The weekend that just passed, was not fun, or easy. Charlie Kirk’s assassination cast a dark and terrible pall over everything. As I wrote after it happened, many of us had a very clear sense that something fundamental had snapped in the West, and there was simply no way to put it all back together again.
That darkness now, of necessity, pervades almost everything we see on TEH INNARWEBZ today, and there is no avoiding it in this poast. But, since it IS Monday, it IS also time for the latest Great Mondaydact Browser Buster. And, if there is one thing this massive browser-crasher is supposed to do, it is to make us all smile and forget the horrors of Monday, through a love of life and happiness.
To that end, let us turn to the Eyeties, who love life more than any other people I know. As we so often say around here, we rather strongly approve of the Eyeties at Didactic Mind, and with VERY good reason. They are funny, passionate, full of beans, and their women are full of pasta in ALL the right places.
Of late, I have come across two channels run by Eyeties, or at least people of Eyetie descent, and I have to say, they are utterly ADDICTIVE.
The reason why, is because they are all about food. And, again, there is NO ONE – but NO ONE – that does food better than the Eyeties.
So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the sheer awesomeness of Italians creating, eating, and approving (or not) of food:
And also:
That is one EXTRAORDINARILY lucky man.
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has done his usual bang-up job of pulling together a wealth of distractions for the start of the week:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Death Smiles At Us All…
Culture Beats
Veterans’ Day
Judge’s Ruling
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
Новый-Царь Приказывает
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Профессор Боровкин Учит
Дядя Стас Объясняет
Polonium
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…
Bad Medicine
Warriors of Faith
Manly Men of Manliness
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Reading Too Much Into Things
Linkage is good for you:
- Charles Rollet: Scale AI cut a dozen Red-Team contractors after Meta’s $14B investment; workers say red-teaming work dried up. (Business Insider)
- Hugh Langley: AI hype is correcting — expectations are falling, businesses recalibrate what AI can (and can’t) deliver, improving long-term prospects. (Business Insider)
- Top Harvard statistician Liu Jun left the US for China, accepting a Tsinghua chair amid patriotism and funding/policy concerns. (South China Morning Post)
- Sergei Karaganov argues Europe’s era is ending and Russia should lead new Eurasian corridors and elites. (rt.com)
- Tarik Cyril Amar criticises EU decline through Kaja Kallas’ actions and broader elite failures, warning of institutional weakness. (rt.com)
- Russia–China–India alignment is an offensive geopolitical shift reshaping the global balance. (National Security Journal)
- Matthew Maavak on who could survive an “AI apocalypse,” debating societal and occupational resilience to automation. (rt.com)
- The greatest guitarist of all time, Steve Morse, explains adding a tasteful solo to Coldplay’s “Fix You,” injecting Deep Purple-style flair. (Guitar World)
- Steve Morse announced Triangulation, his first post-Deep Purple album, featuring Eric Johnson and John Petrucci. (Guitar World)
- You can replace dozens of productivity apps with Proton services for a month (Muck Rack)
- Could “Grok”-style AI could be used to run state functions and the risks of delegating governance to models? (rt.com)
- “America won’t be the same” after Charlie’s assassination, due to political, economic and technological shifts altering U.S. global standing. (European External Action Service)
- Fyodor Lukyanov argues France’s G7 spectacle reflects wider G7 political malaise and systemic crisis across advanced democracies. (rt.com)
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Nathaniel Lacsina: Mark S. Zuckerberg, an Indiana lawyer, is suing Meta for repeatedly disabling his Facebook/Instagram accounts (confusing him with Mark E. Zuckerberg), hurting his business and costs. (Gulf News)
- Evan Porter: 7th graders hilariously list what 40-year-olds do for fun — from bingo and coupon-cutting to yard work and knitting — in a teacher’s viral questionnaire. (Upworthy)
- Uzay Bulut: The Muslim Brotherhood operates transnationally, raising funds, maintaining affiliates in the US & Europe, and the article argues it should be designated as a terrorist group. (Gatestone Institute)
- NY Post: School teachers posted social media content allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination — sparked outrage and investigations. (New York Post)
- People / NY Post: Wesley Silva’s emotional-support alligator Jinseioshi, treated like a VIP at restaurants, is banned from Walmart for safety reasons. (New York Post)
- Sky News: A man in Oregon was arrested after allegedly living in the crawl space of a housing complex. (Sky News)
- Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley says the British pound is trading with volatility and illiquidity more typical of less-liquid currencies than major ones.
- Ynetnews: (Opinion piece) Critiques UN & Security Council for focusing heavily on Gaza while ignoring what author considers worse humanitarian crises elsewhere. (ynetglobal)
HALO Nation
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Big Boyz Toyz
Oh No! Anyway…
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:
And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:
Animal Planet
Real Men Watch REAL Sports
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
JUST BLEED!!!
Facefisted
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Knives Out
Drumlines
Guitar Heroics
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
And finally, we get to the Instathots for the start of the week. First up, Polina Marchenko (Полина Марченко), aka “Kristina Sweet”, aka “Luxury Girl”, aka “that one Russian PR0N actress that you probably have seen somewhere but cannot for the life of you name”, age 33, from Saint Petersburg, Mordor. She is OFF-THE-CHARTS radioactive on the Thot Quotient scale (obviously), but she has managed to maintain her assets rather well, considering her profession.
And, since we started with Eyeties, it is only fitting that we end with an Eyetie. So, here is Georgia Meloni (no, not the Prime Minister of Italy), who claims to be an “acting student” in Rome.
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