Good point, perhaps this will be a good time to outgrow JR

Syria

Situation by the end of 01/12. SAA regained territory north of Hama. Rebel forces (SNA/HTS) cleaned up the area's in and around Aleppo and captured SDF held territory north of Aleppo. SDF captured SAA territory west of Lake Assad.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 21:51

SDF in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo has accepted a rebel forces (HTS-led) offer for safe passage towards Raqqa. They will leave the area that will allow the rebel forces to completely take control over all of Aleppo.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 20:29

Rebel forces captured a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled gun from the SAA.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 22:17

Georgia

🇬🇪 Protesters in Georgia have gathered again outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi following yesterday’s violent crackdown, local media report. Demonstrations are also taking place in Batumi, Poti, Kutaisi, and other cities across the country.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 16:47

🇬🇪 Tensions escalate in Tbilisi: Georgians are fighting for freedom., Protesters near the parliament were met with water cannons. In response, demonstrators are throwing fireworks, stones, and debris.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 20:12

🇬🇪 Georgian ambassadors in the EU are resigning in protest against the government’s decision to delay EU accession until 2028: Otar Berdzenishvili (Bulgaria), David Solomonia (Netherlands), Irakli Vekua (Italy) and David Zalkaliani (the US), also a former foreign minister, resigned.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 20:21

In Tblisi, Georgia, the situation is getting more grim by the minute. Protestors are now using molotov cocktails to attack security forces.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 20:32

Georgian unit commanders fighting in Ukraine have issued a joint statement. Commanders from the "Caucasian Union" military committee held an emergency meeting and decided to return to Georgia, now "awaiting a signal from President Salome Zourabichvili."

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 20:14

Zelensky rules out NATO invitation excluding parts of Ukraine. "Ukraine will never agree to this. Any invitation must cover all our territories. We understand Article 5 can't apply during wartime, but Ukraine won’t compromise on sovereignty," he stated.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 13:45

🇪🇺 In December, the EU will provide Ukraine with €4.2 billion in budget support, announced European Council President António Costa.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 14:19

🇸🇪 Spotted: A convoy of 50+ Swedish PbV-302 armored personnel carriers rolling through Dresden, Germany. Likely on their way to Ukraine.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 22:08

Today, Russian forces launched a massive offensive in the Kharkiv region near Vovchansk, targeting the 42nd Mechanized Brigade's area of responsibility. Ukrainian defenders were prepared, inflicting losses: 13 killed, 27 wounded, 2 T-62 tanks destroyed, 2 damaged, 2 BMP-3s destroyed, 1 APC damaged.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 1 December 2024 at 21:48

How do those Bluesky posts look to everyone else and are they displaying correctly on both desktop and mobile? They are for me but just making sure. I've also just noticed a downside of the embedding is that videos can't be played on the site, that's a bit tedious, I wonder if it's something to do with how we're embedding the code.

They look fine for me, but I'm a logged-in user. Looks fine in private browsing as well though, so perhaps they're fine.

Yeah they look great to me! It's just the video posts, they're embedding but the video is like an image still, Lol.

Hopefully one day we can upgrade to having a BlueSky icon like we have for Twitter and it can be as simple as using the URL instead of the embed code! It's just that Bandorr didn't put that functionality in so he's unsure whether it was made by Talon or more like a plugin for the editor we're using so we went for the embed code for now.

Just noticed though, some accounts can seemingly disable being able to get the embed code from their posts...

If you look at: NOELREPORTS — Bluesky

Click the 3 dots and it has the embed post option.

But like here: Parris — Bluesky

Seems like it has been disabled? It doesn't exist!

BlueSky has a lot of user features though so users have a lot of control, I've already seen that people can also disable their posts from appearing in 3rd party sites in the same way that Youtube sometimes has that "This video can't be displayed on 3rd party sites, please open the video in Youtube" type restrictions. So that may provide a little complication.

The blueSky embeds work a lot better than Twitter. No minutes delay for the whole page to load.
But indeed the videos just show a picture with a big white play button that opens up a new window when clicked.

On the plus side, at least Bluesky doesn't constantly tell you to sign in.