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Worst thing about Bluesky is that someone can post BS misinformation, then when someone replies calling them out with receipts, the original poster just blocks the respondent.

Did Ukrainian drone strikes really silence Russia's social media bots? (No) A real Cloudflare chart fueled a viral story ab MAGA and AfD accounts going quiet. But the evidence doesn't support the rumor. I wrote about bots, vibes, & what we've lost as platforms have shut down tools & data access.

Its worth pointing out that Cloud Fare bot data is not about hostile actors that we call bots but actual mechanical bots that all search engines use for indexing, web crawlers and API access. Its good that its down but it has nothing to do with propaganda as such

Again, none of its true. People are looking at graphs they don't understand and inventing stuff. Note the grifter language, "if confirmed" "its reported" No meta data! These graphs do not show russian propaganda bot disappearance, only normal internet information tool collapse.

General Keith Kellogg: “The Russians are trying to tell the Ukrainians and Americans: stop attacking our oil refineries. The Ukrainians aren’t going to do that. They’re going to keep striking them, as they should. This is a military operation. This is war. And they’re attacking correctly.”

For the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague: Russian propagandist Solovyev says that Russia’s goal is to kill all residents of Ukrainian cities: "And to those Kyiv residents who are still there, I repeat for the hundredth time: leave the city. You are doomed.

OTD in 2014 the CIA tricked "pro russian rebels" into shooting down a Ukrainian AN-26 cargo plane. This was done so everyone would later think they shot down #MH17 with the missile system they later deny admitting to have.

“Trump ascended largely because … the tea-party movement had cleared a path for him. Its extremist philosophies and refusal to compromise initially seemed too radical to go far. … Democrats are fooling themselves if they think … hijacking can’t happen to their party.” apple.news/A7jfK8d3RR1i... NJ

I would not let my child watch this show for the same reasons why I wouldn't let them watch Veggie Tales

The tone of pronouncements made in our leader pages has been likened to the “voice of God”. A deity would be all-knowing. How omniscient, by comparison, are our predictions?

Cat the hunter.

One year ago UN said it was indeed us who shelled & killed Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka. This was absolutely not cos we had tortured them so badly that releasing them would've shamed even us. You'd think this would be big news.

Gen Z romanticizes the Soviet Union as “vibey,” forgetting it was a regime of repression, poverty, and silence. 🧵 1/17 ⬇️

Since I am That Guy, I will be That Guy. The photo was taken at an angle, as you can see on the horizon. If we level that, Trump is not really leaning at all.

Also Huang lived in Thailand from ages 5 to 9 where there were presumably even fewer cars.

Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme

NOOOOOO! Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.

Tommy Robinson and Errol Musk together in Moscow in 2026. Fascists and sex offenders almost always betray their country to side with Moscow, making them traitors too

Going to just pick one part here to take up which is the Rousseauian notion that agriculture leads to land ownership which leads to warfare. If that were true, we'd expect non-agricultural societies (hunter gatherers especially) to be relatively peaceful. Instead, they're hyper-militarized. 1/

May 24, 1776: A special committee of the New York Provincial Congress finds there is a numerous body of loyalists that, in combination with the expected British invasion, poses a serious threat. The panel recommends that all royal officials and suspected traitors be arrested. 1/2

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce Russian propaganda operations around military targets like Starobilsk. For over a decade, the Kremlin has used similar strategies, combining crisis actors, “independent journalists” and fabricated evidence. 1/13

Hmm, tough conspiracy theory dilemma government is covering up aliens versus the moon landings were faked.

🔴 Russian occupation authorities evict Ukrainian locals who refused passports. In Mariupol, officials are forcing residents from their apartments and taping eviction notices to doors for declining to obtain citizenship documents.

Because we have gotten so much “Operation Market Khargen” or “Operation Kharg Garden” discourse (depending on who you ask), I felt compelled to defend the honor of Market Garden, Bernard Montgomery, and our glorious airborne brethren. My latest⬇️

“Something rather unusual is happening right now inside Russia.” My dispatch for BBC Radio’s From Our Own Correspondent.

Total global losses in WW2, incl both military and civilians, are estimated at 60-75M people. Around 8-10M of them were Ukrainians. That was more than 1/5 of Ukraine's population at the time. 81yrs later, in 2026, "never again" is happening again. Right now. Right here. Again. Photo MFA Ukraine.

81 years ago, Western Europe was liberated. But for millions of Europeans, the end of Nazi occupation was followed by decades of Soviet oppression. Ukraine’s defense today is the continuation of Europe’s unfinished fight for freedom. Honor #VEDay. Hasten #VUDay.

Holodomor genocide denial is rampant and despicable. Please, if you see accounts spreading denial, recommend this free online course as push back: holodomor.ca/new-online-c...

An envelope of sunrise from one of the Glencoe summits

Nearly 58,000 Shaheds (or flying balalaikas, as they’re known) have rained on Ukrainian cities since 2022. This killer drone is the red thread that connects Iran to Ukraine, via Russia. It is also a lesson that unpunished aggression does not fizzle out. It spreads open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...

The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall." He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked. It was his own great empire that fell.

A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.

‘Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience. "It doesn't mean that there aren't surprises or miracles," he says. "They do happen, but you have to kiss many frogs before you meet the prince."’ www.npr.org/2026/03/22/g...

Hong Kong's most vocal China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced to 20 years in jail, ending the city's biggest national security case, which drew international concern about Beijing's clampdown on the city's freedoms reut.rs/4chgv6s

Zelensky appoints military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov as his chief of staff. kyivindependent.com/breaking-ukr...

Warning: you will cry watching this ʼWar is not over even if you want it’ still gets to me : this is Ukrainian military wishing you a Merry Christmas. Ifa you can take a moment to hold those who can’t be with their families today because they are protecting Ukraine, and whole of Europe

The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.

Tetiana &Vasyl Hrushko from Kamianka near Izium,Kharkiv region,lost their limbs due to landmine explosions.Vasyl was injured by a mine in 2022,Tetiana lost her limb in the summer of 2023. Every fifth resident of Kamianka has traumatic amputations.

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, recently released a trove of documents she alleges reveals "treasonous conspiracy" by President Obama and his administration. @noupside.bsky.social dives into the Gabbard files to evaluate what is–and is not–actually in the pages.

Using marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart disease, according to a new analysis of pooled medical data involving 200 million people in Australia, Egypt, Canada, France, Sweden and the US, mostly between the ages of 19 and 59. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/h...

The Virginian colonels in the US Army at US Civil War outbreak were: R.E. Lee, John J. Abert, Edmund B. Alexander, Philip S.G. Cooke, John Garland, Thomas Lawson, Matthew M. Payne, Washington Seawell, George H. Thomas, René De Russy and Thomas T. Fauntleroy. Only Lee sided with the Confederacy /1

A freed Ukrainian soldier shows brutal torture—his body mutilated, burned with the phrase “Glory to Russia.”

Back in 1999, Putin insisted Russia doesn’t want Crimea and warned that redrawing international borders would be a disaster.

A British woman came to Ukraine from the UK. While looking out from her window, she had something to say. She saw that, despite russian russian shelling, Ukrainians stand strong and don't hesitate. To make them feel safer, you can always donate: u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...

A viral video with the logo of Saudi outlet Al Arabiya falsely claims President Zelensky's bought a $3.2m flat in Dubai's Burj Khalifa for his mother. The video is fake. It's likely the work of a Russian disinformation operation that imitates major news outlets to spread fake news about Ukraine.