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Based on a 2020 report commissioned by Sen Bernie Sanders & conducted by the U.S. Gov't Accountability Office (GAO), Walmart & McDonald’s had the most employees receiving SNAP benefits: in 9 states, Walmart employed cca 14000 & McDonald’s about 8,700. Other companies: Amazon, Burger King, Target.

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YouTube video by ole9us Я счастлив!

Fantastic anti war song + surrealist AI video in Russian: "I'm Happy!" Singer sounds like a hard rock version of Vladimir Vysotsky. Poignant lyrics are a mordant satire of today's Russian reality. Deserves a wider audience. Don't know anything about the author(s). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htag...

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

if "Capacity of signatory" refers to beer intake, you might be exaggerating slightly

Most Surreal Headline of the Day award goes to the Moscow Times:

@stonekettle.bsky.social strong contender here

This could also work to the tune of YMCA, but substituting "war-ravaged Portland" for YMCA ("it's fun to dance in our waaar... raaavaged... Portland") Can they get a Village People cover band over there ? 😜 Reclaim the song (Trump used to play it at rallies, wonder how he'd react)

If we assume only 60% of the MIA are actually dead, that brings the total of known + assumed dead to 38% of Total Losses.

So 30.8 % of Total Losses are known dead... wow! "Plen"=POW < 1%, will eventually be exchanged (UA is motivated to get their own back); "sanitarnye" = "medical"... assuming wounded? it would be interesting to know how many of those return to their units, or, are disabled beyond future use.

As a person who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, I see the same thing (N. Korea-style cult of personality)

Does Mr Umerov take requests? Someone put together an interesting list of railway/bridge bottlenecks in Russia, just begging to be hit: archive.li/vnCdx (what do you think, @tatarigami.bsky.social ?)

Now that long-distance strikes are possible, when can we expect hits on Russia's railway & bridge bottlenecks? For a useful laundry list : archive.li/vnCdx

One of those Simon Pegg/Nick Frost zombie movies would totally work in a Mar A Lago setting -- & could hire local talent (the local botoxed beauties already look 1/2 zombified). Trump Of The Dead?

How about a doggie video where the dog had an emotional-support digger?https://bsky.app/profile/soxic.bsky.social/post/3lzm7zgoqbk2q

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

That about sums it up:

Uh, yes, nothing suspicious here, just a typical Russian CEO suicide: decapitation, + a tow rope tied to the body...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

When someone gives you a compliment, accept it with a smile and move on. Don't start babbling about how you did nothing special, or how the thing complimented was really nothing -- it's a turn-off to all present. Think about their motives later, if suspicious (usually there are 0 ulterior motives).

It's getting harder and harder to tell these things apart 😀

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

Cartoon from Moscow Times:

Good morning, world.

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