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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 13h

Yes.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d

This seems like a mistake.

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 1d

With a desire to become less reliant on Amerikan-run platforms, I’ve set up an independent list server to deliver a FREE newsletter to anyone might enjoy regular, long-form updates, random images and observations, links, from our wanderings.

You can subscribe here: lists.posteo.de/listinfo/tid...

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 1d

Between Myth and Muzzle: Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on the erosion of traditional press freedom — and respect — in the US and UK.

[via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social]

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/07/b...

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 1d

In the end, it's all the same crap shoot.

c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 1d

We have several. We just don't trust them.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 2d

The first days aboard after a long(ish) absence are always chaotic: depleted food stores, damp, musty bedding and clothes, gear stored in unexpected places, lots of mildew and dust. We've also fallen out of the practice of moving around the narrow, angular spaces, making ourselves smaller.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

I have lost faith in that ever being so.

c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

The last thing my wife and I need is further complexity…

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

They don't.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

To what? Portable hard drives are always corroding and failing aboard this small, damp, salt-riven boat.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

We return to our boat in Cagliari, Sardinia, today, a short flight across the Thyrrenian Sea, taking our youngest with us.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no. That is much worse. Have you tried checking ICE’s detention lists (as unreliable as they are)? I am so sorry.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

No.

c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

We live in an environment, a small boat, in which corrosion is rife especially within things like portable hard drives, no matter how we try to protect them. That said, you can fuck off.

c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

We live on a small boat. Our external hard drives corrode and degrade quickly.

c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, all of you, who have supported our latest appeal either by contributing to it or promoting it. It has, quite literally been life-saving for us and for our youngest, who is now safe with us in Europe.

We wish we could hug you all.

c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 7d

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”

Can you help us, even just with an RT?

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane

Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

www.gofundme.com

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 5d

We’ve called so many things “tipping points” that the public can’t tell when one really tips. Antarctic sea ice may have just crossed a threshold for real. The crisis is clearer than the language.
apple.news/A5tAA09s3SQm...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas — New Scientist

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 5d

Aww, thank you.

DM me sometime and let usknow how you are doing?

Love from us to you !

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 5d

“If you remember better times / you know they were lies, because they led / to this”
- Alice Notley

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 6d

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 5d

André Breton's Studio, 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris

www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/ol...

B/W photograph of André Breton’s studio, May 1960 by Sabine Weiss; extensive collection of artworks displayed

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · Apr 20

New York story: seeing composer John Adams solitarily dining a few tables away in a tiny Thai joint on Amsterdam near 79th. He poked one-fingeredly at a cellphone as one does now (in place of the folded newspaper or paperback of yesteryear).

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · Apr 20

As I likely suffer a mild prosopagnosial disorder, it wasn’t—would never be—me who recognized him, but my violinist son, who was thrilled.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 8d

Global condemnation is mounting as hundreds of international activists remain in Israeli prison days after the military raided and captured dozens of boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Greta Thunberg told Swedish officials she was held in a cell infested with bedbugs and deprived of food and water.

Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody

“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.

truthout.org

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