Una Hajdari

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

I can’t tell, does it say Skanderbeg kiseli kupus?

Let’s be fair, this was an opinion also widely held amongst tankies

This despite me learning how to pronounce “W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie”

Still not worth the Polish pileup it caused

I can remember a group of you unleashing the wrath of the Polish twitterati on me for my Wars car comment, yes

In Kosovo, ‘Lake Trump’ lands with a bump Locals aren’t happy and critics see a superficial White House approach to deep differences.

Including the last time Grenell tried to solve a problem by naming something after Trump www.politico.eu/article/koso...

Hi it’s me, I cover the “misfit toys [countries].”

it….could have turned around. it was a ship. it would have taken a few minutes. and you can’t turn the wreck of it around cuz it’ll fall apart the second you try and raise it. what are we doing with our metaphors here man

Carney must act: Canada must join Eurovision

Serbia let Putin’s spies zap dogs with ‘sound cannons’ Documents reveal Belgrade brought in Russia’s FSB to conduct experiments with sonic weapons while anti-government protests escalated.

In maart 2025 gebruikte de Servische regering een mysterieus geluidskanon tegen demonstranten. De Russische FSB was ook geïnteresseerd, schrijft @unawrites.bsky.social in @politico.eu

www.politico.eu/article/serb...

Ok fair enough, but at least bands in the early/mid 2000s paid homage to artists from the 80s and 90s or appreciated their influence. (I haven’t had a convo like this in years btw)

No notes. This excellent article really nails what so many of us who cover countries the U.S. promised *so much* to have been talking about for years.

No. 😂

Love you Mike but we won’t be listening to grindcore tonight lol

Ok that’s an amazing explanation for it and I completely agree!

My hot take for the evening is that good indie music peaked in the early-mid 2000s and nobody appreciates/makes it like before (currently listening to Shoot the Runner by Kasabian)

Visionary

„Serbian intelligence officers tested sound cannons on dogs in collaboration with Russia’s security service (FSB), according to 🇷🇸 government documents seen by POLITICO - 2 weeks after an anti-government demonstration in Belgrade was disrupted by what protesters described as a crippling sonic blast.“

Serbia let Putin’s spies zap dogs with ‘sound cannons’ Documents reveal Belgrade brought in Russia’s FSB to conduct experiments with sonic weapons while anti-government protests escalated.

There’s very little that manages to shock those among us still covering the protests in Serbia.

Still, the idea that illegal tests were done on dogs to prop up the govt’s claim that protesters weren’t subjected to cruelty is about as grim as it gets. My story here: www.politico.eu/article/serb...

Serbia let Putin’s spies zap dogs with ‘sound cannons’ Documents show Belgrade brought in Russia’s FSB to conduct experiments on animals.

Serbian intelligence officers have tested sound cannons on dogs in collaboration with Russia’s notorious security service, according to government documents seen by POLITICO.

About two weeks after the protest, Serbian and Russian intelligence specialists gathered a group of dogs at a BIA testing site to evaluate the “effect of the emitters on biological objects.” Dogs were chosen as the test subjects because of “their high sensitivity to acoustic effects.” The animals were blasted with two LRAD models — LRAD 100X MAG-HS and LRAD 450XL — made by the California-based company Genasys, at “ranges of 200, 150, 100, 50 and 25 meters,” according to the documents.

An absolutely wild one from @unawrites.bsky.social - intelligence officials in Serbia worked with Russia’s FSB to test ‘crowd control’ sound cannons (LARDs) on dogs in defiance of Serbia’s own animal protection laws

www.politico.eu/article/serb...

Noooo don’t go there haha 🤣

Technically that could mean Srpska should be ok because, uhm, they might have citizenship from that place across the Drina

Overweight people? Seriously??

“The suspension, which will begin Jan. 21, will not apply to applicants seeking non-immigrant visas, or temporary tourist or business visas.”

So… people from the Western Balkans (apart from Serbia), Moldova, Belarus and Russia won’t be able to travel to the US anytime soon?

I feel like Gen Z took the confidence boost we tried to pass on to them (like standing up for yourself and your work) and upgraded it to full-blown arrogance.

Also: to all my old editors who are here… sorry if we were difficult. We didn’t realize it (these kids are worse!)

I’m not convinced they actually believe this video to be exculpatory. It reads as more triumphalist to me — i.e., a ‘look what we can do’ vibe meant to shock and numb and intimidate