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🔴 Russia reportedly launched an Oreshnik intercontinental missile at Ukraine’s Lviv region.

Any Western troops will be classed as foreign interference in Russia's Ukraine, and be considered as military targets, just like hospitals, schools and apartment blocks are.

I think this is important stuff and worth your time to watch (although can be a little techie)...

The US Coast Guard seized two oil tankers with links to Russia for attempting to bypass US sanctions against Venezuelan oil. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

Worth your time...it's long, but worth it.

If you live in Australia and you saw this AI generated promotion, Channel 9 would like you to know that you didn’t see it.

I'm not a big lamb person at all, but this did make me chuckle...😆 youtu.be/U2uvy_5VMlY?...

Our Digital Hate and Harms team continues to reveal online hate and disinformation campaigns, including the companies enabling the spread of non-consensual deepfake images. The team has exposed individuals profiting from platforms that offer these services. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

Comparison of tweets from comrade @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on Ukraine & Venezuela. -Russia "enters", USA makes "illegal attack" -Russia actions excused cos of NATO. USA accused of wanting oil -Russia created a "crisis" & offered diplomacy. USA "should be condemned by everyone"

"We will be monitoring this delicate situation to make sure there is no unnecessary loss of innocent oil” chaser.com.au/world/ally-l...

North Korean missile launch, possibly ballistic missile, has been conducted. Japanese Ministry of Defense reports: "It is estimated that the object, which may be a ballistic missile launched from North Korea earlier, has already fallen."

Laughs in Ukrainian

@magnumificent.bsky.social Happy Day of your Birth!! 🥳🥳🥳

1/ A few words on Maduro's capture. I'm not against removing any dictator who steals elections and abuses human rights. But at the same time as invading Venezuela for its military operation, Trump relaxes sanctions on Lukashenko, who sends contraband and migrants into Europe🤔

I told my generals that this is what a special military operation is supposed to look like. They're looking nervously at the window.

Good point, well made!

The War President begins 2026 as he means to carry on.

The US is the Russia and Israel of the Americas.

Whoever could have thought that just deciding invasions don't matter would encourage other madmen?

2026 going well so far...😳

Caracas is under fire. Multiple U.S. strikes have hit key military sites: Fuerte Tiuna, La Carlota airbase, and a communications center in El Hatillo. Explosions echo through the capital, the power is out in parts of the city, and U.S. helicopters are flying low. Fires also rage near La Guaira.

Hey Ro @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social not sure how you went FutureLearn but remembered I did a course with Harvard (humanitarian stuff). Not sure what courses you're after, but might be worth a look as they do a wide range. 🙂 Harvard Online share.google/HtSBNZsc2Apb...

The Iranian regime divides and isolates the opposition, writes Saeid Golkar, which is how it survives mass discontent. Also it has help from friends in China and Russia open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt Map of the flight paths of #Russian cruise missiles and ballistic missiles throughout 2025. The number of missiles launched and the cities targeted is simply shocking.

protests spreading across Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

I ask Russians: how do you see your lives five years from now? Among the responses: “That depends on Vladimir Putin. On what mood he’ll be in.” Another reply: “Five years? If I look ahead 10 days, it’s good.” #2026

Meanwhile, Russians continue to kill Ukrainians on New Years

Happy New Year to one and all from QLD! 🥳🥳🥳

At a friend's New Years party and I've been put in charge of the music...😇

Israel has banned Medecins Sans Frontieres from operating in Gaza, rounding off a banner year for inhumanity.

Well worth a read on what the US are doing...

I think she's pretty much spot on here.

How in the goddamn flying fuck do we live in a country where the murders of 15 people from one racial/religious group ONCE requires both a Royal Commission AND the deployment of the army but the murders of 80 women EVERY YEAR since time immemorial fucking doesn’t?? #NewsCorpse

Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential. Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?

📍Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland are preparing to completely mine the borders with Russia and Belarus. 📍Latvia has completed the construction of a 280 km long fence on the border with Russia.

Spain confirmed a sunken Russian cargo ship was carrying nuclear reactors destined for North Korea. More #ActualNews ⬇️ onest.substack.com/p/dec-29-rus...

"Aren't Berlin, Paris&Warsaw built on someone else's bones?" That's how Russia's theater director dismissed criticism of reopening Mariupol's Theater—where Russian bombs killed estimated 600 in '22 The word "CHILDREN" was painted on the ground so Russian pilots could read it. They bombed it anyway

Russia will not accept any peace deal that allows Ukraine to aggressively defend itself the next time we invade it.

NEW: US and Ukrainian delegations met in Florida on December 28 to discuss the latest US-Ukrainian-European 20-point peace plan and other documents related to a potential peace settlement. 🧵(1/8)

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.” Zelensky's response said it all.

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Woke up early today in the twilight zone...otherwise known as the time between Xmas and New Years! 🙄

A wild seal dubbed "Grumpy" causes some commotion at an annual boat race on the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne.

Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace

Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...

BREAKING: Thailand and Cambodia said they have signed a ⁠ceasefire ​agreement to end weeks of fierce fighting along their border that has killed more than 100 people and displaced more than half a million civilians in both countries aje.io/hu2v3f

Volunteer firefighters put their lives on the line for their community, despite facing extreme situations, heightened health risks and constant exposure to traumatic events.

So, went out to a friend's place for xmas. During one of the sittings (cheese) a lady (who I didn't know), passed comment that my smile is like Brad the Otter! 😳 Didn't know this was a thing...looked up said otter, and still not sure if it was a compliment or not really! 🤷‍♂️🙄