It'll make the country more like Russia i think.

It's always easy to dismiss the privileges gained from being a citizen of a hegemonic power before they are lost

“Leftwing politicians across the democratic world are more likely to die of old age than retire compared to rightwing ones in the same country, and the Democratic party has no institutional levers working against this” is basically the whole explanation.

Regardless of who it is, they need to be female because if they win JD Vance will fucking kill himself.

Turns out the IRGC (the horse's mouth) was a better source than Pakistan! Who would have thought?

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

so pretty

Its not just their fault obviously (wtf is going on with Pakistan rn] but anyone maining this stuff might be in a less informed state than even simple ignorance.

Are the Iranians there or not?!?!?

On the other site the slop-news aggregators continue to be a joke. Who knows if either claim is real or not. Just pump the shit out quickly.

Normal Starmer to Angry Starmer is basically petulant gerbil to enraged hamster

Apparently it bad when there's a reasonable amount of oil and then there's suddenly much less of it?!??!?! Who would have thought 🤔

I’ve written on how our recent genAI policy was made at @openlibhums.org Many open access publishers are waiting for clear global standards to be devised for the appropriate use and declaration of genAI in scholarly research and publishing. We’ve aimed to provide a flexible and extensible start.

A sustainable peace deal around the Gulf is only possible once both sides become convinced they have more to lose than gain from continued war

Another datapoint for how too many people on this and the other site tended to ignore how economic and social material conditions can act as constraints on the Iranian regime as much as the Trump administration

None of these are good scenarios for Starmer. Either there is a culture of fear between No10 and FCDO that overrides national security concerns (1) or No10 overrides national security concerns without telling Starmer (2) or Starmer has lied (3).

Debateable whether this government is objectively the worst the US ever had but its definitely the most degenerate. No contest.

Time really is a flat circle, isn't it.

Krastev called Orban the right-wing Castro, which I think is exactly right: the leader of a small relatively insignificant country, that nevertheless became the ideological lodestar for a global movement after being propped up by russia

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DOOM on a Fancy Smart Toaster

1. Spiralling housing & healthcare costs are eating everything else in normie political discourse
2. Voters love whatever framing most exonerates voters

new free money scam unlocked

honestly i am constantly thinking things like "where are the fathers" these days

I thought you promised to be 'less trolly' on bluesky.

The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING

if it were 10 years ago this would be a wall to wall story. but the media is afraid of him. and his friends in the white house.

Im less worried about A.I alignment and more worried about human alignment.

Agree here. I was surprised USN didn't do this earlier. It's a logical part of the escalation ratchet you implement in the sequence before an island-hopping campaign

NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great

Do you think anyone who watches this stuff eventually gets tired of it?