🧵Geolocations of ALL sites that the Indian Army has claimed to have hit in Pakistan and Kashmir. 1. Masjid Syedna Bilal/Hazrat Bilal 34.385846°N 73.456974°E It appears to have been a direct hit, according to after-strike ground photos. google.com/maps/place/3...

High-res satellite imagery released as part of the emergency response to the Burmese earthquakes shows the exact location of the surface rupture of the strike-slip. On the outskirts of Tharzi. google.com/maps/place/2.. Gif in the next post. @kyle-bradley.bsky.social @judithgeology.bsky.social

I've been going through the imagery and mapping any destroyed/damaged structure, particular rescue priorities (potential mass casualty events) and IDP locations in all the imagery available. google.com/maps/d/edit?... Please check the map and share widely with anyone who will find it useful.

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Here are two neighbouring villages in Burma, the first under Resistance Control, the second under Military Junta control. Where would you prefer to live?

Recent satellite imagery from Jan shows the resistance-aligned Kachin Independence Army establishing fortified frontlines on the outskirts of the Kachin capital, Myitkyina (close to Waingmaw town). For much of the war, the resistance has been asymmetrical. Now not as much.

Drone footage from the Burmese Junta shows the Resistance-aligned Arakan Army taking up positions around Nyaung Ko Village, 15km from the Directorate of Defence Industries Factory complex #9, a significant ammo factory for Junta troops across the country.

Following the collapse of TNLA and SAC talks in Burma, the resistance group has restarted their offensive on the major artillery command in Taung Hkam. Sit-Tat strike footage shows that they have already reached Manmaw village and isolated the two garrisons in the command.

The Karenni resistance in Burma just captured the final Junta border outpost in the state, Taung Katone (တောင်ကတုံး), ~40 border outposts were captured/abandoned in total since the start of the coup, and there is now a stretch of 350km of the Thai border with NO junta presence.

Over the weekend, a second battalion in the Burmese city of Bhamo fell to the Kachin Independence Army in their months-long offensive. This follows the airport and an armoured battalion which were captured in Jan. It also splits the remaining Junta camps into 3 pockets.

something here aint right

This afternoon I read this 1978 essay on the socio-cultural rise of Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany. Primarily because I sensed there would be some shared vibes with the right-wing obsession with DEI as a cultural code for racism/sexism and signalling in-groupness. And ho-boy. Thoughts. ⬇️

Also known as 'No wonder shorebirds are so universally endangered'

I was pottering around old Aussie music and decided I wanted to geolocate this album cover. It's a Perth band, so probably in WA somewhere and the album's from 1986, but no clue beyond that. Let's go! Kudos to whoever beats me (and no googling).

Another clear example of how Resistance governance in Burma is unambiguously better for everyone. www.bnionline.net/en/news/myan... The scale of corruption and mismanagement in Junta-controlled areas is astounding. Better opposition governance helped the Syrian regime to fall. Burma's next.

"Trapped between the SAC’s wilful indifference and a lack of political will among other countries, the KNU now faces daunting challenges... Shwe Kokko is therefore... a litmus test for the KNU’s ability to safeguard the collective future of the Karen people" myanmar-now.org/en/news/shwe...

The Arakan Army in western Myanmar has now advanced 10km into Ayeyarwady Region along the Gwa axis, ~20km into Ayeyarwady towards Bawmi, has reached the border on the Toungup axis and is clashing within a few kilometres of the Magway border along the Ann axis. The message is clear. They will push.

Celebrating the Year of the Snake with some amazing snakes I've seen in Australia over my time. - Coastal Carpet Python - Green Tree Python - Red-bellied Black-Snake - Tiger Snake

For Holocaust Memorial Day and with the accelerating rise of authoritarianism in the States, you should all read (or listen to, it's an amazingly done audiobook) The Diary Keepers by Nina Siegal, reflecting on ordinary reactions to the Nazi occupation and Holocaust in the Netherlands

Good thing there is absolutely no historical precedent for any of this "Those seeking jobs have been told they will have to prove their “enthusiasm” to enact Trump’s agenda and have been asked when their moment of “MAGA revelation” occurred." apnews.com/article/trum...

What a photo

Baltic Sea is at a 25.6 times higher frequency of cable 'accidents' than normal levels with today's breakage Looking at period Nov 15 2024 - Jan 31 2025 and basing on napkin stats below. The error margin in my stats is huge, but is not 25 times off. 8 breakages in 2.5m vs normal of 1.5/annually

I crossposted a hidden camera recording of a neo nazi saying Nazi things on both here and twitter. Guess which platform has had dozens of people replying 'he's right actually'....

#Myanmar ( #Burma ) 🇲🇲: People's Defense Forces ( #PDF ) attacked Military Council Base in Ye Township, #Mon State. Group notably used Truck-mounted Craft-made Multiple Launching Rocket System (MLRS) —Improvised 6-tube Launcher and HE-Frag rockets. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

A Superb Fairy-Wren peeking out of the flowers

so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports

The average DC foreign policy/international security critter probably needs to substantially stretch their imagination concerning how weird world affairs are about to get.

One of the birds in this flock is very rare and only recorded a handful of times in Eastern Australia in the last 10 years, the rest are common as muck. Who can pick it?

We applied 22,500m2 of woody debris to overgrazed arid Australia, the first pic sums up the results pretty nicely!! It not only helped veg and soil recover but provided habitat for reptiles and mammals, details in Restoration Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Together, Colombia and Ecuador accounted for roughly 90% of all roses, 98% of all carnations, and 95% of all chrysanthemums sold in the U.S. last year."

It took me way too long to find this damn frog, but after however many years living in its range I can finally introduce to y'all the Green-and-Golden Bell Frog

Just give me group chats you animals

This is a fascinating documentary on the carry-on impacts of China's decreased consumption - in this case on the trucking industry. It follows a five-day truck journey from Yunnan to Tibet. It came out last year, and trends have only got worse since. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... I recommend it.

Australian Far-right racist/neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell was caught on camera by the BBC saying that the "most effective" way to deal with Black Australians is to skin them and lynch them. He also says they were happy under slavery. At a Patriot Alternative (UK) conference.

the Chinook firefighting helicopters are something else, geewhiz

There have been many cases of HKSARG using the "justice" system as a tool of suppression in Hong Kong post 2019 but convicting the victims of the Yuen Long attack (7.21) is so fucking low, so scummy, makes a complete mockery of justice or law I can't really express how fucked up it is.

So, while there are indeed right-leaning hashtags that were hidden (e.g. #alllivesmatter), the vast majority were left leaning. Here's a table showing the contrast (again, not exhaustive):

The institutions that are meant to protect us are woefully and laughably under-prepared to deal with transnational repression This isn't the first time I've heard of inadequate preparation, understanding or knowledge of the risks of TNR facing dissidents overseas

A welcome if slightly pushy visitor to our new apartment. Clearly very offended that the new people aren't as free flowing with the lorikeet feed mix.

Searching for Project 2025 And January 6th are blocked too.

Trump just abolished all men. All embryos are, at conception, female. After about 9-14 weeks of gestation male physiology develops. For an ideology that's supposedly 'science-based' these chumps really can't get high school biology right.

4 years ago, Min Aung Hlaing was in the final stages of preparing for his coup, which he thought would be a cake walk. Today, it's all slipping away. My thoughts on a regime in terminal decline for #RadioFreeAsia. www.rfa.org/english/opin...

Myanmar: A phenomenal overview from @zachabuza.bsky.social touching on countless aspects of the ever-more precarious situation for the 🇲🇲 junta going into 2025. "To sum it up, the junta is entering the fifth year of military rule with its power rapidly slipping away." www.rfa.org/english/opin...

I've seen a lot of very rare birds in my time, but never before have I seen a helium balloon that's fallen back to earth. My first 'lifer' of 2025

this is a genuinely alarming story via Gabriel Pogrund in Sunday Times: deepfake video seen by two million people online falsely made it look as if a teacher - delivering election leaflets - had made a racist tirade www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Great report by VOA's William Yang on the Tiktok user migration to Xiaohongshu, w/ my thoughts at the end on how this may not last so long as the Chinese government gets spooked by such unfettered interaction between Chinese and American users. www.voanews.com/a/us-tiktok-...

From 2022: How Xiaohongshu Censors "Sudden Incidents"

Details of the tensions between the Chinland Defence Forces and the Chin Brotherhood Alliance over the forthcoming battle for Tedim, one of the last two towns in Chin State largely remaining under Junta control t.me/PeopleSpring...

🧵 of summaries of clashes in Burma. (a Bluesky exclusive) These are AI-generated summaries of Burmese language news reports which I use instead of conventional translation because it can give me the Burmese script of locations to find them easier. So I may as well share.

The Observatory has published a graph showing the increase in the number of hot nights in Hong Kong since records began in 1884: https://buff.ly/4jbdCVT It comes as the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the warmest year on record. Chart: HKO.