Favorites October 8th 2022

David Watson

Oct 9, 2022

James Palmer @BeijingPalmer

one of the things that slogans like ACAB do a disservice to is that *cops in most other developed countries do not kill and injure at anywhere near the rate of American police.*

bargain bin bluray of space chimps (2009) @bitoast

@Topher_55 @AtquiBellus @thicctatorx @kendallybrown civilians are expected to act perfectly calm and implicitly know exactly how to react to any confrontation with cops, otherwise they deserve to die. meanwhile cops rampage around like wild boars, no concern for their surroundings, just shooting for the sake of it. no consequences

He goes on to point out that British police kill 2-3 people a year total, on a per capita basis, that would be like 10 in the us, instead of 1000

Tripe Marketing Board @TripeUK

"The good news, Mr President, is we can repair the Crimea Bridge." "And the bad news?" "We'll need your table."

This bridge blowing up is a big deal. Here’s some good footage. One person pointed out that this looks like it was extremely well executed. Here’s an argument from a few weeks back about why Russia is so upset about losing this bridge. It’s unclear what they have left for retaliation against Ukraine. They can’t invade again…

dpa news agency @dpa_intl

#BREAKING German rail operator Deutsche Bahn says sabotage caused the massive problems with the train network in the north of the country on Saturday

Timing seems a little fast to be retaliation, but who knows.

Tσni @RexKwonDo92

Epic of Gilgamesh is 4,000 years old and dropped a new chapter before Winds of Winter how sad

Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories

A new chapter of the “Epic of Gilgamesh”is revealed when the fragment of TABLET V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to Neo-Babylonian period (626-538 BC), according to researchers. #archaeohistories https://t.co/hyZ8lCQRnJ