Yup.
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Bin Inn sells loose dishwasher powder, but also big plastic containers of Ecostore powder that can be returned and re-used 👍🏼
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I cannot un-see this!
I need to find me a more exciting dog walking loop!
📣 reshare if you think that world leaders are not doing enough to drive climate actions at every front 📣
A imagem é composta por dois quadros retirados de uma cena dramática. No primeiro, um homem de barba, trajando roupas formais futuristas, fala com firmeza para uma mulher de costas. A legenda diz: “They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore” (“Eles nem se dão mais ao trabalho de mentir mal”). No segundo quadro, a mulher — de expressão séria e contida, vestindo um traje claro e elegante — encara o interlocutor com amargura. A legenda completa: “I suppose that’s the final humiliation” (“Suponho que essa seja a humilhação final”). O ambiente é sofisticado, com arquitetura moderna e minimalista, sugerindo um contexto político tenso e opressivo.
Andor 2x09
ou Mundo, 3 de janeiro de 2026
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
Meme where the background is a still from video of the US bombing Caracas, Venezuela. The text reads: "This is both kinetic warfare – bombs and missiles – and information warfare – false constructs, false narratives, false justifications. A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US" -Carole Cadwalladr https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat-from-america Image: US bombs Venezuela, source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU3f2PjFilU
"This is both kinetic warfare – bombs and missiles – and information warfare – false constructs, false narratives, false justifications.
A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US"
-Carole Cadwalladr
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...
#Trump #War #Propaganda #Venezuela #Meme #Quote
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.
Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.
Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
We need to normalise the idea that there should be no cost for the things we need for basic human dignity and wellbeing.
Would my library card be ok? 🤓📚
For progressives, centre-left and democratic socialists in Aotearoa who follow me and are enjoying Mandami, please go back and read that speech closely. Beneath the tone and symbolism is something very unfashionable but essential: executive and managerial governance.
Former Environment Canterbury chairman Craig Pauling is setting his sights on Parliament, entering the race for Banks Peninsula under the Green Party banner.
Perfect opportunity to link to this gem of a skit 🤣
youtu.be/p5WPVLljm1A?...
I occasionally like to share these "Mercator vs Real Country Size" animations to encourage you to buy a globe. Nothing fancy - just a basic globe. It does wonders in helping you (and your kids) to understand the world. Source: buff.ly/EGdKGR3
Looks like the Darfield Dairy! 😋🍦
Darning & mending can be very creative, as well as practical 🪡🧵
Youths can't work in your ghost jobs Luxon! #NZPol
See also: mortgage lenders...
more bus lanes
= more efficient bus trips
= more people willing to use buses
= less people driving on the roads
= roads are less clogged up
= people who have to drive can do it easier/quicker
I don't get how this is so hard
If only this were a regular service, priced for locals and commuters, rather than a one-off special service, inevitably at tourist rates. So.. next time? 😏
Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Once a patchwork of sleepy rural towns, Selwyn’s rapid expansion means the now booming district is outpacing investment, community leaders say.
Flowers and chalk messages on footpath outside Kilbirnie mosque following 15 March 2019
They should have been safe in Aotearoa😢.
Ok, here we go:
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
"The [Canterbury Mayoral] forum did, however, send a letter to Watts by the Feb 28 deadline signalling its intention to work on a proposal in the coming months [..] Given the tight time frames for the regional deals process."
Wow! I hadn't thought of that!! So very tempting.. 👣
So it's ACT Party canon that schools should be able to opt out of the state-run education system and get all the funds to spend on their own 'thing'.
But it's not ACT canon that schools should be able to opt out of the state-run LUNCHES and get all the funds to spend on their own 'thing'?
Ummm.
