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📢 #Auckland
🥐 #BakeForUkraine bake sale 🇺🇦
📍 #Britomart Saturday Market
🗓 Saturday, March 14
🕑 8 am - 2 pm
🔗 www.facebook.com/events/14039...
Come to the #Britomart Saturday Market and support Ukraine by buying the most delicious food and cakes, Borshch, varenyky (pierogi) and chebureky!
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Includes $1,500 travel support + waived registration for an Australian-based AARES member
📅 Apply by 30 Apr 2026
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⚡️Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds.
The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a UN investigation published on March 10 found.
Oslo mayor Anne Lindboe was driving in the Ukraine Freedom Convoy, traveling thousands of km along with 40 Norwegian volunteers to deliver in person 21 life-saving vehicles to the Ukrainian defenders.
Isn't it outstanding? 🇳🇴🇺🇦
A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested.
Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%!
yle.fi/a/74-20214134
Not AI:
interesting but did not work well on the mobile (stuck halfway) so I repeated on a desktop
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The rest of the paper is normal www.nature.com/articles/s41..., something happened to the abstract, maybe tried too hard to avoid jargon 😁
This can be generalised:
"When economists say the president can’t really do much to affect the economy, what they mean is he can’t do much to *improve* it. Turns out they can do quite a lot to *damage* it."
Post quoting White House official Jarrod Agen saying the goal is to remove Iran’s oil reserves from “terrorists,” with a Fox Business interview screenshot of Agen speaking in front of the White House.
No blood for oil. Not again.
When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-iran...
❗️The kamikaze drone that struck the British airbase RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was equipped with Russian military hardware.
The drone contained a Russian-made Kometa-B navigation system, which was first identified in drones intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses in December.
Just a reminder it’s been two days since reports came out, later acknowledged by Trump and his Administration, that Russia has been helping Iran to try and kill US military personnel.
And the Trump response so far has been...drum roll please...to reduce sanctions on Russia!
In Kharkiv, search and rescue operations have been completed at the residential building struck by a Russian missile on Saturday.
The work lasted for more than two days, as rescuers dismantled heavy concrete structures piece by piece. In total, over 2,400 cubic meters of debris were removed.
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The 19th-century poet and artist Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9, 1814.
His life is defined by his long struggle against injustice. Born a serf and only freed at almost 30 years of age, he faced arrest and exile for his works of art that have shaped the modern Ukrainian identity.
On 16 March 2022, Russia bombed the Mariupol Drama Theatre during the siege of the city. The building was being used as an air-raid shelter by hundreds of civilians.
There are many critics of Trump who are not apologists for Putin
“The rise of authoritarianism was not an inevitable consequence of some autonomous “forces” of technology or demography. I think that we should pay attention to the deliberate cultivation of a multi-purpose ideology of authoritarianism in Russia.”
open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
Throw back to 2022 when @caitoz.bsky.social informed us that you were in a self-reinforcing echo chamber if you thought Ukraine had any chance of stopping Putin from taking Kyiv.
After first saying we would not invade, she later said we made no attempt to do what she said was certain to happen.
and can't even select and copy
He is naive or stupid or works for Putin, or all of the above
Iran fires Shaheds at the Gulf. UAE orders 5,000 Ukrainian interceptors, Qatar 2,000.
TAF founder: "It's not enough to have something like a Patriot." Kyiv produces 1,500+ interceptors daily — double its own needs. Only obstacle: pilot training takes months.
🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/08/t...
OK, now #FoxNews corrected its previous mistake and properly credited the creators of interceptor drones, @wildhornets.bsky.social from #Ukraine
Great visual
Qantas ad makes me sad
Looks like the biggest beneficiary of the "limited combat operation" is the mastermind of the "special military operation"
Interestingly, the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social uses "Iran war" but "Ukraine invasion" 🤦
Quince
🇳🇿🌱 #nzgarden
