The new year actually starts today for our next trip round the sun 🌞🔭

Starmer is happy to let anti genocide protesters who are detained without charge die of starvation and you think he gives a shit that our special relationship partners commited a war crime?

I'm not convinced that posting a slop image with such obvious mistakes isn't just engagement trolling by the far right activist controlling of that FB account

More spineless cowardice from Keir Starmer as he fails to condemn Trump for trashing international law and unilaterally attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president. The weakness of post Brexit UK is exposed.

No cheating, repost with the most recent photo of your pet

My favourite thing about the Diddy documentary is whenever a musician pipes up to say how fucking shit this guy was at music.

I have spent a lot of time in recent years studying up on Venezuela in a variety of areas, because it has one of the largest refugee exodi in the world, mainly. My professional standpoint on Trump launching attacks against it is that bombing a country is a piss poor way to stop people fleeing it.

ngl i did get a tiny bit of a thrill at seeing a model i used to do production casting for in the Stranger Things finale. back in the days when Otherworld minis were first getting off the ground I was casting these almost as fast as Richard could sell them. lovely stuff.

Remembering how in February '22 the British press didn't pay any notable attention to the multiple Spetznaz assassination teams hunting (and failing to kill) Zelenskyy in the streets of Kyiv. Nah, that couldn't *possibly* backfire on them …

ME: got a fantastic idea for a movie about a priest who loves capitalism EXECUTIVE: sounds intriguing. this guy got a name ME: uh. bishop. robber… baron. bishop robert barron

this habit blue maga have of blaming minorities for kamala harris losing when all election data shows us it was straight white cisgender ppl who voted trump is so irritating. queer ppl are not responsible for trump.

We've heard Vance talk shit about left-wing parties in Europe as a threat to the US. Are we going to see enforced regime change here too? Is the US going to abduct any politician who's insufficiently deferential to Trump anywhere in the world?

That was the literal pitch: Knock this country over and I will roll over the corpse and let international capital pick it clean. And I will restore respect for the rule of law and human rights – by partnering with Gulf States

This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar. Greens stand against this contempt of international law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

the british left needs to rediscover anti-atlanticism in a major way

This is the first time in history that a County Clare hotelier has kidnapped the leader of another country

Clarke Award winner ANNIE BOT is this month’s New Scientist Book Club choice! www.newscientist.com/article/2508...

What annoys me here is Pesto’s rather colonial assumption that the Global South *should* look up to the ‘West’ as some moral authority as if morality is some sort of only western phenomenon, despite centuries of history showing us the flagrant immorality of the ’West’ with regard to the Global South

oh no, *now* the Global South will begin to doubt the moral authority of the West

Every day, the Labour government's decision to continue bandwagoning with the United States looks more and more like the greatest foreign policy disaster in British history. And we did Brexit.

The adverts for cannon-fodder are already targeting post-codes with higher rates of poverty in Scotland btw. Don't send you kids to die for this fuckery.

How's the Nobel committee feeling this morning about the person they gave the Peace Prize?

I am begging the users of this wesbite - of all the websites that work like this - to understand the basic fucking manners that are involved in talking to other people on here. If you hit Reply, the original poster is going to take that as a direct response to what they said, because it is.

oh yeah? well, could a dying sex criminal do THIS? [bombs venezuela]

A reminder: don't read or amplify Visegrád24

in many ways trump is the perfect useful idiot here as he is such a force of personality and conducting this war so brazenly that it is extremely easy to be shocked, apalled and horrified by this without actually opposing the american empire that is the root of this evil and bloodshed

Imagine how different the world would be if that fucker had just died of covid when he was supposed to, or if that sniper's bullet had gone just a couple of centimetres to the right

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

I would regretfully like to inform you of the ASPA (aka "The Hague Invasion Act") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

Want to say, it’s a good reminder to start using Signal if you aren’t already signal.org

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

Obviously I'm posting this in the wrong place but schools and settings should be very rapidly deleting any photos of children that they've shared on Twitter.

not now, Moby Dick bot

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

JUST IN—Yván Gil Pinto, Venezuela's Minster of Foreign Affairs, posted an official statement to Telegram. t.me/YvanGilPinto... "The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack." Full translation:

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Look, I’m hosting the Hugos in LA next year, but we will film that shit. NOBODY should risk themselves. Our country is acting despicably in every regard.

lmao www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

People say it’s odd that governments still use Twitter/X to communicate, but it’s only like how the John Major government announced its ongoing Maastricht negotiations through the readers’ erotic stories pages in Men Only magazine.

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

I love the idea that governments have to stay on Twitter because that's where "their audience" is. Like if you only announced your cabinet reshuffles on Bluesky Harry bloody Cole wouldn't make an account to read about it.

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about

Congrats! You made it to the first Friday of 2026.

I've got a new piece up in the January 2026 issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! It's the latest installment of my "Destinations" series, which is all about the history of astronomy and how science fiction authors have adapted as we learned more about the solar system.

That’s right, we are both insufferable and correct

YOU SHALL! NOT! PASTA!