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ido @ido.bsky.social · Jul 7

My photos from Kyiv are published in this month’s Marie Claire Australia, illustrating Frances Mao’s excellent and moving report on relationships during the war.

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What are you talking about?

ido @ido.bsky.social · 12d

3,500 people died total over 30 years of the Troubles. It’s just a totally different scale

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 21d

This is a good, valuable and timely report from Barclays — but made ca 1000x better by @bryce.lol repeatedly skewering the bank for its obvious reluctance to sound TOO sceptical. on.ft.com/3ICXT4B

‘AI’s not a bubble but if it were, here’s how it might pop’

Barclays analysts are having dark thoughts about data centres

on.ft.com

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ido @ido.bsky.social · 21d

big sesh tonight (listening to the power broker on 2x speed while bouldering)

ido @ido.bsky.social · 27d

Interoceanic Train of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is a proper railway name asia.nikkei.com/business/tra...

Mexico railway aims to be Panama Canal alternative for Asia trade

Hyundai has already used this overland route for US-bound autos

asia.nikkei.com

ido @ido.bsky.social · 28d

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Sep 15

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Sep 14

Are these pics or renders?

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Sep 11

Makes more sense when you realise that the people commenting on it for a job are married, related to, school/uni friends with the actors concerned

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Sep 4

this is true www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.

www.theatlantic.com

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just thought about the bitcoin hard drive guy again.

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 31

Shavi Lomi?

ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 30

Have you listened to that podcast series on whether the song was a CIA plant?

ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 24

Apart from anything else this is just incredibly disrespectful to the millions of American servicemen who fought to force Germany and Japan to *unconditionally surrender*.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 24

JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 21

How Bisexual Duck Explains Politics in Dresden

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 21

the legacy media is now at least 30% a vehicle for explaining the latest shortform video microcelebrities to boomers

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · Aug 19

It might look something like this:

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 20

The UK’s rate is actually fairly low - it’s higher in France for example www.connexionfrance.com/news/where-a...

Where are France's 3 million empty homes and why so many?

Vacancy rates are in double figures in some rural communes, but also in major cities

www.connexionfrance.com

ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 20

Second, because a certain number of empty homes is actually desirable. In a functional housing market, they mean people are moving to homes that suit them (for example, to the right-sized home for their household).

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 20

First because the housing crisis shouldn’t be viewed through a national lens. For example, if your job, family and friends are in Bristol, a house being empty in Doncaster doesn’t help you much.

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 20

That doesn’t make it… true

ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 20

For some reason the BBC is obsessed with arguing, demonstrably incorrectly, that the answer to the housing crisis is filling empty homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Empty home crisis: Why aren't they being used to solve shortages?

There are almost 720,000 empty homes in England. And many more on social housing waiting lists - so why aren't we better using one to help solve the other, and is it a case of a missed opportunity?

www.bbc.co.uk

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 17

My vintage polariser certainly added a lot of character to these shots!

ido @ido.bsky.social · Aug 17

I don’t think Trump is going to present Ukraine with a take-it-or-leave-it deal entirely on Russia’s terms. It makes him look weak.

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