egg ❤️🙏

owned a weighty "spy's handbook" as a kid that included a bunch of rudimentary cryptography and how to do disguises and etc and i remember being struck by the idea of a "dead drop" & what would happen if someone randomly found it, & it ended up in a misinterpretation loop 🫣

i remember deciding that dead drops were too dangerous, if only for opsec reasons, and you never know who is picking up what or if the correct message was received, and more direct comms had better chances of getting secret messages to the right place

think i need to switch off from politics a bit haha, might go see wildwood instead of other options 🥹

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It's been known from the beginning that every single nation in the region and beyond has the capabilities to support Gaza in more than useless, empty statements. It has also been known that not supporting Gaza was a conscious decision they made. It was left to the Resistance groups and Iran to do something meaningful for Gaza.
God-willing, those who stand by and watch as Gaza is starved and obliterated will bear the consequences of their neutrality, for it is as Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said: The cost of steadfastness and Resistance is far less than the cost of submission, compromise, and surrender.
And by the way, we do not hate on the Egyptian regime enough.

alec absolutely obliterating the geese magazine/dsa right electoral strategy in one paragraph holy shit

hoping to go to watch something in the cinema this week and thinking on the options, some good recs out there at the moment

Just when you thought Hipkins couldn't get any worse he decides to copy Margaret Thatcher and privatise state housing

seems like the liberal West's "it's just Netanyahu" defense may be about to go flying out the window at hypersonic speed

politics understanders and neoliberal outriders for western decline constantly out here like "you gotta be in the game to play the game!!" and the game is direct support for killing kids

Hipkins REALLY fucking failed in ostensible role as leader of the opposition. Literal main function should have been to give people hope the government can be kicked, & drive people to organise to enroll & turnout to vote. Should be positive news EVERY DAY in this vein. Instead..

They know how unpopular privatisation is to most New Zealanders, who have seen the disastrous impacts of privatisation in electricity, banking, transport, prisons, housing and many others. Openly running on asset sales would guarantee a one-term government.

feels here in NZ we're too focused on discourse management, & trying to *influence* power, rather than building power. there is often a lot of *energy* for radical or revolutionary politics, but I really think we need more people who get excited by, for eg, how a cannery operates

RT @RealVanJackson: The Board of Peace is a bid to assemble an imperialist order on the bones of Palestinian dispossession. This sock puppe…

Despite how happy I am for Brazil, the hypocrisy of the international applause is hard to ignore. The same actors cheering Lula’s 4th term called Chávez a dictator for it and vilified PSUV for “human rights abuses” while turning a blind eye to Lula’s troops committing rape and war crimes in Haiti. Lula is afforded their sympathy because he maintained neoliberal economics, played nice with Noboa and Jolani, blocked Venezuela from BRICS, and aligned with U.S. intervention abroad. This election result is, without a doubt, a victory for the sovereignty of Latin America against egregious election interference. But not all those applauding are cheering for our sovereignty. And, as yet another Latin American country joins U.S. mercenaries in Haiti, it’s pretty gross that certain ‘human rights activists’ (especially the Latin American pachamama libs) ignore the stain on humanity that was MINUSTAH simply because it was in service of the U.S. interests.

"Other than 2018, the Workers’ Party is six for six. You start to understand why the Brazilian right longs for a return to authoritarianism. They can’t win."

Seems like Vučić abandoned a coup cause his losing margin was too big. Sim to Bolsonaro's push to annul Brazilian election being doomed by the size of Lula's lead + Trump admin scaling back election theft plans in the face of a blue wave. But what happens next time it's close?

why are you even opening your mouth again, bro

gotta wonder how many Ls this guy can stack up before the apologists stop jacking him off