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Roland Karthaus

@rolandk.eurosky.social
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Bicycle rider, plant eater, open water swimmer, homebrewer Recovering Architect Consultant @ Inner Circle Plastic Dutchman

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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Preventative care housing has to be part of the social and health care crisis in the UK. This is one piece of evidence - there are others globally and at home but our fragmented system is currently the biggest obstacle!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The end of an era. Marina Hyde and John Crace have been the bright lights in the last sixteen years of utter chaos. It won’t be the same without her. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs | Marina Hyde
Yes, after 25 years I’m signing off, and I’ve cherished every moment – especially storming the French embassy with a (toy) AK-47, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Very good
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 24/09/2026
A tumbleweed is rolling through my online shop today. I create colourful prints, cards, homewares and T-shirts inspired by architecture, music and mid-century design. Please have a look at my shop and repost to help spread the word. Thanks! gailmyerscough.co.uk
A pile of colourful prints featuring illustrations inspired by music, mid-century design and architecture.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026
I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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How a village in Uttar Pradesh revived India’s lost art of public debate
As political discourse in the country is increasingly suppressed and polarised, in a village tent, a local magistrate’s attempt to bring back a national tradition attracted thousands of participants
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm taking part in debates, and chairing, tomorrow at the London incarnation of How The Light Gets In. howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/lo...
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Events » HowTheLightGetsIn london
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Currently enjoying Carlo Rovelli's book of short anecdotes and reflections. He makes a good case that whilst inequality, racism, nationalism and war have plagued us for thousands of years, in the longer view they're relatively new features of human society. 1/2
Book cover in yellow with text: Carlo Rovelli / There are places in the world where rules are more important than kindness
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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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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: London has among the lowest violent crime rates in England & Wales, tops a ranking of best cities, and pays more in tax than it gets back – but the public overestimate crime risk, underestimate its standing, and don't know it's a net fiscal contributor. Our latest Mistaken Britain study ⬇️
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London misperceptions: public often wrong on capital's crime, quality of life, contribution to public finances and Muslim population | King's College London
A third believe there are "no-go" areas ruled by Sharia law
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Pub opposite the @britishmuseum.bsky.social making the word Beer do some heavy lifting
Picture of a pub with sign 'Beer Tapestry'
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026
It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
The Lloyds building still seems as mad and beautiful as ever. Crazy way to design a building and all the better for it. 40 years on, what innovative (not just funny shaped) buildings have we had since?
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Absolutely this. We're in this mess due to decades of kicking the can down the road, now we've run out of road. Time to ask what prison is for, then design the system that will deliver on that purpose.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“When Silicon Valley says it is ‘moving fast and breaking things,’ the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. @gilduran.com reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.” Seems like a REALLY important book.
Cover of the new best-selling book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” By Gil Duran.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
>2500 signatures on this petition in less than 24 hours Even if you don't want to sign, the letter provides excellent context about the problem of scientific racism. Thanks to Pieter, @gillianmathys.bsky.social and their colleagues for all their efforts to protect the integrity of our profession
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
Absolutely stunning cycling & camping whisky tour of the Inner Hebrides with my eldest child and my brewing buddy to celebrate my half century. Think we caught the best four consecutive days of weather in Scotland for a long while! Bowmore tour and Arran distillery visit.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New postdoc role in democratic innovations/participatory policymaking, working with Stephen Elstub at Newcastle University on the national conversation on social care: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Research Assistant/ Associate
Research Assistant/ Associate
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026
Second this. Amazing show.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Well, well, well… www.newscientist.com/article/2585...
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Suggesting that ADHD is a myth is pseudoscientific and dangerous | New Scientist
ADHD is a real condition that can have serious consequences if undiagnosed. An ill-informed documentary that suggests it is a modern, social construct could cause harm, says Caroline Williams
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
Normal technologies are *fine*. But normal technologies do not warrant the massive economic and political commitments that have been bestowed upon AI: a trillion dollars in the past year alone, and the world's civil servants fired en masse and replaced with AI: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v... 9/
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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
What could possibly go wrong?
Fish and chips, bun, ketchup, mushy peas, pebbly beach, feet, the sea
Beady-eyed fish and chip thief (seagull) on a post. Pier in the background.
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Bike packing trip along the Pilgrims Way to Canterbury and chanced across this fab cyclists cafe in Wye
A bike loaded with gear against a signpost Outdoor space and building with sign "The Hub"
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Bike packing trip along the Pilgrims Way to Canterbury and chanced across this fab cyclists cafe in Wye
A bike loaded with gear against a signpost Outdoor space and building with sign "The Hub"
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Lorenzo Belenguer (they/he) @lorenzobelenguer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tao of Glass review: A journey into the spiritual through paper puppets, Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott medium.com/escapadasuk/...
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Tao of Glass review: A journey into the spiritual through paper puppets, Philip Glass and Phelim
Sometimes it appears through a scrap of paper, a repeated piano phrase, an old memory or a moment that almost goes wrong.
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
Went to see Tao of Glass at the new Soho Place theater in London and it's one of the best shows I've seen. Ever.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026
As the pioneering cybernetician Stafford Beer famously wrote, "the purpose of a system is what it does." If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all - it's a service *denial* system. 32/
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
If you happen to be in Durham on a Sunday, I can highly recommend a visit to @redhillsdurham.bsky.social Shame it's only open to the public for limited hours, but worth the effort: beautifully restored and fascinating building of socially historical significance.
Front view of a grand building from early 20th centuryDecorative hanging of the Durham Miners Association with two men in foreground shaking hands
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
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Allison Pugh @allisonpugh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A terrific play by play of today's session on #TheLastHumanJob. What a wonderful, inspiring, humane ritual that these author meets critics sessions are. I'm floored and honored by the comments
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...
A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is an absolutely extraordinary stat: more people were recalled to prison than released Jan-March 2026. 3/4 were for breaches of licence conditions, not for committing further offences. Probation has just become incapable of managing offenders in the community & supporting rehabilitation.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The last prison minister escaped over the wall just hours before the latest scandal to engulf our collapsing criminal justice system. But there have been 13 of them in 10 years. Can Burnham be level with us about the size of the crisis he has to solve ? app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74224/...
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We’re addicted to locking people up—but it doesn’t make any of us safer
Does Andy Burnham have the attention span, the will and the courage to tackle a collapsing justice system?
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
Pushing 40 degrees outside in Bangkok but I have a Som Cheng tea, so all good
Photo of a brown and yellow drink in a glass with a piece of fruit on a stick
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026
Kandalama hotel, Deshamanya Geoffrey Manning Bawa, FRIBA, Sri Lanka Clever use of black paint by Bawa to work with and against the planes and columns / foreground and background #architecture
Pen and watercolour drawing inside a building
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... One of the simplest and most impactful things you can do for the planet is to stop eating meat
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Global boom in livestock farming since 2006 is piling pressure on nature, report finds
Wildlife at risk as demand for cropland and water grows to feed 50% rise in farmed animals, campaign alliance says
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026
London with Blimp
London taxi, red bus, buildings and a blimp above
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026
A swim and sauna in Canary Wharf yesterday. Fab!
Lido with towers in background
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
Home made Hazy IPA with Riwaka and Citra hops #homebrew #beer
Glass of hazy pale ale on black surface against pink tiles
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026
Beautiful campsite near Andover with wild flowers, butterflies, bees and swallows everywhere.
Butterfly on a flowerCampfire with people, one blowing in a marshmallow Sunset across field of flowersField of flowers with people in the distance, car and tarp
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026
It was indeed a very eclectic, interesting and enjoyable evening! @hetanshah.bsky.social
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Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026
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