The announcement by the Serbian Justice Minister that Ratko Mladić, the 'Butcher of Bosnia', will be buried in the country with the highest state honours is further proof of the monstrous nature of the pro-russian Vucic regime. www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/ratko-mla...

Ratko Mladic will be buried with the highest state honors, the Serbian Government confirmed - Sloboden Pechat

Former Republika Srpska Army General Ratko Mladic will be buried with the highest state honors, Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujic confirmed today to Alternative Television (STV) in Banja Luka. Get ...

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I'm reminded of the fact that so many rich dudes, Musk especially, are desperate for people to love them like Dolly is loved. And she never tried hard, she just did nice things to people and spent her money on others without a thought.

It's ME(Jaime)@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.

😱 A massive mudslide and flash flood struck the China–Nepal border, with terrifying footage showing a wall of debris crashing through the Gyirong Port area and sweeping away vehicles. At least 9–16 people have died in Nepal, while 384 travelers are reported missing, including 291 foreign nationals.

We are on a highway to hell because we refuse to stop burning fossil fuels. As we cross 1.5°C of heating climate chaos is spreading globally. One of the most at risk places are places near seasonal rivers and ice (IPCC 2023) #ClimateCrisis

I got nothing.

Retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run up to October’s election. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians

Retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run up to October’s election.

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Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.

Amazing

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

People who disagree with equality are stupid and wrong.

Brigitte Empire@brigitteempire.bsky.social · 5d ago

Completely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights

I saw that graph doing the rounds about AI making kids worse at exams, but reading the piece this is the important one. ‘Those who used AI but spent as long on assignments as non-users paid little penalty. What matters, then, is how pupils use the technology.’ economist.com/graphic-deta...

If you read one thing this weekend,make it this piece about the barbaric crimes that the russians have committed against Ukrainian civilians.Then share it with others so that no one doubts the necessity of defeating the russians and holding them to account — the only way freedom can return to Europe

Inside Russia’s New Gulag

Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell in the new Gulag.

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It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.

We also know that AI is only helpful if you have the discipline specific skills and knowledge to understand when, how, and why the AI is giving you incorrect results. Therefore the most important thing we can do to prepare students to work with AI is double down on the fundamentals.

Europeans in and around the EU system need to accelerate efforts towards achieving strategic self-reliance on the assumption that within a decade the Americans will not just be no longer willing but also no longer able to act as a truly global power

Sub-surface ocean temperatures in the Pacific have now reached 9.96°C above average, significantly warmer than the previous record event in 1997. This El Niño continues to set new records. Nobody alive today has witnessed an event of this magnitude.

I think about this a lot.

amazing article

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2w ago

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card. (Published Dec. 2025)

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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Horrific account of settler violence in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/w...

Settler Siege of Palestinian Homes Highlights Growing West Bank Chaos

Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

nytimes.com

finally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant

🎁-Link: nachrichten.wiwo.de/cb13ebfcf351...

Mercedes, BMW, VW: Die Fahrfehler der deutschen Autobauer – und ihre letzte Chance

Die Chefs der deutschen Autohersteller sind in den ver­­­gangenen Jahren falsch abgebogen. Und die Politik hat sie in die Irre geführt. Nun ist sie da, die Existenzkrise – und die Frage: Wird das noch...

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Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

🚨🚨 #EUsanctions: Austria's intelligence agency uncovered an international network #circumventing EU sanctions imposed against #Moscow to supply #Russian cruise missiles and fighter jets, the country's Interior Ministry announced yesterday. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/austria-unco...

Austria uncovers international network circumventing EU sanctions to supply Russian cruise missiles, jets

"We will continue to take decisive action, with full international cooperation, against those actors who attempt to circumvent legal prohibitions to support the Russian arms industry," Austrian State ...

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So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.

Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

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Good. If tech companies won't do the right thing, the only thing we have left is social shaming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content

Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators

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Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...

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Frederick Douglass, 1857: Those who profess to favor freedom yet deprecate agitation want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder + lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.