Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@knittingknots2 They're really starting to remind me of the Catholic church

@TallVenti Oh, they just couldn't wait, could they? They started almost as quickly as the sewage works started dumping untreated human waste into the waterways and foreshores. #BrexitBenefit

The reason following hashtags doesn't work very well is that -- as anyone who's been on the twitters will confirm -- the overuse of hashtags correlates inversely with having anything to say. For example, as soon as I started following the hashtag #Ukraine, I started getting flooded with posts that had every hashtag under the sun, but not much content other than the occasional rant.

Perhaps it works better for less topical hashtags, but this isn't working out well at all... the amount of noise --- a considerable proportion of it rancid -- is pretty high.

@madbrexiter@mas.to GOTCHA!

@JD It's ridiculous isn't it, the way that everyone seems to concur that Russia gets to do what it likes in the Black Sea. Why are we so cowardly?

@Landcombatmissiles Goodness, i appear to have hurt his feelings there.

@TriumphDoreen@mastodon.social @Landcombatmissiles

Blocked.

@PamJarvis It would help if Starmer would commit to overturning a single one of the Tory policies.

Another great victory for the #Ukraine war: it's turned the far right into card-carrying socialists overnight. So many impassioned calls from them now to provide public assistance to America's homeless and drug-addicted; I never thought I'd see the day.

@jvagle @AnnemarieBridy Surely yet another site where every third post is Jennifer Lawrence doing a spit take is what the world sorely needs now, right?

@maxieq At least it's phrased correctly. I've seen too many articles about the counteroffensive being slowed by "Russian minefields". They're Ukrainian fields full of fucking Russian mines.

@mashbooq @Lengsel@mastodon.social On one of the tech forums I use, someone got a PM berating him for using a Ukraine trident icon in his profile. He posted a public question to the mods asking what the policy on that kind of off-topic harassment was... and dozens of people responded by putting Ukrainian symbols in their avatars. The abuser was never seen again.

@AnnemarieBridy So would I, if it were anything like the more than pitch-perfect Simpsons' takeoff

@omegaman @BernieWonIowa Oh, they had no will or agency of their own, NATO just "expanded" into them. Y'know, exactly like the Russian tanks in Czechoslovakia '68, Hungary '56 etc. It's like looking in a mirror, amirite?

@Jigsaw_You @ukraine @geopolitics
Someone ask him what he thinks all the Baltic states and Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO did to "Russia's security"

@omegaman @BernieWonIowa

As the experience of the Warsaw Pact nations, the Baltic states and now Finland and Sweden shows, countries join NATO because Russia is belligerent. To claim the reverse, that Russia is belligerent because "NATO expands" is Bizarro-world nonsense.