Mario Wolczko
@mwolczko.bsky.social
Retired computer scientist, ex Sun and Oracle Labs, U of Manchester. Of Ukrainian (Вовчко) and Italian descent. Hobby woodworker, DIYer, astronomer, pilot.
My new favorite word is celebrating its centenary: onagrocracy.
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My new favorite word is celebrating its centenary: onagrocracy.
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Oleg needs donations 👇🏻 if you can't donate today then please also share, every pair of eyes helps.
Dear friends,
A lot has happened in few days that I have been absent from X. We've lost some of brothers-in-arms, and 2 cars have been seriously damaged.
Therefore, I'm compelled to ask for your assistance once again...
1/2
A lot has happened in few days that I have been absent from X. We've lost some of brothers-in-arms, and 2 cars have been seriously damaged.
Therefore, I'm compelled to ask for your assistance once again...
1/2
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Oleg needs donations 👇🏻 if you can't donate today then please also share, every pair of eyes helps.
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In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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A russian army sapper squad commander describes how he and his unit planted explosives in books and children's toys in 🇺🇦Ukraine.
Source: x.com/wartranslate...
Source: x.com/wartranslate...
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A russian army sapper squad commander describes how he and his unit planted explosives in books and children's toys in 🇺🇦Ukraine.
Source: x.com/wartranslate...
Source: x.com/wartranslate...
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
RIP. His poetry completely changed my attitude to the genre - for the better. I hope British TV rescreens his groundbreaking work, especially V, Loving Memory, Gaze of the Gorgon and A Maybe Day in Kazakhstan.
September 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
RIP. His poetry completely changed my attitude to the genre - for the better. I hope British TV rescreens his groundbreaking work, especially V, Loving Memory, Gaze of the Gorgon and A Maybe Day in Kazakhstan.
“Ukraine is rapidly becoming a net energy exporter…August 2025 exports reaching a record 450 GWh—the highest [] since [] March 2022.
… this reversal is staggering. Just over a year ago, Russia’s systematic attacks destroyed 70% of its generation capacity.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/03/u...
… this reversal is staggering. Just over a year ago, Russia’s systematic attacks destroyed 70% of its generation capacity.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/03/u...
How Russia's attacks are building the world's most modern power grid in Ukraine
Ukraine energy exports hit record in August 2025 after losing 70% of capacity to Russian attacks. Zakarpattia leads recovery with volunteer projects.
euromaidanpress.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“Ukraine is rapidly becoming a net energy exporter…August 2025 exports reaching a record 450 GWh—the highest [] since [] March 2022.
… this reversal is staggering. Just over a year ago, Russia’s systematic attacks destroyed 70% of its generation capacity.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/03/u...
… this reversal is staggering. Just over a year ago, Russia’s systematic attacks destroyed 70% of its generation capacity.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/03/u...
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In which I make just one prediction www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
Opinion | The Fundamental Truth About U.S. Strategy That Putin Knows and Trump Ignores
www.nytimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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The University of California is a jewel. Two family members have attended and I was honored and privileged to teach a grad CS class at Berkeley. We must resist the attack by the Trump administration. #StandUpForUC bit.ly/standuc
Stand Up for UC
We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.
bit.ly
August 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The University of California is a jewel. Two family members have attended and I was honored and privileged to teach a grad CS class at Berkeley. We must resist the attack by the Trump administration. #StandUpForUC bit.ly/standuc
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This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
July 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
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I encourage everyone to read this letter.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
July 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I encourage everyone to read this letter.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
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5/5 Europe must lead.
Seize the assets. Fund Ukraine’s defense.
Stop pretending this war is someone else’s problem. It’s ours.
And the longer we wait, the higher the cost
Seize the assets. Fund Ukraine’s defense.
Stop pretending this war is someone else’s problem. It’s ours.
And the longer we wait, the higher the cost
July 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
5/5 Europe must lead.
Seize the assets. Fund Ukraine’s defense.
Stop pretending this war is someone else’s problem. It’s ours.
And the longer we wait, the higher the cost
Seize the assets. Fund Ukraine’s defense.
Stop pretending this war is someone else’s problem. It’s ours.
And the longer we wait, the higher the cost
So much for A1
David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer
drhagen.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So much for A1
Do it. Do it now.
Ukraine must urgently be given the €300bn of frozen Russian assets | Phillip Inman
Ukraine must urgently be given the €300bn of frozen Russian assets | Phillip Inman
Confiscating the funds would shock Putin, help Ukraine, and take advantage of disillusionment in the US economy
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Do it. Do it now.
To see this running again, 40 years after its creation, is surreal.
#Smalltalk -80 on #PERQ --- Mario Wolczko's implementation (www.wolczko.com/st80/) running with maybe some gremlins still to sort out.
May 20, 2025 at 5:07 AM
To see this running again, 40 years after its creation, is surreal.
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#Smalltalk -80 on #PERQ --- Mario Wolczko's implementation (www.wolczko.com/st80/) running with maybe some gremlins still to sort out.
May 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
#Smalltalk -80 on #PERQ --- Mario Wolczko's implementation (www.wolczko.com/st80/) running with maybe some gremlins still to sort out.
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America now has both the pope and the antichrist.
May 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
America now has both the pope and the antichrist.
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Dear God, why is anyone still paying an ounce of attention to ANYTHING Putin says? Why give it any oxygen? Have you not learned yet?
April 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Dear God, why is anyone still paying an ounce of attention to ANYTHING Putin says? Why give it any oxygen? Have you not learned yet?
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This is a bombshell report—not least because Blavatnik is directly sanctioned by Ukraine, and has created arguably the greatest reputation laundering success of any post-Soviet oligarch.
Turns out Steve Witkoff has been doing business with Len Blavatnik while stupidly parroting Russian propaganda and leading Trump's capitulation to Putin.
www.counteroffensive.news/p/scoop-trum...
www.counteroffensive.news/p/scoop-trum...
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is a bombshell report—not least because Blavatnik is directly sanctioned by Ukraine, and has created arguably the greatest reputation laundering success of any post-Soviet oligarch.
“We are currently witnessing the collapse of our democracy”.
Resist.
A good place to start is to read the excellent book by Steve Levitsky and @dziblatt.bsky.social.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Resist.
A good place to start is to read the excellent book by Steve Levitsky and @dziblatt.bsky.social.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
April 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“We are currently witnessing the collapse of our democracy”.
Resist.
A good place to start is to read the excellent book by Steve Levitsky and @dziblatt.bsky.social.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Resist.
A good place to start is to read the excellent book by Steve Levitsky and @dziblatt.bsky.social.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
As usual, @garrykasparov.bsky.social nails it.
“Rallying to the defense of American constitutional democracy has become alarmingly difficult after years of insistence” that the “system is irreparably broken,” Garry Kasparov writes. Donald Trump “may be reminding Americans about what they stand to lose”:
How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia
Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.
bit.ly
April 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
As usual, @garrykasparov.bsky.social nails it.
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Черный ворон?
Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4
April 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Черный ворон?
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Trump admin is so bad, it's hard to tell which is today's worst news: defying a unanimous SCOTUS decision, detaining a legal resident for speech, attacking a university for refusing to comply w political diktat, or aligning the US w 2 regimes known for contempt for the rule of law (Ru, El Salvador).
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Trump admin is so bad, it's hard to tell which is today's worst news: defying a unanimous SCOTUS decision, detaining a legal resident for speech, attacking a university for refusing to comply w political diktat, or aligning the US w 2 regimes known for contempt for the rule of law (Ru, El Salvador).