I got what could at worst be considered disappointing news tonight, and my proportional response was to sob uncontrollably for about 45 minutes. I just have nothing left in the tank, and no one to help me.

Albanese government announces Godot should be here soon, and they will remain vigilant in the meantime.

We’ve been here before

less than one month to top surgery!!!! aaaaa www.gofundme.com/f/augie-get-...

magical

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

I'm just a thin veneer of Getting By stretched increasingly thin over a frame that's mostly held together by momentum at this stage.

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

Would pay good money for subtitles that don’t put a giant [***SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE***] over the in-movie captions actually explaining what those characters are saying

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

I lived in Australia for 35 years without ever reading the phrase "holiday measles infections". That's how bad the anti-vax movement has gotten in the past 10 years.

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

i trust zeta’s words on the situation in venezuela more than most of the voices on this website so i suggest you also read what they said

The sooner you realise that "Who's gonna stop me?" is what motivates the bulk of conservative politics and animates today's male grievance movement, the better.

palestinians protested for george floyd while being genocided. koreans protested for gaza under the threat of martial law. i promise you we can go harder.

Guys starting to think the ✨special relationship✨ might be an abusive one

Feels like for a lot of people, the president's biggest sin is just being to blunt too put a nice, jingoistic, propagandistic cover on what the what US is and does and always has been. Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

At the current show on Le Guin's life and work in Portland, visitors can try out her old typewriter. She bought it used in 1966, after she sold her 2nd novel, Planet of Exile. She typed A Wizard of Earthsea on it, Left Hand of Darkness, Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed...

This one is resonating today. #Andor

Mamdani been mayor for five minutes & is pulling up on slumlords, tearing up flooring himself, disgusted, and took the whole media with him. He is HIM 😭

Simply hitting the 🔁 does not do enough to underscore how much I feel this post

Sex is cool or whatever, but I would climb mountains for cuddles. I would slay dragons to be held. I would take a Jim Cameron submarine down to the wreck of the Titanic just to be the little spoon.

I hate it here and by “here” I mean this planet being run by all these incompetent immature and vile men.

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

A lot of useless idiots think opposing naked US imperialism in Venezuela means blindly supporting the Maduro government - I have no loyalty to the ruling class of any nation, only to the international working class. Sorry to disappoint x

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

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

Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, Jess Miller

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

We truly didn't listen when Hanson tried to tell us "in an mmmbop they're gone"; we had to find out for ourselves

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Unfortunately I think we all assumed the Precedented Times would be GOOD, not Blood For Oil mk3

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!

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

Something cosmically cruel to female podcasters that their industry's Pivot To Video is happening right when the deepfake revenge porn machine is really hitting its stride

It’s a very weak statement. I don’t think it’s an explicit backing of Trump’s attack – if anything, the reference to international law indicates not backing it – but I do think Starmer has probably pulled off the trick of being sufficiently vague as to annoy both the US government and its critics.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

I don't think you should be able to bet on war crimes. That's just my opinion.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.