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In a War of Tanks, Ukrainian Soldiers Play World of Tanks Online (NYTimes) (i.imgur.com)

“The urge to play a violent video game in the midst of the most brutal land war in Europe since World War II may seem baffling. But it’s a way to cope.”

I may be a little late with this one (i.imgflip.com)

! TRADE OFFER ! (lemmy.world)

Sauce: news.yahoo.com/ready-exchange-belgorod-nato-membe…

Raspberry Slime Mold, seen today in Germany (feddit.de)

TOM GAULD's cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books (64.media.tumblr.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4107572...

Now Playing: The Last of Us Pt II (i.ytimg.com)

Finally getting around to giving this a thrash. Enjoying it a lot - as a straight continuation it extends the first making use of the much improved hardware (algae in the water!) The death that kicked things off was well done I’m keen to see where things go.

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Opera GX broke Reddit (FIXED) (lemmy.world)

Opera GX was showing squares in place of icons and wasn’t working well, so I disabled GX’s adblocker and cleared cache. That logged me out and now this is all that gets loaded in when i go to a post. Does anybody know how to fix it?...

Theme keeps switching to light mode on startup (lemmy.world)

It even shows I’m on dark mode in settings. I have to manually switch it off and on every time i open the app.

The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878 by Claude Monet (1878) (upload.wikimedia.org)

The Rue Montorgueil, like its twin painting The Rue Saint-Denis (Rouen, musée des Beaux-arts), is often thought to depict a 14 July celebration. In fact it was painted on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating “peace and work”. This was one of the events organised for the third...

Suki says hi (lemmy.world)

"Yo Urist, your Rumadonols fake af" (Artist unknown) (lemmy.world)

On this day, August 21, 1415, the North African city Ceuta was conquered by Portuguese forces. Nowadays the city is Spanish, but its flag still looks very much Portuguese. (upload.wikimedia.org)

The characteristic black-white gyronny is taken from the flag of Lisbon, but with the coat of arms of Ceuta in the middle (looking almost identical to that of Portugal). The addition of this coat of arms almost makes this Spanish city flag more Portuguese than the flags of Portuguese cities....