“As members of the United Nations Security Council, we seek to convene the Council. The Government of Colombia rejects the aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela and of Latin America."

Trump’s action has freed up world powers to do whatever they want. International law no longer counts. Only strength.

After this, no one should doubt Trump’s intention to invade Greenland. The EU needs to step up fast.

Latin American Coups promoted by the United States

“The US Army will never become a Wehrmacht!” was a refrain from many over the last decade, and guess what you fuckers

Also the fact that everyone complied with the most obviously illegal order I've seen since they murdered those fishermen is a sign of how absolutely out of control the army is Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

My kid rambles out thoughts to me last thing at night as I tuck him in, tonight it was on the morality of assassinating just a thousand specific powerful people in the world to save humanity, I think this was connected to how Bobby Hill is justified in King of the Hill to kick aggressors in the nuts

[january 3rd voice] god what a fucking year

A) This wouldn't be terribly surprising B) "Sources inside the Venezuelan opposition" have pretty obvious motivations wrt shaping narratives around the legitimacy of his successors

how is it only Jan 3 my god

It's why it's my top 3 podcasts of 2025.

I would really like to see NZ's Prime Minister say something fairly unequivocal about this. He can avoid being directly confrontational if he wants, and just assert that the international rule of law is important or something, but he better say something that at least implies this isn't okay.

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Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.

Nope it really is the 3rd day of 2026 and the US has started a war

The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".

bloody hell Auckland, steady on mate

There are two Singapores. One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan. The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are. I am increasingly loyal to the second one. #Singapore #culture medium.com/@spurious-ma...

I didn't actually realise, but the so-called apologies that Grok posted weren't even standalone posts, but we're just responses to random user prompts. They are worthless no matter what, but even more worthless in that case. Absolutely shameful that any news organisation is reporting on them.

Anarcho-communsim is the moderate position accept it before you have to deal with the greens and the nihilists Moreover, ICE must be destroyed bsky.app/profile/nora...

other people should do this too. if wedd wants the internet to be safer for kids, she has to explain what she plans to do about *companies* producing and disseminating child pornography and nonconsensual deepfakes *while her party leaders enthusiastically use that platform*.

The Chinese word for “Cuba” is made up of the characters for “Gooding” and “Jr.”

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

Somehow over the seasons Stranger Things evolved from a show about children but aimed at adults who were kids in the 80s, to a show about teens aimed at teens, to a show about teens written by children.

This Iranian uprising is different to previous ones. It’s underpinned by a catastrophic economic situation that the government is incapable of solving. Food prices have risen by 70% in a year. Inflation is at 40% and rising. The currency is at its lowest level. People are finding it hard to live.

Getting my pandan chiffon cake mojo back after a year of fails. The secret ingredient is ‘i am gonna make it through this year if it kills me’

re: ManageMyHealth breach This is important. A lot of people are going to be saying "meh, it's only my vaccination records, what are they going to do with those?", and the answer is: use it trick you into thinking they're someone you trust.

the energy i will bring into 2026 (artofdanialryan on insta)

Outlook for the new year ...

Nobody can write stupid enough for the age we live in.

One thing they got wrong was believing billionaires were consumed by grand transhuman visions, when in fact they're all just "I can definitely win a fist fight because I'm very manly", "I'm very funny and I'll buy up all the spaces where jokes occur until you agree" or just "pls love me"

Hysterical watching Iran’s Revolutionary Guard trying to bend reality to its will. The Fars News Agency which it runs: “the demonstration consisted of 200 people with about 5-10 chanting slogans that went beyond economic concerns”. Videos shared by Iranians show thousands on the streets. 1/2

Like a Aucklander blazing out of town in the early hours, Iran kicking all the way off to get ahead of the 2026 geopolitical traffic chaos

What what in the

The pantomime of liberalism is so funny

I’m sorry, what?

The worms correspond with the cities in Taiwan: Keelung Taipei Taichung Tainan Kaohsiung Pingtung Hualien Of them, Keelung, Taipei, Taichung, and Hualien all have KMT leaders. This refers not just to Lai or DPP supporters, but to all Taiwanese people, worms.

I think there are several grim conclusions one can draw from the posters China released to accompany Exercise Justice Mission 2025. First: China sees the U.S., along with Taiwan, as the enemy. Second: China wants to conduct genocide against Taiwan.

Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't grunge. Yeah we just did this meme 9 months ago, but i am happy to do it every 9 months until we die of irrelevance. 'Sure, Mezzanine is great but have you tried...'

Oh we doing this again?

for those who don't know what that means: this is piracy. the bill proposes a system of government-sponsored pirates.

we are drowning in insane shit but it is good that people can still have normal responses to insane shit that they didn't know about

Climate change: the Climate Change Performance Index recorded another fall for New Zealand, now down to 44th position and classified as an overall “low” performer. theconversation.com/nz-report-ca...

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

Universities embracing generative AI be like:

Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture

Jarring to see another firing of a university lecturer and then go reread the Harper’s Letter (this passage is about censoriousness on the left)