Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves". I was called "hysterical". Well, here we are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I mean I knew Heated Rivalry had escaped the containment of its original fan base when I watched 3 hetero, bro-as-fuck hockey commentators sob their way through the finale, and then do a 1 hour 20 min beat by beat break down. But this explains succinctly what the appeal of MM romance is to women.

Joy Reid, the best explainer in the business. Kicked out of prime time mainstream media after questioning the main Israeli spokesperson a bit to cogently early into the invasion.

I'm on Bluesky! Apparently it is not always terrible here! But what the government is up to is terrible so I made a round up of all the upcoming bills you can submit on #nzpol #kikorangi www.emilywrites.co.nz/ok/

Everyday America strays further away from Paul Verhoeven's satirical fascist read of Heinlein's dumb atomic age scifi homage to the fake self-mythologising of the Spartan slave state, and towards some AI slop trained on Robocop and Total Recall

The gay agenda

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.

Refrigerate!

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This has been in my city for so long I always forget.

apnews.com/article/fake...  "Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda".

Tara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.

Imagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.

One of my favourite things to do to annoy my kids is make up daft songs and rhymes, and it is very therapeutic Eg Peter Thiel smells like a seal, That's been dead too long in the sun. The smell of dead seal that follows Peter Thiel, Is known to make your eyes run.

And just to cap it off, this fake lead story is "Funded by the Parliamentary Service". I hope anyone working for Stuff as a journalist is feeling deeply embarrassed by this.

makes me wanna cry when tradies go "I've postponed today's other jobs because yours is critical and you deserve to be safe in your own home" then turns up at 7am. we love to see the bros sticking up for the girlies

MMH update with comment from me. Key points: * this type of crew goes after low hanging fruits - which means this vulnerable is going to be something basic, well-known, and preventable www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

* don't let their spin distract you - medical information for 100k+ Kiwis have been stolen, this is a very serious breach of very sensitive data.

The slide in standards is huge. Helen Clark has more knowledge in her little finger than everyone in this government combined.

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Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

My favorite pastime at the moment is watching str8 men cry to heated rivalry

If/when they do emigrate, they must be welcomed and safe in their new countries The alternative to Zionism is doi'kayt, as formulated by the Jewish Labour Bund in the early 20th century, the principle that the place Jewish people 'belong' is where they live www.timesofisrael.com/some-1-in-4-...

Heated Rivalry has gone beyond breaking containment to something else entirely

people are rewatching and analyzing Heated Rivalry episodes like they are Criterion Collection movies (complimentary)

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Just gonna leave this here

portland the kinda town where you can't go out for a nice meal without maybe seeing some sensual horse booty

London is one of the funniest places to do this with because outside of some very particular neighborhoods in certain periods historical London going back to like 1650 seems like it'd be at best kinda scummy to live in

Straight men are capable of emotional intelligence free of homophobia and may men like the Empty Netters hockey podcast bros overtake all the red pilled weirdos in 2026.

Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor. One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”

"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

Watching hockey podcast bros going from haha what is this ahhh about episode 1 of heated rivalry to having their emotional wellbeing completely dependent on what happens in the finale is truly delightful. Let the healing begin

I am at the age where I'm not doing anything for NYE except maybe rewatching episodes five and six of Heated Rivalry and then going to bed

“When I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.”

finally watched the video of this and however much I thought it would fuck me up, which was already a great deal, wow no turns out it was MUCH more

‘Bomber Harris went hunting Palestinians. Tens of thousands were gunned down by Brits in the 1930s revolt.’ Historian William Dalrymple reveals Britain’s hidden colonial role - and why historic responsibility still matters today.

Amazing video! It is technical, but not too much for the lay person.

I feel this in my bones.

Inject it into my veins

correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the president just blame a uni for a mass shooting bc "why weren't the doors locked" -- this endless cognitive dissonance at every turn is too much truly

This is the coolest photo I took in 2025. Remember that you are a speck of dust living on a speck of dust floating in a vast nothingness — knowing that provides some good perspective. Happy New Year!

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Thank you for sharing @alisonfisk.bsky.social A wonderful, timely reminder of what humanity has been, and continues to be, capable of when we turn our minds to creating beauty rather than breaking things. Here’s hoping for more positivity in 2026.

2026 eh. Wild to think about how 'The Matrix' was released closer to the Nixon administration than to today