The furry Slovenian monsters who chase winter away [FREE TO READ] Every year, the weird, Womble-like ‘kurents’ gather in a medieval town in northeast Slovenia for one of the world’s most flamboyant carnivals

The furry Slovenian monsters who chase winter away - as.ft.com/r/4ae796a2-b...

Slovenia

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Na ta deževen dan so se nam pridružili tudi meteorologi @arso-vreme.bsky.social 🌧️🌞🌫️🌥️⚡ Dobrodošli in naj vam bo nebo vedno modro 😉

Styscraper 🐷🏗️ porcine physics game Build a tower of junk and rise high above the muck!

🐷🏗️ I built a tower 🔺10.12m high!
Rating: 🐽🐽🐽➖➖
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Slavoj Zizek: Leftists falsify the choice that Ukrainians face during wartime In times of war, the fundamental questions of survival, morality, and identity not only dominate the discourse but also expose the fissures in global political ideologies. Amid the clamor of media nar...

“Are they aware that Ukraine's current strength to negotiate, if it exists, is entirely due to its resistance?”

Žižek, tudi na temo “hudi časi, vedro čelo” (je še kdo imel to zbirko partizanskih šal?)

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True.

Loads of Musk fans at the Trump inauguration.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

Best lede I’ve read in awhile.

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Only someone with no understanding of liberal history would treat fact-checking and free speech as a binary opposition. The whole point of free speech is that it gets us closer to the truth. Where free speech has no purchase in the truth, its purpose collapses.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.