ghosts of nomads past

it costs almost 500 bucks iirc and you have to get an appointment weeks in advance and they do this. truly demented

that's insane

why would you want to go There

heyyy how have u been

i thought that was on purpose

with the added benefit of scaring investors against offshore wind power forever...

ditto! hope you're doing well

this is insane

isn't it awesome that idiotic americans' inability to do long-term industrial policy/electrification/energy transition will result in millions of deaths worldwide. what a world. let's all kill ourselves

presumably eventually they will run out of things to break. right

lmao yeah she lives in moscow

nightmare blunt rotation

embrace wrinkles and help the people of westport lose their jobs faster

all of the world's botox is manufactured in ireland. by aging naturally you are sabotaging the irish economy

different enough i think

Russian Foundation, Aimed at Helping ‘Compatriots’ Abroad, Supports Spies, Criminals, and Propagandists For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by journalists show how it collaborated with spies, funded propaganda efforts, and bui...

💥🇷🇺 NEW INVESTIGATION: Under the banner of human rights work, a state-backed Russian organization has spent years advancing the Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda across the world — including by funding the legal defense of alleged spies, criminals, and propagandists. @occrp.org #dearcompatriots

listing all the ways in which "skinnytok" is different from the pro-ana forums of the early 2000s has irls reacting like this

as AI gets better I think it’s less likely that people will decide it’s sentient and more likely that people will decide a bunch of other people who aren’t as smart as the AI no longer need to be treated as sentient either

The environmental costs of the war in Sudan - CEOBS CEOBS has been helping UNEP monitor the environmental consequences of the war in Sudan since 2023, here's what we have found.

The war in #Sudan has profoundly impacted its environment but these consequences have received little attention.

Our new overview details key incidents and trends that pose risks to Sudan’s people and ecosystems. ceobs.org/the-environm... 🧵⬇️1/7
#السودان

this is like 9/11 for slavic esl speakers

The Catholics, in order to curry with Khagan Pritzker, have chosen a subject of his Horde as Bishop of Rome

so nervous what if i'm the new pope

Top Trump Crypto Buyers Vying for Dinner Seats Are Likely Foreign, Data Shows The majority of top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

Must-read new Bloomberg analysis: Most of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin - who are vying for an “intimate dinner” with POTUS and a White House tour - are likely foreign. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

Russia has returned the body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna.

Her body showed clear signs of torture: broken ribs, bruises, injuries from electric shocks. Some of her internal organs, including her eyeballs, brain and trachea, had been removed.

Viktoria was 27 years old.

the planet is burning and we are out of time and there is literally no silver lining everything is very bad

just finished reading "flights" and i feel like it awakened something in me. thank you olga tokarczuk

drive your plow really stuck with me mostly because janina is a really singular narrator in contemporary fiction and i think about her from time to time

janina duszejko did nothing wrong

i think this. unironically