If you think Trump's comments about capturing oil in V aren't sincere because the country has bad, old and inefficient fossil infrastructure, I regret to inform you that all fossil fuel infrastructure is bad, old and inefficient and none of these people actually care about the process or product

love how news outlets are saying Maduro "captured" instead of fucking kidnapped

Australians, hit the streets tomorrow and Monday in solidarity with Venezuela

"you'll have my opinion when the US gives it to me"

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.

There is no "become." People need to stop fucking acting like this is something new. We're the country of slavery, genocide, and systemic oppression so vile that we literally inspired the Nazis. None of this is new, it's what we've always been. Accept it so you can fight it.

OK, crash course in oil. Oil has two main gradings, viscosity (light or heavy) and sulfur (sweet or sour). A light (low viscosity) and sweet (low sulfur) oil is easier to process into gasoline and other products than a heavy and sour one, so the light & sweet oil commands a premium price.

like to say “he’s bombing Venezuela as a distraction from the Epstein files” doesn’t feel quite accurate because he’s so driven by immediate impulses that things are rarely that tactical; but I think it excites him to be seen as a War Leader and he will go back to that well anytime he feels weakened

Too bad, slopguy

It's 2026. We have friends in Gaza and Caracas sending us live updates and videos as it happens.

Venezuela is a sovereign country, not a non-state actor. It is not developing any offensive capabilities that would threaten US safety. There has been no argument to Congress—the only entity that can declare war—that the United States must undertake military operations. This is beyond illegal.

we marched against Iraq, we're marching against this bullshit too, right

Insider trading on war crimes what the fuck

The window for people to create fake content is now open. Shit got real, and it is going to get real messy, like a fully charged Roomba running over a wet dog shit on a white carpet messy. It will take time to clean up the sources. #Caracas

this admin is profoundly and absolutely detached from reality, in a directly internet and slop-enabled way that I do think is genuinely unique in history.

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Trump just illegally bombed Venezuela and sent in troops without congressional authorization. Innocent people are going to die because this demented bastard wants to waive his tiny dick around to force a regime change.

Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

You would think one fucking Very Serious Commentator would’ve realised this by now, but seems no

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

having an AI apologise FOR ITSELF is a terrifying way to divorce human beings from accountability

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

For my hero of 2025 at @motherjones.com, I wrote about the late great disabled disability justice oracle Alice Wong, including her work with Disability Visibility Project, Crips for eSims for Gaza, and #CripTheVote. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Perhaps an obvious point, but beyond a certain level of wealth, these numbers become meaningless. Those eight billionaires are mostly wielding political capital at this point; the bank balances are irrelevant. What this is a record of is therefore only what they *took* from everyone else.

Ending the recap of our top stories of the year with a bang... chaser.com.au/world/la-cop...

today i saw a guy mowing his lawn in a Bintang singlet and one of those straw hats from Bunnings, this may possibly be the most Australian man to ever exist

I have recently learned that, as a matter of fact, racists *really* hate this question.

guess she didn't quite think it through variety.com/2025/music/n...

Labor is simultaneously talking about letting CSG, a Zionist security org with close links to the IDF, carry heavy firearms at events in Australia, and also Australians can't protest anymore... What does that feel like?? Seriously?? Anyone that isn't batshit psycho ok with this?

happy liminal spacemas, couches

Brigitte Bardot had a complicated legacy. She was very racist and not a good actor but had a nice bum | me for The Guardian

Centrists seem to have no idea how illegitimate and undemocratic they now appear to huge masses of ordinary people. The cowardice, the hypocrisy, the lies, the selling out, the fascistic overreach to support Israel's depravity. Business as usual is just waking people up.

What gets missed so often by people who claim they want to see bad people redeemed and transformed is whether or not the person in question is interested in doing anything redeeming and if they are transforming, or if they just want exoneration for free, and reconciliation without reparation.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

It's particularly wild to see facile comparisons because we have stuff like Bitcoin mining, supersonic jets hype, NFTs, SUVs, single use plastic etc all from the past decade to compare the AI boom to

"Do you think you're better than others?" No. That's how I know that they can choose to do the right thing at literally any moment. Because I'm NOT better than them, and I've done it.

I think this gets back to "what actually is AI" because I am broadly skeptical of LLMs as a technology with a broader use, but I have seen incredible uses of AI in data analysis, document review, and threat intervention.

I was thinking about that with the TikTok crochet craze featuring sped-up results for an already speedy craft. I love crochet, don't get me wrong, but cross stitch and embroidery can be a 20-100 hour commitment for a comparatively tiny piece and I think there's value in that.

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

me: so at some point Victor had to decide what cock and balls to give him, yes my husband: can we please just watch the movie

‘nothing concerning is happening in the middle east as long as it’s only palestinians dying’ has been the *standard* framing of the western media during my entire lifetime, including here in australia #auspol

my husband: I'd like to have my wife committed, effective immediately judge: on what grounds my husband: she's actually thinking about going to IKEA. on the Saturday after Christmas judge: oh this is serious. GRANTED.

"It's something they read, not something they wrote" there it is in a nutshell