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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

South Koreans, Taiwanese, Chinese, and Japanese are part of the Asian Corps fighting on Ukraine's side. Together, terrify the Russians.

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Grans Huller @granshuller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is accurate

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petard hoistee @platinumretriever.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

"we still have maximum taxes and maximum happiness" That's right

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Never stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Asked whether Paris could retaliate militarily without making it public, the source replied 'that is already happening'" (2026)

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has anyone considered Mark Carney was radicalized into the worlds most pro EU man by being directly exposed to Brexit for years on end

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petard hoistee @platinumretriever.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

My money is on a GOP donors failson couldn't get into the FBI

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petard hoistee @platinumretriever.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

A lot of the DLSS 5 stuff looks off, but I can't say I hate this www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBMc...

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GTA 4 DLSS 5 + RTX Remix 4K Path Tracing Gameplay

YouTube video by MykePlay

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Douglas Murphy @entschwindet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

thought this comment was actually quite perceptive – maybe the realisation is not quite "it's going to imminently kill us all" but rather "there's *literally* no way to control what it does on the way to a goal"

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

amerikanischer Führereid vor GTA 6

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The whole coast seems to have collapsed and the Houthis are said to be back at Perim island after a decade. They have Bab el-Mandeb. This is a disaster.

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Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/ My cartoon on the wonderful response of Gilberto Teodoro, Secretary of National Defense of Philippines, to a coercive note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. watch the original video from reply

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Europe has plenty of our own racist voters and parties but this is not the place for delulu American exceptionalism.

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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Kyiv now looks like this every single day. There are smoke stacks 24/7 It’s a major European capital bigger than Paris and being terrorised every day.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The EU and Canada are working on a broad new partnership covering trade, defence, security, space, scientific research, supply chains and critical minerals to reduce their dependence on the US and China, Bloomberg reports. 1/

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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

lrt: what absolutely kills me is at the beginning merz (through the adenauer stiftung) took a hard, systematic look at how centre right parties lose to far right parties, concluded (correctly!) that co-opting only sabotages yourself, said, "we won't do that then" and then immediately did that!!

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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So it turns out that the Equal Earth map that has a lot of people justifiably upset was designed by an American, and he credits other Americans as providing "valuable advice." He made the conscious decision to shade Crimea a different color than the rest of Ukraine. equal-earth.com/data-sources...

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

France and Germany have proposed a significant reform of the EU's External Action Service, folding much of it into the Commission. In my view a good proposal, and noteworthy because it aims at strengthening EU institutions rather than renationalising. (via @financialtimes.com)

“Embedding the services of the EEAS to a large extent in the Commission’s structures . . . should increase the coherence and effectiveness of foreign policy making,” the two countries write. Paris and Berlin earlier this year set a year-end deadline for options to reform the service, and called for the EU’s 27 leaders to discuss it at a summit next month.

The proposals, laid out in the one-page document ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Ireland that begins tonight, would see the EEAS stripped back in exchange for giving the HRVP increased oversight over external-related policies inside the Commission.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Dozens of civilians killed, non-stop perpetual attacks, over 15 air raids per day, I’ve literally lost count, it’s taking a toll on everybody here, I just really want to believe someone out there in the west still cares

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fundamentally, the dems will do the same things but nicer. We should be ready for that

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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

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Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🚀 I just published my latest Missile Matters post on Ukraine's missile defense crisis, outlining why ballistic missile defense is so challenging and what can be done to alleviate pressure. Access the post here: missilematters.substack.com/p/ukraines-m... Summary below. 1/5

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Ukraine's Missile Defense Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

How Russian ballistic missiles overwhelm Ukraine's missile defenses and what can be done

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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Zakharova on the Baltic states: "They flourished during the USSR, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia today find themselves in the backyards of Europe. Not geographically—based on indicators, statistics. Just look at it" So let's? Avr salary 🇱🇹Lithuania: €2527 🇪🇪Estonia: €2135 🇱🇻Latvia: €1831 🇷🇺Russia: €559

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The tweet saying "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those 57 who have died trying to reach Ceuta" was part of this thread but got lost?

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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 30/07/2026

The Eurovision World Cup

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 30/07/2026

If your vote is undecided in the Clacton by-election this might be the clincher for you

I don’t usually discuss politics on here, it’s rarely worth the grief in our increasingly polarised country. However, I feel compelled to draw attention to point 17 of Count Binface’s newly released 20-point manifesto:
“The hand dryer in the gents’ toilet at the Great Himalayas restaurant, Southport, to be moved to a more sensible position.”
As it happens, the Great Himalayas is my favourite restaurant in Southport, and Natasha and I have eaten there many times.
Having investigated the matter with our friends in the local community, I can confirm that Binface really knows what he’s talking about. At last, a politician addressing the issues that affect ordinary people.
Photographic evidence of the thoughtlessly positioned appliance taken yesterday:

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petard hoistee @platinumretriever.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

This is genuinely great but while UEFA is flexing it's muscles it should push for deeper reform, at the very least Infantino has to go

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Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

open.substack.com/pub/mariosri... Tldr; I don't think the 1930s/2010-2020s are exceptional, I think it's 1945-1985 that's weird - that's the period where Authoritarian voters *aren't* voting for Authoritarian parties - which I'd describe as the Surprisingly Long Suppression of the Radical Right.

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My Theory of the (Re)Growth of the Radical Right

The Radical Right - aka Extreme Right/Hard Right/Far Right - is a party family that has been studied pretty continuously since 1945[1].

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petard hoistee @platinumretriever.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm not ideologically against nuclear power but people fail to realize how old our reactors were when they were shut down. You do have to explain how the economics pencil out of building new NPP's vs renewables. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d...

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Liste der Kernreaktoren in Deutschland – Wikipedia

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If whoever follows Trump does not have a strategy to handle how allies and adversaries have fundamentally reconfigured their view of and approach to the United States then they will find themselves unable to cope with rapidly changing structural realities of which Trump is as much symptom as cause

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

there goes my top small talk

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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

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Per Nielsen @perwagner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Donald Hill has a long read on the situation. He (and Tom Cooper) have both been very critical of Syrsky for a very long time. open.substack.com/pub/donaldhi...

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A Matter of Choice

If Ukraine and Russia have the same weapons and fight in the same way, then it is logical that in a war of attrition the larger nation would eventually win, given enough time.

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Hannah Neumann @hneumannmep.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The #EuropeanDefenceAgency published defence spending data for 2025. The key takeaway? #MemberStates spend more each year, but still too little on #collaborative procurement, too little in #Europe and too little on R&D. Here are some numbers (1/5)

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Inside of you there is a small Russian liberal who demands recognition for doing the bare minimum, demands being sheltered from the consequences of our government's actions, and thinks everyone else is just as bad as us You need to strangle that voice in your head if you want to keep your dignity.

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petard hoistee @platinumretriever.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

"To be fair, some of this is self-inflicted. Way too many Ukrainians on here are talking the same nationalist shit us Russians are spouting, and frankly Zelensky isn't helping anything, either."

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The WSJ is reporting that China is already talking to and working with the Kremlin insiders that they expect to take over Russia once Putin is dead. China does not expect Putin to hold on to power much longer.

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