I know. I was just making a very poor joke based on Moldova's best-known musical hit.

My reaction to the Moldova election results: Maia who?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I don't really polisci post much anymore because it's like "Hi, political scientist here. I'm a big brain expert who ran 5 trillion lines of code in R and read 900 books and I'm here to tell you it's bad when masked stormtroopers kidnap your baby. Don't forget to like and follow."

Munching almonds and dates as I type.

can't wait for kids 20 years from now to create carefully handcrafted visual media that looks like creepy AI slop and call it 2020s aesthetics

It's amazing, isn't it? Sometimes I get a better signal at the airport than in my own university building.

Post a banger that's not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl...

It is the feast day of St. Jerome, who had a pet lion.

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Reading Zille's response to this, I'm struck by how she digs herself ever further into her delusional sub-Trumpian reading of South African politics.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Makes sense - I recognise there are likely ulterior motives for the issue being raised at this particular moment in UK politics, which may justify the concerns, even if as @davidturnbull.bsky.social points out the majority of Brits are not anti-ID. And interesting RefUK voters are most anti-ID.

I like how English 'mere' = German 'See' and English 'sea' = German 'Meer'.
Also the gender changes: French 'la mer' (f), Portuguese 'o mar' (m), German 'das Meer' (n).

The more interesting question to discuss is why British people on the whole are so averse to ID cards, which co-exist with democracy and freedom in many other countries.

It's taken him this long to realise?

Yes, me too - a real person in the room can hold my attention in a way that a recording, or an online meeting, cannot.

Not weird at all. I cannot imagine listening to a podcast nor to an audiobook. Radio is like that annoying person who talks too much.

As a vegan I understand. I recently ate fake meat for the first time in ages (it was the only vegan thing on the menu) & regretted it for the rest of the day. Processed fake food is not the way to promote veganism.

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Epstein possibly heard 'miners' and thought 'minors'?

'für Captain Kirk das gab ein großes Feuerwerk' #toosoon

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I take it that your post is really more of a comment than a question.

Next up, fish-coated Weetabix.

One of the creepiest things about Facebook is when it's the birthday of a long-dead friend. No problem with the 'happy heavenly birthday' or 'missing you always', but it's the comments like 'HBD have a blast, mate' sent by someone who's been out of contact for so long that the death passed them by.

But kind of like Corona Lager. Suddenly their brand got overtaken by global events.

Ah, good to know.