I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The 24 most terrifying words in the English language: I’m from the government, and I’m here to … take a majority interest in your company so the Leviathan can guide you with its very visible and very corrupt hand.

The EU will “forever” abandon russian energy by 2027, von der Leyen said after meeting Trump. Sadly, thousands of Ukrainians will die long before 2027 because of your slowness.

“A photon rocket glides swiftly across the face of the Triffid Nebula, bound for some remote part of our Galaxy" art by David A. Hardy - featured in EXPLORING SPACE, by Heather Couper, 1985 (archive.org/details/expl...)

It fucking rules that they did all the idiot gloating about this because if they’d had even an ounce of discretion about it it wouldn’t be a public loss of face like this, just behind the scenes pressure that they could deny. But now their options are obvious retaliation or backing down.

Det är de här nivåerna av unhinged som Kirk ägnade sig åt att sprida.

To stop the war, arm democratic Ukraine to the teeth, and savagely sanction fascist Russia: This has been Ukrainian government's message since Day One of the full-scale Russian invasion. Well over three years on, the West still hasn't done it, and the war is escalating.

Reason number 5728 to build up the European military industrial base www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

#OTD in 1936 the USSR established a plan to recover steel in wartime in order to recycle it for the defense industry. This policy came in handy five years later, enabling tank production of colossal scope. #tanks #history #WWII #WW2

What will Europe do to absorb the talent that's pushed out of the U.S.?

#OTD in 1955 Czechoslovakia signed a deal to supply arms to Egypt, including refurbished StuG 40 assault guns and license-built copies of T-34-85 tanks. Many T-34-85s seen in museums today are tanks that were sold in this deal. #tanks #history #ColdWar

"In a residential loft building in Chelsea, one of New York City’s original horse elevators managed to survive into modernity - against all odds. Installed in the late 1880s to lift horses to the upper floors of a 5-story stable, it served the equestrian parking needs …" youtu.be/dFxRzEohW6I?...

När borgerliga partier och nyssnazister drömmer om folkhemmet är det inte jämlikhet, rimliga bostäder för alla, ekonomisk trygghet för sjuka, starka fackföreningar eller bra utbildning för alla oavsett bakgrund man drömmer om. Det enda man drömmer om är ett Sverige utan invandrare.

Reportage i TV4 om den mycket snabba förmågeutveckling som genomfördes i vintras för att säkerställa förmåga att verka mot attackdrönare och kryssningsrobotar. En grundförutsättning för att kunna luftförsvara logistiknoden i Polen för stödet till Ukraina. www.tv4.se/artikel/Qgqf...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Kan ett hjärta vara större än kroppen? 🌻Sigrid, 9 år, har sålt solrosor tre år i rad och donerat allt, 91 000kr, till Ukraina via Blågula Bilen. Nu är hon yngsta någonsin att bli ”Årets Vallentunabo”. Grattis bästa Sigrid! ❤️🇺🇦 Swish: 1236076665 Bg: 5899-3932 vallentunanya.se/nyheter/sigr...

Interesting. It should really simply lead to higher costs of housing which should mean people will get smaller (and better sited..) housing in the future. But it seems likely quite a few people will be caught out and suffer big losses. Either insurance losses or on their house value.

An interesting aircraft often forgotten in the C-390 vs A400M comparisons. When future air transport for European air forces is discussed. Is it maybe too exotic? And expensive?

One of the other great advantages of liberalism is that we're able to read graphs and so can notice that the share of humanity in extreme poverty has declined massively over the last 200 years.

Interesting. What does this really mean in US legal terms? And does he really have that power or is he just winging it?

'Liberalism is always doomed to failure' is just a very odd thing to say after roughly 250 years of liberalism being on the march. In 1750 there were between 0 and 1 liberal countries on Earth, depending on the line you want to cut the line on the Dutch Republic. Today there are ~80 of them.

NEW from me. In the @washingtonpost.com. I examine the emerging debt crises that are destabilizing the British and French governments - and how America faces similar economic & fiscal challenges on an even deeper level. 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton. And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...

Too short time for a meaningful series but if sustained that is a meaningful reduction. Primorsk, Novorossiysk and Ust-Luga should be within range for Ukraine. Perhaps even Murmansk for some long range drones.

NEW!! Poland calls on EU states to stop buying energy from russia Polish Energy Minister sent a letter to the energy ministers of other EU states calling on those that are still buying russian energy to end imports by the end of 2026 and offering to help them do so.

Ekerhjul borde bli ett nygammalt inslag på svensk järnväg. 🙂 jarnvagar.nu/samtliga-620...

Vad man säger med den här reformen är enkelt: vissa barn ska inte få äta sig mätta, ska inte få nya vinterkläder. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Article on the Caribbean strikes "The Many Ways in Which the September 2 Caribbean Strike was Unlawful … and the Grave Line the Military Has Crossed at" www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...

Charlie Kirk was an asshole who did not deserve to die because a well ordered society does not make being an asshole a death sentence. It also does not make it a crime to truthfully recount who they were.

This is an interestingarticle. Subversion is useful but it comes third after. 1. Arming Ukraine to the extent Russian victory becomes fanciful. 2. Sanctioning every aspect of Russian economy including pressure on third countries.

WH has struck another vessel, killing three in Intl. waters, claiming it was transporting illegal drugs to the U.S. If the U.S. can blow up boats in Intl. waters claiming they “might” be drug traffickers, then other nations (China, Russia..) could claim the same to attack vessels they don’t like.

””Fuskarna” är en sylvass kritik mot hur svensk skola ser ut i dag. Får boken genomslag är det svårt att tänka sig att valet nästa år kan handla om annat än just detta.” www.expressen.se/kultur/bocke...

The first 122 mm D-25T gun was completed #OTD in 1943. This powerful weapon turned out to be effective not just against any known German tank, but also against the King Tiger that appeared a year later. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Indeed. Both basic human rights and the rights of citizens are terribly weakened if they can be denied to one group or another, if they can be made contingent on some arbitrary standard. If they can take the unalienable rights of trans folks, they can do the same to your unalienable rights too.

A good, balanced account of a world where the population is shrinking. There'll be changes but no calamity. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Sjuttiotalsminimalism. (Klicka in på annonsen och häpna) www.fastighetsbyran.com/sv/sverige/t...

”…vi har kortat tiderna för etablering på arbetsmarknaden som tidigare var 7–9 år till nuvarande 3–4 år. Av de stora antal ensamkommande barn Sverige tog emot…hade av de som var kvar i landet år 2023 hela 8 av 10 ett jobb.” 2015 har lett till en kris för den demokratiska anständigheten, inget annat.

This.

Jag får ofta frågor i svenska medier om Turkiets relation till Ryssland och varför de inte är tuffare mot Putin trots kriget i Ukraina. Det är bra, men jag tycker att det vore på sin plats med lite tuffare granskning också av den grekiska fartygs- och sjöfartsindustrins roll.

Wild and depressing narrative, but of course we've had our own equivalent of this in the United States - quite a few figures in MAGA are pretty openly 'pro-war criminal,' and Trump/Hegseth have reversed actions against American war-crimes-perpetrators on that basis.

Eftersom det pratas lite mat igen. À la carte-menyn från Hotel Högland i Nässjö (av alla ställen) ca 1969 är mer intressant än vad många restauranger klarar idag.

Ryskt teckenspråk för: "Hej NATO-länder, vi vill gärna att ni behåller luftvärnet hemma istället för att skicka det till Ukraina" Besvaras bäst genom att skicka Taurus till Ukraina ihop med koordinater till de mål man anser utgör ett hot.

My, my, my. How the tone has changed.

This week on the blog: more peasants! We take our model of peasant farming from last week and factor in land scarcity, tenancy and exploitation and hopefully clear up at last that you do not, in fact, work harder than a pre-modern peasant! acoup.blog/2025/09/12/c...

Full video on Big Jim Collie can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk2...

Jag har svårt att ta in hur snabbt nazismen växer fram.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Not really the guy I would hope feature in the current affairs section..

NEJ, det finns inga bevis för att skytten var en groyper. Jag önskar att välmenande aktörer slutade sprida det, när vi med rätta dömer ut högertyper när de gör samma sak. Låt mig sammanfatta på ett ställe vad vi faktiskt vet om: 1: Groypers vs. Kirk 2: Memesen på patronhylsorna