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Paul Cowling

@picowlo.bsky.social
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Far from the madding crowds... Politics, society, culture and stuff. Views from the shores of the Baltic

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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 48m
Shaving Private Ryan
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 6h
He can says 'he's seen no evidence of it' ... Or that Putin told him there was no interference', but neither of those affects a claim that the secret service says there was.
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 8h
Hej! Vill bara påminna om att medan vi håller på med annat så fortsätter de globala utsläppen att öka (!) och mänskligheten är med stormsteg på väg ut ur livets korridor. Det vi gör och inte gör de här veckorna, månaderna och åren avgör precis allt.
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 14h
© Jason Anderson. 'Tree in the MidNight Blue.' Acrylics and oils on wood panel, 2025. 60 x 80 cm.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 14h
You mean they defrauded the tax office?
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Joe Egerton @joeegg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A number of MPs including Ted Heath and Maurice Macmillan who voted against hanging had been required as young officers in occupied Germany after 1945 to command firing squads. Maurice said that nobody who had carried out an execution could defend the death penalty. He said to colleagues ../2
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.
"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As the saying goes.... "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game" 🙄
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Glad pensionär.....
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1984 Dalmations
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
På TV'n i barndomen tror jag :)
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Det var länga sedan jag såg den där filmen (eller hörde musiken) ☺️
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brfn hade garanti-inspektion på fasaden häromdagen och behövde tillträde och tillgång till alla fönster. Så nu ser allting ovanligt städat ☺️
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When your branding evokes echoes of syphilis...
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Noting here that Trump striking a deal with Putin on diesel is a de facto admission of US failure in Iran and that he cannot get the Straits of Hormuz re-opened.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My condolences for your loss ♥️
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
With toddler tantrums
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not a post to like really. The US seems to have gone full 'Lord of the Flies'....
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Maybe it needs to be two buses?
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tacksam om ni inte följa Trump ock kalla AI för superintelligens.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hoppas allt går bra då 🙂
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Henrik Jalalian @henrikjalalian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nobelpristagaren Navi Pillay om Gaza: “The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza. It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just imagine if the UK had some sort of national broadcaster that had a duty to act in the public interest.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And what's the cost of not getting to net zero?
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So now the US plans to make and distribute snuff videos..... How the mighty are fallen
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vi dödar nu vår levande planet. Bestånden av djur i sötvatten har minskat med 85% sedan 1970. På land är minskningen 69% och i haven 59%. Orsaken är våra utsläpp och föroreningar, vårt överfiske och vår förstörelse av djurens livsmiljöer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Linjediagram Living Planet Index. Globalt är nedgången 73%
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
EVs ... China 42% EU 23% USA a measly 6%
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I naively assumed making and distributing snuff films was illegal in the US.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 08/10/2026
As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man når gränsen för statistiken... :)
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jag tittar bara på grafiken. SD plutten är större på V raden än på C raden
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Att V väljarna är mer positiva till SD än C väljarna är är något konstigt
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Drygt 8 av 10 C-väljare vill ha S i regeringen. Betydligt färre vill ha med något av Tidöpartierna. Andersson ohotad favorit som statsminister, stödet för Kristersson bara enstaka procent. C-väljarnas motstånd mot SD-ministrar långt större än mot V-ministrar www.dn.se/sverige/ande...
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But ultimately to do it on a broad scale we need to release more land back for nature
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Jawad Zanganeh @jawadzanganeh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kanske något att ta upp på seminariet imorgon.
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Nedtrappad a-kassa gav inte jobb snabbare
För ett år sedan införde regeringen minskad ersättning i a-kassan efter 100 dagar. Det skulle öka drivkraften att söka jobb. Men reformen gav inte jobb snabbare, konstaterar Akademikernas a-kassa.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Railways have done it for decades
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"the Trump administration would not be “orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.”". No. He's right. The Trump administration can't be accused of being orderly or well managed.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Så får det vara 🙂
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Behövs det en anledning?☺️
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's nice to see that a walk in the countryside is an ageless occupation. 🙂
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ahh. I see what you mean. That's a mystery, but the rule for that could also be different depending where it is, or which question it is
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So she wants to lower the pension age by .. checks notes.... Saving money on pensions.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You can see why they dropped "Don't be evil"....
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The score are weighted with the later ones 2x or 3x the base score. So.. the first two places gives up to 100 points. The last two give up to 300. If you look at the info blocks at the end it tells you how each one was scored.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's probably mandated in a Trump executive order
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/10/2026
Fear of women divorcing men helped kill passage of basic income law back in the 1970s. Not only was that conclusion in error, but it turned out it improved relationships. Since then, the evidence has only deepened that the power to exit it provides leads to better relationships and far less abuse.
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Does Basic Income Cause Divorce? 50 Years of Evidence Says No.
The 1970s fear that UBI breaks up families came from a statistical error. Finland, Canada, Kenya, and Alaska show no rise in divorce, and instead better relationships with less domestic violence.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I laughed out loud at that one...
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They've seen how effective it is when Ukraine does it to them.
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Anders Iversen @anders-om-vann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thousands of dams are being destroyed, bringing life back to its rivers. Migratory fish are returning to waterways, habitats are reconnecting, and entire ecosystems are being restored. Europe is rethinking its relationship with its rivers, one dam at a time. youtu.be/na0L_H-tDtU?...
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Why we should be destroying more dams
YouTube video by DW Planet A
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