EXCLUSIVE: Brussels to host Taliban in talks on Afghan deportations The controversial talks are likely to be held in a neutral venue, such as a hotel in the Belgian capital, rather than on EU premises

EXCLUSIVE: Brussels to host Taliban in talks on Afghan deportations

Third crash of Israeli Frontex drone, details remain secret – military in Malta claims to have recovered wreckage | Matthias Monroy Once again, a Frontex drone has crashed into the Mediterranean – this time off Malta. Officially, the authorities speak of an emergency landing due to technical problems. Flights with a twin drone wer...

Frontex's Israeli spy drones keep taking a swim in the Med. This time off Malta. Must be the karma for a a surveillance programme that's burned through €200M+ in EU contracts just to watch people drown. War-economies and forced migration are two sides of the same coin.🧵

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.

Only one cat has ever received the award.

This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

In a nutshell. 😊

this is it right here. AI violates Vonnegut's number 1 rule for writers: "Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted." AI shifts the burden of effort from the writer onto the reader/audience and that is unacceptable

if Tim Curry had only blessed us with this speech it would have been enough, but he has given us so much more

Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

I've long thought that American Christianity shouldn't be categorized by denominations/sects or even stated theology.

I think instead it should be categorized by how people in those communities view and discipline children.

I don’t often use the overextended word “iconic”, but as the adage goes, there are a hundred thousand songs about falling in love, but there’s only one song about the boys being back in town.

musically, lyrically, & sonically perfect, it’s as good as rock n roll gets.

SLÄCK DET jag har finnar som jävla tonåring helt plötsligt

‘The pressure in queer life is not to be radical but to be acceptable, and acceptability has always come with terms.’

Trump now ordering naval blockade of Vatican City, also unaware that it is landlocked.

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Philippe Petain får alldeles för litet skit.

So many Brits on this app defending ongoing UK colonialism.

It was embarrassing enough to be an empire shagger in a century when Britannia actually ruled the waves, it’s cringe in the extreme to be humping that flaccid corpse now.

*talking to teenage militant atheist self*

current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church

teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government

current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

Under, herregud, annars glider den ju av.

Beskedet på Tidöpartiernas pressträff den 6 oktober förra året var att enbart utredningsförslag "som går i skärpande riktning" skulle genomföras.

Ju mer pengar de slänger på AI, desto mer pengar borde vi slänga på grundskolan, gymnasiet och universiteten (inte minst humaniora), om vi inte vill sälja ut vår stat till multinationella företag utan att ens få betalt.

I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.

Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Some YA fantasy authors who to my knowledge have never funded an attempted trans genocide:

Terry Pratchett
Diana Wynne-Jones
Garth Nix
Suzanne Collins
Susan Cooper
Phillip Pullman
Rick Riordan
Pierce Brown
Sheri S. Tepper
V. E. Schwab
Rachel Hartman
Alex Pheby
Alan Garner
Ursula Le Guin

And more!

EU verschärft Asylpolitik: Brüssel stimmt für Abschiebezentren in Drittstaaten Das Europäische Parlament stimmt für eine Verschärfung der Asylpolitik. Unterstützt wurde das Gesetzesprojekt auch von rechten Parteien wie der AfD.

Die #Brandmauer ist passé: Rechtsradikale und Konservative haben sich durchgesetzt und die Mehrheit errungen. Der Aufbau eines EU-weiten gemeinsamen Abschiebe-/ Haftregimes ist ins Rollen geraten. Der Weg in den #Autoritarismus ist gepflastert mit rassistischer #Migrationspolitik - alle schauen zu.

"How does one hate a country, or love one?"

Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

Yearning for the Apocalypse As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...

Giving @bellboy.bsky.social a brief rundown of Evangelical Eschatology mostly cribbed from this Tal Lavin piece, so sharing here in case you would like this info too: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right."

Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

I heard mercury is in gatorade or something, but I blame the moon

Har jag förstått det här rätt, efter helgen kommer Folkpartiet bestå av Fredrik Malm och Simona Mohamsson?

Liberalerna
+ Alexander Bard
- Birgitta Ohlson

Det är på ett sätt, som kidsen säger