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Florian Jacobs

@wordsecho.bsky.social
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Schrijver (Blijven is nergens. Het Europa van Rilke), dichter (Zwaan en zang), vertaler (Vrouwen die oorlog zien), filosoof en uitgever (@isvw.bsky.social). Slava Oekraini!

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Jelle Baartmans @jelle.fyi · 03/10/2026
Verkiezingsdag in Letland! 🗳️ In de zaterdagnieuwsbrief van @platformraam.nl een beknopte vooruitblik: platformraam.substack.com/p/oostpoliti...
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Oostpolitiek #28 - Letland naar de stembus, pensioenen in Rusland onder druk
Aan de oostgrens van de EU en NAVO gaan de Letten vandaag naar de stembus, en in Rusland lijkt verdere verhoging van de pensioenleeftijd onvermijdelijk.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kyiv. Such a beautiful moon. The National Academy of Sciences, a medical centre, residential and office buildings, a petrol station, a café, a warehouse and critical infrastructure were among the places hit or damaged by russian drones today. Autumn. There are casualties.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 28/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: A Russian strike hit the Dobrobut medical center in central Kyiv. Video shows first responders saving people from the burning hospital as rescue operations continue.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At least 1 person died in Kyiv, at least 7 oth were injured. Russia is terrorizing Ukraine with daily strikes on civilians! We need air defense.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the past 3d, russian drones have been bombing Kyiv nonstop. russia is particularly targeting education infrastructure. This horrifying photo shows people escaping a massive fire through a window in the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. russians also bombed 2 schools and 2 kindergartens.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💔🇺🇦 Kyiv…
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The injury count in Kyiv has reached 19, of whom 3 are children. Six injured are hospitalised. Two people have been killed in today's Russian attacks. The latest strike here, hit Dobrobut' a private medical facility.
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Mark Duursma @markduursma.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Kyiv vandaag, Russische agressie in één beeld. Zeer geschikt om mee te dragen bij volgende demonstratie 'Stop de oorlogskoorts' Foto: Radio Liberty
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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Russians bombed a medical center in Kyiv after striking the Academy of Sciences.
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Chris Colijn @chriscolijn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dit moet wel ongeveer een recordlengte zijn in Kyiv, als we zo doorgaan zitten we op 16 uur luchtalarm op een dag. Constant kleine aantallen straalmotor drones. Gekmakend.
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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So, in Russian-occupied Oleshky, people are boiling soup from grass and eating dogs; there are reports of people starving to death. Russia is completely blocking people from leaving the city and preventing humanitarian aid from getting in. Today it became known that Ukrainian drones...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/09/2026
This could be triggering. Careful. If you able to, read this.
Roman Sheremeta EE ® @rshere.... 1d X She was lying there, raped, her neck broken, with a noose around her neck. Beside her hung her 3-year-old son.
When they took him down from the rope, he was blue and no longer breathing.
But then a miracle happened. And what this child said a year later will break your heart.
June 20, 2022. Kherson region, an occupied village. At two in the morning, the wife of a Ukrainian serviceman managed to message her husband that someone was breaking down the door to their home.
His sister arrived an hour later. The gate was locked, so she climbed over the fence.
The door had been ripped from its frame, and a window was smashed. Nothing had been stolen.
They had not come to rob them. They had come to kill.
In the room, her sister-in-law was lying on the couch, undressed and brutally beaten. Her head was twisted unnaturally, her neck was broken, and there was a noose around her neck. She was
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Beside her hung her three-year-old son. He had also been beaten, with about a dozen cigarette burns on his face. The rope was pulled so tightly around his neck that the woman tore her fingernails bloody trying to untie it.The child was blue. His head was swollen from edema. He was no longer breathing.
The woman screamed at him: "Breathe! Live!
Because I won't be able to live with this — I'll lie down beside you and die too."
She performed CPR on him. She was afraid she would break his ribs — she didn't. And he began to breathe.
He had watched his mother being killed. And she had watched her child being tortured. The window had been broken — people nearby had heard what was happening, but no one admitted
Then came three weeks in occupied Kherson.
The woman waited for the burns and the rope mark around the child's neck to heal.
What had not healed, she covered with makeup so they would not be recognized and killed immediately.
At the hospital, they warned her: "If they try to detain you, run. Half the hospital is occupied by FSB officers."
To get the boy out, the woman forged documents directly on her phone using Photoshop. She was taking him out as if he were her own son. Thirty checkpoints lay ahead.
At one of them, a rifle was pressed against her temple. One Russian said, "Get rid of these Another replied, "No, I've had enough fort + The first said, "I'm fine with it."He was wearing a wedding ring. Perhaps a wife and children were waiting for him at home. And he was perfectly fine with killing a woman and a child sitting in a car.
Three days on the road. The woman pressed the pedals with one leg because the other had become paralyzed.
At a filtration checkpoint, a young officer asked whether anyone in the car had survived torture.
She said: "Yes."
Is anyone injured? — Yes.
Has anyone been tortured? — Yes.
When she pointed to the three-year-old child, the officer began to cry. He could not continue the conversation.
In Odesa, doctors diagnosed the boy with clinical death, asphyxia, cerebral edema, a damaged wrist joint, a jaw injury, and eight broken teeth.
He stopped speaking — his muscles had atrophied. His speech development was set back by a year.
They now live in Odesa. The boy speaks again, goes swimming, attends kindergarten, and works with a speech therapist.They now live in Odesa. The boy speaks again, goes swimming, attends kindergarten, and works with a speech therapist.
He knows that his mother is gone. A year after the tragedy, he went outside one evening, pointed his little finger toward the sky, and said:
"Moon, sky, Mommy."
The boy's father is a serviceman. When they arrived in Odesa, he met them deeply devastated. | He was able to stay with them for two weeks — as long as his command allowed.
"He could have left the military and become his son's guardian. But he didn't. Because he is a patriot. Because he continues to fight," she said.
And after the liberation of the left bank of the Kherson region, there will be many more.
Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.
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Thomas Heij @thomasheij.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Als je deze berichtjes over feminist Virginia Woolf nog kan lezen, bestel dan maar snel het boek: www.thomasheij.nl/virginia-woo... @isvw.bsky.social
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Virginia Woolf – Woorden willen losjes leven - Thomas Heij
Woolf reflecteert in ‘Woorden willen losjes leven’ op de vragen: Hoe verhoudt de schrijver zich tot politiek, maatschappij en het leven?
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Lukas Hermsmeier @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
dass eine progressiv-linke partei im jahr 2026 massenhaft nichtwählende mobilisiert, ist ein enormer erfolg
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Fred Omvlee @fredomvlee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wat een avond: Waterland voor Oekraine in Grote Kerk Monnickendam: volle bak, meer dan 200 mensen, 5 Oekraiense militairen, Joris Luyendijk, Hubert Smeets, Marcia Luyten analyseerden. Indringende verhalen. Geef ook voor een 3e konvooi vanuit Waterland, via www.protectukraine.nl ovv Waterland
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How culture adapts to the war. A large book festival in Kyiv was postponed until spring due to safety concerns. Instead, the organizers will hold more than 40 events in seven Kyiv bookstores, with shelters nearby. It is about safety and support for bookstores and publishers.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 12/09/2026
Nazar's life began with a tragedy — a russian drone struck his family’s apartment in Kyiv. His mother Tetiana was 8 months pregnant and suffered burns over 90% of her body. Nazar survived a brain hemorrhage and several surgeries. Tetiana died in hospital after 2 weeks. Today, Nazar turns one🧵
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Tzum @tzumliterairweblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Recensie: Florian Jacobs – Blijven is nergens. Het Europa van Rilke - Tzum
Elke aankomst is de belofte van een vertrek De vele reizen van Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) hingen nauw samen met de ontwikkeling van zijn poëzie.
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Florian Jacobs @wordsecho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.tzum.info/2026/09/rece... Altijd gezellig, een bespreking op @tzumliterairweblog.bsky.social.
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Recensie: Florian Jacobs – Blijven is nergens. Het Europa van Rilke - Tzum
Elke aankomst is de belofte van een vertrek De vele reizen van Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) hingen nauw samen met de ontwikkeling van zijn poëzie.
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@Marcel @elsschot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Het is een gevaarlijk moment in de tijd als de besten hun moed verliezen en de slechtsten hun schaamte." Hannah Arendt Met vertraging -waarvoor excuus- alsnog deze sterke column van Tommy Wieringa in de @volkskrant.nl. Over opkomend #fascisme. Een column om in te lijsten en hier te verspreiden.
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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sehr wichtiger Thread. Dass die AfD-Wahl an der Ökonomie, der Armut, den Preisen liegt, ist in etwa so richtig wie die, dass es an einem "Ausländerproblem" liegt.
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Florian Jacobs @wordsecho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Andermaal een imposant stukkie van @thomasheij.bsky.social: www.thomasheij.nl/tekst/hoe-ve....
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Hoe versla je een oorlog? - Thomas Heij
Kun je een oorlog in een tekst net zo aangrijpend weergeven als in een filmdocumentaire? En in hoeverre doet schrijfstijl er dan toe?
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ukrainian children really have their priorities straight.
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Toon van der Ven @toonven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Zojuist ruimhartig gedoneerd voor 't ondergondse ziekenhuis. Errug blij dat wij alleen maar geld hoeven te geven terwijl helden als Wieringa heel wat meer investeren. Слава Україні!
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Marking the naming of www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/shklar-...
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Judith Nisse Shklar (BA '49 MA '50) reading room
“I am a bookworm.” Judith Shklar, “A Life of Learning” The Shklar Room The Shklar Room, located in Ferrier 428B at the center of RGCS' academic space, houses a collection of nearly 1000 volumes in pol...
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today and always, my heart is filled with gratitude to those who defend Ukraine and with eternal remembrance of those who gave their lives for our freedom. Happy Independence Day, my dear Ukraine. We know thanks to whom we stand firm and free. We remember the price.
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AnnemarieGehrels @annemariegehrels.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Goede column van @marcialuyten.bsky.social: vrouwe Justitia zonder blinddoek is doodeng. Zeker als de media er nog eens een schepje bovenop doen door de @xrnl.bsky.social protesten op één lijn te zetten met die van boeren.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 16/08/2026
A book market in Kyiv caught fire following a russian missile strike. Footage shows flames and thick smoke rising from the site. The number of people injured in the russian attack on Kyiv has risen to 3. Help protect the skies over Ukraine: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
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Militant Nerd @militantnerd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is the place of my teenage years, where I bought books, games and MtG cards. Bastard russians are destroying everything dear to us.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sie verstehen es immer noch nicht. 🤯
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Florian Jacobs @wordsecho.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Unsurprisingly shocking. 'We investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories – what we found was more shocking than we could have imagined.' theconversation.com/we-investiga...
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We investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories – what we found was more shocking than we could have imagined
International law forbids the indoctination and militarisation of children in occupied territories.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Around eight million books were destroyed in Kharkiv yesterday. Many Ukrainians are responding by buying books from the affected publishers and from KnyhoLand, the bookstore chain that also used the warehouse. I bought these today.
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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My Sunday essay on #Ukraine's long-range drone strikes against Russia. “We are making history here. This is where democracy beats totalitarianism," Lt Col Ray said, as a drone vanished over the horizon, engine thrumming. It left black smoke & a whiff of gunpowder www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘This is where democracy beats totalitarianism’: Ukraine’s drone strike force takes the fight to Russia
Exclusive: at a launch site in the Ukrainian countryside, members of the elite ‘Magyar’s Birds’ brigade are turning Russia’s vast size into a weakness
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is what I think of when people complain that climate activists are 'disruptive'
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 01/08/2026
⚡️ J.K. Rowling sent a signed book and personal letter to a Ukrainian marine who survived four years in Russian captivity by retelling Harry Potter from memory. 🧵 1/6 ⬇️
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Capitalism: the OG enshittification tool.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 31/07/2026
Tallinn, Estonia. Situation today.
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Tarjei J. Svensen @tarjeijs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"All that remains of the historic building where generations of talented children were raised are charred walls." My story on the Russian attack that destroyed a chess club in Kherson. www.chess.com/news/view/ru...
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Russian Attack Destroys Historic Kherson Chess School And Its 5,000-Book Library
A Russian artillery attack destroyed the 121-year-old building that housed Kherson’s Children’s and Youth Sports School for Chess and Checkers, consuming what the regional chess federation says housed...
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bogdanovkherson.bsky.social @bogdanovkherson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.chess.com/news/view/ru...
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Russian Attack Destroys Historic Kherson Chess School And Its 5,000-Book Library
A Russian artillery attack destroyed the 121-year-old building that housed Kherson’s Children’s and Youth Sports School for Chess and Checkers, consuming what the regional chess federation says housed...
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Chess24 @chess24com.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A Russian artillery attack destroyed the 121-year-old building that housed Kherson’s Children’s and Youth Sports School for Chess and Checkers, consuming what the regional chess federation says housed a library of more than 5,000 chess books. www.chess.com/news/view/ru...
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Russian Attack Destroys Historic Kherson Chess School And Its 5,000-Book Library
A Russian artillery attack destroyed the 121-year-old building that housed Kherson’s Children’s and Youth Sports School for Chess and Checkers, consuming what the regional chess federation says housed...
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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Shooting down Russian missiles is not the same as beating up Ukrainian women on Poland’s streets: this takes balls. Tusk’s words that “we were prepared to shoot it down if had continued its flight” are the same as the police not stopping a rape because “it wasn’t deep enough.”
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Missile that left crater deep inside Poland was probably Russian - Polish PM Tusk
The missile left a 10m-wide (33ft) crater a short distance from the village of Tarnawa Kolonia, about 100km from the border with Ukraine.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And somehow, we are still being asked why we do not “end the war.” Our people are being murdered in their homes. Then we are told: “Stop the war.” The cynicism is unbearable.
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
No, this isn’t the surface of Mars or the Moon. This crater was left by a Russian cruise missile that flew approximately 100 km into Poland during last night’s mass attack on Ukraine. It struck near the villages of Tarnawa-Kolonia and Tokary in Poland’s Lublin Voivodeship. 🇺🇦🇵🇱
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thread 🧵👇
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Gerrit Hiemstra🐇 @gerrithiemstra.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Shell boekt torenhoge winst en richt tegelijkertijd onze leefomgeving te gronde!
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Damn. 🌵 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Golf course, only the greens are green. Cricket field, light brownGreenwich park, light brown Cliffs in Dorset. Golf course on top. Only greens are green.
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