Kyiv is under missile attack.
It’s very loud.
Nothing new, really.
Just thought the world should know.

Private *trans* I hate SwiftKey.

If you really care, and aren't just signalling, a good start would be donating to @annehealthcare.bsky.social - private teams health providers, particularly in the UK which is awful, are literally saving trans lives.

Jesus. All of Substack Notes and Threads is just the morons from 2016 Resistance Twitter still writing "Drumpf works for Russia" and "Isn't Lady Gaga brave for wearing an anti-Trump t-shirt?" We lost that battle. Stop writing the same things and start donating to trans care and abortion-aid orgs.

Why Serie A players are wearing red face paint in Week 12 - Football Italia All Serie A players will be wearing a splash of red face paint on their cheeks during the 12th round of league fixtures taking place this weekend to raise

Serie A players are wearing a red mark on their faces to raise awareness of violence against women. Remember Italy has a far-right government.

Meanwhile the Estonian far right likes being able to smack their wives so much that they want to leave the Istanbul Convention

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Marko Mihkelson was right: accept this peace plan, and there is no Ukraine any more. It also means the Baltic countries need to go onto a war footing. Putin will know he can do what he wants, and eventually the rest of the world will fall in line.

The @nytimes.com saying Mamdani isn't the future of the Democratic Party, Josh Shapiro is, is... an opinion.

He probably needs to stop supporting genocide before he can be a better option than Biden or Harris.

Kristen Michal yesterday:
Keskerakond are dangerous because they're corrupt and close to Russian influence operations

Kristen Michal literally three months ago:
We will burn down all the achievements of Tallinn City Government to have a coalition with Keskerakond

Is this a Freaky Friday situation?

Kes on suurim oht Eesti Vabariigile: trans inimesed, mehed ei suuda oma naisi peksta, Varro Vooglaid, või ERRi juht Anvar Samost? Valime!

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I seem to recall fairly regular commentary on the Tavistock Clinic too, adding to pressure that led to its closure, meaning the transition waiting list is longer. After she left, Maitlis said the quiet part out loud with her News Agents episode. But apparently the BBC is a leftist cabal. Wow.

Unfortunately ERR is allowed to get away with publishing right-wing ragebait regularly, while also never platforming LGBTQ people or climate campaigners, and continuing not to cover Gaza except through what Israel says is happening.

It seems I've been watching a different BBC all my life to whoever wrote this for ERR.

Apparently it's dominated by LGBTQ people, the "trans debate" is never covered, and there is a pro-Hamas bias.

This is all new information to anyone who has watched the BBC recently.

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Keskerakond are back with their Isamaa buddies, so the public water faucet is off. You want something in Tallinn? Pay for it! #tallinn #rohelinepealinn

- Is Tallinn woke? Um, no. But the high turnout led to more young voters casting their votes, and they didn't want a return to the cosy cartel of single-party power. They nullified the far-right vote, with no EKRE mandate in Tallinn. It's starting to look very different to the rest of the country.

- Electoral unions did well, as did local campaigners with no national name recognition. Natalie Mets got more votes than most of the national cabinet. People want local reps who can get on and fix what's broken, not morons with megaphones.

- There was a protest vote against aimless, uncaring and ineffective management of the cost of living crisis by Reform and Eesti 200, but the protest didn't back EKRE. They got well below their national election ceiling of 18%, and haven't been the same since various membership and funding issues.

- While there's an orthodoxy that Estonia is a conservative country, there are pockets that always vote to the left. 36% of Võru - out in the sticks and not massively progressive - voted for Social Democrats, who were also the largest party in the People Republic of Hiiumaa. Weird but cool.

Poring over the local election results in Estonia, a few things stick out to me.

- Russian-speakers were obviously angry about the voting ban, but not angry enough to really tip the needle for Keskerakond. Most of their anger seems to have helped Stalnuhhin, which is unfortunate.

Fascism For First Time Founders

Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…

The fact that state money was being used to get a YouTuber to come to a place he probably would have visited anyway is probably why Estonian radio wouldn't stop its wall-to-wall coverage when he was there.

Speed's team asked them if they'd pay, though he was on a European tour that he'd arranged. Just like when they paid the big bucks to get Robbie Williams and Prince Andrew to come to Estonia, they rolled over and paid up. There are other ways to boost the economy, but government aren't interested.

The Estonian government, through its agencies, paid €30,000 in flight and security costs for iShowSpeed to come to Tallinn. Embarrassing to see the government still being such willing marks for grift during a cost-of-living crisis. share.google/C4ZcrkpME0JT...

Many happy thoughts to everyone celebrating Laulupidu, the Estonian Song Festival, today and tomorrow. Freedom is something to be fought-for and celebrated. Elagu Eesti! 🇪🇪

No matter which iteration of Tallinn City Government, they never put up notices saying if the trams are stopped for a major public event. There are people fruitlessly and silently queueing for trams that will not come.

Astonishing what can be achieved when focus is cost of living, not using the jargon of anointed career party hacks. Can you imagine any Estonian politician outside 1 or 2 even addressing people authentically in their everyday words?

Being hated by the Democrat establishment actually helps Zohran.

Ma tundsin oli väga üllatav, kui ma kuulsin, koolis kus ma õpetan, 13-aastane laps kui laulus, "cut my life in-to pie-ces, this is my last re-sort!"

No party will ever vote for finance reform, meaning they're mostly in a race to appear more "business-friendly" (read: indulgent) to oligarchs. Businessmen have concentrated power, state-private monopolies have gone unchecked, and our politicians choose the least offensive, not the best, President.

The more I see the conceit, arrogance, and utter disregard for voters of the vast majority of Estonian political parties, the more I think the whole system needs to be changed. They work for us, not for the top donors.

Lift up the rock, let the lice scurry off, let's elect some people who care.

Sain just aru, miks Urmas Sõõrumaa reformierakonna linnapeakandidaat on. Pärtel-Peeter Pere sai kahjuks alles üleeile teada, et monopolimees on väljamõeldud tegelane.

The first person to reply with "um, well actually it's Sõõrumaa" gets blocked.