Here we go katu.com/news/local/i...

I've had a Gmail account since I was 12 - I caught the back end of the beta, when someone had to invite you to Gmail... First time in my life I'm seriously contemplating if I should slowly start moving away from it.

9.1.2026 Standard

Über den Pressesprecher, der Innenminister wurde und verdrängte Vertriebene Meine brandaktuelle Kolumne #asylfakt auf @moment.at www.moment.at/story/innenm...

I'm so naive. I thought these outlets would bury the story instead of blatantly lying.

Schlechtes Zeugnis für Österreichs Sprachpolitik: Die Rechte autochthoner Minderheiten werden – trotz Schutz in der Verfassung – kaum umgesetzt. Der Sprachwissenschaftler Rudolf de Cillia fordert mehr Mut für echte Sprachenvielfalt. www.sosmitmensch.at/schlechtes-z...

Österreich ist ab heute "soft closed". - Ankunftszentrum Rotes Kreuz in Linz bleibt offen, hat aber ca. 15 Betten - Andere Bundesländer nehmen Leute, solange sie am Anfang irgendwo übernachten können (Freund:innen..) während org. Quartier organisiert wird - Wien nimmt nur Leute, die privat wohnen

2026 vibe check www.lbc.co.uk/article/dani...

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Bought Guns of August last night - somehow had the sudden urge to read about the lead up to WW1.

working on these ideas now

Tbh I think all the "What if Russia is emboldened!" is silly. Russia points to Yugoslavia and Iraq already anyway. Plus they already tried and failed at a similar-ish aim in 2022. HOWEVER. Reading this headline did make me cackle. Merz, in Russian custody: Very complex, the rechtliche Einordnung!!

… This exchange with Rubio really cleared things up tho

UPDATED LIST of countries the Trump administration has threatened to invade, annex, or otherwise attack in the 85 hours of 2026 so far: 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇲🇽 Mexico Insane.

Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.

Compiling some reading recommendations i see on here on the situation in Venezuela, feel free to add your own bsky.app/profile/alda...

Response by the Danish Ambassador to the US “We are close allies and should continue to work together as such … And yes, we expect full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.”

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.

Oh ok, we the EU are just total US lapdogs now. Russia doesn't consider the Ukrainian government to be legitimate since Maidan either btw, is the EU about to tell us that the 2022 plan to capture Kyiv + Zelenskyy was actually perfectly acceptable? What clownery.

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Once again.

Interrupting our current horror: I'm watching Neumeier's Nutcracker with my mom on Arte rn and we are both loving it ♥️ Different enough to be fresh, lovely and familiar, fun for newbies, sly winks for ballet lovers 🩰♥️ www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

do democratic transitions usually start with a kidnapping ursula

Genuinely: what is the EU gonna do if/when Trump makes good on Greenland? No matter what international crimes are being committed and by who, we only have one reaction - concern.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

This is a truly wild response from the EU.

Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.

The joke here is that Putin made considerable effort to provide some (flimsy and entirely wrong) veneer of legality for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

ugh

For the fact that I spent the last two days relaxing at the Therme/Sauna, I'm absolutely shattered today 😂😂

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Reading how many people in Austria were injured by fireworks last night while listening to the Viennese New Year concert 🙉 Traditional January 1st activities! oesterreich.orf.at/stories/3336...

noe.orf.at/stories/3336... 15.000 gefährliche Böller in Tulln gefunden, berichtet der ORF. Eh kein extremistischer Hintergrund. Aha. Die Patronengurte mit Leuchtspurmuni interessieren mich da mehr. Und die Schlagringe. Der ORF hat im Artikel das BMI Bild abgeschnitten. Original in Antwort.

New year, new book thread ☺️ I'm not doing a specific themed challenge this year, but I'd like to try reading more classics in general. This pinned thread has lil reviews for whichever books I want to highlight! [Pic: My Discworld collection, along with my crocheted Discworlds 😁]

Welcoming the new year at the Therme - reading the new book I got for Christmas, sweating in the sauna, enjoying the snow ☺️ A peaceful end to a very complicated year!

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

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I've participated to the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast more frequently as a listener than as an interviewer/ee, but you can find my first episode here, in conversation with Anthea Vogl @utsintlaw.bsky.social "Judging Refugees – Language on the Move" share.google/411c7lLfI9LG...

Little piece of good news to end the year on a high note: the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social has won the Australian Linguistic Society's 2025 Talkley Award in recognition of our contributions to public knowledge about language 🤩👏🫶 www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-...

Walking around Vienna searching for flipflops (I forgot them for my sauna Silvester trip), trying to figure out if I have any feelings of home for this city I lived in for a whole year...

Die #Arbeitspflicht für Asylwerber:innen - kaum ein Thema wurde von der Politik in den vergangenen beiden Jahren so oft gespielt. Die Realität spielte dabei oft eine Nebenrolle. Leseempfehlung für diesen sehr guten Artikel www.wienerzeitung.at/a/asylwerben...

These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

Ich weiß es sind Feiertage und alle haben andere Dinge im Kopf aber was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit neuen ukrainischen Geflüchteten in Österreich ab den 8. Jänner? Just say "Austria's closed" honestly at least.

Update: Mir sind inzwischen vier Frauen namentlich bekannt, die keine Autorisierung zur Veröffentlichung biografischer Texte in ich-Form erteilt haben, darunter sehr bekannte Persönlichkeiten. Namen wurden lediglich als verwertbare Ressource behandelt. Das hat Struktur und ist nicht akzeptabel.

Grandiose Fotos!