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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 8h

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 11h

"When it comes to cyberspace, Poland is practically at war with Russia. This is no longer just a threat, but constant aggression," Cenckiewicz emphasized.

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 12h

Small but real, protests begin in Russia.

youtu.be/xlSYdmwsL1I

Unrest in Russia As Ukraine Strikes Putin's Collapsing Economy

YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 15h

There needs to be an A: massive audit of Canadian defence procurement practices that B: ends with people going to jail.

Millions to billions of dollars regularly vanish into the ether with no work whatsoever being accomplished, and this has been going on for decades.

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 21h

Canada's plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine appears to be on the scrap heap. DND, federal agency refuse to comment on state of the program, @Murray_Brewster reports www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

Canada's plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine appears to be on the scrap heap | CBC News

Ukraine was supposed to receive more than two dozen rebuilt light armoured vehicles from Canada in a deal brokered through a federal agency. However, the plan has been dropped from the Canadian Commer...

www.cbc.ca

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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 12h

Reported & blocked. Had to search “ Ukraine” to see it, at first look it seemed ok.

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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 13h

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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, I love this guy. He’s relentless in haranguing ICE/ DHS goons.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 17h

Size comparison of the russian shahed and a ukrainian interceptor drone

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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 1d

No one respects Russia, that goes without saying now, but what happens to it, & Putin, when no one fears it?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Russia’s leader isn’t nearly as strong as he’s made out to be, Andrew Ryvkin writes. “A realistic view of his power would strip Putin of his biggest leverage: the perception of his invincibility," which is routinely voiced by JD Vance and a slew of other friends-of-Putin in the MAGA GOP.

Putin Is Not Winning

Underestimating the Russian leader is dangerous, but ascribing dark powers to him plays right into his hands.

www.theatlantic.com

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 18h

🇸🇪OSCE in Europe appointed Swedish MP as Special Envoy to stop Russia's abduction and forced Russification of Ukrainian children.

Carina Ödebrink has been deeply involved in documenting these cases through her work with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.⤵️

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 16h

For decades, Russia built its influence in Central Asia one pipeline at a time.
Now, the same network is unraveling.

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are finding new exits—west to Turkey, east to China, south through Iran.

The map of power is being redrawn...

The end of Russia’s energy empire in Central Asia: pipelines, politics, and payback

Russia’s Central Asian energy empire is collapsing—and investors still betting on Moscow are making a costly mistake.

euromaidanpress.com

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The Typist @thetypist.bsky.social · 14h

Housing, like food, should never be treated like a speculative commodity We need a European wide intervention to make this stop.

EU to propose short-term rental rules to tackle ‘social crisis’ in housing

Bloc’s first affordable housing plan to cover issues such as tenants’ rights, property speculation and tourist lets

www.theguardian.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17h

I'd like to share a brilliant example of the asymmetrical warfare that has achieved astonishing results for Ukraine: about $12 billion destroyed Russian equipment.

Pavlo "Lasar" Yelizarov used to be a TV-show producer before the full-scale invasion. In February 2022, he started defending Ukraine.

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madrykot316.bsky.social @madrykot316.bsky.social · 19h

The latest Hungarian election poll shows TISZA with a constitutional majority: 😁
TISZA - 132 seats
FIDESZ - 60 seats
MHM - 7 seats

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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 19h

You misunderstand, the good news is this initiative for the north. Despite the very bad news about auto, there are smaller stories that are positive.

bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 19h

Always follow along with Tim’s daily 🧵 for verified, reliable information as it happens.

Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 1d

Day 1330 of Russia's war. Remember Putin's aims were to take Kyiv, install a puppet "president", take all Ukraine's ports, energy fields, and leave a rump 'state' next to Poland.

How well and bravely Ukraine has fought. We MUST see this through to a just peace.
Here's today's🧵

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PuckFutin @puckfutin.fellas.army · 20h

Sikorski also supported the transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

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PuckFutin @puckfutin.fellas.army · 20h

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski arrived in London with a Shahed drone to demonstrate how the russian Federation terrorizes Ukraine.

He noted that a single "Shahed" won't reach London, but a "fleet of scrap metal" can destroy Europe's infrastructure.

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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 19h

Russia must be desperate to get their Med port back, if they have the dosh to invest. A way of lighting a fire under western countries to get more support for Syria. Turkey plays both sides, so why not Syria?

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20h

The UK and Canada will join the EU in a plan to use part of the nearly $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets held by G7 nations to boost financial support for Ukraine. The mechanism would allow issuing loans without formally seizing the assets, securing long-term financing for Ukraine.

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ConteZero @contezero.bsky.social · 21h

This is a quick way to see the whole thing:

www.youtube.com/shorts/hmeG7...

Putin and Xi's Bromance WILL End – Sarah Paine

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

www.youtube.com

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bluenote1866.bsky.social @bluenote1866.bsky.social · 20h

Who will help Russia as it slides into a turbo charged version of 1990s? When it loses the war? No one. The danger to Russia is not NATO, or Ukraine & other countries that only want to live in peace, the danger to Russia is its current friend/enemy: China.

Excellent short 🧵

ConteZero @contezero.bsky.social · 21h

How many tanks, rocket launchers, airplanes etc could repel China if an insurrection happens ?
Who's going to step in to protect Russia if China annexes the east ?
Even Putin is so drowned in debts (both money and support) with China that could probably dismiss the whole thing as "payment".

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22h

Lithuanian National Defence Minister Dovilė Šakalienė:

For Russia,strategic dilemmas are its tools,its weapons…Until Russia feels that it will suffer consequences of its war of aggression that would impair its ability to expand its military power, everything else is just talk.

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