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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 7h

New - Europe’s 3-body problem: collapsing global order sparks hunt for new trajectory

I got to write about one of my favourite Chinese sci-fi novels. Europe, realising it can’t fix systemic chaos, is instead trying to shift its own orbit.

Europe’s 3-body problem: collapsing global order sparks hunt for new trajectory

Some are sceptical the EU’s talk of ‘economic security’ can translate into action, but there are early signs that may be changing.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 6h

🤔Here’s Viktor Orbán bowing to Ilham Aliyev in Egypt. Their close ties date back to 2012 when Orbán sent home Ramil Safarov, who murdered an Armenian officer with an axe, to Azerbaijan—where Safarov got a hero’s welcome. Meanwhile, $7 million was wired from an Azeri fund to a Hungarian bank.

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Grand Continent @grandcontinent.bsky.social · 23h

Un sédatif algorithmique, produit dans des empires postnationaux et acheminé à travers le monde, est en train d’endormir l’Europe.

C’est un cauchemar — mais il n’est pas trop tard pour se réveiller.

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Les nouvelles guerres de l’opium numérique | Le Grand Continent

Un sédatif algorithmique, produit dans des empires postnationaux et acheminé à travers le monde, est en train d’endormir l’Europe. C’est un cauchemar — mais il n’est pas trop tard pour se réveiller.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

working on a feature on a similar character at the moment and the advance TL;DR is that these guys are pretty good at making themselves feel unavoidable and intellectually overwhelming, when their reactionary views are very often just incredibly pedestrian and unoriginal, it's their main strength

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 1d

Signal of the kind of "rights" Palestinians will enjoy in the post-genocide

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has banned Palestinians from celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners [hostages] & banned their families from giving interviews

Contrast that with the celebrations around the release of Israeli hostages & the many interviews being broadcast around the world.

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 1d

Merci pour cette interview intéressante. Est-ce que cette stratégie est payante au Danemark pour les soc-dem ? Par exemple au UK, la tentative du Labour de copier les discours anti-migrants de Reform semble se retourner contre eux, car ça ne fait que donner des votes à l'extrême-droite.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 13d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
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Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией

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Marine Leduc @marineleduc.bsky.social · 3d

Dans Le Monde,un reportage en #Moldavie sur les prêtres qui quittent l'église orthodoxe russe pour l'église orthodoxe roumaine.

En Moldavie, des dizaines de prêtres quittent l’Eglise orthodoxe russe

Depuis l’invasion russe de l’Ukraine en février 2022, plus de 65 paroisses moldaves se sont séparées du patriarcat de Moscou pour se rattacher à l’Eglise orthodoxe roumaine. Ces décisions attisent les...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d

Pavel Durov tweeted this from UAE after making an immense fortune in Putin's Russia

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 4d

Taken together, I am seeing a French political class which is not only uploading its internal political crisis to the EU level, but also transposing its anger at Macron to an anger at the EU level pro-European centre.

Not a good combination.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4d

Foreigner: How is your family?
Polish person: Glad you asked, my parents are divorcing, my sister hates me, my brother is dying of cancer, and my aunt was just jailed for posting death threats to gay people on Facebook.
Foreigner: Jesus Christ, why
Polish person: You're welcome, now shut up.

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 4d

Are you the mastermind behind all of this ? 😜

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 5d

Israel's genocidal war on Gaza - two years of hell on earth for Palestinians - could have ended at any time with pressure from the US president. There is no safe and peaceful future without justice, without accountability, without freedom for Palestinians

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 4d

hundred-year-old olive trees have been cut down (some 500 in the past five months) and Palestinians are being squeezed into living in ever smaller areas, surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements, choked and unable to develop beyond the land allocated to them, living as in ghettoes."

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 4d

It was published in 2007, but my copy has a 2023 epilogue (highlighting the worsening of the situation of Palestinian freedom of movement in the West Bank): "It's a strange experience to live in a place that is constantly vanishing. The hills, wadis and escarpments have been given Hebrew names,

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Raja Shehadeh reads his Orwell prize-winning book, Palestinian Walks, outside Ramallah, in the West Bank, 2014. Photograph: Rob Stothard/Getty Images
Taken in the Guardian

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 4d

📖- Following on the subject, read a great book by Raja Shehadeh: Palestinian Walks Notes on a Vanishing Landscapes. The author recounts his different sarhat (wandering) through the hills of Palestine, mediating on his family history & reflecting on the political situation of his country.

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 4d

Despite the harrowing scenes, the film is above all a love story, supported by extraordinary actors: love for one's people and one's family.
Highly recommend, especially as we can see it on continental Europe, but it is not distributed everywhere, as explained here by the director Cherien Dabis

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 4d

From the grandfather being kicked from their home during the 1948 Nakba to the grandson being hit by a bullet in the first Intifada of 1988. You really feel for the characters and are angry with them during the humiliating checkpoint scene, the land-stealing, the 2nd generation's visit to Jaffa.

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Nakba scene from "All that's left of you"

Father and son scene - All that's left of you

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 4d

🎬&📖 🧵- Continuing to catch-up on Palestinian stories and narratives that I've been ignorant about all this time: went to see the extraordinary movie "All That's Left of You", followed by a Q&A with its director Cherien Dabis. The movie tells the story of a Palestinian family on three generations

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All that's left of you Movie by Cherien Dabis

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 5d

An extremely proud day for Hungarians. I just really hope Orbán’s proxies won’t launch a smear campaign, since Krasznahorkai is an outspoken critic of contemporary fascism, far-right politics, and Viktor Orbán himself.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 5d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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