Rebecca goes so hard here at around 29:30 that there's about 10 minutes of cumulative beeping to the end to keep neema's channel on YouTube.
Quite entertaining.
I welcome @BlondeintheBellyoftheBeast to discuss the state of MAGA, Trump, ICE and American politics more broadly. Things may have got a bit spicy.Buy course...Academic Agent (YouTube)
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The US alleges Zaher Birawi held leadership role within the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA), which organised the flotilla that Greta Thunberg was onRachael Burford (The Standard)
Reminds me of a restaurant chain, maybe Denny's, that was always open. They decided one year to close from Christmas Day - found out that many outlets did NOT have a lock on the door.
Ended up with a chain & padlock to secure the door.
Got deeply into self-hosting last year. A bit hesitant to open up to more than friends & family, but heck it’s time. What’s the worst that can happen? Nobody is going to read this post anyway 🙂
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Minnesota Republican drops out of governor's race, citing GOP's handling of immigration enforcement
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How not Republican of him.
Republican Chris Madel said in a video posted to X that he "cannot support the national Republicans' stated retribution on the citizens of our state."Megan Lebowitz (NBC News)
This is your expression when:
...you realize there are a lot of issues that don't affect you at all, or you can do little to nothing at all about them even if you have an opinion on them (which usually is not simplistic anyway)... but other people are angrily invested in loudly arguing online over the issues, and you just like to watch them fight about it.
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I see all these idiotic Iranian Ziocons on social network demanding the support of the Palestinian solidarity movement for the #Iran street protest.
Someone should explain to them that for most of us it is the Jewish State, its Lobby and the Israeli colonies (USA, Britain, Germany etc.) that are responsible for the ongoing suffering of the Iranian people. Decades of sanctions on Iran is the materialization of #Israel foreign policy and Jewish Lobby pushing the brutal anti Iran policies.
Accordingly, for Palestinian supporters (except the usual AZZ), #Palestine = #Iran, both are subject to biblical siege measures and an ongoing genocide.
Palestinian supporters want to see an Iranian victory. They want to see Israel and its puppets punished and being disabled beyond repair.
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Via Martin Larner .
MOSSAD, CIA MI6 destroying Iran and the world
"They “intervened” in 1953 by overthrowing secular president Mossadeq because he tried to get the Iranian people a fair share of their own oil profits.
They installed the Shah secret police state, where thousands were tortured and disappeared. During this period, the people turned to the Mullahs. It was so extravagant, feckless and corrupt it began to collapse and the final straw for the West was that the Shah had sympathy for Palestinian Independence.
So they contrived to curry the favour of the Revolutionary Movement, by Khomeini was not going to cooperate with the “Great Satan” and be a puppet for an Iran as a slave to western oil interests and Israeli expansion.
So since 1980, the US and Israel have sought to overthrow Iran’s independence, and while Iran’s society has reformed and become more secular and democratic in the meantime, the West has used that opportunity to subvert Iran’s sovereignty with NGOs, Propaganda, Sanctions, bombings, Assassinations, bribery, Terrorism and open warfare.
It was the US that encouraged their then asset Saddam Hussein to launch a war on Iran and who gave him the chemical weapons technology to kill 500,000 Iranians.
It is the West who backs Israel’s insidious espionage and terrorist activity.
These recent riots, where mosques, banks, shops and hospitals were attacked and burnt down, where firemen and their equipment was targeted, where people were beaten, shot and their throats cut in the street, where responding security forces were shot by rooftop snipers, was all orchestrated by Mossad and the CIA, in a continuation of last year’s unprovoked attacks on Iran, this time hijacking peaceful rallies concerning the effects of sanctions and a deliberate foreign run on Iran’s currency.
People were protesting because they wanted to know what their government was going to do about it. They knew it was foreign asymmetric warfare.
As is the propaganda you’ve clearly swallowed. Nothing you are hearing from mainstream media and these sudden pop up accounts on social media of exiles of the Shah’s regime, is telling you the truth.
They are selling you a fairytale cartoon of “The Brutal Regime” but in reality, Iran’s people are living like us:
youtube.com/watch?v=HKyzkDktEn…
If you truly want to help the people of Iran, lobby your politicians and commentators to call out and put an end to the sanctions on Iran, the attacks by Israel and the U.S.,the subversion of their society.
Any country under such constant pressure is unlikely to have a liberal government is it? Yet the Iranians are in many ways freer than we are in the West where a Social Media post critical of Israel or some ideological dogma can result in arrest and imprisonment.
Above all, distrust those “Iranians” living in exile who are wealthy or privileged, funded by NED or other western Intelligence connected NGOs and Media.
They are part of an Oligarchy who were privileged at the expense of their fellow Iranians whom they regard as cattle."
Tehran City NightLife!!! Night Walk in Luxury Neighborhood 🇮🇷 IRAN ایران#iran #tehran #walkingiran #walkingtour #citytour #citylife #walkingvideo ...Vina Traveler (YouTube)
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On the March for White Australia on January 26:
Briefly:
The white nationalist 'March for Australia' (M4WA) rallies and marches were relatively small, especially considering January 26 is both a public holiday and a holy day of obligation for Australian nationalists. According to the ABC, the largest assembly took place in Brisbane, where as many as 3,000 joined to hear Pauline Hanson whinge and whine, Unkle Cliev Palmer's One Hundred Million Dollar Man Ralph Babet talk shit, and various other PHONys feed the patriotik chooks. Technically, this event was 'Australia Marches', not 'March for Australia', a product of a falling-out among the flagwits responsible for previous rallies; the 'real' M4WA took place on the Gold Coast, and attracted about half the number (1,500) as did Brisbane.
The next largest rallies were reportedly in Melbourne and Sydney which (again according to the ABC) witnessed around 2,000 attend, and where the neo-Nazis who attended and led the processions did so without their Helly Hansen uniforms. One neo-Nazi in Sydney, a (former) National Socialist Network member called Brandan Koschel, was arrested after he gave an (allegedly) antisemitic speech. It was met with applause by the nazis and the flagwits in the crowd, and rally organiser Jesse 'QAnon' Stewart simply Carried On after Koschel's brief diatribe. Stewart's willingness to tolerate (allegedly) antisemitic outbursts such as this is an accurate reflection of the organisers' general acceptance of neo-Nazi participation in the March but moreover the fact that they share much in common politically; especially, of course, a dedication to white nationalism. Smaller M4WA or related events took place at Surfer's Paradise (300), several hundred braved the heat in Adelaide, a few dozen in Canberra, and small mobs also gathered in Hobart and Perth to have a whinge.
In general, the day was dominated by PHONy types, who were joined by proprietarians, binfluencers and a cast of characters drawn from an array of obscure minor and micro-parties on the right. Little rich kid Hugo 'auspill' Lennon was ostensibly the organiser and face of the M4WA in Melbourne/Naarm, the Scotch College graduate and heir to a multi-million dollar property-developer fortune appearing to have hired security to ensure he made it safely back to his Toorak mansion. Given that police were present in great number, their presence was probably unnecessary, although The Age reported some minor incidents: a couple were allegedly abused by some M4WA ANZACs, another patriot allegedly performed a Nazi salute on the steps of the state parliament, and there was a fight in a pub.
Finally, it's important to note that the white nationalist processions were dwarfed by Indigenous solidemos, which were more numerous, attracted many times more people in support, and were much livelier. Unsurprisingly, they were also much more diverse than the angwy white Boomerwaffen and racist young tradies who have a fetish for displaying their ultra-nationalist cringe in public.
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Pam Bondi's letter to MN just proved beyond all shadow of doubt that the Admin does not give a flying purple fuck about illegals.
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Pam Bondi's letter to MN just proved beyond all shadow of doubt that the Admin does not give a flying purple fuck about illegals. pic.twitter.com/ls0qO20PUd— Capn Louie 🌊 (@CaptainLouie) January 26, 2026Capn Louie 🌊 (X (formerly Twitter))
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BREAKING UPDATE: West Virginia librarian Morgan Morrow has been ARRESTED following our reporting of her post appearing to recruit individuals to ass*ssinate Trump.
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BREAKING UPDATE: West Virginia librarian Morgan Morrow has been ARRESTED following our reporting of her post appearing to recruit individuals to ass*ssinate Trump.She is charged with one count of t*rroristic threats. t.co/kq1dLMy1HN pic.twitter.Libs of TikTok (X (formerly Twitter))
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Hey @FBI I found someone you might want to look into for information. Everyone meet @OliviaReingold_.
She embedded herself in an insurrectionist network for her "journalisms." In this article, she details Signal chats, much like what @0hour1 and @camhigby found.
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Hey @FBI I found someone you might want to look into for information. Everyone meet @OliviaReingold_.She embedded herself in an insurrectionist network for her "journalisms.Gunther Eagleman™ (X (formerly Twitter))
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Kash Patel tells Benny Johnson that he has opened an investigation into Signal Gate
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🚨 Kash Patel tells Benny Johnson that he has opened an investigation into Signal Gate pic.twitter.com/5TfenkZywu— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 26, 2026Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (X (formerly Twitter))
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Scarlet Vampire ruined the Unmoving Library's skyblock server, magician bans the vampire's account from her server for 10 years as punishment.
Not the best of Aya's articles, but certainly an interesting one.
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Buckle up. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. We haven’t even hit gut check time.
Every move this admin makes brings the monster closer to the surface but it hasn’t breached fully yet.
With how the lunatics and funders are playing the game, casualties were inevitable. Unnecessary but inevitable. They made sure of that. This isn’t the Kent State shooting. This is organized terrorism in our own country.
Never got into too many techno, electronic rock, or big beat stuff. I was definitely into 80's into 90's industrial music though.
I got the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers albums sent to me to review back in the late 2000's, the press pass for two years to cover the Global Gathering when it came to Korea. Saw the Prodigy at the first one and Justice and Fatboy Slim at the next one. Got most of Prodigy and Chemical Brothers' albums these days. Time to get the Fatboy's famous one.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte just dropped TRUTH NUKES on Europe — and he’s siding with Trump.“If anyone thinks the European Union or Europe can defend itself without the U.S., KEEP ON DREAMING. You can’t. We can’t.ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸 (X (formerly Twitter))
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For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up.
Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart (Kay Scarpetta, #23)
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Dans le cadre de la relance du chantier des carrières et des rémunérations, Matignon a confié aux trois grandes inspections une mission d'évaluation des primes et indemnités des agents publics.Acteurs Publics
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The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
I got distracted from working on my book for TWO WEEKS. And I had this fear that maybe I'd lost the thread. Maybe I couldn't get back into writing.
Yet, when I went back and read it? It's pretty good. These last two chapters are solid, and I'm happy with how they work together. They can almost work as a stand alone short story.
I was a little dazzled by "Consider Her Ways" such a good book I thought "I don't know if I can write a story this good..."
Do you ever get intimidated like that?
I think the lesson is to go back and read your old projects, work on them more. It's easier to imagine they are not working when you get busy and drift away.
Because I work full time I need to have the ability to keep working in small sprints.
Today I'm feeling optimistic.
I'm glad you're having this experience.
Part of why I schedule my writing around a quarter system with breaks is that it builds in lulls that last long enough for me to "forget" and return with new eyes. It weirdly helps with all the troubleshooting that feels impossible if I write without breaks.
I think folks have different tolerance for on time vs off time creatively but it does seem like breaks are a healthy part of the process.
Apple’s iPhone shipment share in India rose to a record 9% in 2025, according to Counterpoint Research data. Here are the details.Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
In a new support document today, Apple details a new iOS 26.3 feature exclusive to devices with an Apple modem:...Chance Miller (9to5Mac)
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δεν υπαρχουν πολλα μεσα που να κανουν τετοια ερευνητικη δουλεια
ηρθα νωρις, περιμενω να δω τι θα πουν και οι αλλοι 👀
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It's getting crappy to travel as a 'Murican, considering how much the dying empire is flailing. I don't think it's just Don the Wig's policies. THEY wouldn't let him do it if THEY didn't want him to. No U.S. prez is a rogue element. It's all window dressing for a plan already laid.
So Europe none too happy with 'Murica, South America none too happy with 'Murica... only Izz-Rahl happy with 'Murica. Luckily I rarely get pegged as 'Murican when I travel. 8 out of 10 times, they think I'm German.
Mine is likely because I don't dress "Murican" (whatever that might be), and from teaching courses in English, I speak slowly when abroad if I know they don't know English, breaking up the words. And ethnically, the Swedish, Irish, and Czech mix approximates a German, I'd guess... 🤣
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We hit slavery through a great civil war. Did we destroy it? No, we only changed it into hatred between sections of the country: in the South, into political corruption and chicanery, the degradation of the blacks through peonage, unjust laws, unfair and cruel treatment; and the degradation of the whites by their resorting to these practices, the paralyzation of the public conscience, and the ever over-hanging dread of what the future may bring.
James Weldon Johnson
I have just figured out how to use The GIMP's "Color to Alpha" tool and holy fucking shit am I excited.
Fascinating @pluralistic is developing his theory of #enshittification into a general theory of the rise and eventual collapse of power based on network effects.
Short version: Network effects make switching costly. User are trapped and become sitting ducks for ever-increasing exploitation. As long as the cost of switching is larger than the costs of being exploited, nominally free users rationally decide grin and bear it. But when the costs of being exploited becomes to onerous, it starts to look attractive to buckle the costs of switching. Particularly if the burden of exploitation rises for lot of people in parallel.
This, so the general theory, not only applies to social media, but also to other systems with strong network effects, such as the dollar system.
I'm sure economists could turn this into a formula to predict the point where networks suddenly crumble.
pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-d…
Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
So, in passing this morning after our live stream, I mentioned to @snarfed.org@bsky.brid.gy that it would be nice if we took embedded Notes in Article Activity Streams types and bridged them as Bluesky posts rather than just linking to articles, and he...he just went and did the thing:
AP: use `preview` field? · Iss...
AS2 has a preview field! It didn't really get used in the wild in the fediverse much, so we didn't use it, but we're starting to see conversation (and implementation!) around long form content, eg ...snarfed (GitHub)
Putain, je suis un immense blaireau. J'ai commandé des protéines, du tourteau de graines de courges, etc. pour être à 150gr de protéines par jour conformément aux dires de mon kiné...
J'ai eu une barre cadeau aux cacahuètes... Je l'ai mangé sans regarder : protéines de lait et chocolat au lait...
Je suis énervé d'être un immense blaireau.
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I can reject every tenet of the Confederacy and yet the fact remains that, in fighting to maintain white supremacy, Forrest sought to perpetuate a system tilted in my favor. Forrest fought for me. The work was to understand the proximity, not the distance
Connor Towne O'Neill, Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy
On the other side of the [civil] war, the gold gamblers gamed with the financial markets, wreaking misery on the working class. The rich nursed their addiction to extravagant, imported luxuries. It would be a false mourning to suggest that once upon a time Americans shared their deep woes with great sobriety and heart.
Elizabeth Mitchell, Lincoln's Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House
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