Iva Vukušić
@vukusiciva.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Int History @UniUtrecht / Visiting Research Fellow @WarStudies King's College London / Into history of international law, courts and dogs. Lives in and loves Den Haag <3
..because of course they did. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-... #ClimateDisaster #War #OilCompanies
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
As an example, it hasn't rained properly in The Hague in probably 2 months. All the grass is yellow and dry. Nature is struggling. If that in itself is not making you sad and worried, as it should, then here's a more capitalist argument to why this is terrible.
NRC@nrc.nl · yesterday‘Droogte in Europa kostte al ruim 3 miljard euro’
The morning coffee read. I don't think the prosecutors would ever do this, as it would be the end of any credibility of the office. After that, they could pack up and go home. But let's read what Kevin thinks. #ICC #Israel #Palestine opiniojuris.org/2026/08/03/c...
Could the OTP Withdraw the Netanyahu and Gallant Arrest Warrants?
In the wake of Prosecutor’s Khan’s removal from office, a number of people have asked me whether the current Deputy Prosecutors or the next Prosecutor could withdraw the arrest warrants…
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They're having an interesting gathering at Princeton this fall. Do go if you're around. #HumanRights #SocialMovements #Authoritarianism anthropology.princeton.edu/events/human...
Human Rights and Social Movements in an Era of Authoritarianism
The conference aims to take stock of the attack on human rights discourses and institutions and identify ways of advocating for human rights that are relevant to the current authoritarian era. The his...
anthropology.princeton.edu
There's been a lot of stupid wars, but the stupidest of them all (out of the recent ones, at least) is continuing, even though it already ended, and the US won, like a dozen times. What a bunch of clowns and they're having a real impact on people's lives.
FRANCE 24@france24.com · 2d agoQuelle est la situation dans le détroit d'#Ormuz ? Les #ÉtatsUnis annoncent ce lundi de nouvelles négociations avec l'#Iran pour tenter de rouvrir le passage ; Téhéran dément
EU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.
If I may offer a piece of advice, as someone from a country which has gone through similar challenges (Croatia). What may be useful is a change of thinking. By providing the best available defense to Russians, you are, in fact, providing it to your own legal system. www.thetimes.com/article/85a1...
Russians face a war trial. Ukrainians face having to defend them
As Kyiv brings landmark charges of crimes against humanity with British help, lawyers trying to ensure a fair trial are condemned as collaborators
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My goodness. To be this lucky, to show up to life, this old, with so much gusto <3
WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 4d agoThis is Pepe le Pew. He has been to the beach many times over the years, but still gets just as excited about it. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: pepedog808)
It's the first of August, everybody!!! <3 #Academia #Research #Teaching
Annette Yoshiko Reed@annetteyreed.bsky.social · 5d agoAugust as an academic
Hey TV people, don't say stupid things like this on TV.
Prof Chris Jackson@seismatters.bsky.social · 4d agoBBC presenter: We all know the seas are warming-up…Anyone taking a dip this summer might appreciate that! 🤮
Regulate the shit out of them, European civil servants! <3
Erik Jonker@erikjonker.bsky.social · 5d agoMooi voorbeeld van hoe de EU waarde toevoegt ""The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies have a new challenge on their hands: a 37-member team of civil servants working from a Brussels office building." www.politico.eu/article/meet... #AI #EU
Iva Vukušić's alternative career. I don't know how to drive, but that's a minor issue, I am sure. I can....Cycle around with them in a bakfiets, or cargo bike??? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Experience: I drive a bus for dogs
I worked with children for years, so the noise doesn’t bother me. You know you’ve done a good job if they’re quiet on the way home
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The morning pre-dog walk read: #Sudan #Accountability #Justice www.justiceinfo.net/en/162112-su...
Sudan: bringing to justice those who make the war possible
With Sudan’s war now in its fourth year, not a single person has been prosecuted for crimes committed since April 2023. Three recent initiatives are seeking to fill that gap by tracing the chain of re...
justiceinfo.net
The State Department. The fucking ministry of foreign affairs of one of the wealthiest countries, with the best universities, in the world. Brain rot. An epic embarrassment and fully consistent with the fool festival that the US governance has been the last decade.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
We only rate dogs. This is a bed bug. She's very cute, and we actually wouldn't mind an infestation of this particular bed bug. But please only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (TT: lekik25)
When will this festival of humiliation for the U.S. end, I wonder.
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
We have to fight this slopification of science and knowledge construction with all we've got. In the latest piece I wrote and which should be out soon, I talk explicitly about why I don't use those tools, literally for anything. Resist! #AIslop #Research #Academia www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Dankzij AI groeit het aanbod van wetenschappelijke artikelen, maar die zijn wel slechter geschreven
Kunstmatige intelligentie: Het gebruik van AI leidt tot verrommeling van de wetenschap. „Er is geen harde kwaliteitstoets in het systeem.”
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I'm sorry to say but, currently, the "Mediterranean lifestyle" is epic fires which ruin lives, nature, property and local economies. It's months of drought. I don't think it's that nice, frankly. Wanker.
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d agoThe 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..."
Dear PM, you don't "ga in gesprek" with extremists who use violence to intimidate their neighbours. You don't legitimise their methods by awarding them with conversation. FFS. There is normal way to conduct politics and policy, and a violent way. They are not the same. #Nederland #Netherlands
Johan Fretz@johanfretz.bsky.social · 7d agoGa in gesprek met de mensen die 'kankerhoer!' op je huis kalken en die je auto in de plomp gooien, aldus de premier die zulk gedrag 'lelijk vandalisme' noemt. Het lelijke vandalisme neemt het ook veel te veel over van het mooie expressionistische vandalisme van vroeger.
++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...
Love everything about this conversation between the new Prime Minister and a care home resident who didn’t realise he was.
This makes no sense. #Chad is leaving because "judicial activity focused on the Global South in general and the African continent in particular"and they do so upon a US request, as part of an effort to dismantle the #ICC because it went after A NON-AFRICAN STATE. What?!? www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
Chad becomes fifth nation to quit ICC amid US pressure campaign
Chad has become the fifth country to begin a formal withdrawal process from the International Criminal Court in recent months, following Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
rfi.fr