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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 1h

[Holding back terrifying shrieks] No, this isn't what happened. You are having a hallucinated tankie manic episode.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 2h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3h

You know I really appreciate that this post acknowledges this is, highly disturbingly, a pan-human feature

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 2h

I'll have some time tomorrow to hoard books like a disgusting goblin before my return flight.

Can some of you lovely London bookstore knowers recommend good second hand non-fiction places? Skoob Books is my go to usually.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 1d

Not skeeting much because I've secretly reached Perfidious Albion to surprise my siblings.

Why is the weather here....good?
This feels very cursed compared to every other time I've been here.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 1d

[Kyiv in three days piss for brain talking point]... My brother in Christ its been years, and they can't stop an elite ukropoaster armed with a powerbank from logging off.

Real ones knew they were doomed from the start.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

20 hours still no electricity + almost set myself on fire with a candle

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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re reading this post I encourage you to contribute, this is a form of resistance available to anyone

savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 2d

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

Discovered a new incredibly based medieval person

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

Tweet from Axel Folio, PhD: "To Poland where they are from"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about it, the original Deus Ex may be the king of choice in a game with a story, because your choices are significant, linked to gameplay and unforced. From the very start, for instance, whether you use or avoid lethal force against the “terrorists” determines something about you.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3d

Devour feculence you little sick nazi freak etc

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3d

Дори и червеи няма да искат да ядат такова гниещо Spectator чучело [highly derogatory Bulgarian gestures]

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 3d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3d

Very large amount of *Dont Tread on Me* particles emanating from these posts (laudatory)

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Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social · 3d

Show me how you draw armor! 🛡️

A drawing of a knight in fourteenth century inspired armor, wielding sword and shield and wearing a flat bascinet helmet

A drawing of a woman in a mix of late medieval and late roman armor, wielding a spear and shield

A drawing of a woman in a mix of late medieval and late roman armor, wielding a sword and shield

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3d

Global capital is entirely sustained by everyone's collective autism towards Paradox dlcs.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3d

I still haven't tried any total conversion mods for CKIII. Probably will be this one or the GoT one.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3d

Must....resist...temptation to reach.....for wallet....AHHHH

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 3d

The two most fascinating things BFs about modern western conservatism is a) their stalwart defence of supposed western values, culture and traditions and b) their stalwart hatred of those same values, culture and traditions.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 3d

Quite a history of heroic solidarity for people who suffered so much.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 3d

At least Marx was extremely based with his takes on the Civil War - "Lincoln, you must create an ocean of slaver corpses to purge this evil forever."

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who wants more car-centric culture/infrastructure I consider equivalent to a war criminal.

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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 4d

Holy lmao. What an incredibly cursed collection of specimens.

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 4d

'"Motorists" is a strange name for a political party (6 seats in Czech parliament)' I thought. 'Must be a wonky translation'

Nope. And each section in the wiki gets worse.

Snippet from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorists_for_Themselves

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