In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

Prime Minister Polanski: [cackling maniacally, typing the White House coordinates into the launch computer] I said I'd get rid of our nuclear weapons. I never said how.

Sorry, but it's so brilliant that after a morning of political Bluesky talking about Polanski's security policy, a poll comes out showing that Green voters are the most supportive of straight-up bombing America

Enjoying the jingoistic Greens here 🪖

I enjoy match making so much

youtu.be/N8OW0aK-oaA?... this was enjoyable

took too many supplements

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Starmer looking at Carney's approval ratings and going no, actually, I think I'd prefer a different path

The Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Express, talking about sovereignty from the EU every day for my entire life are now the least bothered by it when it comes to the US

A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say? Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.

Time and time again, mentioning that our subs needed to be refitted in the US every few years as a concern was dismissed as stupid

I don't usually crave holidays, however this last week or so...

Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more. via The Economist

Challenges this season have been much less filler, have almost all added something to the game dynamic. #TheTraitors

youtu.be/S0ChpBGZ-4c?... Zelda 40 swords for the 40 anniversary would be great

there’s always a tweet

Sabotaging public goods in the service of private interests.

Have been lent Disco Elysium

Acting against X and Musk looks like the biggest open goal for Keir Starmer it's possible to imagine

“Deepfake child pornography is fine as long as only adults get to see it” is a curious place for the modern Conservative Party to find itself, but here we are

Wanda Sykes: Ricky Gervais couldn't be here, but he would like to thank god and the trans community.

5 years since I moved to Manchester this year. 20 years since I went to college/sixth form. It's 5.30am and I can't sleep

“Let’s focus on winning back Reform voters, who are furthest from our core vote in terms of everything that matters -demography, ideology, priorities, values” “Are they at least open to voting for us?” “Oh yes, their approval of Starmer has doubled in the last year!” “Really?” “Yes, it’s 2% now.”

The BBC is doing it again. On both the Radio 3 & Radio 6 news it reported Vance's story about that video of Renee Good's murder and denials of it, without telling us the facts. It should have the same approach to weather forecasting: "some say it'll rain, some say it won't. Who can tell, eh?"

The level of quixoticism at this point is like Kemi Badenoch spending all day trying to win over Your Party voters. What part of ‘no’ does Blue Labour not understand?

Prince of Persia the lost crown, both then and now

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance added to GameCube Classics - Switch Online www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygx6... OST added to Nintendo Music music.nintendo.com/shared/en-US...

Don't see why trump, after taking Greenland, might say actually we also need Iceland/Faroe islands/the Azores too.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

infuriated on behalf of my union siblings in Halifax over this, even moreso after the absurdly long history of struggle in Canada trying to get a union going within Ubisoft. www.ign.com/articles/ubi...

“If he makes a move on Greenland, the damage that does to America's ability to rally allies - that's devastating." David Rennie, Geopolitics Editor at The Economist, discusses President Trump's foreign policy approach to Greenland. #Newsnight

Then GoldenEye Now Diddy Kong Racing

Then Ocarina of Time Now Banjo Kazooie

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... i'm really into this

Urge to rewatch Stargate SG1 is strong

Sicko yes yess

Then Banjo Tooie Now Paper Mario Both are all time favourites still...

This is even more craven than I expected

Does anyone know the last time a country kidnapped the president of another?

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Then Advance Wars Now (still) Advance Wars

Another shot of Rama Duwaji and her date.

www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/01... 🤓

Forgot to do the last boss on my Tooie run. The UK reg plate on its tank ❤️

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty