An anti-AI-slop party invitation template! @joetoon.bsky.social provides a freebie so we don't have to endure the exhaustion of seeing yet another AI slop invitation/flyer/etc
Tanushree Rao
@tanushree.bsky.social
IR PhD candidate at Stockholm University • aid, inequality, IOs, climate and humanitarian crises • #rstats, critical and blended methodologies • parent to small beings • meme connoisseur • 🇸🇪 based, 🇮🇳 born, 🐨🦘 raised
UK aid spending is expected to fall by around 42% – or £6.5 billion – from a record high in 2023 to a historic low in 2027-28, according to a report by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI). buff.ly/svnk9eq
In spite of all the shitty things about technological 'advancement' lately, some things are truly wonderful www.bbc.com/news/article...
Woman has pioneering surgery for unborn baby with intestines outside its body
Theo became the first British baby to be operated on in the womb to correct complex gastroschisis, as part of a pioneering clinical trial.
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One of the coolest things I've seen lately: Etson Caminha in Timor-Leste experimenting with nature sounds 🥁🌴
Finally, a way to get recalcitrant boomers to care about climate change
Really interesting story from @timjudah.bsky.social on how the US is using gas to get what it wants in the Balkans--or how it is using the Balkans to get what it wants with gas--and how that pushes the EU to the sidelines. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
America’s Balkan policy is all about gas
It is using its terminal in Krk to shoulder the green EU aside
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Technically, they’re Remains now.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
I don’t think any of the concerns about LLMs or DMs rely on use / uselessness. The question is about the affordances they set up, the patterns they normalize; and what gets displaced or relocated — and for whom.
“Harmful medical experiences, stigma, misinformation and lack of transparency have all made it hard to talk about being intersex, difficult to access safe, informed and accessible services, and hard to collect data on the experiences and needs of adults with innate variations. This needs to change.”
What people with intersex traits want you to know
People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.
theconversation.com
In a new @eadi.bsky.social reflection paper, @ryancbriggs.net & @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kings-sga.bsky.social explore what drives deep disagreements in development studies—and point to the “disciplinary baggage” of PhD training. Read more: buff.ly/ASH1bL9
The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.
Plague Poems@plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
This. Yes, aid is frequently imperialistic. Yes, it needs to be reformed. No, drastically cutting it isn't it.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last mo.everyone I know who worked in foreign aid had issues with the structure of U.S. foreign aid, but since those people aren’t brain-dead sociopaths, they didn’t think destroying the entire program was the solution either
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · last mo.WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
Finally! An article about the AMOC circulation that isn’t just clickbait / hype, and provides some real physical insights about how the ocean works. It turns out the ocean may be far more resilient than clikbait stories suggest. A very worthwhile read! www.science.org/content/arti...
The ocean current that warms Europe may be more resilient than feared
Studies of the Atlantic's circulation find signs of both weakening and unexpected stability in the face of global warming
science.org
Very cool new dataset on subnational government climate pledges and emissions from @profangelhsu.bsky.social et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... #polisky
ClimActor 2.0: A spatialized database of subnational climate pledges and emissions data - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - ClimActor 2.0: A spatialized database of subnational climate pledges and emissions data
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Happy trillionaire day to all those who commemorate
This Is Fine Meme
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I still have so many questions. Can we have The Wiggles and Cards Against Humanity next?
CATAN@catan.com · 3mo agoWackadoo! We’ve got something special coming up and we can barely contain our excitement. The iconic Bluey is coming to the world of CATAN! 🤩💙 #catan #bluey
STOP COUCHING THINGS IN SEMI-PASSIVE TERMS. Your lede is: "Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian infant and wounded his parents, the Palestinian health ministry reported." None of this is hard.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2mo agoIsraeli gunfire killed a Palestinian infant and wounded his parents in the south of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry reported
#Adaptation policy increasingly talks about interconnected, systemic climate risks. Far fewer policies actually act on them. A new SEI report examines why – drawing on cases from Europe, Southeast Asia and the US. 📄 Read it: www.sei.org/publications...
New article! “How the Central Emergency Response Fund Crowds in Bilateral Humanitarian Aid”: I find that bilateral humanitarian aid tends to follow CERF aid, suggesting that this UN fund can catalyse aid for humanitarian crises. 🪙@gsqjournal.bsky.social #poliscisky academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
How the Central Emergency Response Fund Crowds in Bilateral Humanitarian Aid
Abstract. The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is central to peacebuilding and disaster relief, yet we know little about its capacity
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1. IDF defenders claim Gaza's male-to-female ratio (~3.2:1 in ages 15-39) shows exceptional care in protecting civilians. I analyzed this ratio across 21 cases. The data shows the opposite: Gaza's pattern is consistent with indiscriminate killing, not precision targeting. 🧵