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From Australia/UK, travel, explore, photograph & write. EOD, passionate about Mineaction, History, Atheist, Politics and Music.
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Saw this today...still makes me laugh, child that I am! 😅

If anybody is wondering why the British especially are laughing so hard at the US Army "marching", this below is Monty Python being both extremely silly and taking the piss. Notice how much effort they've still put into getting it exactly right.

Just for clarity: Fortunate Son is an anti-Vietnam song specifically about those who dodge the draft.

That awkward moment when Russia condemns strikes in the Middle East — while pretending it hasn’t been doing the same in Ukraine for over three years.

Worth a watch, even though it is quite long, but some important words for the world. Australian centric, but also has some international stuff in here as well and of course bloopers, always worth it. youtu.be/HzGjCZpQhfo?...

It is the worst night I have ever experienced in Kyiv: the never ending buzzing of the drones approaching, one after the other after the other, the explosions from air defense, the crash of those deadly carcasses on our city. The suffocating air by the fumes of the many fires. 1/

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.