Nicholas Cross

Europe does not need the US to break Russia’s war machine and enable Ukrainian victory. Europe needs its leaders to find their proverbial balls and finally do their job: protect Europe.

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Arthur’s Seat as seen from the Royal Observatory on Blackford Hill. There was a big fire yesterday.

Yesterday there was a large fire on Arthur’s Seat. I can’t see any obvious signs this morning, at least not from this distance.

🛤 The key innovation of recent weeks is the intensification of strikes on the Russian railway infrastructure, - Conflict Capital

From July 19 to August 5, 12 hits were recorded, affecting hub stations and junctions through which the main flows of military cargo go to Crimea, Donbas, and Caucasus.

Not the executive parts that persecuted their branch staff even when they knew that the apparent deficits were often caused by a dodgy computing system.

a robot says " i 've been talking to the main computer " in a room ALT: a robot says " i 've been talking to the main computer " in a room

Developed in partnership with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

Let's not use "hallucinate" or "lie" when we talk about ChatGPT. It can't make decisions, it doesn't have a conscious thought, it's not having a conversation with you.

It's regurgitating false information based on stolen content without context or nuance.

🛢️📉 Russia’s oil revenues fell by a third in July, - Bloomberg.

Oil tax revenues totaled 710.4 billion rubles, down 33% from a year earlier. Total oil and gas revenues fell 27%.

The reason is falling world prices and pressure from sanctions

Why are UK News shows not pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings?

✈️🇺🇦🏅 Zelesnky: In record time, our soldiers have perfectly mastered Patriot, SAMP-T, NASAMS, IRIS-T and other air defense systems. And in the sky, our aces pilots F-16 and Mirage.

Thank you to our pilots, who have already flown 28,000+ combat sorties.

After #Russia loses this war and collapses, what should we call the new nation?
#RussiaIsCollapsing

Exactly!

Putin: “There are no meaningless losses among Russian fighters.”

I don’t know who’s more disgusting: the old maniac who says this or the people who obediently listen and believe him.

More reasons to go slow on these requests. Perhaps they weren’t being serious.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: It’s time to confiscate Russian assets… to use them to serve peace, not war.

✅ Rada adopted draft law on restoring the independence of anti-corruption bodies of Ukraine.

‼️ Zelensky: Russia's real potential is much smaller than that of Europe. Russia lags behind in technology.

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I bumped into my PhD supervisor. I remember when his wife was pregnant with their first. Their younger kid has just graduated from university.

A massive earthquake just hit near Russia’s only nuclear submarine base in the Pacific – raising questions as to the state of Moscow’s last line of defense in Asia.

www.kyivpost.com/post/57259

This is really very good.

One of the clearest expositions of generational inequality and what drives it (largely housing costs ofc) - also helped challenge some of my assumptions and see things from the perspective of my parents' generation.

Good night and stay safe ❤️
Good luck to our Air defense 🤞🏻

“It’s as if the baby universe had caught a case of measles.“

What a lede.

When I met Martin Rees as an undergraduate student he struck me as someone who was kind and had time for students, more so than some of the other professors.

Twice as much coffee (by mass - not sure how that translates to cups) was drank than tea in 1849, at this railway station. Was that a typical ratio for the time?

Was he the guy sent to El Salvador by ICE last week?

Gaza seems an obvious missing one.

A bullshitter and cheater. Many have pointed this out in the past. Deep character flaws in a person who has been given too much power.

The UK: we must reinvigorate our uncompetitive and slow growth economy!

Also the UK: time to censor the easiest general reference of archive of human knowledge, which is also free.

If the next sentence reads, “unfortunately we also estimate your life expectancy to be less than 80”, then it may just be trolling you.

Up until they can no longer maintain their planes.

He should be doing his best to help Ukraine. If Ukraine falls then Hungary could become a buffer state bordering Russia.

To celebrate Russia’s Navy Day, Ukrainian drones are now attacking Leningrad oblast. Putin was forced to cancel the naval parade at St Petersburg earlier.

#explodey