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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfM-... What does it say about me when a manically depressed, flamboyantly gay British alcoholic puts my view of politics into words better than I ever could myself? I don't know but @lazerpig.bsky.social is worth a watch and a follow.

I find a certain irony, that I grew up watching Ubisoft ram down my throat how diverse and not at all racist they were. Only to now find that even at 90% off I won't buy their game about my ancestors. Because they've noble-savaged us into utter fantasy. Vikings were dicks. Don't white-wash -_-

Some times. I get really bummed out because hardly anyone reads George Orwell's essays. And I think a lot of bad things in the world could have been avoided if we did. Except for "In Defence of English Cooking". That one cannot be excused.

This matters. This is important.

There's an irony that the PhD voice in the youtube video is American, not European. He has some pretty solid points though. We really, really need to do better in Europe.

I keep seeing people talking about this 28 point peace plan. So I present to you, the best summary of it I have seen so far. You might want to sit down. It's pretty fucking stupid even by Trump admin standards.

This re-post chain just gets darker and more apt the deeper you go into it. There's a sort of poetic irony inherent in it or would be, if the people suffering weren't all primarily the working and lower classes.

History repeats itself. Except at greater and greater scale.

This is worth a watch. Politics does not come in short form content, this is about the minimum amount of time you will need to invest to be remotely informed.

If you have a minute to spare today ⬇️

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

My Linkedin feed is full of people "Ghibliing" memes. I thought I'd Ghiblify something a little more important. Please do steal and spread these. I'm not really big on algo's myself.

Kudos to Microsoft for sending their Geo-political mouthpiece to Europe with such a strong message in front of journalists. They did not need to bring up Ukraine, but they did. I heard from a friend of a friend that he had to pause his speech for the applause. www.independent.ie/business/mic...

I've helped a couple of people download Wikipedia locally over the last couple of days and decided to make a quick video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGXC... I'm also backing up CDC data now and looking into NOAA next. More on that soon. #Wikipedia #DataBackup #Tutorial

For all my friends on here following the Ukraine war in depth. This should be very interesting to you.

I've seen a good few people here on Bluesky, who really, really need to see this.

I was told AI can't create art. I don't know if people are merely wrong or simply have no taste but if this isn't art then I don't know what is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmS...

For anyone curious what will actually matter over the next few years. Aside from the Bread and Circus I've been trying to purge from my Bluesky feed.

So Audible weekly rewinds are a thing now. Last week averages out to 10,5'ish hours per day on average. I live in fear of my manager at work discovering my weekly/yearly rewind and doing the math.

Arguably one of the best books ever written within any genre, ever.

Recently had dinner with one of the people working on preventing the Y2K disaster at Microsoft back in 99. Poor guy, no recognition at all. Pratchett was right about world ending disasters all along.

My energy bills have been utterly absurd in the last two years. I'd gladly see them doubled or tripled if it's what it takes for Europe to stand up to Russia.

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