Nestled in the Swiss village of Mulegns, Tor Alva is on a special mission. mashable.com/video/tallest-…

Swarms of pro-Iran bots are flooding social media with disinformation. Reminder: more than a quarter of online conversations about Israel and the war are driven by bots, not real people.

Der Rapper und Dissident #ToomajSalehi wurde in #Iran festgenommen. So gab es sein offizieller X-Account توماج صالحی🌋 bekannt. Eine der lautesten Stimmen gegen die Mullahs soll zum Schweigen gebracht werden. Das Regime nutzt den Krieg mit Israel, um die Oppositionsbewegung zu

Liubov Panchenko, 85, starved during Russia’s occupation of Bucha. The artist, who had defended Ukrainian identity since the 1960s, died shortly after liberation. 🧵 1/9 ⬇️

„Ich bedauere wirklich bis heute die Dezimierung der Haipopulation aufgrund der Buchvorlage und des Films.“ Steven Spielberg -> Der Bösewicht aus dem Meer: Wie «Jaws» unsere Sicht auf Haie beeinflusst hat watson.ch/!116982764

It’s important this week to remember that Putin has violated every bilateral treaty Russia signed with Ukraine since independence in 1992. The Budapest Memo(1994), Friendship(1997) and Border(2003) Treaties all guaranteed Ukrainian territorial integrity but counted for nothing.

if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. i promise.

1/8🧵 Our leaders’ white lies were designed to keep us thinking everything is OK. Now, as things are clearly not OK, it’s time to tell Europeans the truth and prepare them to face reality. White lies won’t last forever – but telling the truth could save Europe. My latest

Friday the 13th wasn’t always unlucky. It became cursed the morning the most powerful knights in the world were dragged from their beds in chains. This is the story of the Knights Templar — warrior monks who built empires, invented banking, and died in fire. 🧵

…wundersame vermehrung der atommächte?

1: Let’s talk about Steve Witkoff, because I think the narrative of him being a “useful idiot” is a dangerous trap to walk in. It’s darker than that. Witkoff has spent three decades swimming in russian money, russian mob circles, and russian real-estate pipeline. A thread 🧵

For centuries, lighthouse keeping was not a romantic calling—it was survival work, and women did it quietly, relentlessly, and often alone. When a lighthouse keeper died, the job did not stop needing to be done. The light still had to burn. So widows stepped in, not as

❗️Christo caught a Russian sleeper agent using her cat They now call her “The Cat Lady.”

In 1915, a German princess was born with Down syndrome and, unusually for the time, she was never hidden from public view. Her name was Princess Alexandrine Irene of Prussia, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Wilhelm and Princess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At a time when

In 2–3 years, there will be no way to tell what’s real and what’s not… and I have no idea how humanity will deal with this enormous problem.

Absolutely brilliant

Worse than farcical. Sick. Putin has been trying to make Ukraine fail for a quarter century

The story about “91 drones attacking Putin’s residence” is outright nonsense. Ukraine does not have unlimited resources to waste dozens of drones on a building where, most likely, no one is even present. Especially when we are talking about drones with a limited warhead — a