Antonis (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @itsAntonis

It's been 10 years since then-President Rodrigo Duterte began his vicious “war on drugs” in the Philippines, and Philippine police and their agents are still carrying out extrajudicial killings with impunity as part of the government’s anti-drug campaign.

The Amazon rainforest is home to over 3 million animal species. It stores 4x as much CO2 as the earth emits in a year. Losing the Amazon means losing to climate change. We must protect the Amazon and the world's vital forests. #ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity #SDGs

Recently @NOAA announced the return of El Niño, as ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific remained above average for several months. NASA scientists are seeing a complementary sign of El Niño: rising sea levels as warmer ocean water expands.

This graphic shows the average global surface temperature, by decade. Do you see a trend?

Social media shapes how we see the world - and sometimes, it gets distorted. According to the latest EP Youth Survey, 44% of young Europeans say they were exposed to disinformation or fake news often or very often in the past 7 days 👉 link.europa.eu/g9mmhr #SocialMediaDay 📱

We're now at day 28 of setting a new record daily global sea-surface temperature.

El Niño is one of the most powerful drivers of global weather, climate conditions and hunger. El Niño conditions have been confirmed in 2026 - and are unfolding at a time when food systems are already under strain. 🔗 ow.ly/JEaW50ZiB9L

Nature shows a remarkable ability to recover from destruction. But we need legal tools to prevent that destruction in the first place. #Ecocidelaw deters large-scale harm to nature through criminal accountability. Read the @BBCNews story: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #StopEcocide

For decades, biology textbooks have enshrined a simple rule: DNA is made by copying a template. After one enzyme unzips a DNA double helix into separate strands, another called a polymerase builds a complementary sequence, base by base, for each strand. Presto: two copies of the original DNA. But recent research into how bacteria defend themselves from viruses now shows this synthesis rule isn’t absolute. The team describes a bacterial enzyme that synthesizes DNA without a nucleic acid template, using its own structure as a guide. Learn more: scim.ag/4tTc5IA @NewsfromScience

A UN inquiry found that children in Gaza are being shot with a single bullet. AJLabs counts the cases and the weapons behind them.

BREAKING: Israel is dropping bombs on tents full of civilians in Khan Younis — in the middle of the night as families sleep. There is no refuge left in Gaza.

The extensive killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is not a series of isolated incidents. It is a practice backed by every arm of the Israeli regime. From 7 October 2023 to 29 June 2026, Israel killed 1,087 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 242 children and teenagers. In 2025 alone, 54 minors were killed. Our new report, “Unshielded Childhood,” tells their stories. The Israeli legal system helps whitewash these killings, grants impunity to the perpetrators, and shirks its duty to demand accountability from those responsible. The Israeli public remains largely indifferent, while some segments openly support the violence. To legitimize this routine killing in the eyes of the Israeli public and the world, Israel systematically dehumanizes Palestinians. When the military almost automatically labels Palestinian children and teenagers who posed no threat as “terrorists” or “involved in terrorism,” it creates a reality in which their lives are treated as entirely disposable and harming them is seen as legitimate and permissible. While the world looks away and grants Israel international impunity, the reality on the ground is clear: under the Israeli regime, no Palestinian is protected, and any Israeli who harms them enjoys full impunity. Read the report, “Unshielded Childhood” >> btselem.org/video/20260629…

41C in the UK? In 2015 the IPCC warned world leaders not to breach 1.5C as it would unleash “frequent & severe droughts, heatwaves & rainfall.” We’re now on track for 2C in years, 3C in decades & 4C in our kids’ lifetimes. The most spectacular failure of leadership in history.

This is the most jaw-dropping part of Princeton/BP scandal: that the scientists funded by BP believed that their job "was to invent a future where the fossil fuel industries have not disappeared yet climate change is being forcefully addressed, and this is still our job." 🧵

Indigenous Peoples were among the first to notice our planet’s changing climate. Their warnings and solutions deserve more recognition. As record-breaking heatwaves and cold waves affect all corners of the world, it’s high time we listen. 👉 go.undp.org/cyt

Israel is slowing moving yellow-line markers deeper into Gaza. They mark the are controlled by Israel. “The percentage of Gaza that’s controlled by the Israelis is definitely increasing.” Palestinians who approach the yellow line risk being shot. trib.al/pG1COva

URGENT! For any country where (from Italy to Thailand or Brazil) possible war criminals go on holiday and R&R. 🇮🇱 soldiers must be investigated, evidence assessed, and responsibility determined through DUE PROCESS. This is not incitement to commit violence. It is accountability.

Richard @ricwe123

5 days ago

"Anyone who has served in the Israeli Forces in Gaza since October 2023 should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide" -Chris Sidoti, UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

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The discussion about @elonmusk's comments on humanitarian aid has mostly focused on our values, which seems right. But note that USAID served our interests as well as our values, by protecting us from diseases like the Ebola outbreak now ravaging Congo.

Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande

3 weeks ago

Speed of response is everything, and it's still lagging far behind. Essential explainer on the Congo Ebola outbreak from @JeremyKonyndyk. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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TODAY 🇵🇸 The Palestinian Feminist Collective, with the @ProgIntl, launches a historic, 200-page report exposing the relationship between Israel’s sexualized violence and the systematic targeting of reproductive health and freedom. 🔗 Join us in NYC: buff.ly/50gAPC8

US and Chinese companies train almost all of the world’s most-used AI models. (This Data Insight was written by @redouad.) Dozens of companies worldwide develop large AI models, but it can be difficult to get a sense of where the most-used ones tend to come from. OpenRouter is a large platform that allows users to interact with and write software on top of AI models through a single interface. It includes all the models from large companies like Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, DeepSeek, and Alibaba, as well as many, many others. I analyzed the data published by OpenRouter on the 50 most used models each day since January 2025 and calculated the average monthly presence by origin country of the models. As you can see on the chart, US-based companies still account for most models in OpenRouter’s top 50. But their presence has declined, and China-based companies have grown rapidly, from 5 models in the daily top 50 at the beginning of 2025 to 20 in May 2026. Very few top-50 models come from companies outside the United States and China. Canada was represented early in 2025 by Cohere’s Command R models, while France remains represented by Mistral AI’s NeMo model. A technology that more people use every year is, so far, almost entirely the product of two countries.