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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21h

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Added a visualization of currents in US areas as well. scheldt-maas.pages.dev/united-states

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1/25 The night of 9 October 1799, a British frigate ran onto a sandbank off the Dutch islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. Some 240 people were aboard; one survived. She carried gold and silver worth around a million pounds. Most of it is still down there. #maritimehistory #otd

Painting of a three-masted warship heeling hard in a storm, sails torn and a British ensign flying, waves breaking over her stern, which carries the name La Lutine.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Essential reading. How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Currents on the Schelde River between Boudewijnlock and Prosperpolder (Antwerp, Belgium) over 24hr period

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1/25 #OTD Born 294 years ago: Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal. He is usually cast as the villain who cheated John Harrison, the clockmaker whose sea watch solved longitude. There is also a "Hidden Figures" aspect... #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1/28 On 28 April 1789, the mutineers of HMS Bounty put their captain into a 23 ft launch with 18 loyal men and barely a hand's breadth of freeboard. Forty-seven days later, he stepped ashore on Timor. This is Bligh after the Bounty. #maritimehistory

Charles Joseph Staniland, 'Captain Bligh Leaving the Bounty After the Mutiny', illustration, before 1916. Public domain.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The boom in Linux CVEs lately should get you thinking.   Surely, given a finite codebase, there are also a finite number of bugs / unintended behavior, thus, a finite amount of vulnerabilities. Theoretically, a “solvable” problem. Right?   Well…not at all actually.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

UPDATE: there's a digital reconstruction of this tsunami shared today on Twitter by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - and *HOLY HELL*.

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Peter Van Eynde @pvaneynd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The real life one in Antwerp is only static, right? www.waterbouwkundiglaboratorium.be/en/facilitie...

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/x Have you ever heard of a ship that raced another ship with her crew and passengers in a drunken stupor, hit a rock, and caused almost two decades of civil war? One man survived. “No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster”. This is the story of the White Ship. #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/x For twenty years, British yards built a cargo ship that looked like a submarine wearing a wall: rounded sides, a narrow raised spine running fore and aft, almost no flat deck at all. 176 of them. Then the shape vanished completely because a tax rule changed. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 27/09/2026

Journalists have tracked down two employees of Kremlin disinformation group Rybar to villas near Berlin, Germany, with the two living comfortably and safe in the decadent EU they villainize each day correctiv.org/aktuelles/ru... istories.media/news/2026/09...

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Russischer Kriegskanal Rybar operiert von Berlin aus

Der russische Propaganda-Kanal „Rybar“ erreicht 1,5 Millionen Nutzer und ist in der EU sanktioniert. Zwei Mitarbeiter des Kanals wohnen trotzdem in Berlin.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 27/09/2026

The Dutch government is creating its own national operating system based on Linux. The new OS will be called DAWO and will be based on NixOS, a Linux distro that started as a research project at Utrecht University in the early 2000s tweakers.net/reviews/1533...

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Nederland maakt soeverein alternatief voor Windows en Office op basis van Linux

De Nederlandse overheid maakt een eigen digitale werkomgeving op basis van de Nederlandse Linux-distributie NixOS. De ontwikkelaars geven een kijkje in de keuken.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/x On a June morning in 1904, a thousand women and children boarded a paddle steamer in New York for a Sunday school picnic. Within an hour, more than a thousand of them were dead, in a burning ship, in a river, in sight of the shore. The General Slocum. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/x Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is taken hostage in a lifeboat, and US Navy SEALs end it after five days. The snipers dealt with the guys in the lifeboat. The Belgians dealt with the guy at the top of the whole trade. A thread.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 22/09/2026

Brother..... just ban the effing party already if you know it's a Russian op.... jfc... is everyone in Europe's political scene a moron these days

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/x A guy from Bruges, Belgium, raced a sailing car along a Dutch beach at a speed nobody had ever travelled on land, helped give the American dime its name, made decimal fractions part of daily life, and wrote a book on how to find a harbour at sea. Simon Stevin A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1/x 13 December 2021, 0327, Baltic Sea. The UK cargo ship Scot Carrier ploughed into the Danish barge Karin Høj in the Bornholmsgat traffic separation scheme off Sweden. The barge capsized in seconds. Both her crew died. The MAIB investigation is grim reading. A long 🧵

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/x On 19 July 2024 the 656-foot bulk carrier Yangze 7 ran into the back of the 50-foot towboat Miss Peggy in the Houston Ship Channel. The towboat capsized and sank; one of her five crew drowned. The US NTSB published its investigation report in July 2026.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

At 1.30 a.m., in the night between 13 & 14 September 1943, the various units of Italian troops (12,000 in all), mostly conscripts of the Acqui Division, occupying the Greek island of Cephalonia, receive an unusual message from their Commander, General Antonio Gandin [Warning: long thread] >> 1

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 07/09/2026

Dutch police have shared the voice of the hacker who vished his way inside Dutch ISP Odido back in February They're looking for clues and tips www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI1b...

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Politie | Herken jij de stem van de Odido hack? | Landelijke Opsporing & Interventies

YouTube video by Politie Landelijke Opsporing & Interventies

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1/x Sometimes, you may want to write about a ship not because she broke speed records, is the largest, or was involved in heroic feats. Instead, you may wish to write about a ship simply because she is beautiful to look at. Allow me to introduce you to the ferry Kalakala.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1/x What does Cleopatra's Needle in London, an authentic ancient Egyptian obelisk, have to do with shipbuilding and a maritime salvage dispute? A small 🧵

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1/x A few words:1. These are rust streaks, not real corrosion. Water runs over a small spot of bare steel, picks up dissolved iron, and drops it as a brown streak on intact paint below. The source is tiny: a scratch, a weld toe, a bolt head, a drain lip. The streak is a stain on top of sound paint;

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1/x Everyone knows the story of Captain Schettino leaving the sinking vessel before he made sure everyone was safe. But there's also a story of a captain refusing to leave his sinking ship until the last moment: This is the story of Captain Kurt Carlsen.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1/20 In 1990, Sean Connery took a Soviet submarine across the Atlantic in total silence. No propeller. A "caterpillar drive" that made Red October invisible to sonar. Two years later, Japan launched a real ship with no propeller at all. A small 🧵https://youtu.be/NSiAsQMBSRA

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Being one of the only people On Here who has ever made map decisions for a consumer product, I was intrigued when this old skeet of mine started doing numbers. It’s likely correct in today’s context but it’s also missing some important nuance, because it was about another situation. Here you go.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you've perused Italian media over the last few weeks you'll have seen two names recurring frequently in the headlines: Sigfrido Ranucci and Walter Lavitola. These two very different personalities are at the centre of an intricate news story that seems crazy even by Italian standards [Thread] >> 1

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Peter Van Eynde @pvaneynd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#FOSDEM dates for 2027 announced: 30 and 31st of January, at ULB Solbosch as usual -> fosdem.org/2027/news/20...

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FOSDEM 2027 will take place on 30 & 31 January 2027 — FOSDEM 2027

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Peter Van Eynde @pvaneynd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This joke is double funny for Dutch speakers, as 'larie' means 'nonsense', as in 'larie en apekool'

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/x In March 2020 a Holland America ship spent 19 days looking for somewhere to land. Four people died on board. She was turned away by Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and very nearly Florida. Now the #covid story of the MS Zaandam. The "Pariah ship".

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/08/2026

Oh well! Thanks Meta. Link to ad: www.facebook.com/share/v/19TT...

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/x The Trump administration is moving to reestablish a 19th-C maritime institution that has fallen into disuse: the prize court, a special-purpose tribunal for speedily determining the legality of the seizure and forfeiture of an enemy merchant vessel. maritime-executive.com/article/trum...

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Trump Administration Moves to Revive Prize Courts for Vessel Seizures

The Trump administration is moving to reestablish a 19th-century maritime institution that has fallen into disuse: the prize court, a special-purpose...

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On 23 March 2006 a cruise ship carrying 3,813 people caught fire in the Caribbean at three in the morning. The blaze climbed five decks in minutes. One passenger died. The investigation that followed rewrote fire safety rules for every cruise ship afloat. 1/35

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 25/08/2026

I am absolutely shocked that someone who published a blog post titled "How to start up your own Ponzi scheme in Nigeria" might be involved in online scams.... SHOCKED I TELL YOU www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

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The Scam Hunt

This is the story of a sophisticated fraud network that has deceived people around the world. And the hunt for the ones who make it possible.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In January 1977, a small freighter blew apart in the Indian Ocean and sank in 40 seconds. Six of the twelve people aboard died. The cargo was insured as a uranium ore processing plant. It was scrap from a closed coal mine. This is the Lucona affair. 1/35

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Inventing an iceberg lettuce, jalapenos, eggs and blueberries dish called Roulette Salad.

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 20/08/2026

🇩🇪 Allemagne: environ 14.000 personnes sont mortes cet été à cause des épisodes de canicule, battant le record de 2018, selon des estimations publiées jeudi par l'institut Robert Koch, l'autorité sanitaire allemande.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

De lezing van Elise Koo is uitverkocht, maar we staan ook buiten de OBA met eclipsbrillen en telescopen!

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