People feel strangely comfortable posting stuff there they would not post on Facebook

Not a great distraction from SVO news coverage, eh

As uncanny as the parallel with Putin’s early decades is, he left economics and stats to professionals then

This didn’t age well with the revival season

Those are so weird

@besttrousers.bsky.social ?

Afrikaners mostly descend from Dutch, French, and Germans

They’re all footballs, but the nation that spawned them all gave the world the abbreviation for Association football

Today this account is run by Hank Hill

Rugby’s ok tho

How is the real Dugin with the 3 English articles? (Definite, indefinite, null — the latter being the trickiest for learners.)

Dust off Russian month-names from the Ostromir gospel ;) But they only go so far

Will US consuls be performing pencil tests?

Bière de garde?

This might actually make right-of-centre Americans embrace rail transit

Boris Yeltsin reportedly asked for a knife and fork at Russia’s first McDonalds

With placards showing the basement of the Ipatiev house

We all new twitter went to shit, but goddam…

These days one has to be a baker to know it

Děža! (A tool most modern folks wouldn’t know.) Fascinating.

Any Balto-Slavic relatives?

Yes, but spending a week in France inevitably leads me, upon return, to question where heat truly enhances a dish vs. where a dish is lacking in another aspect

LinkedIn betrays not just the widespread lack of econ/fin education. Many users there feel more at ease borderline siegheiling than they do on Facebook.

They’re making the S legible to modern readers, though

The whole story is strange because anyone familiar with modern language use in Russia would doubt that an officer or official would phrase it “this is ethnically-Russian ship [such-and-such]”

Wonder if it’s IP-driven too. Its Russian answers to US IPs praise the gov’t for its actions in 1989

Except it’s not