Since the start of the full-scale invasion, 2,000 children abducted by Russia have been successfully returned to Ukraine. Specifically, 83 children returned home with the assistance of Qatar, and 19 through the mediation of Melania Trump.

-kid is sick for days -no one in this house sleeps more than 5 hours. -tired.jpg -"gotta patch myself of up with a liter of energy drink." -still tired but now I also have to pee all the time.

Me watching AI causing RAM prices to skyrocket while I'm on my n-th playthrough of Baldur's Gate 2 on my trusty old potato computer:

Das ist wirklich bitter ☹️

It's -4°C with icy rain in Berlin. Shoutout to the granny drinking her morning coffee while stoically sitting outside of an almost empty café. ☕

So... it turns out the Russian army got scammed by some Chinese company, who sold them penguin costumes, promising those made the wearers invisible to drones. lol. lmao even.

Airlines will not show this to prevent walkouts.

Me and the wife meeting for the first coffee after getting kicked all night by a 2-year old.

So Trump's Greenland deal is basically maintaining the status quo, while the EU-US trade deal is put on hold. Europeans may think this was a good outcome, but in Trump's (and his followers) mind, he won big time after unthinkable provocation. He goes oit of this with "My art of the deal worked."

Turning 40 tomorrow. Preview of the face that will look back at me from the mirror in some hours.

Der Kanzler hat das Mandat des Himmels und es regnet Kartoffeln! Helft mit, damit nichts verschwendet wird! www.4000-tonnen.de?fbclid=PAZXh...

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

Toten -gräber-Stimmung Gold

Pretty sure we wouldn't talk about Greenland if Denmark had nukes. We wouldn't talk about the war in Ukraine if Ukraine had kept their nukes. There's a lesson here that many countries are currently learning.

Putin: "I wish we had a multipolar world in which strong countries can bully the weak as they want."

So what was on this damn Mariner ship?

3/ Some Europeans continue to put their faith in the US. American soldiers will refuse orders, American institutions will intervene, the midterms will save us, Democrats will return Greenland, and so on. The problem is that this mindset places Europe in a helpless position, with no agency of its own

You can judge a society by how it treats its weakest. And also condemn it.

People focus too much on the arrest of an illegitimate dictator that the whole civilized world named as such and not enough on the fact that the US explicitly stated they're trying to take over a country via a puppet regime.

Hey! You! You're finally awake! Walked right into that imperial ambush, didn't you?

- Spend decades and billions on dismantling international law - dismantled international law immediately kills your global power projection

Donald Trump says he’ll run Venezuela, so by his business record, it’ll soon be shut down

If the president of Taiwan would be abducted, it would be a diplomatic crisis and the Taiwanese government will function largely unaffected. That is the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship.

Releasing the Epstein Files was the weirdest way to find out that Donald Trump has actually had one real friend.

DOJ: Nothing suggests Donald Trump is a sexual predator. ME (thinking): How could an adjudicated rapist, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, and comes up 100s of times in The Epstein Files, possibly be a sexual predator?

MASSIVE BREAKING: : We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files. No Joke! krassencast.com/p/breaking-w...

So genius Elon is doing Uber with expensive extra steps.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

The Youtube experience these days.

The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.

Ausnahmsweise mal nichts zu Retrogames, sondern ein kleiner Erfahrungsbericht von Gunnar, dessen derzeitiges Privatprojekt der möglichst weitreichende Ausstieg aus den Ökosystemen von Apple, Google, Microsoft und Meta ist. Den Text findet ihr hier: www.stayforever.de/artikel/guid...

Hungary's biggest employers are German companies like VW and Bosch. If Germany wants to put pressure on Orbán, that's where you would want to start.

Sags wies ist, ich habe keinerlei diplomatische Erfahrung ufn bin noch nichtmal sonderlich redegewandt, aber ich könnte den Job besser als dieser Stümper Witkoff.

Me when I’m extremely innocent and not hiding anything

Scheiß Lohnarbeit, will lieber mit Bebitochter spielen.

Summer sales, die man in seinen 20ern toll findet vs. Summer Sales, die man in seinen 30ern toll findet.

I told you we’d be back

2022: Nach Kiev in drei Tagen 2025: die nukleare Zweieinhalb-ade

China has not yet been able to compete with European and Japanese machine tool manufacturing because it's hard to gain market share with complex machinery against experienced manufacturers. Being able to ubscale and learn via trade with Russia is bad for this last western monopoly.

Praise be to Veles, Mercurius, Yacatecuhtli...

Daughter: brings home a slight sniffles from daycare Me in every online meeting for the last 2 weeks:

Remember when people said that the west cannot stop Putin's war by economical means because that would require an unrealistically low Urals barrel price of $45 and now Trump fucked up so bad that this is exactly haplening?

To put in perspective, the total cost of U.S. military aid to Ukraine throughout the entire conflict is .005% of the total stock market cap lost since the beginning of Trump's presidency. If you wanted a sense of the scale of how utterly incomprehensibly stupid our political policies have become.

"I wish Putin would lose the biggest source of income."

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

Die EU sollte vielleicht tatsächlich nicht auf Trumps Zölle reagieren und erstmal warten, ob die derzeitige Administration nicht in 2 Wochen geteert und gefedert wird.