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Grog

@grogofgrog.bsky.social
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Woodwork nerd, reformed watch fiend, here for the fun stuff

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 8h
On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23h
*people* make the design & engineering & business decisions that are behind every one of these types of stories…
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 23h
In another case he said they found a cache of plastic explosives and replaced all of them with identical looking blocks of clay.
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Electrospaces.net @electrospaces.bsky.social · 22h
So the problem isn't as much with former director Hanning but more with his accomplice, former BND chief of staff Manfred D., who was willing to sell the agency's classified reports...
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Electrospaces.net @electrospaces.bsky.social · 22h
In Germany, they arrested August Hanning, who was head of the intelligence agency #BND from 1998 to 2005. From 2010 to 2022, Hanning paid an accomplice at the BND to provide him with classified information which he used for his private consulting work: www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
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Germany's ex-spy chief arrested for espionage, disclosing state secrets and attempted treason
August Hanning, the man who once led Germany's spy service, is now under investigation for passing on state secrets.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 15h
“Klaus, you lost another spy chief?” www.politico.eu/article/form...
politico.eu
Former German spy chief arrested for treason and espionage
One of the greatest potential intelligence breaches in post-Cold War German history comes at a particularly sensitive time for the country’s scandal-plagued foreign intelligence agency.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 9h
Wish they'd catch these guys earlier. amp.dw.com/en/germany-s...
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Germany shaken by an espionage and treason scandal
The former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, has been accused of spying for a foreign country. Never before has a German official of August Hanning's stature been accused of tre...
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John W. Little @johnwlittle.com · 12h
“In a plea document, Rush admitted that in late 2025 he disclosed “certain descriptive information of a U.S. government clandestine human source” that could “endanger the safety and life of the human source and the U.S. government officers working with the source,”
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 9h
I wish I had a time machine and could gift you my dog from 1983... a renowned skunk fighter who would shrug off multiple sprays and attempt to enter the house bathed in the scent of victory after a strenuous skunk fracas.
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Want to end your night on a positive note? Remember that Chief Security Officer at the USIP? One of the seemingly few brave souls in the early days of DOGE willing to tell them to get the fuck out, who then locked them in the building after they broke in?
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Essay | Exclusive | Michael Lewis on the Lone Security Guard Who Resisted DOGE
In an exclusive excerpt from “Blockers,” the inside story of the high-stakes D.C. standoff where security chief Colin O’Brien fought off DOGE operatives.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026
A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...
ft.com
Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Sentient Bunnysuit @sentientbunnysuit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The threshold for sainthood is kinda arbitrary. St. Patrick was a saint because he chased all the snakes out of Ireland, but St. George was a saint for killing a dragon, which is really just one snake with legs.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SBS walks away, leaving the judged person despondent. Hammers are at least useful, I add. They are inconsolable.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Stepping back from the board and looking at the strings connecting the pawns. How do the Utah Saints fit in? youtu.be/m97WlpsuU74?...
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Utah Saints – Something Good '08 (Official HD Music Video) | Ministry of Sound
YouTube video by Ministry of Sound
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I do not care for his flim and flam I believe him to be made of spam
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Indicator light working so defective bmw
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You know, it's been a while since I've heard anything about convicted sex offender and pedophile Scott Ritter. I wouldn't like to think the world has forgotten about Scott Ritter, his sex crimes, or conviction. Last I heard, he was having a bad time in Russia.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Man releases apology video after golf course fight with former NHLer Nick Tarnasky | Daily Hive | Offside
It's not often you hear someone apologize after getting beat up, but that's exactly what we have today from the man in the viral golf video.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's the fire in which we all burn!
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if youre wondering how i spent my evening it was sculpting 20 new creatures so they could sing over the garden wall
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I go by Rob @papashot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/dots...
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh I never even thought to look in the comments under the video. Thank you.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know you're not fight yoda, but fancy shirt guy has to be drunk eh? He took so many hits from the big guy n keeps getting up like robocop
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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the same person who openly mocks the one country that’s literally shooting back at the global fascist movement. bsky.app/profile/mega...
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ugh. I still have the receipt from the 286 purchased in 1987. 3500 bucks.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Fantastic Mr Fox: лис Leaning on Tree
ALT: Fantastic Mr Fox: лис Leaning on Tree
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Always available if one wakes at noon.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some worship him as a god for reasons you find out watching the show.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
HEY NERDS NEW CAVE ART SHOW JUST DROPPED www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
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Stone Age Masterpiece
Step into the stunning cave that’s reshaping our understanding of prehistoric art.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026
only good news in quebec is that pspp doesn’t have an absolutely majority. but getting that close on 28% of the vote is insanity. first-past-the-post is not fit for purpose.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the severance tv show, the corporation has paintings glorifying the founder throughout the building
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lil joke for the Severance fans
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jay is the man. youtu.be/f3o9xLAb1gY?...
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NEW FOOTAGE Proves the John Chapman Story Was Wrong
YouTube video by Green Beret Chronicles Show
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
jaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
But for many Brazilians, the most pressing issue as they prepare to vote on Sunday is a crisis much closer to home: crushing personal debt.
More than 80 percent of Brazilian families are in debt, a historic high for the country, according to the National Confederation of Commerce, a retail group.
Brazil also has the highest benchmark interest rate among 40 major economies, and families spend nearly 30 percent of their income on debt payments, according to Brazil’s central bank. In the United States, that figure is about 11 percent.
Unlike in the United States, where most household debt is driven by mortgages, in Brazil debt is fueled by credit cards, payroll loans and retail store installment plans carrying among the highest interest rates in the world.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist who is locked in a tight race against a right-wing opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, has seized on this concern in the closing days of the campaign. On Friday, Mr. Lula signed an order banning online gambling, which was legalized in 2018 and has supercharged the household debt crisis.
Brazil is the first country, experts say, to ban online gambling after introducing and regulating the industry.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks to Gears of War commercial for intro to Mazzy Star youtu.be/da-g0FJJPP8?...
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Gears of War 3 Launch Trailer - Dust to Dust
YouTube video by trailersstream
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 04/10/2026
The thing about the Tucker Carlson//Jacob Rees-Mogg interview is that Tucker is an American moron whose entire tactic is “assume the other guy won’t question my premises”, up against a British aristocrat that debates for fun at Oxford Union. Its like a small animal encountering an Apex predator
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do people even use taxis at night?
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Scarecrow: I Haven't Got a Brain
ALT: Scarecrow: I Haven't Got a Brain
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This one hits kinda hard. I remember her as one of the backup singers on The Box. youtu.be/AFT1l50CgHo?...
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The Box - Closer Together (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by UnidiscMusic
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The corruption is so blatant. US-Russia discussions now include a multibillion-dollar purchase of Russian energy giant Lukoil’s global assets,to enrich Mid East businesses with ties to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who are leading the negotiations. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Damn
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Me (noticing bag of oreos now half empty while pacing around with bag while trying to decide what to make for dinner): guess dinner was oreos then.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He’s boycotting Walmart because they’re selling Obama jackets. Ohana is the Hawaiian word for family. He’s one of the people who didn’t know there’s a “B” in dumb.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I found an embarrassingly large folder of screenshots of other people’s jokes and am now periodically subjecting you to vintage bangers Anyway, where the fuck are the Scots
Why dae folk ask babies stupid shite lit "Ur gettin big arent ye?" As if the wee cunts gony be like aye Moira yer spot on am oan the protein
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
icymi - mark zuckerberg’s company (meta) restricted a lula campaign page & the account of a viral video maker with an explainer on flavio bolsonaro corruption… techpolicy.press/on-eve-of-br...
techpolicy.press
On Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise Questions
Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.
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Grog @grogofgrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Collateral (4/9) Movie CLIP - That My Briefcase? (2004) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 04/10/2026
The fucking stupidest people in the world have all the money. These are the kind of thoughts you couldn't torture out of me.
futurism.com
AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don't Have Feelings
The Associated Press Stylebook posted a reminder not to anthropomorphize AIs because they can't think, trigger a meltdown among AI bros.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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