"Just wait til November, then we'll show them how upset we are at the ballot box!" say the do nothing idiots who STILL don't realise the situation they're in and think their elections will be free and fair. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

February 2026's China quarrel thread begins here, to keep track of the various arguments, incidents & threats being made by & against China. January 2026's thread below. bsky.app/profile/nine...

The "dig the fucking hole" meme come to life.

NB. Taiwan was already SIGNIFICANTLY richer than the Mainland's richest province (Beijing) on a per capita basis and is actually pulling away. One key reason the PRC is obsessed with crushing Taiwan is that it shows that another model is not only possible, but is FAR more successful.

When bro sees someone asking if there'll be pizza: "OMG, it's so obvious that there's child sexual abuse happening here!" When bro sees someone say they were forced to perform oral sex on Trump around age 13-14: "This is very cryptic, hard to decipher... probably nothing."

Ok, WHAT is bro driving? His SUV took a direct hit from an RPG and just... drove off. That car company should lead with this in their advertising. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Current situation of the British right, as far as I can tell: Reform: Tories but with Farage Tories: Reform but without Farage

UK cinemas being paid to play Amazon's pro-Trump propaganda film to near empty rooms www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just stepped outside and the pollution is disgusting today. You can see it, smell it, taste it.

It is known some of the insurrectionists are armed. This proves that Mossad are involved.

The Minnesota regime change riots are a CIA-backed colour revolution!

Yep.

"Yi Fuxian, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said births in 2025 were “roughly the same level as in 1738, when China’s population was only about 150 million”."

I knew the figures were going to be bad, but these are absolutely terrible.

The tankies got so mad when I said thousands had been killed (even tho the post was primarily about Trump's narcissism, not this obvious fact). And yet...

It's gonna be everyone except Russia isn't it... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Amazing how this post - which was primarily about Trump's narcissism - has brought out the furious tankies. A lot of: - no evidence of protesters being killed - but anyway, those protesters deserved to be killed - it's all a foreign/CIA/MI6/Mossad plot - no I didn't say what I just said

LOL

Tankie be alternating their posts between denouncing the violence of ICE & Israel and fantasizing about the violence of dictatorships again. This is why no one takes your moralizing seriously - you don't have principles, you have a side that you cheer on no matter what, just like MAGA do.

First deny... Then justify. I see tankies are still tanking with the exact same tactics they've always used.

The Iranian protests have been mostly crushed through the murder of thousands. With no chance of them overthrowing the regime, Trump is now trying to claim the end of the protests as some kind of personal victory.

Everyone in ICE should be stripped of citizenship and deported to an El Salvadorean (or similar) prison then.

You probably already know this, but just in case: - Russia & China pose zero threat to Greenland - even if they did, Greenland is ALREADY covered by the NATO alliance, so if they attacked it, the US (& others) are ALREADY treaty-bound to stop this - the US ALREADY has permission to base troops there

"He tried to kill my dad" is no longer the worst excuse for overthrowing a country's leader.

January 2026's China quarrel thread begins here, to keep track of the various arguments, incidents & threats being made by & against China. December 2025's thread below. bsky.app/profile/nine...

I once went to a "ghetto" in Albuquerque to sell shotgun parts so i could buy tequila. Maaaaaan, that "ghetto" house was so f***ing huge by HK standards, & large by West European. 3 kids watching a movie on a large flatscreen tv. A "poor" American DROVE me there in THEIR PICK-UP TRUCK.

Excellent. I've been hoping Ukraine could go global with this for a while. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Trying to imagine me five years ago fathoming an insane headline like this www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Like when China sent forces to the Arafura Sea off Northern Australia, and they started harassing Australian Coast Guard planes with powerful lasers for no reason. www.defence.gov.au/news-events/...

Notably, when foreign vessels/planes simply sail or fly in international spaces near China, China gets very angry. But when China goes to international waters near other countries (which it is absolutely allowed to), it sometimes harasses them there and seems to think this is fine.

China has broken last year's record with a month still to go in 2025. Such an extreme trade imbalance (a record in all of history) is a major disruption to the entire global economy.

Yes, even bigger than the US's surpluses in the years after WW2 when adjusted for inflation, when the US dominated global manufacturing due to the utter devastation of other manufacturing centres in the war while its remained untouched.

this just makes the fact that they've arrested someone for sedition because they petitioned for an inquiry all the more absurd

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

State-backed Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao has taken down an investigative report published on 28 Nov which cited industry sources saying building maintenance works effectively controlled by cartel, rife with corrupt practices in tender process, widespread cost and corner-cutting in materials.

Because OF COURSE that's how this government will respond to any request for them to actually do their job in the wake of a massive deadly event - arrest anyone who asks!

I was going to use a Times of India article for this story, until I noticed that this was the image that came up along with the link (and is in their article). This kind of AI slop adds nothing (at least they put a note to say it's AI generated, in case it wasn't already obvious to some).

One huge problem with HK in the "new era", is that it focuses massive resources on finding & punishing things like standing near a protest while wearing black, throwing a pair of sunglasses etc., giving years in jail for such things, while issuing only empty warnings for life-endangering practices.

(In expressing her desire to see the renovation go on unimpeded in spite of this criticism, Wong also uses the unfortunate idiom 「如火如荼」, literally saying that the works should “proceed like a raging fire.”)

This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous. In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.

Oh, you mean he was manipulated by and took the side of a dictator? How unprecedented... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Feeling very reassured that this is just a silly conspiracy theory.

Hope you haven't gotten too excited about the Epstein Bill. It will compel the release of all UNCLASSIFIED information. The President has the power to decide what is or isn't "classified". So good luck getting the important stuff.

This AI article comes from one of Pakistan's biggest newspapers, Dawn Let's be fair tho, MAYBE Pakistan has so few people and the people who are there are so well off, that they can't find a human to do the job at a reasonable cost?

Japan, one of the safest countries on Earth, says something about Taiwan. HK govt, screaming in panic: "OH MY GOD DON'T GO TO JAPAN IT'S SO DANGEROUS YOU WILL GET ATTACKED BY THE PEOPLE AND BEARS AND PROBABLY DIE HORRIBLY!!!"

The Boys season 3, from 2022, does an amazing job of parodying the Trump admin of 2025.

Another example. This time a before/after that just gives a small hint (or reminder) about what happened.

I love how quickly the Wikipedia grammar police must have swarmed this article about the Hongqi Bridge, which opened in April. And, er... has suddenly "closed". (you can see video & photos of its "closure" here: www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...)

Snippets of history are sometimes found in Google Street View.

TBF, I seriously doubt he will hit the necessary targets: Over a decade, he must deliver 20m Tesla electric vehicles to buyers, sell 10m active full self-driving subscriptions, develop & sell 1m humanoid robots & deploy 1m robotaxis in commercial service...