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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · 10h

Hopefully what they want and think you will like; that tends to be better. Though there are historical examples of employers of artists who were quite particular- to the point that artists had to be very good at guessing what the e employers would like or risk execution 🙂

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · 18h

Unless, of course, you and the artist make an agreement that you will pay the artist a price you both agree is fair to have them draw what you want.

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · 23h

In Greece we don’t need to imagine anything. 40% of Cyprus is already occupied by Turkey; though out EU “friends” pretend it never happened. That’s why we stand with Ukraine, despite loving our Russian Orthodox brothers. F- Putin and his cronies.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · 4d

Pathetic. In Crete we have one double the age! 😀😛

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · 14d

Merci pour ça

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 21d

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT

The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215
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INVESTIGATION
The Djiboutian massacre
Ethiopia won’t acknowledge
Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its
border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists.
Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of
the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s
tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity.
Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters.
zecharias zelalem
On 30 January this year, a drone manned
from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a
funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote,
semi-arid village near the Ethiopia
Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a
second bomb dropped. And then a third.
At least eight people were killed,
including three children. Several
others were injured. Given the village’s
remoteness, the incident might have
gone unreported if graphic images of
the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian
social media.
A statement from the Djibouti’s
defence ministry said the drone struck
rebel fighters from the Front for the

Restoration of Unity and Democracy
(Frud), a Djiboutian political party with
a military wing. It has been fighting for
Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s.
The Afar are a community split by the
colonial border separating Ethiopia,
Djibouti, and Eritrea.
“Eight terrorists were neutralised on
site,” said a Djibouti military statement.
“Unfortunately, collateral damage
among Djiboutian civilians in the area
has been documented.”
International media, including Voice
of America, Agence France Presse, and
Radio France Internationale reported
this version of events.
Now, new findings from an open
In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was
injured in the drone strike.
source investigation by The Continent
reveal a different reality.
The bombs landed inside Ethiopia,
not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed
fighters – were killed. That distinction
matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again
tolerating a foreign military targeting its
own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during
the Tigray conflict.
A transparent lie
Even before the ink could dry on the
Djiboutian military’s statement, The
Addis Standard and human rights groups
in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike
had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s
Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an
adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl
Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports
in now-deleted social media posts.
The Continent got to work to figure out
what really happened. Over the course
of eight months, we collected eyewitness
testimonies, interviewed human rights
activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and
examined images and footage from the
strike. Our findings align with those of
Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed
Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the
site of the strike.
The ammunition residue found on the
night of the strike confirms the bomb
was manufactured by Roketsan, a state
run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye.
Former US army explosives expert
Trevor Ball identified t…

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · Aug 7

Speaking as an AI engineer:

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · Aug 5

I don’t know mate; I have 230+ books on my phone as of last count. No way I could carry all that around if they were in paper form.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · Jul 26

You are regrettably only partially correct; US regulations allow for more additives and in larger quantities than EU regulations do. But imho the largest difference is the propensity of Americans to indulge in super-processed food.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · Jul 8

Per capita, the USA, in terms of the pollution cost of everything Americans consume. In net terms, China, as it serves as the machine shop of the planet.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · Jul 2

The EU is incapable of even tying its own shoelaces. Since 2008 they have done nothing but taken one wrong decision after another.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · Jun 28

As a Greek Orthodox and student of Orthodox theology, I find their understanding of that philosophy to be totally off the mark. It is like someone calling a piano a wind instrument 🙄

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 31

Well, at the suggestion of Von Papen and the Conservative coalition who thought to use him and his populist groundswell to achieve their aims. And he turned the tables on them and used them for his..

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 31

Many of us voted Harris, with a mouth full of vomit, but we did. But the Democrats in their idiocy have for decades drifted rightwards and so finally lost the working class.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 26

This is the best response so far. That said, there are those who think it is art.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 24

Exactly. That’s why I said it matters who and how you count. For Ukraine, just as for Poland, if you exclude Holocaust victims, the % drops below that one of either Greece or Serbia. But for example, on my ancestral island in Greece, the loss was about 25%, more than 3/4 due to the Holocaust.

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 24

In WWII itself, yes. But if you exclude the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the percentage lost was higher in Serbia. And if you include the aftermath of WWII, then it is Greece that suffered the highest % losses, with 1/7 Greeks dead during the combined WWII and Greek civil war turmoil.

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 24

The Economist celebrating anyone is a dire warning that they are about to suffer horribly. It is a mouthpiece for the City of London and its interests; I remember them celebrating Brazil before Bolsonaro, EU austerity against the PIGS, Turkey at the start of Erdogan etc.

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 24

Depends how you calculate suffering. There are other countries that suffered more, at least by some measures.

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 20

Well, anyone on a pacemaker or ventilator would go in seconds, as well as anyone in flight. Many would die in traffic accidents. If effects lasted for a couple of months, no transportation means supply chains would collapse, and people in cities would starve.

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labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 14

3) One can co-opt AI into teaching. Trying to put a problem into terms ChatGPT will be able to process well enough to give a correct answer is a skill that requires some level of problem understanding. Developing problems that leverage that to build skill on it is a challenge I am optimistic about.

labryrinth.bsky.social @labryrinth.bsky.social · May 14

2) Students always confuse the lyrics with the music. Assignments are not about getting the right answer, they are about developing the modes of thought to reach an answer, check it for correctness, etc etc