@DebsBookReviews I translate old German folk tales into English! Two books have already been published under the series title “Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles”.

If you want to check out some of the tales before buying the books, you can listen to podcast and video adaptions of them here. I encourage such adaptions by others - I release all my translations under a Creative Commons Zero license!

Also, if Prigozhin wins, Putin will probably end up being “killed by traitors”, but Prigozhin will vow to avenge him and bring all traitors to justice.

Probably not quite yet - they’ll want to give Russian units time to retreat from the frontline and intervene in Russia.

The world will be in a better position because this internal conflict dramatically weakens the Russian war effort in Ukraine. Whatever faction comes out on top will be rather busy “cleaning house” for a while - giving Ukraine more space to fight this war.

Two TTRPG sessions (Dungeons & Dragons in person, Call of Cthulhu online), going swimming at the public pool, working some more on my translations of German folk tales.

A media company, to influence the world according to my political agenda.

Hey, every bilionaire’s doing it!

I feel that it should be pointed out that Trump is also a fascist.

Nuclear needs a steady supply of water for cooling, which has become rather unreliable these days in many regions.

The government of Russia is still committed to this war, and as long as this is the case the sanctions against Russia and the military support for Ukraine just continue.

The fascists should not win this fight.

I haven’t watched the show since it was dropped by Netflix, but I, too, wish it could have lasted longer.

“Oh, the Humanity!”

Mass-blocking fascists with the Likers Blocker Chrome Extension was the only thing making Twitter even remotely bearable since the takeover, and even that became tricky due to the API changes.

All that I still use Twitter for is messaging a few people who still haven’t moved elsewhere.

Imperialism is bad even when it’s not the USA doing it.

Ukraine absolutely deserves our support in this war.

Since Ernest doesn’t mention it himself, I would like to point out that he has a BuyMeACoffee account where you can donate to him to support him for all his hard work.

“Could you please repeat that statement? While under oath and in court?”

I can understand these arguments, and yet…

I invested lots of time into Google+ and built up a following of 26,000 there. Then it closed down days before I started my Patreon campaign. Yes, I am still bitter about that.

Then I shifted my attention to Twitter. And then, last year, Elon Musk took it over.

I am done investing effort in corporate-owned social media sites that must inevitably follow the #Enshittification principle. No, Mastodon (and the Fediverse in general) did not absorb as many Twitter users as we hoped. Still, I think in the long run the Fediverse will grow, as corporate social media proves again and again that they cannot be trusted.