Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
osma.fishpool.org
Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
@osma.fishpool.org
Tech and systems, Europe and Ukraine, democracy and defense, energy and science. And whatever else I find interesting, I don't discriminate.

Mostly English, occasionally Finnish

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mas.to/@osma, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei #lavrov stated that Russia accepted US proposals on Ukraine made during the meeting between #putin and #trump in #anchorage, but Washington is now unprepared to implement its own suggestions.

That’s a truly beautiful manipulation on the part of the Russians! For […]
Original post on agora.echelon.pl
agora.echelon.pl
February 9, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
The French-supplied SAMP-T air defense system has officially entered service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Markings on the system’s hull indicate confirmed destroyed targets — notably two aircraft and several guided aerial bombs.

t.me/United24medi...
February 10, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
The EU is planning to impose sanctions on "Bashneft" and 8 refineries - Reuters. For the first time, ports of third countries in Georgia and Indonesia will also be subject to sanctions.
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116044142660106155

A security guarantee for russia is that as long as they stay the hell behind Urals and don't build weapons, we leave them alone and never speak with them again.
mastodon.social
February 10, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?

NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
It turns out that fungus growing termites sometimes cultivate Termitomyces titanicus. This is an excellent scientific name. It's a fungi farmed by termites (like ants they do not allow it to produce "fruiting bodies" or mushroom caps while the colony is active […]

[Original post on sauropods.win]
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 AM
RE: https://genomic.social/@foaylward/116037979567279445

TIL that ants cultivate crops and have engineered them to a stage where the crop is unable to survive without its caretaker species.
genomic.social
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
Landscape isn’t decoration—it’s climate infrastructure. Every park, campus, public space, or commercial site quietly:
Guides water to prevent floods and water‑logging
Preserves soil health and local geology
Plants species that thrive, not just look good […]

[Original post on mastodon.world]
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
A beautiful commentary on the attempted assassination of #gru general Alexeyev:

> Just think how difficult it is to be a Z-patriot. Since 2015, they have been mourning the “hero of the Russian Spring”, Alexey Mozgovoy. Since yesterday, we should be […]

[Original post on agora.echelon.pl]
February 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they WON'T “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world.

They're asking people to "Stand With Us and Tell Attorney General #pambondi
It's […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
I had an interesting conversation on here recently that made me realize that maybe not everyone who uses Mastodon knows that you can use filters as a way to add content warning to other people's posts?

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-fediverse-content-warnings-and-filters/

#fediverse […]
Original post on stefanbohacek.online
stefanbohacek.online
February 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
Yeah sure just let "AI Agents" run everything, they surely won't do exactly what everyone knows they're going to do
https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/s/nadOh1sd37
February 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment
https://futurism.com/future-society/bitcoin-crashing-miners-unplugging-equipment
Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70K mark. At the time of writing, the token is hovering just above $63K […]
Original post on mastodon.scot
mastodon.scot
February 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
Japan is pimping for Russian tourists. This is contrary to the political whitewashing they are conducting, advocating support for Ukraine.

You can’t sit on the fence of genocide #Japan.

1/3
February 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
The women's national teams of Estonia and Lithuania were given technical defeats for refusing to play against the Belarusian team. UEFA did not recognize the political reasons as valid, and both teams under 17 years old received defeats with a score of 0:3.

1/2
February 7, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
February 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
I'd just like to note that right now, and for weeks, virtually all of Ukraine has no power, or at best occasional intermittent power. The temperatures are -24, and people are freezing to death. In most regions, power is not expected to be restored until […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
February 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116030364450087566

This is a super interesting direction. Persistent fedi identity on your own domain that lives on your local device - no server (apart from use of a switchable relay).
mastodon.social
February 7, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
#Tesla refuses to come to terms with the Swedish labour unions. As a result, nobody is willing to link up their charging stations in the small Swedish town of Vansbro. But Tesla has found a solution.

They've bought some diesel generators. 🙄 […]
Original post on archaeo.social
archaeo.social
February 7, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
OTD in 2018 the Battle of Khasham took place in Syria. US military killed & wounded 300 Russian Wagner fighters who attacked them. And in reaponse we did.....fuck all.

Not that it might be clue that we bluff. All the time.
February 7, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
Apparently the most repellent thing about the entire Epstein saga is not the child rape.
February 7, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
"Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States".

-Human Rights Watch, World Report 2026

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026
World Report 2026
World Report 2026, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.
www.hrw.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:27 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116027643686618149

Key difference between (good!) drip coffee and espresso drinks: drip pour-over passes through a filter paper removing most coffee fats, leaving just the dissolved aromatics. Espresso based coffee, whether short, long or latte all […]
February 7, 2026 at 8:20 AM