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Writer: Short Fiction on 💔 ⛧ 💀/ Journalist: Investigations on 🐻🤖💰 michaelbirdjournalist.com / Read 'Modern Gothic' out now https://shorturl.at/TNQQ2 / Watch www.bearsuncovered.com
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Bucharest Pride 2025 - record number of 30,000 attend diversity demo

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After interviewing almost 50 clickworkers around the world, our Fellows @michaelbirdwrites.bsky.social and Nathan Schepers encountered a sophisticated fraud starting in Facebook and WhatsApp, in which users are lured into buying and/or selling clickwork accounts… Read the full story: t1p.de/qbzjm 🇩🇪⬇️

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A black market is selling access to platforms that train AI models, and it’s out in the open Our new report for AlgorithmWatch and taz in Berlin algorithmwatch.org/en/scams-and... German: taz.de/!6088209/

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Thanks to @thecwa.bsky.social for shortlisting my crime story 'The Human Imperative' for the annual Margery Allingham Award - proud to be alongside a great list of writers for this prestigious prize thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-c...

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Thanks to the Mechanics Institute Review (MIR) Online for publishing my short story ‘sugar tiger’ Which introduces the hindolyne - a pet that only appears to its owner when it senses true affection then tells the brutal truth of where it stays the rest of the time mironline.org/fiction/suga...

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Journalist Antonina Favorskaya, accused of "extremism," along with journalists Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin, and Artyom Kriger, has been sentenced to several years in prison by a Moscow court. Nothing scares an authoritarian government more than true reporting. corporate.dw.com/en/convictio...

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Very happy to have made the Longlist for the Margery Allingham Award for @thecwa.bsky.social and congratulations to all the writers here - I can't wait to read your work thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-c...

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It's with great sorrow that we announce the death of Romanian author Bogdan Teodorescu (1963-2025). Bogdan was not only a personal friend, but also the main reason why Corylus Books came into existence. His political thriller Sword was the first book we published back in 2020

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'The Others': A sweeping love story set against the fall of the Berlin Wall – where love, lies, and revolution collide. The fourth moving novel by Sheena Kalayil, out June 19. Avail for preorder from all bookshops now! www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... #books📚💙 @inpressbooks.bsky.social

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Romanian far right candidate for Presidency Călin Georgescu cannot stand in elections in May, rules highest court in România, the Constitutional Court hotnews.ro/calin-george...

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“I don’t know if I’ll still be alive on the date of my MRI appointment” LB.UA in @n-ost.bsky.social show how Russia treats the most vulnerable in the occupied Ukrainian territories n-ost.org/article/want...

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Every Saturday Ukrainian people come and meet and sing in Birmingham's Victoria Square.

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Yes, and we know the name of the 78-year-old kid who's forced the country to stop the car before it gets to Disneyland

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Romanian Presidential candidate Calin Georgescu asks followers to draw up ‘blacklist’ on X. This is a witch hunt

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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See you all tonight! Impulsive readers, you can still grab a ticket here you lucky things - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/s-j-bradle... @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social #books📚💙

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Trump says he will begin negotiations with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Any "deal" will be scripted by Moscow: Russia keeps territory it has stolen, no Nato membership for Kyiv, US military assistance ends. In short, a recipe for betrayal and further war www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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🔴 From Ukraine to Uganda, Trump’s aid freeze endangers millions. This is the global impact of Trump’s attack on USAID ⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-for...

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We're so pleased to launching @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social at WaterstonesMCR with #NeilCampbell 6 Feb, discussing fab short story collections, #YourSonsAndYourDaughtersAreBeyond & #SayingDirtyThingsInRegionalAccents, exploring the everyday & the supernatural www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...

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