Olex K
olex-k.bsky.social
Olex K
@olex-k.bsky.social
Coming from a country where pollsters often give results with and without DKs I've always found it baffling that in the UK people often look at polling as if DKs don't exist.
January 19, 2026 at 6:47 PM
"We want to make Star Trek real," said Elon Musk.

"We want to make the Cardassian Empire real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
January 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Not the biggest thing on the list, but a free trade agreement with the US is incompatible with the EU ascension.
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"Synthetic public" seems like an amplification of pathologies of the current electoralism/popularism trends in politics when the public opinion is seen as something external, unchangeable, as a puzzle you have to solve (or a video game AI you play against).
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Unlike these other people defining themselves through labels I'm just a nondescript generic person.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
But that's the point. She can't imagine herself taking part in Somalian culture and identity in any way even if she had been born there. She imagines herself growing in a gated expat community or something like that.
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
There was a real breakthrough in the negotiation process after German side decided to make Karl Dönitz their representative.
August 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"For Mussolini as a soldier Ethiopia is a natural place to show his military excellence."
August 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The discourse about IDs in the UK is a bit wild for people coming from countries with internal IDs. It's also annoying, because the BRP was a great ID card, and now I need to figure out what to use as an ID after getting the citizenship. (I don't drive.)
August 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It doesn't have to be a coincidence. It can be a combination. Personal stress made Reeves more vulnerable to the professional stress (or vice versa).
July 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Also "lose his country" is quite dehumanising for Ukrainians who live in Ukraine and fight for Ukraine and whom Zelensky represents. (Would Independent write in the same way about France or Spain?)
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Which American city is going to be renamed Trumpograd?
March 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Також можна ще раз дати Обамі ні за що, просто на зло Трампу
March 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
At this point it's clear that this not going down well is her media strategy.
December 20, 2024 at 2:56 PM
In this context "тупо" translates more like "simply" rather than "stupidly".
October 10, 2023 at 5:02 PM