🇨🇦 I mean, it’s not the 300-bird, 6-shotgun Pigeon Combat Section, but at least they have bicycles

I'm reading too much about movies praising the power of empathy and telling stories of individual racists seeing the light. I find that tedious and disgusting. You were a racist and mysogenist for ten years, and I'm to praise you now for finding back to the very basic of human society? 1/

Damn you, Warhammer 40k for going woke... in 1986?

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Interesting article by David Petraeus on Taiwans challenges in adapting the lessons learned from the Russo-Ukrainian War. As ever so often, the lesson is that organisation beats equipment every time.

The vast gulf of incompetence within the Trump regime keeps astounding me, even though I should know better by now.

@marine - jemand zu Hause?

What an absolutely fascinating, well-reported story. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

you know what reporters should do? have an event honoring the first amendment and invite him as the guest of honor. call it the white house correspondents dinner. he’d like that.

I promise I am almost done Platnerposting but I want to point out that the establishment hates this man like he killed their whole families. They smear him as often as they can, label him an antisemite, drag him for being Muslim, etc Total rape allegations: 0

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a French far-left politician. He’s best known for founding the party La France Insoumise (LFI, “Unsubmissive France”), demanding submission from his own movement, and advocating worldwide submission to authoritarian dictatorships. 1/23

Tonight I wrote about two cases that demonstrate DOJ is no longer committed to doing justice. joycevance.substack.com/p/doj-not-do...

I just got chosen by a dog. On the first day of our summer holiday. At the beach. At sunset. Her name is Dora, and she is a very good dog. Life is good.

Gerade durch meine Frau eine neue Sommerköstlichkeit kennengelernt: Trauben (egal ob rot oder weiss) waschen, abtrocknen, und ins Gefrierfach damit. Werden durch den vielen Zucker nicht steinhart sondern lassen sich gefroren kauen. Und schmecken bei dem Wetter absolut großartig.

the claim of fraud is simply the claim that americans who vote for democrats are not legitimate members of the political community and their votes shouldn't count.

Short thread on a very interesting development, first spotted by @foolsball.bsky.social, regarding what appears to be a significant expansion of facilities at the PLAN First Submarine Base at Jianggezhuang/Qingdao. Info remains a little too thin for an article, but a couple thoughts here.

In Texas wurde jemand zu 30 Jahren Haft für den Transport von "regierungsfeindlicher Propaganda" verurteilt. Faschismus ist ein viel zu wenig verwendeter Begriff für die Entwicklung dort.

One of the more bizarre aspects of American politics for a European or Canadian observer is how what in Ottawa, Brussels or Rome comes across as boring milquetoast Social Democracy will be inevitably portrayed in the United States as harbingers of the next Leninist Red Terror

The market only works with regulation, exhibit 263.

I was a teenager when this came out, and wore black, and danced under stroboscopes in the fog. The lyrics still hit as hard today as they did then. Bless you, Anne Clark.

What is light infantry? At its core, light infantry are troops that: Operate on foot in combat. Have little to no support from vehicles. Move organic support (mortars, MGs) on foot or trucks. Rely primarily on infantry weapons to fight. Pictured: Finnish Jäger Company 2/

Das Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (!) hatte einen Vertrag mit Babka&Kranz und hat es geschafft, diese zu vergraulen (vgl Entschuldigungsschreiben auf der Seite des Hauses). Nun hat das Team endgültig aufgegeben,.und ich schäme mich für Berlin.

Es war einer der, wenn nicht der grösste Verdienst der Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, Merz 20 Jahre lang im politischen Abseits gehalten zu haben. Die Zeit in der Wüste erklärt den heutigen Merz.

My article about the Ukrainian middle strike campaign is now public (and it isn't behind a paywall) on the @WarFrontsWeekly website fronts.co/article/ukra...

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

i have nothing but spitting contempt for people who look at this political movement and downplay or deny its open and explicit white nationalist

Forgot to wish city of Kiev happy 1544 birthday. This is what Moscow looked like 1544 years ago.

What do you call a text which the Iranians don't know about, and which leaves out the important stuff, and neither leader has agreed to yet? It is by definition not a deal, maybe a proposal?

Die USA bereiten sich nach dem Verlust des Golf und der Aufgabe der Ukraine schonmal auf den Verlust von Taiwan vor. Selten eine Weltmacht so freiwillig kollabieren sehen.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

The further Putinisation of America. The government has TV shows which hurt the Dear Leader's delicate feelings cancelled.

"Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare" (Beck, 'Loser')

The premiership of Keir Starmer.

"We need to invite Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent but a campaign stop with Liz Cheney is a bridge too far" is real "I'm going to become the Joker" stuff for me.

352,000 Russian occupiers have died in four years of war against Ukraine, per Meduza and Mediazona using death records and inheritance data.

The nominal strategic purpose of the U.S. Navy is to ensure global freedom of navigation to guarantee stable global trade. It has not only not done that, the United States instigated the conflict which undid it. This is known in foreign policy analysis as a “whoopsie doodles.”

Ich meine,.ich habs nie gespielt, oder so, aber ... fetzt!

“For years, we’ve been told that we don’t have to worry about a crazy president (...) because the military would not carry out any illegal order (...) But that’s not real. What we’ve seen in the last year is the military repeatedly carrying out illegal orders.“ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As an European this is a stark reminder how well the supression of workers rights has worked in the US, and how privileged we are resting on the achievements of socialists from generations ago.

tl;dr: Nazis fahren keine E-Autos.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Our collection of Military Occupation Speciality FMs has more than doubled since its inception. If you ever wanted what it needs to repair a NIKE or be a Nutritional Specialist for the Army, come pay us a visit. Its all just downloads, and all for free. sites.google.com/view/us-army...

Out now! ”The Business of War in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region, 1530–1765” is available Open Access via Helsinki University Press (link below) and can be purchased in print version. @profmurdoch.bsky.social @anulah.bsky.social @helsinkiupress.bsky.social hup.fi/books/e/10.3...

This. Very much this.

Its been a long road, but its done today: Soviet moon rocket N1-L3 on transporter/erector 'grashopper' Lego MOC at 1:110. Now I 'just' need to redo the digital models, so that I can do the instructions. Expect them not before the year is over.

Update on the Military Occupation Speciality Collection: 79 new MOS field manuals at the Online Doctrine Library. By now we are by far the best sorted, and probably largest source for declassified field manuals available - and the best thing is they are all for free.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

lmao. actually, if you were making a “so you want to rob a bank” playlist of 2000s hip hop, what would you throw on it?

And do not miss Laura Secor's learned, lyrical, and haunting account of her years reporting on Iran and its people's struggle for freedom, and the struggle to tell stories the country's regime does not want told. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Sometimes, being an optimist is justified :)