Day 979

Giant Goldfish Caught Near Húsavík

I suppose it’ll be just a matter of time before accusations of rigging and taint cloud the air, before the burbling Attack Runts shit their collective underpants because Donald and JD don’t get elected, but it’s been interesting nonetheless to learn what their supporters think about cats, dogs, Ukraine and Puerto Ricans.

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In an attempt to expand my horizons, I found several Substack wrap-ups about Ukraine’s increasingly dire predicament this morning, including this,

The Nuclear Option And Putin's Winter Campaign

and this,

Don's Weekly, 28 October 2024: Part 4

I also checked in w/ Stefan.

October 26 — Day 976 — Deadlier Drones, Dodging Debt, Icons With Clay Feet

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For over 100 weeks now, my headlines have blared out something like the following: "Day of the Defender” or "The Crops Are Dying” or “Tree Trimming with Det Chord.” Often the ominous headers add qualifying comparatives — "more" or "greater" — or apocalyptic adjectives and nouns such as "bleak," "crisis," and "chaos" — suggesting that the disorder is increasing geometrically, rather than incrementally, which it is.

Yuriy (below) confirms our military situation has indeed devolved into the aviation equivalent of looking for the black box recorder after a plane crash.

Complicating matters, soldiers from North Korea are taking up battle positions in Russia’s Kursk region and in eastern Ukraine.

Z is upset, NATO is concerned and Team USA is, er, dumbfounded.

Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh Holds an Off-Camera, On-The-Record Press Briefing (Transcript, October 28, 2024)

Meanwhile, the death cult next door continues to target Ukraine’s large cities with drones, ballistic, guided and un-guided missiles.

Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kryviy Rih were all hit last night and early this morning.

Photo c/o Kyiv Military Administration

Photo c/o Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office

Kharkiv was reportedly also hit with more Grom E1s, a hybrid of cruise missile and unguided aerial bomb with a high-explosive warhead weighing 315 kilograms.

Kryvyi Rih (Photo c/o censor.net)

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Ending on a positive note, Z in Iceland, wearing a rain jacket with two enormous front pockets.

Photo c/o President’s Office