Damn... 😕

I think it is possible that Russia might invade European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, primarily because the Russian state keeps saying it wants to invadw European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland

C'est anecdotique mais en voyant ça je pense toujours à la parabole de l'escargot que j'ai lue quelque part : Si un escargot était parti de la frontière russe en février 2022 en se dirigeant vers l'ouest, aujourd'hui il serait en Pologne. L'armée russe non. Voilà, c'est tout.

🇵🇱 The Polish government announces to the US that it no longer gives a damn about them. And we admire their panache.

"'Low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’” As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something

Il faut arrêter de dire que la crise provoquée par la révélation d’un réseau de corruption en Ukraine affaiblit Zelensky. C’est plutôt le contraire. Et le dire nourrit le message russo/américain sur l’illégitimité de la démocratie ukrainienne. 1/8

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Dans la lutte pour le droit des femmes Il y a une jeune femme, Yana Suvorova. Elle est dans un camp de détention russe connu pour être un des pires lieux de torture. Elle a 21 ans. Son crime était d'être ukrainienne. Pour elle. Pour toutes les autres.

La communication cheap à base d'IA générative est un marqueur assez fiable de médiocrité. Le medium est le message !

L'homme le plus riche de la planète a causé la mort de 600 000 personnes, dont 400 000 enfants. Cette information, qui ne retiendra pas l'attention des grands médias, sort le jour où les actionnaires de Tesla approuvent un plan de rémunération de mille milliards de dollars au profit d'Elon Musk.

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Yesterday we had a small issue with the site link, so... new pinned post 📌 The Steam page for The Many Sins of House Ocampo is now LIVE! 🔥 store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/... 🔥 Wishlist now, repost, spread the word! Support the independent game-making underground ✊🏻

#YanaSuvorova Cette jeune femme, quasiment une gamine, est emprisonnée dans la prison de Taganrog, en Russie. Une prison bien connue, parce qu'elle fait passer Guantanamo pour une aimable club de détente. La torture et la mutilation des prisonniers y est la règle.

I am old enough to remember people in the West and especially college students, actually giving a damn about Darfur. Now, nobody gives a shit. I have no idea why, it's not like there is a legal limit on the number of conflicts and massacres one can care about, Gaza or Ukraine are not an excuse.

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

probably the first time in history since the 18th century where the leaders of all the major powers -- trump, xi, putin, modi, erdogan etc -- are all personalist regimes. not sure what this means but worth noting

I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

C'est une erreur, et presque une insulte, de penser que la gauche souhaite du déficit budgétaire. Non, elle veut de la justice fiscale. Ce qui est parfaitement compatible avec des finances publiques à l'équilibre.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Un jour, une ZUP, une carte postale : Gratte-Ciel (Villeurbanne)

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

a big hamburger

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

And this has happened *without* a massive sea change of actual popular opinion in favour of these thugs; the elite flip has not been responding to the public, but to social media

What really needs to be banned are social media algorithms. This is just telling kids they can't have digital crack cocaine until they're 16.

Après l'attaque de drones russes contre la Pologne, notre pétition #SkyShield pour l'Ukraine prend une nouvelle dimension et trouve sa signification renforcée. Protéger l'Ukraine, un objectif en soi, c'est aussi protéger les pays limitrophes de l'UE. 45792 ont signé ! www.change.org/p/skyshield-...

don't often write about French politics but I did write a column about Bayrou's government falling, and I think it's a pretty good one: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

"Six to eight new “AI-powered, smart cities” to be built in Gaza"... What on earth these people are smoking?!

Les mecs ont vraiment un problème, tu peux faire un truc tranquillou sur la politique intérieure, et non au milieu tu places un crachat à la gueule des Ukrainiens et une soumission honteuse à la Russie

Coastline Similarity xkcd.com/3132/

a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true.

Séquence acrobatique incroyable ou un journaliste réalise un exploit inégalé dans ces débats : vérifier une information. Si certains devraient en prendre de la graine (vraiment), il faudrait aussi qu'on sache *nous* faire la part des choses quand "un ami m'a dit" (aka quand y'a pas de source).

Vous avez sûrement déjà lu que la climatisation aggrave les canicules car l’air chaud rejeté à l’extérieur augmenterait la température des villes de 2 à 3°C. Vérifions ce que disent vraiment les études scientifiques à ce sujet 🧑‍🔬 (lisez jusqu’au bout, car vous allez être 🤯🤯 à la fin) #Thread ⬇️⬇️

And interesting discussion through quote tweets, or whatever it is now called, jumpstarted by observations of my colleague @radchenko.bsky.social. But the focus on war economy, weapons production and materiel is too limited. That's how we should look at the long-term situation, in my view:

One final prediction and I will shut up. No matter what is said inside the room, or what Trump would be willing to agree to, Putin will still push too hard, demand too much and overplay his hand. Because that's exactly what he has been doing for years and has neither desire nor capacity to change

The most ironic part of this idiocy is that there are quite a few folks fully committed to Free Palestine who would not object to Russian occupation and annexations and also those devoted to Ukraine's territorial integrity yet also fully on board with Israeli occupation of the West Bank

Security for Ukraine and Europe depends on the two coming together to insulate themselves from Washington and construct deterrence against Moscow. The talks that really matter, then, aren’t the ones in Alaska next week. They’re the ones in Europe, right now. /END

Facts Will Not Save You hegemon.substack.com/p/facts-will...

The "problem" with our pixel art is that it's too dark and too detailed, so it's easy to scroll by if you're on your phone and looking for big, eye-catching, colourful shapes. But stop for a second and zoom in, and you'll gasp at the insane amount of work Thomas has put in here.

Tout est déplorable dans cette discussion et on ne juge pas les errances YouTube des autres svp. MAIS je veux juste pointer que ces deux artistes font une émission avec deux micros débranchés (qui par ailleurs coûtent une blinde) et j'ai envie de crier et de savoir pourquoi, mais pourquoi.

Cette semaine dans le RDV Jeux on fait le "portrait" de @erwancario.bsky.social. Si vous vous êtes toujours demandé comment on passe de l'informatique au podcast et au journalisme, il nous dit tout! A écouter en podcast (ou sur YouTube). 🎧 notpatrick.com#rdvtech 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2jj...

love that Le Monde did a big piece on how the rest of the world reacted to the French PM's speech about the upcoming Budget and it turns out the rest of the world just: didn't care, at all www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Opinion impopulaire : Ça ne sert à rien de défendre les jours fériés si vous ne boycottez pas les commerces ouverts ces jours là.

Non, ce n'est pas un green de golf. C'est la plage de Sainte-Anne-La-Palud, submergée par les algues vertes, comme une grande partie de la baie de Douarnenez, photographiée aujourd'hui. Malgré ce panorama édifiant, des extensions d'élevages porcins sont en passe d'être autorisées dans cette zone.

jeeeesus

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This is the result of a Russian missile hit that damaged a civilian train today, carrying regular people, including the elderly, women, and kids. Sadly, people get used to seeing stuff like this, and it won't be all over the news. Don’t let it fade. Keep showing Russia's crimes