Zelensky visits Kupyansk front, says battlefield gains will bolster diplomacy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/zelensky-visits-kupyansk-front-says.html
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Pat Benatar:
🎵 Love Is a Battlefield
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https://alemamciarki.bandcamp.com/track/pat-benatar-love-is-a-battlefield-ciarki-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/4p1PizAGdglm2sVvPuFPWs
Michešl Martin, @MichealMartinTD, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland has posted five time on x.com already today.
Simon Harris @SimonHarrisTD Tšnaiste (Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland), and Minister for Finance has posted on x.com twice already today.
RE: https://amicale.net/@franceinfo/115537222299492269
About f*cking time that any-but-far-right pols started thinking about not posting on a far-right-adjacent website owned and hands-on managed by someone actively trying to de-stabilise many European poli…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CentralBylines/115543613034480430
This is the big problem with action on climate change: the people in a position to lose out have huge financial resources, and they're more than willing to use them, even with the si…
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115541855912936152
Education towards responsible behaviour is always good, but trying to solve a problem by changing something other than what caused it is deflection.
(And kids should be lead to become …
I often find myself in this position -- checking whether there are any files in an old folder not in the new location, before deleting the old folder -- and generally re-invent the wheel. Here's a 1-liner that checks (works in Julia, similar in Python, R, other langs likely):
setdiff(
readdir("./lumber/oldfiles"),
readdir("./stuff/newfiles"))
Obvs, not checking timestamp or contents.
Edit: Julia doesn't interpret "~/"
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115543240561442004
My soundbite summary of the effects of tariffs (on the basis of a u/g degree in economics more than 4 decades ago) was that consumers would end up buying less of imported goods, at a higher pric…
A prominent critic of the Trump regime was suspended on #Bluesky. Then it turns out it was because she made a joke/cultural reference that they mistook for a death threat.
So po-faced and dim, not offended by excellent dissection of MAG-America.
#sarahkendzior
https://bsky. …