In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent's Anna Belokur explains how martial law shapes daily life in Ukraine amid the country's harshest winter since the full-scale invasion.

The New York Post really think its readers are idiots. They're literally saying, Mamdani is AS EVIL AS WE ARE!!!

If 26 Americans or Israelis or Germans were murdered today, it would be the top headline on every network. They keep telling you “the war is over” while this happens, because their idea of a peaceful, “normal” order is one where Israel gets to mass murder Palestinians at will.

feel like this is one of the bigger labor stories of Our Current Regrettable Age variety.com/2026/gaming/...

Constantly reminded how disgusting AltNPS is. The posts are so clearly made through marketing speak once you know what to look for, while erasing minorities. 2 US citizens were killed, yes, but also 6 immigrants. And if it's just 1 month and a day, you have Keith Porter Jr, a black man.

Let people be welfare queens

Bit late, but... Now there is! 🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/4346850/...

Okay, I just saw that video of a fed throwing a grenade at journalists, and I needed to quickly make this. Seriously, America? How badly trained are your federal agents that I, a reluctant conscript with less than 1 week of firearms training, is better trained than your paid federal agents?

I want to talk about AltNPS, Minneapolis, #AltGov, and Luddites. One of my fears have come true. I knew this would happen when I made my AltNPS video, but it sucks to be right. And I know I'm not American, and I may not have the "right" to do so, but I will, because this is history repeating. 🧵

Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post. A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.

I just watched the ICE murder video. It's infuriating, being a person halfway across the world, and not being able to do anything but watch these atrocities happening. Watching Tim Walz tip toe around doing anything actually actionable is doubly infuriating. I keep recalling this damn Twitter post.

A part of me just somehow knew @acollierastro.bsky.social would cover this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...

My buddy @mhowalt.bsky.social has a new serial novel coming out, and I'm so excited!

Dear US embassy asking us for bribes- I'm sorry, "donations". Kindly fuck all the way off.

These stickers are all over the midtown and Lyn-Lake neighborhoods in Minneapolis. These are heavy immigrant/PoC areas, not far from where Rene was killed. A lot of businesses are closed, short staffed and/or having additional security measures because of ICE raids.

I saw this. This is my picture that I took roaming ICE infested Minneapolis while doing ICE watch. I posted this on twitter and got bombarded with bigoted abuse for posting. Have some shame.

Gonna do a bit of @altwatcher.bsky.social's job for a minute. YOU saw nothing, AltNPS, you lying little twerp. That picture was posted by @hectorealcala.bsky.social on Twitter 3 days ago, WHO YOU CAN SEE IN THE REFLECTION! And those signs have been been around for MONTHS. x.com/Hector_E_Alc...

The power of AI, everyone /s

store.steampowered.com/app/4096600/... If you've got half an hour to kill I highly recommend this. It's a free game jam game that uses time based tactical dodging and I wish it was 10x longer. It's seriously so worth it.

Dear god, Limbus Company... I need a minute. That was one hell of a Canto. Do I know how to pick a favorite character or what?

If the world stops being on fire one day, I want to spend my time making videos about indie games until I die, instead of the dumpster fire I have to do right now.

You want to know what victim blaming is like? This. This dumb CNN headline is what it's like. Don't take it from me. Take it from this paragraph from THE SAME DAMN ARTICLE!

Anyway, I invite AltNPS and everyone else to share this list of Twin Cities-area organizations, food distribution networks, and mutual aid links. It's got everything. From legal aid links to a GoFundMe for Circulo Childcare Center in Minneapolis, they could all use some love. Thank you!

Through corporate publishers, I earn $0.71 per $6 book I sell. But through my Patreon page, I earn $3.52 per $4 book. I cannot stress that the best way to support indie writers, is to buy directly from them if possible. It's cheaper for you, and better for the authors. www.patreon.com/c/aden_ng/shop

My friend said American healthcare does not use Metric pricing and I just can't.

The true evil genius of America is that rich people figured out the legal system can only hand X amount of bad things. So they got enough people to do bad things that there are now no consequences.

Not AltNPS related, but these news aggregators piss me off to hell. They take good stories and turn it bad, and bad stories and turn them worse, all for the clicks. There were so many heroes in this story, like the homeowners who literally fought off ICE, and they erased their fight, for clicks.

Any of my followers are chemists and wants to help me with a little fact checking?

Folks, please don't do this. Don't post AI-generated "unmasking" photos of the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis. This is not this man's real face. This is three completely different faces. You're not helping anyone by sharing these. You're just muddying the waters.

You should't shoot ANYBODY.

Working my way through the backlog of @iwriteok.bsky.social's Behind the Bastards, and finally got to the episode on the autism cure grifters. My ears pricked up when Ariane Zurcher's name came up as a non-bastard. Not surprised, since not a lot of people know the story behind THAT bastard.

My friend works from home for the Singapore branch of a large American company, and they told me they have to go to the Singapore office once a year for *check notes* active shooter drills. Singapore's last active shooting was *check notes* WWII. Because we have *check notes* no guns.

Night theatres are the best.

I don't know why, but today I suddenly remembered my first proofreader as a writer. She spoke in first person, but wrote messages in third person. She was real cool and interesting, and I kinda wished I kept in touch. I might be getting old, reminiscing. Now I need a rocking chair and a porch.

One of the reason Hitler shot himself in that bunker, was because he knew he would be made to pay for his actions. If he was alive today, he'd confidently walk out of that bunker.

I'm constantly thinking of this. You can't have a revolution without flames.

My heart is broken. We can bomb nations but we can’t provide affordable healthcare.

W.T.F.

You now hear from me. It's 2026. Is it gonna be a better year? It's gonna be our responsibility to make that happen.

Okay, I'm done doom scrolling/posting for the year. The next time you hear from me, it'll be 2026! Ciao, 2025!

Whenever I see posts like these, or hear the children play in my neighborhood, I'm always reminded of Palestinian poet Khaled Juma's poem, Oh Rascal Children of Gaza. I we as people can keep that peace for them, for we should all be children once.

If I see more AltNPS defenders saying "out of stock" being a sign of a bad grift, I'm going to lose my shit. Out of stock = SOLD OUT It's the nat 20 of grifts!

Final video of the year. A shallow dive on the morality of gen AI usage. I'm kind of tired of talking about it being good or bad to use gen AI. I've kind of admitted defeat as well, that the tech is mainstream now, whether I like it or not. Which begs the questions, is it morally right to use it?

And many of those plagiarized photos were already plagiarized *by AltNPS.* The one with the Ukraine flags is from Marc Lester at the Anchorage Daily News. AltNPS is officially big enough to have its own sub-grifters, feeding off of their scraps. What an honor.

I can't believe it's only been a month since I finished my AltNPS videos. I don't know why, but time seemed to have stretched out for me these past few weeks. I'll have a new shallow dive video tomorrow. It's not a big story like AltNPS, but I do have some interesting deep dives planned next year.

I have so many writing projects planned next year, there is a 100% chance I will fail to deliver.

That's why I can never get angry at the whole 67 thing.

I love Harley Quinn. She's my absolute favourite DC character. But do you know how rare it is to read a perfect HQ story? Most of them aren't even in main continuity DC. So I am crying (not just because of the ending) thanks to @iamhandaxe.bsky.social. Thanks for giving us a perfected Harley Quinn.

What does it say about me and my fascination (read: obsession) with AltNPS that I jumped when I saw this in my feed? @altwatcher.bsky.social, again, with a very poignant article on the AltNPS grift. We don't live in a vacuum, and our actions can hurt. The larger our platform, the wider our swing.

Thought I should share my thoughts on gen AI "artists" from a little screen I churned out off the top of my head.