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Who's next in line of succession? Is it still the blonde kid that looked like Joffrey Baratheon?
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Luka grumbled in ‘21 he wants to change the law so that on his death, presidential power would go to the National Council where Jeoffrey has been installed. In reality, Jeoffrey won’t be long for this world if Batka passes and the FSB kicks off a coup.
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May 15, 2023 10:36
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Any Bosnian goons around? We're on vacation in the Una river valley and I'd like to know how worried we should be about the flooding, on a scale of 0 to 'Leave Now.'
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May 15, 2023 23:47
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Hannibal Rex posted:Any Bosnian goons around? We're on vacation in the Una river valley and I'd like to know how worried we should be about the flooding, on a scale of 0 to 'Leave Now.' Not a Bosnian goon, but your post just gave me some PTSD about some horrible flooding back in 2014 or something and it's probably for the best to do is to Leave Now just in case.
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May 16, 2023 18:58
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Thanks. I'm quite a bit better oriented right now than I was last night, when we came back home late and saw how much the water had risen over the day. Our host has been in touch and has pointed me to a site that monitors the water levels. The situation is stabilizing where I'm at, but people downriver are going to have a rough night. https://www.voda.ba/vodostaji https://n1info.ba/english/news/bosanska-krupa-declares-a-state-of-emergency-doe-to-floods/ Hannibal Rex fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 16, 2023 |
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May 16, 2023 19:17
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well, that was unexpected https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1660590923808374784 idk why Lukashenka bothered. it certainly doesn't seem like releasing one high-profile prisoner would endear him to western neighbors after the original airplane piracy stunt, much less the subsequent "sure Russian troops can stage an invasion from our territory" bit
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May 22, 2023 11:26
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:well, that was unexpected He probably wants to use him for something. Everyone's already caught up with the fact that Yury Voskresensky, another 'reformed' political prisoner, is not a real politician and doesn't speak for anyone but Lukashenko, so Pratasevich could be intended as a new and more high profile face for lobbying international organisations and foreign countries to lift sanctions.
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May 22, 2023 12:25
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the guy probably snitched on some old friends and agreed to be very fawning about old batka if you can turn an inconvenience into an asset, why not do it? even if the asset is not especially valuable, it makes sense.
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May 24, 2023 23:22
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edit: just a gossip for now, will wait for news stories
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May 29, 2023 14:10
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Latvian parliament has chosen the country's first openly homosexual president, Edgars Rinkevics. He will enter office in July. He was the foreign minister before and comes from a centre-right party. The Latvian president plays more than just a ceremonial role, but does not hold kind of executive powers that eg Biden or Macron have. Also and perhaps more importantly Latvia won USA in the ice hockey world championship bronze match 
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May 31, 2023 19:42
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Nenonen posted:Latvian parliament has chosen the country's first openly homosexual president, Edgars Rinkevics. He will enter office in July. He was the foreign minister before and comes from a centre-right party. The Latvian president plays more than just a ceremonial role, but does not hold kind of executive powers that eg Biden or Macron have. Incidentally, this may or may not lead to a collapse of the uneasy ruling coalition and a reshuffle. We'll see. In short, Rinkēvič's party (JV) may have made a deal with two opposition parties to elect R over the the millionaire businessman who may or may not have been in the GRU in the 1980s and was backed by the other two coalition partners, including the nationalists somehow. True to form, we also made the Monday following the ice hockey game into a spontaneous public holiday. Which, was, apparently and unsurprisingly, quite a disruptive thing to happen.
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May 31, 2023 20:38
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When Finland won its first championship gold in 1995 in the middle of a recession, it came to be to be considered a generational uplifting event. Nokia's success came shortly afterwards. 95 never forget  Hopefully you guys will also have some moral boost from this! Being the best in the world at poking a rubber thing on ice right after Canada and Germany is no little merit.
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May 31, 2023 20:49
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Oh, we won gold this year? Cool.
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Jun 2, 2023 18:46
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Latvia deserved it. As did Canada with the gold. Germany was good but underdog story goes only so far. Unlike the Finnish team, the only reason they got to die in the playoffs was because there were enough "also participants". Absolutely an egg of a team from out national hero.
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Jun 2, 2023 22:01
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What was this now? Only sport I know is pierogi all you can eat championship
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Jun 2, 2023 22:21
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Mokotow posted:What was this now? Only sport I know is pierogi all you can eat championship Ice Hockey is a thing in Eastern Europe, be all that "I do not follow plebeian stuff" if that floats your boat.
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Jun 2, 2023 22:24
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They play it in the summer? I mean I know there are ice rinks but having a championship not in the middle of winter seems like a lost opportunity.
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Mokotow posted:They play it in the summer? I mean I know there are ice rinks but having a championship not in the middle of winter seems like a lost opportunity. May is a spring month. In the spring most of the leagues are over so it's a good time for it. NHL is still going though so some of the best paid players are still busy, but not too many.
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Jun 2, 2023 22:43
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Summer starts on the first day the daytime temperature goes above 15C and ends when it dips below 5. I will die on this hill.
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Jun 2, 2023 22:52
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Summer starts when the males migrate to the yards to grill their garbage Billigfleisch and pour beer over it to douse flames. It typically starts at 10°C with sunshine for more than 3 hours a day.
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Jun 3, 2023 09:04
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Mokotow posted:Summer starts on the first day the daytime temperature goes above 15C and ends when it dips below 5. I will die on this hill. June started with -7°C in Finland. Summer has ended.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/04/poland-hundreds-of-thousands-march-against-rightwing-populist-government View outside my window this morning. We’ve has what appears to be record-breaking rally in Warsaw with half a million people attending. This was called by the main opposition party, but most other opposition parties joined too. At the end of the day, there’s no agreement in the opposition to run together, though an unstable coalition of center-right parties seems possible. Our token left that spends most days embarrassing itself is nowhere to be found. It looks more than likely that PiS will lose power in the autumn elections. Still, the opposition lacks a strong or popular program, opposed to PiS’s Leninist “one party to destroy them all” philosophy. It’s heartening to have seen so many people, even if most of them were older than what you’d expect in rallies like this - after all, some polls are giving us much as 9% to a nationalist/liberal/fash party coalition, mostly young people. While no one really wants to deal with them, PiS has shown it’s willing to put them on their payroll in exchange for votes. Inside PiS, the biggest break seems to be between the main party and Solidarna Polska, a minor partner ran by Zbigniew Ziobro, a noted Piece of poo poo. Not only an ultra conservative, Ziobro is a catholic authoritarian and his party is behind all the lovely things you can imagine: abortion hardline, anti-lgbt+ laws, politicization of courts and using the prosecutor’s office as his own internal police. Luckily, his party enjoys token support, though it’s not unlikely should push come to shove and the quibbles with Kaczynski evolve into open war, Ziobro will take a few percent of the hardline vote from PiS and continue to be a force by working with the fash parties. I’m a left voter, but the Polish left is in a decades long downward spiral, due to most of its 90’s electorate drifting to PiS, horseshoe-theory style. What’s left are two wings - the olds that manage to cling to all the actual party assets inherited post ‘89 and clinging to them, waiting for the sweet, sweet release of death, and a bunch of urban youth, discovering with glee that running a political party is a lucrative job and you can sort or skirt along for years without having to do that much legwork.
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Jun 4, 2023 20:00
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Nice. ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! I've gotta ask - is it out of your window or from your glazed balcony? Because I don't understand the function of the anti-petcide or anti-bird web if it's a window that is supposed to be kept shut.
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This is from my (inset) window and not the balcony. The net is for cat-proofing - we have two cats and want to be sure they don’t fall when we open windows, which open to the inside of the house. Since we’re on the last floor, the flat gets extra hot in the summer. Also, there is a second room and a parapet you see in the picture running along most of the flat so the cats have some extra space to walk around and look down the street. There are some plants in this room on the inside parapet so I couldn’t open the window, hence the lovely glassy blur, and the view from the other room wasn’t as good.
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Jun 4, 2023 20:26
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Okay, that makes sense. Also I think there is a lot more demand for anti-defenestration nets these days.
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I sure feel safer annoying my wife 
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Mokotow posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/04/poland-hundreds-of-thousands-march-against-rightwing-populist-government The biggest problem right now is almost 13% support for Konfederacja, pro-Russian, anti-EU ultralibertarian far right party. Konfederacja+opposition coalition will be bad, but Konfederacja+PIS coalition will be loving disaster
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Jun 7, 2023 23:57
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The Russian Duma will most likely pass a law that bans all gender-affirming care and prohibits legally changing person's sex on official documents. The only exception might be for intersex people, and even then one would need to get a special permission from doctors in Moscow. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/14/russian-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-gender-reassignment-a81507
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Polish bus route drops ‘devil’s number’ after Christian protestsquote:There will be no more going to Hel on bus 666. The new number - 669
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Like much of the creeping global warm with extensive not-desert wild areas, Kazakhstan is on fire: https://twitter.com/masamediakz/status/1668862577923719174 https://twitter.com/Ordakazakhstan_/status/1669247733125857282 Complaints abound for the emergency services agencies lacking proper equipment and training due to being a corruption vector. Meta-commentary from a personal level is that local Kazakh news now broadcast major stories in English around or before someone collects and translates them for Eurasianet, which is a neat trend. Granted, my Twitter network has expanded to encompass more authors at those publications, but that's not something i would have much expected a year or two ago.
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Dwesa posted:Polish bus route drops ‘devil’s number’ after Christian protests We used to have flight 666 straight to HEL (from Copenhagen) but some sourpuss at Finnair cancelled that route.
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Hey sweet, Estonia actually legalized marriage equality, starting from January 1. 2024  https://twitter.com/kajakallas/status/1671075778593792002 Glad to see that this coalition actually did it! There was a lot of "the best ever chance to do it" talk, but also "we can't do it because the economy / war in Ukraine / whatever the gently caress" type of excuses, so I wasn't totally confident... so hey, yay!
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Latviaposting has been a lot more quiet lately, but this image from a survey jumped out at me on Twitter today:  The screenshot was, of course, clikcbaity, but the article is a good read if you're interested in that sort of thing. https://spektr.press/poverty-trap-o...-in-particular/
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 Estonia will also become the first post-Soviet nation to legalize equal marriage. For comparison, Slovenia was the first post-communist country to do it in 2022. Interestingly, Cuba also legalized it the same year, becoming the first one party state with marriage equality. It's good to see some progress starting to be made, hopefully more will follow so we can become one big gay family!  I guess we still need a non-Soviet former Warsaw Pact member to complete this. Czechs, I'm looking at you. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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Congratulations Estonia! In Lolish news (typo, not correcting tho), Kaczynski is back in the cabinet as a deputy prime minister, kicking off the other deputy prime ministers we’ve had (they’re all from his party). He’ll be the de facto prime minister, and his come back after a health-related absence is seen as a sign of rampant in fighting in the government between the economic-minded prime minister Morawiecki and Putin-inspired minister of justice Ziobro, the minority coalition partner leader.
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Nenonen posted:I guess we still need a non-Soviet former Warsaw Pact member to complete this. Czechs, I'm looking at you. Given our current parliament, the best you are gonna get is a series of failed votes, brought on by the opposition that doesn't actually want it to pass, but expects it to bring in bunch of strife and obstructions in the parliament 
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RUMID: basically a TV comedy plot https://twitter.com/9NewsQueensland/status/1672107216013500417
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Someone should photoshop the guy slav squatting in some Adidas gear, it also leaves out the problem that Russia was supposed to have moved to the new site 10+ years ago.
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