Lawyer in Warsaw, historian.
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The problem with this whole """debate""" is no one is (apparently) willing to have an honest conversation about the reality, which is - we can't gain air parity (much less superiority) over the Strait, so - an air denial approach makes the most sense *for operational reasons*
My mom loved watching me playing this game :)
Strong Hegseth energy in this chair. Bet it helps in fps deathmatches
Jeszcze w czasach na zaproszenie, to ludzie zaliczali tu spektakularne meltdowny praktycznie codziennie. Ktoś miał 1000 obserwujących i już woda sodowa potrafiła uderzyć do głowy.
It's hard to tell what's satire these days. www.duffelblog.com/ice-partners...
There we go! You can read the whole thing here without logging into twitter bsky.app/profile/araf...
This sort of hysterical take based on optics never quite delves into how many states involved in these summits actually share a free trade zone, customs union, currency structure and unconditional defence pact
I don’t think that he has any ideology beyond gaining personal power, plus he’ll be weaker vs congress, without the MAGA faithful to wield as a cudgel. That said, most probably they’ll just keep Trump alive as long as possible, even in a semi-vegetative state if needed.
Btw this was one of the three weird Japanese ships ordered from France, built around a single powerful gun, to defeat Chinese (German-built) battleships. Almost literal glass cannons.
Famous last words.
The most important admiral Yamamoto in the Imperial Japanese Navy-interestingly, far more of a politician, than a military man (later served 2 times as a prime minister). Head of personnel is always a good place to be if you want to spread your influence and create a patronage network.
Being obsolete by the time of war turns out to have been a recurring theme for the ships of this name.
Bit hard on mum, to be honest.
On to jest kategorią samą w sobie, z tym pompowaniem krwi od nastolatków.
Yeah, no shortage of lawyers in the world with exact same priorities.
Halfway through “Machines that Think” by Pamela McCorduck, a history of AI, and it’s delightful and very informative. She’s a charming writer who gathered a ton of original source material and interviews. The full PDF is available here from Monoskop: monoskop.org/images/1/1e/...
Teklords
I always get a laugh seeing this photo of Peter Thiel because it’s a crypto conference in April 2022. He said crypto was replacing fiat currency. He was then in the process of selling $1.8 billion of crypto before the crash of late 2022. We only learned about the timing of his sales much later.
August 31st/September 1st
I'm just gonna leave this here 😆
Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
On zdecydowanie nie był tutejszy
Trump is going to end up carried around in an inert vegetable condition like Bouteflika as rival courtier factions around him interpret vague coughs and gurgles as confirmation that the MAGA god emperor backs their latest brutally delusional scheme
Fizycznie w dobrym stanie ostatnio nie był, więc totalnie oderwane od rzeczywistości te plotki nie są (a przynajmniej mniej oderwane, niż z Putinem).
It’s hopescrolling today, at least for my US timeline part.
(Sam od tego gościa to dostałem na ulicy, powiesiłem w pracy, żeby inni też mogli skorzystać)
Americans are just on the verge of accepting it’s probably not true and going to bed when suddenly all the Brits wake up and start hooting and hollering
Duża część mojego amerykańskiego tajmlajna od o tym tu z nadzieją pisze. Zdaje się, że od tego się zaczęło: bsky.app/profile/pale...
Donald McPherson, one of the last surviving combat aces from World War II, took down five Japanese aircraft and helped save a destroyer during the Battle of Okinawa. He has died at 103.
Hi! Have been following you on twitter for a long time, it was good to find you active in this new place-you’re a valuable, fun person to have on one’s timeline :)
Jest tutaj: @stoya.bsky.social
Lionsgate is holding a screening of ‘The Long Walk’ where you have to walk 3 MPH or faster on a treadmill for the entire movie • Theater has been retrofitted with treadmills • If you stop, you’ll be escorted out of the theater and can’t watch the rest of the film
Cryo had some of the best video game artists back then
Yaoouuh!
Man I loved those night vision battle scenes back in the day.
Heh, właśnie skończyłem. Że człowiek jeszcze pamięta jak bez opisu to zrobić.
Zendaya, 1992 version.
Art.
This is one of those pieces where it's not quite right, but not because the journalists didn't understand but because the people they spoke to didn't understand their own companies.
In my case I immediately guessed the country at least.
Again Yellow Sea and Tsushima experience rears it’s ugly head, in that the enemy commander got killed early in the first battle and was exceptionally pigheaded in the second one, while the experience of the Vladivostok cruiser squadron wreaking havoc on the supply lines got swept under the rug.
And it’s such a perfect encapsulation of the major theme of this book-extremely specific invention for a battle that Japanese officers had in their dreams (ditto midget submarines), while ignoring wider picture/practicality.
Yeah-„attritional warfare has unpleasant implications for our force design, so let’s not dwell on it and it will never happen to us”.
After finishing this book, one thing that is clear is that the victory at Tsushima fundamentally broke the minds of subsequent generations of the Imperial Japanese Navy officers-or at least a significant portion of their number.
Tom Clancy's Lady Chatterley's Lover
If it impresses Trump’s boys (not exactly bright guys) and improves his position with the family, it will work (for him). Courtiers must do their courtier things to advance in the pecking order, no matter how silly.
Ending conflicts is hard, especially when belligerents use a peace process to advance war aims by other means. My column, The Telegram, on historical lessons from Korea and Bosnia for the Ukraine war - and how Putin grasps them better than Trump economist.com/internationa... from The Economist
realistic Star Trek
„We have a land war on European continent. We are fully dependent on US. None of the EU members was ready to risk further escalation“. The way @sabineweyand.bsky.social explains EU-US-deal is exactly right. She explains EU‘s trade-offs & rationale — and doesn‘t put lipstick on a pig. (SZ-Dossier)
The article itself: on.ft.com/41TK5Ji How to keep Putin out of Europe: refill the swamp
„In Central Europe we need to develop something I choose to call bog power”
Those early, multiple forms of mechanized units in armies that entered WW2 and how they transformed into armored formations that we know from the end of the war, is a subject that interested me for quite some time. Need to write about it at some point.
Part of the article about the 5th leichte division now based on feedback from yours truly :) Initial concepts of mechanized warfare in different armies as they entered WW2 and how combat experience shaped the structure of mobile units is a fascinating subject.
Same data in a chart, plus comparison of economic situation-YOLO all the way on the part of the Japanese.
[rings bell] We got another one!
I rewatched The Limey after Terence Stamp's death and it was a much sadder film than I remembered. He's amazing in it, and I wrote about that performance and the ghosts of the 1960s that haunt every corner of it. defector.com/seek-and-des...
It’s sad that of the two main dumb fucks, who thought that Japan would be better without the naval treaties, and could compete with America in shipbuilding, only one lived long enough to see the latter part of „fuck around, find out”-and since he died in December 1944, this probably killed him.
This movie, if anyone is interested. m.imdb.com/title/tt0084...
Also Oliver Reed gets bitten in his dick, I shit you not.
Klaus Kinski vs a (presumably rubber) snake. He refused a role in Raiders of the Lost Ark, to give this unforgettable performance.
“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it
Heh, Wehrmacht had to severely limit production of the Tungsten tipped armor piercing shells, and then stopped it altogether, focusing on higher caliber guns, because they’ve lacked sources of it. Old problems return.
One of the first US shows broadcast in Poland after the fall of communism, with Dynasty and (somewhat bizarrely) Twin Peaks-literally everyone watched them (ok my parents were not allowing 8-9 year old me to watch Lynch).
he's like one of those exercises in medieval theology about demons
Does HR still need humans? And, if not, what does that mean for the rest of the company? My FT Big Read on the good and bad effects of taking the people out of the personnel department on.ft.com/4oLB13g #AI #HR #HRtech
No redheads/gingers though
Yeah, she was an airhead and quite hated because of that by wives of other Nazi dignitaries
Aug. 24, 1775: Ludwik Osinski, a Polish literary critic, poet, historian, essayist, lecturer and patriot, is born in Kock, near Lublin. He led Warsaw’s insurgent Municipal Council during the Polish Revolution of 1830-31 that was crushed by Russia.
Didn’t know that Taiwan straits are (or at least were) called „sailor’s death trap”. Different times now, but this still makes things quite difficult for China. If the Taiwanese do not fold after the initial hammer strikes, Chinese forces will be in a pickle.
my wife: "what do you call those ships that are triangles?" me: "star destroyers" (does not mention that i know the names of 20+ variations of these fictional ships)
She's this tweet made flesh
Decydująca bitwa w poranek po, to znana sytuacja ze studenckich czasów.
Kalecki in a tweet.
Hmm
In March 2025 the Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun, but lasting only milliseconds. www.wired.com/story/scient...
Another point that I think of, that could have influenced the name of the 5th-they were supposed to operate independently of the railroad network, which was not possible for the panzer divisions, that were still dependent on the railheads-important issue in the North African theater.
They were supposed to serve the old cavalry mission, so they may have received old cavalry regiments, but the plans to convert them to panzer divisions were made as early as 1938. Doctrinally they were supposed to be fully motorized formations that could make strategic movements by roads.
Original ones were really weak, so yes. Probably someone had an idea that this new division should be highly mobile, for it’s intended role and that’s why they’ve got back to this name.
Not really cavalry by 1939-the idea was, that they were to be able to move quickly and far on roads, with light panzers on lorries. In Poland it turned out that that they were not that useful. There were 4 of them, so the 5th looks like a conscious continuation, at least when it comes to name.
Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
SUSPENDED DISBELIEF (2021) Acrylic on Gessobord - 10" x 8" It’s nearly 50 years since my frugal art school days but I still hate to waste paint, even small amounts. 1/3
youtu.be/MGIPa9s1HDg?...
This book is on the exact level of military history nerdishness that I enjoy. www.amazon.com/Kaigun-Strat...
Again
Można się spytać właściciela żabki „gdzie wasze jaja”, albo „brakuje wam jaj”.
Pamiętam, że popłakałem się ze śmiechu przy tym „zmień piec”
