https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/ChainsmokerCat

OP, if someone clicks on a link like that, it’ll take them to view the community via the lemmy.blahaj.zone Web UI. (PieFed does rewrite links to avoid this, but that approach has its own issues, and the Lemmy Web UI doesn’t.) If you want a link that will take someone to a version of the community viewed through their own home instance, you want !community@instance, so:

[email protected]

He might be using the term “anime” loosely here and including not just the animated content, but also the comic-book-style stuff, manga content. A lot of animes come after a manga series meets with success.

Does Chainsmoker Cat have such a thing?

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It looks like yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsmoker_Cat

Chainsmoker Cat (Japanese: ヤニねこ, Hepburn: Yani Neko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by NyanNyanFactory. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine since February 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bibury Animation Studios premiered in July 2026.

Volumes: 12

EDIT: I don’t know how large an average volume is, but picking a random one and looking up its ISBN, it has about 170 pages. If it’s representative of the series and there are 12 volumes to date, figure ~2040 pages of content.

A lot of the wines are out of California. Both the state as a whole and the wine-producing regions in it tend to not be too keen on Trump.

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https://wineamerica.org/policy/by-the-numbers/

California makes 85% of all US wine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_Country

Wine Country is a region of California, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, known worldwide as a premier wine-growing region.[1]

There are over 1,700 wineries in the North Bay, mostly located in the area’s valleys, including Napa Valley in Napa County, and the Sonoma Valley,

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2024/11/08/an-early-look-at-the-trumpharris-vote-in-sonoma-napa-and-other-bay-area-counties/

Sonoma County voters, with 52% of votes counted as of Friday morning, firmly supported Harris with 72% of the vote, compared to 25% for Trump.

In Napa County, which had counted 32% of votes, Harris had 64%, compared to Trump’s 33%.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_farm#In_China

Live snakes are supplied to specialty restaurants; dried or preserved in alcohol, they are sold to manufacturers of traditional Chinese medicines; snake-infused wine is made as well.[1][2]

Reducing emissions as swiftly as possible will be essential to prevent AMOC collapse and other catastrophic impacts of climate change.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/europe/russia-fuel-crisis-ukraine-drone-attacks-intl-vis

Almost every Russian region hit by fuel crisis, as Ukraine escalates drone attacks

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/middleeast/hormuz-tanker-iran-attack-intl-hnk

Iran strikes three vessels near Strait of Hormuz as Trump arrives at NATO summit

…

Ukraine is literally using a heart crosshair on their anti-ship weaponry?

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-heart-crosshair-reticle-season-9-how-to-1851256441

How To Get The Heart Crosshair In Overwatch 2

Here’s how to make your shots a little more girlypop

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/clacton-byelection-likely-to-be-two-man-race-between-reform-leader-and-binface

Farage has sought to portray the byelection as a “people versus the establishment” contest, prompting Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, to describe Binface as the “people’s candidate”. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, even addressed his candidacy on the sidelines of the Nato summit. “I think it’s actually against Labour party rules to endorse another [candidate],” he said.

For the man himself, or rather the alien, it’s all come as a bit of a shock. The question of whether he might even win is one that he is reluctant to countenance. “It’s earliest days yet and there is a long old road to go, but if in the unlikely event that the humans of Clacton prefer me to old Nige, then I will do my very best to represent them,” he told the Guardian.

Farage is the favourite, but odds on Binface winning have been tumbling. Oddschecker, which provides betting odds from some of the UK’s most popular bookmakers, said odds on the underdog winning had been slashed from 5/1 into 7/2.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/nigel-farage-takes-fight-establishment-160348322.html

Nigel Farage takes his ‘fight with the establishment’ to the voters

Farage said his decision ‌to stand for re-election was part of a strategy of “sticking two fingers up at the establishment”…

It was at this point that Mr. Farage made the fatal decision that the best way to rally support from anti-establishment voters would be a one-on-one popularity contest with a man wearing a garbage bin on his head.

So far, we’ve had several times more domestic assassination attempts on Trump than we have Iranian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_PARTEI

Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative (“The Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative”), or Die PARTEI (“The PARTY”), is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election, the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott. The party kept these two seats at the 2024 European Parliament election.

https://x.com/CountBinface/status/2062106018058776948

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

We still don’t have a Threadiverse equivalent of Reddit’s /r/totallynotrobots, if someone wants to start that, speaking of new communities.

No “We took Kyiv.” That was never the objective.

That seems awkward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kyiv_(2022)

The Battle of Kyiv was part of the Kyiv offensive in the Russian invasion of Ukraine for control of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, and surrounding districts including Hostomel Airport. The combatants were elements of the Russian Armed Forces and Ukrainian Armed Forces. The battle lasted from 24 February 2022 to 2 April 2022 and ended with the withdrawal of Russian forces.

So what’s Russia’s narrative here?

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Битва_за_Киев_(2022)

Google Translate:

The Battle of Kyiv  was a military operation waged by Russia in the Kyiv direction with the aim of capturing the capital of Ukraine , Kyiv , which lasted from February 25 to April 2, 2022, during the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine from the territory of Belarus.

That doesn’t seem to deny it.

Are they blocking Wikipedia?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_of_Wikipedia_in_Russia

It doesn’t sound like it.

The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was briefly blocked in Russia in August 2015. Some articles from Wikipedia were included in various censorship lists disseminated by the government. Further threats to block were made following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Oh. They banned that specific page on Russian Wikipedia and are trying to get Wikipedia to remove it by imposing fines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_pages_banned_in_Russia

Within the Russian Federation, a number of Wikipedia articles have been banned. Some of the banned articles have resulted in fines levied against the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] As of July 2023, there have been a total of 7 fines totaling 8.4 million rubles.[2] The Wikimedia Foundation has appealed these fines in court,[3] and has lost.[4] Due to the enabling of HTTPS encryption on all Wikimedia sites,[5] individual Wikipedia articles cannot be blocked by governments without blocking the entire Wikipedia site for that language (for example, see the block of Wikipedia in Turkey).

The Federal List of Extremist Materials is compiled by the Russian Ministry of Justice on the basis of court decisions. It includes various materials recognized by the court as extremist. The list is available on the website of the Ministry of Justice.

Banned item 13 and 14, “ru:Битва за Киев (2022)”, “Battle of Kyiv (2022)”.

I guess they’re planning on the Tiananmen Square route. “Nothing ever happened on that day.”

The Great Leader can’t be responsible for fuckups if those fuckups never happened, I guess.

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union

I mean, not that I disagree with him, but you can’t do things like that in uniform.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-32/subtitle-A/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-53

PART 53—WEARING OF THE UNIFORM

53.1 Purpose.

This part prescribes limitations on wearing of the uniform by members of the Armed Forces, and establishes policy with respect to wearing of the uniform by former members of the Armed Forces.

§ 53.2 Policy.

(a). Members of the Armed Forces (including retired members and members of reserve components). The wearing of the uniform is prohibited under any of the following circumstances:

2. During or in connection with the furtherance of political activities, private employment or commercial interests, when an inference of official sponsorship for the activity or interest could be drawn.

The military isn’t allowed to act as a political force in the US, and there are red lines there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)

For time-synchronized lyrics.

It looks like my Scandroid audio files from Bandcamp have embedded non-synchronized lyrics.

$ metaflac --list *08*.flac

[snip]

    comment[12]: UNSYNCEDLYRICS=Beware the shadows of the drones 
Destruction wrapped in pretty silicone 
They’ve taken everyone I’ve known 
And now I walk these empty streets alone 

In my memory the past is fading 
The future has been redesigned 
It’s hard to focus on it when I’m running out of time 

Surrounded by streetlights at midnight 
My destination is unknown 
I walk these empty streets alone 
Digital dreams thrive in the moonlight 
I’m only flesh, circuit and bone 
I walk these empty streets alone 

Beware the faces of the clones 
Deception sent from Neo-Tokyo 
They’ve erased everyone I’ve known 
And still I walk these empty streets alone

I don’t know how widespread that is.

Note that lyrics are themselves copyrighted works, regarding simply sharing them. That is, if you want to create, say, “Lyricsnet, the new Fediverse service” or something like that, you may attract attention from IP owners.

During his first term, Trump negotiated and heavily praised the USMCA as a superior alternative to the “disastrous” North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he said had offshored US jobs, among other problems.

It was a slightly tweaked NAFTA with a new name, but he wanted votes from people who were opposed to NAFTA, so we got a lot of political theater.

In current polling for the next general election:

AfD is the top choice for Germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_German_federal_election

RN is the top choice for France:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2027_French_presidential_election

And Reform is the top choice for the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

All three are far-right parties.

You can see every hop an IP packet takes at IP level with traceroute or mtr.

has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I.

While it sounds a bit awkward, I expect that the "Soviet fight against Nazi Germany " roughly-approximates to “The Great Patriotic War”.

A small window air conditioner is something like $200 here in the US.

hits Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Frigidaire-FHWC063TC1-Conditioner-Electronic-Controls/dp/B0CFYG2511

I mean, I’m not saying that a hotel room is unreasonable as a last minute thing — like, it’s a heatwave and I want to be in a cool environment within the hour — but in all seriousness, an air conditioner is gonna pay for itself pretty quickly if all you want is a cool room to sleep in and not the other things a hotel provides.