saippuakauppias.bsky.social @saippuakauppias.bsky.social · 05/12/2025💯🎯 From undoubted Buddhist masters (Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche) to secular ones (UK Greens) to countless intellectuals - their refusal to even consider and study what Maria Popova has illuminatingly expressed here is a tragedy in itself. 000 0
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialChronicles of Vatastan @vatastan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025TV presenter Rachel Maddow on Trump: "russia is the largest country in the world, but its GDP is like Italy's. The idea that we work for him [putin] is humiliating. I don't know what putin has on him, but he [Trump] works for putin and it's an embarrassment to this country." 1102 10
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialSPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Murdered in her own home by Russians last night, Tetiana Asaulyuk, 37-year-old researcher from Kherson University, 36427 64
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I have rejected my own proposals for peace that I had Donald present to me. 19823151 823
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/12/2025"There is a point in any declining republic where foreign and domestic policy stops looking like strategy and starts looking like a racket. We are well past that point." -Rick Wilson www.againstallenemies.net/p/war-cri…againstallenemies.netWar, Criminals, and War CriminalsCorruption, lawlessness, and evil inside Trump's inner circle. 161088377 1.1K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialJay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Trump regime abandons Europe to embrace his Russian master. youtu.be/ow2q0Y4qT0oyoutu.beUS Abandons Europe In Shift Toward MoscowYouTube video by Jay in Kyiv 1822974 229
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/12/2025The one thing Donald Trump has always and will always be afraid of is the truth. And right now, he’s scared. 2073597832 3.6K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialM Pathy - Fighting tyranny is our duty. @m-pathy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Someone should be imprisoned for this. 2106 10
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialLaguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Admiral Holsey’s resignation suddenly makes sense. When a regime is indiscriminately blowing up “drug boats” with no evidence, no due process, and no declared war, smart people get out early. He’s not dodging duty — he’s dodging a future date with the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. 79328 93
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 01/12/2025Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit By Anthony Robinson yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...yorkshirebylines.co.ukBrexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit 4250118 250
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialTerre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 01/12/2025“Europe must now fight to save Ukraine and itself as bravely as Ukraine has been fighting to save itself and Europe for a decade. The resources are there, but the courage is not. STOP pretending Trump will ever turn on Putin and face reality and fight.” - Garry Kasparov 882975942 3K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked." 11091593293 9.2K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/11/2025If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple. 312210536177 21.1K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/11/2025NEW: I have a personal announcement. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-person...muellershewrote.comNEW: Personal AnnouncementI just made a personal announcement on a live show I want to share with you 38359761232 6K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/11/2025Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?" Mark Kelly: "It seems to." Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?" Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful." 294131183671 13.1K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialOne Veteran’s Oath 👊 @oneveteransoath.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Facts. open.substack.com/pub/amindfullofthoughts/p/quiet-quiet-piggy-a-watershed-momentopen.substack.com"Quiet. Quiet, piggy." A Watershed Moment in American History.A message for every male journalist and witness. 232 3
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialJay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Russian economy enters death spiral as mass layoffs begin. youtu.be/M7Loj9Z-FJsyoutu.beMass Layoffs Hit Russian EconomyYouTube video by Jay in Kyiv 1638778 387
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialEuromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 27/11/2025“Ukraine is the only country fulfilling NATO's destiny,” chess grandmaster and political activist Garry Kasparov said passionately at the Halifax Security Forum. @garrykasparov.bsky.social 1017770 177
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it. 15576012251 7.6K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialMs. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I’m a Desert Storm veteran and former journalist. What happened in the courts today is barely being covered. I’m asking you to read this and share it. Press freedom is on life support and the public needs to know. I am asking to please share this. open.substack.com/pub/lilmsmis...open.substack.comLetters From the Edge: When Courts Become Collaborators: How Trump Judges Are Killing Press FreedomTwo Trump-appointed judges just argued that the First Amendment stops where the president’s irritation begins. 174 7
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Yes, a colossal betrayal is absolutely plausible 011 1
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Exactly. Made this point in my latest piece: www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-groun...policymagazine.caTrump's Groundhog Day Diplomacy with Putin and Zelensky - Policy MagazineAfter successfully brokering a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in early October, the Trump administration turned its attention back to the 26717 67
saippuakauppias.bsky.social @saippuakauppias.bsky.social · 19/10/2025"The modern structural violence never ends and is potentially worse than medieval warfare. Not because any individual act is more brutal but because there's no peacetime, no visible enemy, no clear path to ending it, and no shared recognition that it's even happening." claude.ai/public/artif...claude.aiPerpetual Violence: Why Modern Inequality Feels Worse Than Medieval Warfare | ClaudeExplore how structural violence in modern economies creates perpetual harm through invisible systems, making inequality more devastating than historical warfare. 020 2
saippuakauppias.bsky.social @saippuakauppias.bsky.social · 17/10/2025"We impose categories on fluid reality, then mistake our categories for the reality itself." 🔬☸ [Neuro-Slop Studies vol.2] claude.ai/public/artif...claude.aiShantideva and the Science of No Fixed Nature | ClaudeExplore how Buddhist contemplative insights on no-self, mental plasticity, and interdependence converge with modern neuroscience and cognitive research. 010 1
saippuakauppias.bsky.social @saippuakauppias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025"Russism is worse than fascism, nazism and racism." - a prophecy by Dzhokhar Dudayev, the 1st President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, 1995. youtu.be/d7xJl3ZrFeI?...youtu.bePresident Dzhokhar Dudayev - "Russians sick with russism"YouTube video by Ichkeria English 110 1
saippuakauppias.bsky.social @saippuakauppias.bsky.social · 10/10/2025🇺🇦 war exposes a quiet calculation in the West: how many Ukrainian children’s lives are worth sacrificing before giving up even 1% of Western lifestyle & comfort. Aid is being sent, eventually - just enough to ease the conscience. The fact that such moral cost–benefit calculation even exists = horror 000 0
saippuakauppias.bsky.social @saippuakauppias.bsky.social · 09/10/2025This 🇺🇦 war in a nutshell, as it might appear in a history book later on: A lot of Ukrainian children were sacrificed to an evil torturer, so that Western civilization could more or less continue its lifestyle, preferably at minimal cost. Everyone in the West felt basically OK about it. 000 0
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialJay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Russia is now Ukraine's bitch. youtu.be/JKcNrwBPA64?...youtu.beRussia Spirals Into Chaos as Ukraine Destroys The Russian EconomyYouTube video by Jay in Kyiv 1531164 311
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them. It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter". Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back. 27696156 696
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialEncyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 01/10/2025Jane Goodall was one of a few people to earn a PhD without an undergraduate degree. It was thought that her lack of formal academic training would allow her to remain unbiased by traditional thought and study the chimps with an open mind. It worked. ❤️ 5887183 887
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialPrune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 01/10/2025May I present… 🎶 September 2025 🎶 A Russian Railways Loading Thread Production (Sound on please) 2532548 325
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialKyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 01/10/2025A nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant could occur if the blackout continues: fuel for the backup diesel generators will last only 10 days — IAEA 28931 89
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Well yes. England in particular remains in thrall to the wholly artificial "class system" and its an absolute menace. 3350584 505
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialJay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2025A reminder that it's highly likely Nigel Farage was/is being paid by the Russians. And if he's not, he's an absolute moron. 55941293 941
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/09/2025My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details 8652189 652
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialJay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Russia sinking into the abyss as Ukraine rips Putin a new ass. youtu.be/CxQctN-Cq20?...youtu.bePutin Regime Enters Crisis ModeYouTube video by Jay in Kyiv 728541 285
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialGarry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Talking about 2028 is dangerously naive; the danger is now. Trump is directing the military and justice department to go to "war" on US cities and his enemies, from TV hosts to former FBI directors. Keeping the 2026 midterms fair may be the last stand. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Race to Save America’s DemocracyTrump’s administration may seem chaotic, but Americans should not take the integrity of next year’s elections for granted. 22670307 670
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/09/2025🇵🇱🇺🇦 Sikorski: The war in Ukraine will end like World War I, when one side runs out of resources. 1229441 294
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialChronicles of Vatastan @vatastan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025In Chechnya, the appearance of fuel at gas stations is now such a big event that local bandits drive up first, fill up their cars, start doing ''donuts'' and shooting assault rifles in the air. 3207 20
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.social✙ Kullervo ✙ @kullervo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Good morning Europe 🇪🇺 1045985 459
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialRoberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 29/09/2025The future of Moldova is in Europe! 🇪🇺🇲🇩 On this historic step forward, the people of Moldova have chosen the path of democracy, hope and opportunities. They have chosen Europe. Europa este Moldova. Moldova este Europa. 13729147 729
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialMira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Please Moldova we can’t afford another crazy neighbor please vote 1959546 595
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 28/09/2025🤯 The moment of Shahed's attack on a kindergarten in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. 920285 202
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialMira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025By all possible definitions of the term ‘terrorism’ this is terrorism 431189 311
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/09/2025My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com 222423870 2.4K
Reposted by @saippuakauppias.bsky.socialGet Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 27/09/2025 66520166 520