Pavel Lokshin
@lokshin.bsky.social
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia. Mostly for Germany’s “Die Welt". 📍Zürich
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The piss tank on the ISS is now 14% full.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 14% full.
Ich VERSTEHE nicht mehr, was in Deutschland passiert. Es ist einfach nur absurd
Danke für den abdruck, faz, das ist q.e.d. eine relativ harmlose rede.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Ich VERSTEHE nicht mehr, was in Deutschland passiert. Es ist einfach nur absurd
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.
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„What does it matter?“- Nach dem Kalten Krieg glaubten viele, #Spionage sei etwas für die Geschichtsbücher. Ein Papier aus dem #Verfassungsschutz von 1993 zeigt: Die Spionageabwehr warnte früh, #Russland werde auch künftig auf Spione setzen- vor allem „Illegale“: ojihad.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d...
Die Warnung der Spionageabwehr
Ein Dokument des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz zeigt: Schon Anfang der 1990er Jahre wurde eindringlich davor gewarnt, dass die russische Geheimdienste nach Ende des Kalten Krieges ihre Spionage…
ojihad.wordpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
„What does it matter?“- Nach dem Kalten Krieg glaubten viele, #Spionage sei etwas für die Geschichtsbücher. Ein Papier aus dem #Verfassungsschutz von 1993 zeigt: Die Spionageabwehr warnte früh, #Russland werde auch künftig auf Spione setzen- vor allem „Illegale“: ojihad.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d...
I’ve just remembered that Sobchak was the only „mer“ of St. Petersburg in post-communist history. Every head of city government after him was called a governor. But Moscow sticked to „mer“ for some reason
But since the French have a special place in our hearts, it's "Mer Paryża".
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I’ve just remembered that Sobchak was the only „mer“ of St. Petersburg in post-communist history. Every head of city government after him was called a governor. But Moscow sticked to „mer“ for some reason
Ein sehr interessantes Buch. Die Grundthese: Putins einzige Ideologie ist sein Machterhalt und die Fortführung seines ausschweifenden Privatlebens.
In der Form wird es wohl nie in Übersetzung erscheinen. Das Buch ist an einen Leser gerichtet, der die letzten 30 Jahre in Russland in Erinnerung hat
In der Form wird es wohl nie in Übersetzung erscheinen. Das Buch ist an einen Leser gerichtet, der die letzten 30 Jahre in Russland in Erinnerung hat
Some of the most sensitive areas of Vladimir Putin’s private life – and how they are intertwined with Russia’s political history – are reported in a new book by two of Russia’s best investigative journalists, Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin.
Learn more: www.icij.org/investigatio...
Learn more: www.icij.org/investigatio...
Hidden details of Putin’s private life show his ‘real worldview,’ new book claims - ICIJ
A new book by Russian ICIJ member center Proekt goes where none has gone before: Putin’s personal life and his inner circle.
www.icij.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Ein sehr interessantes Buch. Die Grundthese: Putins einzige Ideologie ist sein Machterhalt und die Fortführung seines ausschweifenden Privatlebens.
In der Form wird es wohl nie in Übersetzung erscheinen. Das Buch ist an einen Leser gerichtet, der die letzten 30 Jahre in Russland in Erinnerung hat
In der Form wird es wohl nie in Übersetzung erscheinen. Das Buch ist an einen Leser gerichtet, der die letzten 30 Jahre in Russland in Erinnerung hat
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But since the French have a special place in our hearts, it's "Mer Paryża".
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
But since the French have a special place in our hearts, it's "Mer Paryża".
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The fact that in Polish it's "Burmistrz Nowego Jorku" but it's "Prezydent Warszawy" will never not be funny.
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The fact that in Polish it's "Burmistrz Nowego Jorku" but it's "Prezydent Warszawy" will never not be funny.
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The feds raided an East Chicago home, arrested a mother and her 26-year-old schizophrenic daughter. She's been here since she's 2. In ICE custody, she had no meds and chose to leave the country. Now she's in Mexico, barely speaks Spanish, and her family can't find her.
‘They destroyed us’: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation now missing in Mexico
When federal immigration agents raided Martha Porcallo Martinez’s East Chicago, Indiana home on June 12, they also arrested her 26-year-old daughter who has schizophrenia.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The feds raided an East Chicago home, arrested a mother and her 26-year-old schizophrenic daughter. She's been here since she's 2. In ICE custody, she had no meds and chose to leave the country. Now she's in Mexico, barely speaks Spanish, and her family can't find her.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Trump "has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there... but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are." @nickkristof.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trump "has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there... but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are." @nickkristof.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
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Pretty much every church with a mostly white congregation and leadership structure said no, bye.
Her handle is nikalie.monroe over there and the recordings of the calls are something else.
Her handle is nikalie.monroe over there and the recordings of the calls are something else.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Pretty much every church with a mostly white congregation and leadership structure said no, bye.
Her handle is nikalie.monroe over there and the recordings of the calls are something else.
Her handle is nikalie.monroe over there and the recordings of the calls are something else.
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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Kenne keine andere Redaktion in Deutschland, die so produktiv den Cringe beackert. Das verdient Anerkennung.
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Kenne keine andere Redaktion in Deutschland, die so produktiv den Cringe beackert. Das verdient Anerkennung.
Die neuen EU-Einschränkungen bei der Visumvergabe an russische Staatsbürger sind sinnlose Symbolpolitik. Komplett wurscht bezogen auf die erklärten Ziele. Und auch sonst: wurscht.
Solche Kommissions-Spässken regen mich nicht mehr auf. Dat war‘s
Solche Kommissions-Spässken regen mich nicht mehr auf. Dat war‘s
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Die neuen EU-Einschränkungen bei der Visumvergabe an russische Staatsbürger sind sinnlose Symbolpolitik. Komplett wurscht bezogen auf die erklärten Ziele. Und auch sonst: wurscht.
Solche Kommissions-Spässken regen mich nicht mehr auf. Dat war‘s
Solche Kommissions-Spässken regen mich nicht mehr auf. Dat war‘s
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New project from Proekt Media about how ruling Russia is a family affair for Putin. Lovers, kids, cousins, in-laws, nieces - 24 in all. He's been in power so long that there are 3 generations of Putin's working for the state or state companies. 1/2
www.agents.media/putin-pomog-...
www.agents.media/putin-pomog-...
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New project from Proekt Media about how ruling Russia is a family affair for Putin. Lovers, kids, cousins, in-laws, nieces - 24 in all. He's been in power so long that there are 3 generations of Putin's working for the state or state companies. 1/2
www.agents.media/putin-pomog-...
www.agents.media/putin-pomog-...
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The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Ty…
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
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A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong.
A case study in how bad information can spread — and how hard it is to correct it.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
These men either drink themselves to death or die peacefully at 90. Like many SS officers, KGB goons or concentration camp guards before them. Unless they are put on trial.
I know, by temperment and demographic and ideology, that those who exist as Stephen Miller's goonsquad elite are the mundane sort of monster, who tell each other awful jokes to avoid feeling the humanity of those they harm. I hope it eats at them anyway, a corrosive doubt that ruins their lives.
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
These men either drink themselves to death or die peacefully at 90. Like many SS officers, KGB goons or concentration camp guards before them. Unless they are put on trial.
This cassowary is a soulmate of Werner Herzog‘s penguin who chose the unknown www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
two penguins walking in the snow with the words but one of them caught our eye below them
Alt: A penguin leaving his colony
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This cassowary is a soulmate of Werner Herzog‘s penguin who chose the unknown www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
Opinion sections are turning into a safe space to spew nonsense nobody cares to fact check. Sad but true.
well resourced paper Op/Ed sections should could be an amazing space to platform strange, wonderful, and intelligent ideas by artists, activists, scientists, and scholars you've never heard of
instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm
instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm
Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Opinion sections are turning into a safe space to spew nonsense nobody cares to fact check. Sad but true.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc