Germany changes policy on Ukrainian Refugees A critical analysis and lessons for all Ukrainian refugee host countries A free analysis from Beefy. Please share and support him in his work! open.substack.com/pub/beefeate...

I’m glad to receive the Knight International Journalism Award. This award isn’t just for me—it’s for every journalist who risks their life to shine a light in dark places. It’s for the three Russian journalists killed in Central African Republic in 2018. It’s for you, my friends

🇬🇪🇳🇴Norway’s MFA has given a clear and principled response to the appeal from Kreba • კრება / Association of Georgians in Norway about Georgia’s democratic crisis. All cooperation and political contact with Georgian Dream’s leadership is suspended. The MFA states: 1/5

Quit scrolling and start posting! Because the #DAX and #AnalysisServices team are now LIVE and answering YOUR questions. Jump in and have fun! Link: aka.ms/powerbiama #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric

The time frame between these videos is one year. In 2024, this building in Pokrovsk was home to hundreds of people. By 2025, only shattered walls remained. #StandWithUkraine and support those standing against its destruction: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

🇨🇴 #Colombia Contract negotiations finalized - media FM Radio reports: 17 x #Gripen E/Fs in contract (long term 24) after payment plan allowed for +1 Gripen. Agreement could be announced today (Nov 14) during 106th anniversary of the Colombian Aerospace Force. Photo: Saab AB

Our website recently got an upgrade! It was initially built on WordPress in 2016 then after several hacks, was exported to HTML and put on @github.com's Pages in 2020. Now, it's been redesigned using Hugo and Claude Code. Let us know what you think!

When your professor is back from an unlawful detention under the rapidly emerging dictatorship. Giorgi Mumladze’s class today at Ilia State University. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

The full event back story for our winter conference #MicrosoftFabric #SynapseAnalytics #AI #Copilot #AIAgent #MicrosoftPurview #DataToboggan #PowerBI

The bathing season is apparently still on.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA)!!! 🥳 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv...

Art imitating life, years before it happened. And here we are - hillbillies in the ascendency

I like this picture a lot. A tired but unyielding middle-aged Georgian lady vs rows of regime policemen. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 MOSE

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Vi får väl då lite blygsamt erkänna att vi kanske skulle komplettera vårt 1,2MW reservkraftverk som driver parlamentsområdet i Kyiv med en stor UPS också så dom slipper glappet. Men kul att se att våra reservkraftverk fungerar på riktigt! Fortsätt stödja oss, för mer reservkraft!

Guten Morgen!

Fellas, I point out that EU is now hiring PsyOp and Counter-PsyOp specialists, and information/counter-information specialists. NAFO is a huge merit. Open for all EU-Fellas. Step 1 to apply: Ability to find the application webpage (no, I'm not joking). Welcome to Serve!

Researchers have found out why productivity in Finland drops every fall for a period of 8 weeks: people sit glued to their screens watching the annual puppy live feed

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9 November 1915 | Norwegian Jew, Sigurd Dickman, was born in Kristiania (today Oslo). In #Auschwitz from 1 December 1942. He perished in the camp on 15 February 1943. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Besökte Kramatorsk och Druzjkivka i dag. Körde in på det här sättet från Izium, uppåt 180 km/h. Större delen av vägen är täckt med anti-drönarnät men det finns luckor där jag gasade lite extra. Min kamrat filmade.

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

Alltid lika läsvärt o intressant när Gudrun Persson lägger ut texten. ⬇️

I don't have the qualifications for this job (yet) but would love something like this role in the future If you are looking for a short-term contract Data Engineer role, you should take a look! protectdemocracy.recruitee.com/o/data-engin...

🇸🇪 Swedish #DefMin Pål Jonson update on #Gripen E 🇺🇦 Ukraine formally sent RFI (Request For Information) - Sweden commited to deliver within Ukrainian timeline. - Training of pilots and technicians. - Establishing JWG (Joint Working Group) with Airforce, Industry, Gvmt.

BREAKING ‼️ Virtually all democratic leaders in Georgia are now prosecuted over "sabotaging the state." 1/

No matter what happens, we must remember those who need our help the most 💙💛

RYSKA BROTT MOT MÄNSKLIGHETEN Förenta Nationerna presenterade i dagarna en fördömande rapport avseende ryska krigsbrott OCH brott mot mänskligheten! Läs särskilt § 81-85. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

Important question in accessible visualization. Our interviews (doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG...) tell us that basing an accessible representation on the visualization is good for (1) working with sighted people, and (2) for people not born BLV. Dylan Cashman and Areen Khalaila #ieeevis

www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi... #CTI #cybersecurity #infosec

Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025 dbafromthecold.com/2025/10/31/a... #sqlblog #sqlserver #sql2025

Just perfect. "Been in Europe 3 yrs, never felt this close to Russia, you are repeating line by line the propaganda on Russian TV," Pussy Riot artist tells a stunned Putin-Versteher Sarah Wagenknecht to her face, on prime-time TV.

A few hours late - but the SQLServerFast Black Friday sale has now officially started. Until the end of the month, purchase prices for all my training videos are slashed in half! sqlserverfast.com/video

For the 4th year now, while people worldwide don creepy costumes, Ukrainians wearing pixel camo exorcize real-life evil spirits🔥 And the former support the latter in this endeavor. Let's keep up this good tradition u24.gov.ua/donate/defen... Happy Halloween, everyone🎃

The CFP for #Swetugg 2026 closes at the end of today! If you have always wanted to try speaking, but were too afraid, then I can say from experience this is the place to try! Experienced speaker? We have a great crowd and *the best* speaker room I've ever seen. sessionize.com/swetugg-stoc...

NUCLEAR ESCALATION😱 TRUMPS NUCLEAR BRIEFCASE EXPOSED BY FSB AGENTS 👇 👇 👇

Want to present at our new Stockholm SQL usergroup? We're doing in-person sessions about once per month. If you can't make any of those specific dates, reach out to @transmokopter.bsky.social or me, and we'll work something out for you!

For years, I've been exposing Russia's atrocities in Africa—from Wagner's blood-soaked mines in CAR to their wars in Mali. The truth hurts, and now Russian trolls are targeting me with insults & death threats. They want me silenced. I won't be. Africa's stories deserve to be told.

can you feel it? 🕷🕸🧙‍♀️🍂

My latest blog post is titled "Join me 17 Dec 2025 for A Day of Azure Data Factory Live, 1-Day Training" and includes a coupon code to save 10%! Read more at andyleonard.blog/2025/10/join.... #adf #live #training

Improved Connectivity Types in #Azure SQL Managed Instance techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresq... #Microsoft #SQLServer #AzureSQL #SqlDBA #MadeiraData

Imagine a 4TB unencrypted SQL Server database backup just sitting there for anyone to find. #azure #sqlserver #security #infosec www.neosecurity.nl/blog/ey-data...

An incredible example of fighting Russian propaganda. Italian Senator Carlo Calenda and American economist Jeffrey Sachs argued about the 2014 Revolution of Dignity on Italian television:👇

@spaghettidba.bsky.social Just have to report this otherwordly pizza experience we had today. Meet the Hawler: Kebab Pizza with Fries. #OnlyInTorsby

Today you have one task: update DAX Studio to 3.4.0. If you have a model with DAX UDFs (user-defined functions) or Calendars, here is the version that correctly handles autocompletion and VPAX export. 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘁? Now you can! https://daxstudio.org/blog/v3_4_0-release/

I know I ask you to visit the feedback site to report issues. Today, for Friday Feedback, I'm asking folks to go to a specific item and upvote it, if you're interested. Does auto-save and auto-reopen sound interesting? 🙃 developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Add-abilit...

Gripen till Ukraina är ett problem för Ryssland, men det handlar främst om att stoppa nästa krig, inte att avgöra detta. Medverkade i Aktuellt igår om Gripen till Ukraina —> www.svtplay.se/video/eJy3Zv...

🇸🇪 The Swedish Armed Forces has officially received the first of many JAS 39 Gripen E fighters - marking a milestone for our Air Force and enhancing our capabilities to defend our skies. #svfm

#Autumn #Stunday #FallVibes #ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #MobilePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky