It's called mobilisation.

Huge operations of Tuaregs FLA and Al-Qaeda affiliated JNIM are ongoing in Mali since early morning today, with several positions in Kidal region overrun, Reuters reports of an attack on Mali military base near the capital Bamako. It seems Tuaregs are back inside Kidal. #Mali

Finally.

Meanwhile in Russia… “Peskov urged people not to believe rumors about possible government reshuffles.” So, the Kremlin is denying it? ria.ru/20260423/pes...

The gargoyle previously announced the buffer zone after the incursion into Kursk. They have managed to gain control of several fields and a town in years of fighting. I welcome their desire to feed Ukrainian drones.

I can't...

Infowars raging 😂

TFW you buy a single player game but it requires a constant online connection, an additional launcher and creating another account:

Had the Family Guy Star Wars special in the background while working. I had totally forgotten about the remix in the elevator. Laughed out loud by myself like a crazy person.

It's never their fault.

🇺🇸🇩🇪 The US State Department has approved a Foreign Military Sales case to Germany for Integrated Combat System, Supporting Equipment, and Support with an estimated value of 11.9 billion USD. 1/4 www.state.gov/releases/bur...

Very nice. Now show me the number for joining conditioned on adoption of the Euro.

"The house of the ethnically cleansed family that I bought for a pittance is so nice! The rest of those people are ruining my property value by defending against further ethnic cleansing too hard." Sugar in my coffee 🤗

Apparently, shit being constantly on fire doesn't classify as a major problem in moskovia.

Never allow yourself to forget that we live in an age of miraculous progress.

update 🔥 20.04.2026

We about to be getting bids for HQ-22s.

Just realized radev will be in charge of rearming the BG military now.

As I've said, the fact that he wrote progressive on a poster doesn't make him one.

Very glad to see that there appears to be a genuine core democratic vote in my country. We'll see how the next while goes. The demographics will remain a problem for a while, especially if the self-reinforcing cycle of old voters voting in candidates the young despise causing an exodus persists.

Sad part is that this is exactly what I expected, but I didn't account for the vote share shift from gerb-dps to radev. To my mind this is either a genuine shift within rural voters, or the gerb-dps vote being even more artificial than previously thought. Let's see if revival manages to stay in.

Central Election Commission's website crashed.

Less funny now, God.

Man, how I despise the 5th column.

I feel seen.

Три часа до откриването на изборния ден. Успех, скъпи сънародници!

What moskal budget doing?

2022 it wasn’t even a byword for authoritarianism or corruption, people just did not give a toss and Russia simply never registered. More than anything that’s part of the imperialist mindset, they’d rather be love but they’re ok with being hated. But their ego cannot cope with being ignored.

75 years ago, the Treaty of Paris was signed, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. Six countries joined forces to build a shared market, choosing cooperation over conflict. Born from the desire for peace after WWII, this treaty laid the foundation for the Union we know today. 🇪🇺

🇺🇦🇨🇿 An overview of public pledges to the Czech Artillery Ammunition Initiative as of 17/04/2026. New additions: 🇧🇪 63,57 million €, 🇨🇦 35,6 million € and 🇱🇹 33 million €

🇺🇦 A list of countries that have allocated funding for the procurement of American weapons for Ukraine through the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative. Last updated on 17/04/2026 (+ 🇱🇹 24,58 million € )

I was worried that due to the small margins of victory in some of the individual constituencies, the constitutional majority might be threatened. In the end, TISZA not only didn't lose seats, but secured an even greater supermajority of nine seats, with 141 seats of 199 total in Hungary.

Been playing games from the 2000s and 2010s that have been in my backlog for about a decade. There's challenge, there's responsiveness and fun. There's combos (member combos?). It's just beautiful.

Bulgaria mentioned.

It being the anniversary of Moskva's smoking accident: April 2022: The Moskva sank while under tow due to an accident Jan 2026: Ukraine sank it with missiles Propaganda is hard cos the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday

"Dad, what's the best country in the world?" "Why the first one to allow no notice air strikes on domestic troll farms, of course." "But what about collateral damage?" "Worth."

This has been one of the dumbest environmental disasters. Glad it's getting resolved.

Never forget. Authoritarians don't have allies. Don't ever worry about "alliances" like brics. An ally will sacrifice for another ally expecting the same in return. These are just egoistic vampires that will suck each other dry given the opportunity. Build alliances. We are always better together.

Current mood:

So what happens when you lose more people than you can recruit and are afraid of risking mobilization?

Dude has been busting vote buyers to the point that I've seen scumbags that wanted to sell their vote complain they can't safely contact buyers. Things might get more interesting than expected this weekend.

Statistically, almost every Iranian (living in Iran, of course) you have seen on social media over these 45 days has likely been on this "whitelist", meaning they are pre-approved by the regime. We should be wary of this and careful when drawing conclusions about what's happening in Iran.