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For weeks, reporting from The Atlantic and others has suggested that Trump has been quietly insulating himself from the political fallout of a potential Iran disaster.
The strategy, as described by multiple analysts, hinges on delegation
— letting others take the lead publicly, while the White House maintains distance if things go south.
Trump has long framed his Iran posture as a signature issue
— a test of strength, leverage, and deal-making prowess.
Yet when t…

Trump Trots JD Vance Out in Front of News Cameras and Makes Him Take the Fall for ‘Bad News’ on Iran Talks - NewsBreak
Vice President JD Vance walked out of a high-stakes diplomatic meeting halfway across the world and delivered what he himself framed as “bad news.” But the

"are you telling me that Iranian oil tankers are sailing past the US blockade JUST BY TURNING OFF THEIR LIGHTS?
IT’S THAT EASY?
what kind of Three-Stooges-level bullshit is this? is Donny’s war being planned by children?
how can it be that simple to outwit the US Navy? I keep hearing how we’ve got the mightiest military in the world, and how our warfighters are ready to warfight the shit out of any war that needs to be fought."

impaired elderly golfer tacos his way into another ceasefire
President Weak and Stupid gets played again

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/nearly-a-million-birds-shipped-from-africa-to-asia-in-15-years-canaries-top-the-list/

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list
Worldwide, people buy and hunt nearly half of the 11,000 bird species in existence. In Asia, Europe, and North and South America, songbirds and parrots are highly desired pets. Collectors pay exorbitant sums for rare species or melodious birds to compete in high-stakes singing competitions. Falconers and sport hunters capture or kill raptors. Belief-based rituals […]

“The are several stages to the escalation trap,” said Robert Pape,
a US historian who has studied the limitation of air power and has advised a number of US administrations.
“What we saw with the initial attack was tactically almost 100% success,” he said.
“The problem is that when that doesn’t lead to strategic success … you get to second stage of the trap.
“The attacker still has escalation dominance, so there is a doubling down,
which then moves up the escala…

Another statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has appeared on the National Mall, this one styled after Jack and Rose from Titanic.
#Titanic #JeffreyEpstein #DonaldTrump

Ukraine update: The European Union has a corruption problem: Hungary's Victor Orban.
Bullshit and fuckery, as Russia continues to use its international stooges to destabilize the world.
Friend link to bypass the paywall: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovi…

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Iran’s central military command has warned of
far more “devastating and widespread” retaliation
if its adversaries hit Iranian civilian targets.
“If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the next stages of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be much more devastating and widespread,”
a spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement posted by state broadcaster Irib on Telegram.
The warning, cited by AFP, came after Don…

Intelligence agencies in Europe believe Russia is in the final stages of preparing to 💥supply drones to Iran for use in its war with the US and Israel,
according to a senior European official.
Russia has already been providing intelligence sharing with Tehran to help it target US forces in the region, the official said,
but the upcoming delivery of explosive-laden drones would mark the first evidence of lethal support since the start of the war.
The official, who spok…

Despite the small team size,
Mastodon operates two large, production Mastodon instances:
mastodon.social
Runs on Kubernetes with autoscaling between 9 and 15 nodes (16 cores, 64 GB RAM each). Web frontend scale between 5 and 20 pods, while various Sidekiq worker pools scale between 10 and 40 pods. On average, mastodon.social has 70–80 pods running at any given time. This platform handles up to 300,000 active users per day and approximately 10 million requests per minute.
ma…

How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production
At the beginning of 2025, the OpenTelemetry Developer Experience SIG published the results of its first community survey. One of the strongest themes was clear: teams want more real-world examples of how the OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector are actually used in production. To help close that gap, the SIG began collecting stories directly from end users—across industries, architectures, and company sizes. This post kicks off a new series focused specifically on organizations�…