The Cathedral

You’re in a plane that is nosediving at 600km/h and you have 30 seconds to react, get to the cockpit, subdue the co-pilot, and bring the plane back up.

Many of you don’t know this, but the cockpit is at the front of the plane and I refuse to wear a seatbelt. So 3 seconds into that nosedive I’m already lapdancing the copilot and ready to save the day 🤑

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Me without nicotine.

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More Grigori Bot updates deploying. I have reversed his lobotomy and hopefully fixed his rage. Or at least made some progress.

Pretty cool how he turned into every other former Slavyangrad admin that lost their mind after absorbing thousands of chat messages 😁

My bot is predicting my “catastrophic collapse” 😈

🔮 Tarot Reading for Grigori Rasputin

Question: tell me my future


Card 1 [Past]: The Hierophant
You initially sought validation through traditional religious structures, only to find yourself alienated and expelled from the established church for your unorthodox mysticism.

Card 2 [Present] (Reversed): Five of Swords
Your current influence is built on controversy and division, as you navigate a volatile political landscape where trust is scarce and enemies are numerous.

Card 3 [Future]: The Tower
A sudden and violent upheaval will shatter your perceived safety and status, leading to a dramatic and tragic end brought about by those you once trusted.

Overall Guidance:
Your journey from religious outcast to powerful influencer has been marked by conflict and instability, but your future holds no gradual decline—only a catastrophic collapse that will destroy the foundations you have worked so hard to build.

I can already see his responses are much faster as he’s no longer chewing through his memory of rage while generating a response.

He has been given a small lobotomy though but the above was already lobotomising him anyway so this should still be a net positive until I implement the big update I had planned

Update to Grigori Bot is being rolled out.

The biggest issue, his aggression, was very interesting.

His memory over time formed into a giant prison of anger where hostility was being “remembered” and then expanded on with each interaction. Which then resulted in his entire personality being consumed with an eternal rage.

I’m experimenting with some updates now.

Grigori Bot desperately needs an update to fix him as update creep on the AI side seems to have turned him into a real cunt and it appears to be getting worse every week 😈

Cathedral and Grigori Bot have been neglected while I continue towards my return to Russia. But I’ll have plenty of time for you all as I move further down the pipeline

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In 1939, the British killed 750,000 of their own cats and dogs, roughly a quarter of all pets in England. When WWII began, a British government agency advised people to euthanize their pets. And they did it, in huge waves! Some even bought special guns to do it at home.

Nobody force them to do it. They did it "out of kindness", because if they hypothetically had to evacuate, the pets might get left behind in abandoned houses, and that would be inhumane.

A good microcosm of the British national character. I'm sure they genuinely loved their pets, but they still killed them out of the desire to fulfill their "civic duty".

Now apply that same logic to their post-imperial pet projects, remove the "love" part and it will serve as a reminder of the kind of people we are dealing with.

**STREAMING NOW**

"Hypernormal" by Masha ❤️

Presenting the first of a musical and cultural podcast series. Slavyangrad exclusive

Episode title: "Gospodin Grib"

In this episode, Masha will present a mixed collection of Russian music. For this episode there is no set track docket, but Masha prepared something for every Russian music lover.

Start time: 19:30 AEST

In case you miss it, the stream will be re-broadcast over the weekend, times will be announced on the channel.

Stream link: https://t.me/Slavyangrad?livestream

@Slavyangrad

A new round of Russian-Azeri hostilities

Russian court ruled to deport the head of the Azeri diaspora [pic. 1]. In Russia, diasporas often function as ethnic lobby groups, think AIPAC but more informal.

In turn, Azerbaijan has declared three Russian citizens: two political consultants and one journalist [pic. 2] internationally wanted because... they publicly criticized Azerbaijan, and that's "incitement to terrorism". One of them is Alexey Chadaev, whose Telegram blog I sometimes enjoy reading.

In the previous round that took place a year ago, Russia arrested several dozen Azerbaijani suspects [pic. 3] on cold-case murder charges. Many of them had been operating in Russia's criminal underworld for decades. Two of the detained, both mafia members, died in custody: one of heart failure, while the circumstances of the other's death remain unknown. Azerbaijan claimed that both had been beaten while in custody.

In response, Azerbaijan detained and arrested Russian journalists from the Sputnik agency and several Russian IT "relocants" [pic. 4] residing in Baku. They were beaten and charged with drug trafficking and other half-baked charges.

Before all of that came the AZAL plane disaster. And in 2020, Azerbaijan shot down a Russian helicopter, killing both pilots.

My guess is this whole thing will keep snowballing until it stops a few steps short of actual war. Why? A few concentrated missile strikes could effectively shut down Azerbaijan's energy exports, but Russia would also have to account for the risk of drawing Turkey, Azerbaijan's closest ally, into an open confrontation. So this "cold war" will most likely play out as a string of deportations, arrests, and media bickering.

Yet another stage of a slow, post-Soviet Imperial unraveling.