Tells you a lot about the current political culture when people (including me) are positively surprised that an EU leader concedes after losing an election.

Talking of contemporary violent extremism.

”What has emerged is a grey zone between clearly politically motivated terrorism and forms of terrorist-type violence that are driven primarily by psychological vulnerabilities, developmental issues, and deeply held personal grievances.”

Neo-Nazis attack two people with machete - The Berliner In Friedrichshain last night, attackers targeted two 19-year-olds while shouting Nazi slogans.

Neo-Nazi machete attack injures two teenagers in Berlin. One of the wounds went down to the bone. www.the-berliner.com/english-news... The attackers shouted Sieg Heil before running off.

« StravaLeaks » : le porte-avions « Charles-de-Gaulle » localisé en temps réel par « Le Monde » grâce à l’application de sport Alors que le groupe aéronaval français se rapproche de l’Iran, « Le Monde » a identifié un militaire français utilisant l’application sportive au milieu de la Méditerranée. Une faille de sécurité qui ...

Strava just keeps on giving. You’ve been able to track the French aircraft carrier’s movements through the app, as a sailor posted their jogging route on the platform.

Ei nyt pilata hyvää juttua faktoilla.

Damn. It’s not even summer yet.

How We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform An autonomous AI agent found a SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform. What it extracted was worse than we expected.

Many people have surely heard that AI is increasingly being used in open-source investigations and IT vulnerability exploitation. If you’ve somehow failed to grasp how, here’s a harrowing example of the latter.

My PhD studies are also free.

Fascism is the ultimate expression of the politics of vibes, and in 2026, that means that content = currency.

Valokuvien vainukoira, vieraana Teemu M. Nieminen | 0x41

I was invited to a Finnish podcast to discuss Bellingcat Volunteer Community, geolocating, and neo-Nazis. My first time ever on a podcast.

Here’s a Spotify link, but you can find Herrasmieshakkerit wherever you get your podcasts.

I've never seen anything like this before.

There are currently at least 14 (fourteen!) KC-135R Stratotankers on their way to the Middle East. Inbound from bases across the United States.

They're used to refuel other aircraft in the air.

I remember this sort of example being used in media literacy classes in school when I was younger. This was in Finland, I don’t know how it’s done in other countries.

I'd like to see someone geolocating and chronolocating this. One could try to use the guy's shadow at 0:18 for the chronolocation.

Yeah…

A screenshot of a post on a neo-Nazi Telegram channel. The post has a screenshot of a post by Department of State saying: "The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America. Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline." The post has a caption: "Yes Trump and co are not our friends in the long run. But do you understand how much we have pushed the Overton window here? This is a huge win. Onwards!"

This was posted a couple of hours ago on a well-known neo-Nazi Telegram channel. Everyone monitoring these channels has seen similar messages for quite some time now.

Nostalgia is also a sign of weakness, as I wrote in my dissertation (which also cites Nostalgia and Its Discontents). You turn to nostalgia when you are losing, or have already lost, the support of the in-group.

”Contemporary violent extremism increasingly develops before the adoption of a coherent ideology, often through exposure to violent online cultures, transgressive communities, and aestheticised harm.”

”Radicalisation is also understood as a process of networked socialisation”, not recruitment.

Research on right-wing extremists (RWE) suggests that RWE content creators aim to provoke because the furore is used as a tool for drumming up support and donations. Just something to keep in mind.

Helsingin yliopisto | Naisvihaa tihkuvaa yhteisöä haastatellut tutkija vaatii puhetapojen muutosta Pyysimme naisvihamielisten yhteisöjen tutkijaa miettimään keinoja miesten auttamiseksi pois vihasta.

Important points raised by @emilialounela.bsky.social about how to reduce the attractiveness of misogynistic incel communities.

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Pity the French Far Right. After 15 years of Marine Le Pen cleaning house and four years of distancing her party from Moscow, the Rassemblement National can’t help admitting where its real instincts lie 1/

Ääriryhmät | Kotikoulun suosio räjähti, Ahvenanmaa vetää ruotsalaisia uusnatseja, Nya Åland kertoo Opetusministeri Anders Adlercreutzin mukaan kotiopetukseen ei tällä hetkellä suunnitella kiristyksiä, vaikka supo seuraa ääriaineksen kasvavaa intoa kotikouluihin.

Swedish neo-Nazis are moving in droves to Finland’s Swedish-speaking Åland Islands to take advantage of Finland’s laxer homeschooling laws. For example, Anders Rydberg, the leader of Nordisk Styrka, has moved to Åland. He’s also an ex-member of the NRM.

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A police investigation against neo-Nazis in Germany & Switzerland w/ links to Blood & Honour/Combat 18: neo-Nazi music/merch (obviously), suspicion of violating weapons laws, trafficking steroids/doping drugs and prescription drugs, having explosive devices, etc. Arrest warrant out for main suspect.

Indeed, and every spring that’s a problem as your body thinks it’s so hot that you don’t feel like wearing a winter coat. Playing outdoor hockey gets you ill real fast :(

(Google translated) the guilt part. Due to the defendants being convicted of another serious assault, the Court of Appeal is increasing the sentence. The penalties are now set at imprisonment for between three years and nine months and four years.

Four members of Active Club Sweden who were convicted of aggravated assault and other hate crimes for an August 2025 attack in Stockholm have had their sentences *increased* by a Swedish appeals court for another assault committed during their spree of evening attacks

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It is remarkable how little discussion there is in Finland about acquiring our own nukes. Especially since the public debate has been gathering steam in other Nordic countries for some time already.

We need to get someone to look into this!!!

Is the CIA behind all this?

Conspiracies not only give the believer a sense of control of the world around them. They take control when you distrust all institutions. They provide an other, an enemy who is harming your world. That harm and oppression renders the other not human. The other does not

And here’s the other one. European politicians surely have their work cut out for them in Davos.

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Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

The second of the two Greenland posts for Europeans to wake up to this fine morning. Here’s a link for you all to enjoy.

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