Living well is the best revenge

"Antics" In a statement, Netflix said it was confident that its proposed transaction "provides superior value and certainty" — but recognized "the ongoing distraction for WBD stockholders and the broader entertainment industry caused by PSKY's antics."

Impeached after four months due to corruption allegations apnews.com/article/peru...

Fascinating development

🧵 Something about art disturbing the comfortable

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People offer prayers on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Horse at Hong San Koo Tee temple in Surabaya, Indonesia 📸 Juni Kriswanto

Good idea. Solid move. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Imagining a synchronous EU. "After taking around 30% of the vote in European Parliament elections in June 2024, he has grown Tisza into the most formidable political force Orbán has faced during his 16 years at Hungary’s helm." apnews.com/article/hung...

👀 "The DPC is the lead EU regulator for X because the U.S. company's European Union operations are based in Ireland. It can levy fines of up to 4% of a company's global revenue under the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)."

"I exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner." www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Marie-Philip Poulin has scored the most goals in women’s Olympic hockey history! With her goal against Switzerland in the semifinals, she has officially passed Hayley Wickenheiser in all-time goals at the Olympics 👏 #MilanoCortina2026

The recording from our #PublicDomainDay virtual event is now available! 🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the #publicdomain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks. Watch the full recording ⤵️ archive.org/details/the-...

The distinction between grassroots activism and automated influence is collapsing. We typically worry about "bot farms" or "troll factories." But a distinct, more complex threat is emerging. We call it "Cyborg Propaganda."

Good investigations start with the right tools. Searching GitHub for something specific can sometimes be overwhelming, so we compiled a list of our most-used tools and added honest explanations about what the tools are best used for here: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

Redford cameo in Dark Winds has me 😔

This part ⤵️ "No one doubts the World Service’s value as an instrument of soft power. But, as BBC bosses argue, it is also part of our national security. Accurate journalism is the strongest weapon in the war of information. The World Service must not be allowed to stumble into decline."

EU's Kallas rebuts US claims of Europe's 'civilizational erasure’- German Press Agency www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Me thinks there’s an influx of questionable accounts about. Choose how you spend your time wisely.

The horrors persist, but so do I energy

Google and Meta are being accused of designing their social media products to be addictive and harmful to children’s brains in a lawsuit that just went to trial. @madlinbmek.bsky.social explains the novel legal arguments being used to skirt Section 230: on-the-media.visitlink.me/SoQBVy

"There is a moral dimension to this endeavour. Rearmament is not warmongering; it is the responsible action of nations determined to protect their people and preserve peace. Strength deters aggression. Weakness invites it."

It's generous of curling to allow other winter sports to be held at the same venue as its premier event every 4 years.

"A report prepared by the German nonprofit organization Bertelsmann Stiftung found that on TikTok, for example, 50% of all suggested political content was found to be AfD-related, with the mainstream conservatives a distant second at 15%."

Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”

London views Navalny’s poisoning as a “blatant breach” of the Chemical Weapons Convention and is calling on Moscow to “immediately cease this dangerous activity.”

Yet, still making maximalist demands. The math is not mathing. "Russia is suffering "crazy losses" in Ukraine, tallying around 65,000 soldiers over the last two months, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference." www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Yesterday & Today in Ukraine (12-14 February 2026) Ukraine Daily Update Map Aggregated News Report Daily update is back —- sorry about the missed post yesterday. We experienced a critical failure of our news aggregation tools yesterday. Here's the last 2 1/2 days: open.substack.com/pub/brendank...

The special team was created "to be able to extract any piece that could be usefully reused in a new investigative framework," the prosecutor's office told the AFP news agency. www.dw.com/en/epstein-f...

"But to have a stronger Europe, the Commission President noted that the European Union must continue to work with strong partners, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland and Canada. The US was conspicuously absent from that list."

The only comment I have on the Rubio speech is that I don’t want to spend too much time on the Rubio speech. Nothing is changing with regards to US policy. We don’t need to do a line-by-line analysis.

Funny story, the 2024 election had more disinformation riddling it than any other in history. Here's what that looks like in practice

I’m down a rabbit hole on the swarovski website now please send help

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Polish lawmakers have passed a bill exempting Polish volunteers who defended Ukraine from punishment, according to the bill's description on the Sejm's website.

“We Europeans are now relearning that, if you want to be successful in this world, we need a diplomacy that is underpinned with sufficient military power,” Wolfgang Ischinger tells Nick Schifrin from @pbsnews.org, just hours before #MSC2026. Watch the full interview ⬇️

ICYMI: "Chancellor Friedrich Merz sought to emphasize their areas of agreement while talking to reporters on arrival. This follows extensive media coverage on differences between the heads of the EU's two biggest economies." DW www.dw.com/en/france-ge...

Triscuits are just salty Shredded Wheat

Link here for Tochnyi’s website. They do great work. tochnyi.info/2026/02/ukra...

Check out this week’s Independent Press Top 40 bestsellers for fiction.

"Poland will not be a vassal" of America, says Prime Minister Donald Tusk. "Allied relations cannot consist of constantly saying yes to everything." He suggested that President Nawrocki, a Trump ally, favours Poland having such a subservient role to Washington.

The noise I made when I saw this. 😀

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Very much hope people are starting to organize rn to help others get necessary documents. No time to waste. Reach out to each other. Hope for the best, but PREPARE for the worst

Some very important lessons to take away here as fascism rises

EU Council approves defence assistance to Member States, defence assistance treaty with Canada 🇨🇦 www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...