Donald Trump helped ancient Russians defeat space lizards

Donald Trump helped ancient Russians defeat space lizards
RT

Donald Trump helped ancient Russians defeat space lizards. Western elites don’t want you to know by Vadim Zagorenko

When conspiracy satire looks this cool, you don’t need facts – you need a phonk soundtrack

Heroic Slavic warriors triumph over evil reptilian invaders to pounding phonk beats. These surreal showdowns have racked up millions of views and spawned a wave of spin-offs, including video games, comic books, and tabletop RPGs. What started as a mock academic lecture quickly turned into a full-blown cultural phenomenon – fueled in part by some deep-rooted medieval nostalgia.

One of the most well-known stories in the Ancient Rus vs. Lizards mythos is 'The tale of how the Russian hero Danila Trumpov drove the accursed Lizards from the Slavic States of America'. In this fictional legend, a Russian version of Donald Trump defeats a shadowy alliance of humanoid lizards, who are supposedly aided by Bill Gates.

Trumpov wields imaginative techniques like the “Republican Egg Squeeze” and the “Texas Burger Bomb,” and even manages to sabotage the lizard lobbyists by replacing the dollar with the ruble. In the end, the forces of Slavic justice prevail, and the Lizards are forced to retreat to the distant planet of Nibiru.

This is just one installment in a sprawling fan-fiction universe created as a joke, but which has grown far beyond its origins. What began as light-hearted parody has developed into a full-fledged narrative world that mixes satire, absurdity, and pseudo-history – while also poking fun at the cult of Russia’s supposed ancient supremacy.

Read the whole thing here.

Jdm drift Saint-Petersburg//Phonk

Jdm drift Saint-Petersburg//Phonk
PITERSKOE MYASO

Impressive. JDM stands for Japanese Domestic Market, refers to vehicles originally manufactured and sold in Japan. Via RT

Meteorite from Mars

Meteorite from Mars

From Sotheby's:

The largest piece of Mars on Earth is now the most valuable meteorite ever sold at auction after it achieved $5.3 million in the Natural History sale during Sotheby's Geek Week.

Somebody is convinced that it came from Mars. Rocks fall out of the sky everyday, most of them are too small to notice, and most of them don't come from Mars. Assuming somebody is right, then this is a really freak occurrence. It would have to have been a big meteor to hit Mars in order to knock this rock into space where it floated for a zillion years until it got captured in Earth's gravity and plummeted to the ground in Africa. Very freaky.

I would have thought it would have rounded edges, not angular ones, being as it probably entered the Earth's atmosphere traveling at several miles per second, but whatever.

Via RT

Peter The Great

One of numerous bas-reliefs in the Elektrozavodskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia

A bit of history framed as a review of a TV series:

Was Peter the Great Russia’s Antichrist – or its saviour? by Dmitry Samoilov

He mentions Elektrozavodskaya, which meant nothing so I looked it up and found there is a very fancy metro station with that name, hence the above image.

He comments on a phrase used in the show: Fille danke is a bastard phrase - fille is French for girl and danke is German for thank you. Vielen dank is German for 'many thanks'. Why are we using German here? Maybe he's trying to make it intelligible to English speakers. 'Many thanks' in Russian is большое спасибо, which is gibberish to me.

Peter the Great has been mentioned here more than once.

 

Science Fiction & Synthetic Music

L O S T L O B B Y [Cyberpunk Synthwave Stillness in the Entrance to Nowhere]
Signal '89

There are a zillion similar videos of YouTube from a variety of channels - synthetic music along with a static science fictiony background image, along with some static in the image. When I want to take a break from thinking, I'll dial up one of these videos and pull up some kind of trivial solitaire game. I find it calming.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Tom Cruise
Paramount Pictures

Fantastic! Amazing! Stupendous! Ridiculous! Over-the-top! Hilarious! Shoot, any and all extreme adjectives can be applied to this movie.

Basically, we've got 62 year old Tom Cruise trying to get his self killed doing what he loves to do, which is making wild movies. The show alternates between extremely violent action scenes and people talking about the Entity.

This time the villain is an AI (artificial intelligence) computer program known as the Entity. It is trying to take over the world by launching of all the missiles in the world that are equipped with nuclear warheads. This will kill everyone on the planet and then the Entity will be victorious. Sounds like a stupid plan, but hey, what do I know about world domination?

The underwater scenes with the nuclear submarines are out of this world. How in the world did they filmed them? They built their own underwater sound stage in a zillion gallon tank of water. Tank must have been a hundred feet across and probably just as deep. It took weeks to fill it. You could make a movie just about how they filmed these scenes, and somebody should.

 

UNTAMED - Netflix Series

UNTAMED | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Pretty good murder mystery set in Yosemite National Park, so lots of cool wilderness scenery along with a number of big animals. Six short episodes (45 minutes each) and we watched three of them last night. We've got four murders so far and even though they are separated by a period of years, you just know they are all going to be tied to some evil nut job. Meanwhile, we've got all the typical cop show pathos: the tough cop who antagonizes his coworkers and family, divorces, traumatized citizens, annoying high level bureaucrats and sleazy druggies hanging out in sleazy places, plus the usual assortment of skin colors. On the plus side we have plenty of scenes of out in the wilderness.

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite is roughly the same size as Rhode Island, they are both a shade over 1,000 square miles. This is the only map I found that showed the park in relation to its neighborhood. There are lots of maps of the park, but they typically only show the park and just a bit beyond the borders. Google Maps only shows a placemark, it doesn't show the borders of the park at all.

Painting of Yosemite by Heinrich C. Berann. Aerial view of the entire park from the west, looking east. 

Wikipedia has an interactive version of this map. Mouse over the picture and it will name the various features.

Show opens with a scene of a couple of guys climbing the face of half dome. I hate these kind of scenes, because if in it's in a show you just know somebody is going to fall and die, and somebody does, but it's not one of the climbers.

P. S. Cute little bit of bio-metric tom-foolery -  Our guy finds the dead girl's phone, but it's locked using facial recognition. The coroner helps him out by first opening the dead girls eyes and then putting eye-drops in. That doesn't work, so he swabs her face with formaldehyde saying it will warm her skin and it might be enough to get past the bio-metric lock, and what do you know? It does, the phone is unlocked and our guy finds some crucial evidence. Ain't technological fairy tales wonderful?