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Yuriy Akopov
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Went to Sanna Marin's talk:
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
An airplane built by a group of young Armenians in 1973 who planned to use it to escape the USSR (they failed):
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I've done countless small repairs with this multitool in about 20 years, and it remains almost fully functional. Real "buy it for life" stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If you see this etc. etc.
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Me when I get reminded of political opinions promoted and held by European farmers
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Gonna tell my kids these were Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is not a politically motivated post because the good ones are also like that:
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I usually carry a couple of "z-locks" even as they are very light. Can be combined to make a bigger loop and solve the problem of securing the bike in situations like this (do it for example on a train back from Brighton after cycling there from London).
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Am on a train with someone in front of me having this strange device on their table. Had to google it and it's a highly specialised £3.5K scanner identifying textile blends.

The menswear guy is about to blow his cover.
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Can't wait to cycle among self-driving cars tbh.
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The left would never ever side with fascists!
November 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Damn, just remembered I met Buzz Aldrin
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"30 bucks"
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"What did you think YIMBY meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?"
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
2024-2025 was itself a huge outlier as opposed to a "normal" baseline, and you would expect someone who has been on the national press front pages to not be an outlier himself by somehow ending up among erroneously released.

This is a big fuck up however you twist it.
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
South East London corner shops are seriously upping their game:
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM