Germany and France have announced a joint European early-warning missile defense system, JEWEL, which integrates space-based sensors from the Odin’s Eye project with advanced ground-based radars.
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Germany and France have announced a joint European early-warning missile defense system, JEWEL, which integrates space-based sensors from the Odin’s Eye project with advanced ground-based radars.
The Prime Minister of a European country there... 🤡
“What is your plan with regards to wrestling the rabies-infected, castrated, mad boar that is waiting in the 3 feet deep pool of pig shit over there in the back?” “I don’t plan to wrestle the boar.” 😱 “Madness!! Is this person even fit to lead?!” 🙀 — literally what the western media does in 2025
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
oh. my. god. 💀
Imagine the whole internet finding out you’re a dumb motherfucker. 😬
But perhaps it was a misconception to assume this will increase the percentage of people really appreciating art and understanding the effort it takes, or being prepared to pay artists well for it, etc? (I still think overall the needle moved in a positive direction on those, just not bigly.)
Are they really newer art markets, then? Or did we assume they were and were disappointed when they turned out not to be? Computers made a ton of things, including making and buying and accessing art, more accessible, obviously.
Not enough Americans care or even understand what this is about. That’s what you get for undermining your own education system. 🤷♂️ www.axios.com/2025/09/01/c...
Nice! 👍
Really nice use of a limited palette! 👏
CAAAAT (thanks to @keyashiro who organised this study on her stream c:) #traditionalart #copicmarker #art
Remember Dmitriev (head of Russian sovereign fund)? He attended the meetings with Witkoff, summit in Alaska..
Starmer is a perfect example of An Idiot In A Suit. Put a suit on an imbecile and people will assume enough competence to vote the idiot into office or hand him a job at the highest levels of government (see also: Jake Sullivan and Elbridge Colby).
there are probably a handful of more evil politicians in the world but i know starmer tops the list of the most pathetic
But but but that article from _cryptorank_ tho! 😬
Depressing to have to explain this week that yes, Elizabeth Holmes is a pure sociopath who did the crimes. Her 13 year spree of knowing fraud &medical harm was only stopped by dangerous+difficult work of whistleblowers & journalists. Obviously we're failing to deal with her even worse successors.
So right on schedule, Kremlin spokesperson Peskov just denied Russia jammed GPS signal for Ursula von der Leyen’s plane. In case you needed more proofs it’s them.
Tha legit looks like the face of a man who went to the hardware store and came back with the wrong drill bits.
Thankfully thoughtful American leadership and partnership with her allies ensures that this isn’t a problem. ‘China's navy is expanding at breakneck speed… Between 2019 and 2023, China's four largest shipyards… produced 39 warships with a combined displacement of 550,000 tonnes…’
€5 say if Ukraine ends up defending Europe against Chinese warships, too, the strongly worded letters of support and condemnations of Chinese aggression will be off the charts. Off. The. Charts! 💥 📈
“That man? He woods.” *nod*
All of Giuliani’s life events that I know about hit like season ending cliffhangers where you’re like ‘How’s he gonna get outta this one?’ People forget that Four Seasons Landscaping debacle was All Him, which is understandable because he also committed actual sexual harassment in a Borat movie.
The UK is so, so fucked. Not even average people available for government posts, anymore, only idiots. The rest checked out already.
The UK is so, so fucked. Not even average people available for government posts, anymore, only idiots. The rest checked out already.
Is that why China supports russian invasions?
Now Dare pushes AI, so the story checks out. 👍
Y'all I worked out this morning and then later in the day took a work break to go for a long walk in the sunshine and sat in some grass for a while and now I feel amazing. Did y'all know about like exercise and sunshine? Holy shit it's great.
Re budget, same CTO “How would you even control this?” Me: “$200/year on a prepaid cards, check end of year wht people spent it on. 1-2 hours of work.” CTO: “That’s too complicated!” Me: “And this is why morale is bad.” So. Yeah. He “lost confidence” in me and fired me within 3 months of that. 🫡
Best part at mine was the CTO honestly, with a shocked look on his face, kept asking for ideas to improve morale every quarterly leadership meeting. “Openly declared and easily accessible budget for training” or “New chairs” were a no-no. 😬
Ukrainian sanctions are beginning to bite in occupied Luhansk, where massive fuel shortages have caused long lines at gas stations. Local residents are waiting for hours as supplies of AI-92 and AI-95 gasoline run dry.
You’re doing quite ok for what kind of a fucked up industry you had/have to work in. 👍
That’s the - Opportunity for personal growth part of the job ad, right? 😬 “Personal growth means you pay for additional training yourself and do it in your own free time”
“Do it” means after overtime hours were done, so we had the amazing opportunity to do a course after 10pm weekdays and weekends. 👌
Yeah that’s every web dev/saas startup that lists “Opportunity for personal growth” in their job ad right there. Last emplyer got $20 million in funding and everyone got a “If you find a course that helps you with your work, do it and demonstrate how it helped your work and we might reimburse you.”
At a briefing held by Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the russian army, a map was behind him that showed the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions as part of russia. Russia does not want peace. They are planning to continue their conquest.
You literally went from "They announced big thing!" that you misunderstood/misread (which is fair) to "Yeah but they did things before already". Good job. 💪
President of Azerbaijan met with Prime Minister of Armenia on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. ”The leaders discussed the Azerbaijan-Armenia peace agenda, stressing the importance of constructive dialogue, mutual trust and regional stability.”
“Once there is no fighting we are ready to let our soldiers in.” is not really a commitment to either get Ukraine to win or retake its territory, no. If you believe it is, more power to you. 👍
A retard statement for the fellow retards listening to him there. 🤷♂️
Firefighters would likely go “Just pump it full of water” 😬
Austria’s “concern” about the nuclear reactors in Slovenia (that Croatia also benefits from) and Slovakia is based solely on the assumption that they would need to import electricity from Austria if these were shut off. Nothing more, nothing less.
Just like the water energy lobby paid for the Austrian anti-atomic-energy stance, the fossil energy lobby paid for the Germam one. 🤷♂️
Europe being concerned about playing by the rules against such an opponent is peak bottom behavior — and russians absolutely know such behavior when they see it.
Is there a breakdown on topics vs. engagement volume? Asking because — and that’s without knowing how my behavior itself influences what I see on here — it _feels_ like US politics (and Twitter refugees) exploded engagament January and later and it’s now just normalizing again.
Would be interesting to see what the high-engagement posts were about. If the peak and falloff were mostly related to US politics it might not be a “Bluesky is dying” as much as “people are getting tired of a particular topic that maximized engagement”. But that wouldn’t make for catchy headlines.
Idiotism like this, AI fanboi fawning and all, might get people to shop in brick and mortar stores again. Of course no AI cheerleader is actually smart enough to consider that a possible enshittification counter-move, because there’s only room for “AI RAH RAH RAH!!” in their tiny little heads. 🤷♂️
Already being done. In no small psrt fanned by idiots that keep sharing posts about how AI chatbots will be our shopping assistants in the future and creating a weirdo mix of hype and FOMO. Would be hilarious if people started shopping in actual stores again because of the enshittification, too. 👍
$5 say they’ll have drone operational plans working and ready to go before the US armed forces do. Ok, maybe $1. 😬
Only a matter of time, really. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Europe is drawing up “pretty precise plans” for a multinational troop deployment to Ukraine as part of post-conflict security guarantees” What exactly does “post-conflict” mean here, then? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
It’s fascinating to observe at any rate. It also seems like people like to forget that the trust towards the US was built on the US not exercising their power in the West much. I doubt China will be able to reverse their appetite for Indian and Taiwanese soil quick enough to build real trust there.
To be fair, Ben is slightly mentally challenged. Which is likely the reason he has such a big audience.
russia is doing dry runs like there’s no tomorrow while Europe is debating the need for stronger armies. 👌 And if someone like me can realize that russia has a window of 2-3 years to attack, at this point, you can bet your ass the russians are aware of that, too. Europe is on a clock.
That’s for after a ceasefire. A more sophisticated “words if support” if not combined with “plans to win the war”, and potentially years in the future. 🤷♂️
Dad just made sure his son is 100% ready for the apocalypse. 🫡
That poor woman’s parents must have told her they’d have preferred a boy every day of her miserable life, looks like. From the turtleneck and creepy fake deep voice to this, there is no other explanation.
I fully expect a reaction that will make Europe look even more pathetic than no reaction would have done. 🤷♂️
Straight to moscow! Show of force! Hundreds of these:
Nine aircraft. 💪
How do you stay hopeful in todays often monstrous times? I don‘t. 🫳🎤
Europe will retaliate with strongly worded letters and make no mistake about that! 💪
Oh my, russia practically begging to be bombarded with strongly worded letters.
It’s now 6 months from when I was let go so any shares of that post is very much appreciated. ⬇️
“dass Einheiten des #Bundesheer in die Langstrecken-Einsatzpläne der russischen Streitkräfte einbezogen werden könnten” Hört sich eher nach einer neuen Kommandostruktur, a la Belarus, an. 😬
Bauer makes it sound like the Austrian army is mentally preparing to be put under russian command in case war breaks out in Europe.
Na Gott sei Dank ist damit das Bundesheer zur Stelle wenn man es braucht. 💪
Freue mich immer über gut recherchierte Kommentare zu meiner Person. Dieses Mal gleich 3 Fehler in 3 Sätzen: – Ich arbeite nicht für das IISS. – Ich bin Offizier im Österreichischen Bundesheer. – Und ich betreibe Feldforschung in der Ukraine. Exzellente Qualitätsarbeit dieser Publikation!
Richtiger Journalismus eben, von denen kann sich keiner verstecken. 💪 Nach dem Artikel gab’s sicher mal 2 Tage Sonderurlaub als Zeichen der Wertschätzubg des Herausgebers.
Gerade als Politiker kann man doch gut Kleingeld machen in dem man die Idee des “alles wird bleiben wie es ist, mit uns” weiterpropagiert. Gibt also auch keinen Grund das Konzept fallen zu lassen. Leider.
‘I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.”
Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.
Can always kill more grass! 💪
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
Explains the constant look of amazement on the faces of the US administration.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. - Harry S. Truman
Ich hab kurz "gesabbert und nicht verhandelt" gelesen und hab mir gedacht "Sehr direkt formuliert, stimmt aber."
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
So viele gute, mutige und starke Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainer sind tot. Und wir sind so schmerzhaft lahm und verzagt, selbstgewählt schwach und dabei arrogant und selbstgefällig.
Kremlin confirms that Putin will be meeting in China with Slovak Prime Minister Fico
I guess @moderation.bsky.app is using AI to help its staff work more efficiently 💪
The European Right-wing anti-migrant politicians and influencers who enthusiastically support Netanyahu are backing an Israeli government whose actions will end up pushing 100s of 000s of forcibly displaced Gaza refugees into the EU
Lire ce grand entretien avec @philippesands.bsky.social conduit par Florent Georgesco et surtout lire tous ses livres. « Construire un monde où les crimes des puissants ne peuvent plus rester impunis » constitue l'objectif stratégique majeur, aussi pour notre sécurité. www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic...
Moment when he decided to do the research, captured on camera by sheer coincidence:
Good Lord, 90 of them? He must have practically worn out his pornogram.
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
At the UN Security Council, as PM Yulia Svyrydenko showed the body of a child killed in a Russian strike, Russian representatives stared into their phones. A stark reminder: for Moscow, human life means nothing, cynicism is their official policy.
And this is the type of arrogance that is making Austria fall behind in terms of development pace even more. Most people here absolutely ignore the rampant corruption and inefficiencies in Austria while happily pointing at Eastern European countries as being corrupt and backwards.
This is what I assume Kraut means, but it’s sadly far from a reality. In Austria Eastern European countries are very much seen as lesser places, even to the point of mamy assuming education and things like infrastructure are shit compared to Austria, when in fact they are ahead in many ways.
The cost of inference is going UP as I SAID! The mainstream media picking this up is a huge deal and I'm so happy to see it
Yes, 'gen ai' should be banned. The data centres and hardware must be repurposed. Everyone involved at CEO and executive level should be put on trial for misuse of a whole planet full of data they don't own, straight-up fraud. And civil suits should go after them and their employers for every asset.
“Now”? 😬
Yes. That's a joke. In the West we used to imagine and depict "Eastern Europe" as that "backward place of oligarchs". Now America is that place.
So to me it absolutely seems plausible that _movement_ can be recognized at a much higher frequency than, say, 30 or 60 “frames” (impressions?) per second, since it’s by definition not the same eye cells reacting to it at their refresh capacity. But I’m just an interface designer, no scientist. 🤷♂️
(I’m sure you know this, just adding my thoughts) Cones and rods react at different speeds already (30 vs 200ms), and I’d assume it’s not all of them reacting simultaneously and in sync. If light “flashes” across the eye, left to right, I’d absolutely expect the cones to go off one after another.
Shenzhen. ~7400km away from Ukraine. I think Ukraine would need to improve its long-range drones, to cover more "contingencies". (China's large. I'm sure their AD is as "exceptional" as the russia's.) bsky.app/profile/baba...
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
*) 30% premium over the same products sold in Germany by the same chains.
The 19th district almost became a "rich part of town" like other cities have, when wealthy Viennese moved there in the 1960s. But the mayor at the time was like "Awww that's cute. You don't want to live among plebs. So I'll build two big pleb social housing blocks right in the middle of your shit."
Now I keep picturing Americans taking over the sozialbau blocks in the 19th. 😬