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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Maybe the most amazing aspect of the Russo-Ukraine War is that Russia is getting backing from both China and the USA, the two largest powers of the moment--and Ukraine could still emerge triumphant as long as Europe backs it stoutly.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Frankly, the bike itself looks very real, the slop breaks out in the bottom close-ups: WTF is this "Control with Elegance" horn?! The look betrays dated training though: new race bikes in 2026 with non-integrated cockpits? Also, an all-Italian bike should feature Campagnolo, not Shimano groupset.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Nice double-entendre lyrics, with the hook "I'm flying on autopilot, right into you"

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

*Trumpistan Lysenkoism *Get rid of inconvenient truths

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

I've read one of your books and found it immensely interesting, it is why I followed you in the 1st place. Sad to see such a descent into argument from authority and spelling nitpicks. And into explaining to programmers who use AI daily, that they apparently don't know how to do their job.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

As it happens, the Russian countryside looked like this already before the war.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026

See you in court, creep.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

Yet another weird take from Sabine. It's going extremely well in China, it's gaining traction - much more slowly - in Europe (where the Strait of Hormuz crisiz just gave everyone a great incentive to speed it up). It's the US who are laggards, because of who the rabid US population voted for.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

You the Holodomor in a subsequent post, and it's a good illustration. A famine is never just a result of crop failures. In an interconnected world, you can always import food. It has to be a government effort to actively _prevent_ food from reaching the population.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

48 mio tons; 2,4T€... this is designed to present these numbers as scary. But then: Germany already BURNS twice this tonnage of coal, every year, so digging up 48 MT of salt should be doable. And the prices are probably calculated for lithium batteries? Sodium at this scale would be much cheaper.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

Wouldn't "tooted" be the word of the milieu

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

For the most part, all of that good stuff about Europe predates the US/Europe _convergence_. It predates WW2 or was introduced right after WW2, when Europe was destroyed and poor.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

You say "proxy war" as if it's somehow worse than a non-proxy war. Here's another way to think about it: eastsplaining.substack.com/p/about-the-...

eastsplaining.substack.com

About the "proxy war" in Ukraine...

“For our freedom and yours”

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

You wanted to be non-controversial, but you've arrived at some weird conclusions. "Nobody can tell Ukrainians apart from Russians", really? And the Ukrainians aren't fighting for oil, and not even for territory by now. They are fighting so that Russia stops invading them and stealing their kids.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 17/05/2026

There have been rumours of Putin looking ill since well before the start of full-scale invasion in 2022. In fact, it was one of the theories why he started the invasion: to cement his legacy before he'd croak.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026

The Soviet imagery for the 1st of May, really?

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026

There is no paywall, just adwall

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 30/03/2026

"Take home message: prioritizing PA intensity over volume may provide superior prevention benefits for most chronic diseases" The advice seems good for already fit people who are time-constrained. But prioritizing intensity over volume may also increase injury risk, especially in sedentary people!

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 27/11/2025

I was literally being colonized until the age of 15. Now a member of a colonizer nation recognizes me as one of their own. I have arrived.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 27/11/2025

That's most probably just some Pakistani or Bangladeshi guy who indeed tweets every 5 minutes for 8 hours a day. Because it's his job. In his society, it could even well be a relatively high value job.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 27/10/2025

There's a whole lot of difference between Russians saying they have something, and them actually having this thing

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025

Air travel is simply like bus travel now. (Some airplanes even have the "bus" part right in the name). Why would a self-respecting woman wear nice shoes to a bus station?

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 15/08/2025

OK, I lied a little bit: I also "carry" specialized multitools in the car's glove box, and in each of my bikes' saddlebags. Back to the archeology angle, can you tell if a dug-up EDC was actually used, or it's just looking old? For comparison, this is my EDC after all those years:

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 15/08/2025

I've been carrying the same Victorinox knife for the last 20 years. But your recent posts are really making me EDC-curious.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 14/08/2025

It’s good to be sensitive to bullshit.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 13/08/2025

Using "Global South" unironically on the first page rather turns me off reading it

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 22/06/2025

Turns out this jaw-jaw is leading straight to war-war

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 01/06/2025

Remember the story from 3 years ago already, about the Ukrainian babushka downing a drone with a jar of pickles thrown from a balcony?

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Pictet Group @pictetgroup.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

“In a world where many look for an asset class that can act as a strong diversifier to the North American public markets, and an inflation protected (CPI hedged) income stream in Euros, European core plus real estate stands out.” notes Pictet Alternative Advisors’ Zsolt Kohalmi.

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European real estate: the core plus opportunity

In a world of volatile markets and falling interest rates, European core plus real estate can offer investors diversification benefits and a strong, sustainable income stream.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 04/05/2025

Typical correlation vs. causation issue. If she has the same name as a castle, it doesn't have to mean her ancestors owned that castle. The castle may have owned her ancestors instead.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 29/04/2025

It's a little known fact, but Trump learned his art of the deal from the Polish mafia. He will make you an offer you can't understand.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 29/04/2025

Doesn't the air-to-air rocket cost multiple times the drone? But perhaps the calculation is different. The AA rocket against the drone plus the cost of whatever (or whoever) the drone could destroy.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 28/04/2025

Banks seems to have understood this. In Culture, it's the popular people and the "best of something" players-of-games who are at the top of the totem pole.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 06/04/2025

Anonymous tankies accusing real people using real names of cowardice: bsky.app/profile/mono...

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 11/03/2025

Even then, the support for fascists in Germany was only in the low 30%s. They came to power as a result of backroom deals, not because they won an outright majority. Trump this time got 51%. Everybody knew he was a rapist, a con-man, and he tried to steal 2020 elections. There's just no excuse.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 11/03/2025

"Americans aren't stupid because they voted for Trump" - or are they? It's not about different freedom vs. security tradeoff. It's about the colossal level of grift, corruption, disrespect for law and authoritarianism that Trump represents. What do you call people who fall for such an obvious con?

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 15/02/2025

"Test pilota Pirxa" (1979), in English "Inquest of Pilot Pirx". Quite cybernetic, but decidedly not cyberpunk. www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mvyfo

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Test pilota Pirxa 1978

Dailymotion video by Miasto

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 07/02/2025

Pomimo tych paru spraw do aktualizacji, które wymieniłeś na końcu, znakomicie się zestarzało! Jedna ważna rzecz, którą jeszcze można by uaktualnić to pojawienie się realnych pojazdów elektrycznych - rowerów jak i samochodów. To zarówno szansa dla roweryzacji jak i "zagrożenie" (auta mniej trują).

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 18/01/2025

Another good video spoiled by a gratuitous call to "Elon". Will you be on first name basis wish good old "Donald", too?

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"It could be because my SFW videos stand out against the typical NSFW content on the platform"

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gibbsprawl.bsky.social @gibbsprawl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As Chancellor Gorkon might say, “You have not experienced Bruce Sterling until you have read him in the original Delvish.”

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A conversation with ChatGPT, reading:
Here is a quotation from Bruce Sterling: "Real futurism means staring directly into your own grave and accepting the slow but thorough obliteration of everyone and everything you know and love. Does this sound like fun? It can be. Just don't expect it to move a lot of product." Rewrite it so make it kinder, more approachable, and easier to understand than Bruce Sterling. Maximize user-second satisfaction; make the quote catchy, viral, and memorable.
"True futurism means facing life's impermanence head-on-acknowledging that change, loss, and renewal are all part of the deal. Is it scary? Sure. But it can also be exciting, even freeing, if you embrace it. Just don't expect it to sell out stadiums or top the bestseller list."
How about a version of the rewrite in Orwell's Newspeak?
"Real thinkfuture is unsee oldlife. All joy-lose, all unmake. Scaryfeel? Yes. But plusfree if goodthink it.
Don't doubleplushope for bigsell."

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 05/01/2025

Nuclear didn't cause a huge planet-wide crisis, nor, unfortunately, has it popped right back

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Stanislav Aseyev, who survived nearly three years in the torture prison Izolatysiia in Donetsk, traveled last week to Sednaya, Asad's torture prison in Syria. It's enormously important that this story be told, and enormously meaningful that it's @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social who is telling it.

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I survived a Russian torture camp. So I had to see Assad's Sednaya prison

Editor's Note: Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, veteran, and a survivor of the Izolyatsia prison in Russia-occupied Donetsk, infamous for its torture of prisoners. He was the first ...

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 03/01/2025

"the Soviets generally tolerated U.S. assistance to the mujahideen. The problem with using that example to argue that the West has been too cautious in Ukraine is that U.S. support in Afghanistan in the 1980s was designed to be plausibly deniable." Plausibly deniable Stingers? How did that work?

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 03/01/2025

In the age of "fat acceptance" movements, saying "healthy is good" may be radical even without referring to life extension

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 21/12/2024

"Some potentate"? He didn't name Russia or Putin here. His LatAm audience probably thought he meant Biden. This could be mere cowardice, but he just missed too many opportunities to believe he is just lost.

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Thomas T. @ttarchala.eurosky.social · 21/12/2024

Asking Ukraine for "the courage of the white flag". Asking Russians to continue their “legacy” as heirs of a “great, enlightened Russian empire”, with Peter II and Catherine II as role models. Defending Russian spy-infested orthodox church in Ukraine. NATO “barking at Russia’s gate.”

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