Israel has killed nearly five Palestinians per day, on average, since it agreed to a U.S.-brokered so-called ceasefire deal on October 10, bringing the death toll to 451 Palestinians and the number of injured to more than 1,250.

The Owl’s Ghost Story 🎨 Louis Wain (1890)

Älkää Tämä on huonoimpia ideoita mitä tekoälyyn on viime aikoina liitetty Tekoälyssä on nimittäin sellainen pohjimmainen ominaisuus, jota ei voi täysin kiertää Sille on tyypillistä tehdä virheitä yksilötasolla, vaikka tilastollisesti se osuisikin oikeaan #tekoäly 1/

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Both the Americans and Europeans should learn something of the Greenland crisis. First: assuming that Trump abandons his territorial ambitions, Americans should realize it was not because he "lost interest", was "just trolling all the time", "tried to divert attention", or so on. I'll continue.

"Rauhanpalkintoa ei voi antaa eteenpäin, mutta mitalin voi antaa. ... Harpviken sanoi myös, ettei Nobel-komitean tehtävä ole ottaa kantaa siihen, mitä voittajat tekevät myöhemmin." Hän on tässä täysin oikeassa. Se, mihin mitali, diplomi tai rahat lopulta päätyvät, ei muuta yhtään mitään.

It's totally worth mentioning because I think about all the people who got a little pushback on Twitter and went "well guess I'm a Nazi now you made me do it 😥" and like, not this dude. Still walking the walk. Good on him.

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us

Evil can be fought.

Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.

Finland sends 'accelerated' defense package to Ukraine amid deepening energy crisis; Macron claims France now provides 2/3 of Ukraine's intelligence; Majority of Ukrainians reject trading Donbas to Russia, survey finds; Energy crisis prompts rollback in curfew restrictions in Kyiv; and more.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Never put your trust in superpowers.

Free world must step up support to Ukraine. NOT apologising for repetition.

If you love your country, you should hate seeing it be lied about, even comforting lies. Even if the lies are meant to protect you from the uneasy feeling of remembering its past crimes. Truth itself has a value, and it is better to know the truth than to avoid the discomfort.

Russia has deliberately and systematically targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure leaving most Ukrainians without electricity or heat during one of the coldest winters in years. That's a war crime.

Morning, low tide at Pemaquid Maine. Plein air painting from summertime. #pleinairpainting #maine #lowtide #watercolor #penaquid

Kyllä USA loukkasi kansainvälistä oikeutta jo ennen Trumpia. Niin ovat tehneet myös Kiina ja Venäjä. Paluu aiempaan ”liberaaliin” maailmanjärjestykseen on mahdotonta, koska sellaista ei koskaan ollutkaan. Tästä ja muusta puhuin A-studiossa. Linkki seuraavassa. 1/2

Tämä turhautunut mies näyttää toivottavasti muillekin tavis amerikkalaisille suuntaa. Ei ole yhtää. mielenosoittaja tyyppiä, mut kuppi meni nurin eikä voi vaan istua ja katsoa sivusta kun ihmisiä pelotellaan ja otetaan kaduilta kiinni ja hakataan.

President Emmanuel Macron: “Where Ukraine was eminently dependent on American intelligence capabilities by an overwhelming majority a year ago, today two-thirds are provided by France. Two-thirds.”

"Epäilty mies oli käyttäytynyt puolisoaan kohtaan väkivaltaisesti aiemmin suhteen aikana. Nainen oli tehnyt poliisille useita ilmoituksia aviomiehensä väkivallasta vuodesta 2019 alkaen. Mies ei saanut tuomioita, sillä rikokset katsottiin liian vähäisiksi, eikä uhri itse vaatinut rangaistusta." 🙄

Denmark is proportionally the greatest donor country to the Ukrainian war effort. I’m quite sure that’s why Vance wants to fight them

Ugandan man captured in the war on Ukraine urges Africans: Don't fall for Russia's fake job promises

PSA: You can love Jewish people and be against Zionism. You can want a free Palestine and a free Iran at the same time. You can love a population of people and also hate people in that population who hate other people. All things can be true. It’s not always one or the other.

To hear the Oglala tribal president tell it, they are withholding the men and any information about them until the Oglala sign some kind of agreement with ICE

The assholes running our government keep breaking out the “good times -> soft men -> bad times -> hard men” meme as if they’re badasses without realizing things are 180 degrees out of phase from what they think.

This is another reason why robust prosecutions of lawbreakers in the Trump administration will be important: to signal to allies and partners (and domestic audiences) that MAGA isn't going to return every 4 to 8 years. You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.

So while absolutely I think cooperation and coordination will be *permanently* more difficult as a result of this insanity, so long as we don't *shoot* anyone in NATO, I think rebuilding trust is possible to the degree that our post-2028 political environment signals that MAGA isn't coming back.

This is going to sound silly, but I’m proud that these European nations are stepping up so quickly to defend the right of small states not to be bullied & conquered. I’m not downplaying the challenges but I’ve been screaming at Europe to push back against Trump together & now I’m happily surprised.

We really need to start doing this "alliances" thing sometime soon, before we're the one who's in need of allies.

Tai ajatellaan, että kestetään kolme vuotta ja sekoilu loppuu jonka jälkeen mentäisiin taas 'normaaliin'. Tämä siitä huolimatta, että mikään ei takaa etteikö sekoilu jatkuisi jonkun muun kanssa neljä vuotta myöhemmin. Rakenteet joiden takia Trumpin nousu oli mahdollinen jää kuitenkin olemaan.

olipas hlvtinmoinen savotta töitä, mutta nyt ne on tehty 👍

So to be clear we have actually reached the point where NATO states are deploying tripwire forces to deter *another NATO state* from invading *another NATO state.* I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.

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"In many ways, the #EU project has succeeded beyond its founders’ most optimistic expectations. Europe has built a political and regulatory order that external powers can no longer bypass by dealing with 27 national governments individually. Instead, they must deal with Europe as one."

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Clear statement abt the big difference between voluntary reductions/pooling of sovereignty and involuntary loss of sovereignty through conquest/annexation. For yrs, some have ridiculously claimed Ukraine joining EU/NATO is the same as being conquered by Ru and now I see similar claims abt Greenland.

While Greenland isn't an _independent_ country, it is a country whose people have democratically elected representants and a democratically elected leadership that can tell you where they want to belong. We do not need to guess or speculate, just listen.

Kuin virta vierii, aavikolla tuuli puhaltaa, niin päivistäni tänään taas päivä katoaa. Mut milloinkaan en murehtinut ole päivää kahta: en päivää, joka jäi jo taa, en päivää tulevaa. -Omar Khaijam

This is the kind of fact you would never believe if you only listened to the far-right propagandists the algorithm promotes on X. London is safe, and Europe as a whole is much safer than the US and Russia, both of which keep lecturing us

Toivottavasti upeat villit miehet ovat tänäänkin upeita 🤩

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

Finnish President Alexander Stubb has urged Iranian authorities to refrain from using violence against its own people.

Kylmän sodan aikainen suomettuneisuus oli sentään edes kovaan todellisuuteen ankkuroitunutta politiikkaa, brutaalia inhorealismia. Sen sijaan tämä nykyinen "yritetään tasapainoilla Trumpin kanssa, niin _ehkä_ saamme tukea Venäjää vastaan" on ihan silkkaa toiveajattelua.

The Greenland fixation feels like a personal insult to anyone who's spent more than about five minutes thinking about national security. "Hey, let's demolish our most valuable alliance so we can get get access to arctic territory we already have access to!"

Trump is absolutely right. Europe should do more to contribute to NATO. Putting European troops on Greenland would help our American allies defend the Western hemisphere & could deter a potential adversary from trying to seize the island by substantially raising the costs of trying.

Vasemmisto on aina tukenut Iraniin demokratiaa. Itse olen toiminut aktiivisesti Iranin opposition tukena. Äärioikeistoa tilaisuuksissa ei ole näkynyt, mutta somessa he väittävät vasemmiston tukevan islamisteja. Erikoista että tämä voi mennä monille läpi koulutetussa Suomessakin. 2/2

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter.

Tämän vuoksi ounastelen, että nyt nähtävä kansannousu viedään päätyyn asti, aivan eri tavalla kuin aikaisemmin nähdyt. Kompromissit ja myönnytykset eivät ainakaan nyt vaikuta todennäköisiltä.