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What's the catch if Max is tied to Government Services?

12 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

A Zen Blog posthttps://dzen.ru/a/aYspqeKzf35O-3H2 Please support us, like-minded people, join the telegram channel https://t.me/shipshard Now the authorities want to make sure that the entrance to Public Services is linked to the new Max messenger. I...

Proverbs of Smog #43

12 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Forty-Three 1. The freeway is a feast. 2. A takeaway buffet. 3. Traffic is a priest. 4. Slow and in the way. 5. Avoid the biting flyway. Take instead 6. The ever wonder whyway. 7. Repent!...

THE MANIFESTO OF THE WHOLE APPLE

12 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments NietzscheElettrico

For centuries we have been told we were split. That once we were whole, then divided, condemned to search for our missing half in another face.   But what kind of nature creates incomplete beings? What healthy tree bears half a fruit?   An apple is n...

Spruce Pine: America's Little Discussed Strangle Hold on Semiconductors

11 Feb 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Cje95

Over the last few weeks/months I have seen so many articles, analysis, and claims on how China has the US pinned down and how the trade war is over with the US taking a beating. Most of the arguments for this fall under the idea that the rare earths...

I Can't Get Started: The Melancholy of Starting Over

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments floc1960

A short essay with a jazz soundtrack Soundtrack (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BuWDhuT2I I was resting for a moment, the coffee machine refusing to stop, and I stumbled into a song that feels like a human truth dressed in velvet. Bunn...

The episode with Stalin's diarrhea

11 Feb 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

A Zen Blog posthttps://telegra.ph/EHpizod-s-ponosom-Stalina-02-09 Uncensored original in my telegram channelhttps://t.me/shipshard/4794 One day, Comrade Stalin naturally shit himself. He fucked himself up completely. I fucked up not in the sense of f...

What would Russia have become if the False Dmitry had remained in power?

11 Feb 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

A Zen Blog posthttps://dzen.ru/a/aRl478twZBjVFC5h Like me, do you like to skip the story through the lens of the subjunctive mood? I admit, I am very. I like to think about what would have happened if I hadn't taken a step or if this or that event in...

Economic Reality Check — Day 2: The 6-Cent Insult (Writing Naked Against the System)

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 11 comments floc1960

Yesterday, 232 people spent their most precious asset—time—reading my words. In the cold, calculated world of digital platforms, that moment of human connection was valued at about $0.06. Let’s call it what it is: an insult. Not only to me, but to yo...

Internet Shutdown, Day 10

11 Feb 2026 2 minute read 13 comments Melina Mehr

  (What you are reading are my memories from those twenty endless days when the Islamic Republic regime cut off the internet and SMS across the whole of Iran. A month has passed since then, and for about ten days now the internet has come back—sort o...

Blind, died, saw, came back, and was blind again

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

Vicki Umipeg Noratuk was born prematurely in the early 1950s, weighing just three pounds after only 22 weeks in the womb. Due to excessive oxygen given in an incubator, a practice common at the time, she suffered permanent optic nerve damage and was...