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Finnish architect rants about geopolitics, politics, and culture Russia's war in Ukraine as seen from the frontline states The future of Europe and global democracy 🇪🇺🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱🇺🇦

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 9m

*bounces and squeezes plums*

heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 10m

Now that's naughty

heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 35m

Slovenia

#nofilter

heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 1h

Velka, tai paremminkin laina, on rahaa

heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 1h

It doesn't take much to be labeled as extreme left these days

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 5h

⚡️ A senior NATO official told reporters in Brussels that China remains a linchpin in sustaining Russia’s defense industry.
united24media.com/latest-news/...

Beijing Is Powering Russia’s Drone War, NATO Says—80% of Critical Parts Made in China

NATO identifies China's contributions to Russia's military as essential, with over 80% of key electronic parts for Russian systems sourced from Beijing.

united24media.com

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15h

👀 The photo shows a protective net on one Ukrainian energy facility after being hit by three Shaheds. The facility survived.

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Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 2h

Nigel Farage falls through the cracks of media scrutiny. He receives the attention of someone powerful, but the scrutiny of someone powerless. It’s a case study in how fear of democratic decline makes institutions submissive which accelerates democratic decline.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3h

Russian air defense at work in Chelyabinsk. Prior, the air alarm sounded in response to UAV threats. This is roughly 1.700km from the Ukrainian border.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

Chelyabinsk, the seventh largest city in Russia, just got its first ever air raid alert for Ukrainian drones. It’s 1800km from the border.

#explodey

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 1h

The Kremlin has denied it =
The Kremlin has confirmed it

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h

🇱🇹 Russia is constantly creating strategic dilemmas for NATO. Are we finally ready to create strategic dilemmas for Russia? - Lithuanian Defense Minister.

🗣️ "So until Russia feels that it is suffering consequences for its aggressive war, until then everything else is just talk."

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Denys from Kharkiv @glushko.bsky.social · 1d

🤬 Russia attacked trucks carrying UN World Food Programme humanitarian aid in Bilozerska hromada, Kherson Oblast with drones and artillery, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.

One truck burned down, another was seriously damaged. 2 more escaped the attack. The drivers weren't injured.

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tuulimukka.bsky.social @tuulimukka.bsky.social · 7h

Hyvinvointivaltion ylläpitämisestä puhuminen kuulostaa sumutukselta kun samaan aikaan näkee miten sitä puretaan

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 16h

For clarity, his tariffs should be called US import taxes

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 16h

"This is the unfortunate norm for us insurrectionists"

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see.

New York Times, CNN, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, NPR, HuffPost.

All not signing the Pentagon rules to report only official information.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 16h

Finally

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 1d

🇫🇷 Macron told his cabinet that censure motions are dissolution motions. In other words, there will be elections if Lecornu is toppled. Far right & hard left have already tabled censure votes on Thurs. Socialists say they will table their own if Lecornu does not give way today when he speaks at 3pm

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Giant Photon @giantphoton.bsky.social · 19h

The original quote is not exactly that; in German it's:
"Das Ziel totalitärer Systeme ist es nicht, die Menschen von der eigenen Ideology zu überzeugen. Vielmehr sollen sie unfähig sein, eigene Überzeugungen zu entwickeln."

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Giant Photon @giantphoton.bsky.social · 19h

Which translates to:

The goal of totalitarian systems is not to convince people of their ideology. Rather, to render them incapable of developing their own convictions.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19h

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19h

That’s why we spend so much on propaganda. Not to make you believe something but to make you believe nothing. So you do nothing.

It works.

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 16h

*I suspect it has something to do with GPS jamming or similar signal disruptions.

They are constant but largely imperceptible to passengers.

You do get the occasional flight that's left circling the destination and delayed, rerouted or turned back because of it.

heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 16h

I was curious to see if they had changed the flight plan due to the recent drone incursions.

They haven't. And how would they?

How do you get from Finland to South or Central Europe without passing Denmark, Germany, Poland, the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine, or Russia?

The last three are off limits.

Helsinki-Ljubljana flight map showing disturbances in internet connections over the Baltics

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