Blackcal
@blackcal.bsky.social
🇨🇭🇷🇴 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸🇦🇫 --- Bookworm 📚 --- Holding the line
In 2026, Kyiv is facing more ballistic missiles in a single night than it did during the entire year of 2024. I can't wrap my head around the hell we're being forced to endure. And there is still no light at the end of the tunnel.
It isn't easy being a journalist in Italy. Over 30 live under police protection and over 250 have some form of protection.
Nicholas Whithorn@nickwhithorn.bsky.social · yesterdayLawsuits instigated by Italian politicians against journalists for alleged defamation since 2020: Matteo Salvini (Lega) - 14 Matteo Renzi (IdV) - 8 Guido Corsetto (FdI) - 7 Giorgia Meloni (FdI) - 7 Vincenzo De Luca (PD) - 6 Daniela Santanché (FdI) - 5 Attilio Fontana (Lega) - 5 Source: 'Domani'
"Regele o pornea pe din dos îmbrăcat civil (...) aborda câte o prostituată, o ducea la Palat și, după câte o ședință, îi dă drumul cu un bilet de 500 sau 1000. La ieșirea din Palat era ridicată de agenții poliției si dusă la G.Marinescu, care îi mai da 500 și o amenință cu moartea dacă spune ceva."
Because there is a vast difference between thinking somebody other than Vladimir Putin should be in charge in Russia, and thinking Russia does not have the right to subjugate its neighbours including Ukraine. [2/3]
Get their asses. The EU has to be more than a bandwagon of petty right wingers competing to be the most easily manipulated by our enemies.
Sánchez slams reaction to Ceuta crisis in letter to Von der Leyen
In a letter Saturday, Sánchez laments what he describes as a lack of EU solidarity driven by "prejudice, misinformation and attacks" for political gain. #EuropeNews
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When Trumpist activists hallucinate stuff and don't bother caring of any facts that's understandable. Even the crappy partisan hackery of EPP govs can be understood But journos do have a duty not to hallucinate and make stuff up
Éamann Mac Donnchada@almagroschool.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Economist's coverage of Ceuta is basically pro-Vox shitposting for nice people www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Evidence of the great benefits of AI: it used to take a huge amount of time and effort to make yourself look this stupid; now AI allows you to humiliate yourself almost instantly.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
It's notable that when Belarus/Russia did this to Poland, other EU countries didn't respond by blaming Poland. They blamed Belarus/Russia. No mystery why Europe's governing conservatives are blaming the EU's only leftist prime minister.
There's growing evidence the surge into Ceuta (🇪🇸PM Sanchez has called it an "attack") has, like in 2021, been orchestrated by the Moroccan government in retaliation for Sanchez visiting Algeria Yet it's Spain being criticised by European politicians, not Morocco. So much for solidarity.
About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says
The estimated number of arrivals is more than 70% of the population of the city, which is about 83,600.
bbc.com
While third-country nationals in Ceuta do not enjoy free movement to mainland Spain or the rest of the Schengen area, Spain’s firm response, including ongoing accelerated returns,
Pedro Sánchez hits back at those calling for Spain's expulsion from the Schengen Area: "Solidarity and empathy are optional. The respect for EU treaties is not."
La dénonciation par Bernard Arnault d’une série d’articles du @lemonde.fr lui a valu le soutien de personnalités allant du centre à l’extrême droite. L'épisode en dit long sur la fuite en avant autoritaire et nihiliste de l’homme le plus riche de France. www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...
La triste farce de Bernard Arnault
Le patron de LVMH a dénoncé les critiques d’une série d’articles publiée dans « Le Monde », suscitant le soutien de personnalités allant du centre à l’extrême droite. Un épisode qui en dit long sur l…
mediapart.fr
The Spanish government suspects the sudden arrival of thousands of migrants to Ceuta was an intended effect by Morocco, given that Moroccan law enforcement at the border "disappeared" for hours, even after the situation became critical, @elpais.com reports.
La crisis migratoria de Ceuta pone en jaque las relaciones de España con Marruecos
Los servicios de inteligencia no se creen que la falta de control marroquí en la frontera se debiera a la Fiesta del Trono
elpais.com
📖 Gods of the Upper Air (still no clue as to why they picked this title...) by Charles King was a very interesting book about the School of anthropology lead by Franz Boas, who produced some of the most famous anthropologists of the time, many of them women! 1/
Spain summons Italy’s ambassador after Italy said it’s considering suspending Schengen with Spain over the migratory crisis in Ceuta. Spain “expects European solidarity and not partisan demagoguery”, says foreign minister.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Italian government is considering suspending free circulation with Spain under Schengen. EU countries can reintroduce border checks in response to serious threats to public order or internal security. In this case, it would be new checks at airports for 🇪🇸🇮🇹 flights.
Au #Pakistan, les expulsions forcées des réfugiés afghans s'intensifient. MSF exhorte le gouvernement à les suspendre et à mettre en place des exemptions pour les personnes qui ont besoin d'une protection internationale. www.msf.fr/communiques-...
Pakistan : MSF s’alarme du renvoi massif et forcé des réfugiés afghans
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) exhorte le gouvernement pakistanais à suspendre immédiatement les expulsions forcées visant la population afghane. Alors que le Plan de rapatriement des étrangers en sit...
msf.fr
Britain also can't stop death but for some reason you haven't scrapped the NHS and embraced the death cultist life.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d agoNighty night.
Wow "traitor to the west," strong words, Elon, who are we talking about here... ah the editor-in-chief of The Economist
From the perspective of a cynical AI investor, the question isn't, "Can AI do your job?" The question is, "Can an AI salesman convince your boss that an AI can do your job?" 23/
As Czech PM Andrej Babiš grew closer to Viktor Orbán, his Agrofert empire expanded in Hungary and Romania. It received billions in loans from a bank co-owned by the Hungarian state and Orbán’s childhood friend, and bought into a firm tied to Orbán allies.
Babiš, Orbán, and Agrofert’s Lucrative Business in Hungary - VSquare.org
As Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s friendship deepened, Agrofert secured loans worth billions from a bank co-owned by the Hungarian state as well as by Orbán’s childhood friend.
vsquare.org
Will Western mouthpieces for the russian narrative of an "authoritarian Ukraine" have anything to say now? Despite relentless russian air attacks, Ukrainians took to the streets — and are being heard. Our institutions may not be fully mature yet, but democracy is deeply embedded in who we are.
Just going to say here, I think I've said this before, a 'historically accurate' version of the Odyssey is not possible because the Odyssey does not take place in a historical setting - it takes place in a fantastical pastiche of four centuries, mixed in with gods and monsters.
Watcher Guru@watcher.guru · 2w agoJUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.
Le patronat français met décidément beaucoup d’énergie à démontrer que l’Ordre du jour de Vuillard est à la fois un récit historique et un roman d’anticipation.
Most Russians remained silent and supported Putin when he launched a bloody war against Ukraine. They went about their lives as usual, paying no heed to the mass killings in Bucha, the famine in the occupied town of Oleshky, the flooding of towns following the blowing-up of the Kakhovka dam,
It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!
En novembre, un colloque d'historiens sur le thème de la Palestine était "cancellé" par le Collège de France sur demande du ministre de l'éducation pour éviter des potentiels débordements. La justice français a maintenant tranché que « l’existence d’une polémique ne justifie pas une annulation » 1/
Edwy Plenel@edwyplenel.bsky.social · 3w agoLa justice donne tort à l'administrateur du Collège de France qui avait annulé un colloque sur la Palestine. Le tribunal administratif de Paris considère que la décision de l’institution « est entachée d’une erreur d’appréciation ». www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Danube Institute ain’t gonna fund itself post-Orban
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3w agoThe State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...