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Deep joy.
This is an amazing statement. I did not know that Trump is expecting *above ground* nuclear detonations, rather than highly-contained underground testing.

It'd surely be a lot worse than Chernobyl's radiation pollution.
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
#SoMuchShit

😂 Love it.
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
One other book to read and then..

...deep, deep joy.

#BookOfDust
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
www.reuters.com/business/med...

When the war ends, does anyone think Russia will just close these factories and pay everyone off? Is it not more likely that the factories will carry on making drones, and these drones will be deployed to European borders in order to terrify the likely targets?
Russian TV shows teenagers at 'world's biggest drone factory' making arms to hit Ukraine
A Russian factory, described by its director as the world's biggest maker of strike drones, has been shown on the Russian army's TV channel with teenagers helping make kamikaze drones to attack Ukraine.
www.reuters.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"You absolutely have the right to a second innings." 👍

Asma Khan on changing career.

#TMS
#TestCricket
August 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
fnar
July 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
@jonsopel1.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social

Re: Chelsea's Club WC win.

Just in case you login to BS again..

Did you know that Trump liked the CWC trophy so much that he decided to keep it? He claimed that Infantino gave it to him, not Chelsea!

Chelsea were given a replica instead. 🤣

#COYS!
July 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Unbelievable ending. Heroic effort ends in a tiddler of a dismissal.

Pixies track of a test match

quiet
quiet
LOUD
LOUD
BANG

Plenty of screaming, of course.

#ENGIND
#TestCricket
July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OMG

Cricket! 🤩

What an end to the day. Don't miss tomorrow!

#ENG-IND
July 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is incredible.

Can't be long before we see police taser drones, ICE robots intimidating LA - god knows what else. Lego versions? There's got to be a Lego ED-209.
Ukraine just pulled off the first confirmed robotic capture of a fortified Russian position — and took POWs.

No infantry, no gunfire. Just drones. Watch and read what the drone team said:
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/09/f...
July 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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interesting to see how much more coverage here we're getting of a chant at a music festival than the IDF being ordered to shoot and murder people in Gaza who are seeking aid!
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
SCotUS fulfills the MAGA dream and effectively crowns Trump as the King of the USA. The steep descent of the US into ignominy continues.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship broadens Trump's power
It handed a significant victory to Donald Trump - and future American presidents.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
SCotUS fulfills the MAGA dream and effectively crowns Trump as the King of the USA. The steep descent of the US into ignominy continues.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship broadens Trump's power
It handed a significant victory to Donald Trump - and future American presidents.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Given how much personal enrichment is a stake, with his sons touring the ME to 'do deals' recently, I just can't see him doing anything other than wobbling furiously like the orange jelly he is.

Can Bibi or the Israel lobby offer greater riches for weighing in? Doubt it.
June 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Just occurred to me that Elon Musk may be at the 'World Leader Pretend' part of his life.

youtu.be/aGMejPNlcIo
World Leader Pretend (Remastered 2013)
YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic
youtu.be
June 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
MADE IN CHINA

(Shame they got the skin and hair colour mixed up)
May 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Longest shot in the world here, but one of our #cats went missing last Saturday and still hasn't shown up. Never missed a meal in her almost 6 years.

She's microchipped, neutered, and wearing a grey collar.

Droylsden area of Greater Manchester, specifically M43 7 postcode.

Please repost.
May 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excellent interview with Thedor Meron in @spiegel.de

The brevity of the answers are a joy for a reader. The quality another level again. I'll be wanting to read more about him.

Takeaway quote: "We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” Think on what cohorts that could apply to.
April 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Oh yes.
April 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I think pundits ought to stop framing the news as Trump's Ukraine 'peace deal' and frame it as it really is: a marriage proposal from Trump's US to Putin's Russia, with Ukraine as a proposed dowry.
March 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Very much this. If a phrase has too much political baggage hanging on it, don't use it.

Instead, ask people if they want a nice environment to live in. The answer will be yes. Then cross out the options that prevent such an outcome.
March 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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The United States just became the first country to surrender in a war it didn't even fight.
US officials went through a G7 statement and removed all references that could be interpreted as being pro-Ukraine. They want a 'neutral' statement marking the third anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion, or as the US wants to call it: "a devastating war".

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...
U.S. Objects to Calling Russia ‘Aggressor’ in G7 Statement on Ukraine Invasion
The American opposition to a draft of a Group of 7 statement marking the third anniversary of Russia’s attack on Ukraine comes after President Trump blamed Kyiv for starting the war.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
If I'd been buying this 10 or 20 years ago, I'd be buying a history book. Now, I've bought a book of our times.

#TheNaziMind
#LaurenceRees
February 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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