#histrionics

Interpretations of the Hermeneutic Oath differ.

Professional Oaths [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

They know who you are dude.

“I can’t trust anyone anymore” Yeah, you can’t trust because at any moment some great person you’ve been friends with all your life could turn out to be one of those brave principled people who stands up for the most oppressed people on earth who are going through a LITERAL GENOCIDE. You poor thing, @jewishspite! How will you ever get through this?

The indictment of Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court has disrupted his travel plans for later this year. 

According to two sources close to the Putin administration, these trips were very important for domestic propaganda, among other things, because Russia’s pro-government media could cite them while telling citizens that Russia “still has more friends that detractors” and that it remains “one of the pillars of the multipolar world.”

“The restrictions on foreign visits will work in the opposite direction. Before the warrant, [Putin’s] trips abroad were combined with foreign leaders’ trips to Moscow. Now, it won’t be possible to keep having meetings with the same frequency — you can’t constantly invite everybody to come to you,” one source said.

Yep, being a war criminal sort of makes you socially unacceptable.

The president’s foreign travel difficulties have already begun: in August 2023, South Africa is slated to host the next BRICS summit, and Cape Town has already said that it’s “cognisant of its legal obligation” regarding the ICC warrant. Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, however, has said that the Kremlin has remained “calm” and will “continue working.”

Not everybody in the Kremlin has remained “calm”. Former President Dmitry Medvedev, who’s become a reliable source of hyperbolic hysterics, is threatening to bomb The Hague with hypersonic missiles.

Russia's former president suggested firing a hypersonic missile at The Hague after Putin's ICC arrest warrant: 'Look carefully into the sky'

Maybe the ICC shouldn’t worry too much about Medvedev’s latest hissy fit. Ukraine just destroyed a train loaded with cruise missiles in Dzhankoi in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Russian cruise missiles destroyed in strike in Crimea, Ukraine Defense Ministry says   

This makes Putin look bad while Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for a state visit.

Dear Romantic Roman,

Given our civilization existed long before, during, and after the Roman Empire, I assume you would be referring to the Transformers toy line. And you will be pleased to hear in one universe, an enterprising collegium developed an ingenious line of transforming wooden toys that were inspired by our adventures.

I briefly recorded one of the advertisements recounted by a gladiator, and here is the translation:

"It is a world changed, where things are not what they seem. It is the world of the Shapechangers! Enjoy the great battles of the civilized Autochthonians and the barbaric Histrionics, led by the great Tribunes, Endymion and Phaethon. Now your children can re-enact these battles with the latest artifices, only from the collegium of Hadrianus Bruttius!"