according to Wikipedia "Peru is the country with the most citizens named Hitler as a first name, with around 3,943 people according to the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status as of 2023."

Third fucking school stabbing this week. Good thing that at least Poland doesn’t have as many guns as the US…

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 6h ago

Poland has been hit by its third school knife attack this week. A 21-year-old woman today attacked a post-secondary school in Warsaw, injuring two 17-year-old girls - one of whom was hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries - and a 24-year-old woman.

oh well, I guess he still has a shot at this year's FIFA Peace Prize again

Making the beaver warning sign out of wood was not the best idea

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 2d ago

Beavers, everybody. Beavers.

the attacker is Polish but of course every fucking comment section online is full of people blaming Ukrainians

Here’s hoping at least TVN won’t be taken over by the Ellisons

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 3d ago

Poland will examine whether Paramount can take control of TVN, one of the country’s biggest broadcasters, following its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns TVN. TVN was in 2024 placed by the Polish government on a list of strategic companies.

ianal but I gotta be honest I really don’t love that the tolkien estate never fought anduril or palantir whatever their vc fund is called etc. especially with how litigious they’ve been in the past and like,,,they have the money to throw after unwinnable cases

Cannonball Adderall@echoloop.bsky.social · 4d ago

All of this shit needs to be canceled in January 2029. No companies named after things from Middle Earth should be allowed to have taxpayer dollars.

Earth: Final Conflict. Season 1 is still great and even season 2 is pretty good but not worth watching beyond MAYBE season 3.

The Baltics are, I fear, reading the tea leaves correctly.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5d ago

Estonia is redeploying troops closer to the Russian border and implementing an 'active defense" strategy aimed at stopping any attack during the very first battle. Estonia is building new border bases and purchasing long-range weapons from the United States

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

look im just saying when i said that you fundamentally cannot trust an election mostly done digitally people said i was carrying water for bolsonaro so if it turns out that the bolsonaros did indeed hack that system all I can say is lol (not really bc this is horrible)

btw interesting sign language fact: Spanish Sign Language has no official status in Spain, but Catalan Sign Language is an official language of Catalonia gotta give it to the Catalans that they're good with minority language rights also within Catalonia.

A huge problem with talking about the relationship between Russia and Eastern Europe is that to someone who quite rationally thinks spending energy on overt cultural assimilation is a waste of time an accurate recounting of their acts sounds unrealistically evil and they think we're lying.

People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@dov.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yeah like I don't want to overegg this but it is somewhat clear that Anglophones (even those whose own ancestral language and culture was stripped from them) generally do not conceptualise what exactly is so humiliating about hundreds of years of being mocked when you write in your own language.

Paul Verhoeven: too subtle for his own good.

Two Green parties, 10 thousands miles apart, united by a strong desire to give Putin exactly what he wants.

André Brett@drdrehistorian.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm a left-of-Labor voter, which has often meant voting 1 for the Greens. You'd be right surmising my politics are pretty anti-war too. But failing to aid Ukraine's defence against invasion is loathsome and the purported principle invoked is one that does not meet the moment

When foreign invaders occupy part of your country and turn your children, in their own schools, into soldiers trained to come back and kill the rest of you once they grow up, it’s… it’s just unspeakable evil. It is unfathomable tragedy for Ukraine.

just added 120+ Spanish-language accounts to my Ukraine blocklist – that of a certain fairly well known Spanish actor and all the people who reposted or liked his shit; took me a while

also "native Polish and German"? Yiddish (which the author thinks would have somehow prevented atrocities) also has the same direction of question marks!

somehow the author thinks that Yiddish is good but Hebrew is bad, and yet didn't bother to check which direction the question marks are turned to in Yiddish (it's the same as in Hebrew!)

when Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses try to proselytize at me, for shits and giggles I pretend to be a Scientologist trying to convert them to believing in aliens

I’m very pleased that I’ve just been announced as one of the guests of honour at Polcon 2027, the Polish national SF convention, to be held in Katowice, 18-21st November 2027! www.slazag.pl/wielkie-swie...

Wielkie święto fantastyki wraca na Śląsk. Katowice gospodarzem Polconu 2027!

Po kilkunastu latach przerwy najważniejsze wydarzenie dla polskich fanów powraca do kolebki fantastyki. XLI Ogólnopolski Konwent Miłośników Fantastyki –…

slazag.pl

Yeah, I guessed that this was the case

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last wk.

Season 4 was almost the end of Strange New Worlds: #StrangeNewWorlds

Ja wiem, że Lem był wizjonerem, ale chyba jednak prezydentury Dudy do 2006 nie przewidział?? (Z posłowia do książki „Świat się chwieje” czyli zbioru felietonów Lema z „Przeglądu”)

Apparently the only reason backslash exists on the keyboard is because in the sixties somebody needed it in order to combine it with the front slash to make /\ and \/ symbols. It is otherwise devoid of typographical meaning.

imagining a type of guy who’s like “Geralt? Ha, sorry, I think you mean Geraldo of Lybia from Conquistador.”

Paweł Ausir Dembowski@ausir.bsky.social · 2w ago

The 2001 Polish movie was released in English as „The Hexer” (and in Japanese as… „Conquistador”)

read theory

Elendil the Insufferable Lying Bastard: Historical Bias in the Akallabêth (Part One)

For the past thirty years, substantial scholarly work has been done on the role of Historical Bias in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Essentially, the premise is that Tolkien was deliberately present…

phuulishfellow.wordpress.com

First Wordle Problems@fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 2w ago

Númenoreans may have done some bad bad things over the centuries, but not the House of Elendil, nope! They were the ones who were Right All Along, clearly! Conveniently they’re the ONLY ones telling the story of the Downfall, so how much could we know about the actual events?

Ironically, Russia's many war crimes includes the repeated use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. What you're actually "witnessing" is Ukraine using technology instead of soldiers to save Ukrainian lives as part of its broader existential fight to survive.

EXCLUSIVE: Russian use of chemical weapons against Ukraine 'widespread', Dutch defence minister says

The intelligence findings on alleged Russian use of chloropicrin have not previously been reported.

reuters.com

This building is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2w ago

My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence.

"We should increase the price for Russian aggression, and it is only then that Russia will understand that they will not win this war".

euobserver — EU news that matters@euobserver.com · 2w ago

Swedish defence minister Pål Jonson also said on Monday: "We should increase the price for Russian aggression, and it is only then that Russia will understand that they will not win this war".

Both Mélenchon and Le Pen would be bad for Ukraine.