PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au

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5mo ago

Northwestern University agrees to pay US government $75m to restore research funding

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/nov/29/northwestern-university-agreement-us-government

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5mo ago

2 National Guard members shot in an ambush attack just blocks from the White House
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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago
Some, although surely not all, of all the noisy violence that go with things like "Operation Midway Blitz" is to try to instigate things like this to happen.

5mo ago

Russia’s new state dictionary calls authoritarianism the ‘most effective’ form of government and bans the word ‘ass’

"If you can't say 'ass,' you can't say 'Putin's face looks like an ass that's gone lumpy from neglect.'" -not quite Lenny Bruce

5mo ago

I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

But the sister also performed that experiment in the worst possible way, why did she microwave the actual tea bag?!

To make the point that it didn't matter, because to her it did not. However she was as you noted hoist by her own petard in the end.

5mo ago

I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

Ha. Everyone involved was American, my aunt's just cultured above the level of most of us plebs.

5mo ago

I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

George Washington will come for you, if you don't.

5mo ago

I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

My sister once tried to tell my aunt that there was 0 difference between tea which had been heated up in a microwave with the tea bag already in it versus tea that had been made to my aunt's specifications (boil the water, not in the microwave, and then put the tea in it and let it steep).

They had a vigorous disagreement about it, which ended with my sister making up two mugs of tea as a blind taste test and then presenting them to my aunt. My aunt instantly told her which one was the microwave tea and which was the proper tea. My sister admitted to the correction and from then on made the tea according to specifications.

5mo ago

Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

Boy, you must be super pissed at Russia and critical of a lot of their people then. If support for arguably-neo-Nazi figures is the metric. I mean, lots of them speak highly of Stalin, they have statues of him for fuck's sake, and he made a deal with actual Hitler and fought alongside him to invade Poland. He wasn't just a cosplayer.

According to Vyacheslav Likhachev of the Institut français des relations internationales, members of far-right (including neo-Nazi) groups played an important role on the pro-Russian side, arguably more so than on the Ukrainian side, especially during early 2014.[240][241] Members and former members of the National Bolshevik Party, Russian National Unity (RNU), Eurasian Youth Union, and Cossack groups participated in recruitment of the separatists.[240][242][243][244] A former RNU member, Pavel Gubarev, was founder of the Donbas People's Militia and first "governor" of the Donetsk People's Republic.[240][245] RNU is particularly linked to the Russian Orthodox Army,[240] one of a number of separatist units described as "pro-Tsarist" and "extremist" Orthodox nationalists.[246][240] 'Rusich' is part of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary group in Ukraine which has been linked to far-right extremism.[247][248] Afterward, the pro-Russian far-right groups became less important in Donbas and the need for Russian radical nationalists started to disappear.[240]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism#Ukraine

Or is that side of it not a big deal?

Only the side where it makes Ukrainians look bad in some way? For some reason?

BTW, I just gave $50 more to Ukraine via https://u24.gov.ua/ on the big "Donate Now" link in the top right. Hopefully they can buy some weapons with it, and keep playing Bandera songs if that's what they want to do while they are blowing up Soviet-era equipment that's trying to kill their people.

5mo ago

Wasp

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

Holy SMOKES that is a beautiful drawing.

5mo ago

Transferred and isolated: China imposes more prison restrictions for Covid-era journalist Zhang Zhan

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

They're currently in !world@lemmy.world yelling about how it's fake news. That's how they're explaining it.

Turns out Xi Jinping is a dictator of the proletariat, which is a necessary precursor to real communism, which will arrive any day now! So everything is fine.

5mo ago

Just...wow, if this was a post criticizing Russia and supporting Ukraine instead, it would have been removed and the user banned by now

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

In fairness, it has negative thirty votes, and the top comments are all people shitting on the OP.

On the other hand, there's this which can fuck all the way off. I also like Yogthos's assumption that people in Ukraine don't realize that the West doesn't care about them dying all that much, like it's escaped their notice so far, and they'll be big mad once they finally figure it out for the first time, because just like him they're just kind of bebopping around saying stuff, not really thinking about or aware of these issues.

Read writing from people in Ukraine. They're well aware.

5mo ago

Just...wow, if this was a post criticizing Russia and supporting Ukraine instead, it would have been removed and the user banned by now

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

However this does not give Putin, or any other neighbouring country, the right to invade and all willy-nilly demand territories from Ukraine.

Almost as if it is possible for two bad things to be happening at once at the same time, without it meaning that one of them is actually a good thing now.

I'm reminded of the run-up to the 2nd Iraq War, near enough to the dawn of the mainstream internet that there was one Iraqi blogger who was well-known in the West. He was kind of a minor celebrity and people read him attentively to figure out what the reality was like for people in Iraq, up to and including the beginning of the war. One thing that he said that always stuck with me was, more or less: Yes, things are bad here. Some of the things the US is saying are true. But it is INSANE to think that anyone here wants the US to invade to "save" us from any of it, or that there's any chance that it will make anything any better. It will make things ten times worse. It's insane to me that people who are supposed to be qualified at world events are saying that the US is trying to "help," or that anyone wants this or will "welcome as liberators" the people coming to bomb our cities and make our government even worse.

5mo ago

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

Me too, weird vegan, me too.

5mo ago

How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

Act 2: Hey what the fuck, you guys were supposed to keep growing us food, what gives? We're all in this together you know

5mo ago

UC San Diego Sees Students’ Math Skills Plummet

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." -Carl Sagan

5mo ago

Good point

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

Alicia Machado, who gained fame in 1996 for being crowned Miss Universe at the age of 19, had claimed that Trump called her ‘Miss Piggy’. The Venezuelan-born model claimed that these remarks came as she'd put on some weight after her win, BBC reported.
Machado also claimed that Trump had threatened to take her crown after she gained weight. “He was overwhelming. I was very scared of him. He'd yell at me all the time. He'd tell me: 'You look ugly' or ‘You look fat’. Sometimes he'd 'play' with me and say: 'Hello, Miss Piggy', ‘Hello, Miss Housekeeping’,” she said, as per BBC.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-is-miss-piggy-donald-trumps-old-remark-surfaces-after-quiet-piggy-barb-at-bloomberg-reporter-catherine-lucy-101763574359272.html

5mo ago

My stomach hurts for days and then got hit in my belly and I just cannot take it anymore

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

Go to a different doctor. Maybe bring a couple of those articles about someone who had some major medical issue who was initially dismissed by doctors because the pain "wasn't that serious" or some other nonsense reason. This sounds serious.

5mo ago

Spill

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 5mo ago

IDK if the BBC still does this, but back when I watched, they had a habit of just cutting to some B-roll footage of whatever situation, and just shutting up for a while to let it play out and let the audience breathe a little bit, as a segueway and palate cleanser before whatever the next segment was. Absolute perfection. I cannot imagine the American news doing that (and indeed they do not) without someone losing their job.