The Hall of Fire

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Meanwhile in Europe, Hungary signed off on Finland joining NATO. Hungary is probably the most putin beholden European country, so this is a big deal. Turkey is also in the process of giving its approval, and the vote is expected in May. Both Hungary and Turkey are still holding out on Sweden's appli...

It's worth noting that sicnce the verdict, at least 50 children have been returned to their families. It's a drop in the sea of more than 13,000 kidnapped children. Some children have been taken to the Far East regions of Russia, and all are forced to go through re-education to instill the love of R...

That seems bad. Meanwhile, Twitter announced that it will cancel what Musk calls "legacy" checkmarks, which were handed out after a supposedly rigorous process to confirm that the poster was who or what they said they were, such as for instance a celebrity, scientist, or police department....

Same difference. Although it's funny how presidents are usually heroic badasses in movies like Airforce One and White House Down, and its clone. Or at least nobly stoic, as in Iron Man 3. I realize TFG is hoping for massive rise of his henchpersons, but last week Proud Boys got their asses kicked in...

Today I learned that What Do You Say to a Naked Elf? is a real book title, written by Cheryl Sterling. The description doesn't sound half bad, actually.

https://www.overdrive.com/media/3589636 ... -naked-elf

RPC President Xi Jinping visited the wanted war criminal putin in Moscow. The visit started when putin sent his deputy minister of tourism to greet the guest at the airport and ended with China publishing maps of the Far East regions of Russian Empire with city names in Chinese. https://twitter.com...

It's a beautiful house, and the afghan is perfect for that soft homely touch.

People keep posting AI generated pictures of Trump being arrested in increasingly dramatic and improbable ways. Handcuffs! Cops wrestling him to the ground! Lightly disguised Biden joining the cops!

Meanwhile in the real world, it's crickets.

This link to the article referenced in the tweet should be free.

Musk announced that the press email account will autorespond with a poop emoji. As usual, he didn't think it through.

The French continue to strike and riot after Macron pushed through the law that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64. Reportedly, the striking workers cut power to Macron's residence and sent free power to hospitals and other "worthy" customers. tumblr_3346c89a95b1673c4def9050b3be8a9f_c...

Well this is mildly amusing. Ron DeSantis hit with an ethics complaint from Trump super PAC Trump’s team bases its complaint, in part, on Florida’s resign-to-run law, which requires politicians running for a new office to resign if the terms of the two offices will overlap. DeSantis was re-elected l...

Ironically, the express puzzle took me longer than the regular one.

https://squaredle.app 03/11:
21/21 words (+2 bonus words)
In the top 7% by speed
Solve streak: 11

Yes!

https://squaredle.app 03/10:
68/68 words (+14 bonus words)
In the top 39% by accuracy
Solve streak: 10

The most wholesome video of the war. Safe to watch, nothing bad happens. https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1633525760450256912?s=20 I wonder if Ukrainian cows are unusually social or if cows are like that naturally. When I was in the summer camp and we went to hang out in the woods, the cows wou...

Yep, can confirm.

A former Twitter employee posted that they got paged by an automated process assigning them some sort of system failure. They left Twitter in October.

The response options were Acknowledged and Resolved, of which they chose the latter.