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Andy Scollick

@andyscollick.bsky.social

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Strategic defence planning and foresight | security and defence policy | interactions between climate change, energy, security, defence | former adviser to Ukraine's military | marine environmental policy | PhD in sustainability science | Ireland/Europe

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@atrupar.comOct 8, 2026, 8:33 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

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@jmkorhonen.fiOct 8, 2026, 8:56 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

THEY KNEW

@rincewind.runOct 8, 2026, 6:12 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

GGianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:38 PM

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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@politico.comOct 8, 2026, 8:57 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Hegseth: Military will publicly execute Fort Hood shooter

politi.co/4rVnTdK

politico.comHegseth: Military will publicly execute Fort Hood shooter politi.co/4rVnTdKHegseth: Military will publicly execute Fort Hood shooter politi.co/4rVnTdK
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@kajembren.wsocial.euOct 8, 2026, 8:57 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing via @guardian

bit.ly/4ekzqNW

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #svpol #LeadershipMatters
@ChathamHouse @UKYouth @PolitlcsUK @POLITICOEurope @PIK_Climate @ClimateGroup @svanteaxelsson

@news.sky.comOct 8, 2026, 8:58 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Andy Burnham urges Green Party to abandon 'Zionism is racism' policy

@grimmse.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:57 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

I've read Rubio's Athens speech. It's an odd masculinist manifesto presented by a man who has been struggling to assert his own masculinity all his public life (remember "Little Marco"?). www.state.gov/releases/off...

@maks23.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:33 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

🚆🇺🇦 Two trains just collided in Lviv – preliminary as a result of a terrible accident, there are victims

@perevaa.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:05 AMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Payback just landed at a Yandex data center in Russia – after Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers, including Datagroup, Kyivstar and GigaCenter.

@kyivindependent.comOct 8, 2026, 6:38 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

⚡️Russia lifts quarantine in Irkutsk region, where lab worker allegedly died of plague Quarantine has been lifted in Russia's Irkutsk region, where a lab technician at the Anti-Plague Institute of Eastern Siberia and the Far East died on Oct. 2, Russian state media reported on Oct. 8.

@carladenyer.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:38 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Newly elected Greens doing great stuff on housing 👏

Lewisham Council's new strategy includes:

🤝 Zero-cost land to community-led orgs on condition they build social housing

🔐 Putting that land into community land trusts, locking in affordability.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@antizionistjew.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:38 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

This is how a new terror outpost is being established - right on the doorstep of a Palestinian family. The settlers have the full support of the Israeli army in their ethnic cleansing enterprise. 📍Stih, Jericho, Jordan Valley 🇵🇸 (Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine)

@united24media.comOct 8, 2026, 6:41 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

⚡️ Vladimir Putin celebrated his birthday with former German Chancellor and longtime lobbyist Gerhard Schröder, according to the Kremlin.

@theverge.comOct 8, 2026, 5:12 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Anthropic wrote that the new policy update “is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.”

theverge.comAnthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards ClaudeThe usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
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@mongabay.comOct 8, 2026, 6:45 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Poland is using "WarWilding" to turn the ancient Białowieża Forest into a natural border defense against potential attacks. Known as the Green East Shield, this nature-based barrier avoids concrete, but scientists warn road construction still threatens the delicate ecosystem. By Marta Kasztelan.

@technologyreview.comOct 8, 2026, 6:46 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Across robotics labs, tensions have emerged over whether current forms of AI are all that’s needed to perfect all-purpose humanoids or whether an entirely new path is required. What will it take to truly build general-purpose robots?

@franticgoat.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:48 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Navy Doubles Down On X-BAT VTOL ‘Fighter’ Drone Development www.twz.com/news-feature...

@volberg.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:53 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

russia: We will nuke Europe! Europe: You're our enemy. russia: Did you just call us an ENEMY?! 😭

@antongerashchenko.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:58 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

"She probably survived because she is small, so she wasn't completely crushed. Her mother covered her with her body. Her dad was also there, but unfortunately, he died, he was in the adjacent room. They were thrown down from the fourth floor."

@anthropocenemag.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:15 PMReposted by @andyscollick.bsky.social

Researchers have made wallpaper that generates power from indoor humidity.

HVAC systems burn energy pulling moisture out of the air. This wallpaper does the opposite: It cut humidity while generating electricity.
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=242849

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