I wish I could unsee that. For a whole host of reasons. Who is the host? 🫣
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Anton Gerashchenko: Russian media publish a reportedly recent photo of Prigozhin in a field tent in (allegedly) Belarus. https://t.co/MNXSBhffui
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1679790950913040384
One of the last Novids I know.
Good advice about NOT taking a hot shower if feverish.
Also the get out of gaol card that is Paxlovid.
Bob nevertheless became the victim of Murphy’s Law.
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Bob Wachter: Until this week, I remained a NoVid, which I chalked up to being fairly cautious, fully vaxxed & a bit lucky.
This week my luck ran out. My case is a cautionary tale, particularly for the “just a cold” folks. Mine definitely was not...I literally have scars to show for it. (1/22)
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1679473600712044544
Very disappointing. I hope @UKLabour will do better. https://n.respublicae.eu/irgarner/status/1679105239620677633
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Dr. Ian Garner: UK defence secretary suggests Ukraine could show more gratitude for weapons. I suggest that the West could show more gratitude for Ukrainians dying for its security. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/12/uk-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-suggests-ukraine-could-say-thank-you?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1679141566970056704
Remarkable is one word to describe it. I can think of others….
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Shashank Joshi: Remarkable line from @BWallaceMP: ‘Ben Wallace said such was the Ukrainians haste to get all the help they could meant they did not always say they were grateful ... “Whether we like it or not, people want to see a bit of gratitude”…’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jul/12/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelenskiy-nato-invitation-membership-kyiv-missile-drone
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1679106585040125953
Other English speakers should watch Servant Of The People on @Channel4
I can’t help seeing also the enormous burden he is carrying now. But it is so funny and familiar to politicians!
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Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦: I’ve suddenly realised that most of my English-speaking readers haven’t seen my favourite Zelenskyy meme, the пиріжочок (pyrizhochok, aka ‘little pie’). So since Zelenskyy’s whole electoral thing was showing how he’s just one of the regular folk, one of his first interviews as a
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1679031633456898049
The EU let Orban away with all sorts for years. Just FYI the @FineGael Party in the @EPPGroup supported his Fidesz group in the European Parliament.
Remember that during the European Elections….
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NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦: A video statement of Orban, urging for peace talks, stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and training Ukrainian soldiers but instead improving the defensive capabilities of its own member states. https://t.co/UTSJ7pDQ7W
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1679038132891557888
Niall I think it is a Chinese Goose. See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_goose
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Niall Harbison: Maybe there are geese experts out there. He’s doesn’t seem aggressive like they can be.
Do people collect geese? Is there a way to tell if his wings are clipped? Can he fly? What does he eat?
In the end there was only one logical solution (5/6) … https://t.co/wEWgaFkedt
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1678328168078295042
I so love crows. I have a kind of pet one too. Really he just tolerates my presence in return for dried puppy food! https://n.respublicae.eu/gerashchenko_en/status/1678053168083615745
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Anton Gerashchenko: Ukrainian Defenders adopted a crow. They named him Mavic and make sure that he is healthy and happy.
Mavic has a mischievous side, so they keep the grenades hidden!
I think he reflects the Ukrainian spirit somehow!
📹: suspilne https://t.co/hJx0FGyWxm
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1678067579846287361
Did you think you knew what @ibogost was going to say?
Almost certainly not! https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/before-smartphones-boredom/674631/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1678039329401102336
I have always had a Blue and I resent these comments. https://n.respublicae.eu/olliecarroll/status/1677948367681249280
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Oliver Carroll: If you are interested in truth and the real world, Twitter Blue simply isn’t for you. The decisions made by Musk were either deliberate, or moronic, or both. https://n.respublicae.eu/shayan86/status/1677830797414264840
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677979498220748801
Excellent piece 👇 https://n.respublicae.eu/lawdavf/status/1677605299622952960
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Lawrence Freedman: My latest post attempts to assess Ukraine’s strategy for its offensive. Before there can be any dramatic breakthroughs it must get through a difficult attritional phase. https://samf.substack.com/p/attrition-before-breakthrough?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677680298950098945
When my father was Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (the quaint name for Communications) in 1961-69 I distinctly remember him saying @rte would always struggle because of its closeness to the UK media ecosystem. He felt the same about Met Eireann despite admiring both. https://n.respublicae.eu/rtenewspaulc/status/1677334015404015621
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Paul Cunningham: New - The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee has issued it’s letter of invitation to presenter Ryan Tubridy, and agent Noel Kelly, to attend a meeting next Tuesday at 11am. It specifies 7 areas which PAC members want to examine. 👇🏼 @rtenews https://t.co/XPiQuVgHx3
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677576471596900353
Re @VincentH112 @rte The point I was clumsily trying to make was he was pessimistic about its future.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677583231787364364
Re @RobbieMeee @rte I only heard it in private but I was only ten! He often talked to us children like we were adults. Which had positives and negatives!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677596365700866048
Me at work! Still….. https://n.respublicae.eu/chrisalvino/status/1677515310486659074 https://t.co/GeqDE4oOvA
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Chris Alvino: I still can't get over the fact I masked every day while my dad was in ICU and hospice. I masked 20+ hours a day. I slept on the floor, hospital chairs, once I even got a couch, and I slept wearing my FloMask EVERY FUCKING NIGHT for a week straight...
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677597344802414592
Face it Solovyov. You got caught!
Russia is preparing for war with everyone because of strange fantasies that Putin has about being Peter the Great and those other two. We know this because Lavrov said it.
Also support the Patreon of @TheKremlinYap 👍 https://www.patreon.com/user?u=95574113… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1677599436187344897
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TheKremlinYap: The West is preparing for war with everyone and with Russia, Solovyov says.
Strange, but we thought that the West had already begun. And it turns out the West is just getting ready. https://t.co/G2TZJbc6mO
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677599436187344897
Those boxes are what we call "transitional objects"
Fine except adults with control of nuclear weapons are NOT supposed to be anything like Donald Trump.
😱 https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/07/06/chris-christie-donald-trump-classified-mar-a-lago-documents-lead-sot-vpx.cnn
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677316828790509568
Re @steverose7 Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’
Oh dear. And you thought Terminator was bad? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-destroy-the-world-everyone-on-earth-could-fall-over-dead-in-the-same-second?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677221221522456576
Yes Traci. Read this by @mariamposts 👉https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-drowning-in-despair-nova-kakhovka-dam-destruction-war-russia-united-nations/
"More than once, during public discussions, I’ve had my arguments rejected because I was “too emotional” and “not objective.”
Can we stop doing this please? We need humans not machine politicians. Zelenskyy job… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1677067738496262145
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Traci Degerman 🇺🇸🌎🇺🇦: @anno1540 There's nothing wrong with President Zelenskyy's response. Everything he said, and the tone in which he said it, are completely justified. Bulgaria's president should be scared of Russia, not a verbal rebuke from the leader of a nation in the midst of an existential war.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NChildersMEP/status/1677067738496262145
The Russians are coming! Why Putin might be massing 180,000 troops near the Donbas https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4081097-the-russians-are-coming-why-putin-might-be-massing-180000-troops-near-the-donbas/
@MCTothSTL and @JESweet2022 "Zelensky and his generals could eliminate this threat before they cross the border. They have the intelligence and the weapons platform, but… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1676944052539760641
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