A beautiful fusion of the chinese red packet 🧧 tradition wrapped in western potato chip culture.

When your sister @astridjorgensen.bsky.social has a much cooler job than you #AGT #pubchoir youtu.be/DckioIUhP1I?...

The 'Russian, Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs' (REPO) Taskforce was one of the more promising G7 initiatives for going after money and assets being stashed offshore by Putin's allies - but it hasn't been mentioned in G7 comms now for over a year. Why?

Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...

Vatican's own summary of Vatican FC "From the games that the Vatican national football team has played, their performance has not been very good. The team normally plays with other local teams in Rome as friendly matches but winning has always been a problem for it" vatican.com/Vaticans-nat...

I stand by it.

hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...

🔵 GREAT NEWS! In a landmark judgement, the EU Court of Justice just ruled that Malta cannot continue operating its “golden passports” programme, which has allowed foreigners to acquire Maltese (and therefore EU) citizenship. ➡️ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9

I attended a few of these shows - the 3 year project is well worth the 6 minute watch

It's an exclusive MYSTERY SOLVED. Guardian Australia figured out why Trump thought Norfolk Island (pop 2,188) has a huge leather shoe export business and penguins on Heard and McDonald Islands are running a secret machinery factory deserving of trade tariffs www.theguardian.com/...

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

President Trump has announced plans to sell US$5m “gold card” resident permits to foreigners. Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. A baboon annointing you with gourd juice over an Elton John coronation hymn does.

Tears falling as I blow out candles on a loaf of bread, butter and sprinkles, while wishing, hoping, to one day taste American cake

Shot: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/its-open-b... Chaser: 👇👇👇

The FCPA was one of the great achievements of Jimmy Carter's presidency - which enabled, among other things, punishing Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal

The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Australia has reversed its decade-long slide, ranking back in the top 10 least corrupt countries.

"Whoever wins (race for artificial general intelligence) has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process - Cute coda to DeepSeek story in FT on.ft.com/4jD3qWD

! www.ft.com/content/2262...

Eesh. The FDIC is somewhat essential to why the '08 financial crisis didn't result in our timeline turning into Grapes of Wrath meets Fury Road. Though ... could be good for mattressmen like the Pillow guy - money would be better 'invested' under the bed in any future run on the banks.

Vogon alert.

Massive away win for the little fella.

Australia closing down its Consulate in Shenyang will not substantively change anything about its relationship with China. Source, me: I worked in that consulate. www-theaustralian-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thea...

Amongst everything passed by the Senate last night was world leading corporate tax transparency laws All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju... #auspol

Pleased to also uninstall Threads - anodyne, and Mastodon - bewildering. I welcome the coming Bluesky bubble.

Is World Press Photo of the year team on Bsky yet because I have this pic of Biden waving from the Beast at Rio G20 summit.

Across the G20 countries, financial secrecy, complicit enablers & insufficient cooperation on cross-border cases facilitate the flow of dirty money. Yet, their leaders have been treating corruption as a low-priority problem. Now is the time: #G20TakeAction! ➡ See our campaign: anticorru.pt/36X

Xi Jinping's motorcade about to hit Rio G20 summit - 'fans' waiting along the route with chinese and Brazilian flags, i asked when he was coming and most played dumb (one even pretended he wasn't waiting for Xi while holding a huge 🇨🇳), another: 'i dont know but we were told to wait until 6.30pm'

#G20TakeAction: Yesterday, 48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, we filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will this finally get leaders to pay attention? There’s more to come. We will release our campaign video on Monday, 18 Nov. Learn more ➡️ transparency.org/g20

48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, @anticorruption.bsky.social filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will G20 leaders finally get real on preventing dirty money from landing on their shores? 💸 transparency.org/g20

Slim hope: There's a kind of insane brain melting charisma to Trump that thrives off symbiosis with edgelords. I'm still worried, but not as worried as I'd be if Dutton actually had the charisma to woo a Joe Rogan listener.

This just in.

If I were the richest man on earth, having my mom go on cable TV to talk about how cool and successful I am would cause me to disappear from public life forever. What a fucking dork.

We're on the board skeeters.

G20 Ministers responsible for anti-corruption met yesterday, with predictable but no less disappointing results - here's the @anticorruption.bsky.social statement to @g20org.bsky.social #G20TakeAction #G20Brazil www.transparency.org/en/press/g20...

Aside from everything else: further evidence that Selina Meyers was always much more more realistic than Jed Bartlett www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/p...

My vision is for every neo-fascist political front to be destroyed then permanently memorialized with delicious street-food from the nations they vilified in their nationalist fervors.

Tugendhat's answer 💀

Fwiw I didn't leave Twitter because of conservative Tweets: I left because its owned by a racist creep and half the posts were ads for crypto and whatever shit joe rogan sells on.ft.com/3B6Qwy7 @FT

Oh my god

A great write up from @catneilan.bsky.social in @tortoisemedia.bsky.social of our new report. We found £15 billion in COVID contracts that raised corruption red flags. The UK government should urgently act on the lessons learnt to prevent further harm. www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/09/09/1...

Having worked in 东北 (old Manchuria) I occasionally asked locals about land ceded to Russia - responses generally boiled down to 'that's a problem for later', amid stanning of Putin the 牛人 (badass)

Zakia Khudadadi, a Hazara girl, fled the Taliban and today made history by winning the first-ever Paralympic medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team with a bronze in Taekwondo. #Paralympic2024 #Paris2024 #Refugees

Trollboat diplomacy

The trouble was his brain.

A decision on whether Germany will send warships through the Taiwan Strait is imminent. The commander of the ships tells Reuters that he is awaiting orders from Berlin, but describes transit through the Strait as a “normal passage” like the English Channel/North Sea www.reuters.com/world/german...

Medal geopolitics: Kiwi exceptionalism almost saw US lose #1 medal spot to China

Why didn't the French tell us about the horse subs? What betting australian would pick ssn-aukus over this?