Hello, historian of empire speaking: this is colonialism. All those recent scholarly apologists for historical colonialism lie unmasked: they really do believe colonialism was ethically good, and they think powerful countries should be colonising again.

Well. Where are the Epstein Files old man? youtube.com/shorts/SjcS6...

Dealing with AI Slop Chris Hayes Awakening. youtu.be/QyIlxg3z2eQ?...

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

Bardo #wordoftheday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo

Why aren’t Americans in the streets? 👏👏👏 youtu.be/MR3HSwTEtmE?...

Yeah, I mean, Greenland’s only been a Danish territory for over 300 years, why aren’t they part of this country that didn’t even exist back then? Makes total sense!

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“Maybe we should show them Canberra…nah.” This year’s annual Aussie lamb ad is out. 🇦🇺 www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Noraly. #itchyboots Best way to start the New Year youtu.be/6LSacl_-keE?...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Took me a while to get the sarcasm

I took this photo of a heron at Bushy Park just before dawn this morning

Wolf moon rising Ballarat

Liminality “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies are growth and our freedom.” Victor Frankl Quoted by Suleika Jaouad in her book The Book of Alchemy

Simplicity is still key to successful propaganda.

One thing that the government could do easily and simply is withdraw from X. There’s no downside.

Happy New Year Dorset! @sophiamoseley.bsky.social @mrclivec.bsky.social

“We’re coming to the end of the world as we know it and we will need each other. This shouldn’t create fear, it should create humility and generosity and kindness.” — Ece Temelkuran, Nation of Strangers (2026) @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social #linotype #letterpress #bellhooks #yokoono #rememberlove

Very sad to hear of the passing of Gerry Keating, who, through being given the unfortunate task of attempting to teach me political theory in 6th form, was one of the biggest formative influences on my intellectual life. An inspiration and a true original. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

The vibe. (Happy new year!)

Start the new year by learning a new skill 🧭 Explore Bellingcat’s guides to a wide range of open-source research techniques in the Resources section of our website. www.bellingcat.com/category/res...

Now Twitter allows you to make deep fake naked images of any image, why are schools and teachers using it? Let alone meta products ?

2026

Homi Bhabha expressing the experience of exile? From country, community, work, relationships?

Baltic Worlds Remodeling the fabric of Europeaness 1/2

China will ban retractable car handles beginning Jan. 1, 2027, amid growing safety concerns that electrically powered designs can prevent passengers from escaping or being rescued after mishaps.

Jess is absolutely right. The Court of Appeal’s decision in the Begum deprivation of citizenship case, and the Supreme Courts reasons for not hearing an appeal, are two of the worst legal judgments of recent years. There are other bad decision, but these were awful.

I feel seen.

Thank you #TheNerveNews Thank you Michael Morris www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...

Elon Musk appointed 19-year-old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the grandson of a KGB lieutenant colonel to DOGE. He was instrumental in cutting funding for the United States Agency for International Development, which directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of poor people overseas.

Gate security

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

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This is not true at all. Russia is far more Muslim than most of Europe and North America, and that has nothing to do with why people hate Russia. People hate Russia because it is an imperialist dictatorship that invades, rapes, and commits genocide against its neighbors

Good thread

Thread 🧵 from @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social 👏

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

Make a Bond movie academic: No Time To Grade

When Nyunmiti Burtom & other female Australian Indigenous artists heard of the Christchurch Mosque attack, 2019, they showed solidarity by creating a canvas for NZ Muslim community depicting people separated by sea, culture, but united in humanity #WomensArt

The banality of evil.

James Turrell: Within without Canberra nga.gov.au/art-artists/...

Shitting in your bed 🇺🇸

Getting ready for Christmas lunch Step 1, milk buns

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page. I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft. Now, to be clear, fuck this. But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.