After the missile attacks over the past week it's a good time to remind everyone of this. Particularly the zrada of the US attacking Iran and wasting all the interceptors taht should be keeping Ukrainian cities safe.
open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · 2y agoThe theory goes that every Ukrainian political event and therefore any kind of political event can be divided into a venn diagram combination of these three concepts. Hanba means "shame", zrada means "betrayal" or "treason", and peremoha means "victory". They form the following typology.
1/5 Putin cannot win on the front lines, so he has engineered a terrifying new theory of victory. Ukraine’s allies are pathetic cowards and Putin knows it. With his army stalling, he is betting everything on raining ballistic missiles onto Ukrainian cities while the West watches
Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
some words are objectively hurtful and objectively dangerous in a way that passes any but the most gaslighty of tests and it is perfectly fine for a democratically elected government to use its mandate to render them unsayable without consequence
The monty python witch logic is more coherent than this /wapo oped/
Monty Python Holy Grail: She Turned Me Into a Newt
Alt: Monty Python Holy Grail: She Turned Me Into a Newt
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Mikołaj Kirschke@mikolajkirschke.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's even worse inside, median highschool student writes better. And it's not some fucking essay sent to the paper's competition, she's a full time writer there.
This is disgusting Abolish the Home Office
the3million@the3million.bsky.social · 3d agoMonique Hawkins, acting chief executive of the3million, said the impact of the Home Office’s retrospective review was devastating for many. "People applied to the EU settlement scheme in good faith...by building their lives in the UK and putting down roots." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
from 19th-century bans to burning 1.5 million Ukrainian books in the last month alone, russian warfare recognises the power of a Ukrainian book better than most people abroad learn more in my latest brief: endrussia.today/p/russia-bur...
why russia is obsessed with burning Ukrainian books.
And why a Ukrainian book makes the empire terrified.
endrussia.today
Unfortunately only I and 8 other people played more than 2 sessions of 4E because a D&D game being mechanically sound is anathema to the spirit of D&D as defined by its player base.
Challenge ProMode Social Media@nerevar.pro · 5d ago4E had pretty extensive Dark Sun support but they turned it into a big ongoing metaplot thing a lot of people disliked so I’m assuming they’re going to roll it back to the 2E default and then only support it infrequently (this is also what they’re doing for Greyhawk)
Canada is in a deadly serious moment unlike anything we have seen in a century. We need political leaders to offer a vision of how respond to the threat while offering ways that our nation can move forward. Claiming that the PM's priority is supporting Trump's war machine is a total falsehood.
The "let's quit NATO" faction have their day. I didn't have much time for them when they mobbed the microphones at NDP conventions. I have less time for these squabbles now as Canada faces an unprecedented threat to our sovereignty. My focus remains on rallying Canadians against the MAGA threat.
Svend Robinson@svendrobinson.bsky.social · 6d agoBullshit Charlie. Avi is speaking for many of us who are appalled at Carney's massive increase in military spending. Politics is about priorities...health care, environment, fighting inequality. Not bombs. Canada should be an independent voice for peace and global justice, outside NATO.
I think many Americans commentators still sometimes take threats to Canada too lightly. I believe that they put too much stock in the ability of the Democrats or public opposition to restrain coercion or military action. I think we need to hedge against the (IMO real) possibility that they fail.
The truth is much more brutally unpleasant - you can point to some structural factors, but the big reason for why things turned out this way is that Shit Happens. The past decade has been full of highly contingent events that turned out badly due to luck, stupidity and the malice of a few.
In this week's column, I agree that Canada needs to weild more economic weight with one objective in mind: Beating Trump. (Featuring a @jamellebouie.net shout-out) Gift link in next skeet. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: To hit back at Trump, Canada needs to supercharge its boycott of American goods
The federal government should encourage all Canadians to wield their purchasing power against the U.S. president.
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A politician got caught using ChatGPT in a legislative debate. We should make very clear: That fucking sucks. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: If politicians can’t get the job done without ChatGPT, maybe they shouldn’t have the job
Expecting our elected representatives to eschew artificial intelligence in their day-to-day work is not Luddism.
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If America wants to save its democracy, there's no time like the present. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/trump-chin...
Donald Trump Wants Imitation Democracy
So you want to steal an election, huh?
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furry hater@furry-hater.bsky.social · last wk.is it me or does anyone's friend group like this
ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last wk.Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...
So someone was insisting I was a vatnik the other day because I used the word 'respect' in a tweet...im really at a lose about the whole thing.
The schadenfreude I would be feeling if this was real. LMFAO. A train blocking traffic at the Ambassador Bridge 30 minutes before the Gordie Howe Bridge opened.
If someone invades your country you should shoot them, is a pretty basic idea. Only americans would think about it as "well you have to be nice to us so we can unfuck this"
Personally, my standpoint on conventional resistance is that whatever the Democrats or GOP line members may think, if soldiers or armed fighters illegally enter Canada the CAF should shoot them until they die or go home, because it is a sovereign country with an unambiguous right to self defence.
Dead Carl@deadcarl.bsky.social · last wk.Conventional resistance is valuable if there is an American consensus (particularly a popular one) ambivalent on occupation because it has no cost.
Among other things, "its population is largely Han (a constructed ethnic identity) and thus it's part of China" displays some pretty questionable ethnonationalist assumptions about what constitutes the basis for a state.