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my nickname was born before google, before the guy who gave the X as the name to his social network, and I was there when the term troll was coined
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Being a King is easy and difficult, everyone can say "I am the King!". It is beautiful when others say : You are the King! Less so when they say: You must Be. But only if you are king of something ; Because if are you the King of Nothing. Everyone will Laugh.

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a former Ukrainian politician and president, Viktor Yanukovych. He’s best known for selling his country to Russia, trying to turn it into an authoritarian state, and eventually fleeing to Moscow once his plan failed. 1/22

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Ditch Starlink. Support Telesat. Work with European allies on IRIS2. Build alternatives before it’s too late. Canada needs a much more robust and secure space communications strategy.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

It was 1987 and a well-known American businessman returning from a trip to Russia bought newspaper pages to write a letter to the Americans denouncing excessive spending for the defense of the allies...

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The share of Americans employed by the government steeply dropped in the decades leading up to 2000, and has remained essentially flat since. A bloating federal workforce is a myth.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

𝐁𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥, it's been 2 days now that we've heard everything and its opposite, the next ones will be worse, the pressure of disinformation due to the elections in Germany will be maximum. 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 the sources and don't jump to hasty conclusions.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico applauded Donald Trump's repudiation of America's commitments to Ukraine and its historic allies in NATO and the European Union.

submitted 20 hours ago • 37 comments

Trump's plan to reclassify 50,000 federal workers would make them easier to fire for political reasons. Critics say this threatens the merit-based, politically neutral #civilservice that 87% of Americans support. A public affairs professor explains: #polisky

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The real truth : www.cnbc.com/2025/02/21/t...

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Donald Trump wants to strike a deal to end Russia's war on Ukraine. What could possibly go wrong? For Europe, just about everything, it seems.

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I really hope @bsky.app & @jay.bsky.team have a contingency plan, because if this continues every network that dissents from the official line will be switched off. As far as I am aware, despite the decentralisation ethos, Bluesky is stil a very US hardware centric, which is a major issue.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments