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This 260-year demographic timeline of Poland’s Jewish population reveals the devastating scale of the Holocaust. Source: buff.ly/MEHJWla

Clearly Lula has won. The sense I get from family in Brazil however is that we should expect the Bolsonaro controlled congress to impeach Lula.

For Lula to lose, Bolsonaro needs to get about 58% of the remaining votes. No way.

With Lula ahead at 50.45% after 58% of the vote counted he should win at a better level than this. Later results are rural and favour Lula. In that respect this trajectory looks to be a replay of the last election. So long as there is no structural change I’m unaware of.

My Dad worked for the BBC for 42 years - 1943 to 1985. Jewish of course. He’d be dismayed and disgusted.

31 years ago I moved to Germany for a year. The sum total preparation was they my company rented a temporary flat for a month and I packed my car and went. Why are my kids - now the age I was then - now denied this opportunity.

I’m hearing that the Brazilian news is reporting that buses in Salvador in Brazil, a Lula stronghold, are being disrupted preventing votes. Also planes the the North East are being cancelled due to non existent bad weather.

Absolutely on point. A PM’s job is to lead, not cower in fear.

All at @zeroheight.com well done with #Converge2026. I’m not sure it was a great idea for you photographers to catch my arrival and departure.

Despite the hype, marketing and security issues here, this is a genuinely fascinating time to be alive. What we get to learn about intelligence, emergent behaviours and what happens when you throw in a corpus of training data created by humans - one of the nastiest animals - is going to be exotic.

Hi! 👋 This is us. #Blazor #ReactJS bsky.app/profile/simo...

At least 13 women are facing execution on political or security-related charges — including Taraneh Rahimi, 21, who took part in protests with her twin sister

We’re launching Chameleon UI components for Web/JS, React and Blazor. Angular, Vue and Svelte are coming in February. #Blazor #ReactJS chameleonui.io/blog-entries...

Bump to @lurkmoophy.bsky.social

@lurkmoophy.bsky.social and others, I'm arriving in Newcastle for Converge on Weds afternoon (21st). Is there a place people gather for dinner that evening?

I knew the Brick by Brick CEO who absolutely understood the brief, and cared to deliver it. Against that the company had a large team far beyond what was needed, and in general the Croydon management was hubristic and lacked the credentials to pull this off. Sad given this on the ground success.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social - great point about the extractive Welsh economy on #BBCQT.

Wow. I’m so happy that Nigel Farage was interviewed by the Jewish Chronicle to defend Jews from Anti Semitism. What are the JC thinking of? In fairness NF probably knows quite a lot about AS.

Absolutely nails the issue on what Britain needs to do re the EU. It’s going to take confidence and leadership. And navel gazing about whether the EU likes us because of 2016 and previous politicians just doesn’t help and isn’t relevant.

Absolute post of the day 👏👏👏

A little niche, but here's a <canvas> bug for WebKit. bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...

@tinyclouds.org hi 👋 Congrats on joining Cloudflare. Will the deno runtime continue to exist as a tool to run locally? So for me that means local scripting for a build pipeline.

There are at least two international experts I know - both fierce critics of Israel's destruction campaign of Gaza - who believe the ICJ will not find Israel guilty of genocide, due to the highly conservative approach of the court. This is a real possibility, that should be considered.

Any time my kids accuse me of being an embarrassment (and they’re right), I’ll mention that this dude’s parents set a high bar.

It feels like the Green Party just dodged a bullet by not having Polanski in parliament.

The Israelis Refusing Silence Over Gaza: My latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk As the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 attacks approaches, most Israelis are grieving. A small minority refuse to ignore the atrocities Israel inflicted on Gaza. [Gift Link] www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

The speed of Zack Polanski’s fall is truly spectacular www.reddit.com/r/uknews/com...

Family members in Brazil who support Lula are gutted. They expect Bolsonaro to win. Even if Lula does they expect the congress to impeach him.

Post of the day 👏👏👏 (Yesterday)

#BrasilElection Londres

Post of the day👏👏👏 “In reality, let's just say that there are enough hard left activists who regard Jewish people who aren't totally opposed to Israel's existence as unpeople” This has been true for half a century or more.

#Caturday

@infrequently.org it was great to meet today. I don’t seem to be able to DM - you’d probably need to follow me back.

This is such a consequential election for the whole world. There are two candidates. Lula is at best compromised but Bolsonaro is an outright disaster. Lula needs to win but a lot of voters won’t be voting for him because they see the bad side of him while forgetting how much worse Bolsonaro is.

Interesting point this. A lot of people who, like me are disgusted by Brexit insist that Europe wants nothing to do with the UK. Now that we’re a few years removed from the negotiations, this feels like unevidenced projection.

Watching Finding Britain's Slave Traders with @davidolusoga.bsky.social. My mother's family are Sephardic Jews, arriving in England from 1665. I looked up the Sephardic community and it's certain that somehow I descend from investors in the Royal African Company. It's chilling.