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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz (Spencer Ackerman/FOREVER WARS)
https://www.forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p123#a251208p123

🇩🇪 Wir läuten den zweiten Advent mit einer Akustikversion von Traitor ein. 🕯️🕯️
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🇺🇸 Our XMas countdown, round 2: this time @__kimjasmin sat down with her guitar for a little acoustic version of our 2025 single ‚Traitor‘
#metalcore #acoustic

The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
— by @…
🔣 https://www.<…

The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
It starts innocently. You just want to search for something. A word, a phone number, perhaps the occasional email address belonging to your former classmate who still owes you £60 for books. You could do this the normal way, with a search box like a civilised human, or you could

✅ Settler colonialism
✅ Apartheid
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says…

Russia, China hold joint anti-missile drills on Russian territory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/russia-china-hold-joint-antimissile.html

Vor dem Haus wird das Trottoir aufgerissen. Weil es schnell gehen muss, haben sie heute 7:30 Uhr erst das Laub weggeblasen und aufgerissen und dahinter schon mit dem Rüttler alle Pflastersteine wieder befestigt.

Good to remember that during the "peace negotiations" there is one party that keeps attacking and trying to conquer territory in Ukraine, that is Russia.
#Russia #agressor #Ukraine

Giving up territory would be 'unjust peace', says Ukraine's armed forces chief | World News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/giving-up-territory-would-be-unacceptable-says-ukraines-armed-forces-chief-13479634

Excellent piece by @… on the ebb and flow of creative work and the inevitability and importance of fallow periods.
“What I failed to notice: that the fallow periods were doing something too. They were composting. I was taking in books and conversations and experiences without the pressure to immediately metabolize them into output. I was wandering without a map, which meant I sometimes stumbled into territory I never would have found if I'd been navigating by GPS.
The harvest seasons, when they returned, drew on seeds I hadn't remembered planting.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/

Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84 (Walter Pincus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/01/06/aldrich-ames-dead-cia-traitor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p142#a260106p142