Regimes seem solid until they are not. Every resistance act matters because often regimes are crumbling from within from corruption and yet good at hiding that fact. cc: Russia

In Moskau schließt das Gulag-Museum, Denkmäler für Stalin-Opfer werden geschliffen, orthodoxe Kirchen hängen Stalin-Ikonen auf. Putins Staat stützt sich unverblümt auf das ideologische Erbe des Diktators.

While legacy media focuses on the umpeenth Hunter Biden story, they ignore that Republicans are *right now* trying to overturn the election in North Carolina by challenging 60,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race won by Democrat Allison Riggs.

I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:

Favorite fall pic of the puppy. He’s just so happy all the time!

My favorite part is how people who rave about crypto assume that people who aren’t raving just haven’t thought about it enough to understand it.

It’s only Wednesday night but the events of the week thus far have convinced me beyond any reasonable doubt that more Americans need to eat kimchi

It's all fun and games in the markets until there is a loss of confidence in the rule of law

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

In Arabic, 'SHARAB' means 'drink, beverage', which entered various European languages as some variant of SHIROP, or sciroppo, from which we get 'SYRUP', but when snow/ice was added, it was 'SHERBET'.

The French sherbet had alcohol added, and was 'SORBET'. It lost the booze link during Prohibition.

Some Aurora Borealis photos from Oct.10th. SW Ontario (just because it was amazing and I’d like to share 😁) #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights

Am I the only one who likes -- no, check that -- LOVES candy corn?

It's weird for me to see memes saying it's the worst thing ever. I mean, this morning I woke up actively craving it.

Today I learned that in Newcastle's metro system they have a station called Wallsend because it's the end of Hadrian's Wall

And since it's the edge of the Roman Empire, the signs have Latin on them

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

Still can’t believe we got a puppy!