The government knew the news of Li's death would lead to an uproar. So they did one of the most shameful things ever. They would not announce his death. They pretended he was still alive. State media statements that Li had passed away were wiped. But this photo was posted. And then we all knew.

If Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs are forced to stop water activities in #Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people will lose access to drinking water. Paula Navaro, our Water and Sanitation Coordinator, updates:

These Catalan editions of Terry Pratchett are gorgeous

NEW: I wrote about the physical and psychological harms of Hollywood male beauty standards that idealize dehydration.

sure the us is sliding into authoritarianism but on the other hand, south korea is completely paralyzed by dubai chocolate fever. in a couple of weeks they went from dubai chocolate chewy cookie to dubai chocolate raw amberjack fish to dubai chocolate grilled short ribs

I’ll have been in country for ten years in August, & should have been eligible for ILR, then citizenship the day after we get married in November. I have paid in the range of £15k in visa fees since arriving, and have been in work nonstop, paying tax. This fascist dumbass is stealing that.

you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian. billionaires shouldn’t exist.

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

I agree. Might be easier to think of it this email: we got Epstein’s emails (not even all of them.) Imagine if we had the correspondence of other powerful people. We’d see similar things. We live in a system that has created these people, and Epstein wasn’t unique in that regard.

A bunch of people on this site want to cosplay like it’s Hong Kong in 2019 without understanding that as many as 25% of Hong Kong residents attended a single march and the government was worried about losing an election where popular opinion had to be nearly 80% in opposition to the government.

Louise, an archaeologist and digital creator (who's here at @louisearchaeology.bsky.social), contacted the British Museum and asked them what had happened on social media. (I think it was on Instagram.) "Instead of responding, they unfollowed me".

Not the main point but reading some of these Epstein emails really makes you realise why so many of these guys love ChatGPT

I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it

The fear that Beijing is going to kill off Cantonese was/is part of the many concerns behind the HK pro-democracy protests. "Cantonese is my mother tongue" Source: Telegram (Sep 2019)

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

200. I have no words www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Great guide from @sarahjeong.bsky.social, and also fully co-sign this point: being teargassed sucks so much the first time but it's amazing how quickly you get used to it, hence massively diminishing returns for law enforcement as a crowd control method. www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

Private Eye have, incidentally, never apologized to anywhere near the extent necessary for their role in promoting this.

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

the government paid £4 million for a website that simply links out to AI training courses from other companies rather than using that money to make something actually bespoke which I guess is actually a pretty accurate representation of this whole damn thing 🥲

The difference between an expat and an immigrant is an immigrant actually contributes to the community they become a part of

my paranoia about the Chinese govt potentially spying on & censoring my Tiktok means I had no Tiktok, so now the US govt can't spy on & censor my Tiktok so I win paranoia double-jeopardy

BREAKING NEWS: UK loses its #measles elimination status @benk-d.bsky.social highlights failure to reach 95% measles #vaccine coverage target in UK + need for secure funding for vaccine outreach efforts & joined-up #PublicHealth response Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

It's been slowly happening for a few years now but China's official multiculturalism is functionally dead, living on only on banknotes and some shells of ethnic state offices dominated and now mostly staffed by Han madeinchinajournal.com/2026/01/20/r...

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Brb just investigating financial viability of offering paid service to support Gen Z and Alpha kids in their Chinese journey by beating them with chopsticks and bamboo back scratchers, and calling them weak if they cry

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

The investigation was also peak Britishness. "First, we identified the design of the rubbish bins visible in some of the TikToks, which confirmed which council area the video had been filmed in."

This is such an important point and here in Europe we should be building the skills and connections now to make sure that the truth continues to matter and powerful people can be held to account. The alternative is going down and down the spiral of democratic disenchantment and erosion…

Neutrality so neutral it in fact becomes biased towards absolute evil

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

We will withhold the release of Heated Rivalry season 2

I was born and raised in Alberta. Lived in Edmonton and Calgary. I've stayed in Strathmore, High River, Claresholm, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Fort Mac, Jasper, Banff, Black Diamond and more. When I talk about Alberta, I know what I'm talking about. Alberta - enough of it to matter - hates Canada.

sometimes the enemies are clumped up just right, you know?

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

A reminder that one of the reasons why tankies and gullible others think "the Chinese economy is doing great" is because, in addition to often swallowing Chinese government propaganda wholesale, "China" to them is really only Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen for the most part, if actually real at all.

Another one of those "stupid cyberpunk" things is how the people in economically disadvantaged countries who used to do things like sell World of Warcraft gold have moved on to ragebait farming on places like Twitter because of the revenue sharing makes it way more profitable

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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Sure Start was for parents as much as it was for children, as it not only reminded parents of their responsibilities, it helped them meet them www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

It was, like, a year or two ago that goons from the Manchester PRC consulate followed and threatened a HK journalist on a public street. That was allowed to happen despite the same consulate previously dragged a HKer into the compound and viciously beat him.

NEW: This is a REAL story in The Globe and Mail today. Canadian Armed Forces are modelling responses to a US military invasion from the south. They expect Canadian forces to be overrun in a fortnight, so the plan centres on Afghanistan-style insurgencies to inflict mass casualties on US troops 👇

Speaking as both a Chinese person and a doctor- It's not the reheating that's the issue, it's the length of time the rice was at room temp. Chinese takeout reheated from the fridge is far less dangerous than that abomination known as 'rice salad' sitting for hours on a table at pot luck dinner.

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.