The death toll at Srebrenica was about 8,400. At Katyn, about 22,000. At Babi Yar, about 34,000. Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.

people on here will skeet anything. "bella ciao is a right-wing anthem." no it isn't. that isn't true

well we’ve found someone that will benefit from the most recent budget

Found in the Kyiv region after the attack, he spent 10 hours under the rubble

every single day I am astounded at the extent to which she demonstrably knows nothing. literally nothing. her head is utterly devoid of a single fact

car parked beside the glider stop, no one inside, blocking the stop to everyone. someone please have that car crushed with a tank, thank you

He didn't want to be a team player. You wanna cluck your own way too, buddy? Maybe we'll see how well you fly too. No? You're gonna play ball?

honestly quite disturbed by the amount of people I’ve seen fall for the DHS israel thing. it’s all over random places and it’s just straight up Neo Nazi propaganda about “occupied government”. it’s terrifying how quick this shit spreads

not particularly a fan of collective punishment but it’s astonishingly clear the entire family needs to be locked up permanently

not many people know this but 2/3rds of Wikipedia vandalism done by IP addresses, rather than accounts, is the result of sharks chomping on internet cables

I’m not entirely surprised that one of our local sticker wars has escalated into actual pipe bombs, seems about right

Reclaiming History by Bugliosi and War Plan UK by Duncan Campbell

Note that most peddlers of the Vader Theory are also actively engaged in spreading the Black Legend around Dooku (erroneously dubbed Count: clearly a deliberate derogatory warping of rank, or perhaps Comrade) Yet there is much Gell-Mandalorian amnesia. Why trust the liars?

Roy Ward Baker's Quatermass and the Pit - the Hammer Film production - was released 58 years ago today. "A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people."

not many people know this but turkey pardoning actually originated with an incident where Ronald Reagan butchered and ate multiple men he was supposed to present a pardon to during the thanksgiving period. The turkey pardon was invented to distract the press from the potential scandal.

randomly had the phrase “Richard Osman’s House of Gnomes” pop into my head earlier and can’t get it out

There are four things Trump cares about. They are, in priority order, rape, tariffs, revenge, and windmills. All his positions can be summarised as one of the four. Although tariffs are really just a form of rape to him so it’s a bit more complicated than that obviously.

extremely surreal to see your hometown on a list like this www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

How nice to see the words National Geographic, Best of the World and Hull in the same article. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-...

son of my primary school’s head teacher, husband of one of my teachers, here

thinking about the random grandmas that will stumble across this on their Instagram and just watch going “oh that’s so nice, Charlie is with the angels now”

no contest, Nigel Blackwell clears every time youtu.be/Kt7A3fMpP1I

this is misinfo, he posted it twice i don't appreciate being on staff's side just because i know how to follow a link and people lie about shit pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

any women born before 1993 doesn’t know how to cook, all they know is lift rocks, fall backwards, and break glass bridge

I mean look I think Trump might be on to something when he says he’s going to bomb the terrorist camps when they train those ladies to lift rocks and fall over on bridges

my gf is telling me this looks sort of like Hillary and I can’t unsee it

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

what in the fuck is happening in the Holylands

least bad option: this is pure grift to activate the base. trading the desperate for a tiny buzz of support from fans worst option: he thinks this is real and doesn’t realise that the video of himself is fake chaos option: he thinks medbeds are real because he’s dying and desperate for salvation

Russia has banned the export of gasoline and diesel till the end of 2025. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8062368

The many permutations of Marvin “Killdozer” Heemeyer, imo.

Sometimes I think about how American left-of-liberal foreign policy is about defending right-wing regimes using conspiracy theories invented and peddled by right-wingers in defense of a foreign policy system invented and peddled by right-wingers and then I

civil service work has turned me feral

damn I didn’t realise the US is having this bad an issue with it’s cloning program

If you haven’t yet figured out yet that Russia is at the leading edge of a global far right movement and their failures in Ukraine are one of very few serious set backs that movement is facing, you don’t have a lot of time to do so

still thinking about the girl on the glider this morning who was describing the zapruder film to her friend (like “oh they say you can see his brains” but said it was “JK Rowling” who was the president who got assassinated

Following up on my thread on the attacks on the Gaza Flotilla I've put together the following article with my @bellingcat.com colleagues, examining the open source evidence, and establishing as much as we can know about the attacks www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

everything about this is embarrassing, eminently predictable, and utterly ridiculous

He’ll be better tomorrow.

why are we like this as a country

thinking about this movie today, for absolutely no reason whatsoever

Your Party has got a transphobic MP before they’ve even gotten a name!

had some wee dickheads throw fireworks at me and my partner today. lovely behaviour, just fantastic

Translink has managed to invent the pothole but it’s on a Glider. and they say Belfast isn’t a hub for innovation

nothing can prepare you for the images attached downthread

While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...

Trump is bringing remakes back, we’re getting a reboot of Dave (1993)

reading the new Fort Bragg book and it’s interesting but packed with literal conspiracy nonsense. for example: weasel-word alleged that Michael Hastings was murdered by the US gov states outright that Covid came from a lab