White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Deeply senile old man re-posts clearly fake video of himself promoting a clearly nonsense idea linked to a whacko conspiracy theory, thinking it's real. And still the media won't discuss his glaring mental decline.

A quick look at climate target comparisons. Notice anything? (source: Climate Change Authority, independent statutory body, Australia)

In the last 24 hours, Trump has claimed to have settled a war between Armenia & Cambodia, and another war between Albania & Azerbaijan (this being the 2nd time in as many weeks he has made the latter claim). He's senile. Yet we get none of the media scrutiny of his senility that we got for Biden.

Kimmel is returning. The lesson? Action & pressure work.

"The new H-1B visa fee could stop the next Elon Musk - who was on such a visa before - from coming to America." *becomes fervent H-1B fee supporter*

There are plenty of people here who would rather vote for people who say exactly what you want them to say and achieve none of it vs people who don't say what you want them to say, yet achieve some of the things that you want. They are fools, but foolishness is a democratic right.

When you ask the drunk chef to put up your typhoon tape.

The EDB has just issued a special announcement for all parents in Hong Kong. It's very important that all parents know and follow this announcement. Here is their English version: (@kjoules.org @tripperhead.bsky.social)

Quite an eye on Ragasa.

Remeber around 10 years ago when Russian planes kept pulling this stunt on Turkey from Syrian airspace? Then Turkey shot 1 down & killed the pilot. Russia got all mad, huffed & puffed, then did nothing & stopped violating Turkish airspace. Yeah, do that. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Disney people should watch this amazing show about the rise of fascism and the tough choices and sacrifices people made attempting to resist it. It was called Andor. Wonder if they ever heard of it.

I would cancel Disney+ but I've never subscribed to any TV service ever cos I just get everything for free. Some of us can't afford luxuries.

Point proven.

Whatever you think of Corbyn himself, his hardcore supporters are DEEPLY toxic. I have never, ever come across a British tankie who, after checking their feed, wasn't posting obsessively pro-Corbyn stuff. In between really nasty tankie bs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In these dark time, I would like to thank Ange Postecoglou for providing the comedy gold, and I don't think anyone's going to stop him providing such comedy for a couple of months at least.

FYI, these are the rather bland and uncontroversial comments by Kimmel that made the US government decide it needs to start actively breaking the first amendment.

I just realised that while Steven Colbert was cancelled, he's actually still on the air until May 2026. Will another network have the guts to hire him? Will another network have the guts to hire Kimmel? Or in the new media age will they go down the Tucker Carlson route of doing sth independently?

Ummm...

Yep.

Next South Park episode wish: Cartman is in fear for his life after Kirk's murder believing he is next as the town go on a witch-hunt for anyone saying anything other than fulsome praise of Kirk. Meanwhile, Butters REALLY IS plotting to murder Cartman after being radicalized on Roblox.

When the "can we nuke a hurricane" guy comes up with a policy to stop drug mules.

When "free speech fundamentalists" run things...

Some people are very down on AI / LLMs, but I think they provide a vital function. For example, analyzing mid-90s Canadian songs for their misuse of literary terminology.

The church said if the school failed to comply with its demands, it would create a new private primary institution and would evict HKIS from the campus

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, the owner of the Hong Kong International School campus in Repulse Bay, is suing the school for breach of contract, “accusing the institution of serving only the ‘rich and privileged few’ and amassing excessive financial reserves” www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

13 hours to get some medicine and be sent home to self monitor, to see if the medicine works.

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

While that farce cost HK$233 million, i'm 10.5 hours into an A&E trip accompanying someone with suspected acute appendicitis. 9 hours to be seen by anyone. Still waiting on a determination. Corridors full of people on trolleys. Clearly understaffed & underfunded.

It's weird to think that former Manchester United flop Memphis Depay is now the Netherlands all-time top scorer, especially when you consider the legends who have played for them in the past.

September 2025's China quarrel thread begins here, to keep track of the various arguments, incidents & threats being made by & against China. August 2025's thread below. bsky.app/profile/nine...

On the plus side, I did test negative for everything like COVID/flu etc. On the down side, that means maybe I've brewed up something new entirely that you can all look forward to catching soon enough.

Been very busy and quite sick... will get back to posting soon... ish

I'm waiting for the "the Clintons murdered Trump to keep the Epstein files secret" take to drop, but it's probably already out there.

I don't care how much you "don't hold back" while RESIGNING. You are opening your position to a regime ally. Resigning is NOT fighting back. Stay in place & disobey orders until you are fired and then fight your firing.

An 18 month suspended sentence for planning mass murder? Yeah, that'll be an effective deterrent. Sure, you gotta factor in his age (14 at the time of the offence) & his guilty plea, but that's still an absolutely insane sentence for such an offence.

Greatest TV show ever made? Any genre. I'm torn between Sopranos, The Wire, Bojack Horseman, & Andor.

Number of people killed by terrorists in Hong Kong since 1997: 0 Number of demands made by terrorists that Hong Kong could "yield" to: 0

I want to hear him say "Ekitiké"

👍Very nice!👍 www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

Just insane to think that they might grant planning permission after this. Imagine being so secretive that you refuse to reveal what your plans are during the planning application. There's no way there's an innocent explanation for hiding something like that.

The saying should now be: "South Park already did it." South Park: The End of Obesity - 24 May 2024 Simpsons: The Last Man Expanding - 6 April 2025 (the plots have A LOT of similarities)

• A wholesaler said he used to sell that brand. "We stopped selling it because of the taste of the water, it's groundwater." 「我們現在就直接不賣了，因為的水口感問題，是地下水。」 Locals won't drink that, added another wholesaler. • Wholesalers were not aware of the contract with GovHK www.hk01.com/article/6026...

Best not to get too carried away with unknowns. While ceding territory is certainly bad, it seems almost impossible to get it back by force. So the question really is, in exchange for WHAT? And it has to be part of a final peace deal, not a cease fire. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

*Benny Hill theme music plays* www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"Many of our drivers are unfit for being on the road and would fail these stricter health checks. Therefore we oppose them in order to keep dangerous drivers on the road."