basket. If they then could get away from neoliberalism, their thingie and idée fixe since 50 years, for a turn towards public planning and realism about what the market is, it would be beneficial to them and people.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 02/03/2026
BREAKING 'No indication' any nuclear installations in Iran damaged or hit, says IAEA
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Wow, there goes the excuse.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When a war explodes, look at/for other things happening elsewhere. E.g.: 'We’ll run out of food this week’: Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
‘We’ll run out of food this week’: Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege
Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Attention seeking, all attention being thought to be good where it isn't, because it cannot be. To be feared is that a human, a humane goal?
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is incredible. This is empty. A void. A no-plan linked to the thought of profit from chaos. This is hubris. A vision that is fake, self-illusioned. US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel’s plan to launch attack, Rubio says www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel’s plan to launch attack, Rubio says
Democrats disturbed by rationale that Trump ordered pre-emptive strikes out of concern about Tehran retaliation
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 23/02/2026
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
transitics.substack.com
The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons
The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Pi @pharnolds.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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