Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

Tesla sales got smashed by BYD in China and worldwide. Tesla stock largely keeps its price. Toyota beats BYD by delivering a cheaper EV in their home and biggest market. Toyota stock largely keeps its price.

Now tell me global capital markets do not need an adjustment.

Only 30 hours left to support the Pixelfed and Loops.video kickstarter and become part of the movement to reclaim social networks.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

@lgsp @italyeltarchive.bsky.social
grazie!

Zelensky is the first one to officially bring up demilitarization of the Black Sea

"The new proposal announced by Zelenskiy comes two days after French President Emmanuel Macron revealed that he was negotiating with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to offer a partial ceasefire similar to the one detailed by the Ukrainian leader, although only for one month. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot added that the intention of “a truce in the sky, at sea and in the energy infrastructure is to test whether Vladimir Putin has good intentions to seal a truce.”"

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-04/zelenskiy-offers-putin-partial-truce-for-first-time-to-stop-air-and-sea-attacks.html
@blacksea

How Russia "solved to Abkhazian crisis"

"According to two Meduza sources close to the Russian presidential administration (AP), Kirienko himself volunteered to solve the Abkhazian crisis. He supervised Gunba's campaign together with his close associate - head of the Russian Department for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes Alexander Kharichev, as well as Kharichev's deputy, Boris Rapoport. "Two headquarters worked: one in Sukhum, the other in Sochi. Kharichev came regularly, Boris supervised directly on the spot," Meduza's source close to the AP specifies.

Kiriyenko assigned a group of Kremlin political strategists headed by the former vice-governor of the annexed territory of Zaporizhia Oblast, Sergei Tolmachev, to develop Gunba’s campaign. “[In Moscow, they initially understood that] it would not be possible to completely falsify the elections — due to the presence of representatives of opposition candidates [Adgur Ardzinba and Oleg Bartsits] in the election commissions, as well as observers associated with local clans, a significant portion of which support Ardzinba. The first round was the maximum program,” a source close to the Presidential Administration’s political bloc and familiar with the progress of the campaign explained to Meduza.

Since Tolmachev is known in political technology circles as a specialist in black PR, it made half of Gunba’s campaign. Kremlin-loyal Abkhazian media, as well as Russian publications and Telegram channels, accused opposition candidate Adgur Ardzinba of pro-Turkish views and ties to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The second vector of Gunba’s campaign was guarantees of support from Russia: the pro-Kremlin candidate demonstratively emphasized ties with the Russian leadership, met with officials from Moscow and negotiated with them on financial assistance to the republic."
https://meduza.io/feature/2025/03/05/kreml-dobilsya-pobedy-svoego-kandidata-na-vyborah-v-abhazii-radi-etogo-prishlos-dazhe-zapugivat-lyudey-lisheniem-grazhdanstva-rf
@nepravda

Thanks to BridgyFed, our project at Italy ELT Archive's presence on BlueSky is now accessible also from Mastodon, etc.

Tune in for research and discussions about the past and future of English Language Teaching in Italy and related topics.

https://italy-elt-archive.unimi.it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HHcdxF74Kc

A movie that was called "Tomorrow's land" 15 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pI2IXKtlew

I read the transcript. It is hard to conceive that Zelensky has won this debate despite being surrounded by two opponents. Supposedly well-rehearsed opponents, but it became apparent that they're not experienced. They're just spoiled by obtaining everything too easily.

Yes, he lost US government support, but this is regardless of what he did. He was losing it anyway. But Trump and Vance failed to justify why they ambushed him like this.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zelenskyy-vance-transcript-oval-office-80685f5727628c64065da81525f8f0cf

Am I the only one to think that the fact that the frequency of such encounters is increasing? ...and that might be caused by changing oceans?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/oarfish-mexico-baja-california-sur

Can anyone explain to me how is this different from Trump?
“In the event that he [Netanyahu] plans to visit Germany, I have promised myself that we will find a way to ensure that he can visit Germany and leave again without being arrested”
The only legal way to achieve this is to withdraw Germany from the ICC.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/24/merz-says-netanyahu-will-be-able-to-visit-germany-despite-icc-warrant