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Michael Palin approved their membership.
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Viking Chieftain
@VikingChieftain@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Just an armchair chieftain trying to make sense of world politics and conflicts. 100% pro-Ukraine, 100% pro-democracy.
Born and raised in Sweden. Exported to Canada. Lived about half my life in Canada. I love both countries.
The profile picture is a replica of a Viking helmet. And no, the Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets. That was introduced in Wagner's opera The Ring of the Nibelung.
The header picture is of the Viking castle in Trelleborg, Sweden. It's also called Trelleborgen.
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@Paladin@mastodon.nu @hanse_mina@mastodon.social
Given his health issues, he'll probably be fighting off worms in his grave soon.
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@Paladin@mastodon.nu @hanse_mina@mastodon.social
There are now plenty of free Wildberries and Ozon employees to deliver goods to the zero line.
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@hanse_mina@mastodon.social
Putin is trapped in the eternal grip of the sunk-cost fallacy. It's better to double down since we're so close to achieving a breakthrough on the battlefield.
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Go Denmark! 🇩🇰 💕
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@benroyce@mastodon.social
The old Chinese proverb "A fish rots from the head down" comes to mind.
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@Paladin@mastodon.nu @kardinal691@mastodon.online
Unfortunately, no one will be there to reprogram people's mindsets. The only thing the neighbouring countries can do is arm themselves to the teeth before the next Tsar wannabe comes to power. But I'm afraid we'll repeat the mistakes of the 90s, 00s and 10s when Western politicians thought the threat was over with the collapse of the Soviet Union, so they cut military spending.
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@hanse_mina@mastodon.social
Girls are taught that it's normal to take a punch to the face. It's just part of Russian culture.
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@hanse_mina@mastodon.social
I'm sure the espionage by Haakon Chevalier, George C. Eltenton, Morris Cohen, Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Theodore Hall, George Koval, Irving Lerner, Alan Nunn May, Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg, Saville Sax, Oscar Seborer, Morton Sobell, Melita Norwood and Arthur Adams had nothing to do with it.
Happy Canada Day!
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@Paladin@mastodon.nu @hanse_mina@mastodon.social
At least they won't have to live with the shame once the war is over.
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@Paladin@mastodon.nu @hanse_mina@mastodon.social
I'm watching the rest of the Jay in Kiev video right now. I'm watching the segment with the publishing lady. Wow... The Russians are being screwed over by their own government in so many ways. Don't want to work in fulfillment centres? No problem. We have North Korean women for that. They work for USD 13.88 per day. And their days are 12 hours.
A Ukrainian soldier gives a pep talk to potential SMO participants at the Kuban State Agrarian University in Krasnodar, Russia, about what will happen to those who sign the contract.
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@dgar
I've always wondered what life is like for people who were completely liberated from any sense of humour at some point in life. 🤗
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@hanse_mina@mastodon.social
NATO should be replaced by an organization that doesn't serve its largest member.
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Erich: Well, nothing, obviously… if there's one thing we've learned in the last thousand miles of retreat, it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanisation!
Hans: Tell me about it!
Erich: But you've gotta say, it's better than a skull! I mean, I really can't think of anything worse, as a symbol, than a skull!
Hans: (thinks) A rat's…. anus?
(2/3)
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@stux@mstdn.social
How Trump's reign will be remembered.
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@MAKS23@mastodon.social
Zelensky didn’t allow it and Putin saw it as a golden opportunity to save a few thousand dollars.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @Gurre@mastodon.nu @lzg@mastodon.social
In other words, silly and vain politicians are nothing new. 🤭
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@bech
This is The Grand Heist visualized. There are plenty of people in his circle who should have before (one colour) and after (another colour) cups to show how much they've enriched themselves while serving Trump since he took office.
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Erich: (exasperated) Yeah. And if we were fighting an army marching under the banner of a rat's anus, I'd probably be a lot less worried, Hans!
(Hans puts a cigarette in his mouth and sets down an ashtray shaped like a skull. As he absorbs this, he and Erich see one of their comrades drinking out of a mug with a skull on the side, and another knitting a scarf with a skull pattern)
Hans: Okay… So…
(Hans and Erich runs away)
(3/3)
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@GeriAQuin@mstdn.social
I'm glad that Ottawa is heated entirely by the hot air from the politicians on Parliament Hill. 🤗
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@isaackuo@spacey.space @hanse_mina@mastodon.social
Very true. But the US has had and still has the biggest influence in NATO. It comes with the size of its military.
I'm not sure how many countries would have joined the Coalition of the Willing if Europe weren't so dependent on the US. I hope this changes. The signs are there, but Europe will also have to allocate the money to build a stronger military.
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@martincigan @FrancoisPrague @noelreports
François indicated that Fico might not be attending, but rather participating. 😉 😆
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@ragnarbjartur@masto.ai
It's good to see that the Russians are once again willing to become casualties of the war. It's their ticket out of the SMO. Rybar was annoyed that the Ukrainians had worked out how to fight the hordes of Russian mercenaries they're facing.
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"01189998819991197253" - IT Crowd - Emergency Number
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@karttu@oldbytes.space @particlesbbs@mastodon.social @48kRAM@retrorewind.social
It was also popular in Swedish schools (which is quite natural since Luxor was a Swedish company). The first ABC-80 I programmed was located in a high school, but I was only in third grade. It was in the room next to the chess club that I was a member of at the time. It was a long time ago, but I still remember being mesmerized and curious about computers from the moment I first saw this ABC-80.
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@Gurre @ErikJonker
Yes, there's no need for another office suite. LibreOffice is an excellent suite of applications, and it's free to use. Donations are always welcome, but not required.
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@stux@mstdn.social
Garfield has been on a diet.
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@stux@mstdn.social
Perhaps George is eating Washy's food?! 🤔
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@kleb@mastodon.world
I hope that sane Americans can turn things around. Until then... elbows up.
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@randahl@mastodon.social
What about me?
– Ramzan Kadyrov (most likely)
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@tend2wobble@toad.social
Meanwhile over at Palantir…
Fred: Have you looked at our mice recently?
Bob: (stops typing) Our mice?
Fred: The badges on our mice. Have you looked at them?
Bob: What?… No… A bit.
Fred: They've got skulls on them.
Bob: Hm?
Fred: Have you noticed our mice have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?
Bob: Er… I don't, erm…
Fred: Bob… are we the baddies?
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@FluentInFinance@mastodon.social
But hey... S&P 500 closed at another record.
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@Paladin@mastodon.nu @MAKS23@mastodon.social
I think they're having a fika meeting right now to work out how to clean their offices.
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@kleb@mastodon.world
Timbit Trump is a vile little fucker. The good news is that even his party colleagues are abandoning him and jumping over to the Liberals.
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@weirdestate@eigenmagic.net
"This property has been removed by the agent."
They had second thoughts about selling this lovely crib...
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@ZenHeathen@beige.party @palin@mastodon.social
Not having a sense of humour must make life rather dull.
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I couldn't fit the full alt description of the video, so here is the rest of the video transcript:
Hans: Oh, you haven't been listening to Allied propaganda? Of course, they're gonna say we're the bad guys!
Erich: But they didn't get to design our uniforms! And their symbols are all, y'know, quite nice! Stars, stripes, lions, sickles…
Hans: What's so good about a sickle?
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@aho@mastodon.social
The SOFT team must be the ones behind the new Russian app, GasComrade™, which serves the same purpose as GasBuddy (https://www.gasbuddy.com/gasprices/ontario/ottawa) but just for Russia.
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@MAKS23@mastodon.social
I should pardon Ghislaine and appoint her as Children's Ambassador to China. There are plenty of potential recruits for Maxwell Island here.
– Trump (probably)
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@kardinal691
Excuse me. I need to call my son in London using the Signal app.
– Vladimir Solovyov (probably)
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@rvps2001@mastodon.social
Les Parisiens... Vous savez ce qu'il vous reste à faire... Bip, bip, bip...
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@particlesbbs@mastodon.social @48kRAM@retrorewind.social
Yes, the MZ-711 was part of the MZ-7xx family. I really enjoyed programming on the MZ-7xx. But the Commodore C64/128 was my favourite computer from that era. I still have my 128D, and programming in assembly language on those machines was awesome.
I wish I had brought my MZ-731 with me when I moved to Canada, but I gave it to a fellow computer enthusiast to reduce the weight of the pallet I was shipping. What’s done is done.
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@200ok @weirdestate
Those white guard walls will look great after 50 touches.
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@MAKS23@mastodon.social
This happens when Xi feels threatened. Obviously these two guys belonged to the wrong faction inside the CCP.
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@aho@mastodon.social
How did Finland, Estonia, and Latvia convince Putin to give them this gift?
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@kleb@mastodon.world
I'm proud that we have a prime minister who is forward-thinking and can form complete sentences.