Tornado Alley (PROG)

[12yearplan]

I'm no expert (actually, Janice would have a good idea) some of the changes and "improvements" over the years - here.

One that comes to mind is when they filled the pages here so full of advertising they took forever to load.

Mostly, I found your discussion and inputs with Hawk good reading and pulled out a few terms for fun.

Ok, here's an example of a website exploiting one's membership ie inshittifying (in this case using an algorithm born outta my interest in sweet cookies [I know I can always turn them off but still do enjoy the dopamine hit]) and warning this is highly speculative conspiratorial nonsense despite the strong connections.

Hope your still following. So, The Guardian News I find highly respectable, a good source of reporting the news and makes no apologies for it's bias's gave me this story (I don't know if others can see it) which has "tracked" me quite well ie my hope for the future of Ukraine, the Russian People, an end or moratorium on these proxy wars, etc,.. oh yeah and a courageous soul beauty ;

“You know what the risk is?” asked Bonya, who lives outside Russia . “That people will stop being afraid, ?and they’re being squeezed into a coiled spring, and that one day that coiled spring will shoot out.”

Moscow on Thursday took the unusual step of ?publicly acknowledging the sharp criticism, saying work was under ?way to address problems identified by Bonya.

The influencer’s comments notably stopped short of directly targeting Putin himself or the war in Ukraine , prompting speculation that the intervention may have been coordinated with Moscow to signal that public grievances are being heard before parliamentary elections later this year.

The approach fits a familiar Kremlin playbook: casting Putin as the “good tsar” kept in the dark by errant officials. The narrative has helped the president deflect blame for the country’s problems on to subordinates, preserving his personal standing even as discontent grows.

Political analysts, however, said the outburst was unlikely to have been coordinated, but rather reflected a spontaneous reaction to simmering discontent across the country.

“War fatigue is really starting to set in,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, a Moscow-based political scientist and author of a recent book on Putin’s ideology. “It is beginning to click in people’s minds that everything that is happening is a consequence of the war.”



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/russian-blogger-fierce-kremlin-critique-goes-viral

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