My latest for Compact magazine In short, I think a U.S ground invasion of Venezuela would be incredibly stupid. And I think we are vastly underestimating the ELN in Colombia who would come to the aid of Maduro’s regime. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

difference between the Yellow Line on the map (idf.il/158008/) and how it was implemented on the ground (dashed line) in Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza on satellite image from 13 Dec 2025 google.com/maps?ll=31.5... (Planet satellite image via @avischarf.bsky.social)

🧵 My old collection of >100 high resolution images taken by Pleiades satellites between 2013 and 2021. My processing skills weren't very good and Bsky can't show full res, but here they are. I'm planning to add more from time to time. 1. Beijing-Daxing Airport terminal in China ( 2021-10-26 ).

This image will always stick with me. (And the name…)

Got to write about what I think a/the underrated global security risk in 2026 might be for @warontherocks.bsky.social. And no, I didn’t chose anything related to drones, or even directly to Europe. warontherocks.com/2025/12/unde...

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

Stand fast! The barbarians are at the gates!

I’ve been saying for a long time that we need to follow the money and property that goes missing when migrants get locked up

[blind date] Her, texting: I’m at the bar. Where r u? Him: I’m at a table, in a suit. Her: Nice. Wait, I can’t see you Him: *𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺*

”shedding”?

The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Dura lex, sed lex. In the EU, a large platform can't: - pretend an account is authentic just because it paid for a verified badge - spread harmful content - prevent public data access for researchers

In the past month 3 transport routes have collapsed - but they aren't roads so don't make national news. All 3 have the same root causes, climate change, and Tory austerity passing responsibility for critical infrastructure on to charities and councils. This will happen more, and people will be hurt

cycle.travel now has a fresh new look on iPhone and Android – clearer, easier to use, and with new features such as clickable route highlights. Take a look on your app store of choice! iPhone: apps.apple.com/app/id161963... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

This footage from Brno (برنو) in Sudan's South Kordofan region, shows the sheer number of RSF affiliated fighters that descend upon these small towns when they are attacked, looted and burned. The location is: 11.27240, 29.4757. It was filmed during the attack and takeover of the town last week.

Deafening silence from Rome following decisive reactions by the EU, Germany and now France. Meloni the funambulist feels the rope shaking under her feet this time

The Chord Progression generator now exports MIDI files too !

"The Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant is one of Russia’s key producers of synthetic rubber and the only manufacturer of high- and low-molecular-weight polyisobutylene, which is used in various industries"

We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

The shield of plausible deniability they use is that if you're going to criticize Hitler, you should understand him first by reading his book. They claim to be upset that people just use Hitler's name as a smear, and that's unfair to him as a complex historical figure. This is bullshit of course.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

"Culprit #1: Apple has opinions"

Khmer Rouge Year Zero economics: liquidate the knowledge class, redeploy surplus intellectuals to the rice paddies.

that’s right, the Trump admin now restricts foreign-made drone use by realtors, conservation researchers, and filmmakers more than it does the use of foreign-made drones by the actual military

i am second to none in my affection for mayonnaise but in the spirit of the season I offer you the gift of pain

Shout out to the poor engineers at Anthropic that have to support the launch of a half dozen new product features announced today. I've seen this movie before. Hackers with free time + under reviewed features...🍿

Props to whoever is putting these up around Toronto’s east end

Asked by the 1905 census carried out in Eritrea what language he habitually spoke, this hero said 'Veneto dialect' (but confessed he spoke a little Italian as a secondary language 'un pocco di italiano' Also enjoying his religious faith: 'God without priests '

Saying that the European Convention on Human Rights has gone too far is like saying that seat belts have gone too far. Because really, seat belts are non invasive, a minor thing, something you hardly notice. That is, of course, until things get really bad. Then you’re really glad about the seat belt

Just finished a book on a notorious black market's effects on peacebuilding in Bosnia in the late 1990s. Only a fraction of archival material was digitized. Even the emails between people in orgs like the UN and OHR existed only in paper form, printed out and stuffed into filing cabinets.

This is the wurst post.

Can’t help but think some people would love for this to all be about journalism standards and best practices and not, say, the rendition of human beings to some medieval dungeon without due process.

Has Hanukkah Observance Changed Due To The Commercialization of Christmas in the 20th Century? It has indeed, according to /u/gingeryid. As cultures and traditions influence and change each other, the holidays follow suit! #Skystorians

learning Rust from beautiful trans women in the 2020s

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is

Here’s my holiday gift to my fellow intel nerds on this site: Working with the fine archivists at SUNY Albany, I’ve gotten Bill Casey‘s giant retrospective 1945 report on OSS ops in Germany digitized. Casey served as OSS ops chief in Europe during the war. archives.albany.edu/description/...

White House: "It's red for Christmas."

Because nothing washes cleaner than sports-washing.

I have a sneaking suspicion that no one involved in this farce, especially Trump, has the foggiest idea what "Memorial" means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

There's every reason in the world why the Trump administration chose not to comment on the 60 Minutes segment--namely, that there's little or nothing in it that they'd try to (or could reasonably) dispute: indeed, they've boasted about virtually all of it.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

Genuinely shocked at a rule-of-law based result from this Court.

No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day

The CEO of Victoria's Secret being friends with Epstein seems too obvious. Our villains need more nuance.

If it was already in the files, somebody had already looked at it and concluded it was bogus (as it does seem to be), and that would have been noted. They want people running with stuff they can later debunk. This is a deliberate strategy to create confusion about what's credible and what's not.

All I mean, I guess, is that the thing was always just meant to be raw intelligence, not a final product, right? A collection of the stuff to follow up on?

Some is genuine, seems clear some of it probably isn't, but either way all of these things must have been evaluated with investigators deciding if they're credible, even if only a cursory decision, and those assessments would be on record. Throwing it all out there without that part is a choice.