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Gimme fuel, gimme fire..

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Gen Z will never understand how weird and fun the internet used to be. We had personal websites, obscure forums, experimental pages, and bizarre corners of the web. Then Google, Amazon, and Meta turned it into an algorithmic shopping mall packed with ads and commerce.

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

Russiagate was real btw. 34 people were charged, most of whom were Russian nationals who fled the country. 8 Americans on Trump’s campaign were convicted or pled guilty and sent to prison.

And then Trump pardoned them.

You just forgot because he did worse stuff

[General Marc @general_marcT]

When I explain that Europeans must relearn to speak the language of power, and I am doing this since almost 10 years, I mostly get a “yes” but I realise that most people do not comprehend what it really means. A large part of the political elite is still living in a mental construct that denies reality and its consequences. They are still in the stages of denial, anger or bargaining. And the situation is worse in the “old” part of the continent.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Trump supporter: “I’m totally against vaccines. Absolutely, 100%. Every single one of them. They’re poison”

Jason Selvig: “What about Polio vaccine?”

TS: “There hasn’t been a case of Polio in how many years, since 1960?”

JS: “Since the vaccine…”

TS: “Yeah”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Poetry at its highest level.😀

[Stefan Thumann @StefanThumann]

Warum DONAUSTAHL? - TEIL 1

Russland versucht @DonaustahlGmbH auszuschalten und mich zu ermorden.

Warum ausgerechnet mich?
Warum ausgerechnet Donaustahl?

Unter anderem weil Donaustahl mit den Schattenwerken der Deutsche Nitro (Betreiber der D-RAMPs) das best-bewaffnetste Start-Up dieses Landes geworden ist.

Weil Russland verhindern muss, dass Deutschland und Europa den Donaustahl-Weg gehen und unkonventionell, günstig und in Masse wieder aufrüsten und sich dadurch selbst verteidigen können. Auch ohne die USA. Und vor allem ohne China.

Wenn das Schule macht, hat Putin verloren.

Es geht nicht nur um Krieg gegen mich. Es geht um Russlands Krieg gegen Europa – und gegen Deutschland.

[The Dens 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @FoxBrambleFarm]

They're not behaving like people concerned about how their actions will affect the midterms.
I find this unnerving.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

"Where's the off-ramp for Putin?" Wrong vehicle, wrong question.

Here's the on-ramp he was offered: G8 membership. WTO accession. Olympic games. Nord Stream. "Reset" buttons in every color. He drove past all of it to Bucha.

The West spent twenty years building Russia entrance ramps to the world — and Russia used the world's highways to move armor.

Stop designing exits for a man who keeps telling you, in writing, that the journey is the destination. Design walls.

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

Nothing upsets modern “anti-imperialists” more than seeing actual anti-imperialists doing anti-imperialist things.

It’s a pity these guys didn’t have access to Twitter so they could be lectured by Western academics about why their experiences of colonialism are invalid.

[𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙊𝙆𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝘾𝙀 𝙂𝘼𝙕𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀 ™ 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @FrancisWegner]

BREAKING: Man at Trump Rally in South Carolina gets removed for wearing a t-shirt with “Kill Your Local Pedophile” on it because republicans love and support pedophilia.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Is Donald Trump friends with anyone who doesn’t rape kids?

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Doris Miller had no gunnery training. He was a mess attendant — that’s all the Navy let Black sailors be in 1941. When the bombs hit Pearl Harbor, he ran toward the guns anyway, dragged wounded men to safety, and fought back until he ran out of ammo.

He was the first Black American ever awarded the Navy Cross.

Donald Trump got four draft deferments and a “bone spurs” diagnosis nobody can find a doctor’s name attributed to. He has never worn the uniform, never taken fire, never done a single thing that required courage. Ever.

The Navy named a future carrier after Miller in 2020 — first ever named for an enlisted sailor, first for a Black American. Now they’re reportedly considering stripping his name off it to put Trump’s on instead.

A coward’s name, on a hero’s ship. That should make everyone sick.

[Cowboy Beans @ande56495]

Donald Trump only ran for the presidency again to avoid prison. And that’s also why he plans to remain in power until he’s dead. Fuck the 77 million idiots who enabled this. Fuck them forever.

[The Dutch Perspective @Mr_Tomorrow__]

A Polish man once told me something that sounded remarkably Dutch.

“You can take our country away, but apparently we just keep bringing it back.”

I laughed, but Poland's history makes the joke almost absurdly accurate.

For centuries Poland was one of Europe's great powers, joined with Lithuania in a Commonwealth stretching across an enormous part of the continent. Then its neighbours gradually partitioned it until, in 1795, Poland simply disappeared from the map.

For 123 years.

This seems like the sort of administrative inconvenience from which most countries would struggle to recover.

The Poles disagreed.

They preserved their language, Catholic traditions, literature, music and national identity while living under foreign empires. They rebelled repeatedly, sometimes with considerably more courage than realistic prospects of success, and in 1918 Poland returned.

Then came Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, occupation, unimaginable destruction and eventually decades of communist rule.

Still Poland remained Poland.

As a Dutchman, there is something about that stubbornness I deeply admire. Our histories are very different, but both peoples seem to possess the useful European characteristic of looking at terrible circumstances and saying:

“No.”

Followed by several centuries of paperwork, resistance and rebuilding.

Modern Poland sometimes feels underestimated in Western Europe. Yet travel there and you find magnificent cities, ancient traditions, strong families, beautiful churches and a people remarkably conscious of what their country cost their ancestors.

Perhaps that is why Polish patriotism feels different.

When your country has literally vanished from the map before, waving the flag doesn't seem particularly old-fashioned.

It seems like checking that it's still there.

And after everything Poland survived, I think they've earned the right to check occasionally.

[The Dutch Perspective @Mr_Tomorrow__]

There is a strange thing about the Dutch relationship with Germans.

We make fun of them constantly.

Their language sounds like Dutch received military training. Their holidays somehow always involve occupying every available campsite on the Dutch coast, and the moment summer begins, half of Germany appears to have received instructions to drive a caravan towards Zeeland.

Yet underneath all the jokes, I think we actually like the Germans enormously.

Spend time with them and much feels familiar. They appreciate things working properly, beer doesn't require an elaborate introduction, bread is treated with the seriousness it deserves, and arriving at an agreed time means arriving at the agreed time.

There is comfort in that.

A Dutchman and a German can spend twenty minutes complaining that something has been organized inefficiently and both leave the conversation feeling they have bonded.

Of course, football temporarily suspends diplomatic relations.

Mention 1974 to an older Dutchman and you may discover that historical reconciliation has certain administrative limits. We still sing about getting our bicycles back, despite Germany having returned rather more important things since 1945.

But perhaps the teasing itself says something. You rarely make this many jokes about people who feel completely foreign.

Germany is our enormous neighbour with whom we share centuries of history, closely related languages, trade, borders and countless cultural similarities. We disagree, compete and occasionally become irrational when twenty-two men start kicking a ball around.

Then the match ends and Germans drive back to our beaches while Dutch people cross the border because petrol or groceries are seventeen cents cheaper.

Peace in Europe was ultimately achieved through economic calculation.

Very appropriate.

I think that's why Germans feel less like distant foreigners and more like neighbours we are contractually obligated to annoy.

We will mock their caravans.

They will mock our language.

We will argue about football.

But when something serious happens, I know exactly which neighbour I want living next door.

Just please leave one camping spot for us.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger delivered brutal Brexit truths last year:

“Putin would’ve been absolutely delighted by our decision [to leave the EU] and so would Xi.”

“We’ve made ourselves irrelevant.”

“France has effectively eclipsed us.”

“Brexit has marginalised us.”

Brexit wasn’t Britain taking back control. It was Britain voluntarily surrendering influence, while Putin and Xi watched with delight.

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: @astro_anil and @Soph_astro are going on a spacewalk to replace an antenna outside the International Space Station. Today's six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin at around 8:35am ET (1235 UTC). https://t.co/kNVm15qRzn

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Just for anyone not keeping track, we are now in the "we actually love North Korea, and we shit on American soldiers on the USS Lincoln" phase of MAGA.

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