For a minute there, it looked like Big Tech was on the ropes. Over the past decade, countries all over the world have gotten antitrust fever, from South Korea to Singapore, Europe to Australia, and even China: pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/m... 1/

NO I SAID BELGIUM HAVENT GIVEN A BUDDING AUTHORITARIAN THIS BAD A DRUPPING SINCE THE RACE TO THE SEA!

I think @irhottakes.bsky.social had a good point when she stated that one of Trumps “better” qualities is that he absolutly refuses to give his co-corruptioners any form of grace. Instead it’s all “thanks for taking that bribe and changing that decision for me”

Hot take: the only undefeated German soldiers in 1918 were east-African Askari

This whole denial of Spanish colonialism is very silly but it reminds of when the question of a Spanish apology for the conquest of Mexico came out one of the Spaniards who criticised the idea was the grand grand something grandson of Montezuma II, who happens to be a Spanish count.

Kudos to him for taking a stand. This post also neatly demonstrate that suburb has very different connotations in many European languages when compared the way Americans use it.

Happy fourth American friends ❤️

Gretat thread but this point in particular was both fascinating and a massive “duh” to myself

And now we wait to see how long it takes until shes in jail

18/20, not that bad

Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland have become among Ukraine's strongest partners by doing more than just donating weapons. 🧵 1/6 ⬇️

Hahaha, the bastard actually went with the “I was being sarcastic in my defence of nazism and genocide” defence

An interesting thing about Westerners is how they will mention something like "Russophobia" and their best example of that is that people are saying you should stop reading Dostoevsky (you should) Meanwhile, Ukrainians who barely escaped mass murder are discriminated against in several EU countries

Denethor vibes

Well now I’m angry

Love how with every new photo he's closer and closer to maxing out the dark side bar in KOTOR. A man who takes his evil grind seriously at least.

Whitmore will be the first sitting president to flee the White House due to a foreign attack since James Madison when the British invaded Washington in August of 1814 during the War of 1812.

They might really be going for Reichstagfire-as-a-farce

thank you agent zohran mamdani for turning the focus of the AC discourse away from the continent of europe. you are a european hero

Fascinating story on a lesser known colonial project. Big overlap between the Egyptian officers angry of being stripped of colonial rights in the Sudan and Imperial Japan wondering why they can’t have an empire to

Dissident Catholic bishops seen here preparing to strike an American fleet

Tremendous story:

You gotta write, and you gotta write your own stuff, and you have to write stuff you'd want to read. Enjoy writing for its own sake and enjoy what you write, because if you don't, no one else will either.

The food discourse has escalated

Star Trek would wind up saying a lot about 9/11, so it's kind of insane the best analogy they ever did remains the one a decade beforehand. This being The Event of the 24th century could seem odd considering how many ships go down in the average DS9 battle, but it's the psychology.

We now go live to the Swiss guard at the pontifical airport:

Medieval historians:

they all fancy themselves kings and emperors. power tripping dipshits at the whim of a eunuch that isn't even a real person. this is the stupidest shit

The Tank Museum can’t really help themselves can they?

My modest proposal for how to better devolve power in the UK

there is a designated list of countries that the Western European cultural canon recognises as Great Civilisations, Russia fits into it and gets special treatment, Belarus, or Georgia, or Bulgaria do not

Same ± applied (with the doubling down of orientalism) for westerners' reading of Asia-Pacific sphere too: since '700 the two Great Cultures were China and Japan. Korea and Vietnam never existed. SE Asia was basically an appendix of India, Tibet was a divertissement for occult-nut freaks.

As a bon native speaker I want to assure everyone that should i ever do this it is absolutely meant ironically

On this day more than a century ago someone took a wrong turn in Sarajevo. Here’s what this can teach us about city planning and the need for cheap widely available public transport 1/134

Love this!😉

Russian nationalists being global Britain’s strongest soldiers will never stop being funny

1/12 WSJ: "Germany’s famously open economy was its greatest economic asset, delivering almost 20 years of uninterrupted growth and turning it into one of the biggest winners of globalization." I think I would have framed this differently. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Goals tbh

This js fairly common in Sweden as it happens, to the point that social services these days have set routines for handling spurious allegations.

The only reasons to stay on FB is to keep an eye on the boomers in your life and to keep up with the local community group, because even if half the people there are insane it’s still were you get info on anything from lost cats to municipal policy

“What are your politics?”

You couldn't live with your failure. And where did it bring you? Back to me.

Mainly because he wanted a rapid Nehru exit from his wife. Wa-hay!

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

TBF I had a colleague that road tripped through rural Minnesota once and his impression of the people he met was “these are people who haven’t thought a new thought since they first stepped aboard the boat in Gothenburg in 1880” so you know…

So in the real world that is not bluesky while there are some Europeans that think AC are an unnecessary luxury, most are completely okay with it, houses are increasingly built with heat pumps as standard, AC units and fans are selling out and other actions are being taken.

Bloch has a good claim to being the greatest and most influential historian of all time in addition to being a person of real principle and personal bravery. There are heroes out there, and Bloch was one of them.