"So we've stopped calling you 'killer whales' because frankly it made you sound like aquatic psychopaths." "Oh, okay, cool. Here, hold this sunfish for me a moment will you?"
Helen Grant@helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2w agoHelen Grant@helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2w ago
Folks complaining the actors in The Odyssey don't look Ancient Greek are oddly nostalgic for the era when John Wayne was apparently the most qualified Mongolian on Earth.
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
12 years ago we shot down MH17. My trolls will remind you that Russia got rid of that kind of BUK in late 1990s so we couldn't have shot it down. So here's Prez at Russia's 102nd Military Base in Dec 2013 with a Russian BUK-M1 vehicle with 9M38(M1) missiles that only Ukraine has had since the 90s..
Today we remember the 298 lives lost in the downing of Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. A Dutch-led investigation confirmed a Russian missile brought the plane down, yet Russia continues to deny responsibility and shields those convicted.
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If physically capable, everybody should work both a service industry and a manual labor job at some point in their lives, because nothing else will ever make you appreciate your laptop and Excel spreadsheets more
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · last mo.Putin says Lukashenko isn't panicking over Zelensky's threats.
Langsam glaube ich, ganz Bayern ist ne einzige Satireveranstaltung
Captain Oleksandr Yabchanka commands the Da Vinci Wolves regiment's drone platoon. He builds the kill zones he is describing. He tours Europe because no one has answered the scenario. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/29/t...
Twenty armed men capture a village on NATO’s eastern border. What happens next?
A Ukrainian frontline commander has thought it through. Europe hasn't.
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A Ukrainian drone commander walked into GLOBSEC with a scenario for Europe. 20 armed men capture a village on NATO's eastern border. Russia denies it. The country sends armored vehicles in. They don't make it. Russia builds 20-kilometer kill zones now. 98% vehicle destruction inside the belt.
Russia: We will strike the decision-making centers, all of you flee Kiev. Foreign diplomats: We will not flee anywhere. Russia: However, we will not strike the decision-making centers, because they are not decision-making centers... 🤪 www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Russian MP says Ukraine's parliament and president's office are not "decision-making centres"
Andrei Kartapolov, Chair of the Defence Committee of the State Duma (lower chamber of the Russian parliament), has claimed that the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) and Office of the President ar...
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4. Ship leaves port with visible "mine" on hull. Pilot would check draught marks on departure. "Mine" attached right next to marks. "Mine" is not noticed by several pilots, linesmen, tugs, etc... 5. Story highly unlikely
"Söder hat leichteren Kampf gegen AfD erwartet" Wer hätte auch ahnen können, dass Grünen-Bashing und Wurstfressen nicht die Demokratie rettet.
Donald Trump has done a lot of terrible things to this country over the last decade. But here’s what I think is most insidious of all: Trump has taught Americans that cruelty is strength, that resentment is identity, and that hating other people somehow makes you superior.
I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
you have to understand that when Richard Dawkins says really dumb things it's because Oxford dons have no natural predators.
While the ”Narva scenario” has become such a popular doom narrative that it even has its own Wikipedia page, trying to take it wouldn’t be a walk in the park for Russian little green men. Here’s four reasons why. With Marek Kohv @icds-tallinn.bsky.social
Narva Is Actually Alright
Forget the idea of Russian little green men storming the Estonian border town Narva and thereby ending NATO.
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By now, not even the Russian news is claiming that Ukraine is close to defeated.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: "Ukraine, militarily, they're defeated. You wouldn't know that by reading the fake news."
This is so essential for Europeans to understand: "Russia is not a threat to us in the short term." Europe has time to urgently and rapidly build a common defence without America. If we... 🧵
