Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

A horrifying story came out today of a young adult who attended an ICE protest in Santa Ana four days ago and lost an eye to ICE.

ICE agents shot him at point blank range in the face with a 40mm launcher.

https://people.com/protester-21-permanently-blinded-by-federal-agent-while-protesting-ice-aunt-says-11884591

#FuckICE #SantaAna #ReneeGoodProtests

“A company subject to the extraterritorial laws of the United States cannot be considered sovereign for Europe.“

Discover more about the issues with the US CLOUD Act and the chances of Europe to break free from #TechDependency, in The Register’s new story 👇

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/

Notice the NYT's framing here: a near "disaster" means that the aggressors almost didn't succeed in their invasion. (That they did end up succeeding was of course a disaster for the 80 people they killed.)

Let's ask the real question:

Firefox users,

do you want any AI directly built into Firefox, or separated out into extensions?

@firefoxwebdevs
@davidgerard
@tante

@firefoxwebdevs Where's the option for "I do not want this bullshit toy anywhere near my browser"? Is someone forcing you at gunpoint to be pro-slop? Why are all the executives so into this crap? Can't we just let them have their cocaine daydreams without subject the rest of us to it?

Someone I know was killed in the strikes on Venezuela. I was on call with them, and others have just confirmed they're dead.

I think I'm going to check out for a while.

If the US could deal with its own problems, that would be fucking awesome.

for context, that still is from Machado speaking at the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh last October. basically a sales pitch for the privatization of Venezuela's oil. a sales pitch for the bombings that killed 40 people last night.
it's such a freakishly evil image i can't get it out of my head, and living in a world where this person was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize makes me feel crazy, like we're trapped in a world ruled by monsters. but we're not trapped. they're afraid of the rest of us.

RE: https://aus.social/@cheryanne/115830493805719824

Now it’s obvious Americans feel they can just take what they want, is there enough counter-force in the world to stop them? Or do our crappy politicians simply expect to continue their grift until their own turn comes?

How long before Starmer says this war on Venezuela is wrong? I’m guessing never.

It's a beautiful day after the storm, spent a morning in the lab preparing samples for oxygen isotopes, but we're going out later for more coring and sampling. Here are WP9 including @mercerraa@pixelfed.global heading out for a few days overnight on the shelf.

The small cabins give a useful sense of scale in the huge landscape.
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldWork #FieldPhoto #WasaStation

Digging deep into my Pocket archives since they shutdown

'When the Anti-Defamation League...magnifies offensive graffiti and unflattering tweets to the status of violence, while ignoring actual discrimination, if it exists, they trivialise antisemitism. When they condemn criticism of Israel and Zionism as antisemitic, they risk elevating antisemitism to a virtue. And when those who define antisemitism bend over backwards to allow interpretation of antizionist expression as antisemitic, they contribute to enabling such dilutions'

#israel #antisemitism #zionism #antiDefamationLeague

https://bureauofcounterpropaganda.substack.com/p/onto-front-foot

Committed to maximise death & destruction, vicious genocidal #Israel won't even permit Save the Children to be registered to operate in #Gaza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dmj7p8y2o #IsraelFascism #StopIsrael #GazaGenocide