2026-01-13 18:00:34
Right now! Zelenskyy arrives at the Munich Security Conference #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/right-now-zelenskyy-arrives-at.html
Markus Frohnmaier was among some 20 state, federal and EU lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany party to attend the annual black-tie gala hosted by the New York Young Republican Club.
Buoyed by the new U.S. security strategy that praises Europe's far-right parties,
the senior German lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German nationalist parties
Jim Harbaugh on whether Greg Roman is right play-caller for Chargers: 'I don't have that answer right now' https://www.nfl.com/news/jim-harbaugh-on-whether-greg-roman-is-right-play-caller-for-chargers-i-do…
“Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
…
The motive hardly matters: whether the US regards the EU as an enemy for transactional or ideological reasons, it now sees it as an enemy.
…
[Mark] Rutte warns of war, urging Europe to prepare itself, yet he has nothing to say about the one-time ally across the Atlantic…
i absolutely love going through https://okstupid.lol/ and seeing all the MEN who signed up for "WhiteDate" thinking they could find far right women to mingle yet all it lead to was their insane incel beliefs being leaked alongside their real address and name
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
Line …
Today I saw a 14R miss the green light on Mission at 24th St, despite the green being extended for the bus. It was stuck behind a long line of drivers illegally going straight. This is supposed to be a right turn only except Muni. Scofflaw driving is defeating transit priority on Mission Street. #sfpol
Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-influencers-have-flooded-minneapolis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p100#a260113p100
The two smartest guys in the Democratic Party right now are Jon Ossoff and Pete Buttigieg. Neither one will be our next president. Jon is a Jew and Pete is gay. That's how fucked up things are right now.
And Michelle Obama is right: America has “a lot of growing up to do.”
Why Raiders Have Every Right to Enter the Offseason Optimistically https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-have-every-right-enter-offseason-optimistically
""When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.""
Kristi Noem's 'outrageous' voting comment ignites frenzy: 'Saying the quiet part out loud' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-2675270051/
In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, President Trump criticizes Kamala Harris and says "You wouldn't have a job right now, if she got in" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/trump-cbs-news-tony-dokoupil-1236682222/
I have finally figured out a way to cope with CJK scripts at work, and I've made _huge_ progress on a largely untested codebase
So of course the PMs are super change averse
"Look, I have been doing character encoding fixes since literally 2001"
"can you trust that the tests that I added are the right things"
"you do realize that the current system *doesn't work*, right?"
And each of them gets a "oh I don't know, so…
Renee Good’s Killing Has Unleashed MAGA’s Misogyny: To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/renee-good-jd-vance-sexism-maga/
Shindagin Hollow Road on one of the last days will be open before it gets snowed in
#photo #photography #shindaginhollow
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
HUNDA: I think I can. There are two places along that cooling system where it's possible to surface, and as long as I keep my face to the current I should be heading in the right direction. All right, Hask, you take over now. Get the column moving. If all goes well, I'll be back tomorrow night. [he moves off]
HASK: Good luck Hunda.
Cowboys' Jerry Jones Shockingly Admits He Isn't Always Right https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-shockingly-admits-he-isnt-always-right
I'm surprised Apple didn't announce an exclusive app for their subscription.
Stocks Pro is right there.
“Of course we care about people, that’s why we promote privacy for … governments [and the police, military, etc.]” is one helluva take.
Let me break it down for those of you whose salaries depend on conflating people with corporations and governments because it isn’t hard:
Privacy is a human right.
Not a corporate right. Not a governmental right. Not a law enforcement right. Not a military right. A *human* right.
Corporations, governments, police departments, militari…
“Move the front window to right edge of the screen”
“No, lower”
“Wait, no, don’t resize it just move it!”
“Why are you tiling the windows?? Move all windows to their original position.”
“No, not the position at boot! Move all windows to their position 3 minutes ago. Then move the window that was in the foreground at that time to the left edge of the screen, 100px lower than its current vertical position.”
“Yessss!! I did it !! This is so productive!!!”
https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/ahhlzae589ak8z7b
"Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel. "
I think this is just ICE and does not include the FBI or ATF or National Guard or other federal police forces.
https://www.techdirt.com/2…
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
feeling right levitated by chuck smith's fugs film! at doc #nyc, with glorious archival footage & fresh interviews, including ed sanders, the elusive & charming ken weaver, crumb & kominsky together & more. streaming thru 11/30 then up in the air. https://w…
"Western man" is code for
"white man,"
and one of the most popular racist books in these subcultures is
"Which Way Western Man",
which has been featured in a [Department of Homeland Security] post celebrating manifest destiny.
The 1978 book is essential reading among the American far right
and was written by the late white nationalist #William
North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/north-atlantic-right-whale-birth-rat…
"Looking at the connection between #capitalism and oxygen"
He's right. So long as there's any fuel left and any oxygen left, capitalism will continue to burn everything in its path — until there's nothing left
Drilled: Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on the Climate-Fire Nexus
Episode webpage:
Alpenglühen in the Ammergau Alps
(Hochplatte, Branderschrofen, February 2024)
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Annual reminder to Canadian citizen/permanent resident authors, editors, translators, photographers, illustrators, and narrators: if you've published a book in the last 5 years, you may be eligible for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. The program pays $50 to $4,500 based on the number of books you have at Canadian lending libraries. I've always earned more from PLRP than I have in royalties.
Registration opens later this month.
Check out my hallucinated 2025 #YouTubeMusicRecap
@… and I are exploring this mystery: I've never listened to this soundtrack, for a show that came out in December 2025, but YouTube Music thinks I listened to it 114 times going back…
There might soon be a law in the US, even though it counters the interests of Elon Musk? Wow!
#xAI #Grok
https://www.<…
PCIe update: I'm getting through the flow control initialization for VC0 (the only one my minimal PCIe endpoint will support) and the host is now sending me a TLP. This appears to be a "set slot power limit" message request which I'm going to ignore because I'm not in an actual slot.
But I still need to ACK it and send flow control DLLPs, so that's next on the list. Right now the host repeatedly sends the TLP (not getting an ACK) until it times out from lack o…
Stephen Miller is feeling powerful. He's out here claiming "might makes right" and saying the US can do anything.
Miller forgets that he's not the one with the power. The powerful guy repeats himself constantly, wanders off to look at his ballroom construction mid-speech, has fluid-filled ankles, and over-thinned blood. Miller forgets that the "powerful" never remain so for long and that "with great power, there must also be great responsibility."…
How long before Disney files a copyright strike on this amazing & dramatic Star Wars short story?
▶️ Star Wars: Anakin Skywalker Right After Revenge of The SITH - #StarWars Tales Untold
https://youtu…
Johnny Harris (he doesn't seem to have a presence here) has a really good video out right now on public transportation in Switzerland. "By law, every village in Switzerland, which has people living all year round, they have the right of public transportation. It can be a train, it can be a gondola, it can be a bus. Whatever." That's pretty cool.
#Switzerland #PublicTransportation #JohnnyHarris
Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience
Game engine programming is right about fun, and also fully in the cursed domain
There are only 2 types, int and float. The rest is all lies
Strands #622
“We can see right through them”
🔵🔵🟡🔵
🔵🔵
@… I think you are right.
"Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning."
AfD Pushes to Publish German Information That Officials Say May Help Russia - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/europe/germany-far-right-afd-russia-security-secrets.html
Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
We Prescribe Alanis
Join Amy and Loren—Gen Xers, budding counsellors, and seasoned life-feelers—as they tackle a real listener dilemma, dish out heartfelt advice, and prescribe the one song guaranteed to hit you right in the feels...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpod…
US lawmakers remove provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 that would have ensured military members' right to repair their own equipment (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-military-almost-got-…
RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115888215303647458
True...
On the other hand, too many car drivers confuse immortality (with regard to an accident involving pedestrians) with right-of-way...
A handy chart into right wing ideology:
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻 = normal society
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿 = slippery slope
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿🧑🏿 = white genocide
Right now I am trying to inform myself on the most popular video platform and it has become unbearable! So many ads, on repeat, really stupid ones. I am so glad we as #iJUG started to join an alternative:
https://videos.ijug.eu/
When @… first proposed this kind of idea, I honestly didn't think it could work. We (Canadians) would have to make an unfathomably big change to how we treat our US relationship.
We can't just make a short term change to oppose new (dumb) economic policy—we have to commit to being on the right side of this, no matter what policy shenanigans happen …
Interesting. The right wing bots today are pushing “do something about mental illness” instead of “don’t take away my guns”.
Lines up with the rumors of MAHA “rehabilitation farms”
🚢 US seizes five tankers right under Putin's nose! Kremlin goes all-in amid Arctic freeze!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/us-seizes-five-tankers-right.html
Portugal has made a clear choice for a center-left president instead of a far-right one, probably by around 70-30.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/08/centre-left-antonio-jose-seguro-beats-far-ri…
Mallard making waves on a pond. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5 Macro. #descansogardens #duck #mallard
This should be getting more attention
Lawsuit: DHS wants
“unlimited subpoena authority”
to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
https://arstechnica.com…
Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks (Jesse McKinley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/style/amid-fractures-on-the-right-tucker-carlson-continues-his-attacks.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p120#a251212p120
3 Urgent Problems Klint Kubiak Has to Solve for the Raiders Right Now https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-urgent-problems-klint-kubiak-has-solve-right-now
The kids who are sheltering at home right now and not coming in to school…my heart is with them and their families. If you’re out there reading this post: you are not forgotten. Your neighbors are with you.
Rare Colours Blues IV🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 IV🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
black friday for flower stores right now
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni remains confident, despite legal setbacks,
that the deportation facilities in Albania, promoted by her right-wing government, will function as planned.
Meloni pointed to an agreement within the EU on a tougher stance on migration.
The EU states recently agreed in Brussels to increase pressure on rejected asylum seekers and deport them more efficiently.
Return centres in countries outside the EU should also be possible in the future…
I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.
We need to inconvenience the right people about ICE
https://www.forwardky.com/we-need-to-inconvenience-the-right-people-about-ice/
Got my Lao e-visa. All this stuff is electronic now. You upload a scan of your passport and it OCRs all your data into the right fields of a form.
Scanning the shiny plastic bio page of a new US passport can be tricky, though.
I will miss the old-fashioned passport stamps. They're the only way I keep track of where the hell I've been.
Hi, #Anarchism! 🚩🏴
I want to grow my RSS feed and get more variety in what I read. What sources do you all check out regularly? That could be news outlets, journalists, organizations, unions, blogs, or individual creators.
Please share your favorite anarchist, socialist, or syndicalist-leaning websites in the comments. I’d really like to see what everyone else is reading and may…
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
VOICE: [V.O.]Right.
FARREN: Send the commander straight up. Make sure he's not armed.
VOICE: [V.O.] Understood. [Blake teleports in]
BLAKE: Don't worry, I'm not armed.
FARREN: How did you do that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/363…
Gloom & Bloom ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
This shitwipe is in my city right now. And his presence is part of the escalation strategy: the right is desperately trying to get themselves a martyr here. Everything he and his ilk do is taunting, inflammatory, inciting.
https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115884803797676959
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to push the Overton window a bit more to the right by curbing ECHR
No respect for #HumanRights |
Fuckwit.
https://www.theguard…
This is true. Just—AI enables the production of slop in far greater quantities and much faster and with frightening consistency.
When ChatGPT first came out, many of us saw that one could produce perfectly mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays with it. Problem is: long before ChatGPT was a gleam in Altman’s eye, there were Movies of the Week. Based on mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays—albeit written by humans.
And yes, I do think that last bit makes a diff…
Google Researchers Find the Best AI Model Is 69% Right - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-researchers-find-best-ai-model-69-right-2025-12
The Resistance Libs Were Right (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/resistance-libs-trump-fascism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p20#a260113p20
Now would be a good time to remember that the 2nd Amendment is about maintenance of an organized militia so that local authorities can put down uprisings, particularly those of enslaved black people, and not about an individual right to own a murder weapon.
It is probably hard to distinguish some of the images you’re seeing here from, say, a WTO protest that turned violent.
There is an overwhelming sense of “everyone” right now — everyone is in danger, everyone is helping.
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
VOICE: [V.O.]Right.
FARREN: Send the commander straight up. Make sure he's not armed.
VOICE: [V.O.] Understood. [Blake teleports in]
BLAKE: Don't worry, I'm not armed.
FARREN: How did you do that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/363…
Cornell's № 4 Trinity Jones tries to go around № 11 Nasi Simmons of the Columbia Lions in last Saturday's basketball game at Newman Arena
#photo #photography #cornell
US state department’s
Sarah B Rogers
has become face of
White House’s hostility to
European liberal democracies
As Donald Trump redoubled his war of words on the European Union and Nato in recent weeks,
a senior state department official,
Sarah B Rogers, was publicly attacking policies on hate speech and immigration by ostensible US allies,
and promoting far-right parties abroad.
Rogers has arguably become the public face of the Trump adm…
Netanyahu Joins Germany's AfD, Far-right Europeans in Backing Orbšn as Hungary Campaign Begins (Zen Reading/Haaretz)
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-joins-germanys-afd-far-right-europeans-in-backing-orban-as-campaign-begins/0000019b-ae1f-da2a-abdf-ee3f5b0c0000
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p44#a260111p44
Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
JENNA: It's all right, relax, I'll go and get it for you.
CALLY: You just rest for a while. Perhaps we could talk later. I've admired your work for the resistance for a long time. [Chevner looks strangely at Avalon.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/329
If Susie Wiles Can't Say Anything Nice About Ric Grenell, She Can Sit Right Here By Us
https://www.wonkette.com/p/if-susie-wiles-cant-say-anything
The thing you need to understand about the Right is that
they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education
if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work.
They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
-- Ken White ("Popehat")
https://bsky.app/profile…
I won't debate people on conforming with the moral standards set by the far right, because every time a moderate feels the need to condemn a statement that was “inciting violence”, the truth comes out that their so-called violence was a media framing oddly applied to them with a bad-faith reading of their words.
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: We should keep on moving, they could be right behind us.
BLAKE: Yes, without weapons we don't stand a chance. Look, you keep going. I'm going to stay here and try and bring the roof down - block them off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/347 …
Speaker Mike Johnson:
"ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do"
-- put it in ads all across the country
https://bsky.app/profile/ericmgarcia.bsky.social/post/3mcfqqfolgs2q
Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: All right. We'll put the Liberator in orbit a thousand spacials out.
DAYNA: And just observe?
AVON: Is that safe enough for you?
TARRANT: All right, I'll set a course to bring her in.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/43 B7B5
Ever since the Supreme Court shattered campaign finance law with its decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010,
Americans have been told there are only two ways to stop corporate and “dark” money in politics:
Amend the U.S. Constitution
or wait for the court to undo what it has done.
👉That is flat wrong.
Citizens United held that government may not regulate a corporation’s right to spend money independently in elections.
But the …
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
VILA: Yes, but Zen's only a machine.
AVON: So is Orac. [He removes the activator and throws it across the flight deck.]
VILA: That's all right, that's fixed Orac.
BLAKE: No, it hasn't.
JENNA: What do you mean?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/484