>we’re at the European States are releasing joint statements on the territorial integrity of Greenland phase of the Trump Presidency

I read somewhere (sometime in the late 1990s after I left the UK) that a significant portion of crop circles were initially found within 1-2 hour drive of Oxford and/or Cambridge (later on, they spread worldwide). Which was somewhat suggestive given the habits of said undergraduates.

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On Jan. 4, 1998, an ice storm developed over southern Ontario and Quebec. For more than 80 hours, freezing rain fell. It left millions without power, killed 34 people and caused billions in damages. This is the story of the 1998 Ice Storm. 📸 Robert Galbraith 🧵 1/12

Everyone knows that if you’re playing a North America strategy in Risk you’ve also got to hold Venezuela, so, really, that’s not a foreign entanglement either.

This is looks to be the equivalent of the Arachnids from Klendathu attacking Washington to remove Trump and then install J.D. Vance. Great job, chumps.

Unless the "interim governing structure" is 'the Maduro regime run by Delcy Rodriguez,' they're gonna have a hard time governing much. Either that or they have some invading to do. It is robustly unclear to me what they think they are doing or if they know.

"Venzuela as the 21st century version of the Italian campaign in Africa" is what we're going to get, aren't we

So, I stopped playing Wizardry for a few minutes and checked out my feed. Oh dear, the FIFA Peace Prize winner really did it this time. OK, time to go back to the graph paper and map level 7.

I just saw this post. The interest rate angle brings us to The Fiscal Dominance Fun Zone. Raising interest blows out the fiscal deficit further, but how much does it really help to reduce inflation? Stupid policies causing a recession appears to be the Trump Inflation Plan™️.

The Trump trade juggernaut got overrun by Italian pasta makers. Worthless and weak. youtu.be/eGlxP3YbMmw?...

via @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social on Twitter: Saturn Devouring His Son, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636, 📸 by Tiffany Trump

From a great power diplomacy perspective, Hitler had a good run until the twin idiocies of invading the Soviet Union and declaring on the US. His luck might have run out with the invasion of Poland if the invasion of France hadn’t worked. However, he did have a de facto alliance with the Reds.

Been playing the remastered “Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.” I played the Apple ][ version, which was released in 1981 (45 years ago, sigh). Pretty much the grand-daddy of computer RPG’s. I imagine it would make youngster sad.

Population per capita by U.S. state.

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

Mysterious attack along the shore? Aqua Man or The Deep Ones.

Well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

Sparta is the perennial classic example of this because I bet they can't cite a single actual example of a Spartan military victory of note

“What happens when you start a war but the enemy refuses to acknowledge the existence of the war?” would be a fun exam question in International Relations.

Not more current, but an another opportunity to share the shark attack graph from May.

"Quebec nationalism is part of Canadian patriotism." He's right, gotta hand it to him. It's the most Canadian of political ideologies. Every conservative thinks they can win over Quebec, but every conservative is not Brian Mulroney – a Quebecer.

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

I just did a search for “Shadowstats” on here with almost no hits (although @sharonk.bsky.social had one dunk recently, of course). Roughly one post/month pace (all dunks). I logged into X, dozens of posts from just *today* citing Shadowstats seriously. (“The real numbers are at …”)

Giselle took half of everything

They're making cars too curvy now. Everything looks like a dang oval. Do not explain the reasons to me please. I need cars to look like this

That’s gotta hurt.

Just paid $99 for a membership to the local movie theater for next year (one free ticket to any show plus a companion discount, waived online fees, and a food/drink discount). Feels like good optionality with how deep the 2026 slate is.

“And that’s why the hot dog man launched a coup then changed his mind before the gameshow host installed by the vertically challenged KGB agent the first time but won fair and square the second time because he promised to raise prices with tariffs to combat inflation…” “I’m calling the police.”

A little … TOO ironic. Yeah, I really do think

Thread. Also links to thread with explanation why honey is bee spit, and not bee barf (yay?).

Game theory was a mistake.

I’m pretty rusty on my British constitutional law, but isn’t King Charles III the executive, and Parliament the legislative branch? Isn’t the solution to Yarvin’s desires just letting Charles lop off some heads?

Zelensky landed in Miami & not 1 single US official was there to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this sends an unequivocal message of hostility. Compared w/ the lavish pomp & US troops literally rolling out a red carpet for Putin in Alaska this is a slap in Ukraine’s face.

Canadian grocery stores have remarkably little chutney on display. Curious.

Good point, but the ugly reality is that financial media is a desperate exercise of recycling clichés to make “the price of X changed by Y” interesting. My belief is that “rewards/punishment” are used, but it’s for company-level securities. “Macro” private market chatter normally involves indices.

Tropicana: “WE STAND IN DEFIANCE OF GOD!”

Britain built a vast network of wind and solar farms and generates a higher proportion of its power from renewables than most places in the world. But it didn’t build the transmission lines needed to move all that clean energy around.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

So busy worrying about the "How" that we forgot to ask "Why"

Always be remembered for when he yelled “Howzat?” when Trichet raised rates in June 2008. A legend. Sniff.

Melbourne Cricket Ground staff have admitted that the pitch prepared for the Boxing Day test was skewed too heavily in favor of bowlers, as an attempt to avoid a dull draw instead triggered a frantic two-day landslide of wickets.

Reading the Spinal Tap book (stupid iPad won’t let me put the umlaut over the n, sheesh), and I realised that the Sabrina Carpenter did the “Smell the Glove” album cover. Turns out I was not the first to observe this.

Pretty crazy to think that everyone on the Las Vegas Raiders is a professional athlete at the top pf their field. That’s gotta feel kinda crummy

Here. I wrote about our new, totally not complete vaporware battleship that is definitely not a massive waste of resources. othermeans.io/p/the-make-a...

very much captures the experience of using generative AI to write for you instead of learning how to write

Ukraine’s cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is Canada’s cause. At this critical juncture, we are reinforcing our support with up to $2.5B in new loan guarantees and other mechanisms to help Ukraine secure a just and lasting peace, and to recover and rebuild. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Pouring one out for INDOPACOM. youtu.be/epfDAmJKc0s?...