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The most British German you'll ever meet 😎 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 A decidedly non-eclectic mix of wargaming, politics, Ukraine and memes. BT once addressed me as "Dr Volts" so that is now my secret Cold-War Supervillain identity. Rhubarb is not food and you know it 🥬👊
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Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

submitted 6 days ago • 124 comments

I can believe Hamas is a terrorist organization AND Palestine should be free, liberated, and rebuilt with restitution for the genocide against her people. I can believe Jewish people deserve to live free of antisemitism but that the Israeli war machine is genocidal and deserves proper condemnation.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Russia: "The work was completed on time, the asphalt has been laid, the roadway is open to traffic. This is a good example of the implementation of a national project."

submitted 8 days ago • 151 comments

This will always be my favorite photo of any astronaut ever to exist

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

One of the funniest things I've seen I must say

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

Agreed. Suits of armour made for the wealthy are FASCINATING because of how unique they are. The whole point was to get something that you could claim was customised for your needs in some way, not the armour equivalent of bought "off the shelf" And it had to account for height, body shape etc.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

submitted 15 days ago • 303 comments

People really can achieve incredible things with the simplest of tools. Two bits of stone. Skill. Time. This.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

submitted 15 days ago • 424 comments

Oh, you Beauty.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Wild story: a quality manager who warned about the shoddy construction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes was particularly concerned about the ones sent to Air India in 2014. That's when the Air India jet that crashed today was sent. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

Make sure everyone you know sees this before Saturday.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I can’t compete with this

submitted 21 days ago • 133 comments

I love Mexican art so much

submitted 21 days ago • 117 comments

You need this in your timeline! Stop to listen. Amazing.

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

Symbolically, on this day 29 years ago — 1 June 1996 — Ukraine handed over its last nuclear weapon to russia under the Budapest Memorandum. In return, russia pledged to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders. Russia got the nukes. Ukraine got “security guarantees." Remember?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

‼️ Festhalten! Es kommt noch dicker! Explosionen und schwarzer Rauch in Seweromorsk! Hier ist die Nordmeer Flotte stationiert und die strategischen Atom-U-Boote!

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

A one-in-a-million shot of a tree being struck by lightning in West Virginia, USA. Photo by Donnie Dania. #Nature #lightning #photography

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

Congressman Don Bacon: „It is a time for honesty. Peace talks are having zero effect on Putin. His goal is to dominate Ukraine & he won’t stop until he realizes he cannot win. US & Allies must arm Ukraine to the teeth, sanction Russia to the max, & confiscate the $300B in overseas Russian assets.“

submitted 34 days ago • 35 comments

Who called it insomnia and not resisting a rest

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