This is how your email finds me… (On a campsite in the Veluwe)

AIPAC aside US electoral spending is utterly unfathomable and really quite gross when you think about what that money could be spent on.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 16h ago

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

If your memorialisation of Rod Liddell doesn’t start and end with his violence against women, paedophilia, racism, and transphobia then I don’t want to read it and I will be judging you.

Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.

I know it shouldn’t, but it still does surprise me that supposedly smart people whose opinions we should apparently take seriously are quite happy to just overlook violence against women when the perpetrator is claimed to be funny. And I’m still supposed to venerate these supposedly smart people.

There’s a lot of people showing they don’t care about domestic violence or child abuse today

This. Migration only works as a weapon because what is being weaponised is racism towards migrants.

open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@dov.bsky.social · 2d ago

The optimal response to weaponisation of migration streams by tyrants is and has always been to embrace migration, showing that they cannot frighten us with a good time. I will continue bullying my fellow Europeans until we adopt this.

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

I’m a loser baby! 🏆🇳🇱🏆

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago

Trump: Any country with windmills is a loser, OK?

Oh no Rod Liddle’s died, anyway…

When you only know about two other countries besides the US…

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 5d ago

people love the idea of a multi party system. based on israel, UK, and really lots of other places, I'm much less convinced. our problem is fascism. if we don't defeat fascism, it doesn't matter how many parties we have.

...could not have happened without the involvement in some shape or form of the Moroccan authorities (possibly under pressure from Trump). Dozens of Moroccans were sent to die to score a geopolitical point. #Ceuta nandosigona.info/2026/07/31/c...

Ceuta: a migration crisis or a diplomatic message?

Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham The speed and scale of the arrivals in Ceuta are difficult to explain as an ordinary migration event. According to provisional Spanish estimates, around 50,00…

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I love that we have wolves here in the Netherlands. So much of our ‘countryside’ is as constructed as our cities so it’s exciting to have these little pockets of nature that allow for such diversity. In fact based on what I’ve read their presence in the Veluwe is increasing biodiversity.

Science Magazine@science.org · 4d ago

Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4a9BfLS

Spain received as many asylum seekers in ONE DAY as the Netherlands receives in TWO YEARS! Absolutely shameless for the Dutch government to criticize the Spanish government of their handling of this ACTUAL crisis, given that Dutch governments have been CREATING FAUX crises for decades.

Adult woman who has never been to a pub:

Because they’re too blinded by their own racism. The only reason this migration as hybrid warfare works against Europe is because it weaponises Europe’s anti-migrant racism. If there was no anti-migrant racism these “attacks” wouldn’t work as intended.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Morocco is signaling to Spain through these easily instrumentalized mass crossings that it could attempt to annex Ceuta and Melilla at any point, yet the EU fails to see through this strategy. 6/

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Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 4d ago

Spain's foreign minister maintains 'the integrity of the Schengen area is absolutely guaranteed'.

You’d think “57 PEOPLE tragically died trying to reach Ceuta” would be the BBC News headline but it’s about “migrants” as they become an Elon Musk X account tribute act

Why? Why does this exist except to cause havoc and harm? There is no good use for this. None. Nada. Niks.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Here we go, here we go again

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 5d ago

Italy said it was suspending the EU's border-free Schengen arrangements with Spain in response to a mass influx of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco

The "conspiracy to cover up" here being people saying there is no proof of there being a lab-leak. She's a total crank.

Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d ago

Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"

""I have no idea how to get around this." Because you are not a writer. If you were you would know how to get around it.

Futurism@futurism.com · 7d ago

"I have no idea how to get around this."

Is Burnham still going to resume North Sea drilling? Because… well if the foreign minister is putting out statements like this but the PM is saying drill baby drill. Total, dangerous incoherence.

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

The people who've spent the last 50 years denying/minimising climate change - the columnists, the newspaper owners, those who used their credentials to muddy the waters - should be held personally responsible for every death from global heating. They are murderers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Three firefighters killed on Crete and in mainland Greece as Europe battles wildfires

Repeated heatwaves and strong winds alarm experts, who warn blazes are becoming harder to quell

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as someone who lives in what was a mediterranean biome let me promise you, the climate crisis doesn't respect that lifestyle either

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."

Kansas City was a total lucky guess. www.maptap.gg July 30 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000

“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.