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That level of destruction is insane. The trees mostly vanished.

I imagine this is how it'll look when we watch the planet die.

“ “We’ll conquer everyone, we’ll kill everyone, we’ll loot whoever we need to, and everything will be just as we like it,” Tatarsky said in a video message….”

Ha, chew on this you cunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/russian-pro-war-military-blogger-killed-blast-st-petersburg-vladlen-tatarsky

Sad for the poor victim bystanders but yeah, die by the sword fucker

^ FWIW I understand it was an event organised by a Kremlin funded troll group held at a venue formerly owned by Prigozhin, with Tatarsky/Fomin as headline speaker.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbjny/russia-cyber-front-z-telegram
https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-in-the-news/pro-kremlin-cyber-front-z-army-movement-found-to-be-just-another-classic-troll-farm/

Well deserved serving up then

Tatarsky, microphone in hand, being presented with a statue of a helmeted soldier.

Did the sculpture explode? That would be awesome, death by artwork.

It was a sculpture of him

Statue of a helmet.

I always thought a troll army would look like this

The Russian one would disapprove of their fabulousness.

The French fight back against the tyranny of the tech-bros

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/parisians-vote-on-banning-e-scooters-from-french-capital

90% of votes cast supporting a ban

My heart strings they were not pulled

@kl
Your old 'pal' Tony Danker seems to have been leading a buccanneering CBI

We drove across the path of the tornado that destroyed Rolling Fork a few days after it went through. We were driving the interstate and it looked like massive bulldozers had just driven across the fields and across the road. Trees were just laying flat in the field and some of those that lined the road were snapped about 15 feet up the trunk, there was no sign of the canopy.
The destruction was no more than around 200 metres wide each side the trees and fields looked untouched.

Yeah, I can tell you where he learned the attitudes of exceptionalism and impunity.

Disney really trolling Ron deSantis in Florida to stop him taking control of their special tax district as punishment for their support (corporate, not sure how sincere) for LBGTQ rights.

"Declaration shall continue in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England, living as of the date of this declaration,"

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/30/disney-ron-desantis-royal-lives-clause.html

And let's hope he is having a penitential Easter.

Someone who appears to be the same age as Nichola Sturgeon's husband has been arrested in the SNP funding investigation
https://twitter.com/PoliceScotland/status/1643530095083003904

Confirmed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65187823

Updated!

So that's why she resigned so unexpectedly presumably?

Shirley just a coincidence, couldn't possibly have anything to do with it, nooo...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/03/swim-england-announces-transgender-policy-with-open-and-female-categories

Scottish police put an incident tent in the front garden like they're digging up a body