Today I saw wild iguanas, wild agutis, and an egret snatching a small lizard out of a bush.

I’m in Mexico.

With the introduction of Gnome Shell in 2011, the Gnome developers decided desktop icons were tacky and got rid of them. There are some extensions to bring them back, but the Gnome developers are just and righteous in their arbitrary design tyranny.

“DEFCON 1 at the Gate of Grief”

This video goes so fucking hard: Twitter / Nitter

It’s technically sedition and if democrats wanted to they could arrest or kill them all, but they are cowards.

The echos of the Buchanan administration are palpable.

Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’

Me: Mom can we have a Hezbollah?

Mom: We have Hezbollah at home.

Hezbollah at home:

I think the court is saving face. They know they can’t enforce a ceasefire so they aren’t putting themselves in that position.

RUSSIA > CHINA

These capabilities (targeting / jamming radar + communications) seem primarily suited for offensive operations, but unless there is a direct confrontation between the US / Europe / Russia / China, I don’t think they will pay very much dividends. That is, unless the imperial powers are willing to lend their state of the art tech to their proxies - but they are too stingy about this sort of thing. Too worried about espionage, reverse engineering, etc. They’d rather keep this tech in their back pocket while their imperial network crumbles before their eyes. And that is their true weakness. Their industrial base is already crumbling without any adversarial bombing campaign. Their power lies primarily in the financial realm, and this financial power relies on a globe-spanning military industrial supply chain which is only as strong as its weakest link.

There are two potential outcomes here.

1: ICJ makes a preliminary ruling that Israel must cease its genocidal activities while the case gets a full hearing. Ultimately, the UN Security Council is responsible for enforcement, where the US holds veto power. The preliminary ruling, along with any final verdict years down the line will lack meaningful enforcement, demonstrating the uselessness of the institution.

2: ICJ makes a preliminary ruling in Israel’s favor, demonstrating the uselessness of the institution.

Palestinian liberation will only come through direct action. Armed struggle. But it doesn’t hurt for the impotence of these institutions to be put on display, and regardless of outcomes, the exercise of arguing the case is important.

Voted PSL in 2020. Will probably do so again, but might consider someone like Dr. Cornel West if they have significant momentum and aren’t cringeposting the whole election. Downballot it’s all write-ins for dead revolutionaries. I sure as hell am not casting a vote for Gottheimer.

Beyond shit like keeping Moms for Liberty out of the school board, this shit is pointless. Pretty much all I’m doing is punching one in for the ghost of Ho Chi Mihn out of spite.

Update: I did it.

Update 2:

1954 deaths lmfao

vibe

PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ will deliver its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel this Friday, 26 January 2024, at 1 p.m. (The Hague). Watch live on @UNWebTV http://tinyurl.com/5n6m94px

@CIJ_ICJ Twitter / Nitter

Holy shit.

I didn’t come all this way for nothing.

For a relatively short game, it is incredible how much character development they manage to cram in there and how relatable it is. I think Mother 3 is the only other game that has tugged at my heartstrings like this.

Breaking: Yemen strikes US military cargo ship in Gulf of Aden: twitter / nitter

Update: US sources dispute this claim.

In which The Independent refers to Israel as “US-backed” without doing the same for the Houthis (who they even refer to as Ansarallah at one point): The Intercept / Archive