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@blonza.bsky.social

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This site is my main news source. Probably it shouldn't be tho. On this profile you'll find mostly reposts, about news/commentary I find interesting + jokes and art that I like Languages: Italian + English, Spanish

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · Jan 10

Btw may be useful

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Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky

Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 19h

The "hire EU workers" part could be appealing tho(?)

blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 20h

Una rettiliana che si è tradita:

vitellia59.bsky.social @vitellia59.bsky.social · 1d

Basta anche indossare una maschera e osservare l’ambiente sotto la superficie del mare, la desertificazione, l’invasione di specie aliene, senza parlare dei rifiuti sul fondale per capire che il Mediterraneo agonizza. Ma agli umani piace solo guardarsi l’un l’altro o al massimo il proprio ombelico

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 23h

Because Weiss, like basically all RW parallel institution building efforts, is entirely output-concerned. She doesn't want to do the research and investigation work of journalism to gather information and then take an editorial line on it, she just wants the editorial line.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

i have also never seen any evidence that weiss is interested in, you know, actual *news*. she’s a gadfly interested in commentary (and commentary about commentary), and that’s a deeply saturated market

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23h

Here is an enduring challenge in my field, foreign policy. For decades, there was a broad and bipartisan consensus of US foreign policy abroad, within which presidents would vary. Things like "treaties will be honored" and "basing commitments will last as agreed to by our predecessor", predictable.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

Rocked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s support for Moscow, a wildly unbalanced trading picture and a diplomatic dynamic where the European side feels it's ignored by Beijing, Porter said it was “hard to disagree” with the suggestion that ties were at an all-time low

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of this is downstream of the misperception that the Palestinians are the intransigent ones here but the exchange of captives is the easy part. The problem in every previous ceasefire has been getting Netanyahu to not kill Palestinians once he gets what he wants.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 2d

Well I didn't know the origin of the meme and that's what I thought about seeing it🙌🏻 just wanted to add my explanation to the conversation. Anyway you're right about the demographics, my bad

blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of food, I've read of Israeli branding things like falafels or other foods typical of Palestine (and the region more broadly) as Israeli, to both look like they have a traditional presence in the area (which mostly is not the case) and eclipse Palestinian culture

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't even think about checking your profile there! Thank you, your review is pretty cool! I am still uncertain if it's a movie for me but I really liked the final part of your comment

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder of what Salvini was doing 11 years ago: visiting Crimea to support Russian annexation of the region and encourage Italian businesses to invest there.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

This also makes more abundance of sense once one also seriously examines what the political bureau of Hamas has repeated vis a vis disarmament, they wish to disarm only in the context of a Palestinian state being established with an army and police force. They think Barghouti would facilitate this.

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Philippe Marlière @phmarliere.bsky.social · 3d

The French Prime Minister resigned on Monday, was reappointed on Friday and is threatening to resign again on Saturday. This is Guinness Book of Records stuff.

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to your dnd posting

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 4d

Bangkok's Grand Central Post Office, completed in 1940, an amazing example of Thai-style Neoclassical architecture

A brick and mortal building in the Neo-Classical style with two Garuda statues on top

A cast iron door in blue and gold with Thai Art deco motifs

A large white post office room with a chandelier

A giant art deco bas relief done in the style of a postage stamp with a man on a horse

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I'm curious about Le città di pianura, because a friend invited me to see it. What did you like about it?

blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 4d

I'm mostly an outsider as well (I watch some wrestling, sometimes) I was thinking the same honestly

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 4d

Why do the two fanbases differ this much in your view?

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 4d

51 is a wicked unnatural number. Divisible by 17? Come on now

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 4d

A slightly overlooked thing is that this was and remains a colonial war with a global audience. Unlike other colonial wars, where the mutual discovery of deeper hatred than either suspected is limited to combatants, the mutual discovery here occurred even among non-combatants.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 5d

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

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blonza @blonza.bsky.social · 4d

Same for the EU seems to me