Sophie 🦘🇺🇦

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

We won not only against Bolsonaro, but against the full force of the USian's Big Techs, Meta, CIA, Trump, the Brazilian right-wing elites, the billionaires' press and more.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

None of the people who forever bang on about polling always underestimating the right because shy tories or whatever will acknowledge this result.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

The alarm in Israel's business community over Netanyahu's comments is palpable. Suddenly centrist pundits are saying how important it is to end the war. Another proof that sanctions have to be on the table.

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

In interviews he gives to very-friendly-media Netanyahu appears irritable, unfocussed and tired. He frequently mis-speaks and keeps making mistakes he would never have done in 2022.

Did he think this was a private message or something?

I'd like to remind Trump administration that after Iran war started, Ukraine deployed experts and technology to the Middle East to help Gulf states defend themselves against Iranian drones and protect US bases in the region, while Russia provided targeting information to Iran.

this isn't rats fleeing a sinking ship, this is when the barnacles pull up and roll out

That's how he could end the war in one day: time-travel back to 24/2/22 and tell them to use the highway 🙃

Is a Svan-language renaissance under way, or is it too little, too late? ⭕ The language of Georgia’s mountainous Svaneti region has long been in decline. But a new wave of artists and businesses is trying to revitalise it.

Local communist US official and Iran supporter joins Chechnya’s Akhmat unit. https://oc-media.org/local-communist-us-official-and-iran-supporter-joins-chechnyas-akhmat-unit/

Another, and probably more likely scenario is attack after the elections, to prevent the forming of a different government

RE Israel's election next week, I suggest keeping expectations low. The main potential upside is Netanyahu's departure from the political scene. If indeed this happens, it would open space for meaningful change, but that change would depend heavily on external pressure.

The French set fire to everything on the streets of Paris once every 3 years to ensure the Sun Deity offers a bountiful harvest next Spring, a rich tradition stretching back millenia, and one that will continue regardless of the ethnic demographics of the French population.

🧵 A few things I learned during my protective presence in the West Bank today. 1. Many Palestinians have a very limited control over where they can go, there’s more than 800 checkpoints and blockades in the WB and most Palestinians cannot get past any of them. It means that most Palestinians have

A real writer wouldn't blame his editor. Instead he should shake his head, sigh and say "once again, my less attentive readers are missing the larger point I was making" without clarifying in any way.

Holy shit. What initially sounded like a traffic accident appears to have been a targeted attack, this is terrible. Hard to grasp Haines of all people being the victim of something like this and really hope she pulls through

I cannot get past these guys thinking that fucking FRANCE had to import the notion that you could go on the streets and break shit if you were mad at the government, or that France has not been accepting people not born there for centuries.

The infamous "Order of the Turtle" for the slowest branches of the Soviet post. USSR, Sverdlovsk, 1931

This framing assumes professors are all more leftist than our students. My median undergraduate comes to my classes with politics to the left of mine. If I were trying to “convert them” politically, which is absolutely not my goal, I would be turning them more moderate, not more radical.

Sir, I’m happy if I can get all my students to do the reading and come to class on time consistently.

For those unaware, John Cleese has fully endorsed Restore Britain

This is INCREDIBLE! I can't believe I hadn't heard it before

They asked him if the school shootings were really true. They thought the stories were CCP propaganda. They told him that they understood if maybe it happened once, because who would think someone could do that. But it didn't make any sense that it kept happening.

I think I've told this story here before, but I'll keep telling it until it's no longer relevant. A friend was sent to China for a couple months for a work assignment. After about a month, his Chinese colleagues decided they trusted him enough to start asking questions about American life.

I am fairly certain this is top 3 articles I've read these past few years and believe me, I read a lot. A story about a young Russian defector, his incredible resolve, absolutely unbelievable mother's love, final escape to Ukraine through the battlefield,monitored by air. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

lmao reminds me of my favourite part from one of my favourite books:

Dude, Where's My Car For Tax Purposes?