If the Celtics were in the Western Conference they'd be in 9th place

Seems like it should be uncontroversial in a democracy

If the Knicks were in the Western Conference they'd be in 9th place

At this point if you're Europe I don't know why you haven't started garrisoning Greenland. Would be telling the US "You want to fight a winter war against a bunch of pissed off Scandinavians? Go right ahead."

Closing out the work week listening to "O Children" by Nick Cave on repeat so emotionally I'm probably doing fine.

Anytime I have any post of mine go even a little bit viral I am reminded why people who regularly rack up big RT numbers often end up completely deranged.

It's really impossible to overstate how much *everyone* is watching the US threats towards Greenland, not just Europe. If you want to break not just NATO but Five Eyes and maybe our Asian defense alliances too, taking Greenland is how you do it.

Wait, wat

interestingly some of my interviewees (Chinese feminists) have the same critique of a certain type of anti-CCP dudes (Chinese dissidents), that is they hate a particular regime but don't have compassion for the oppressed

Everyone on here being like aNoThEr AmEriCaN wAr fOr OiL my guys even in Iraq we didn't get the oil and that was the MacArthur Genius Grant version of whatever this is

Looking forward to Trump pardoning Maduro in 14 months

It's like Colbert's Truthiness monologue laid an egg in our collective stomach 20 years ago and it's finally finished consuming its host organism

People who think some kind of real id or watermarking process is going to solve the bullshitification of everything on the Internet really need to take a harder look at how it has solved exactly zero percent of those problems in China

Until Kari Lake seized control of USAGM and collaborated with Elon Musk's DOGE to dismantle the Voice of America, the VOA Persian Service had a 24/7 satellite TV channel, multimedia website and five social media platforms reaching ~16% of Iranian adults.

I would watch a 13 hour documentary about the making of Top Gun: Maverick

I am like five paragraphs into this and already it is b-o-n-k-e-r-s

Asking for a friend, is there some way we can fire an entire year directly into the sun? Good riddance, 2025. Good luck, 2026.

People who do not live in Taiwan or do not follow this stuff for a living probably don't realize how crazy aggressive PRC rhetoric on Taiwan has become, particularly during military drills. It's one of a few indicators I'm watching with concern.

Resistance to factory closures continues in China. These workers at a toy factory in Dongguan needed to fight for days, blockade a road, and their "victory" was getting half of what they were legally entitled to. English video:

Very pleased with the drunken Friday night after Christmas energy everyone is bringing to the tl. Keep it up, good job, you're the best.

Before I sign off to enjoy a few days in peace and away from the news, a word on the recent U.S. sanctions: The "global censorship-industrial complex" is a far right fantasy. Most of the DSA is about transparency and forcing platforms to provide info about how they moderate and boost content 1/

Breathtakingly direct racism, even by the standards of our fallen age

Disgraceful actions by @wsj.com in its treatment of @selina_cheng, throwing journalists under the bus out of a craven desire to placate authority hongkongfp.com/2025/12/18/w...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

This man deserves a Pulitzer not deportation papers.

I see you, Culture nerds. You are seen.

Finally got around to Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social yesterday evening and somehow someway I just kept failing to put it down and all of a sudden it was 3:30am and I was done. Magnificent.

This all begs the question, which is the wokest font?

Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Genuinely the source of our greatest strategic strengths. Why we can forge alliances where autocrats can only manage partnerships of convenience. We believe in something bigger than us instead of just us vs them.

I've been investigating digital deception for ~15yrs and 2025 was the worst year. VC-backed bot farms, endless AI slop, industrial level scams, abusive AI nudifiers, Meta paying $ for hoaxes... Deception was legitimized, monetized & shoved down the public’s throat: indicator.media/p/2025-the-y...

The next domino to fall after this, and a far more consequential one, is ASML. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anyone who knows someone who has been through the full naturalization process--who knows how prolonged, intrusive, and expensive it is--knows this is gleeful, capricious sadism. Small people taking joy from extravagant cruelty.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

The censorship lie is a major part of US foreign policy: -Rubio instructed diplomats to “lobby” against online safety regulations in EU & UK -tech companies are passing what is said in private meetings btwn CSOs & regulators to Trump admin -US lawmakers harassing foreign regulators -and now this:

English is not my first language. I didn't understand a word when I first went to school in the UK. I have spent my career working in English language media and teaching journalism in English.

Three bedrooms, seven bathrooms, no front door. Lfg 🤟

Hong Kongers have built this open and decentralized database documenting the Tai po Wang Fuk Court Fire which includes videos, timelines, documents and analyses

Some of the fine detail AI smushed out but still, bonkers to take this kind of photo on a phone

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

Fine with it

The two ends of my personal horseshoe have fully intersected

Grassroots. Spontaneous. Mobilisation. Ad hoc. Organisation. What I'm seeing on Hong Kong social media. All volunteer stations in Tai Po fully 'manned'. All supplies distribution stations, sufficiently supplied. Blood donations, fully sufficient. 'Buddy' support, almost 1-on-1. This is Hong Kong 🧡

If I'm spending 100k on a personal vehicle it better be Pedro Pascal

This makes me very worried for many of my Burmese- American friends (or green card holders from the various nations within Burma that hold a Burmese passport) www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

i know barely any people from hong kong in bsky, but 請廣傳

"How did the UK become one of the world's most transphobic countries?" would be a great Economist cover story

Checks out

Eric Adams is ready for his closeup

Introduce yourself with four spaceships