The battle for Donbas is now fought with small arms and smaller drones, and men in teams of two or three. But the fighting is even deadlier than earlier in this war. I visited Dobropillya and spoke with some of its Ukrainian defenders, for CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

“Meta’s research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy. A May 25 presentation by its safety staff est. the company’s platforms were involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the U.S.” Tracks with Sarah Wynn-Williams depiction of Metas culture in “Careless People“.

Let's FedEx Cheneys warm corpse to Den Haag. Should be tariff free. Or at least put up some defamatory 2003 Iraq war protest memes in his honor.

Went to the only Lidl open on random Christian public holiday in this 1.7m town and this was the sad result (don't judge vegetable section was completely ransacked). That now makes 3! supermarkets that open on Sundays etc. A true world class city ready to host the Olympics in 36 this is.

Trenitalia pondering to start long-distance ops in Germany according to Handelsblatt interview with FS CE (although 50 trains sound a bit much?). Hoping @jonworth.eu has some insight. www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...

Part of the background to the fall of El Fasher and RSF atrocities there is the sustained airlift from the UAE to the RSF via Libya - sixty Il-76 flights during October alone. For the past six months, Haftar-controlled eastern Libya has supplanted Chad as the RSF's most important supply route.

Sorry no, Americans shouldn’t be posting at this time. Them’s the rules.

Ein paar Anmerkungen zu "diesem Problem". www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Etwas läuft schief in dieser Debatte, wenn Jens, Markus und Friedrichs erklären, wie die Stadtbild-Äußerung des Kanzlers zu verstehen ist und wie man sich damit zu fühlen hat. Aber was ist mit der Sicht der Menschen, die sich durch diese Rhetorik ausgegrenzt und gekränkt fühlen?

yeah my car is a pussy magnet (negatively polarized)

As foretold by @aphclarkson.bsky.social

Silicon Valley truly peaked with the Juicero. We were promised Samantha. Instead were getting an emotionally crippled fleshlight-bot trained on porn and reddits finest erotica.

New - Europe’s 3-body problem: collapsing global order sparks hunt for new trajectory I got to write about one of my favourite Chinese sci-fi novels. Europe, realising it can’t fix systemic chaos, is instead trying to shift its own orbit.

Our exclusive report on Russia’s tank production is out. Using internal files and state contracts, we show production plans for the next decade and current output. A short thread will follow soon, but for now, you can read the report frontelligence.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-russias-20262036

„ [Economic affairs minister] Reiche is already being likened to Christine Lambrecht, the former defense minister who was forced out after only a year in office because of her bungled response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “

Watching China in Europe—October 2025 – Noah Barkin: ‘a senior EU official said. “We have been operating within the rules, and it hasn’t made a dent. There is no benefit to our measured approach, to being a slightly kinder version of the United States.”’

Europe hunts for chokepoints it can weaponise against China in age of economic warfare My report on the search for leverage against coercion from Beijing and Washington. The elephant in the room: would it take for Brussels to act?

Or as the "smart" guys on Twitter always told me: "America innovates (crashes new planes full of passengers), Europe regulates" (builds the most widely sold plane series in history). Just get the A350-2000 stretch started already.

France investigates Russian “shadow fleet” tanker anchored off coast one week after it was spotted near Denmark amid airport drone sightings The probe began after the crew of the Boracay failed to comply with orders from the French Navy — or prove the vessel's nationality.

First proper sunday afternoon walk after the move through Untergiesing and around Gärternplatz. There are certainly benefits to the new place being five minutes from the Isar river. Gelato at Al Teatro a very bland 3/5.

ICE 3 Series is peak train design. Just absolute perfection.

#Marine #Rüstung defence-network.com/ausstieg-f12...

In addition, industrial machine exports tumbled 16.2 per cent while control instruments were down 25.5 per cent, according to my calculations based on the official data.

Alongside plunging combustion-engine passenger car exports which were down 43.9 per cent, from US$7 billion to just US$4 billion over the first nine months, German shipments of automatic gear shifts fell 12.9 per cent, with other car parts down 32.3 per cent.

It’s perfect that the first MAGA martyr is a ghoulish mediocrity comprised of nothing but hate and grift. Instead of trying to invent a noble, decent Kirk that didn’t exist they should lean into that quintessence of MAGA

Alla turca is the only way to deal with russian aerial threats: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ru...

[sigh] it's nice on the internet before the americans wake up. Let's see what shitstorm they dump on us today.

RIP my beautiful Hezhen Càidāo. Apparently leaving your steel knife on the induction stove in standby-mode is not a smart idea. At least its got a unique patina now.

"Sure, he wasn't ultimately a transgender communist illegal immigrant eco-terrorist, but doesn't the fact that we thought he might be tell us something about..."

In Turkey and the United States, over confidence in the country's status as a democracy made institutions and opposition parties over complacent about the risks of authoritarian slide. The results are plain

Nach Aufhebung der Immunität Durchsuchung bei Maximilian Krah

Nononono, Deutsche Bahn is worse than almost any British franchise.

‼️ On Sept. 7, 🇩🇪 police special forces stopped the freighter #Scanlark in the Kiel Canal, boarded the ship and inspected the crew for alleged espionage and sabotage. It’s suspected of having served as a base for drone flights over critical infrastructure and naval vessels in northern Germany. 1/

In Vladivostok Vladimir Putin warned that foreign troops in Ukraine would be viewed by Russia as “legitimate targets.” (But what, I asked his spokesman, about North Korean troops in Russia?) Our report from Vladivostok. Thanks to the Moscow team.

Europe’s summer from hell bleeds into autumn as Trump and Xi turn the screws My piece looking at how China's flex of military muscle and diplomatic clout is going down in Europe

„Wir leben seit Jahren über unsere Verhältnisse."

If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.

Robert Habeck hat für Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine plädiert, als das noch tabu war (Sommer 2021). Er hat die deutsche Gasversorgung gegen grüne Dogmen auf Flüssiggas umgestellt. Er hat alleine die Wahrheit gesagt, dass die Verteidigungsausgaben auf 3,5 % steigen müssen.

Hi all, I published my latest Substack post earlier today, offering an initial assessment of the FP-5 Flamingo’s specifications, lethality, survivability, and strategic implications. Access the full post via the link below: missilematters.substack.com/p/the-flamin... Short summary below. 1/6

Pre-move rummaging through the old tech box. iPod Mini from 2004 still working, apparently storage can be upgraded by simply replacing the 4GB drive with a 256GB CF card. As for the Nokia, well..

Fourth, whatever happens in Washington, for their own security Europeans need to see Russia defeated in Ukraine – ideally to the extent of losing all the territory it has illegally occupied since the start of 2014, but at a minimum being unable to make any further advances. 9/16

Klöckner ist eine gefährlich falsche Besetzung in diesem Amt.

Hosni Mubarakism

Bin irritiert, wie viele deutsche Medien noch immer an Netanjahus Linie festhalten. Wtf.

Its 2025, and UK politicians are starting to call for Eurobonds.

Our plan is to build direct traffic to our site. and newsletters just one kind of direct traffic in the end. I don’t intend to ever rely on someone else’s distribution ever again ;)

‘The inadequate provision of aid to civilians on terrain that is, in effect, under occupation is a war crime. A plan by hardliners in Israel’s government to corral Gazans into a permanent “humanitarian city” would amount to ethnic cleansing.’

CNA Explains: Why Thailand and Cambodia are clashing