The little-known Scottish Spice Girl

Vigil for Lost Species at National Farming Conference ‘We were not demonstrating against farmers, who have crucial task of feeding us. But we oppose a food system that for sake of profits contributes massively to climate & biodiversity crises, undermines health, and increases social inequality’

I see some people already wishing for 2026 to be over and for 2027 to be here... If you knew what's in store for 2027, I'm not sure you'd make that wish.

When you're about to land but realize it's the US.

In case you were wondering...

Musk will probably become the first trillionaire ever in 2026. Can you imagine what one trillion is? Me neither. Well, maybe there is a way to make it easier. Check is out (you need to subscribe to read the entire post, but it's free): glitched.earth/the-age-of-t... #money #society #oligarchy

1950-something

"Calling us fascists is classic Antifa behavior, and we’ll need to keep you at a CIA black site until we can make sure you’re not plotting any attacks."

Musk will probably become the first trillionaire ever in 2026. Can you imagine what one trillion is? Me neither. Well, maybe there is a way to make it easier. Check is out (you need to subscribe to read the entire post, but it's free): glitched.earth/the-age-of-t... #money #society #oligarchy

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

How the fuck did AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION on web text change 百 (100) to 白 (white)? Like, I know that visually a HUMAN may make that mistake (if they were drunk, for example) but a machine? How and why did we build Dumb Robots? Anyway, yeah, this is why I still have a job in translation.

As long as I’m doing accuracy in quotes today: “Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.” —Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot,” 1834

Pas de mal à se faire plaisir ☕

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@astronomerritt/115856197889849536 This:

Apparently some bad guy did something bad with a gun in the US again, and everybody is outraged... Well, I've lost my ability to feel bad about anything happening in the US. As long as your way of fighting fascism is a biannual festive protest and sharing outrage on the web, you're complicit.

"Why is the government posting on a deepfake child porn site?" That's the question to ask them, journalist friends.

A classic, but still a great pub talk topic ;) Poor future people. We get terrifying Victorians and fascinating WW2 soldiers, they get hipsters.

all of my posts are made from this device

"I was honored to be a part of the discourse that day. You see, democracy is messy. Sometimes people debate the pros and cons of health savings accounts. Sometimes people debate how best to roast you inside a giant metal statue shaped like a bald eagle." buff.ly/lhcaHxR

I'M STARTING 2026 STRONG with a brand-new McSweeney's article! Read it, laugh it, love it here: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-w...

Okay, now I'm starting to be excited. I've been a lifelong X-Men fan but never really cared for Avengers before the movies. And that one shot of Cyclops is better than all of his screen time combined in all of the X-Men movies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH1X... #movies #XMen #Avengers #Doomsday

liberals need to think long and hard about what these guys consider communism before they start thinking they're safe

This doesn't surprise me at all. If you're really thinking about what you're doing, these tools just add another layer of input. fortune.com/article/does...

RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/115850367999935356 The fuckers will do it. You know they will do it. If you're not terrified by this, you should.

"A corrupt authoritarian president has been destroying his country for over a decade—and as of this weekend, he decided to invade Venezuela. But who is this political criminal?"

*toute l'année "Pfffffffffffffff ya trop de normes, faut supprimer tout ça" *Drame "MAIS POURQUOI LES NORMES N'ONT PAS ÉTÉ RESPECTÉES ? QUID DES CONTRÔLES ?"

Shame on him!

I watched about two hours of various geopolitics YouTube channels and now I'm convinced that in the next few months Russia will invade Estonia as the US invades Greenland and China blockades Taiwan.... Maybe that was too much Youtube for one day.

Macron profite de la galette de l’Élysée pour nous dire qu’il veut qu’on bosse le 1er mai Il ne s’arrête jamais…

After the Trump regime attacks Greenland and destroys NATO, how long will it take the Putin regime to stop celebrating and launch an invasion of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and/or Poland? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I have personally rescued thousands of ants.

And in most of these countries, the mass shootings are probably a family murder/suicide or gang related killings. Psychos going to a school to kill kids mostly an American specialty.

Yota Tsuji is a wrestler with a ton of upside and a superstar smile, but his aesthetic is hilariously all over the place. Has a stompy dinosaur theme, calls himself Gene Blast, wears a fedora, loves a pudding brand with Phillip Marlowe as a mascot so much he won the title in pudding sponsored tights

Un peu d'optimisme ne nous ferait pas de mal après tout il nous reste la possibilité qu'on invente la fusion froide à grande échelle ou qu'une invasion extraterrestre nous sauve du pire. Haut les coeurs.

What? Some of you haven't watched Pluribus yet? What are you waiting for? davidbilla.net/pluribus-sea... #TVShows #Pluribus #TVSeries

Dr. Frankenstein stared into the monster’s open cranium. “He’s almost ready! The last monster was too aggressive. To make sure this one is happy, I just need you to pour that ant farm into his head.” Igor blinked in confusion. “But how would that make him happy, master?” “Igor, ants is bliss.”

L'Europe est prisonnière d'une dépendance énergétique qui la lie aux combustibles fossiles de puissances autoritaires, à commencer par les US. Freiner la transition énergétique européenne, c'est perpétuer l'influence de ces régimes et maintenir cette subordination stratégique #venezuela

Happy New Year! Here's the world's easiest resolution: Switch to Vivaldi. Takes 30 seconds. Done. You're welcome. #EasiestResolution

In 2021 the UN's independent expert on Venezuela Alena Douhan wrote a report in which she said US and western sanctions on Venezuela had been the primary factor in reversing the progress made under Chavez and had been deliberately designed to cripple the country

always true

It's interesting that Russia withdrew all of its personnel from Venezuela exactly 14 days before Trump's invasion. China didn't withdraw their personnel. Cuba didn't withdraw theirs. Just Russia. It is almost as if someone called Putin to warn him what's up as part of a quid pro quo. Not almost.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Americans on the TL acting like they haven’t been *the* evil empire for at least the last century. Yankees always pull the obligatory “are…we the ‘baddies’?” performative introspective rhetorical as some form of moral absolution before shrugging it off & going on to support the next criminal act.

He's going to invade NATO territory, NATO will do fuck-all about it, Article 5 will be effectively flushed down the drain, and Putin will cum hard enough to briefly achieve orbit. 2026 is going to be the Year of Hell Part 2.

Interested? @garius.bsky.social is literally offering to help you do that: bsky.app/profile/gari...

What a surprise! I'm surprised! I'm telling you, this is a surprise! Everybody look at me and how surprised I am!!!

The part of 1984 that I didn't expect would become a reality was the partition of the world into Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia... and... looking in the direction of Trump, Putin and Xi... Yikes... #Geopolitics