The Soviet Union was a union of Soviet Republics.
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Ava | she/her | trans gal literally just chillin
Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law
An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers
prospectmagazine.co.uk
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
i’m just gonna say it: the official localization team fucked up big time when they localized 超高校級 as “Ultimate” instead of “Super High School Level”. because that’s literally not what it means. it means Super High School Level. because they are high schoolers!
Andrew McQuillan (Spectator) notes "anti-immigration violence is an increasing feature of loyalism in recent years" but regrets "kumbaya politics" of Irish nationalists opposing violence. Hopes "the potential for genuine cross-community rioting cannot be discounted" spectator.com/article/why-...
Why is it mainly loyalists rioting in Belfast?
In North Belfast, the loyalist ceding of ground to nationalists has been compounded by the impact of immigration
spectator.com
It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2
LEVEL 1: The text supports a transgender reading of the protagonist. LEVEL 2: The text supports a transgender reading of the author. LEVEL 3: The text supports a transgender reading of the reader.
Martyrdom of Saint Simon Zelotes, Saint Judas Thaddeus, by Martin Johann Schmidt, 1796
I knew the Sixers would win bc Joel Embiid's statline played the song
There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 7mo agoAJ is reporting that they're hitting Iranian water infrastructure, something I'm sure the gulf states, with their big undefended desalinization plants, are thrilled to hear.
If a court wants to try and tell me I can't call Oat Milk milk, they can go ahead and try. I will never have my vocabulary, let alone the ontology it describes, be defined by a judge in a silly wig. Watch this: Cow water.
Quite remarkable that these people genuinely imagine that they were heroes for pulling every dirty trick in the book to expel the left. "It was horrible. People were calling me a liar simply because I was lying".
Cat Neilan@catneilan.bsky.social · 9mo agoAnd yet, it could all backfire for Burnham. Even if he gets through all the hurdles, there's no guarantee he'll be welcomed. “Where was he in the Corbyn years?," says one MP. "I was in the trenches, dealing with all the abuse, with people in tears – and he swans off to be mayor of Manchester."
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.