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Keith Drummond

@severalcatslater.com

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Partner, father, pet parent (1 dog, 6 cats), proud European 🇪🇺. Sci-fi enthusiast & renaissance soul. Past lives: soldier, sailor, lecturer/researcher (PoliSci & political violence), GSM, briefly deceased (2019). Web: https://severalcatslater.com

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 26d

My latest oddly shaped thought: What if your bank app worked like an adblocker? Subscribe to ethical filters that flag hidden harms before you spend. A small pause, a big shift in power.

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#FinTech #EthicalSpending

Click to Block: Can Ethical Filters Reshape Markets? – Several Cats Later

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 52m

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Screenshot of a Reddit comment that says:

There's a potent quote about the Hong Kong protests in 1000xResist that applies so deeply;

FATHER: You remember? In the streets...hundreds of thousands marching shoulder to shoulder... Biggest demonstrations in HK history. The world watched it all happen. Heard our voices. Saw us bleed.

MOTHER: So?

FATHER: So if we stayed silent? didnt stand up for ourselves? They would say...this is how it always was. They would say...this is what the people wanted. But no. They can't say that. Because it has gone down in history... That we resisted fiercely. That we fought for a different future...until we couldn't. That legacy lives in us.

Screenshot of a protest poster that says:

"So if we stayed silent? .... They would say, this is how it always was. They would say, this is what the people wanted. But no. They can't say that. Because it has gone down in history that we resisted fiercely. --1000xRESIST"

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3h

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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Tuta @tuta.com · 2d

How to opt out:

Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.

Find out more: tuta.com/blog/linkedi...

Act until Nov 3rd to stop LinkedIn from abusing your data to train AI! | Tuta

Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 2d

🚨⏳ Act now! You have until 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.

You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 2d

I wondered who Putin convinced Trump that he needed to keep the Tomahawks for?

Another nation?

Greenland campaign?

ICE?

www.france24.com/en/video/202...

Trump says US can't 'deplete' own Tomahawk stocks, casts doubt on Ukraine aid after Putin call

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 2d

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 2d

The picture appearing here is from Ireland, that is the Irish police, and a Dublin registered vehicle.

Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 3d

Well this is worrisome if airlines liability to losing your furry family members is capped as if they were lost bags!

www.thejournal.ie/pets-on-flig...

Pets on flights classed as baggage and lost baggage rules apply if they go missing, EU court rules

The court ruled on the issue after a dog went missing while being carried to a plane for a 2019 flight from Buenos Aires to Barcelona.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 3d

Strength means walking away when trade becomes a weapon.

But decency means leaving the door open.

When the time comes — whether it’s Putin’s Russia or “Trump First” America — Europe will still be here, ready when others pull back from the edge.

EP Press Service @press.europarl.europa.eu · 3d

🗳️ Imports of Russian gas and oil to the EU: MEPs back ban

Draft legislation adopted on Thursday seeks to protect the Union’s interests from the weaponisation of energy supplies by the Russian Federation.

Details ⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Imports of Russian gas and oil to the EU: MEPs back ban | News | European Parliament

Draft legislation adopted on Thursday seeks to protect the Union’s interests from the weaponisation of energy supplies by the Russian Federation.

www.europarl.europa.eu

Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 3d

Is this not the defining image of the modern West?

We overflow with production, discard the excess, and still watch prices climb — while millions go without even the basics.

Let’s change that. Let’s lead. Securing clean energy means securing our future.

Euractiv @euractiv.com · 3d

The €100 Billion Challenge: Energy Storage as Europe’s Competitiveness Driver

Europe could face €100 billion in grid congestion by 2040 while consumers miss out on cheap power. Energy storage can strengthen Europe’s energy security, affordability, and decarbonisation, writes Energy Storage Europe Association

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism. We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who only understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."

www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

All the Pretty Little Nazis

The shape of things to come.

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European Food Safety Authority @efsa.europa.eu · 3d

🗣️ #PublicConsultation | Scoping paper for the update and possible merging of EFSA’s guidance on the Weight of Evidence and Biological relevance.

Our scoping paper is now open for feedback.

📆 Submit your input by 5 November 2025.

→ link.europa.eu/3YCxkX

#EFSA #FoodSafety #EUHaveYourSay

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 3d

A great EU alternative to other office software suite's.

omg! ubuntu @omgubuntu.co.uk · 3d

Publish an overview of what's new in ONLYOFFICE 9.1: redaction tools when editing PDFs, 4x faster lookup functions when working with spreadsheets, and improve file recovery if the app crashes before you remember to hit ctrl + s. #OpenSource

ONLYOFFICE 9.1 Offers PDF Redact Tools, Faster Spreadsheets

The free ONLYOFFICE productivity suite has been updated with a host of new features, including an improved PDF Editor. Details on what's new inside.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 4d

“TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN is seeking participants for a new study on the impact of name-calling during childhood by a parent.”

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Trinity seeking participants for study on the impact of name-calling by a parent

The study will explore how name-calling by a parent during childhood can impact on mental health in later life.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 4d

A group of young adults brought “ducks, chickens, cats and other small birds” onto a train and tortured the animals throughout the 75-min journey.

No, Irish Rail did nothing.

The Gardaí never acted.

www.westmeathindependent.ie/2025/10/08/i...

#IrishRail #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #IrishNews

Irish Rail passengers left “terrorised and terrified” on Athlone to Dublin train | Westmeath Independent

A passenger who travelled from Athlone to Dublin by train on Sunday evening last has vowed never to use Irish Rail again after he endured “a nightmare journey” during which up to 20 unaccompanied mino...

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European Democracy Shield Special Committee @euds.europarl.europa.eu · 6d

Starting shortly 🔴15.15 in EUDS

🛡️Online ads, media resilience & countering foreign interference w/ @sarahmurphymadia.bsky.social of @whattofix.tech

🇲🇩 Lessons from the recent Moldovan 🇲🇩 elections 🗳️w/ Stanislav Secrieru, @davidcolon.bsky.social & Valeriu Pașa

Livestream 🔗 link.europa.eu/PmYCQQ

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 6d

Bank of Ireland said it is working to resolve the issue with its app and 365 Online service. jrnl.ie/6843082

Bank of Ireland's app and online banking service are down

The bank said it is working to resolve the issue.

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 6d

👋 We’re #hiring: Office Assistant!

If you are passionate about Europe and politics and you have administrative and organisational skills, we’d love to hear from you!

📩 More info on our website👇
europeangreens.eu/job-opportun...

We are hiring!
Office assistant
Based in Brussels
Full time position
Deadline: Wed 22 Oct

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 7d

These are the best cards the US have to reach for?

Illegal detention of people? I guess there is not much glass left in Rubio's greenhouse.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7d

Now they’re adding more to this

Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 7d

The far-right surge shouldn’t shock me, but it does. We’ve seen this story before—history and today’s regimes both spell out the ending. The difference is, this time we’ve the data in real time. The question is whether we’ll use it to change course.

⚫ Far Right
🔵 Conservatives
🟡 Centre
🔴 Left

Antti Metsänkylä @antmetsa.bsky.social · 8d

Ei hyvältä näytä.

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Yksi kuva näyttää, kuinka laitaoikeistosta tuli Euroopan suurin voima

Ääriliikkeet kasvavat sosiaalisessa mediassa ja digialustoilla. Niiden kautta amerikkalaiset kulttuurisodat siirtyvät Eurooppaankin.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 7d

IMO the causality’s reversed. X isn’t toxic because “the left left” — people left because it became structurally biased. When the owner and algorithm tilt one way, agency stops mattering. Leaving didn’t concede the space; it refused a rigged game. Go where you feel your voice still matters.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 8d

According to Rory Hearne, housing expert and Social Democrats TD, the property listing is "a part of the problem," as "the whole system treats housing as an investment asset, not as a basic human need"
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Burnt-out home on sale for 225k is a 'case study' for why we're in a housing crisis

An estate agent described the damaged home as a “fantastic opportunity for anyone looking for a project or investment”.

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Daily Stoic @daily-stoic.bsky.social · 7d

3 Stoic One Liners To Overcome Anxiety

1. “It's not things that upset us, it's our judgment about things.” Epictetus
2. “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” Seneca
3. “Make the best use of what is in your power, take the rest as it happens.” Epictetus

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 8d

The U.S. looks like an empire balancing on a tightrope—while wearing ice skates.

Everyone sees it wobbling, yet the silence of its allies is deafening. Fear, or decorum?

China watches in silence too.

Maybe this will be the quietest collapse an empire ever manages.