Meanwhile, the Ukranian invasion of Russia continues unabated, with more gains yesterday. https://x.com/thestudyofwar/status/1823168917550047675 Even one Ukranian MP has turned up, having taken leave… (View Post)

For such a clearly-named organisation, they do appear to be somewhat selective over which wars they want to stop and which wars are just fine. If you start from the premise that the bad guys are the … (View Post)

LOL, nope! Although the story of Georgia Bell, who was a schools and university runner who took several years’ sabbatical from competition, started running again during the pandemic, and came back ag… (View Post)

That’s a cool story too, hadn’t heard of Chrissie. IIRC there is quite a bit of movement between sports within the Olympics, vaguely remember one lady won a medal in tobogganing at the winter games, … (View Post)

There were some audio compression issues early in the conversation. Even 1m audio streams doesn’t take a massive amount of bandwidth compared to video, so it’s difficult to understand what’s going on… (View Post)