This is what the ancient Romans saw when they first made landfall in Britain

it would be so legendary if they did this for the funeral procession

Now ahm just a simple country su-preme leadah y’understand, but this Joe Biden character’s about as trustworthy as a Methodist in a medicine cabinet

humiliating. looks like shit. yet another massive W for earth, the best planet in the universe

This is how “No more weapons for Ukraine” translates into reality. Russia has destroyed one of the last remaining power plants in Ukraine. This time, in once well-protected Kyiv. Brace yourself for a humanitarian catastrophe on the EU border in the coming months.

Somehow stumbled into a bit of twitter that consists of hundred-follower accounts excommunicating each other for failing to acknowledge each other as pope

babe look, a new pietà just dropped

That one counter-revolutionary you keep around cause he’s chill.

one of the best things to come out of the soviet collapse is the russian meme of a country being abandoned by an advanced ancient civilization

needless to say 'the renata adler of looking at your phone a lot' (i lol'ed) is a sentence that could only be written by someone who wants to be the renata adler of looking at your phone a lot also

getting stuck in a time loop would be great. you are essentially immortal and have godlike knowledge. who cares about beating kasparov at this point

giving a talk to the canadian international council in an hour, stop by if you're on campus

khrushchev at the 20th party congress:

Something getting lost in the (understandable) doom and gloom about the present state of the Russia-Ukraine war - the absolutely insane scale and rate of continued Russian vehicle losses. These are not remotely sustainable.

I would honestly find this pretty offensive if I was in the US military.

Accidentally filling my CPAP with this instead of distilled water and turning into a Guild navigator

I generally roll my eyes when I see claims that Russian propaganda is driving American political rhetoric, given our homegrown toxicity and insanity, but the “de-Nazification” nonsense is a purely Kremlin invention. Shocking to see it leap from the mouth of a U.S. politician.

Potato sorting station in Krasnosilka, Ukraine

[biden looking around oval room] you hear me? he introduced us to tapas. now this shit is personal