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The median age of soldiers in this war is easily in the low 40s and every Russian soldier is a volunteer, most of whom who signed up for the very lucrative compensation packages. Not every war is Vietnam.

There we go.

RIP Edmund White, a huge and terrible loss to the world, though he seemed happily at peace with his age and, i imagine, his passing. his new memoir of his sex life, The Loves of My Life, was already the best book of the year www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...

honestly, what planet do these utter mentalists live on. did they miss the bit where we're going to have to essentially be responsible for our own defence and Europe's from now on, or

so gun control works is what i’m hearing

La la land

Some deep strategic thinking here: you shouldn't strike at critical assets of an enemy military because that cut off the "off-ramps" that said enemy shows no sign of wanting to take.

The BBC obtained a mobile phone that was smuggled out of North Korea. The level of control the regime holds over its citizens is shocking but not surprising.

Whilst I don't necessarily disagree, I think this misses the most common form of low level crime: fraud! In general, non-financial crime has fallen, but fraud and financial crime has sky rocketed, it is extremely corrosive to social trust and has rendered phone calls commercially useless!

Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?

Not sure I understand the difference between a stop, a visit, and a stay but…

Just for context, London, a city over three times larger than Chicago, had 95 car crash deaths last year

The phrase "email jobs" also points to how even MPs on the left have picked up US right wing (in this case misogynistic) terms from spending too much time on Twitter.

terrific, as ever

RIP the greatest ever fact.

If I was being threatened by annexation by the White House I probably wouldn’t tell the FT I was interested in Chinese opportunities for my mineral wealth. on.ft.com/4jk9At2

Not a highlights reel! 🫨

Billy Joel has canceled all of his upcoming concerts because of a brain disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH, which has led to “problems with hearing, vision and balance,” he announced in a statement on Friday.

Some local politics. Concluding his final speech in Western Australian state parliament having not been re-elected in the recent state election, Kyle McGinn partakes in the local tradition of chugging a beer from a shoe.

the new pontiff really is a remarkable man

What horrid horrid horrid news Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer, his office says www.bbc.com/news/article...

oh this is absurdly fun

Not even an abortion clinic. Someone bombed an IVF clinic where frozen eggs and embryos were stored

Haahahahahah Switzerland

Australians really are the Americans of Europe

The Ukrainian Jury:

12 POINTS

Guten Abend Austria

Looking for a good pub chat topic tonight? China’s CO₂ emissions are falling, and clean energy is the reason. For the first time ever, renewables and EVs are flipping the world’s biggest emitter into reverse. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

I actually think this is the completely right approach

More lettuces surely as he’s been Prime Minister for longer ?

Reading ownership nightmare finally over after Dai Yongge sells club to Rob Couhig

Better than the play-offs 🔵⚪️🔵⚪️ www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

This is a really interesting piece on “the closet” in recent gay culture. Coming Out of the Closet Was a Liberation. Why Are Some Peeking Back In? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...