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Michael Virks
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The most British German you'll ever meet 😎 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦

A decidedly non-eclectic mix of wargaming, politics, Ukraine and memes.

BT once addressed me as "Dr Volts" so that is now my secret Cold-War Supervillain identity.

Rhubarb is not food and you know it 🥬👊
So looking forward to this one. My wife recently started painting and is planning to give it a go too!
December 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Vatniks, right? RIGHT?
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Won't be up to them, hopefully 🤷
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Turning into Big Tobacco before turning a profit is new though....
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's spelled Gi-le-ad, duh
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Adjacent: in German hip-hop - due to many artists' minimum wage retail employee experiences - the go-to derogatory term is "you customer"
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Hard agree. The only use cases where I manually resort to Google for more relevant results is News and Maps.
Everything else, Kagi all the way
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hey, to paraphrase something Churchill said about the US during WWII:
I genuinely believe Europe will do the right thing re Russia, after exhausting all other options.
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It'll bring up a hilarious amount fo stuff that's not a problem, won't ever be a problem, but that you now have to have follow-up investigations about.

In UK medical slang, the acronym VOMIT is used for these patients: "victim of medical imaging technology"
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I feel you. I still haven't found a AAA game from the last 3-4 years that I actually want to play, to give my 5090 a proper run for its money.

All just 5-10 year old stuff that I keep coming back to, and/or indie stuff.

At least ffmpeg runs ridic fast 🤷
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
These are stage 1 Nuremberg Race Laws suggestions
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Kyiv in 3 days, eh?
December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Glad Corbyn found someone who manages to make him look less student politics, in comparison
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Oh they know, trust me
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Just change the clause to limit Ukraine's peacetime army to whatever the size of Russia's army is. Simples.
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM