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"The number of 'violent deaths' in Gaza during the first 16 months of Israel’s genocidal war exceeded 75,000 - far higher than official figures at the time, according to a new paper published in The Lancet Global Health journal." (via antiwar.com)

"In a letter to his sister during winter in 1944, when Berlin was being bombed day and night, he describes a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, with the audience and the musicians huddled in thick coats under a roof filled with holes from British and American bombshells.

Almost until the last stages of the war, when the Soviet Army conquered Berlin in a devastating battle that reduced the city to rubble, the cinemas were full, the dance revues were in full swing, the soccer competition went on, and people visited the zoo and sunbathed on the Wannsee opposite the infamous villa where the logistics of the Holocaust were worked out over glasses of brandy." —Ian Buruma via

If you stuck 6 toothpicks in a gloating potato.

A game guide for a retro game that never existed.