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Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

Say what you will about the BBC but in three minutes I’ve become deeply concerned about seahorse mortality, and there’s just nowhere else that would bother to invite on an expert to talk about how the poor little guys can’t handle flash photography

Since the booktok girlies are the only ones still reading, military theory needs to adapt

Dead Carl@deadcarl.bsky.social · 6d ago

Any excuse to post the classic

Well this is a nightmare

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

In April 2011, I wrote a survey of the pre-uprising opposition in Syria. I thought it was long lost, but apparently the research division of Sweden’s Migration Board kept a PDF copy online all these years. So for the history buffs, here it is: lifos.migrationsverket.se/dokument?doc...

Mayo for NLAW 🙏🙏

Tonight, a new investigation reveals how much water each individual data centre campus has used in the past two years. But our findings also show how pharma plants have used more than double that of data centres. Story w/ @davidmacredmond.bsky.social Read just after midnight on thejournal.ie 🔜

In @nytimes.com I write about Russia's global struggle to outlast the West. About Russia's ardent admirers, opportunistic enablers, and improbable resistors and victims. The essay is adapted from WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM, my forthcoming book, out Aug 4 @wwnorton.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

Opinion | Russia Will Not Yield (Gift Article)

A journey around the globe showed the country’s relentless adaptation.

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Some badass Egyptian princesses to read about with your Sunday morning coffee.

Bronwyn Isaacs@find-bronwyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

"buried with a powerful arsenal of weapons . . . which archaeologists have continued to dismiss as "purely symbolic" But. . . "evidence the princesses knew how to use them, based on the state of the muscle attachments on their bones, and the signs of injuries" www.sciencealert.com/ancient-egyp...

UPDATE: Minneapolis' air quality now ranked as world's worst as smoke from northern wildfires cloaks the region Thursday.

Minneapolis has world's worst air quality Thursday as northern wildfires rage on

The air quality in Minneapolis is ranked the worst among major cities globally Thursday as smoke from northern wildfires cloaks the region.

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A really fun thing about my brain insisting we do everything manually is that I can look at a ship and know if it's part of the Iranian shadow fleet or just Greek

Aughinish Alumina report will not rule out that material is used in Russian weapons www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Aughinish Alumina report will not rule out that material is used in Russian weapons

At the highest level in Government there is much sensitivity about the Co Limerick plant

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Trump's Strait of Hormuz fee would cost millions, open "a very dangerous Pandora's Box," experts say www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

Trump's Strait of Hormuz fee would cost millions, open "a very dangerous Pandora's Box," experts say

Industry insiders say "there is no legal basis" for Trump to impose a 20% fee on cargo transiting the Strait of Hormuz, which could cost tens of millions of dollars per ship.

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The forest south of Paris being burned up in wildfire isn’t just any forest. Fontainebleau was crucial to the development of Impressionism, is in masterpieces by Monet and Renoir, and the campaign to protect it inspired one of the earliest environmental manifestos www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Fire ravages protected France forest that inspired the artists of Paris

Wildfire burns through nearly a fifth of Forest of Fontainebleau that featured in works of Monet and inspired early environmentalism

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There used to be so many boats

Of all the flies on the wall I want to be the one in the BBC Parliament planning meetings because what the hell happens if Binface actually wins

but wait they already freed him we all saw it

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Free Willy” reboot in the works at Warner Bros

Erdogan gave everyone a gun

The two men charged with the murder of Lyra McKee have been found Not Guilty by the Judge. Thoughts with Lyra's family and Sara rn. Justice for Lyra forever.

The conclusion the French built some of the world's most beautiful ships is a post Hoche fallacy

"We are no longer dealing with the traditional maritime arrangement in the Strait of Hormuz, which we are familiar with, the one that existed before the war. This new navigational order has been created by Iran" www.cbsnews.com/news/us-iran...

How Iran could try to control the Strait of Hormuz - and profit from it

Some experts say the Strait of Hormuz will not return to its pre-war state, so what could the future of this vital shipping lane look like?

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How embarrassing www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ukraine refuses Irish offer of armoured combat vehicles

The 27 vehicles were first acquired by the Defence Forces in 2009 but frequently broke down and were rarely used

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MSF hiring Missing Maps Coordinator and GIS Specialist: "The purpose of the role is to support collection, analysis and use of GIS data to support medical operational decision making." cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/app.php?modu...

Missing Maps Coordinator and GIS (Geographical Information Systems) Specialist (Maternity Cover)

Job Purpose:The purpose of the role is to support collection, analysis and use of GIS data to support medical operational decision making within MS

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My building is built literally on the ruins of the Blitz and I installed my aircon unit in about 30 minutes

Robert Hanks@roberthanks.bsky.social · last mo.

Can you begin to imagine the complexity and expense of installing air conditioning in a continent of 700 million people with old housing stock (and meanwhile rearming against Russian aggression)? It obviously is not a solution to this heatwave, and quite likely not the next three or four.

Very strange things in the Gulf right now as it seems Iran is threatening the ships using the southern route it had supposedly agreed to with Oman and the IMO. A number of ships have turned back and more diverted from the Oman route to the Iran route. It must be awful on board those ships.

No you're getting mildly emotional watching pixels go across the IMO evacuation route

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Whether Andy Burnham should be PM next dominates politics. One question alnost no one will seriously ask: does it matter that he is a Catholic? His faith has shaped him as much as football. Being Catholic will be no more a disqualification than being an Evertonian! www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Wars trigger $12bn venture capital rush into defence tech giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Wars trigger $12bn venture capital rush into defence tech

Plus, Thoma Bravo’s PE wipeout, dollar bullishness post Fed decision and Alexander Calder in Paris

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Come on, man