"The people of the former Soviet Union are accustomed to incredulity towards the Grand Narrative of the State. Having lived through a heavily propagandised regime, they are aware of the distance between the message and the product, which is measured in experience of reality.

"It is ours which is the most heavily propagandised population in history. Our news is fake, the ruling ideology itself an argument with everything else that it can never hope to win. This losing battle, with its enormous human casualty rate, is fought on Netflix and the nightly news, in humourless comedy, in sterile novels and derivative dramas."

https://frankwright.substack.com/p/ai-generation

Aurora in Northern Alabama!

Photo of a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile taken moments before striking its intended target.

Rarely seen Green Flash (info in comments)
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Lenin and the Art of the Impossible

The Tree of Woe contemplates the impossibility of revolution: Every rock star began as a long-haired freak in a garage with a dream of a record deal and groupies. Every best-selling author began as a would-be writer being told that no one buys books. Every successful entrepreneur began by faking it until he made it. […]

https://voxday.net/2024/05/11/lenin-and-the-art-of-the-impossible/

"The opening of a new front towards the Kharkiv region might have one or more of three purposes.

"To surround and eventually take Kharkiv city, the second biggest one in Ukraine.
"To create a buffer zone along the border to prevent Ukrainian attacks on Russian grounds.
"To divert Ukrainian reserves and to prevent them from joining the intensifying fight in the Donbas region."

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/05/ukraine-sitrep-the-sanitary-zone-on-the-northern-border-with-russia.html

At least Elon managed more than just a “Wow” or “!!” this time.

Russian troops have сrossed the border north of Kharkov and have taken couple of villages.

This is a wild story of the intersection of science, the occult, and global empire. Check it out.
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-occult-tesla-part-10

Why pen caps have holes in the top

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Rise of the Broletariat!

But there’s a certain irony in the outpouring of appreciation for the bros. Especially at elite schools where the encampments have been most persistent, fraternities have faced university-driven witch hunts aimed at eliminating their presence on campuses. The anti-frat crusade, which features a questionable judicial process led by antagonistic university bureaucrats hired to promote DEI initiatives, is troubling enough before you consider its glaring hypocrisy in the face of the ongoing protests. Universities that now treat the smallest fraternity infractions as grounds for immediate and sometimes harsh limitation—including accidentally setting off smoke alarms with a candle to turning in party permit applications an hour late—are now, very publicly, allowing disruptive and even aggressive encampments to persist despite their deliberate violations of policy, making the school’s double standards for the application of rules and the distribution of consequences abundantly clear.

It’s the latest and most visible example of a frustrating trend in campus culture, in which elite universities pander to a small minority of progressive students at the expense of the students who simply want to enjoy a normal college experience, which involves things like frat parties, university traditions, and joy, and have found their social lives increasingly restricted at every turn.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/normal-kids-get-fucked-columbia-cornell-protests-fraternities

So this is what happens when a windmill spins too fast

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"Everyone knows that the Moscow Patriarchate is in bed with the Kremlin. Few realize that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is deeply beholden to the United States government."

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-cias-man-in-constantinople/

An Inept Defense

Word magic doesn’t work for domestic abusers and it’s certainly not going to work for wartime belligerents: Switzerland’s neutrality remains unchanged, the country’s foreign ministry has insisted ahead of the peace conference on the Ukraine conflict next month. Russia has accused Bern of effectively siding with the West and Kiev in the current confrontation, making […]

https://voxday.net/2024/05/11/an-inept-defense/

Outlining the real drive to ensure that social media platforms are only permitted to produce the desired political outcomes.

"A cosponsor of the TikTok ban said in a closed-door meeting that congress moved to ban the app because “you’re seeing how these kids are being manipulated” to oppose Israel’s war effort."

Image from The Intercept:
https://archive.ph/YcYGz

And it just keeps getting deeper
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-occult-tesla-part-10

Cruise ships leaving port Miami on a regular Sunday.

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A "Brocken Spectre" is a natural optical phenomenon that occurs when a person stands above the upper surface of a cloud with the sun behind them

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