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@haschille @AndrewPerpetua They're running Brusilov Offensive 2.0, though without the spectacular land gains.

@AndrewPerpetua Love these numbers! 💪 Russia seem to lose more lately. Any explanation? Is it because they are pushing extra now?

Here are losses I could identify for yesterday.

@LewSOS @GraemeEdgeler Apologies for the threadomancy 🙂

@tanethegreen @GraemeEdgeler (This argument is now 11 years old)

@LewSOS there was no (Lt.) Colonel Malone at Parihaka. One did die leading the Wellington Battalion at Gallipoli, however.

@farmgeek It's by design of course. Why else have an election on a working day?

For a nation supposedly so in love with democracy, how are they so bad at the logistics of voting?

@TheSpinoffTV Something something manufactured crisis something.

Decades of legal clarity don’t seem to be enough for David Seymour and Shane Jones. thespinoff.co.nz/atea/01-11-202…

@drkiwikate @nzherald You can't be this incompetent at your own profession @nzherald, but it seems you can be this spiteful and bitchy. I bet you giggled like drunk teenagers at your own cleverness.

@iamnot_elon No

@chaser @AJemaineClement I think you're confusing bloodsoakers with bloodsuckers...?

Taxpayer funded tampons finally arrive in Australia chaser.com.au/national/taxpa…

@MusicalChairs14 Though I suspect that's the icing on a 'employers fire thousands and stop spending and high interest rates' cake.

@MusicalChairs14 I wonder how much the recent figures are affected by retailers introducing credit card surcharges? In the last year or so I've started EFT POSing nearly everything, why add 2% just to save 10 seconds?

Don't even have to adjust the figures for inflation any more - it's that grim. What happens when consumers run out of money in a consumer economy?

@BergvikJohnny @front_ukrainian Who says it's a Ukrainian mine? Once armed, Mr Mine is nobody's friend.

@front_ukrainian The 1997 Mine Ban Treaty prohibits antipersonnel mines. You're bragging about Ukraine committing a war crime. That says a lot.

⚡️🇷🇺Russian soldiers blow themselves up on mines

@front_ukrainian Leave Gaza to go where?

⚡️🇮🇱Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and said: "Whoever lays down his arms and returns our hostages, we will allow him to leave Gaza and live"

@LenaAllosh @KensingtonRoyal @jacindaardern So many haters, their impotent tears are a joy to behold 😎

@KensingtonRoyal @jacindaardern Beautiful

A friend, an extraordinary advocate for the environment and now a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the State. @jacindaardern, it was a privilege to present you with this deserved award at Windsor today!

@JohnEaton2002 @XthejoshX @mangonui08 Shane doesn't...

@Tiare_MP @Becs A manufactured crisis, amplified by the media.

Make no mistake the government is inventing reasons to replace Wellington City Council with commissioners. The vast majority of this city is left wing and they don’t like it.

This is Nazi shit, folks. As he gets more desperate, it will get worse and worse. No economic anxiety, no racial trip up, no dog whistle. Straight up racism. Call it out. Recognize it.

@norvid_studies @CJHandmer @pquiggles I'm not an expert, so happy to be corrected, but given the historical stigma around suicide, how many families claimed these as 'accidents', if only so their loved ones could recieve a proper burial?

@CJHandmer @pquiggles this sounds funny as an answer but doesn't actually make sense-- depression/suicide rates vs the past given life on easy mode is a genuine puzzle

People generally have no idea how much the past sucked. It's fun to study history but anyone who genuinely romanticizes the past I struggle to take seriously. Even the recent past was miserable by comparison with today, but the pre-industrial era was a total horror show on every axis continually. Reply here with your hypothetical pre-modern name, location, and year of birth and I'll give a quick summary of how your life went. I'll start with a historical character, my 5th great grandfather John Jones, born ~1812 in northern Wales. Illiterate. Orphaned. Laborer. Married at age 33 (already ahead of 75% of other men in that era), 12 children, all but 2 died in childhood, moved (voluntarily) to Australia in 1849, financially ruined at least twice, alcoholic, wife died suddenly aged ~45, unable to care for surviving children, who variously ran away, ended up in some hellish convict era Australian orphanage, drowned, etc. Disappeared in custody c. 1860.

@Athens_Stranger Why should colonised or enslaved people's speak the coloniser's language properly? Let the Irish or Jamaicans or Māori or Cajuns speak English how they want. Even the English can't agree on the proper way to speak English, and to hell with RP.

I was once teaching a course to undergrads and a few were anthropology majors. They brought up the concept of “pigeon” languages, and without blinking I laughed and said “Ah yes, the currently fashionable way academia is justifying lowering standards for certain minority groups”

@soumya_ranjan13 @MasalaBai No. You don't own another person's body.

@MasalaBai If you are agreeing to marry, you are also agreeing to sex whenever the other party wants.

The year is 2024. India is debating "should non-consensual sex by a husband with his wife be called rape?"