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Rod

@rodrothberg.bsky.social
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Reading old books, buying too much vinyl, and looking for nuance in a polarized world.

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Emil Ciubotaru
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why Europe’s liberals don’t criticize Isreal. An ideal target gets a free pass from the moralists.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Into the Light Matthew Eyles , 2022. British , b. 1967 Acrylic ink on Bockingford watercolour paper ,
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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Because working for Murdoch all those years, servicing the Epstein class and other assorted greasers, is really who we are as Australians. Makes ya' proud, dunnit? Australia for a seat on the Security Council - Albo the Authentic does what he is told. We are going to war with China, for sure.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Postcard from Provence Mitsi Butler
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kaoru Yamada
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Clematis" Watercolor by Ingrid Lefevre
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Afternoon is the old age of the day. Each day is a little life, and each sunset a little death." Arthur Schopenhauer Kaoru Yamada artwork
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredbile moment for you guys indeed. The "Philippines" a pro-west "democracy" on paper, yet millions of children live in dire porverty. And the current president is the son of the dictator the stole millions and eloped to the US.
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And apparently to you the millions of people stuck in private for profit prisons in the USA are not real? Very weird way of thinking. Almost fascist. @shuchancellor.bsky.social This is wild
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Meanwhile in Reality
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Vertical Light- San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Thomas W. Shchaller
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not completely China space-related, but i found this so cool: China puts scientists on its LED walls—Qian Xuesen, Tu Youyou, Yuan Longping. A space pioneer, a Nobel-winning malaria researcher, and the father of hybrid rice. A powerful reminder of who helped build modern China.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"The beauty of small things lies in their simplicity, and in the way they touch the heart without making a sound." Letters from a Fairy Juan Brufal artwork
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not even true
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Indian diaspora very concerned about India, but not India stealing land and bullying its other South Asian neighbors. Like flocks to a feather.
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Weird gizmodo.com/the-rise-of-...
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The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza
Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.
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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms.
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Unfuck itself? In what meaningful way? The problems are structural in both countries. The US has been consistently in war or open conflict. If you guys want to be more popular than China then you need to be upping that spending by a looooot. responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-w...
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House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it to us, but good 'information ops' when we want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/08/2026
It is SO blatantly obvious everything that’s happening is because both parties are owned almost entirely by AIPAC. They don’t actually believe in anything. They’re just in it for the money. They will fritter and fetterman away your whole country.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 28/08/2026
The proof (which all the tech bros are parroting right now) is that there were 200 accounts on twitter with low engagement and negligible reach that posted about how AI data centers are pushing up electricity prices for Americans. No evidence it's China is provided. Unrelated image attached
household electricity prices have increased rapidly since 2022.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 27/08/2026
The amount of "respectable liberals" i've seen on Blueksy who cite straight up right wing propaganda accounts that are lying in order to smear anyone critical of US foreign policy or Israel is insane. What's worse is you now have elected Democratic leadership engaging in the very same.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 18/08/2026
In nearly every middle-income country we surveyed, more people say the U.S. interferes in other countries’ affairs than China.
Chart showing people in 17 middle-income countries tend to say the U.S. interferes more and China is a more reliable partner
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/08/2026
This video exposes a really important point that my LATAM followers know all to well. Trump really does just tweet it out. What the Liberal think tankers, pundits and Democrats sold as a fight for human rights is nothing more than good old US imperialist domination of the region.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If we were to compare what China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and any number of countries we are taught to call enemy, have done globally, it would not compare to what the United States alone has done globally. Happy to be challenged on that. Yet those countries are supposed to be a threat.
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Robert @robdaley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Do not forget to edit the sky gray! bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
life's too short to wear beige #bloomscrolling #stunday #reclaimingorange #SundayOrange #photography #nature #flowers
Orange flowers with yellow tips nestled in a bed of green
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Robert @robdaley.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) still have the lowest life expectancy of any racial group, at just 70.1 years.That's eight years less" How can someone with so little knowledge be a professor? nativenewsonline.net/health/nativ...
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Robert @robdaley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Is that why the US needs to spend billion on anti China propaganda? responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-w...
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House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it to us, but good 'information ops' when we want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Hainan has set out a plan to ban the sale of new combustion cars by 2030, becoming the first Chinese province to do so." dialogue.earth/en/digest/so... via @dialogueearth.bsky.social 🔌💡
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South China province to ban new combustion car sales by 2030
Hainan has set out a plan to ban the sale of new combustion cars by 2030, becoming the first Chinese province to do so
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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Still at the garage. I'll be glad to see the back of this place. Talking of which … here's another #WeeBee for #WeekBForBehind in the #AlphabetChallenge. Also #ColorADay #BlueTue #EastCoastKin #Bees #PhotographersOfBlueSky #MacroPhotography #Bloomscrolling
A Western Honey Bee disappears around a blue/lilac coloured flower in a green border. Blurry tree to the left. The bee's glossy yellow and black striped abdomen glistens in the sun, its wings folded back. 
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.
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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 14/07/2026
After several attempts over a period of 6 years, patience finally paid off. For an all too brief moment, Argentinian Patagonia's vast, breathtaking Perito Moreno glacier is dressed in the most beautiful light! #photography #nature #bluesky #landscape #travel #landscapephotography #naturephotography
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
McCaig's Tower, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In rural Gansu, China, a fruit market lady loads a smart delivery vehicle, all electric, and sends it off using her phone. Something so normalized that she didn’t even bother to look how it’s leaving. This is how you do tech that helps everyone.
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In rural Gansu, China, a fruit market lady loads a smart delivery vehicle, all electric, and sends it off using her phone. Something so normalized that she didn’t even bother to look how it’s leaving. This is how you do tech that helps everyone.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We're challenging the U.S. government’s policy of allowing federal agents to kill native wildlife—including wolves, bears, mountain lions, and coyotes—within Wilderness areas using poisons, traps, and aerial gunning. wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-lawsui...
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New lawsuit challenges wildlife killing by federal agents inside Wilderness
USDA’s Wildlife Services authorizes federally-subsidized “predator control” across millions of acres of public lands nationwide
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We're challenging the U.S. government’s policy of allowing federal agents to kill native wildlife using poisons, traps, and aerial gunning inside the nation’s most protected public lands–congressionally designated Wilderness areas. wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-lawsui...
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New lawsuit challenges wildlife killing by federal agents inside Wilderness
USDA’s Wildlife Services authorizes federally-subsidized “predator control” across millions of acres of public lands nationwide
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hong Kong lawmaker Dominic Lee brilliantly exposes the hypocrisy and decay of the West: “What moral authority does the U.S., a country ruled by the Epstein class, have over my country which has lifted 800 million people out of poverty? What moral authority do NATO countries have who preach human
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wilderness Watch is opposing a proposed National Park Service rule that allows cruel and grossly unethical hunting practices on national preserves in Alaska, including on over eight million acres of Wilderness. Learn more and read our detailed comments. wildernesswatch.org/park-service...
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Park Service proposing cruel hunting practices on National Preserves in Alaska - Wilderness Watch
Wilderness Watch is opposing a proposed National Park Service (NPS) rule that allows cruel and grossly unethical hunting practices on national preserves in Alaska, including on over eight million acre...
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I for one am completely in favor of lab-grown foods if they reduce deforestation, labor abuse, and animal cruelty and have no negative health impacts
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Could lab-grown cocoa be the solution to the climate and supply chain woes plaguing chocolate?
Companies are ready to begin supplying chocolate makers with cell-based cocoa powder in early 2027
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17/06/2026
A paper in Nature Communications reports on squirrel droppings preserved in Canadian permafrost containing 700,000-year-old ancient DNA. The findings enable the reconstruction of ancient ecosystems and shed new light on the evolutionary history of certain species. go.nature.com/4vFchfz #evosky 🧬🧪
An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon, showing Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem. Ancient DNA from their preserved burrows and faeces reveals this complex food web—where even small rodents fed on megafauna like mammoths. 
Credit: Mercedes Minck/Hakai Institute
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 16/06/2026
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
China surely will be done this time! The US and EU golden age has dawned, as we know
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Es geht um E-Autos und neue Energie. Nicht Chauvinismus. Also warnen Sie ruhig weiter.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Meanwhile US has wasted billions to not even build one high speed rail. Embarassing proapganda really. Does anyone believe these "foreign affairs" rags? They live in completely detached reality.
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Rod @rodrothberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Of course, the others are at fault. EU is perfect. No corruption or anything at all. And totally sustainable with the masssive debts and retirees earning more than workers in countries like France. Sweet, sweet EU funding.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Sea otters North Pacific Ocean Smallest marine mammal adapted to ocean life can live entirely in the water, eating sleeping, giving birth while floating on their back. Fast swimmers, amazing diving skills among the best parents in the animal world.
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