So, meaning is a pyramid scheme

My first thought on seeing the photo: “Christ, Billy Idol’s looking rough these days”

They were a Stalinist dictatorship throughout the Cold War and built tens of thousands of bunkers around their landscape, spending a large part of their economy on preparing for the inevitable invasion by the capitalist imperialists and/or ideologically degenerate socialists. Then, afterwards, they gave the world Dua Lipa and a few other successful pop artists.

This must be the resistance to tyranny the NRA go on about

The dissenters can be recognised by their fedoras, goatees and fondness for the phrase “well, actually it’s ephebophilia”

Do they use electric pumps as Britain does?

I think that’s meant to be an English-German pun

Being able to set up personally hosted RSS feeds would be useful. If the feeds are fetched periodically, that could also allow archiving of accounts.

Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.

Though excellent work!

“Ronnie” has a nice midcentury vintage feel, if that’s of any value to you one way or the other.

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I hope that Ukraine isn’t too dependent on France, as it’s likely to have a Moscow-aligned fascist government after the next elections.

If it was a bear selling that lamp, none of this would have been necessary.

Good point, but look at the catapults it’ll have for launching fighters. Proper traditional steam catapults with analogue warmth, none of that modern digital rubbish.

Cory Doctorow once gave the hypothetical example of a phone company doing a deal with Domino’s so that every time you called a rival pizzeria, you got “press 1 to be connected to Domino’s or wait 30 seconds to be put through to the number you dialled”

He printed and distributed the Tsarist-era antisemitic forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the US, as well as a book of his own writing titled The International Jew.

Given that the Republicans just voted to allow Trump to unilaterally wage war in Venezuela, I have my doubts.

In early-20th-century America, they called these interurbans. You could get (slowly) from New York to the Midwest using only a chain of them.

Godwin’s Law was an artefact of a time when we knew that Nazis were as extinct as Vikings and Mongol hordesmen, and comparing someone to one was dramatic hyperbole. It, of course, no longer applies.

Ariana was a brand name used by a Chinese manufacturer of cheap luggage of the sort you’d find in neighbourhoods with working-class immigrant populations. I once had a backpack of theirs which was the maximum airline carry-on size, which is to say, muy grande.