is it just me or is Stranger Things not very fun anymore

In today's newsletter — the final one I'm writing before turkeys everywhere run for their lives — I look at a recent report on 3D-printing farms sprouting up in St. Petersburg that are possibly serving as a makeshift production line for the Russian military's trinket needs.

Meduza

This was Russia today Wednesday, November 26, 2025 — Meduza

The West wants Russia to return to the 1990s, and Russia wants NATO to return to the 1990s. Truly everyone loves that decade.

Can some native speakers weigh in on these bits in the Dmitriev–Ushakov transcript? Bloomberg describes this as "the original Russian included for reference," but some of the phrasing here sounds unnatural and clunky in Russian, like it was translated from English.

whenever i hear Hendrix’s superior cover of All Along the Watchtower (sorry, Dylanites), my first thought is to rage about how Battlestar Galactica used that wretched arrangement in season 3