Damn, that's crazy

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder

Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder

Jared Leto, actor

Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson

Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a secretive firm called First Wap.

🇪🇺🇧🇪 The EU is questioning Belgium over opaque use of taxes generated from frozen Russian assets, demanding clarity on whether those funds are reaching Ukraine, as promised. Diplomats worry Belgium may be keeping the money for itself, rather than forwarding all proceeds to Kyiv.

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Press release summary of the judgment. Full text in the link.

CJEU, free movement law/LGBT rights

New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

Europe in dangerous territory. Putting democratic protections on the chopping blocks for trade concessions invites a slippery slope. Increasingly tariff negotiations cuts at the heart of European national security.
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YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen Trump's ultimatum and the limits of US leverage over Ukraine

My take on Trump's peace plan, and why he can't pressure Ukraine into capitulation.

YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen Why spend more on defense in Western Europe?

There is a lot of talk about higher defense spending in NATO, but I think many politicians have failed to explain adequately why that is necessary. So in this video I explain what is at stake for citizens in Western European countries.

The Old swedishtown in Kherason was hit by Holdemor. The villagers sucseded in smugeling out an letter about what happend writhen in older swedish.

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Tavern Keeper: it's good

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illustration of a girl and a cat overlooking a table full of games, food, and dragons. A few eastern dragons are swirling around a chess piece of a knight

Fools’ play

The plan says that "A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States." This implies that both Russia and the Trump administration don't see the US as part of NATO in any real sense. That should deeply alarm every other NATO state.

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

I sincerely call on everyone to support Ukraine’s defenders, so more Ukrainians can live in safety and freedom, continue building and reforming a democratic, independent Ukraine, and so that Russia is defeated and no longer a military or destabilizing threat to Europe or anyone.

There are over 1350 elderly victims documented as serving prison terms (potential death sentences).

Name: Tohtiqari Memet
Age: 75
Status: serving a 10-year sentence (Changji Prison) for “religious extremist thinking”

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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Children helping clear the rubble. 19 dead so far

'Nancy with Feather Hat,' (1910) is a portrait of William Nicholson's daughter. Nancy was a painter and fabric designer and owed much of the style of her early designs to her mother, Mabel Pryde. In January 1918, she married the soldier-poet Robert Graves.

a poorly drawn cat lying flat on its belly with its front legs bent outward like little arms, shown from above

an orange tabby cat lying flat on a carpet, viewed from above, with its front paws bent outward in a funny “chicken wing” pose. he’s very eepy.

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The struggle for freedom and respect for the law is the same in the USA, Ukraine and all of Europe. You cant say you stand with Ukraine and want freedom and rule of law there, and then turn around and praise Trump and ignore his massive corruption. There is only one side--pick yours.

And the driving logic is no longer political but geopolitical: If the EU lets its regulatory mission of protecting Europeans get in the way of its corporate giants' ability to compete globally, Europe will end up being served on the table rather than seated at it.

In a gradual but now accelerating shift over the past few years, on everything from the green transition, AI & digital regulation and even EU defense, "l'Europe qui protége" is less about protecting Europeans and more about protecting EU corporate interests and competitiveness.

Just straight up ISIS shit

"I'm going to propose to my girlfriend, do you have any engagement rings?"

"How about this one, it was forcibly ripped off the hand of a homeless Sudanese widow tearfully pleading that it was all she had left of her husband?"

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

So the total amount of drones they launched in 2023 is equivalent to one night in 2025

Western escalation management.