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Apropos of nothing in particular, you should give H.L. Mencken's obituary for William Jennings Bryan a read: www.positiveatheism.org/hist/menck05...
Check Sky's posting history, it was sarcasm
The Danish government warns that the days of America as a friend and ally are past, and Denmark must now reckon with Trump's America as an adversary carrying out sabotage and dangerous influence operations on Danish soil. In many ways, America is behaving just like Putin's Russia.
Overwhelming! We eventually found the example play through in the Appendix which was a great help, but we are going to read the manual and watch some YouTube plays before attempting a full scenario. Several friends really liked it, we are determined to learn it properly.
Playing Littoral Commander: The Baltic by @sebastianbae.bsky.social for the first time. Two hours of learning basics and doing the setup, about to do the first turn 😅
WWJD? Flipping tables and chasing people around with a whip has precedence in these situations, from my understanding
For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products
If you ever visit Stockholm, take a day trip to Uppsala. See University, Castle, Cathedral, Botanical gardens all within walking distance. Lots of interesting history. Then then have awesome food and drinks before going back. Miss Voon, Dryck&Mat, ask me for more recommendations
I think we should avoid reducing anyone’s legacy down to a single thing they did or failed to do. For example, James Dobson also loved hurting kids. Just loved telling adults to physically beat little kids until they begged for mercy.
I am deeply immersed in cultural taboos against speaking ill of the recently dead, in with that in mind, I will note that James Dobson showed unwavering devotion and perseverance, more specifically in fighting against AIDS relief and social acceptance of gay human beings.
Today’s outing: by century-old steamer from Stockholm to Drottningholm Palace, there to see Telemann’s wonderful opera “Orpheus” at the 18th century court theatre.
Europe’s seas are facing a crisis most of us never witness. Across the continent, bottom trawling is ripping up marine habitats, killing vast amounts of sea life, and even taking place inside “protected” waters.
So the discourse is going to be about New York again tonight. I clearly follow too many Americans on here
"Here, take this skin and make a regal lion, or suffer the King's wrath" "But I've only seen lions in medieval drawings?" "You have until Wednesday" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of...
Yep. www.nordicairdefence.com www.saab.com/newsroom/sto...
Today, I turn 40. Despite the scars from my arrest & torture by CAR soldiers, ordered by Russian mercenaries, I’m more determined than ever to expose their crimes in Africa. Join me in this fight. Please donate to my GoFundMe to support my investigations: www.gofundme.com/f/philip-oba...
Very convincing trans leftist account that gets very angry when someone criticises Trump, AI, or says to leave black women alone.
Apple's Self Service Repair Store really hit me with a "you didn't return the tool kit" bill… after I literally returned it. Bold move for a company that sent the wrong display adhesive and failed to include the required parts tray. 🫠
Horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin.
The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones. This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
Farthest I've been: N: Nordkap, Norway 71° E: Sydney, Australia 151° S: Adelaide, Australia 34° (and Cape Town, South Africa) W: Cape Mendocino, California, US 124°
Climate science is literally Nobel Prize winning science. Just sayin’. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
An average 2.6 atrocities on this page. Not great, not terrible.
"They dismounted and walked methodically among the fallen dispatching them man and horse alike each witb a pistolball through the brain" ... "Horses were tsken and women violated and bodies began to drift past the Yuma camp downriver" ... "Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver" -
Almost finished. It's well written, but also so damn bloody and depressing, so I've been struggling to finish it. Having a thematically appropriate jalapeño infused tequila drink at Pava to cheer me up
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"He's funny, but not ha-ha funny"
I kicked off the @eurcorrespond.bsky.social defence desk today with an article taking stock of where Europe stands 6 months after JD Vance came to Munich and declared culture war on Europe. The placating strategy to deal with Trump obfuscates that in fact, Europe has moved a lot.
Ahh, thank you
PSA to scientists: Google calculator appears to no longer do basic unit conversion correctly! n.b. the correct answer here is 223.4 Myr, a factor of about 60 larger than Google's answer. 🔭 🧪
How so? Studying German. Upps as in "oops", or? Lund, a common surname and our other historical university town, is apparently a naughty word in hindi
Hear, hear. Skulle laga ghormeh sabzi, och lamm går liksom inte att få tag i i butiker i norra Uppland om man inte råkar köra förbi en bondgård som har en skylt ute. Fick köpa några kilo frysta på Willys i en förort till Stockholm.
*Waves from Uppsala*
Kraut, or the person he is replying to? (Blocking or blocked by, so can't see)
A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:
Rodeo, if the rider risked being swallowed whole by the horse after being thrown.
again, a significant # of red state legislatures were introducing bills that would automatically hit undocumented migrants with lifetime sentences, no chance of parole. the synthesis is going to be a form of slavery because red states depend on low wage labor, they will collapse without it.
They are here too bsky.app/profile/sail...
Tack för allt ni gör 🙂
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🔴Trump Made ‘Mistake of Historic Proportions’ on Ukraine Says His Former Ambassador The United States’ former ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, tells @alexhh.bsky.social that she couldn’t “in good conscience” execute the President’s plans for the country bylinetimes.com/2025/07/28/t...
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
I'm not an art guy, but I've loved your games since start. Here's to another 25!
No wait, other way around of course. The other starboard. 😅
Day tour with Tresor. Stockholm south and Gunpowder fortress island to port, Gröna Lund amusement park to starboard.
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
To me that sounds like what a sexually abused child might say in the hope of sparing others her fate.
This has always been clear: plant-based meat alternatives are better for the planet and, at least compared to red meat, better for your health. That this is not widely accepted is the product of meat industry disinfo, science illiteracy, and some very stupid journalists. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/h...
In 1988 Umberto Eco wrote Foucault's Pendulum. The plot is: a bunch of guys working at a self-publisher house, for fun, take their huge crackpot and crank slush pile and jam it all together using a simple markov chain program written in BASIC. They create a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/monste... #smbc
Hello little buddy
Sleep blepping
Oh goody, P1 Swedish public radio interviewing an American natalist couple. It's the same ones it always is. Reporter doesn't mention (that I heard) that when they say "more kids or civ collapse", they always mean white kids. Also dad slaps kid during interview, as happened many times before
At least one other place en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8...
The Headless ghosts in Sekiro, they pull out your soul that way, insta-killing you
“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)
This is why I wrote this piece, about how the press is failing to understand that this isn't about Trump vs. Powell, but about how authoritarian leaders undercut constraints on their power--and destroy everyone's prosperity in the process: www.forkingpaths.co/p/jerome-pow...
11 years ago russians shot down flight mh17, no passengers survived
Today in my Science Communication class, among other topics, we're discussing the difference between policy and politics. As one example, in my capacity as ASU research faculty, I can write "this Trump administration regulation is bad and here's why," but I cannot say "therefore vote for Democrats"
He openly talked about how hot he found his own daughter and how much he would f*** her "you know, if she wasn't my daugher" *wink*, to Howard Stern, and just about anyone. Openly in meetings. Kelly had to tell him to stop. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
I was in my teens I think, and even with my limited math skills I could get that "but the total amount of emissions are dangerously high now, still increasing then, only not just quite ax fast? But you pick the second derivative and use it to show a line going down?"
Remember reading "The Coal Issue" of the Economist in the 90s. A whole issue praising coal.Think there was a single sentence about climate change, essentially saying "idiots, even if it were real, our graph here shows that the rate of acceleration of emissions is slowing", and a down-pointing graph
And currently playing @obsidianent.bsky.social s Avowed which is fantastic. The poster image is very striking too
Currently reading - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, after being made aware of it by @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
Fun fact about ChatGPT: it always praises the user and tells them they are operating at the frontier of knowledge and close to a breakthrough. It has literally used that exact phrasing with me. More than once.
Just pathologically lying about everything
Plus a cat sleeping in summer rain
Board game day with friends. Azul, Ark Nova, Unlock! and season 1 from Mysterious Package Company
Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts. A thread. 1. Quantitative methods
I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
this is one of the things the fediverse excels at. governments should be running their own instances
i think that in practice the biden hope was that, by "going back" to the "status quo," that the "fever would break" of its own accord--without the liberals really having to take active, decisive measures to make it happen the parallels with ukraine policy and maga prosecutions are *deep*
I want to ask again: why can't our allies help us shoot down russian drones and missiles? How is it that they could help, but just silently watch?
I'm in a pretty good mood and started feeling hope for the future suddenly. Am I going insane?
Was not expecting to find the extraordinary larval case of Coleophora kuehnella (Cloaked Case-bearer) today. A lifer for me and a scarce species here - the most recent record on the Devon Moth Group website is from 1993. #teammoth
BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿
📢 Job alert! UKCEH are looking for a Senior Freshwater Ecologist to join their Aquatic Ecosystems Group, based at their Edinburgh site! 💦🧪 @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco share.google/P4sSI2ulbXL9...
English - instinctively understand. German - occasional flashes of that, and it feels great when it happens. The others - have to translate first
Is there really no Hazelcast implementation available for Spring Cloud Bus? Using it for Cacheable so was hoping to not have to depend on and maintain even more components
That reminds me I need to find that account that posted all these great Dune memes on twitter here instead. bsky.app/profile/nerd... maybe? Good enough
Jetzt habe ich seit eine jahr mit Duolingo Deutsch gelernt. (Danke @alanderminna.bsky.social für Insparation) Es hat spaß gemacht, aber ich denke ich muß jetzt Büchern lesen, Youtube anzuhören um besser zu werden. YourDailyGerman.com und EasyGerman auf youtube scheint gut. Weitere Empfehlungen?
Unbreakable is the only movie where I've walked out of the cinema before the end, and if people try to tell me it was good actually, I'm starting to evaluate the friendship
In typical Russian fashion, the killing of an endangered pelican by an FPV drone is casually posted—and proudly shared by Russians.
Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this. othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...
Followup - we got the Peugeot, and are happy with it so far.
Leg press at 170kg, 15kg more than last time, effortlessly 2*10. Maybe this creatine thing isn't a bad idea
A lot worse the last month, and feels like it's accelerating yeah.
Dang, sorry to hear that. I've enjoyed your art here, chipped in a bit via your donate page, hope it helps a bit
Thank you. I should read it some day. Seems I have assimilated enough of it through cultural osmosis to recognize the style 😃
What's the book? Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, or?
"Exit, stage left, pursued by glowing shrapnel"
If you're using genAI to communicate with your friends, they're not really YOUR friends, are they? GenAI is the one having the relationship, you're just the lazy meatsack middleman. If you really cared, you'd cut yourself out of the equation entirely and tell them to just keep talking to the bot.
Just invested in crowdfunded solar energy in Vietnam (Vu Phong loan 18). Join me? trine.com/invite/36525...
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