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Nicola
@nicolataylor.bsky.social
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A philosophically minded Third Culture Kid with a multilingual heart and a deeply European soul. Life’s challenges have left their mark but have also ignited my creativity and strengthened my resilience. 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇪🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇳🇱
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · Apr 22
#StandWithUkraine
#SlavaUkraini
#HeroyamSlava
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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•°• Rose M •°• @cuppaoptimism.bsky.social · Apr 25
Say it loud, for those in the back! ☮️✨
Black Lives Matter is not an anti-white movement. Feminism is not an anti-men movement. Pride is not an anti-straight movement. This isn't about you.
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Candyce 🌊🦋🌈💙🩵 @candycemv1.bsky.social · 3d
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sah1109💙🐕🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇬🇱🐾🐾💙 @sah1109.bsky.social · 2d
No taxation without representation...quit sending federal tax dollars and see how long it lasts.
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Candyce 🌊🦋🌈💙🩵 @candycemv1.bsky.social · 3d
Incredible and sad for California
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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 2d
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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 3d
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 2d
Wishing Israelis and Palestinians all the courage in the world 🇮🇱🇵🇸🕊️
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 2d
“rogue states and criminal networks flout the laws” and we’re just watching 😒🤦‍♀️
The growing threat from Russia's dark fleet
YouTube video by The Economist
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 3d
A 31% increase?!
WTF MF 🇷🇺 🤬🤬🤬
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3d
🇺🇦💔 In Ukraine, civilian casualties from Russian strikes have risen sharply in 2025, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission reported.

The total number of casualties in the first nine months of the year increased by 31% compared to 2024.
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 3d
“and societies were happier and more peaceful for it.” 😉🤣🤣
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 10d
Gender power relations in prehistory is a matter of debate. If the female consort of a male ruler influenced his entourage through patronage and back channels, and his own policies through counselling, was she any less powerful than him?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Was prehistory a feminist paradise?
Visions of matriarchal utopia may be wishful thinking, but there’s growing evidence of women wielding power
www.theguardian.com
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 3d
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦💙💛
Keep going guys, you’re doing an amazing job!!! Героям Слава 🫡
Ukrainian Strikes on Russia's Gas and Oil Facilities Caused $100 Billion Losses #warinukraine
YouTube video by UNITED24
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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · Aug 10
If you ate not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving yhe people who are doing the oppressing.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 4d
Pope Leo says Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty...or agrees with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the US,
is not really pro-life."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
www.npr.org
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Chuck and Jim 🟧🟦 - Chat Disabled @fireman452.bsky.social · 3d
There is a HUGE difference between the number of times you did SOMETHING and the number of times you were CAUGHT doing SOMETHING!! #ChuckandJim
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 3d
And they should properly inform people, research subjects thoroughly, and present them with appropriate levels of critical analysis — instead of just churning out clickbait headlines.
Sitting in France as I type this but I go or whatever country’s news I happen to listen to, it’s always the same 🥱😖
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · Feb 24
May they forever stand,
True and steadfast to their land.
May all democracies lend their might,
To drive out Russian darkness with their light,
And help Ukraine reclaim its right.

𝑺𝑳𝑨𝑽𝑨 𝑼𝑲𝑹𝑨𝑰𝑵𝑰 🇺🇦
𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑶𝒀𝑨𝑴 𝑺𝑳𝑨𝑽𝑨 💙💛
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 4d
Trump told AG Pam Bondi to prosecute Letitia James-calling her “guilty as hell”

When the US Attorney wouldn’t do it, he replaced that lawyer with his personal attorney

And despite the fact that career prosecutors refused go forward

The DOJ got an indictment anyway

THIS
IS
VINDICTIVE
PROSECUTION
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 4d
“Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 “astonishing.” However, it doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface.”
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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 4d
I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought
An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.
futurism.com
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 4d
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“On 20 March 2025, Russian leader Vladimir Putin issued a particularly cynical decree, according to which Ukrainians in occupied Ukraine without Russian citizenship can, from 10 September 2025 be labelled ‘foreigners’ and deported.”
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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.bsky.social · 4d
russia uses citizenship as a new weapon against dissidents in occupied #Crimea

russia’s stripping of citizenship was first used in Soviet times, but is now even more cynical, as an invading power is banning Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians from their own homeland

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Russia uses citizenship as a new weapon against dissidents in occupied Crimea
Russia’s stripping of citizenship was first used in Soviet times, but is now even more cynical, as an invading power is banning Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians from their own homeland
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5d
This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 5d
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 5d
🇳🇱🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: A new important step in our defense cooperation with the Netherlands – today, our countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning Coproduction of drones. This is one of the promising areas of our bilateral cooperation.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 5d
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 5d
Use frozen russian assets now — to ensure that russia can't freeze Ukraine this winter.
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Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social · 5d
Diplomacy, diplomacy… for the sake of those fishermen and everyone else on our planet.
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The Typist @thetypist.bsky.social · 5d
Congratulations to María Corina Machado for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Incredibly brave woman who has stood up to Maduro authoritarian regime. Highly symbolic in the current times where the far right is destroying human right and democracy everywhere.
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