Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing cannot accept any country acting as the “world’s judge” after the United States captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.

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Why is rule 6 specifically targeted at US politics?

I’m very excited to switch when I can microblog to my own profile!

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An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they’re still struggling with what happened

@fediverseThe speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.This event serves as a reminder: If you follow this group, you can:1. Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).2. Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.#MedMastodon

Academics produce papers and give it to Elsevier for free. Academics referee the paper for free. Elsevier sells the papers back to Academics. This has been their business model for some time… but now they’ve found another way to monetize you. They sell your data.

Editorial January 3, 2026

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They literally used to duct tape.

If the information is stored at some value of bits per cm… There’s less bitrate (bits per revolution) in the middle of the record vs the outer edges.

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*Leaders try to focus on what comes next, as backing for ejection of Maduro mingles uncomfortably with voicing of support for international law*

Following the holidays, Linux 6.19-rc4 was released today in working toward the Linux 6.19 stable kernel release in early February.

The defense secretary delivered a series of bravado-loaded comments during a press conference Saturday.

*The lack of a clear legal justification and the precedent set by the operation have left others wondering how vulnerable they might be to U.S. intervention.*

Easy, 2.5 mi loop

DS9 s3e11 “Past Tense, Part I”

Israel’s opposition leader urged Iran’s leaders to “pay close attention to what is happening in Venezuela” in what appeared to be a threat of violent regime change.

Mali and Burkina Faso banned Americans a few days ago. What with Maduro’s kidnapping, it looks like that decision payed off in more ways than they might have anticipated!

*Clips of people knocking on the doors of day care centers purportedly run by Somali immigrants are being viewed millions of times online. Critics call it harassment.*

Netanyahu is also Merz’s daddy.

How the fuck is AI person of the year?

Typically none of our cats will countenance having a blanket put on them. January seems to be an exception.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro.

Bonus “These Are The Voyages…":

*Danish ambassador posts ‘friendly reminder’ about defence ties after provocative MAGA post over territory*