Egregius

Love to read. Love science. Allergy to BS. Studied various things. Love me some sources to verify.

[Egregius @Egregius4]

Bombing a school by accident is always a tragedy. In this case, it was an understandable mistake: it was a former IRGC building, next to other IRGC buildings.

BUT what really irks me, is that the US doesn't take its responsibility here, and instead blames the victims.
That's 1/2

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay

[Egregius @Egregius4]

@MickeyZhivago @KyleJGlen Stating you believe Putin has, at any point, tried to avoid Ukrainian civilian casualties, despite all evidence to the contrary, suggests your posts hold little value, as they're completely detached from reality.

[auonsson @auonsson]

Jag tror bilderna nedan innebär att en stor del av Östersjöflottans ammunition har gått i upp rök efter att Ukraina attackerat den. På Sveriges nationaldag.

Enligt Ryskspråkiga källor (tänk flashback) är det iaf den enda depån i trakten. Blir gärna rättad!

[Egregius @Egregius4]

@bookmarkerbot1 @JeffFisch @rabit_k21691 It's a dead end only because other engine types got more eyeballs. Metallurgy, among other technologies, has improved a lot since then.

[Egregius @Egregius4]

@OrkishAmerican @JeffFisch You say 'it's just a pulse jet'. But what if they upgraded it to a pulsed-detonation-engine? Then it's 4x as efficient as the oldschool engines.

You're commenting without knowing the improvements they did make.

[Egregius @Egregius4]

@AndrewPerpetua @gunn59058 Tbf, most continental political systems, where rules/bureaucracy>personal power, and thus parties>individuals, already show to be less corruptible by an order of magnitude.

Randomisation would enhance that, but do little against corruption after election.

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

It’s being reported that Africa will supply gas to Europe.

Nigeria, Niger, and Algeria have started the construction of a 4,128 km long gas pipeline, through which up to 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas are planned to be supplied annually, writes Business Insider. Algeria has already begun construction of the section.

[Olena Tregub @OTregub]

Apocalyptic bird nest.

A Russian glide bomb knocks down a tree in Donbas. From the shattered branches rolls out a tiny bird’s nest.

Made of drone fiber-optic cable.

Source: Oleg Malchenko

[Anton Shekhovtsov @A_SHEKH0VTS0V]

…The victims of the techno-oligarchic “holocaust” constitute a radical departure from the murderous experience of the twentieth century.

While their deaths result from a programme driven by ideology, they themselves are not treated as enemies – exactly as the animals wholly burnt in ancient holocausts drew no animus from those who offered them.

The meaning of such a sacrifice is not to kill or abandon someone or something; it is to achieve an objective – to win the favour of the gods, or to secure government efficiency.

The victims are therefore programmatically invisible; they are neither named nor categorised. And this programmatic invisibility – the absence of any reason for which they are singled out – is mirrored in the physical invisibility of their demise.

Those deaths are recorded only as “excess” or “additional”; they are statistical and geographically dispersed, so that no single body can ever be registered as part of the “holocaust”.

https://t.co/IT7EFHqT1C

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

POV: You're about to rob retail in broad daylight

[Egregius @Egregius4]

@ukraine_map @TheDeadDistrict Are you doing a meme on purpose? Text doesn't always carry sarcasm well.

[Janis Kluge @jakluge]

Impossible - the turbines at the pumping station are broken, remember? At least that's what you claimed when you cut off Germany's gas supplies in 2022 to create an energy crisis.

[Egregius @Egregius4]

@OCCRP This is about Bolle Jos, aye? As a dutchie it's so weird to see foreign publications use last names for suspects, even if they're likely guilty.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Russian Forces Spotter @TiaFarris10]

🚨🚨🚨 A 🇸🇪 Swedish court has approved the transfer of the vessel 🇬🇳 CAFFA (9143611) to 🇺🇦 Ukraine

The ship is accused of transporting grain allegedly taken from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories.

Most notably, the court stated that, if assessed under Swedish law, the alleged conduct could potentially qualify as a war crime involving pillage.

⚠️ This is no longer just about sanctions or 🇷🇺 Russia’s shadow fleet, it is about legal accountability for the exploitation of resources in occupied territories.

[Egregius @Egregius4]

Kirill the cigarette smuggler to be succeeded by Hilarion the coke smuggler? Entirely too credible.

[🇺🇦Julia Pod 🇺🇦 @Jpod_art]

Czech police say the white powder found in the car of Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion has been confirmed as cocaine by forensic analysis. Hilarion was detained in Karlovy Vary after officers discovered several containers of the substance during a vehicle search.
Hilarion is no ordinary priest. He was once one of the most powerful figures in the Russian Orthodox Church, often described as its "foreign minister" and even mentioned as a possible successor to Patriarch Kirill.

[Egregius @Egregius4]

@beaubarlotte @Osinttechnical Oh they they totally asked Russia to invade and start an attempted genocide. They're totally forcing russia to keep their troops on foreign territory.. 🙄

Why are you portraying russia as weak-willed and so powerlessthat they have no agency?

[signüll @signulll]

it's unclear if most ppl realize that ozempic’s real effects on culture haven’t even started.

cuz what you’re seeing now is the first order effects & some glimpses of second order where ppl get thinner & some products experiencing a resurgence.

but the second & third order effects are where things might get gnarly due to the fact that these drugs seem to dampen desire itself across a surprisingly wide range of behaviors (it's not universal or obvious yet). food is simply the first & most obvious target.

liek what happens when millions of people suddenly spend less time thinking about consumption? what happens to industries built around cravings, indulgence, impulse purchases, addiction loops, or even certain forms of entertainment?

entire sections of the economy assume humans will remain governed by the same reward circuitry we’ve had for thousands of years. if these drugs meaningfully alter those circuits, we’re talking about a tool that edits human motivation.

we are gonna see thinness but in a lot of diff ways it seems like.

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Another negotiation wave is unfolding. This time, the UK, France and Germany, the E3, are looking for a formula to design talks.

There is no need to overstate Putin’s interest in negotiations. Today, he appears to be looking for a way to change the dynamics of the war, not a way out of it. But let us assume for a moment that Moscow is genuinely interested in exploring a pause.

In a potential Ukraine–E3–Russia format, there are three problems that need to be addressed before taking the plunge.

1. E3 has agency in Ukraine’s eyes. It does not have agency in Russia’s.

Moscow no longer sees Europe as an independent center of power. It despises Europe only slightly less than it despises Ukraine. For the Kremlin, Europe is not a negotiating party but a space of influence.

2. E3 has decisive leverage over Ukraine. It does not have decisive leverage over Russia.

Through bilateral and EU mechanisms, Europe can influence Kyiv through financial and military support, and the prospect of EU membership.

But Europe’s main instrument vis-à-vis Moscow, sanctions, suffers from a credibility gap. The Kremlin no longer believes they would be genuinely lifted even if an agreement were reached.

The same applies to the idea, floated by some, that Europe should resume purchases of Russian gas in order to regain leverage. In Moscow, this would be read not as Europe gaining leverage, but as Europe looking for an off-ramp back to business as usual.

A lever the other side does not believe in ceases to be a lever.

3. The format itself creates the wrong incentives.

Moscow would inevitably seek to turn E3 into a channel for Russian proposals, encouraging Europeans to persuade Kyiv to accept arrangements it would otherwise reject. This would create friction between Ukraine and its European partners precisely where unity matters most.

And when talks once again reach the question of territory, E3 will not be able to side with Russia without undermining its own principles. The process would likely run into the same wall.

The key to a breakthrough lies elsewhere: in Moscow abandoning its claims to the rest of Donbas and in Kyiv refraining from expanding its military gains in the air and on the ground. The obstacle is not the format. It is the substance.

A Ukraine–E3–Russia format may be useful if it helps clarify and expand support for Ukraine and test Moscow’s room for compromise.

As a pathway to a political settlement, however, it is difficult to see how it produces a fundamentally different outcome.

The juice may not be worth the squeeze.

Then again, diplomacy sometimes consists precisely of trying to squeeze juice from fruit that is clearly not yet ripe.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[John Hardie @JohnH105]

The HUR told Ukrainska Pravda that Russia plans to produce in 2026:
- up to 700x 9M723-series Iskander ballistic missiles, which the HUR says is the same number as last year. (Leaked Russian documents previously put the 2025 figure a bit lower at 643.)

- more than 480x RM-48U, up from over 200x in 2025. HUR says production is currently at up to 50 per month.

- up to 60x Kinzhal ALBMs. That’s considerably fewer than in 2025 as per the leaked documents and previous HUR assessments.

Overall, the HUR concludes that Russia “can launch up to 100 such missiles per month against targets on Ukrainian territory while maintaining a stable level of stockpiles.”

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