this raises some questions about who becomes the president of belarus
Joel@snufkinlib.bsky.social · 2d agoIncredible use of the format
менфэйліңдемꙮкратиядатұрамын
@yaneuve.ren
ктёнок по имени «ꙮ» барлық біржола болған әзірге бітті емес
Joel@snufkinlib.bsky.social · 2d ago
Moscow’s Kitay-Gorod became a gathering place for alternative-dressed teenagers, but complaints about drinking and fights followed. Police now sweep the neighborhood, sometimes detaining young people simply because of how they look, Bereg reports. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Moscow’s alternative teens have made a downtown nightlife district their weekend hangout. Drunken fights are driving customers away — and police are targeting the teenagers for how they dress. — Meduza
In the summer of 2025, media outlets first reported on the “nefors” of Kitay-Gorod — teenagers in unusual clothes who hang out in this central Moscow neighborhood. Around the same time, local café…
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oh no theyve FOUND me even if i am decidedly more on the mostly lowercase with atypical uppercase as formatting side
WIRED@wired.com · 7d agothe stylistic choice to write in lowercase is a dead horse that’s been beaten, flogged, and beaten again. and yet, it’s having a moment. wired investigates. www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
it's always amusing how the US russian diaspora is invisible until you go to one of the events where _everyone_ is speaking in russian (despite this being the rather not russian georgian natl dance company)
oh hey i even wrote my own version of this elsewhere with specific "don't pay attention to randos with anecdata, go wait for @noupside.bsky.social (or @katestarbird.bsky.social) instead" and lo and behold
Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 7d agoDid Ukrainian drone strikes really silence Russia's social media bots? (No) A real Cloudflare chart fueled a viral story ab MAGA and AfD accounts going quiet. But the evidence doesn't support the rumor. I wrote about bots, vibes, & what we've lost as platforms have shut down tools & data access.
> they enshittified & that it didnt work IMPOSSIBLE. IT ALWAYS WORKS
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last wk.New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
"gotta work tomorrow, i should kick night owl mode in the head and get to sleep aaaaaa" <first time disco elysium playthrough pops up on the twitch machine with ukrainian readout of the narration text> "welp that sleep hope's fucked"
The Russian comments under stories that YandexTaxi is offline are perfect:
summary: world's least successful Zenit ad meets quick flight path+geography quiz
somewhat odd to have a theatre experience for a zvyagintsev film there was more laughter than i expected 🤷
менфэйліңдемꙮкратиядатұрамын@yaneuve.ren · 2w agothe минотавр screening is _decidedly_ more crowded than anything else ive been to here lol i am also not the youngest person in the theatre for once
the минотавр screening is _decidedly_ more crowded than anything else ive been to here lol i am also not the youngest person in the theatre for once
today's ORB pull quote is less serving its intended purpose as being wonderfully bereft of context for a piece that's broadly about trans literature > On the left, for some reason, was Sundar Pichai we all love unexplained sundar pichai
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 2w ago"If nothing else can be said for the year 2026, it is at least impossible to imagine 'Detransition, Baby' being written now."
> This DIY approach is also reflected in the cover art, which “was made from the poops of my two cats,” the artist explains. “I originally planned to create a collage artwork by cutting and arranging fruit, yet it felt far too much work.”
New 33EMYBW + cat-in-space shoegaze
+ a dramatic prog-rock debut + phone-made sound art from Wuhan
jakenewby.substack.com
This vintage miss piggy piggybank from 1978 has coin slot cleavage and I may never recover.
I have a list of things that I would buy if I were to ever really Hit It Big and the first thing on that list is this: www.ebay.com/itm/17623400...
Star Wars C-3PO Tape Dispenser Ceramic Return of the Jedi Sigma 1983 RARE NOS | eBay
The tape dispenser is in very good condition and clean from a smoke free collection. The glaze is still in great shape and the color is amazing. All of the pictures and video are of the exact piece being sold.
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waaaaaaaaaaa i need to do writing but it's boring transcription of handwritten stuff into its digital copy and i dont wanna it's so booooooooriiiiiiiing esp since i cant edit all the parts i dont like, to properly preserve the (flawed) original
Goodnight. May we sail the river of night gently until we reach the safe harbour of morning. 🖼️ Mandy Tsung
The purpose of teaching is to deliver that correct knowledge to students while showing them how much remains unknown and contested. Why would we do research if we weren't supposed to communicate what is true to others? Oh yeah - this is why they want to end humanities & social science research.
“Hey babe, whatcha cookin?” “MAPS FOR THE MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE.”
So far I’ve learned that hectograph gel smells AWFUL (think burnt hair and tennis balls) and will make your significant other seriously question your cooking skills if they sniff it unaware.
Going full mad scientist in my kitchen replicating how the U.S. Army printed orders and maps in the trenches of the Western Front… (Just a very normal research day.)
this one is also a beaut come for the AI billboard review shoutout, stay for the > That’s what a tech boom is, more than anything else: a mass securitization event that happens to sell some computers, or apps, or agents
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 3w agoYou may have noticed that while the vibes in San Francisco are fucked beyond all belief, Oakland is still good and chill. We dispatched @redford.bsky.social to make sense of it. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/the-great-vi...
something something traditional family values idk i mean i guess you can spin vampires as slavic tradition but idk if it's the sort the patriarch endorses also don't think they're supposed to glisten traditionally but what do i know im not a medievalist
Meduza in English@meduza.io · 2w agoThe highest-grossing movie in Russia in September was 2008’s “Twilight.” The rerelease has earned 340 million rubles, making it the first older film to top the country’s monthly box office since nationwide records began in 2015. meduza.io/en/news/2026...