(via @belgiumtouch.bsky.social) 🇧🇪

Incidentally, you will probably read a lot of coverage of this event describing Type 212CD as a further improved Type 212A. The moniker is quite misleading, however. This is effectively a cleansheet design, based on expertise from the previous effort. It's really a new boat.

data visualization is my passion.

"Propaganda doesn't work in education" is cope. The Soviet education system worked at making people distrust free media, believe everything is as corrupt as the Soviet apparatchiks, and accept authoritarianism. It didn't make people believe in Marxist theory but that wasn't necessary for the system.

Penalty for Brazil? Of course, we don’t know if that stands after King Harald calls.

Russia enters the Mad Maxim phase of collapse.

Stolen Glory's more pathetic younger brother, Stolen Adequacy

I’m going through my #GlobeandMail gift links at rapid pace today, but this piece by Doug Saunders makes a very important and rather neglected point: “ #Democratic #backsliding is measurably a product of low #education rates.” www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/24ca038... 🎁📎 #Canada #CanadaSky

I’m not tired of the Reflecting Pool Jello models everyone took to their relatives’ houses for the 4th yet. They’re so creative! Although this one I’d prob not eat. A bit too realistic.

DO NOT LEAVE SALMON UNATTENDED

So thrilled that Mark Carney wants to put Canadians into hock to build a new gas pipeline specifically to sell into the *checks notes* *double-checks* yep, the Asian market. There's no genius like on old white boy banker genius.

This week on the blog: a few thoughts on the Declaration of Independence for its 250th birthday, with particular attention to "every act which may define a Tyrant." acoup.blog/2026/07/04/c...

So I said “Bobby Lee, it sounds like you’re just feeding brigades to emplaced artillery” and then Longstreet started crying.

nick fuentes talks a pretty big game for a guy i could comfortably bench three of

Every day we stray further from god's light

Specifically extraordinary intervention by the *Chinese* state, in crude but particularly in refined products. We normies have no way of knowing the size of China's reserves of these, but maybe American intelligence agencies do. And that might influence Trump's decisions.

Even the fuel trucks are out of fuel. Ukraine broke Russia’s irony meter. Oh, well.

America as imagined by the Swiss

(A thing that bothers me about the US-centricity here, is that the article it links refers to "american mosaic", a phrase deliberately adapted from the canadian conception of immigration the "canadian mosaic"!)

Saw this absolutely humungous heron at Harling Point today, but didn't have my camera. A truly great great blue heron. 🪶

Neither great nor a fair, it is the set for the streaming video of an imaginary fair. They can CGI in the fair-goers.

Why am I getting god damn *ads* saying Swedish citizens can appy for US citizenship? Who the hell is paying for this? US government? I thought they wanted *fewer* immigrants? Or is it the Swedish government wanting to get rid of me?

Say so, every now and then.

The constraint is not money; it’s steel, people, throughput—and our own procurement theology; if we were semi-rational and truly serious, Ukrainian engineers would already be running shell plants in Scranton and Tucson: **Trump Surrendered the Strait of Hormuz to Iran—& Emptied Shelves in... 1/

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 (Thanks @brittlestar.com for the t-shirt!)

At today's ECB panel, Warsh was all-in on saying nothing. Sara Eisen asks the bare minimum question for central bankers: Why are your rates where they are? Warsh says stuff, but not an answer. If we have to do filler for four years, I'd like to request recipe ideas or streaming suggestions.

From the people who brought you the "weekend". I like the cut of their jib.

#OtD 1 Jul 1919 prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the US was due to come into force. Workers in New York and New Jersey voted to strike if the law was enforced, wearing "No beer no work" pins. We've reproduced the graphics to help fund our work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

they can earn their spot in the beaver pantheon when they repent

Six bucks, same as in town.

“We are like golden retrievers trying to understand how an iPhone functions.” OMG, Vance is Vasily in Death of Stalin

What was Tim Snyder's term? Ah yes, "superloser"

Why do they make the liberals so cool

OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: ahahaha I have decided to scam the government by paying thousands upon thousands to an insurance company and receiving nothing in return. But will Dr. Pillhawker see through my evil plans?

An entry conspicuously absent in "The Encyclopedia of Good Ideas"

"The Ukrainians this week announced that they would make public all captured Russian military tech ... By treating Ukraine as a hostile state acting against US interests, the US has shut down its privileged and near-monopoly access ..." stefankorshak.substack.com/p/june-26-20...

How my wife names our cats.

I don't make the rules

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

Feeling for him right now

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

never thought I’d say this but: the movie needs more Putin

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

OK, this is pretty funny

As I predicted one year ago in the Beaverton: www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/cana...

I sometimes say this as a bit ("the Phil Koop party represents my opinions exactly") when I'm making the point that OF COURSE the party you vote for will have policies you don't like. But apparently it's a point The Lettuce Queen would have missed.