Dealing with Russia can be delicate so here is a helpful list of answers, please choose the most appropriate: • Fuck you • Fuck off • Get the fuck out

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A cartoon from my new book PHYSICS FOR CATS which comes out a week tomorrow! Preorder at you local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

If you don’t know how double hard Ukrainian’s are, there national anthem since 1992 is “#Ukraine has not yet perished.”

SpaceX now controls enough spectrum to offer commercial-grade mobile services globally — and the company is positioning itself to replace every other mobile operator with a service that operates entirely beyond national jurisdiction, warns British MP Tom Tugendhat. https://wapo.st/3IlM56R

Mmmm-Kay folks. Yer proprietor is up way too late, and is thus feeling uncharacteristically strict about absolute enforcement of certain rules. Well ok… one certain rule. And it’s not even my rule really, so it’s not like it really applies to y’all… BUT NEVER MIND RULES ARE RULES DAMMIT […]

Just making sure @lynnemthomas saw this because WHAT?!?! https://bsky.app/profile/johnnerholler.bsky.social/post/3lzwlnhuum222

Europe is learning that being at war with Russia is neither ‘yes’ nor ‘no’. Europe is learning that being at war with Russia is non-binary. As a society we need to stop expecting binary as it isn’t real. It’s the legacy of Empire that looks to dehumanise people so it can conquer them.

I have just seen a #ukraine drone take out a Lansit and the Russia’s spend time, money and resources on covering refineries in netting thinking it will stop a subsonic pink bathtub of explosives. Russia is so fucked 😎

Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry: I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]

Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss. We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed […]

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I have changed what I’ve said about #ukraine. In the beginning, I said Ukraine will win this war. Now it’s different. I say Ukraine is winning this war.

There are two kinds of people. Avoid both of them

The brilliance of hitting Russia’s refineries is not only the collapse of the oil revenue that pays for the warring, but also the collapse of the logistics that run on refined products. No gas… no tanks… no APC’s, no bikes, no generators, no electricity, no drones. No deliveries, no water, no orcs.

Hungarian PM Orban insists his country cannot abandon Russian energy, warning that without it “hundreds of thousands of families would be ruined” and GDP could drop 4%. He argues Hungary has no real alternatives to Soviet-era pipelines. No Hungarian PM Orban failed to replace Soviet-era pipelines.

If the West throws in operationally with #ukraine, I’d expect China to flip also and Russia knows this. However, NATO going hot is unlikely.

What I view as likely in the near future: Putin coming on Russian telly saying: “NATO has been conducting war like operations against Russia under the guise of supporting NAZI’s in #ukraine. Unrelated to the SMO, Russia needs to mobilise troops to defend the motherland in preparation for war.”

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Mathematicians occasionally uses "tack" symbols, ⊥ and ⊤, for various purposes. They're called that because they look like thumb-tacks from the side. But if you need a particular tack, what do you call it? Is "⊥" the "up" tack, because the pointy bit is up? Or is "⊤" the "up" tack, because it's […]

Russia now talking about ‘war’ is for domestic consumption and a prelude to a mobilisation. Equally why this is needed by Russia tells us things. Russians saying ‘war’ means that Russia has unsustainable losses and #ukraine is winning. I would now expect a mass exodus of teenage boys from Moscow.

So it turns out that Russian optical fibre drones cannot cross water. So it’s fascinating to know that some of the best defences in #ukraine, knowingly or unknowingly, probably use moats!

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

@mekkaokereke They are messing with your stuff! https://glammr.us/@overholt/115251183821488904

Rosh Hashanah to those who celebrate!

Tylenol. Holy fuck do I have to do this? Fine, I'll do this. There is NO "safe" drug to take during pregnancy, ok? Any drug you take during pregnancy is a trade off - what will do more harm, the drug or whatever you're taking it for. In other words, ALL drugs should only be taken if you NEED […]

Thoughts: #music must predate stories as making noises is easier. As it fills that role of communication. Repetition is key, so we would like hearing others in similar frequency. I don’t think liking a choir is part of liking music. I think it’s why we like instruments.

We soon will be seeing an attacking #ukraine Airforce. You go to war with what you have and F-16’s have back-filled air defence saving thousands of lives. As drones take over the role the planes are freed up. As I’ve said before, drones are just an extension of air war.

It’s incredible how Russia is being made to exit the oil industry. Is it spiking inflation and harming the West? No. Saudi Arabia has increased output to sweep in Russia’s market share. Russia is having a silent economic death.

A branding idea: Ukraine is in Europe. So it might be worth using the phrase “the European city of” when naming cities. Example: Russia has once again attacked the European city of Dnipro in #ukraine. Bring it home to Europeans.

Russia is conduct grey-war operations around Europe. Their first choice of agent will be Russified Ukrainian’s perhaps even from the Yanukovych era, because of caught Russia’s hand can hide and Ukraine can be implicated as an enemy. Fortunately, European Intelligence is intelligent and knows […]

Today I watched a student, who hadn't spotted the trick in the puzzle we gave them, type 666^1024 into Google's calculator and get the answer "Infinity". Fortunately for their future career in maths, they knew that was incorrect, but they were confused. Is it […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Fun Fake Finish Facts The UK 🇬🇧 has a population of 69 million and keeps about 181,000 people lethal in the armed forces. Finland 🇫🇮 has a population of 5.6 million and has about 5.6 million lethal people. Seriously, don’t fuck with the Fins!

A good development: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115224321548138026

Good morning! If you’re on mastodon.social (or another server running nightly builds) you can begin quoting posts in your posts (quooting?) starting today. Remember, you control whether you can be quoted, and call always retract your post from a specific quote. And you can quote me on that!

Denmark 🇩🇰 should buy a lot of #Ukraine’s Neptune missiles and gain the ability to close shipping if it wants to. https://flipboard.com/@kyivindependent/latest-news-3soaprjhz/-/a-Zt31pTVdQbCGPIu28Jnqfw%3Aa%3A4087431301-%2F0

Even if true, there would be no need to have an F-16 in the air firing a missile if Russia hadn’t violated Poland. https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/115218363256927797

Russia is attacking the front and deprioritising the rear. Ukraine is attacking the rear and deprioritising the front. #ukraine loses a field, Russia loses an oil refinery. This only ends in Ukrainian victory in 2026.

Supporting micro-loans through Kiva is one of my fave things ever. Sometimes it's helping one person on the other side of the globe do something like buy a goat or go to college or buy more stock for their home-based shop. Sometimes it's supporting a solar development that will help 30+ […]

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Called it ✅ Doesn’t make me happy though. The best solution for dickheads is that they realise they are being dickheads, apologise and stop. https://mathstodon.xyz/@taatm/115188281469131652

There is a factory in Ukraine that produces small, gas guzzling jet engines for very obsolete jet planes. Also, huge stockpiles of WWII style bombs, to be dropped from bomb bays. Pushed to 1000lb but no plane would survive. #ukraine took a fuel tank the width of the bomb, parked the bomb on […]

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It’s just needs saying every once in a while. Putin can go fuck himself. #ukraine

WHY CAN'T I JUST SPEEDRUN THE QUIZ?! THIS STUFF IS LITERALLY MY JOB! I ALREADY KNOW ALL OF THIS!

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

[Charlie Kirk] I mean, I don't think anyone should die from gun violence, but the irony sure is something.

If you really want to honour Ukraine refugees and victims, help them get their country back from Russia. Commit troops, donate, shoot down missiles, clear the skies, and provide all weapons asked for, to defeat the Kremlin. Go all in. Stop the invasion, defeat Russia.

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