Erick Staal

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A Ukrainian stork dodges a Russian drone.

I'm old enough to remember when Obama put up a basketball hoop at one end of the White House tennis court and conservatives absofuckinglutely lost their shit, saying he was "defiling the people's house." Those people are silent how because conservatism is just hypocrisy spelled differently.

Biggest UK train operator's services to enter public ownership www.gov.uk/government/n...

Being a Jew in modern Britain latest British Museum intimidated into cancelling an event about Jews, because Jews. It's not 'regrettable'. If this happened with any other community, it would lead to outrage. But it's just the Jews www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/pre...

Met deze temperaturen mogen onze zomertips niet ontbreken. Zorg goed voor jezelf en alle dieren om je heen.❤️ https://bit.ly/3IGB9wi #zomer #hitte

Anti-AZC-geweld is racistische eigenrichting.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

The Brexit omerta is certainly ending, with now more voices in the UK openly arguing at least for a revision of the hard Brexit redlines, if not outright rejoin, here the @economist.com. (Though of course this is mainly an UK-internal debate for now).

En nu doorpakken en dit vertalen naar duidelijk beleid. Dat nu persoonsinformatie van ambtenaren via Microsoft naar de Amerikaanse overheid is gelekt, is werkelijk schandalig. De overheid zou ten alle tijde haar personeel moeten beschermen en heeft hier een verwijtbaar risico genomen.

Meer dan veertig jaar na het einde van de commerciële walvisvangst noteren wetenschappers een opmerkelijke toename in waarnemingen van blauwe vinvissen en gewone vinvissen voor de kusten van Namibië en Zuid-Afrika. Ze lijken langzaam terug te keren naar wateren waar ze ooit bijna werden uitgeroeid.

Eerst snellere AOW-verhoging van tafel. Nu dit. Kabinet doet opeens verstandige dingen! fd.nl/politiek/159...

Wordt de “klokkenluider” Pieter van Oordt nu ook beschermd? Er hangt hem ontslag boven het hoofd. www.linkedin.com/posts/pieter...

Nu nog eerherstel voor klokkenluider Pieter van Oordt www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuw...

🚨 Meer dan 200.000 mensen tekende de petitie, bijna de hele Tweede Kamer in actie. Kogel lijkt nu door de kerk: Overname van Solvinity, bedrijf achter DigiD, gaat NIET door. Advies toezichthouder: Blokkeer de overname! Heel mooi dat de Staatssecretaris dit advies overneemt! www.ad.nl/binnenland/r...

Heel goed dat overname Solvinity niet doorgaat! En mijn complimenten voor @barbarakathmann.bsky.social en alle anderen die zich hiervoor hebben ingezet!

Top ReformUK donations . 'Tisun Investments Ltd £613,000.00' 'Tisun Investments Ltd is wholly owned and controlled by the British businessman and Reform UK MP, Richard Tice' DonationWatch United Kingdom.

Volgens mij is de @volkskrant.nl bezig om hun abonnee's weg te jagen naar @trouw.nl ... Serieus, waarom krijgt deze 25 jaar oude onzin voor de zoveelste keer opnieuw een podium in een kwaliteitskrant ?

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ROSENBERG: For so many years, Vladimir Putin's image was based on perception of Putin as Mr. Security, Mr. Stability, that sort of captain of the ship who had calmed the stormy waters after the often chaotic 1990s. No sense of stability, no sense of security in Russia right now.

Facts matter... #Brexot has caused £60-80 billion in lost tax revenue per year. Think what could be done for services, infrastructure, and investment if the UK had that extra money. #RejoinEU

With precise drone attacks, Ukrainian defenders have knocked out almost all major oil refineries in central Russia. In the first 20 days of May, the Ukrainians completely destroyed Tuapse; stopped Moscow, Ryazan, Perm, Kirishi, Samara; and disrupted Primorsk and Yaroslavl.

Nope. There's nothing that can substitute for the 4-8% we are losing each year in income per head. It's a delusion of both the left and the right that you can. The former think they can industrial policy their way out of it; the latter think they can deregulate the UK out of it. Neither true.

🔥 It is now very important in the North to detect and neutralize enemy antennas, repeaters, surveillance equipment and electronic warfare. 210th Assault Regiment is currently performing this very work in the Sumy region.

"Improving the relations with the EU", is still try having cake, and eating it too. Stop that!

Lying by omission, like in this case The Independent does, is still lying.

For years, the Kremlin has seen Europe as easily manipulated and defeated because it's terrified by the prospect of any risk or hardship. The UK govt's shameful decision on Russian energy will confirm that view. For that reason, it's dangerous not just for Ukraine but for the UK.

I cannot stress this enough. European and German policy-makers need to catch up with new realities in the global economy. Stale WTO speaking points aside, there is a potential massive global coalition worried about China's surpluses. Europe has a lot to offer those partners.

This exactly what AI does, it takes great human masterpieces and turns it into bland worthless shit.

EU IN TALKS WITH MAJOR PORTS INCLUDING ROTTERDAM TO STORE CRITICAL MINERALS, SOURCES SAY

STOCKS DECLINE AS TREASURY YIELDS SURGE TO MULTI-YEAR PEAKS, DIMINISHING INVESTOR APPETITE AMID CONCERNS THAT THE ROBUST MARKET RALLY HAS EXTENDED TOO FAR GIVEN WAR-DRIVEN INFLATION THREATS.

Bizar. Ik las dus dat in een duister land in Afrika is afgesproken dat de belastingdienst geen onderzoeken meer zal doen naar oude aangiftes van de president, zijn familie of hun bedrijven. Dat kan dus echt niet in het superieure Westen. Achterlijke cultuur daar.

Zorgen zijn begrijpelijk, maar eigenrichting is bij wet verboden en de wet moet worden gehandhaafd. Punt. @rubenbrekelmans.bsky.social

According to a recent poll by Nanos Research, 57% of Canadians support Canada becoming a full member of the EU. Our Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy is right, there is a reason why there's a queue of countries that want to join the EU, from Canada to Iceland. It's time for us to join them.

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. 📽: NASA Goddard

John le Carré described Boris Johnson as a "mob orator" who fired up people with nostalgia and with anger. He said "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it as something we could return to"

Guten Morgen!

❗️The first 🇺🇦Ukrainian guided aerial bomb (KAB) is ready for combat use. The development by Brave1 took 17 months. The bomb features a unique design, a 250-kg warhead, and can strike targets at dozens of kilometers.

Thought-provoking ideas regarding what kinds of actions European states could take to deter Russian hybrid attacks by striking back.

They try to be 'balanced' in the commentary, but it's very clear from the data that Brexit has been a calamity for the UK. SkyNews doesn't explain what a 4-8% GDP reduction means, in terms of tax rises and spending cuts, missing the actual Brexit reality #r4today news.sky.com/video/was-br...

AI companies currently subsidize their users $3 to $25 for every dollar of subscription. As a result, users are very sensitive to *any* price or rate limit changes, and have no idea what their actual token burn is. Token-based billing will be lethal at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

Brexit made the elite richer, the world less stable and the people of the UK poorer and not just financially. To continue with it is against our national interest and the interest of everyone who wants a safer, peaceful world. No party that continues with Brexit gets my vote.

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