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@ egrets @lemmy.world

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  • Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song

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  • Eh? The OUN, under Bandera's leadership, repeatedly and actively sought to alliance Nazi Germany during WWII. They formed militias with the express intent of enacting pogroms against Jewish citizens. Their political agenda was absolutely a fascist one. Bandera collaborated with the Nazis directly near the end of the war to fight the Soviets (though he was between a rock and a hard place here, I admit).

  • Me too

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  • Good little article on the phrase origin here. Excerpt from the quoted 1838 editorial:

    Ensconced in his mail of proof—for defence purely, his disposition being no ways bellicose—he snugly nestleth in his mucid bed, revels in quiescent luxury, in the unctuous loam that surroundeth him, or, with slow and dignified motion, worketh nearer the surface, as the summer suns warm the roof of his mud-palace, or sinketh deeper within, from the nipping frosts of winter.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Just to clarify, since Yezhov (listed above in the post you're replying to) was the main architect of the Yezhovshchina, and was himself later a victim of the same Great Purge, did he do some hard self-reflecting and turn himself in?

  • Explains it

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  • A lich isn't a creature from traditional folklore, it's a DnD invention. The word is an archaic word for a corpse, which is the relevance here - it's the route by which a body was taken for burial, and sometimes kept while waiting for burial.

    A bunch of old churches in the UK have them.

  • Moto G57 and G57 Power are now official and already on sale - they have a headphone jack

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  • I think you mean it was released in September 2023?

  • The Right Is Now Transvestigating Charlie Kirk and His Wife, Erika

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  • The Right Is Now Transvestigating Charlie Kirk and His Wife, Erika

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  • Linguistic differences

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  • Sure. We call jail jail.

    Both the US and the UK have at times used "gaol" in our histories, but it's super archaic in both places. You might be thinking of one of the other 57 countries for which English is an official language?

    (You're probably thinking of Australia, but they also generally only use "gaol" in a historic context, even though it's retained in some place names with that spelling.)

  • Linguistic differences

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  • We call fries fries, we just don't call chips fries. It's useful to have a distinction between thin-cut and thick-cut potato rectangles.

    Likewise, we call cookies cookies but we're don't call biscuits cookies. (And we don't call American biscuits anything, they're a total mystery to us.)

  • Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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  • Seems a little redundant when the article we're all commenting on does precisely that.

  • Trump’s Wine Hits Military-Only Store Shelves

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  • I guess there's both "blend" in the traditional sense of mixing varietals from grapes you grew or sources you trust to create more balanced or complex wine, and "blend" in the sense of chucking in whatever grapes you were able to source cheap, from any climate and terroir and growing technique.

  • Andrew's prince title and HRH style formally removed by the King

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  • In my embellished mental image of this, you're careening down the wrong side of the road, puzzled why everyone's flashing their lights at you and honking, until one of you says, "Oh, it must be the number plate."

  • Success Strategy

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  • It's okay, you don't have to be that animal, I was asking for myself.

  • Success Strategy

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  • Which animal embodies, "the concept of success is a capitalist mindset that keeps you buying things you don't need and comparing yourself to others, which robs you of contentment and some happiness"?

  • By the sea

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  • I eyeballed an edit, because the horizon line and lack of squareness bothered me:

  • 2025-11-04

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  • I would not like it, Sam Alt Man

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  • Holy shit, you actually made the meter work too. Normally on the web, it's the first casualty.

  • "How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?"

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  • Not to mention that despite the impact of TV and radio, UK accents are wildly variant and it's pretty much a guarantee that there'll be corners that don't make distinctions between at least two of these words.

    There's no such thing as "regular English" in the UK; the Thames Estuary accent is prescriptivism, not regularity.

  • Old cheddar

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  • It could be coincidence, but there's an antiquated term for a mace or morningstar, bommyknocker. People on the web seem to attribute it to a children's book from the 90s, but I've found much older uses in the past, both in the UK and in Oceania. Similar to your name and not a very dissimilar tool.

    Edit: I guess it's obvious I skimmed your answer! You've already made the connection.

  • Ancestors

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  • Continued the survival of the species, so now I have to sit in meetings and press buttons all day. Thanks for nothing, protopeople.