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You Never Know What's Underground

20 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

So, if you've read my previous metal detecting articles, you'll know I've been practicing detecting in a lot of the city parks in my neighborhood. I know the area was originally farmland, bought and then developed to become yet another suburbia spraw...

Utopia, Dystopia and Utopai

19 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In "War on Crypto, mockumentary on moon landing by Berliner, Menelik in Berlin Conference" which I posted on 8th February 2026, I shared the sentiments I expressed in a Tweet, where I was thinking of a mockumentary of the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference,...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Nirvana - "Verse Chorus Verse/Sappy"

16 Apr 2026 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  As previously noted, when your parents start knowing who these bands you’re listening to are, that’s pretty much the benchmark for major cultural impact. The spring after Nevermind hits, I notice one day this cassette is missing from its slot in...

Daring, heroic slavery

15 Apr 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/acucV0FZTHXQLTiV The history of amputee veterans is not a special case, but a symptom: the system reproduces itself through the cult of suffering, and people who have once embarked on this path...

Beyond the Horizon: The Forgotten History of Global Slavery

15 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Godspeedhub

       Beyond the Horizon: The Forgotten History of Global Slavery   Most modern discussions about slavery focus on the Transatlantic trade, but history reveals a much broader, global narrative. To understand the world today, we must look at how for...

Yeltsin's main mistake

14 Apr 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/acOi9ZoXiEnu2GFL Boris Yeltsin's decisive mistake was his refusal to eliminate the KGB in August 1991. This decision predetermined the development of the Russian political system towards "despot...

A dystopia about a change of power

14 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/ady5D30JDDjEBGlk The main question has long since ceased to be "who will win." It's whether there's even room for a different outcome. Because if there isn't, it's no longer politics. It's a closed construct....

Finding New Hobbies

13 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SpookySalem13

Finding New Hobbies In Recent Weeks:     These last few weeks I've been MIA from the world 🌎. Lost in the endless circulating of my mind 🧠 & feeling like a piece has been missing.     My day to day life is nothing interesting. That's no secret & I'...

Awareness of the threat of global conflict

11 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/acE53WmiiAONZ11H Contemporaries rarely realize the scale of what is happening in real time. Understanding that a new world war has begun will come later - when the scale becomes obvious. I recently read a ver...

The Pencil That Beat NASA - Except It Didn’t

11 Apr 2026 1 minute read 3 comments i'mature

I was listening to LBC’s Nick Abbot - the funniest man on British radio. It was a couple of hours before Artemis 2 was due to splash down after its round-trip to the Moon. Someone called in with something topical - did you know NASA spent millions on...