I thought they had field crematoria for that

When they next need tanks for a historical film about WW2, they’ll need to cobble them together from plywood and an old Lada sedan. Same goes for historical films about the Ukraine war.

Gabbard is no less than a hostile takeover of the CIA/NSA by the GRU

The idea of a “whiteness” that Italians are outside of is largely an American one, originating from the invention of “whiteness” as a construct to rationalise racial slavery and the subsequent waves of immigration from (largely southern) Italy. (The Irish were classified as non-white for much the same reason, even though Ireland was not known for its melanin-rich complexions.)

The Italians did have a different language and traditions than the French, but they also until recently had different language and traditions than other Italians. (Italy was not a country until 1860 or so, and “Italian” as a language came into existence when Garibaldi chose the Tuscan dialect (because Dante had spoken it) and decreed it to be the new national language of the newly united nation.)

The eventual peace dividend will include repurposing this into a T-shirt cannon

You know that Musk will do his best to get AfD in

Clownshoes Churchill is bloviating again

The village on Lunt near Liverpool considered changing its name to “Launt”, because vandals kept adding a top stroke to the L in signs.

Coulsdon is the new Scunthorpe, it seems

If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon

Footage from Epstein Island? Some of those girls were apparently very young.

Also, proof that he gave lists of CIA agents to Russia. I’m sure Russia could produce that proof, quite possibly with videos of these American patriots being tortured to death. (Conservative America hasn’t formally decided that treason is OK, it has only decided that “nah-nah-I can’t hear you”.)

Persuading you to vote for their guy, or if you’re disinclined to do so, persuading you to not vote by instilling disgust/outrage (see also: “Genocide Joe”) or just a blackpilled sense of powerlessness.

Also, Putin owns him. Russian TV broadcasting nude photos of his wife drove that point home: that Trump may fume and rage all he likes, but Russia has enough leverage to ensure that he’ll obey.

Maybe it’s the legendary Pee Tape, and maybe it isn’t. By now, they undoubtedly have an entire laundry list of kompromat that they can pick and choose from.

We’re probably more likely to see Europe paying reparations to Russia to normalise relations and get cheap gas again.

True, though BlueSky is a temporary redoubt at best, though one which, through switching costs, will trap people just as Xitter did. They accepted venture capital funds, and so when the time comes, will have to somehow recoup that from their users. At the moment, they’re in the glue-trap phase, attracting their users with promises to be open and not screw them over (see also: the early days of Facebook). Once enough are there, and have brought their friends and built personally meaningful networks dependent on BlueSky, the trap will close: third-party APIs will be restricted to the point of not providing an escape (as happened with Reddit and Xitter), the user-configurable algorithms will get unremovable additions that gradually increase the amount of ads, influencer content, AI pink-slime and whatever else they want in your feed, and then you’ll lose the ability to see all the content you selected, all the better to keep you refreshing and scrambling for anything you may have missed. And then, since all your friends and the cool people you follow are there, your choices will be to stay and suck it up, or effectively become a hermit.

Next up: everything east of the Oder is Russia

and apparently Nazis are following suit.

Someone should perhaps spin up a Mastodon/Misskey/something instance named swifties.social and bring them into the fediverse.

Have they thought of putting in a crypto wallet? Or just forcibly enshittifying every aspect of it with AI?

I thought they had been producing missiles for years now.

Why would a PM who saved his party from a popular leftist movement have sympathy for Pinochet? It makes no sense.