Oliver Rivers

Looking forward to the possibility of Israel voting out the guy who committed genocide in Gaza in favour of the guy who explicitly declared war crimes to be an inherent part of Israeli tactics in Lebanon And then being gaslit by the media that this counts as progress

Different countries, different elections. But a year that has seen Orbán, Bolsonaro and Vučić defeated (and the GOP likely routed at the midterms next week) doesn't exactly fit the narrative of a relentless rightwards shift. Good candidates, campaigns, movements can still win.

💥WSJ reports that Trump wants Viktor Orbán as UN secretary-general, with Russian and Chinese backing. Back in May, I reported that MAGA circles were already eyeing a top UN job for Orbán—then a DSG post to shield him from prosecution. More on @vsquare.bsky.social: vsquare.org/goulash-orba...

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

Tweaking the algorithm makes you a publisher, with everything that entails.

What a monumental success in Serbia. Young people coming together, believing in change and fighting for a better future. It should be a lesson for democracies around the globe. Our democracies can only work when young people are represented and empowered, when engagement goes beyond career politics.

thanks emudhra for the assist. a list of the hosts that a 2025 tizen samsung TV talks to and what data ships - even with all of the data collection and interest tracking opted out of gist.github.com/haileyok/906...

Obv correct. PHP also shows how failure could cascade. I stocked up with cans when Iran war started & I’ve just ordered 2x25 litre water containers. If I’m wrong, I’ve just got 2 superfluous plastic containers. If I didn’t get them and there was a disaster, I’d be screwed. Super asymmetric payoffs.

Good news: there is already is a prominent Israeli citizen working in this area, and his company already has staff in Israel. Bad news: it’s Ilan Shor, the Moldovan bank robber whose A7 has just been deemed a Transnational Criminal Organization [sic] by the US Treasury. www.ft.com/content/3848...

It’s one of those irregular verbs: I embrace a blockchain-based alternative payments system, you engage in money-laundering.

Every cat: we tried to tell you the sun shines out of our arses, but would you listen?

If you want to be kept up to date about the election, politics and protests in Serbia, there are some great people for that on here: @krstorevic.bsky.social, @danijelmajic.bsky.social @ballaballa-balkan.bsky.social @mihajlovicfreiburg.com @crta.bsky.social

About ten years ago, I lived in Serbia for a year, teaching German at a Belgrade school. Many of the students from back then have been taking to the streets for years, trying to end corruption and authoritarianism in their country. I deeply hope they’ll be successful in ousting Vučić today.

I love the National Theatre. I think this and Lasdun’s Royal College of Physicians are two of the most beautiful post-War buildings in London.

Imagine feeling like your country's newsmedia could at any time turn its back and begin this level of hate campaign against you, to the point that they harass you and everyone you love to the literal ends of the earth, mining you for content until your death and even after. How would you live life?

Using AI to take her out of her hijab (and then pretending she’s bald) is fucking sending me to a level of molten rage I never knew existed

Today's/ yesterday's weather brings home the courage and dedication of RNLI staff and volunteers. Whilst I'm debating whether to go to the shop, they're willingly risking their lives for those in peril on the sea, displaying the kind of unselfish commitment Farage so evidently lacks.

HEBRON IS UNDER SIEGE. FAMILIES ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES. Since yesterday, 250 families have been displaced in Hebron, including my own sister, Hayat, and her seven children. Homes and shops are being demolished by the Israeli military.

In some cases, disinformation influencers use the "Free Speech" debate as a red herring and an intentionally wrong cognitive framing of the problem, to deflect attention away from accountability for their corruption. I talked about this with @jimludes.bsky.social. youtu.be/1p5r1VLEDvg?...

Flashback to when the BBC stuck a poppy onto the cookie monster with a pin stuck into his flesh

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine

A distinctively British approach to Artificial Intelligence youtu.be/12DUvjjX5Dw

The framing of “after attack that killed 2 soldiers” is an Israeli one. It implies that there’s a reason for why entire buildings are being demolished other than an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing by an Apartheid state. Israel does this on ‘normal’ days too. They never stopped doing this.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

#goals

I’d say his greatest political trick was destroying most of the Gaza Strip while the world’s most stridently malicious liberals relentlessly screamed abuse at anyone who objected to it

This is incorrect. I was clicking on the link on his Wikipedia page. His faculty page is still up, and here: www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/people/james... h/t @jennifercobbe.bsky.social. This dies of course mean that the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity continues to have terrible judgement and no shame.

This week’s IJF round-up: Journalism is not treason, Mzia Amaglobeli behind the headlines, and winner of 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism www.journalismfestival.com/news/journal...

Cambridge Faculty of Divinity be like

His Faculty of Divinity webpage is down. www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr...

Cyprus is investigating alleged tax evasion by Roman Abramovich after reporters accused Deloitte’s local branch of helping conceal $672 million in assets, including mansions, yachts, and private jets. Abramovich and Deloitte deny wrongdoing. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

*Larry David fainting gif* www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

Often I ask myself, "who is the audience for this?". And all too often I reply, "troubled loners".

Oh my DAYS

From Flights to ‘Incentives,’ Indonesian Nickel Giant Harita Approved Payments for Local Politicians and Leaders

In a new piece for Investigative Reporters and Editors (@ire.org), OCCRP Chief Impact Officer Alexandra Gillies examines the key opportunities and challenges journalists face when reporting on state capture. 🔴 Read the full article: www.ire.org/2026/10/19/c...

Sick of paying subscription fees to all the major tech companies for software you don’t even enjoy using? Now’s the perfect time to hunt down alternatives. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

Good news needs to be celebrated www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/e...