*and the British

It’s a bit grim dealing with a medical situation where the immediate solutions are only really get rich or watch it get worse. And, even if I did get rich, I’m not sure if there’s actually a solution. It makes you really want to just roll over and let the tides come.

The pluribus is coming and everybody’s jumping

A while back, a video did the rounds about ‘the price of community is tolerating being annoyed by other people’ and I thought it was very sad that people saw it as inspiring. Speaking from my own journey, genuine care neuters annoyance and irritation. Community is more than tolerance. It is reward.

I see variations of this a lot. I think it’s an unfortunate framing. Forget obligation. It is a joy to be kind, to be respectful, to be compassionate. It is a blessing to foster a kinder world. It is something we primally all long to do. Many have forgotten but they can be reminded. We love to help.

"Success clearly drives you insane. I’ve been on social media long enough that I’ve seen people who get too popular driven mad by their own bullshit, huffing their own paint — and it would be one thing if this was just posters, or media, or artists, but this also destroys academics."

The idea that troops should be protected while they do war crimes is weird and also weirdly commonplace right now.

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

As an interesting (not necessarily better) contrast to this, Taskmaster NZ’s first six season champions? Five white women, one Tongan dude. Taskmaster Australia? Two white women, one white dude, one Asian dude. Taskmaster UK? 20 seasons, 12 white dude champs, one not-white champ total. Grim.

Wowsers, how’d they get someone that sensible

Worth considering that most high-value/high-interest investment areas in recent years have been based on speculative-to-non-existent value and the richest men in the world are often so because of intangible assets. The visible control of the oil is what gives them economic power - not its delivery.

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

Something I did a while back. As of Season 17, a non-white contestant of taskmaster UK was 800x more likely to be the worst scorer in a season than the best. Since Season 17, every season champion bar one has been a white man - and the outlier was a white woman. So… good luck to this man, I guess!

And boy was that prediction on it huh

Yep, the only reason that there is genocide happening in Gaza, is because the United States allows it. If tomorrow, the United States ordered Israel to stop, it would stop, because the US is not the puppet of Israel, Israel is the puppet of the United States. Joe Biden's own words:

If Albo got kidnapped by the US, he’d release a statement about how he’d had concerns about the Australian head of state for some time now and hopes stability could be returned to the region soon and they wouldn’t even need to ask him to do it

It’s worth noting that Trump publicly ordered the (successful) assassination of the second most important leader in Iran with no congressional approval or oversight in 2020. Obama had a US citizen assassinated by drone strike in 2011. But, post-genocide, they now know they can just drop the mask.

America has always been run like a criminal syndicate but good god they had good PR. You can really see how good it was now. Wow. When the smoke screen of legalese and dull newspeak is ripped away, you see the raw ugliness of empire.

My sister was talking about how Trump kidnapping the president of Venezuela reminded her of the scene from the Dark Knight where Batman kidnaps Lau from Hong Kong. I told her I was pretty sure that connected to an actual political event atm. Researched. 2007 Venezuela. Interesting.

Never underestimate Australian government desire to suck Americas dick.

About two weeks ago, I was explaining to a friend why the Brisbane 2032 Olympics are basically impossible - in no small part because international consensus will be shafted by then. And, boy, stuff like this really emphasises my point.

Albo is gonna fold like a paper bag on this and still end up kidnapped by the us by like June

Also, Penny Wong, tomorrow morning.

A vent: feeling super bummed out by disability and medical bureaucracy and capitalism. It’d cost about a thousand bucks just to get prescribed a medicine that’d cost me about four thousand bucks a month. And, if I don’t, I might just keep getting sicker and sicker in so many ways. Siiiiigh.

Every pizzagate fear was a pizzagate prayer - a dream of the world they wanted.

Really tempted to rearrange the bed to chaotic evil before my partner gets home

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi! I’m a dust-mite allergy. I induced a level of constant invisible inflammation in MJ that was so severe that doctors expected her to be bedridden or dead by 25. Fortunately, MJ has a rare hereditary mutation that makes her semi-indestructible.

Just to break down the clever musicality of this: -Subtle recurring vowel sounds (too/fluent, civility/cruelty, grammar/agendas) -brief alliterations (good grammar, deployed decorum) -Great, striking us vs them narrative; bad things hiding behind bland smiles Definitely a former hip hop MC.

Fun Fact: Barack Obama swore in on a copy of Animorphs’ Megamorphs #2: In the Time of the Dinosaurs by KA Applegate. The author was horrified. “This is a book about children turning into t-rexes to attack evil space ants and then blowing up the planet, it’s not appropriate!!”

It’s kinda fun to imagine taking this job and just teaching AI to be gay and communist but yeah only fun to imagine and in real life boo to all this shit

Wowsers that’s a good sentence.

Sanctioned for being an international judge www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Excellent summary here of climate wins in courts across the world in 2025. For all the setbacks, legal mobilisation is gaining ground - largely because the law has no choice but to adapt. It’s a question of when, not if.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Latest newsletter explains why I’m not gonna be doing much on social media or anywhere else in 2026 but also how I’m gonna be remaking society in 2026 x Check it on my website or don’t read it at all, both very solid options.

“If you weren’t you, I’d think you were a fucking dickhead for doing all the stuff you do but, because you are you, I think you’re a fucking legend.”

The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high

the point is that together we can find a way. the point is that. together.

Dude’s just ripping off Marina Abramovic :((((

Note that there are no people in that ‘utopia’ they’ve pictured. No people, no animals, just land and machine and decorations. Their dreams are confessions. They are not opposed to immigrants. They are opposed to life.

SO INCREDIBLE.

I want to focus on a bit of a twisted read on this, though: Israel couldn’t stop these people from helping just by killing them en masse. They have to ban them wholesale to try and stop them from helping. It is a monstrous world but our hearts are monstrously powerful. We will not stop caring ❤️

Yessssss

If you survived another year, you’re doing amazingly. Whether you’re conscious of the growth you went through or feel you didn’t accomplish a thing, you’re here and you’re alive and that is a victory for all of us. Happy new year, ya filthy animals.

No political party is perfect but, man, it’s such a relief that the Greens have this solid line in the sand

I found this retrospective piece on the Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir was one of the most astounding pieces of writing about music and culture I’d ever read - it connects so many important ideas and observations into a single piece: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

Tell you what, if the CIA ever partake in industrial action by ceasing to work for a period of time in pursuit of better working conditions, that’s gonna lead to a lot of confusing headlines