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Hi, I'm Lambert. I play Strategy games on Youtube and Twitch, and am a player in a DnD livecast; The Component Cast. You can reach all my socials via my linktree; https://linktr.ee/LordLambert
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Brits think the UK government should prioritise supporting Ukraine over maintaining good relations with the US. This is the Brits. With the special relationship. Trump has no idea what a monster he has created. (Thanks @jimmyrushton.bsky.social) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Sanna Marin throwing some impressive shade here: ”To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it. There is no trade-off between investing in the defence of Europe as a whole and investing in the defence of Ukraine—they are one and the same.”

"Listening to Trump’s VP scold Europe over having cancelled Romanian election results due to Russian interference, himself representing a president who violently attacked the US system of governance and still refuses to acknowledge his defeat in the 2020 elections, is grotesque to say the least."

Musk has mentioned his admiration for Sulla before, and it's one of those things that sounds learned, because not everyone knows who Sulla is, but to folks familiar with him, Sulla is - at best - a brute whose sincere reforms were all undone with a decade of his dictatorship. No legacy but violence

I reconstructed the debate on intentionality of the cable damage incidents in the Baltic Sea, following the Washington Post article, in this Substack post. My main argument is that intentionality does not matter. The shadow fleet needs to be dealt with either way.

I used to think that when global warming truly began to bite, deniers would face reality & we could act. Now I think it's more likely it will lead to a kind of fascism that will respond to global warming by, like, executing everyone who says global warming is real.

Post-apocalypse show pausing for the apocalypse

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

I hope all Max Verstappen fans have a horrid 2025.

Happy Birthday GOAT

The very first Tinto Talk of 2025 and we get a list of ALL of the goods in the game! The possibilities for production chains is really apparent here! Really hope this is the year that EU5 is announced (and hopefully released too?) youtu.be/kLyEn3dZLfM

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change