Notices by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social), page 3

What's this?

Orange juice for one cent?

These are #Canadian shelves, and these are #American products

This is at a Loblaws in #Ontario, photo taken on Monday

#Canada retailers pretty much have to give #USA products away as Canadians #boycott the #US and #Trump's bellicose verbal diarrhea and #tariffs

#Florida #citrus growers: you voted for this

(ps:

the food banks don't have any room for this juice, because so much unsold American food is already going to the food banks)

#ElbowsUp

what's this?

the #sun

but a very special view, the first ever:

the south pole of the sun

the first time humanity has ever imaged a polar region of our star

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/science/sun-south-pole-solar-orbiter-esa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.HCZT.yGlAay481voX

#EuropeanSpaceAgency #ESA #SolarOrbiter #Space

#GretaThunberg is a genuine #hero in a world full of cosplayers, posers, LARPers, and edgelord keyboard warriors

VIdeo as #FreedomFlotilla is intercepted by #Israel (presumably- edit: confirmed) on its way to #Palestine

Edit:

#ThiagoAvila says the boats the surrounded the #Madleen in the dark have left

Edit edit: they were told to throw their phones in the water and they have been boarded

A rather poignant commentary on #war and the #environment

Because of radio frequency jamming, fiber optic #drones are being used by #Russia and #Ukraine on the frontlines

They just spool the fiber out as they fly

Apparently some areas look like giant spider webs everywhere from the endless #drone flights

And #birds are now using the waste of war to make their nests

#UkraineWar

Scientists have created something that has vast political applications:

"Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp92pr5pr48o

So #Musk and #Trump are having a slapfight

there are more serious attacks going on right now, to our rights

that is what truly deserves our attention

but shiny objects are shiny

i am guilty of the attraction to the drama as well

i won't begrudge you your popcorn

just:

be aware that you can be distracted

there are quiet things going on right now that is the real game

don't lose attention to that as well as you enjoy the 🍿 🍿 🍿

@CrushingFlightoftheOwlbear

100%

this is not a prudish message from me to ignore the greatly enjoyable spectacle of the two edgelord narcissist trolls #Trump and #Musk going at each other

it's quite enjoyable. i am enjoying it as well

just pay attention to what the shadows are doing on the periphery of the stage as well

"Wow that #drone attack by #Ukraine on Russian bombers is amazing, #Russia is stung badly, Ukraine's efforts are herculean and that was very intricate long work. They can take a breather for a little b-"

"Ukraine Hits #CrimeanBridge for the Third Time—This Time Underwater

Ukraine’s Security Service (#SBU) has successfully carried out a months-long covert operation that struck the Crimean Bridge"

https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-hits-crimean-bridge-for-the-third-time-this-time-underwater-8841

Russia, you are fucked

A stunning one-two punch

Incredible

#UkraineWar

Comment I saw yesterday about #Ukraine's #drones-popping-out-of-trucks brilliant attack on the bombers that have been mass murdering Ukrainian civilians for years (paraphrasing):

"#Russia is going to check every truck, and it will shut down their commerce. They don't even have the personnel for it, they will have to pull from other services, it will be destabilizing"

Video I just saw today:

Good call commenter

#UkraineWar

@noelreports

govt of #Russia only respects strength

you can't go soft on their provocations. they do not see wisdom, they see weakness

ask #Turkey

a Sukhoi Su-24 flew into their airspace in 2015:

boom, shot down

Russia hasn't done that since

they continue incursions into other nations and those countries dither

just fucking shoot them

harsh?

fear of escalation?

no

escalation comes from a weak response

if #Ukraine succeeds in peace talks it's because of their amazing attack yesterday

@Scubyw @noelreports

it also applies to rising #fascism in the #West, most definitely the #USA

there's been this "it will fade away," "they'll call us hypocrites," "it's not serious," etc

weak fucking handwringing

is there any question what these assholes intend?

#AlwaysPunchANazi

it is the only way

constructive dialog doesn't exist with them

it's either you or them

those are the terms the #fascists have set, not us

we must meet those terms

they are already operating on those terms

@gooba42 @Scubyw @noelreports

#wwii fades into history

people forget

some rising #fascism?

eh, kick the can down the road

now there is a mountain of cans before us

our weakness

our foolishness

our failure

all fascism requires is #ignorance and #bigotry, never in short supply, to be yoked for power

it's merely a maintenance function of #civilization to take them out, forever

i don't mean literal murder

but there is a literal, mortal struggle coming if we continue to delude ourselves

Olga of Kyiv

circa 890 - 969

Had vengeance on the Drevlians for murdering her husband

She asked for a tribute of pigeons from their houses

The Drevlians complied, assuming her to be daft, they expected worse

Olga had sulfured bits of cloth tied to the birds' legs, and they returned home, setting their city Iskorosten on fire

I tell this story right now for... no reason, no reason at all

BTW, this is the tamer episode in the epic of her revenge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev

#UkraineWar

While #Russia bombs civilians, #Ukraine does this:

👀 👀

'An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) drones smuggled deep into Russia and hidden inside trucks has hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four airfields across the country...

The operation — codenamed "Web" and a year-and-a-half in the planning — appears to have dealt a major blow to the aircraft Moscow uses to launch long-range missile attacks on Ukraine's cities.'

https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-drones-hit-more-than-40-russian-aircraft/

#UkraineWar

"You have to understand: #Russia is not the #USSR. The USSR was not Russia. #Stalin wasn't even #Russian!"

...

"A statue of Stalin is unveiled in the #Moscow subway as Russia tries to revive the dictator’s legacy"

https://apnews.com/article/stalin-statue-russia-ussr-putin-moscow-metro-7a5a425f9b1c6a7120b6345b5d150de3

#UkraineWar

#Libertarianism (the #USA kind not historical varieties) is a "philosophy" that only works if you're a college sophomore blissfully naive about human nature

If you gut regulations the rich takeover

Plutocrats know this and fund various #libertarian causes. Because #libertarians are the perfect fools to play for their political gain

"That's not fair!"

Exhibit A:

"#Musk’s #SpaceX town in #Texas warns residents they may lose right to ‘continue using’ their property"

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html

@gilgwath

well we are also doubting:

vaccines
democracy
bodily autonomy
etc

so the current world malaise is a large group of morons don't know/ don't care, and want to drag the rest of us who do know and care, through a lot of suffering again. until we relearn what we already know, completely unnecessarily

@me_valentijn @mls14 @heidilifeldman

whiny assholes who used the genocide in gaza to not vote harris

1. condemned palestinians to worse with trump

2. don't give a shit about other important issues (trans rights, women's rights, etc)

3. if the usa ceased all military cooperation with israel (we should) israel will keep going

4. are entitled. bellyache about one issue (self-destructively on that issue!) and they think all the other trump bs won't touch them

manipulated morons, just like MAGA

@Thesassywolf @heidilifeldman @me_valentijn @mls14

do you know how many people don't vote?

do you know how many of our chronic problems would instantly evaporate if a fraction of these pathetic assholes showed the fuck up?

it is absolutely the fault of nonvoters as much as MAGA our predicament today

and the shitbags in power act the way they do because they count on these lazy entitled fucks not doing the easiest thing while we sink

so yes, i blame nonvoters

and i am 100% correct to do so

@Ultraverified @Thesassywolf @heidilifeldman @me_valentijn @mls14

MAGA enthusiasm for bigotry is such that there is no such thing as MAGA who don't vote

the rest of your comment you're not disagreeing with me you're articulating the extent of the problem

when people give up they are accepting a dark fate. that's not a person you respect, that's an inert lump you kick in the ass

and if you think that's not motivating, they will get motivated when things get worse (due to their own nonvote)