It hurts. Unbearable. It is so incredibly stupid.

Denmark prepares for invasion.

Well, that was a fast year.

Trenger jo ikke lover når man har så høy moralsk standard

Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant

Asked which was more important, the acquisition of Greenland or the preservation of NATO, he didn't answer

Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

shocking precisely no one ever

My understanding is that this is a very serious rebuke to Trump & Vought insofar as science funding remains basically at 2024 levels. NASA in particular was ready for a bloodbath. A ways to go yet but a tremendous win for scientists who have been working their asses off to lobby for their jobs.

It’s like watching the US, but in reverse

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AI- and genetics matchmaking. Have *joked* about this for years. Now some tech bros did it.

Make it viral.

Bet Elon programs that out, hahaha

Academic jobs are premised on the fact that publishing is slow and hard. With agentic AI tools like Claude Code, that is about to change. First, let's be realistic: researchers and reviewers, like their students, will use AI in their work no matter what (even if your policy forbids it).

This is very bad news for Greenland

The nomination of Pete Hegseth as the "Secretary of War" ended the Pax Nena which started in 1983 with the line "Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr" in 99 Luftballons.

🧵MIAMI ICE - FOTBALL-VM I USA: Det lakker mot jul og piffen er i ferd med å gå litt ut av ballongen. Skal bli godt med litt avkobling. Mest stolt av det jeg har gjort dette året (ved siden av å ha gitt ut bok) er serien med artikler fra Florida sammen med @reporterlars.bsky.social. /1

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This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states

When is the best time to remove a leader who is prone to conspiracy theories and racial scapegoating and who has toppled one country and is threatening to invade others? If only history were clearer

Better solution: The United States joins Rigsfælleskabet.

With this regime anything is possible…

In the Nordics, we're quite worried about what's next, in particular for Greenland. Some of that is directed as a concern for the prime minister of Denmark - however, with Denmark having elections this year, I am also concerned for electoral integrity, Danish democracy and the risks of interference.

absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.

Tenk på dette: Selv statsministerens nyttårstaleskrivere klarer ikke sjekke hva statistikken _egentlig_ måler og få med seg at Googles topp-10-søkeord-for-2025 er de ordene som har _økt mest i søkevolum sammenlignet med året før_, og det var selvsagt nesten ingen som søkte på valgomater i 2024!

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Jeg begriper ikke hvordan opptil flere mennesker kan ha X års journalistutdanning/-erfaring bak seg, og likevel ikke skjønne problemet m å etterfølge en overskrift+ingress om "påstått angrep på Putins bolig", m et bilde som du må finlese bildeteksten for å skjønne at viser et utbombet hus I KYIV!🤦‍♂️😠🤬

The authoritarian ruler calling for the death of a comedian that has made fun of him. The 21st century US is turning into a vulgar parody of medieval Europe

In the Global Expression Report 2025 that compares the freedom of expression between 161 countries, many EU members rank higher than the US, which didn’t make the Top20. Except Hungary and Slovakia, btw. (The UK also didn’t make the top, “open” category this year.) 🔗 www.globalexpressionreport.org

No! Most presidents do not in fact name anything after themselves while they’re in office, because they’re not toddlers who constantly need to be the center of attention.

It's literally from his idol's playbook innit

Russia preparing to attempt to seize Estonia

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Work of 80s art

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

BREAKING NEWS: Washington, D.C. to be renamed. Possible names include Trumpograd, Trumpetersburg, Trumpinsk, and ВглубьЖо́пы-Град.

BREAKING NEWS: Washington, D.C. to be renamed. Possible names include Trumpograd, Trumpetersburg, Trumpinsk, and ВглубьЖо́пы-Град.

The West Wing if everybody was evil:

State of decline of the glaciers worldwide as global warming continues Nw research is alarming www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Russia has 400,000 troops in Belarus ready to attack Europe when given the order. Anyone publicly stating they won’t fight Russia, encouraging others to reject defending their nation, or claiming that the danger is overblown is your enemy and working on behalf of the invader.

It's pretty wild how the entire Central Valley of California has been shrouded in a thick, ground-level fog for almost a month now.

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*laughs in economics*

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing