Portraits by the Mysterious “Master I.S.”: An Art History Detective Story
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"It’s often difficult to tell if a Dutch work of art from the 17th century is a portrait (conterfeytsels) or a tronie. Many pictures lack documentation, so we don’t know who, if anybody, was the subject of a given canvas or who may have commissioned it. As a rule, paintings of prosperous-looking people in
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THANKS LEMMY, WE IRANIAN PEOPLE LOVE YOU \M/
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This video was uploaded from an Android phone.Metal Sanaz (YouTube)
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There has been genocide in each year of the 2020ies so far, what a cursed decade. A decade we kicked off with a global pandemic, lest we forget.
Here's to bucking the trend in 26.
Wishing you a happy new year fediverse fam.
Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Outsourcing Torture to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison
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"According to the concept of “manufactured consent,” elaborated by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman in the 1980s, the media carries out a propaganda function in support of the dominant political system. In the United States, this consent has favored particular governments
Time for PBS space time and probably some eep. God this stuff makes my brain hurt so good~ ❤
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If you are not traveling by air, back in the early 2000's, as a fellow traveler, I partnered with Johnny, to make this special brand of No Authority Travel Karma, free to all.
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Michael Parenti: Rambo and the Swarthy Hordes
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Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day
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"Remarking on the 1927 murder of Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Day noted that anarchism “is the word, or label, which confuses many of our readers (especially the bishops?)” Day saw anarchism, as a philosophy of mutual respect and voluntary cooperation, as a natural extension of Christian spiritual
Remarking on the 1927 murder of Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Day noted that anarchism “is the word, or label, which confuses many of our readers (especially the bishops?)” Day saw anarchism, as a philosophy …David S. D’Amato (CounterPunch.org)
Holy shit that truck hit me harder than I thought~ lol
welcome to 2016 everyone!!! lets make eachother XD this year again!!!
Special new NO AUTHORITY karma available for free from me... for those who fly, and are having any problems, just ask, and I will give it to you.
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Looking Beyond the 2026 Midterms: Slogans Are Not a Strategy
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"The current buzzword is affordability. “‘Affordability’ mantra helps Democrats turn tide” the New York Times headlined. “Democrats used ‘affordability’ to harness worries about the cost of living and sweep to victory in this November’s [2025] election. And once that happened, references to ‘affordability’ as a stand-alone term
Give!Guide Raises $9.2 Million for Portland-Area Nonprofits
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It’s time to pour some bubbly, kick back, and celebrate!Willamette Week
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Iran have identified and arrested a team linked to terAl-Manar TV Lebanon
The Russian Idée Fixe
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"‘Russia’s defensive war against NATO expansion’ — a concept that has become almost axiomatic for many Western leftists. This concept conveniently serves both to rationalize Russia’s actions and to radicalize criticism of their own governments. But what role does Putin himself assign to the supposed NATO threat? A close reading of his key speeches reveals More
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Good Riddance, Nya~ >:3
Me and who?
The Abbey and the Airbase
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"The first thing you notice when you exit London is the silence. The city’s noise becomes an abstract memory. “In silence there is eloquence,” wrote Rumi. “Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” Lying awake at night, there is utter silence. It is loud, almost physical, and revealing what is usually hidden, such as More
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Deadly fire tears through bar in Swiss Alps ski resort Crans-Montana during New Year's celebrations
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Police in Switzerland say a fire at a bar in the Crans-Montana mountain resort area has left "many injured and many dead."CBS News
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Israeli enemy forces carried out a cross-border incursion into Lebanon on Wednesday, in a fresh violAl-Manar TV Lebanon
When it rains, it pours. Now the tow bar broke while pushing the plane back from the gate.
I hope I have enough time to transfer in Taipei. Gotta change terminals there, cutting it damn close.
calling all train autistics
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So exciting. I am going to document my entire trip for my new channel~ <3I don't think people do enough train videos anyways and honestly if I am going to make the trip anyways, might as well show everyone what its like if you use a wheelchair~ :3
So exciting. I am going to document my entire trip for my new channel~ ❤
I don't think people do enough train videos anyways and honestly if I am going to make the trip anyways, might as well show everyone what its like if you use a wheelchair~ :3
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On Helsing’s loitering munition/drone, currently in tests with the Bundeswehr www.welt.de/wirtschaft/p...
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Das neueste Fluggerät des deutschen Herstellers Helsing kann offenbar auch in Gruppen angreifen. WELT liegt exklusives Bild- und Videomaterial vor, welches Fähigkeiten der Drohnen zeigt, die die in Deutschland hergestellten Fluggeräte bislang nicht b…Jan Dams (DIE WELT)
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LIVE: Israel’s ban on 37 aid groups kicks in, Gaza starts 2026 with despair
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Heavy rain, thunderstorms and hail is expected across Palestine, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
朗読劇「私をドルシネアと呼んだ男」が1月30日に兵庫・西神中央ホールで上演される。 これは西神中央ホールが手がけるオリジナル朗読劇。「勇敢な騎士である」と自身を鼓舞し、理想を追い求めて生きるドン・ステージナタリー (Yahoo!ニュース)
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And so, it is morning... And the body still insists I do things requiring me to, at least temporarily, leave the duvet and turn on the lights, so it is morning and I am "awake".
I'm dislike 2026 already...
PFLP Mourns the Leaders of Al-Qassam and Confirms That Their Blood is Fuel for the Continuation of Resistance abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/263…
PFLP Mourns the Leaders of Al-Qassam and Confirms That Their Blood is Fuel for the Continuation of Resistance
With all meanings of pride and pride, and with the majesty of heroes holding on to the principles, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourns to our people, our Arab nation, and the free people of the world, a group of great leaders from our brothers in Al-Qassam Brigades, who rose in the trenches of confrontation and engagement during the “Storm of Al-Aqsa” battle. They are:
• Muhammad Sanwar “Abu Ibrahim”, commander of Al-Qassam’s staff.
• Muhammad Shibana “Abu Anas”, commander of Rafah Brigade.
• Raed Saad “Abu Muath”, commander of military manufacturing.
• Hakam Al-Eisa “Abu Omar”.• Hudhayfah Al-Kahlout “Abu Ubaidah”, spokesperson for Al-Qassam Brigades and voice of resistance.
We in the Popular Front confirm that the rise of these leaders in the front lines proves that their blood is fuel for the continuation of resistance, and a curse that will burn the illusions and plans of the occupier. We emphasize that unity in blood and fate on the battlefield is a rock against which occupation plots are shattered; The absence of these figures will not weaken resistance, but will bequeath generations capable of carrying on and completing the path to liberation.
– We extend our sincerest condolences to our brothers in Hamas movement and its military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as to families of martyrs. We pledge to them and to spirits of fighters that we remain loyal to their wills, that our guns continue firing side by side until victory is achieved, return accomplished, all Palestine liberated from river to sea with Jerusalem as its capital.
Glory and immortality to martyrs… Quick recovery to wounded… Freedom for prisoners… And we are certainly victorious
Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine
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December 30th 2025abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…#alAqsaFlood #gaza #palestine #pflp #westAsia
Mutual Aid General Fund Recipient – December 2025: Dandelion Seeds
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"Dandelion Seeds receives $550 from the Mutual Aid General Fund to aid unhoused neighbors with essential winter supplies this December 2025.
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Why are some African countries banning US citizens from entry?
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Mali and Burkina Faso are the latest to issue 'tit-for-tat' bans on visas for US citizens with immediate effect.Shola Lawal (Al Jazeera)
For New Year’s Day a small #Roman #glass bottle in the shape of a date: Dates, figs, and honey were traditional Roman New Year's gifts. According to the poet Ovid, these items were believed to ensure that the coming months would be sweet ones.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! 🍀
📷 me, taken in the Pompejanum Aschaffenburg
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All the best (and sweetest) to you in 2026! Thanks for sharing your interesting and beautiful photos through the year.
Recommended article by @mariamlau.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy on the state of the Bavarian CSU, and a little bit about the state of the governing coalition and German politics more generally. 🎁🔗www.zeit.de/2026/01/csu-...
Kurz vor ihrer Klausurtagung erkennt die CSU den Ernst der Lage. Sie ringt mit AfD, Autoritären und einem möglichen Ende der Ära Söder. Wo soll das hinführen?Mariam Lau (DIE ZEIT)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual press conference in Moscow on Friday to look back on the results of 2025, and forward to 2026, during which he highly evaluated Russia-China relations aswww.globaltimes.cn
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I mean its free. Installer are incredible easy. Steam says 90% of games are compatible. Libreoffice has all the features.
The last straw are manufactures delivering hardware with M$ bullshit preinstalled.
like this
An acrylic painting of a white bunny making a cardboard gingerbread house and a brown bunny just chilling next to her.
Scattered about the scene are four pieces of cardboard which have had pieces cut out of it for the gingerbread house, two pieces of blue card stock for the roof, a piece of blue construction paper for the window, and a piece of red construction paper for the door, as well as red and green pompoms and white tinsel which has had pieces cut out of it to simulate snow, as well as a pair of scissors and a bottle of glue which has spilled out a bit. I also added some Duplos in the background that the bunnies had been playing with earlier.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name manual 35mm f1.6 native-mount prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #cuteanimals #bunnies #bunnyart #acrylic #acrylicpainting #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
WASPI campaigners are calling on the UK public to inundate MPs with one million letters in a bid to force Labour into a U-turn on their block on…Xander Elliards (The National)
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SFO letting planes take off with tail wind on short runway. We are too big and heavy to use that runway.
What are they smoking?
The Regime-Change Playbook: From Syria to Venezuela abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/263…
The Regime-Change Playbook: From Syria to Venezuela
One Year After Syria’s Destruction, the Regime-Change Playbook Is Being Reused
In December 2024, the United States, Israel, NATO, and their European allies completed what they had pursued for more than a decade: the destruction of Syria as a sovereign, anti-imperialist state. This warmongering was marketed to Western audiences as a “liberation.” One year later, in December 2025, the results are undeniable.Syria is not free.
Syria was dismantled.
What followed the fall of Damascus was not peace, democracy, or self-determination, but mass violence, sectarian fragmentation, economic plunder, and foreign domination. Syria today stands as a living case study of what regime change actually produces—and as a warning of what awaits Venezuela if the same imperial playbook is allowed to run its course again.
What Regime Change Really Is
Regime change is not a response to dictatorship. It is a long-term Western imperial strategy designed to destroy political sovereignty and force independent nations into submission.
The countries targeted for regime change share common characteristics:
- They assert control over their natural resources
- They pursue nationalization or socialist-oriented development
- They reject U.S./European/NATO military alignment
- They build multipolar relationships outside Western control
- They resist Israel and Zionism
Syria and Venezuela were not targeted because they were uniquely authoritarian. They were targeted because they were independent.
Before December 2024, Syria was a central pillar of the global anti-imperialist camp and the Axis of Resistance. Venezuela remains one today.
Regime change exists to replace governments that serve their people with governments that serve Western capital, Western militarism, and Western geopolitical interests.
The Regime-Change Playbook: Syria and Venezuela
Syria did not fall overnight. It fell through a multi-stage imperial process—the same process now clearly being deployed against Venezuela.Step One: Demonization of Leadership
In Syria, Bashar al-Assad was transformed into a singular embodiment of evil. Every social and economic hardship was reduced to his personal existence. Context, history, and imperial interference were erased.
In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro is treated the same way: caricatured as a “narco-dictator,” stripped of political complexity, and framed as an illegitimate obstacle to progress.
This step is essential. Once a leader is dehumanized, anything done to the population becomes justifiable.
Step Two: Sanctions as Collective Punishment
After demonization comes economic warfare.
In Syria, sanctions devastated civilian life long before the state collapsed—destroying healthcare, food systems, infrastructure, and livelihoods. The suffering produced by sanctions was then blamed on the Syrian government itself.
Venezuela has endured the same strategy. Sweeping sanctions have strangled the economy, blocked trade and finance, weaponized shortages, and punished the working class. The misery they create is then cited as “evidence” that regime change is necessary.
Sanctions are not diplomacy.
They are siege warfare by economic means.
Step Three: Propaganda, Atrocity Narratives, and Psychological Warfare
Once sanctions weaken society, propaganda intensifies.
In Syria, years of atrocity narratives—many selective, exaggerated, or fabricated—created a permanent moral panic in Western consciousness. Complex realities are flattened into a simple story of good (white) people versus evil (Brown) people.
Venezuela is now subjected to the same information war. Every hardship is framed as internal failure. External sabotage and US economic warfare are erased. The purpose is to manufacture public consent.
Wars cannot proceed without it.
Step Four: Fake Opposition and Reactionaries
No regime-change operation succeeds without reactionary collaborators, especially within diaspora communities in the West.
The United States and Europe consistently uplift exiled elites—often from wealthy, Westernized, or comprador backgrounds—who lost power after anti-imperialist revolutions and now advocate sanctions, coups, and foreign intervention under the language of “freedom” and “human rights.”
In Syria, the so-called opposition was ultimately embodied by figures like Ahmad al-Sharaa (Jolani) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)—former Al-Qaeda and ISIS leadership rebranded as legitimate rulers by the West.
In Venezuela, this role has been played by figures like Juan Guaidó and now María Corina Machado—unelected, Western-aligned actors whose politics reflect U.S. corporate and geopolitical priorities, not the will of the Venezuelan masses.
These figures function as US and Western imperial proxies, laundering regime-change narratives through cultural familiarity. Identity is weaponized to obscure politics. The Western left is targeted for confusion, fragmentation, and paralysis.
This is how Syria fell.
This is how Venezuela is being targeted.
Step Five: Escalation Toward Open War
Sanctions and propaganda are not the endpoint. They are preparation.
Syria’s regime-change war escalated over more than a decade—from information warfare to proxy conflict to full-scale destruction. The West waited patiently until conditions were favorable.
Venezuela is now facing that same trajectory.
Syria Before and After Regime Change
Before December 2024Syria was a sovereign state aligned with the global Axis of Resistance. It supported Palestinian resistance factions, facilitated material support to Hezbollah, resisted Israeli occupation, rejected normalization with Zionism, and maintained national control over key sectors of its economy. It functioned as part of a broader anti-imperialist front against US imperialism and Zionism.
After December 2024
Today, Syria is engulfed in chaos.
Under HTS and al-Sharaa:
- Sectarian massacres and ethnic cleansing have devastated minority communities
- Women from religious and ethnic minorities have been kidnapped, raped, and trafficked
- Entire populations have been forcibly displaced
- National institutions have been hollowed out
- Economic assets have been seized and privatized
- Israeli forces have expanded their occupation unopposed
Al-Sharaa has openly aligned himself with the United States, Europe and Israel, holding meetings with Western officials and negotiating Syria’s future as a subordinate client state. He expelled Palestinian resistance organizations, dismantled their political and military infrastructure, and blocked weapons flows to Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance fighters.
Syria has been forcibly removed from the Axis of Resistance.
This is not organic chaos.
This is the outcome regime change was designed to produce.
Venezuela Today: Resistance, Not Collapse
Venezuela now stands where Syria once stood—but with one critical difference: the outcome is not yet decided.
Despite years of sanctions, coup attempts, sabotage, and military threats, Venezuelan society has not collapsed. Workers, communes, unions, and popular militias are organized. Large majorities of Venezuelans openly reject foreign intervention and have expressed readiness to defend their country with arms if necessary.
President Nicolás Maduro is not merely surviving imperial pressure—he is coordinating national resistance, strengthening alliances with other sanctioned nations, defending sovereignty, and preparing the population for collective defense.
This is precisely why Venezuela is being targeted now.
Regime change does not attack weak societies.
It attacks resistant ones.
How the United States Is Attacking Venezuela Right Now
When we say that Venezuela is under attack, we are not speaking metaphorically. The United States is actively waging a multi-front campaign of economic, political, psychological, and military aggression against the Venezuelan people.Economic Warfare Through Sanctions
The primary weapon being used against Venezuela is economic siege.
U.S. sanctions are designed to:
- Block Venezuela’s access to international banking and credit
- Prevent the sale of Venezuelan oil on global markets
- Seize Venezuelan state assets abroad
- Criminalize third-country trade with Venezuela
- Collapse public revenue used for food, healthcare, housing, and wages
These sanctions have deliberately deprived Venezuela of tens of billions of dollars, restricting access to medicine, spare parts, food imports, and infrastructure maintenance. This is collective punishment, not diplomacy.
The humanitarian suffering produced by sanctions is then cynically blamed on the Venezuelan government itself—exactly as it was in Syria.
Extrajudicial Killings and Militarization of the Caribbean
U.S. aggression has also taken a directly lethal form.
Under the pretext of “counter-narcotics” operations, the United States has expanded its military presence in Caribbean and South American waters, carrying out airstrikes and lethal airstrikes that have resulted in extrajudicial killings of civilians, including fisherfolk and maritime workers, without evidence, trial, or accountability.
These operations are not about drugs. They are about:
- Militarizing the region surrounding Venezuela
- Controlling strategic shipping routes
- Normalizing U.S. military violence near Venezuelan territory
- Creating regional instability and fear
This mirrors the early military pressure applied to Syria before its collapse.
Open Threats and Resource Seizure
U.S. officials—including Donald Trump—have openly threatened Venezuela and asserted imperial entitlement over its resources. Trump has repeatedly stated that Venezuela’s oil “belongs” to the United States, making clear that regime change is about resource theft, not democracy.
When an imperial power publicly claims ownership of another nation’s resources, that is colonialism in plain language.
Political Sabotage and Parallel Governments
The United States has repeatedly attempted to overthrow Venezuela’s government outside any electoral process by:
- Recognizing unelected figures as “president”
- Freezing and stealing Venezuelan state assets
- Encouraging military defections
- Supporting coup attempts
- Funding destabilization campaigns
These efforts failed because they were rejected by the Venezuelan people—not because U.S. hostility ended.
Psychological Warfare and Information Operations
Alongside sanctions and threats, the U.S. wages continuous psychological warfare:
- Saturation media campaigns portraying Venezuela as a “failed state”
- Atrocity narratives stripped of context
- Erasure of US sanctions from public discourse
- Promotion of regime-change messaging through diaspora elites
This is designed to demoralize Venezuelans, fracture international solidarity, and prepare Western audiences to accept escalation.
Taken together, these actions constitute a state of undeclared war.
Reactionaries, Collaborators, and the Weaponization of “Human Rights”
Every regime-change operation depends on internal collaborators.
Western governments deliberately elevate reactionary Syrians and Venezuelans in the diaspora—often from elite backgrounds—who advocate sanctions and intervention while claiming to speak for “their people.” These figures whitewash imperial crimes, legitimize collective punishment, and translate U.S. propaganda into the language of identity and humanitarianism.
Women’s rights, minority protection, and queer liberation are selectively weaponized—not to help oppressed people, but to justify sanctions, destabilization, and war. This is not solidarity. It is psychological warfare.
The people most harmed by sanctions—women, children, the poor, and marginalized communities—are always the ones the West claims it wants to “save.”
The Responsibility of Anti-Imperialists in the West
Syria fell not because the truth was unknowable, but because too many people in the imperial core accepted imperial narratives—or treated the destruction of a sovereign nation as distant or inevitable.
Anti-imperialism cannot be outsourced solely to the Global South.
Venezuela is already resisting. The responsibility now lies with those of us living inside the imperial core: to oppose sanctions, reject propaganda, expose regime-change lies, and resist our own governments’ war projects.
The US Wants to do to Venezuela What it did to Syria
Syria was not the first victim of regime change, and it will not be the last.But Syria shows, with brutal clarity, what happens when this imperial strategy succeeds.
Venezuela now stands at the same threshold.
The playbook is the same.
The sequence is the same.
Only the target has changed.
If Syria teaches us anything, it is that silence, confusion, and misplaced neutrality are forms of complicity.
Venezuela will not fall because it failed to resist.
It will fall only if people inside the imperial core fail to resist their own empire.
And that is the lesson we cannot afford to ignore.
source: Bronx Anti War
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Palestine & the Axis of Resistance featuring Laith Marouf of Free Palestine TV
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Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion
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Bulldozers flatten refugee housing while Israel approves 126 settler housing units and targets UN agencies.Elis Gjevori (Al Jazeera)
Gaza’s new year begins with a struggle for survival and dignity
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Sanaa and Batoul embody Gaza's resilience, facing war, famine, and loss with little hope for a better life.Maram Humaid (Al Jazeera)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I wish all of my friends a great 2026!
Here is our NYE Dinner, made by my husband and me.
**Starter:** Cauliflower, Parmesan, and Västerbotten cheese soup with a herb oil.
**Main: **Oxcheek, braised in red wine with truffle mash, wild mushroom jus and Hispi cabbage.
Amarone Wine.
**Dessert: **Key lime pie and dessert wine.
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Epstein advised on U.S. role in Israeli energy as Ehud Barak sought foreign partners to save gas monopoly.Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
Israel is expelling 37 aid groups – a likely death sentence for 100,000s of Palestinians. But the Times speaks only of 'new rules' in Gaza, and 'suspensions' for those who 'resist registration'Jonathan Cook
Can you guess 6-7 words that have made the 50th annual "Banished Words List"?
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Respondents to a Michigan college's survey of overused and misused words and phrases say "6-7" is "cooked" and should come to a massive full-stop.CBS News
The Hamas Movement has affirmed that the Israeli crimes against Palestinian journalists “will not succeed in silencing the voice of truth.”Raouf (The Palestinian Information Center)
The convicted fraudster said he was working “behind the scenes” to form a political party.TheJournal.ie
Cities around the world welcome 2026 with thunderous fireworks and heightened security
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From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds have rung in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks.The Associated Press (oregonlive)
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Israel plans to ban 37 aid organisations from operating in Gaza from 1 January, a move the UN has condemned as “outrageous”.TheJournal.ie
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New Lego Star Wars BB-8 Droid Building Set Is Available Now
Lego Star Wars: BB-8 Astromech Droid (569 Pieces) $90 See at Amazon See at Lego Store Lego has kicked off 2026 by adding several notable Star Wars models to its ever-expanding catalog. The lineup of January 2026 Lego Star Wars sets features notable starships and transport vehicles like the Venator-Class Attack Cruiser and AT-AT Walker as well as the ...
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The 569-piece Astromech Droid is the first BB-8 Lego Star Wars model since 2017.Steven Petite (GameSpot)
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#chatmail #fosdem #deltachat #cryptographic #interoperability
♲ Delta Chat (39c3) - 2025-02-09 10:22:30 GMT
The #chatmail #fosdem talk from @compl4xx is public. It goes into topics such as- why chatmail servers?
- how to setup a server with your child
- (avoiding) spam filtering
- metadata and guaranteed end to end encryption in #deltachat
- #cryptographic #interoperability for email message routingThanks to attendees for the great energy even if was the last talk on the day and also for questions and conversations afterwards!
Aral Balkan
in reply to Indy Richard 🏴 • • •