Physicist who dabbles in Quantum Computing and AI. The Network is the Computer. Still truer now than ever.
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russia confirms torture is state policy through withdrawal from vital European Convention russia’s withdrawal from a Convention against Torture which it stopped complying with even minimally in 2022 will not absolve it from liability for its violations, but it is a telling statement
Pro-Putin authors of Russia's new high school history textbook own multimillion-dollar real estate in Moscow and Spain Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky and his co-author, MGIMO University rector Anatoly Torkunov, who have rallied against the “decadent” West for years, love luxury real estate.
Yeah, was wondering when we get to the point where you just spout bile and insults. Your virtue ain’t even skin deep.
White nationalist like Elon think that the West is determined by race rather than culture. A misunderstanding as dumb as it is disgusting.
There’s nothing constructive in pretending that Harris and Trump are on the same level when all data indicates that the former would most probably have moved to a more constructive role. It’s just an exercise in moral masturbation. Only serves to make you feel good.
Voters were supposed to know that Trump doesn't give a sh*t about any human rights and is BFF with Bibi. This ain't rocket science.
Meanwhile in Russia: Zakhar Prilepin explained that regardless of any ceasefire, Russia will eventually resume its efforts to take all of Ukraine. He scoffed at Trump's peacekeeping proposals and emphasized that Russia will never be friends with America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrS...
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
MAGA is now threatening the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to give Donald Trump the prize "if they know what is good for them." America is living in the dumbest timeline now.
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
🧐👀 Girkin: "It's a disgrace. We didn't break through a single section of the front over the summer. In 16 months, we completed the assault on Chasiv Yar, and at the same time, Ukraine allowed young people to travel abroad.
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
Was just trying to explain Laura Loomer to my partner, and found myself saying, "That's why I'm reading about prehistoric people so much these days: They make more sense to me."
The Washington Post covered the story on the left, but ignored the story on the right. Luckily, Democracy Docket has you covered. Support independent pro-democracy media. Subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
gun culture
Europe steps up as US science funding shrinks. Aix-Marseille’s $16M “Safe Place for Science” drew an unexpected 300+ US applicants in 2 weeks, while the EU launches a $500M “Choose Europe for Science” push to attract top researchers. 🧪🧬🔬 #SciComm
White America isn't all right in more than one way.
Sign of the times that we now have to read the tea leaves akin to the Cold War days of yore when the Kremlin hid the health problems of one moribund supreme leader after another.
💪 Another footage of work of the latest anti-aircraft system "Skynex" received from Germany on the Russian kamikaze drone "Shahed-136" in the sky over Ukraine
Kia is providing a full range of EVs from compact to full size. Fast charging EVs with no tailpipe emissions and range of 329 miles or better. And the options increase when you add Hyundai’s line. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 #TheFutureWillBeEletric Make it trend!
Every space mission carries the potential to transform our understanding of life in the cosmos—yet 41 are at risk of cancellation. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be silenced before it reveals distant exoplanets. DAVINCI could lose its chance to probe Venus’s unique atmosphere. 🧪 🔭
Metrology on breakfast television?! YES PLEASE. Delighted to have helped make this happen! Dr Annette Koo (pictured) will shortly depart for Paris where she'll become the Director of BIPM, the global home of measurement share.google/XrzUSia2lDYX... 🧪👩🔬⚛️
Not my field of expertise but this cannot be a good sign. 🧪 phys.org/news/2025-09...
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Put the pieces together: --bans on Palestinians entering the US --Israel considering annexation of the W. Bank --Trump administration Gaza 'Riviera' plan to 'relocate' Palestinians outside of Gaza A full assault on Palestinian nationalism. How will this advance peace?
Under what metric to you posit this? An artificially created famine is a significant escalation that clearly causes significantly more deaths and harm.
Thought-provoking piece by Ian Lustick: "Whether what Israel is doing is genocide or not is fundamentally a semantic problem. Whether the state of Israel has a right to exist is a category error. The real question, and one that deserves the attention and debate of both Jews and non-Jews...">>
Unless we can visit the parallel universe in which Harris won there is no way to disprove this. Yet, from my vantage point all available data indicates that this is an unrealistic take.
I am not defending anything. I am pointing out that on a spectrum in comparison to the Trump regime she would have been better for the Palestinians. Apparently this is something you cannot wrap your head around.
Just because you don't like the answer doesn't mean I didn't answer it. Mainstream politicians like Starmer, Merz, Carney etc. are a good proxy to ascertain how a Harris administration would have evolved on this file.
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
This escalated quickly.
Why don't you just carry on your conversation with that straw man in your head and let me be?
I am Canadian I didn't vote for Harris, I just wished you guys would get your shit together. Folks like you are just entirely unhelpful.
Pretty much exactly my take. NB: “Its remarkable how the entire position of the United States is being perverted by the personal interest and delusions of the president.”
Came here to say almost exactly this ⬆️ Cognitive dissonance, much like their propaganda, is leaking from russia and infiltrating ...and next gen authoritarians amplify it.
And yet the number of knowledgable people I have seen in the past weeks writing that Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed a peace agreement...
We unseated a potato this weekend. You're welcome 😄 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A window into the strange Kremlin make-believe bubble. They actually seem to think there is an audience for this kind of address.
To be localized like this it'll require a jamming device close to the airport.
Such a terrific documentary! The best I saw at our local film festival last week!
Easy. She wouldn't sell it as caving to pressure but as a reaction to new facts on the ground. Just like Chancellor Merz in Germany did.
#Ukraine says goodbye to Andrii Parubii, ex-head of Ukrainian Parliament, famous politician and a true patriot of Ukraine. I knew Andrii well and had a lot of respect for him. Today, his murderer was caught and according to his statements, Russia might have a connection to the murder.
Russian State Duma member Viktor Sobolev has once again voiced imperial ambitions, claiming that regions like Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Odesa are part of Russia and must be “fully liberated” as part of the so-called “special military operation.”
There's a saying: a tank won't move without fuel. This is what it's like with Putin. He will not stop on his own. He is not concerned with problems in the Russian economy or the number of Russian soldiers killed in meat assaults⤵️
France and Ukraine are coordinating the launch of drone production for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, French Ambassador Gaël Veyssière confirmed. Talks are ongoing with a French company to establish drone manufacturing within Ukraine.
Russia: St. Petersburg restaurant "Wind" aboard a permanently docked ship The Flying Dutchman raided by police, several VIPs arrested with drugs. It's co-owned by Putin's goddaughter Ksenia Sobchak, so either someone is getting purged or she facilitated the raid herself.
The Dems are not a monolith nor is Israel.
These kind of Americans turned cognitive dissonance into a life style - they can comfortably hold thousands of opposing convictions and thoughts at the same time.
Do I get better trolls there?
It matters if a political position is changeable or not. Donnie boy will never cease gushing over and supporting Bibi. Even the conservative government in Germany stopped selling weapons to Israel. It’s the same kind of baby steps one could have expected from a Harris administration.
From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.
Someone please kill me right now.
These idiots needed to see a US hospital during the peak of COVID. Because they would have seen bodies stacked in freezer trucks. I did surgical procedures in a literal broom closet. Society forgets so fast.
This is utterly absurd Democrats weren’t in power when the Covid response started and Biden eventually ended the restrictions after the vaccination program.
Spent some time blocking trolls. It's one of the great features of Bluesky.
Last time we had taxation without representation, citizens quit paying taxes. Just saying...
🇺🇦👀 Ukraine War has caused a global shortage of TNT, - NYT The U.S. stopped making TNT in the 1980s due to toxic waste, relying instead on imports and recycled munitions. Now, Poland’s TNT output is going to Ukraine, while Russia and China stopped exports to the U.S.
It's time to quit russia 👇
"F**k Trump" in sign language on my car got cheers, side-eye, and one salty note. Worth it. Here’s where I got it 😍😁👇🏻 www.teechip.com/fdt-sign-sti...
What’s going on in Gaza is now too big to look the other way and hence even mainstream dems start hedging on Israel. To pretend Donnie regime of active and gleeful support of Bibi is just the same doesn’t make sense.
There’s a difference to a regime that will always gleefully support Bibi and looks forward to profit from beach front properties in Gaza. Mainstream Dems are already distancing themselves because the political winds have shifted. It’s unrealistic to equate them.
A big turn out in central Kyiv, where a memorial service is being held for Andriy Parubiy. The former parliament speaker was gunned down at the weekend. A man has been arrested.
So if anyone’s not clear on this yet: Russia is an ENEMY. (And our president does his bidding.)
According to officials cited by the Financial Times, the aircraft carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to make an emergency landing after Russian interference disrupted GPS navigation systems at a Bulgarian airport. Pilots had to rely on paper maps to land safely.👇
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Months ago I said right here on Bluesky “just watch- these 2 will get tight”. Who else saw this? apple.news/AenzujhVvTeS...
What a rag this newspaper has become. There is no longer a US led order. That’s what is driving this.
Message from an Alberta teacher: "I've been told that kids aren't allowed to bring books from home. No free choice reading. No silent reading time or listening to reading. No library time until books are catalogued and deemed appropriate. Please contact your MLA." @daniellesmithab.bsky.social
It’s infuriating. Major media treats this like a dispute over farmland- I.e “land swap”. As if it’s no big deal to consign hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in occupied territories to filtration camps, forced conscription for men, cultural/language suppression, and physical/sexual violence.
They are so past their use-by date.
I’m sick of Cold War has-beens like Mearsheimer, Posen, Allison, and Walt obtusely misinterpreting Ru and confidently regaling us w clueless takes about how Ukraine can end the war through concessions. Enough. Accept that Ukraine proves you wrong every day by not conforming to your warped theories.
On the subway I ran into 2 parliamentary journalists. They grilled me about my views on fascism. "What if you're wrong?" "Wouldn't that be awesome?" I said. I hadn't been on their shows in 6 months so I asked them why they cared what I thought. They know I'm not wrong. This is why @meidascanada.ca
If they keep doing that the UN HQ may have to move out of the US.
"A US official said Saturday that Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas is among 80 officials being denied visas to attend next month's UN General Assembly, where France is leading a push to recognize a Palestinian state." @en.afp.com www.barrons.com/news/us-to-r...
Newest activity on 🇷🇺 Russia's Novaya Zemlya indicates an anticipated test of the ☢️ nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed ‚Burevestnik‘ (NATO: ‚Skyfall‘) cruise missile may have already occurred. A Skyfall CM had famous exploded in 2019, killing several ROSATOM engineers and causing widespread radiation.
He'll soon meet his maker.
The tempo of Russia's 'de-militarization of Ukraine' three and a half years into the full-scale war is so impressive that Ukraine is now particularly producing and using its own newly designed longer-range cruise missiles.
💀 In the Kherson direction, the occupiers staged a shootout among themselves. More than two dozen died. Kherson region, a unit of 24th motorized rifle regiment began shooting at positions of 127th brigade, which led to their mistaken assumption of Ukrainian "saboteurs" and the opening of fire.
1/ At least 250 Russian soldiers a day are being declared missing or dead by the courts, equivalent to the declared daily losses of the Russian army at the front. Although at least 50,000 men are missing, the Russian government is doing little to help relatives. ⬇️
All he does is to destroy the country.
💥 Ukrainian drones destroyed Russian Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters at the Simferopol airport, occupied Crimea. Morning of August 30th.
“The PCC is known to shrink in people with Alzheimer's disease, and keeping it stimulated with fragrances could be a way of keeping this part of the brain active and functioning well. "… continuous inhalation of rose essential oil may prevent brain atrophy and prevent dementia,"
IMHO it's as much a perversion as blockchains based on Proof-of-Work. Colossal waste of resources.
Never give up the fight! #USDictatorTrump
People say this site doesn’t have the juice but we got the president of the United States doing “I’m alive” posts
“Nice” guy!
Alberta used to have one of the best education systems in Canada. As recently as 2022 PISA data shows Alberta students ranking first in Canada for science and reading, and second in math. Watch those scores plummet with Maple MAGA in charge. Daniele Smith loves the uneducated.
German Chancellor Merz predicts Russia's war in Ukraine will be prolonged, stating peace can't come at Ukraine's expense. He cites no foreseeable military defeat for either side. #UkraineConflict #News
It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
My fear is that once this is over, we will be finding mass graves. But keeping it real, the same powers want to disappear all evidence of other US atrocities...and we do have them.
This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
Finally. All of this.
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
My G-d, these people are such hypocrites and bullies apple.news/A72l4SQESQly...
Hint: it's not Old Spice.