Image is of the Herðubreið tuya in northeast Iceland, formed when ice sheets covered Iceland thousands of years ago. It’s not really relevant to the Grindavik situation but I think they look neat. The title also doesn’t make much sense but I saw the pun and took it.
Off in Iceland, different kinds of tunnels are causing problems. Underneath the town of Grindavik in southwestern Iceland, not far from the capital of Reykjavik, tens of thousands of earthquakes are portending the movement of magma in tunnels underneath the peninsula, which could breach the surface and cause an eruption. The 4000 residents of the town have been evacuated as the magma has risen to less than a kilometer below the surface.TRG
Icelandic volcanism is pretty fascinating, with the country sitting on the mid-Atlantic ridge, the birthing line of new oceanic crustal rock running right down the Atlantic ocean for many thousands of kilometers, as well as a hotspot, an upwelling of mantle material of debated origin which also feeds otherwise-inexplicable volcanism in the middle of tectonic plates, like Yellowstone and Hawaii.
An additional factor here is the presence of glaciers. When a volcano erupts underneath a glacier, the melting water cools the lava rapidly, causing features usually seen in volcanoes that erupt under the sea like pillow basalts, but also unique features like tuyas, which are steep-sided but flat-topped volcanoes. The rapid melting of water can also cause glacial floods called jökulhlaups.
Icelandic volcanoes have had significant regional and even global impacts in the past. In 2010, the volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which was a volcano covered by an ice cap, erupted and the ash cloud spread across Europe, causing airline disruption for about a month which caused nearly $2 billion in total losses for airline companies - though this seems pretty quaint compared to the pandemic’s impact on airlines in retrospect. Back in the 1780s, the Laki volcano killed a quarter of the Icelandic population due to sulphur dioxide causing massive crop failure and cattle death. This eruption’s impacts spread to Europe and beyond, causing notable worldwide temperature drops and thus crop failures and may well have been a contributing factor to the outbreak of the French Revolution, which obviously heralded the death of the feudal order and the eventual primacy of capitalism in its place. That being said, any eruption at Grindavik is very probably not going to have any significant worldwide impacts - there are over a hundred volcanoes already in Iceland, and regular climate change is doing a great job at causing mayhem right now anyway. It’s also still possible that there won’t be an eruption at all, at least not in the short to medium term.
Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Iceland! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
This week’s update is here!
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week’s discussion post.
CW: combat footage of Hamas sniper, dead Zionists
holy shit this is the most incompetent army on the planet
They had to extract his cum, it was vital to the mission
TF2
Ubisoft open world action game AI but for real people
sorry if it’s annoying to always ask you but would you mind telling us what the shooters are saying in the video? if you have time
0:09 “I got one” — 0:15 “HE FELL” — 0:20 “Allahu Akbar” — 0:23 “Someone came to drag him, Three came to drag him, FOUR four dragging them FAST” — 0:37 “I’m telling you they’re dragging dead ones, THERE’S A FIFTH ONE” — 0:42 “Allahu Akbar, fire” — 0:52 “He left him and went away he’s dead on the ground”
thank you
I feel like they are almost bewildered by the IDF lol.
Where was that jenin brigade video where he said they trained too hard for how incompetent the Israelis were?
one of us needs to learn Arabic so we can stop annoying her
It’s not annoying, I literally subtitle videos on youtube on my free time as a hobby
What do you use to subtitle videos? I want to translate a few videos to spanish for educational purposes but I don’t know how.
Most video editing softwares have a text thing that you can use to write on the screen, I use that
Any western soldier born after 1945 can’t fight, all they know is twerk, bomb hospitals, charge they drone, eat hot chip and lie.
eat hot chip and die*
now whenever I see footages like this I CANNOT HELP BUT ASK: what’s gonna happen to their sperm?!
Shame they couldn’t milk his corpse for that superior seed.
It takes a lot of time to drag a body when you have to jack it off first
What the fuck did I just watch. I mean this is literally a scene in Full Metal Jacket
More like an entire act lol
It’s a real thing that happens. It’s exactly what you’re supposed to do as a sniper engaging infantry. And what the IDF guys do is exactly the wrong way to respond.
Honestly incredible bravery and empathy to just run into open fire to save their fallen soldiers
If only they showed even a shred of the same empathy towards the Palestinians
this is just what you get when your entire military is reservists whose only experience in combat is harassing children and the elderly. any person’s normal instinct when seeing someone get hurt is to go help. they just have no idea what to do - no taking cover, no suppressing fire, no looking for the threat.
I feel like this is always a scene in a war movie with this situation. A guy gets shot down, another guy goes after and either gets shot or gets prevented from going, then the squad has to take on the enemy. After that they find their injured or dead friend.
It feels like the IOF or at least these soldiers (idk) don’t fully comprehend they are in a war zone.
Any competent army would teach you to absolutely not do this. Your boy is dead, and if you try to save him you’re just creating more corpses.
I don’t know how, but this needs to be an emoji.
what happened to no cum left behind?
Even the mujahideen in the video are surprised how stupid these occupiers are lmfao
What in the Hitman AI is this
The military in Half Life has better ai than this