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Flying object hits plane at German airport as drone discovered carrying explosive device | CNN

An unidentified flying object hit a a cargo plane at a German airport on Wednesday, as the discovery of a drone carrying an explosive device caused disruption and the suspension of flights.

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Rated by whom? ChatGPT or Claude?

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 12h ago

Stunning opening sentence to this piece www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meloni's government approves executive decree giving more powers to police forces to use facial recognition AI softwares in public places.

il Post@ilpost.it · 12h ago

È stato approvato il decreto sul riconoscimento facciale, con qualche modifica

JUST IN: Trump signals plan to reframe his suit against BBC. Likely to narrow Trump's claim to take out ref to damage to his businesses/brand. Needs judge's OK, but may limit BBC access to his financial data Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Motion to Seal (Public) – #106 in Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation (S.D. Fla., 1:25-cv-25894) – CourtListener.com

Motion to Seal (Public)

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The EU may examine the efforts of Russian actors all it wants - I don't expect it to do anything that will address the problem - but ignoring the obvious, blatant, and direct information threat from the US techno-oligarchy is something much graver than simple ignorance on the EU's part. 4/4

Now, I'm telling you this as a person who has studied Russian information warfare for more than ten years: none of the Russian disinformation campaigns linked to the Ceuta crisis can possibly reach the impact of one techno-oligarch spreading right-wing disinformation on the platform he owns. 3/4

And here's the EU: "The European External Action Service has begun examining whether Russian actors sought to exploit the event on social media networks for political purposes". 2/4

This is Elon Musk, a techno-oligarch with 241 million followers on TwitterX, spreading and amplifying Ceuta-linked right-wing disinformation, with one message reaching 9.9 million views and the other 7.9 million as of right now. 1/4

In exchange for the red carpet photos, European politicians gave far-left and far-right an opening to campaign against "sending people's sons to Ukraine to die for Zelensky." What a wonderful, wonderful gift

It's just amazing how much time and political capital Europeans invested in discussing an imaginary peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. And for what? The French and Germans and Brits won't go to war with Russia over Ukraine anyway. Use whatever resources you have to get more guns to Ukraine. And faster

"Akti"@aktenfresser.bsky.social · 12h ago

Sollten jemals westliche Truppen in die Ukraine entsandt werden, kann das ukrainische Militär schon aus Eigeninteresse nicht wollen, dass diese Kräfte dauerhaft an einer Waffenstillstandslinie oder an der Grenze zu Belarus stationiert werden.

The 1st time I heard Trump speak, I accidentally tuned into Stern & Trump made disgusting sexual remarks about his two little girls’ bodies. 1995, probably. He was so disgusting that I never forgot it. I was horrified when the GOP ran him for president & he “won.” Goddamn idiot Americans. 🤦🏻‍♀️

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services refuses to turn over records about the Trump-Vance admin’s efforts to use and share citizenship data in connection with election-related activities. We’re suing to get at the truth of the admin's election overreach ahead of the 2026 midterms.

While they check even our backpacks' weight...

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · yesterday

Pilot caught with 70,000 ecstasy pills at Indonesian airport

🇧🇪 Bart De Wever wants to “dig to the bottom” of the Ceuta crisis and says a meeting of EU leaders might be necessary. “It seems as though there is an open door and that anyone wanting to put pressure on us can use migration as a geopolitical weapon. That is particularly frustrating.”

Two boys injured in Hama highlight the deadly legacy of Syria's war, with hundreds killed by mines and unexploded ordnance since Assad's fall:

Hama blast exposes Syria’s deadly landmine legacy

Two boys injured in Hama highlight the deadly legacy of Syria’s war, with hundreds killed by mines and unexploded ordnance since Assad’s fall.

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We need to pressure South Korea to sell air defense to Ukraine

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 2d ago

1/5 South Korea expects total solidarity from Western allies against threats from North Korea and China, yet refuses to sell critical defensive arms to Ukraine while its civilians are under attack

They’re just afraid of competition

Anti-Fascism and Far Right@ffrafaction.bsky.social · yesterday

Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/far-rig...

>gloating in anticipation thinking of the moment when millions will realize how mismatched with the original, and even mistitled, Nolan's film is<

Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · yesterday

Do you hear that? That's the sound of a million scholars around the world rejoicing as people turn away from their phones towards books written thousands of years ago

I must say this is one of the best things I've read in days. Absolutely dripping with charts and insights on the scale and intricacies of the wildfire season in Europe, as things currently stand. It is a complex picture - and yh, it's *bad* in many places. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/europe-wil...

Is Europe having a bad wildfire year?

Several countries in Europe are having a very large wildfire year; this is offset by lower burn in the Balkans

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>looks at himself in the mirror, shakes head in dismay< I knew that I should have cut carbs and beer before summer, but still.

IFLScience@iflscience.com · yesterday

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Backchannel talks of the perineums of a deal over the opening of the straight of Hormuz

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d ago

BREAKING: Trump pauses attacks on Iran, citing “perimeters of a deal” that would end Tehran’s “nuclear threat” and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

ICE has killed another person.

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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Law and Order, ladies and gentlemen

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

so democratic socialism is good

Anyone who withdrew from the urban chaos to a cabin in the woods can relate. Hence the modern mythology about noisy teenagers on unhinged vacation being massacred by exasperated local maniacs.

Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 2d ago

Another famous tale tells of a frontiersman who sees wood chips floating in the river and deduces someone else is building a homestead upriver. So he grabs his axe and goes to... kill the newcomer. And as late as when I was a wee kid, this was presented as IDEALISED Finnish mentality/behaviour 😬

There was a similar collective amnesia about the 1918 flu pandemic. I've never seen a memorial to that either.

Malaclypse the Middle@malaclypse.bsky.social · last wk.

A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.

Many wonder how Abdul Ballout—a man convicted of extremist-related offences and regarded as a serious security threat—could have been set free

The Berlin terror attack exposes deep failings in the state

Germany knew Abdul Ballout was dangerous. It let him go anyway

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>Marshals Jean Lannes and Joachim Murat entered the chat< (You know, the guys who walked chatting across the lines over a *mined* bridge and laughed at the Austrian soldiers who threatened them as if they haven't heard of the "armistice". There was no armistice and they took over the Tabor bridge.)

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d ago

Anyway, I find these frequent 'trick battles' in TV and film (Rings of Power is lousy with them) really annoying because the tricks are things that would never work in a real battle, rather than someone pulling a strategem that was real. Which wouldn't be hard - there are whole books of them!

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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