#Musk denied #Starlink service to #Ukraine

If people had voted there wouldn't be an orange rapist pedophile... wait this isn't a "vote, idiots" comment

Anyway, the thing with Ukraine is: it's tough as fuck. Also, it has plenty of friends in #Europe

So Ukraine will just build it's own goddamn #satellite network

With some friends in #Finland

And no #Nokia jokes: Nokia is a serious network infrastructure player in 2026. It can do satellites

https://www.nokia.com/newsroom/iceye-and-nokia-partner-with-the-ministry-of-defence-of-ukraine-to-develop-sovereign-satcom-capability/

💪😤🇺🇦🇫🇮

#UkraineWar

Well this is fucking cool

You're looking at a wounded Ukrainian defender being exfiltrated by a wonking huge #drone

Regular exfiltration was not possible: Russian drone activity and landmines

It's a heavy lift #hexacopter, and the rescue was a success. The defender is now receiving treatment

#Ukraine’s 92nd Separate Assault Brigade first secured the soldier's permission: the previously #scifi #tech was risky (flipping, rolling, twirling, etc)

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-hexacopter-rcna604310

#UkraineWar

Abdul #ElSayed

Watch this clip and how he deftly dismantles #bigotry

He makes the parallel between the heckler questioning his loyalties because he is Muslim, with #JFK dealing with the same #religiousBigotry about JFK being Catholic

El-Sayed could go far. He's good at this

#NoKings

#Hampden #Baltimore #Maryland

#NoKings

#Hampden #Baltimore #Maryland

I have a million more pictures but no time to post now, give me a few hours

They're still setting up

#NoKings

#Hampden #Baltimore #Maryland 10 minutes ago

#Vote!

"Who is the best leader in the world?"

" #Zelensky"

"Why?"

"Competency, rising to the occasion under difficult pressure, and charisma"

"Can you give me an example"

And there is the #Starlink situation. Starlink cut off Ukraine, impacting their #drone operations. The #US govt said #Musk did it, Musk said the US govt did it. The blame game is a diversion, these plutocrat assholes work together

(Apparently Starlink is restored now)

"White House Denies Restricting Starlink in Ukraine"

https://united24media.com/world/trump-white-house-denies-restricting-starlink-in-ukraine-says-spacex-is-beyond-its-control-23459

"Musk Says US Government Controls Ukraine’s #Starshield Limits"

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87085

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#UkraineWar #Trump #Ukraine #USA

The drama is that Trump is being hammered by #diesel prices due to his stupid war with #Iran. So he setup a deal with #Putin for some diesel. #Meloni is right wing but on the outs with #Trump: "outcome of this move is questionable, while the risks are clear: legitimizing #Moscow while its bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, generating new revenue to finance the #war, and implicitly weakening the leverage of #sanctions"

https://kyivindependent.com/trumps-diesel-deal-legitimizes-moscow-while-it-bombs-ukraine-italys-meloni-says/

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#UkraineWar #Trump #Ukraine #USA

Piers Morgan sucks but this is an important clip with #Zelensky

"We are losing a strong partner"

Of course we have all known this for some time now

But the diplomatic way is to keep the drama under wraps and keep a facade of the cheerful smile. In the hopes that private dialogue might reverse things

Therefore, when this is said openly, a public break, that means the calculus has shifted that this is an irredeemable situation

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#UkraineWar #Trump #Ukraine #USA

Naomi Whitehead at age 16 in 1926 (some sources say 20 in 1930)

2nd picture: taken last month at her birthday party. She's 116 years old. Oldest living American, second oldest person in the world

She was widowed in 1979 after nearly 50 years of marriage. That was nearly 50 years ago

She was born in 1910, married her husband Sylvester in 1930, and they had three sons

She took assisted living 15 years ago at age 101, after her last living son Parrish died at age 78

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Whitehead

#Zelensky: "When our strikes reached #Yandex’s #datacenters, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many #socialMedia platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer #bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were"

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339

#Russia #UkraineWar

@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl

next, the poster responds i should be more careful. i say no, this is informal social media not a doctoral dissertation. etc, etc. we go back and forth in the usual pathetic social media slapfight and i get the block. fine. one less pedant to deal with (see below, if you're interested, but you shouldn't be unless you like popcorn)

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@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl

fun times ahead! welcome to our world of fakes, purists, and the devils in the details. a mildly entertaining/ annoying read:

so someone shows me a screenshot of an openai tester page showing the following image is AI (from my original post)

well not good enough, i want to verify

i go to openai myself, upload, and yes: this is AI

so i remove the image and thank the poster sincerely. i don't want to post AI

1/3

Have you ever apologized in your life?

No you have not

Not like #YujiNishida after he hit a line judge by accident with a bad serve

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/02/yuji-nishida-japan-volleyball-sliding-apology

#volleyball #japan #apology

With the days shortening and cooling in the northern hemisphere the #wildlife is busy preparing for the coming lean months of scarce food

But these two #deer seem to have made some sort of evolutionary leap in cognitive planning skills

Or they are evolving into snails

I'm not sure

EDIT: it's AI. thanks @katzentratschen @dictor

image removed

EDITEDIT: it's not AI. thanks
@geoffl

unfiltered version of the image restored

see my "exciting" rant about what happened here below if you want

In #Frisco #Texas their #PublicLibrary has a #TRex skeleton named "Rexy"

In the children's book section

Rexy has been dressed up for #Halloween 🤩🎃

#Library #Libraries #Dinosaur #Dinosaurs

This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling

You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion

You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly

EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below

EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli