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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

Looks like 22 EU leaders need an urgent course on understanding and handling hybrid warfare. "United we stand, divided we fall." #StrongerTogether🇪🇺 @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu www.politico.eu/article/ceut...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Literally political theatre

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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Racist propaganda, attacks on the Spanish government, illegal suspensions of Schengen.. All in the name of no one getting into mainland Europe

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Delighted to see that the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History now has a webpage and a cover! There will be an ebook (which given the length of this I imagine will be many people's preferred reading approach), it just doesn't show on the page yet. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Purple cover to book The Routledge Companion to Video Games and History, edited by Kate Cook, Robert Houghton and Chris Kempshall. Below the title is a screenshot from an old Civilisation game showing Caesar in 3980BC and some possible player actions. The cursor hovers over "move".

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just putting it there: the last week has shown how Bluesky has grown into the most reliable, noise-, bot- and BS-free resource for anyone interested in football governance and politics. The coverage of Fifa's and Infantino's debacle has been fantastic. Size isn't everything.

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I suspect this isn’t wide known. If you have a 5-day heatwave where max temps stay constant at eg 40 C, on the first day you might have 1,000 excess deaths, on the 2nd - 1,500, 3rd - 2,000 etc. In other words, the impact of heat stress is cumulative.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 24/06/2026

3,400 people die on a single extremely hot day in India. 30,000 in 5 days. Most of the poor aren't even counted. The study calls that a conservative estimate. Mass death is here. My heart is breaking. www.euronews.com/2026/06/10/h...

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Extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths per day in India - study

Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I was thinking the other day that Osborne is the guilty man most responsible for where we are now. Farage would be long retired abroad by now without his stint as Chancellor.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

(Although I think one thing that it’s important to internalize if you’re Jewish is that this isn’t something special and unique to antisemitism, it’s that everybody sucks at confronting their own bigotry)

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One thing that sucks is that it turns out a lot of people’s theory of anti-bigotry rests on first never being accused of bigotry. Impact vs. intent, lived experience, all the stuff people professed to believe on the left. For so many it’s just straight out the window when they’re asked to live it.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We should stop talking of "Europe" and "Brussels" like its a monolith and see the concrete coalitions and networks of power. The EU is not an anthropomorphized entity but institutions filled with political actors

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My one worry is people using locals as protest votes. Which matters a lot more if we devolve proper powers.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The EPP dominates the institutions of the EU in a de facto coalition with ECR. It has every desire to see PP in power and PSOE removed. Who are the people attacking Sanchez most? M - EPP. FI - EPP. PO - EPP

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

48,300 of 50,000 people who entered Ceuta from Morocco have now gone back. It says migrants below. I bet a lot of them weren't.

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Among the silliest and worst persistent social media trends is the argument that being an asshole is praxis if you belong to the right identity group.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 31/07/2026

The Japanese government has signed an agreement to become an associated country of the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation program.

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Japan signs deal to join EU’s Horizon Europe framework

The move is aimed at encouraging Japanese companies, universities and research institutions to take part in international joint research projects.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There's this persistent idea online that becoming rich would make you post online less and all I have to ask is...why are you posting right now? Either you do it because you enjoy it or you don't enjoy it and can find a more productive or enjoyable use of your time at any income level

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 31/07/2026

To state the obvious: It's not "banter" if the person you're doing it at would not be participating if given the choice.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The crank doesn't actually do anything, but it makes the humans happy. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crank PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update. A man is looking down, saying "I worry intellectuals like me are useless now that machines are so good at everything." A yellow robot behind him says "no, no, don't feel bad. You can still contribute to new discoveries!" The robot then gestures to metal boxes with a crank sticking out of them, with the words "math," "physics," "CS" and "philosophy" written on each box. The robot asks "now, would you like to turn the mathematics crank of the physics crank today?" The man defiantly states "no! I reject all this! I shall be a pure aesthete, concerned only with my own beautiful creations!" Shortly after, the man is scene turning the crank on a box marked "poetry" in a beautiful font as he says to himself "so... Self-actualized..."

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Somewhat relatedly, climate optimists (to be generous), point to rising harvests as evidence that agriculture will continue to thrive in a changing climate. But here you have some of the worst harvests on record in eg the UK being masked by increased yields in poorer countries from greater… 12/

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yodelyak.bsky.social @yodelyak.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

An important reason for risk aversion in real life is, your counterparty studied you. If you correctly evaluate 99 out of 100 risky gambles, but are wrong about 1, it's that 1 gamble they will try to sell you. If someone offers you a big bet, it's good evidence you're going to lose it.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 29/07/2026

Six million Europeans have already voted on the design for the new Euro banknotes. Impressive numbers for the summer holidays: Al 6 miljoen Europeanen stemden over toekomstige eurobiljetten vrtnws.be/p.5wjNZ9pjJ (link to vote is at end of article, I can’t view it as I’ve already voted #teamCulture)

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Al 6 miljoen Europeanen stemden over toekomstige eurobiljetten | VRT NWS Nieuws

Al 6 miljoen Europeanen hebben gestemd over de ontwerpen van de nieuwe eurobiljetten. Dat meldt de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB).

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

ROSETTA (2) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iKZwbg

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COMET 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO

ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/j.Roger

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Romanian constitutional order is basically imploding after a decade of historic growth, historic low unemployment but a high inflation rate and social lunacies produced by COVID In 2008 the President was telling people better flee the country than ask for unemployment. Won 2 impeachment votes

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Frustrert uczeń @sfrustrowanyelev.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Man, Koreans are really living in the future.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Well that sucks. www.engadget.com/2225849/goog... Least bummer interpretation: AlphaFold served its purpose, DeepMind already spun off a drug lab, so it was time to reassign the time.

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Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini - Engadget

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

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Gavin Cooney @gcooney93.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Irish Times has seen the letter sent by Gianni Infantino to member associations on his plans to sell off the World Cup. Details here Fifa gives associations 53 days to sign up to controversial World Cup plans www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

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Fifa gives associations 53 days to sign up to controversial World Cup plans

Uefa has heavily criticised the proposal, saying it ‘crosses a line’

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Dan LK, WXXT Morning Show Host @2ndlevelbard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the idea that "I bought this book, therefore I get to do whatever I want with the contents" is why the copyright notice exists

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/07/2026

You see this in the right with the civil war posting, that starts from the assumption it's the poster and his mates gunning down their ideological enemies, and not your local criminal gang shooting you down for a tank of petrol.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Submitting AI hallucinations to court is always professional negligence, but the potential consequences here are far more serious than any case I have seen before. Time to start disbarring lawyers for cases as serious as this. And the first instance judge missing it is unimpressive too.

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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thing about FIFA readying to sell off the World Cup, while no less scandalous for this fact, is it's the inevitable path for a sport that has for too long whored itself out to the highest bidder, no matter the money's provenance. Many in charge have forgotten what 'sport' means

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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Tuhin Chakrabarty @tuhinchakr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What’s funny is that AI is causing mode collapse :) A lot of AI-written books have verbatim overlap from other AI books. Can this serve as an alternative evidence to AI-detection skeptics ? (9/n)

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This also exposes FIFA’s development role as purely a political pork barrel construct. There is no reason why every FA should be receiving exactly the same amount in development funds. A responsible governing body would be dispersing sums on a needs basis. But that would be a vote loser.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 28/07/2026

Amazing how after a decade plus of bemoaning how intellectually dishonest social media conversations tend to be, the vast majority of Daily Discourse is still just "so you're saying you hate waffles" over and over again

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This only makes sense for fifa member states if they think the future revenue of fifa events is lower than what the current sale of shares implies. Or you know if the people approving it planned on pocketing a bunch of the money and being gone by the time it proved out as a bad deal.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

On reflection, it’s probably naive to expect a provincial English city like e.g Leeds to have the same stuff as Porto, a city in a southern European country that never fully industrialised and lived under a stifling, authoritarian dictatorship for 40 years until 1974.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Update: Authorities in Kumamoto say there are a considerable number of fatalities in the Aeon shopping mall in Kashima Town which exploded and partially collapsed following a quake which registered the maximum level of 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. www.asahi.com/articles/ASV...

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爆発情報のイオンモール熊本、「20～30人が施設内にいる可能性」：朝日新聞

熊本県を震源とする最大震度7の地震が28日午後4時半ごろ、発生しました。有明海に津波注意報も発令されました。情報をこちらでお伝えします。

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Too few are taking the issue of the rise of the far-right in Scotland and Ireland seriously. Good to see more writers subjecting this to the scrutiny it demands

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you can be arrested for t-shirts and slogans that tenuously might show support for Palestine Action, surely Nazi salutes are arrestable as support for proscribed far right groups?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Jesus Christ.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The retreat from Hodeydah was more int and domestic politicking, tensions between KSA and UAE tensions, KSA moving away from confrontation...etc But since STC was rolled over things have changed internally + i frankly refuse to believe people will accept both straits to be closed/tolled by IRGC

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 28/07/2026

It's impossible to exonerate the internet, and social media in particular here. It allowed for the efficient networking and ratcheting-up of our worst impulses at unbelievable speed and scale. In-group/out-group dynamics are as old as the hills, but social media is a particle accelerator for them.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wrote about the stolen valor behind the racist backlash to Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

But of course neither Kelly nor Miller “built this country,” and they have as much to do with, say, the writing of The Odyssey or the painting of the Sistine Chapel as I do—the fact that Kelly and Miller are white does not make these accomplishments theirs. People who espouse these views do not value the classics for what they can teach us about the ancient world or our own, but as bleached marble monuments to their own superiority.

There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s ancestors (although Miller’s were actually poor persecuted Jews from Eastern Europe, not ancient Roman senators). Honoring and celebrating the past achievements of those ancestors, however, is different from taking credit for them. All Kelly and Miller did was win the lottery of being born in the richest country ever, one whose institutions and traditions they are busy helping destroy with as much zeal as the Greeks in Nolan’s film defiled the temple of Athena.

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

I don’t care how much you think your appeal is based on being authentic and not like other politicians, if you become a party leader, get a social media manager. And make an anonymous account if you’re that obsessed with posting personally

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm old enough to remember when Emily Wilson was the hero of arguments about The Odyssey. Then she ruined her reputation. Now she wander far and wide, trying to make her passage home.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She wasn't eligible for any state aid. Fine, you might say, she was relatively wealthy, why should anyone else pay? Well, if she had cancer, the NHS would have taken care of her. She had the misfortune to have a specific disease for which the punishment is to pay out all of your savings.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We're close to getting an apocalyptic oil shortage and nobody even bothers yelling of it. Nobody wants to be that guy, everyone hopes it will magically go away and we won't have to think on it much Meanwhile the Houthis are now bombing Saudi refineries and ports

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Vivienne @viviennesoton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think we should have democracy sausages like they have in Australia.

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