Lex and Fiona
Photo by Zhou Li Ning/EyeEm/Getty Images The participants of a popular podcast appear to fart out bricks during a conversation that lasts three hours and...
Shaping Ukraine's Strategic Objectives
Illustration by Nugzar Metreveli... I took a week off from scowling and screaming at Tiger Team’s AGI system that refuses to be born in order to luxuriate in...
Satan's Combat Misquitoes
Early morning ride in Kyiv (October 30, 2022) I took advantage of the end of daylight savings time this morning to check exactly how blacked out Kyiv is....
Day 246
Wandering around St. Petersburg with Kirill (1976) Putin’s four-hour appearance at the Valdai Discussion Club was a nauseating disgrace. He didn’t talk about...
Day 245
Memorize this slide One could conclude from the vigorous workout Ukraine experts are getting from Monday to Friday each week (lineage drops off during...
Day 243
If I may distract you from Pramila Jayapal, Elon Musk, George Beebe1 and The Manhattan Pops Orchestra. Last December we rolled out the You can’t spit out...
231 - 74 = 157
We’re 157 daze into Phase 3 and de-occupation is proceeding apace. Militarily, the Russian invaders are being rubbed out methodically. Politically, The New...
Day 230
How fast can you move? It’s 2.47 kilometers from the Metro Bridge to the Parkovy Bridge, or about 1.5 miles. You should be able to run from one bridge to the...
Day 227
It was early in the afternoon yesterday, when, slowly at first, Mykhailo began to complain. He moped about, walking slowly, but didn’t seem to have pain or...
Day 224
Illustration c/o @Naviali2022 National Bank of Ukraine head Kyrylo Shevchenko has resigned because of health-related issues, according to his Facebook page....
Day 219
Photo c/o Труха The eighth month of Putin’s nine-year war has been one of the bloodiest. Just this morning Russian soldiers shelled a humanitarian convoy...
Vicky & Ammo Inc.
David at Newsweek cites anonymous “Ukrainian sources” saying they suspect U.S. Congresswoman Victoria Spartz was lobbying for an American arms supplier at...
Day 212
c/o US Department of Defense I watched General Pat’s 38-minute briefing at the Pentagon, so you don’t have to. The first five minutes are about what the US...
Day 211
Illustration c/o Petro Shturyn Russia’s latest special operation in Ukraine, part of its decades-long war against the West and liberalism, in the broadest...
Day 204
Somewhere muddy in Kharkiv region. (Photo c/o Третя Сила c/o Kostiantyn Liberov/AP) Unable to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, Russia has declared war on...
Fake Flowers
Watermelon from Mykolaiv (September 13, 2022) I take lots of risks. Many I probably can’t justify, like riding a bicycle in Kyiv, where the benefit of...
2023 Military Campaign Propects
РСЗВ М142 HIMARS and ATACMS rockets. Photo c/o Mariusz Burcz (This article appeared on September 7 on Ukraine’s state-run news agency Ukrinform) How long the...
Day 201
Ralph Hemlich’s sculpture at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Cambridge, MA In early 2014 a bunch of things happened at once: the end of a...
Sovereign State (The Operator)
The coup de grace of Franklin’s lunatic hagiography, titled “The Man Who Chased History,” appearing in the October issue of The Atlantic is that he makes Z’s...
Alright.
Kyiv at dawn (September 7, 2022) Back to square one, then. It’s been almost a week since I’ve thought about writing again. No time like the present, as they...