Kevin Rothrock

hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01

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2026-07-13 23:55:50 UTC

look, i know the news is grim, what with rumors that Trump is going to declare Georgia's senators "invalid," but i bet you that lots of quiet families lived wonderful, fulfilling lives under Emperor Palpatine

2026-07-13 06:43:46 UTC

Rest in peace, Sam Neill. Your astonished reaction as Dr. Grant, seeing a living Brachiosaurus for the first time, will always be one of my most cherished Silver Screen memories from childhood.

2026-07-09 14:44:32 UTC

Reuters's Putin-whisperer sources say the Russian president is likely to escalate the Ukraine war in the coming months. Options include another round of mobilization, new operations in Ukraine and beyond, more attacks on Ukrainian industry, etc. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-likely-escalate-ukraine-war-despite-trump-peace-push-sources-say-2026-07-09/

2026-07-08 16:18:35 UTC

Folks are cheering Zelensky's zinger about how drone attacks on Moscow have made it too dangerous to visit for talks with Putin. But — now hear me out — it's perhaps not so great to joke about flying bombs that kill people. The same goes for using the euphemism "long-range sanctions." (IMO!)

2026-07-07 16:02:10 UTC

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called on the public to unite over fuel shortages, framing the crisis as another attack by "the collective West." Anyone who "wavers" amid the gasoline shortage, he said, "has already switched to the other side." "Panic is the worst thing." Okay then. https://t.me/varlamov_news/72422

2026-07-06 17:34:36 UTC

turtles all the way down, i'm afraid
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2026-06-30 05:03:54 UTC

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@nprofile…e6sg How so?

2026-06-30 04:29:24 UTC

Moscow says NATO & Ukraine are jointly building weapons meant to disable Russian airfields deep inside the country. MID spox Zakharova called it a major escalation risk, saying it gives Moscow grounds to pay "heightened attention" to any factory developing or producing weapons used against Russia. https://www.rbc.ru/politics/29/06/2026/6a42bb809a794737b1006142

2026-06-25 18:41:19 UTC

Deepstate maps show that Russian occupied territory in Ukraine expanded by another 21 sq km (a little more than 8 sq miles) in the past week. Hardly a breakneck advance, but worth noting in the Western media's current peremoga phase.
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2026-06-18 17:18:10 UTC

im just going to keep deleting social media accounts without adding real-world human connections and see where that takes me

2026-06-18 15:58:13 UTC

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The "flying saucer" video footage is also incredible.
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2026-06-18 15:53:43 UTC

This photo showing how a Ukrainian drone blew the lid off a fuel storage tank in Moscow — the perfect smoke arrangement, even the wispy white trail — looks 100% like a Martian attack. Russia's "Little Green Men" have come home to roost.
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2026-06-15 13:30:12 UTC

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Always a bit weird to see this as an American: people getting sanctioned for saying things. Admittedly, the US does much the same through OFAC, but it's always couched in illegal economic activity or covert agent work. Taking legal action against someone purely for the words they use is ... odd.

2026-06-15 13:25:59 UTC

The EU has sanctioned Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov (often described as Putin's personal confessor) for speech including propaganda justifying Russia's invasion. The new sanctions also target RT figures, Z-bloggers, a Rostec exec, & Lukoil & Gazpromneft subsidiaries. Over 80 names in all. http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2642/oj

2026-06-13 03:00:42 UTC

aw, but I was just a few centrifuges shy of getting my casade up and running
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
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2026-06-11 13:05:55 UTC

Moscow's Russia Day concert — a Red Square fixture for 23 years — has been moved to a smaller indoor venue, with most of the announced lineup (which included Shaman *and* Larisa Dolina, oh my) dropping out. The unspoken reason is likely the threat of Ukrainian drones. https://t.me/moscowtimes_ru/46483

2026-06-10 19:27:01 UTC

Ukrainian arms maker Fire Point is moving forward with a "cheaper, mass-producible alternative" to Patriot missiles. (These bad boys are still $700k a pop, though Patriot PAC-3 rounds are a whopping $3.8m.) Terminal-phase heat seeking (not radar targeting) means they won't be as good, though. https://www.ft.com/content/c5839dd4-c4e9-4503-a605-67dcef053845

2026-06-08 05:13:37 UTC

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@nprofile…4ajg Not sure that winning a journalism award from a state at war is the crowning achievement its advocates would like it to be.

2026-06-08 04:57:06 UTC

Zelensky signed a decree awarding state honors to 37 Ukrainian and foreign journalists for their war coverage. Among those recognized: Bloomberg's Ukraine bureau chief, a CNN senior producer, and correspondents from Germany, Ireland, and France. https://x.com/APUkraine/status/2063162599861105049

2026-06-08 04:39:24 UTC

79% of hotel bookings in Crimea were cancelled 5/24–6/6 as a gasoline crisis drained tourist confidence, says Kommersant. "No one wants to get trapped because of fuel probs." The peninsula could lose 3–4M visitors in 2026, largely to Anapa, which in 2025 lost tourists to Crimea after an oil spill. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8726932

2026-06-03 03:58:50 UTC

aw, how sweet
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2026-06-02 04:43:44 UTC

No agreement is imminent, but the Trump admin is reportedly in talks to expand its NATO nuclear-sharing program to additional Euro allies, beyond the existing 6 host countries, reports FT. American nukes could come to Russia's border, if Poland & the Balts get their wish. https://www.ft.com/content/1a32ad0f-c8b3-4b91-a931-5dc053c6c214

2026-05-26 19:46:21 UTC

when i read about efforts in Europe to replace the U.S. military-industrial complex with homegrown suppliers
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2026-05-26 18:36:45 UTC

Excellent article by Olena Fetisova, who studied the Starobilsk college attack. She corroborates the victims' identity as students (their lives were well documented online), flags major problems with supposed evidence of a "drone unit" at the dorm (nothing even incidental in social media pics, likely fake viral images, dorm address confusion), notes Russian silence about fires at a nearby agro-industrial facility (suggests selective disclosure & unnamed legitimate military targets), and tackles the dehumanization of the victims: "The willingness to deny human dignity to residents of occupied territories is not patriotism." https://realgazeta.com.ua/studienti-buli-shcho-vidbuvaietsia-z-diskusiieiu-pro-udar-po-okupovanomu-starobilsku/

2026-05-26 17:45:11 UTC

Sergey Vlasov, a former deputy governor of Russia's Krasnodar region who was sentenced last December to 11 years for bribery, has gone missing (rumored to be KIA) in Ukraine's war zone. He enlisted with the army to get out of prison. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8690145

2026-05-22 00:11:05 UTC

was reminded at random today how great the Bioshock games are

2026-05-21 21:52:57 UTC

Novosibirsk's city government is investing in a summer camp program called "Generation Drone" that will teach kids ages 12–17 to pilot drones. The camp is being framed as "preparation for working in the local agricultural sector." 🤥 https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/49955

2026-05-19 16:31:14 UTC

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@nprofile…x4x9 It's possible, given that Ukraine has bombed numerous civilian residences throughout this war.

2026-05-19 05:38:49 UTC

Would love to know the full context for these remarks, if they indeed happened as described by "several people familiar with the U.S. assessment of last week’s summit in Beijing." Putin is flying to China as I write this, incidentally. https://www.ft.com/content/567c57b0-6346-43e6-9d14-840a793b4d1d?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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2026-05-19 05:30:56 UTC

On Tues, Ukrainian drones reached Russia's Yaroslavl region (roughly 155 miles northeast of Moscow), hitting an industrial facility and starting a fire, the governor reports. Ukrainian Telegram channels say an oil pumping station was targeted. Apparently, no one was injured. https://t.me/supernova_plus/52152

2026-05-19 04:45:23 UTC

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says developing countries that back Russia or Iran could see EU aid reduced, as the bloc considers making its €300B Global Gateway investment strategy more explicitly geopolitical ahead of negotiations over the next 7-year budget. https://www.euractiv.com/news/future-eu-aid-conditional-on-support-for-russia-or-iran-says-kallas/

2026-05-17 17:03:34 UTC

A man climbed onto the imperial throne at St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum and read a petition to Putin before drawing a knife on staff. The 46-year-old raved about corruption, debt, and financial ruin. He was detained and handed to police. https://www.fontanka.ru/2026/05/17/76425044/
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2026-05-15 23:19:48 UTC

This week, Deepstate reported that Ukrainian troops liberated Odradne, a village in the Kharkiv region, where Russian forces had been advancing toward Kupiansk. Overall, Sunday through Thursday, the map shows Russian forces across Ukraine gained roughly 5 km² (less than 2 sq miles).
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2026-05-13 04:37:12 UTC

Russian lawmaker urges devs to migrate projects off GitHub immediately, warning that the Microsoft-owned platform could soon become fully inaccessible in the country. Failed connections to the site are currently at 16% in Russia amid early regulatory intervention. https://t.me/borusio/92094

2026-05-11 17:52:30 UTC

Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Bureau is now moving against Andriy Yermak, Zelensky's former chief of staff, though it's unclear whether Yermak will be charged. This is reportedly connected to Mindich-gate (a large-scale bribery scandal in Ukraine's energy sector). https://t.me/stranaua/235377

2026-05-09 11:41:39 UTC

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Dva Majors claims that Latvia and Estonia are deliberately closing their eastern airspace to enable Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia. The channel cites published aviation notices (though NATO members routinely restrict border airspace). https://t.me/dva_majors/92666?single

2026-05-08 19:09:12 UTC

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@nprofile…klxq it's felonious to ask Ukraine not to bomb a parade?

2026-05-08 18:53:54 UTC

Zelensky has graciously signed a decree "permitting" Moscow to hold its Victory Day parade tomorrow, ordering Red Square's GPS coordinates removed from Ukraine's targeting for the day. The doc cites US requests as the reason that the square will be spared. https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/3742026-59389

2026-05-07 16:54:08 UTC

Bad news for the Caspian Flotilla: Ukraine says it struck a Kalibr cruise missile carrier at Russia's Kaspiysk naval base in Dagestan overnight. The extent of the damage is still unclear. https://t.me/ejdailyru/397974

2026-05-07 15:07:20 UTC

pretty wild that American farmers are suffering from a fertilizer shortage despite record levels of bullshit from the White House

2026-05-06 20:57:07 UTC

"listens to at least eight podcasts" is my favorite part here
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2026-05-05 23:56:11 UTC

Ukraine appears to be testing the patience of NATO member Finland, flying its St. Petersburg-bound drones through Finnish airspace. https://yle.fi/a/74-20224248

2026-05-04 22:25:53 UTC

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@nprofile…kkfs wow i had no idea i am so elite

2026-05-02 21:24:37 UTC

Another day, another even bolder reminder that the sun is setting on the American era. Beijing has banned 5 Chinese oil firms from complying with U.S. sanctions over alleged Iranian oil deals, slamming Washington's measures as an illegal extension of U.S. jurisdiction into Chinese soil. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8634288

2026-05-01 18:22:22 UTC

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Maybe the best one:
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2026-05-01 18:21:04 UTC

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@nprofile…j4f3 эй, начальник! ну, а к нам тра-ля-ля-ля-ля-ля

2026-05-01 18:16:20 UTC

A Madame Tussauds-style museum has opened in Moscow's Zaryadye Park, pairing historical figures (including artists persecuted by Soviet authorities) with a tableau venerating Russia's soldiers now fighting in Ukraine. The photos are, erm, interesting. https://www.zaryadyepark.ru/news/v-zaryade-otkrylsya-muzey-plasticheskikh-figur-istorial-kollektsiya
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2026-05-01 05:34:15 UTC

I think Americans should designate May 1 as Fahrenheit Day, just to double down on bucking global trends and going our own way.

2026-04-30 20:07:02 UTC

"Why should we all have to listen to this?" a racist woman asked on a bus in Moscow, shouting at and striking a fellow passenger who was speaking on the phone in her native Buryat language. "Go back to your own country!" the woman yelled. (Buryatia is part of Russia.) t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/49157
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2026-04-24 09:00:13 UTC

Poland's prime minister tells FT that he believes Russia "could' attack a NATO member within months, not years: "This is something really serious. I’m talking about short-term perspectives, rather months than years." https://www.ft.com/content/1a5a2502-a45a-40c1-af6f-b30ecc34bacb

2026-04-23 22:20:17 UTC

Trump seems to contradict Moscow’s statements here. It appears that either (1) Moscow is exaggerating, (2) Trump is lying, or (3, most likely) Doddering Donald doesn’t actually know what goes on inside his own administration.
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2026-04-23 14:41:18 UTC

A senior culture official in the Kremlin and a close ally of domestic policy czar Sergey Kiriyenko publicly acknowledged that Russians are sick of all the state censorship and bans. Faridaily says this and United Russia's weak approval rating could mean an election-season reprieve. https://t.me/faridaily24/2002?single

2026-04-21 23:48:37 UTC

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it was way easier in the 1990s to know which movies were playing at what theaters and when

2026-04-21 19:40:25 UTC

what an interesting future today's kids have to look forward to
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2026-04-19 16:06:46 UTC

Bulgaria's eurosceptic ex-president Rumen Radev, whose Progressive Bulgaria party is reportedly leading Sunday's snap parliamentary election, says he wants "practical relations with Russia based on mutual respect and equal treatment." https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bulgaria-votes-pro-russian-former-president-leads-polls-2026-04-19/

2026-04-17 12:42:12 UTC

Russia's FSB confirms that border agents can now order travelers to hand over and unlock mobile devices for inspection under a new law that makes it possible to jail noncompliant travelers for 15 days. The policy probably violates Russia's Constitution, but ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ https://t.me/tvrain/103565

2026-04-16 15:25:20 UTC

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@nprofile…ndxd I would just run those images from the Telegram post through an LLM and get OCR and translations.

2026-04-16 13:26:52 UTC

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@nprofile…ndxd https://eng.mil.ru/news/253f8696-2ef0-412e-a36f-46b258795356

2026-04-16 05:36:30 UTC

I'm not a Catholic, let alone a Christian, so I can't say for certain whether questioning the Pope's authority on theology is a strange thing for a Catholic to do, but it seems strange.
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2026-04-16 05:07:28 UTC

Disturbing stuff from Z‑blogger military pilot Alexei Zemtsov, who released a video saying “if you’re watching this, I’m already gone,” claiming he's killed himself in protest against charges of “discrediting the army.” He accuses his superiors of censorship and fabricating the case against him. https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/48542

2026-04-15 19:40:36 UTC

Russia's Defense Ministry posted a list of companies across Europe that are reportedly linked to the production of the drones Ukraine fires at Russia. According to Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Medvedev, these sites are "potential targets." https://t.me/mod_russia/62686
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2026-04-14 02:35:58 UTC

oof
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2026-04-13 15:52:00 UTC

lol, trump deleted his AI "i'm like chirst" slop. delete your presidency next, chump!

2026-04-10 01:49:39 UTC

man
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2026-04-07 22:36:35 UTC

the best TACO Tuesday yet
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2026-04-06 19:01:04 UTC

Remember that time all of Mastodon crashed for hours and hours, like Bluesky is crashing today? No? That's weird...

2026-04-06 17:59:01 UTC

This is precisely what Russia has said in Ukraine for the past several years, and it's roughly what NATO said in Serbia in 1999. Round and round, we go. Once the Europeans fully embrace remilitarization and begin throwing their weight around, I assume we'll get this talk from them, too, somewhere.
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2026-04-05 00:25:03 UTC

German males aged between 17 and 45 may need to seek approval for lengthy stays abroad, under military service changes that entered force on Jan 1. (Seems like a mostly forgettable regulation, albeit with potential for many yikes.) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3nr83xyvo

2026-04-03 23:02:42 UTC

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2026-04-03 22:36:41 UTC

This photo of Earth from a window in the Artemis II is simply awesome. I wish the world's leaders could get this humbling glimpse firsthand (just before they were all pushed out the airlock).
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2026-04-03 22:21:50 UTC

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@nprofile…2hrz hell yeah

2026-04-03 21:51:33 UTC

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2026-04-03 18:23:44 UTC

lol
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2026-04-03 17:28:03 UTC

oops
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2026-04-02 23:50:02 UTC

Always fun to get an email that starts "With the goal of ensuring a bright, stable, and sustainable future for Portland Public Schools" when the last email was about cutting classroom days and furloughing teachers amid gaping holes in the education budget.

2026-04-02 22:18:22 UTC

imagine someone who's never heard either of these names before (for example, me) seeing this breaking news
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2026-04-02 22:13:01 UTC

You see, that's what you have to do. You have to use your mind and come up with
some really great idea like that and you never have to work again!
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2026-04-02 18:29:48 UTC

this pos belongs behind bars
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2026-04-02 18:00:52 UTC

economy’s depressed not me, my spirit’s high as they can be

2026-04-02 15:54:53 UTC

Working more and more with Claude, in the moments when I'm sipping my tea while waiting for a particularly demanding request to process, I increasingly see myself as Paul Rudd from that Tim and Eric sketch where he very seriously generates animations of himself dancing, culminating in NSFW Tayne.
https://youtu.be/maAFcEU6atk?si=OsYpFTB6-buydN_2

2026-04-02 06:35:17 UTC

With the U.S. having openly returned to the business of regime change in the Middle East, I'm reminded of this exchange almost 20 years ago between Vova and Dubya.
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2026-04-02 06:27:32 UTC

Last month, the journalists at Bereg published two articles (a deep dive on the Yeltsin Center & a surprisingly candid interview w/ Ostorozhno, Novosti's EIC) that both shed lots of light on how qualified independence works inside Russia today. I wrote about them together. https://meduza.io/en/brief/2026/04/02/the-squeeze

2026-04-02 06:12:25 UTC

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@nprofile…9jyj Politics is inseparable from space races, but I still enjoy watching such spectacular scientific achievements and enjoy the spirit of collaboration that makes it possible.

2026-04-02 01:52:48 UTC

Unusual presser today from Putin, who publicly warned Pashinyan about Armenia's EU rapprochement and called for unnamed jailed pro-Russian candidates (i.e. Samvel Karapetyan) to be freed before elections. Airing it all in front of cameras — not Putin's typical M.O. https://www.agents.media/putin-pod-kamery-predupredil-pashinyana-o-posledstviyah-sblizheniya-armenii-s-es-i-prizvaldopustit-do-vyborov-teh-kto-sidit-v-tyurme/

2026-04-01 23:56:03 UTC

Used Claude to modify a favorite Pebble watchface, so it now cycles through upcoming "events" that are automatically generated by a project I set up to monitor the Russian news. Vibecoding is fun, y'all.
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2026-04-01 22:52:02 UTC

nice to watch launch footage of astronauts instead of weapons for a change
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2026-04-01 18:55:59 UTC

With the Trump administration's talk of leaving NATO, I wonder how George Carlin would have adapted his bit on "pulling out" and U.S. military-manhood-crisis jargon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjRQwvnjpPw#t=5m48s

2026-04-01 18:20:32 UTC

"Trump threatened to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joined Hormuz coalition," says FT. Whatever the Orange Man's bluster, rerouting Kyiv's PURL supplies to replenish U.S. stockpiles expended against Iran seems inevitable. The empire is hollow, folks. Deal with it. https://www.ft.com/content/d304071a-ca97-4b3b-be93-ff880a6645c3

2026-03-31 21:01:03 UTC

huh?
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2026-03-31 19:15:11 UTC

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@nprofile…2849 i also assume that the people who can seamlessly work from home are more likely to be replaced by AI in the next few years, so it all works out, commute-wise

2026-03-31 18:51:36 UTC

coronavịṛạṇus?
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2026-03-31 17:37:42 UTC

It appears that reports of a Ukrainian military advisor killed in the UAE are fake. In the wartime propaganda game, there are strong, competing interests to present Ukrainian military know-how as either comically useless for the Gulf states or infinitely fruitful.
https://x.com/Shtirlitz53/status/2038981186391863746
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2026-03-31 05:07:56 UTC

Telegram is warning Russians that they could soon lose the ability to buy Premium access (no explicit mention of state censorship here), and they're offering Russian users a two-year subscription for a flat $25 rate. Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over?
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2026-03-31 02:40:28 UTC

just vibecoded this decade-old pebble watch app to work with the new MLB api. what a time to be alive!!
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2026-03-31 00:09:15 UTC

it's important not to check social media before making frivolous purchases, otherwise you'll just think: i don't need this; i need canned beans, candles, and a chemical toilet.

2026-03-30 20:49:20 UTC

I've wondered about this from a non-security POV too. We in the West have a much poorer grasp of domestic goings-on in Russia today than pre-2022. Maybe this is an opportunity for emigre media to regain relevance, if they can crack the RU firewall and maintain the public pulse?
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2026-03-30 10:49:18 UTC

Following reports that Ukrainian drones violated Finnish airspace and crashed inside Finland, Zelensky tweets this, claiming that he and Stubb remain simpatico. https://yle.fi/a/74-20217938
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2026-03-30 09:49:20 UTC

Beginning April 1, Russian iPhone users may lose the ability to top up their Apple ID balances via mobile accounts, disabling a common way to pay for VPNs. There's some mixed reporting here; state agencies call it a merely temporary measure to pressure Apple to restore Russian apps to the App Store. https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/30/03/2026/69c913a59a7947e96157b311?from=newsfeed

2026-03-30 07:01:36 UTC

Dmitry Klyuev, the alleged mastermind behind the $230M tax fraud uncovered by Sergey Magnitsky, will face trial today in Paris (in absentia) on sweeping money laundering charges. (The fraud scheme also funneled millions of dollars to Russian Senator Dmitry Savelyev.) https://istories.media/news/2026/03/30/v-parizhe-nachinaetsya-sud-protiv-predpolagaemogo-organizatora-skhemi-po-delu-magnitskogo/

2026-03-29 19:33:19 UTC

americans rediscovering trains
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