there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins

Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...

🇨🇦 Eurovision: - Eurovision confirmed they're in early negotiation with the CBC - CBC confirmed the broadcaster picks the artists - Canada is already an associate member of the EBU like Australia

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

Man i am lonely here. Exactly why i did not want to move.

For my next political campaign i am gonna hire some of the now unemployed Assadist and ISIS nasheed singer songwriters

It’s easy to be a good pedestrian. What’s hard is for news outlets to address the systemic solutions to traffic violence.

So annoying that the cat is really addicted to playing Balatro on the Switch :/

💥Explosive new statement from Nexperia Netherlands overnight - can't guarantee the IP, tech, authenticity and quality standards for products delivered from Nexperia China as of Oct 13 - refutes rumours that Chinese CEO Zhang Xuetong is back www.nexperia.com/abo...

Yes NATO is crucial. Yes the EU lacks power. But it is so reductive to think that peace comes only from who has the most rockets, while forgetting why countries would use these rockets in the first place. Centuries of Europeans killing each other, not trusting each other. All that stuff runs deep &/

❗Prize Winner❗ We are so delighted to learn that our very own Elie Perot has won the "2025 Global Strategy PhD Prize", awarded by the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and the Egmont Institute. Congratulations, @elieperot.bsky.social! 🥂 Info www.egmontinstitute.be/the-2025-glo...

📣On 10 November, SIPRI is pleased to invite you to a public webinar on possible directions for multilateral policy on autonomous weapon systems. 🗓️ 10 November 2025 ⏰ 13:15–14:15 CET 🎙️ Alexander Blanchard, Netta Goussac and Vincent Boulanin Register now: bit.ly/4hLHbx1

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Well fuck www.biopharmadive.com/news/uniqure...

Geweldige stap! Het is ongehoord dat de internationale rechtsorde wordt ondermijnd door een Amerikaanse president die onze digitale afhankelijkheid misbruikt. Mooi dat nu de keuze voor het Europese alternatief wordt gemaakt. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table

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OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

Well fuck www.biopharmadive.com/news/uniqure...

The number of people between 16 and 34 who died or were injured in a work-related incident increased by 76% between 1939 and 1946

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

This week I cannot even walk up a stair without being completely floored gasping for air, which is a little inconvenient when you just moved from a flat to a house with stairs x) #LiveLongLongCovid

Ik kreeg net dubbele bluesky post :D

get in loser, we're speaking ill of the dead

Bye bye warmongerer, too bad you never got to see the Hague like you deserved

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

The artist Keith A Pettit spotted this photo and came up with this wood engraving based on it. I love it. You can find out more about Keith's work here: www.keithapettit.com

Eindelijk! Goed nieuws www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...

On my morning commute, I’ve started noticing these small black lockboxes mounted beside doorbells or hanging from fences. They’re easy to miss, but once you spot one, you start seeing them everywhere.

Come get your holiday gifts

In de Belgische gevangenissen slapen momenteel 499 gedetineerden op de grond, een "ongezien aantal" volgens het gevangeniswezen. Er zijn momenteel 2.000 gedetineerden meer dan er plaatsen zijn. "Een humanitaire crisis voor de gedetineerden en een noodtoestand voor het personeel", klinkt het.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

it's called writing and it's nuts

microplastics is such a bottom tier generational poison they used to put hard drugs in the sodapop

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

Joost Klein met Herman van Veen. Ik wist niet dat ik het nodig had maar ik had het zó nodig in verband met *gebaart weids* 🥰

Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2 november 1570. In de Nederlandse en Vlaamse kustgebieden braken dijken door. Hele dorpen verdwenen onder water en er stierven vermoedelijk meer dan 20.000 mensen. Omdat de christelijke feestdag Allerheiligen een dag eerder had plaatsgevonden, werd deze overstroming ‘Allerheiligenvloed’ genoemd.

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

The decline of Dutch in Manhattan was slower than I thought. In 1700, half of the city’s population was Dutch, and during the 1741 Slave Uprising conspiracy investigations, 81 of the 211 accused enslaved people were noted as Dutch-speaking.

An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable. The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2 🏺

Article published on October 31. The screen writers are working overtime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Why did i dream about Marcel Duchamp? I have not heard about or thought about him in ages

0 trick or treaters at my door, the move was all for nothing