"Various bodies, including the UN, Amnesty International, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, the latter two of which are Israeli-based, have said Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza."
⏰The head of the @BritishArmy has just delivered a massive wake-up call to his troops - and the whole of the UK - about the gathering storm.
Please read or watch ⬇️
General Sir Roly Walker tells his soldiers: "You didn’t know this but our nation is going to need you.
"Very soon the political leaders of this country will start to have a frank conversation with the citizens of this country about just what is going on and where the risk lies.
"They are going to try and explain to our citizens that our citizens have got to consent to sacrifices to prioritise defence and security.
"And then they are going to ask those citizens, to whom we are not necessarily at the front of their mind, that they too need to play a part in the defence and security of this country.
"They need to understand what we do for them.
"They need to consent to allow us to do that, which means sacrifices by them.
"And ultimately we are going to need them to back us, to back you to do the one thing that you do that noody else gets to do and that is to take the fight to the enemy."
"Remote access" is hacking or surveillance; call it what it is. "Remote analysis" quickly switches the remit from preventing crime to surveillance. There will be checks and balances blah blah blah... 🇯🇵
Japan’s Meteorological Agency mistakenly issued an early warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake, but the actual magnitude was 6.9, according to the USGS; no tsunami alert was issued.
Via: @BNODesk
Trump: If you don't take drugs or if you don't smoke, there's no problem. I have other problems. I have some very severe problems.
I probably set myself up with that one. I actually was just having fun.
Earthquake Detailed Report – 10/16
At around 12:35pm, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 occurred near the Kamchatka Peninsula at a depth of 160km. The maximum intensity was 1. There is no threat of a tsunami. #earthquake
One Ukrainian robot got two Russian units to spend half a day shooting each other.
Operation "Vivaldi" has quietly turned into one of Ukraine's sharpest pushes this fall — and it also produced one genuinely absurd moment worth telling.
A ground robotic system with a mounted machine gun rolled into the gap between two tree lines where Russian troops were positioned. It opened fire on one tree line. Then it opened fire on the other.
Both Russian groups assumed the other side had just been hit by Ukrainian forces — and started shooting at each other.
For half a day.
"It started shooting into one tree line, then the other. Then they started shooting at each other — both sides thought it was the enemy, and they fired at one another for half a day."
— "Disney," deputy communications officer, 3rd Separate Assault Brigade
Beyond the comedy, "Disney" gave a real glimpse into what's actually happening on the Vivaldi front — and the gap between what Russian commanders are reporting up the chain and what's true on the ground.
Russian Telegram channels keep claiming captured settlements and destroyed Ukrainian robotic systems.
Meanwhile, Russian forces have had to funnel reinforcements through the same few routes, repeatedly, because Ukrainian control of the Zherebets River has made crossing to the other bank genuinely difficult.
"If we control it, logistics to that riverbank get pretty complicated for them. But they didn't give up — they kept sending people. Of those, maybe 10% actually made it through."
Somewhere in Russian command, someone is still trying to explain how they lost that much territory.
One machine-gun-mounted robot turned two Russian positions into each other's problem — and that's Operation Vivaldi in a single scene.
Source: 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, October 15, 2026
#Ukraine #UAF #ModernWarfare #DroneWarfare #VivaldiOp #RussiaUkraineWar
Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
It's crazy that there's a tool out there that's become vital to they way I do my job, parent my kids, and make major life decisions; and yet we barely spend more on it than AI
This is extraordinary.
I don't think I have heard a more articulate & accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's Reform UK policy than this, in under 85 seconds!
Trumps MAGA, AfD supporters in East Germany and "Ireland is full" gobshites need to hear this too.👇
I'm the only Jewish leader of a political party.
I'm a victim of Antisemitism every day and I've made it clear Jewish people are welcome in my party.
You're a Prime Minister who arms a genocide and locks pensioners up for opposing it.
And this is patently a lie since there is numerous documentation that UK special forces have fought Russian troops in Ukraine. Talking out of his arse is what Cummings does.
🚨Whoah 😳 In less than 20 seconds Dominic Cummings creates stunned silence at Lords Committee this morning.
One of the few remaining centres of excellence in the U.K.?
British Special Forces & who is their biggest enemy? Russia? China? Iran?
No - 20 seconds he doesn’t mince his words ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Sounds damning until you google how many times Dominic Cummings has been *caught* lying. The right really doesn’t like the ECHR even after we’ve left the EU.
🚨Wow! Dominic Cummings! Never backward in coming forward 😳
So WHY does a convicted terrorist get released from prison after MI5 warn you that something else will happen WITHOUT surveillance!
Majority Terrorist offences you see there’s a loophole ECHR and 0% are explained BECAUSE NOONE WANTS QUESTIONS ANSWERED - FACT
Here’s the answer PLAIN N SIMPLE
They don’t want you to know this! ⬇️⬇️
I guess the people who wear this “streetwear” are the same people who will watch Drunken Pete Hegseth’s live execution…
They are also probably the least “street” people of all; what the game Cyberpunk 2077 refers to as “Corpo cunts”.
Palantir's merch feels like the endpoint in streetwear's evolution, which started with young kids in urban areas — mostly ethnic minorities from low-income families — creating their own style from the ground up. Over time, that aesthetic was co-opted by luxury brands seeking "authenticity." And now, by a surveillance company seeking cultural capital.
Streetwear used to be an aesthetic defined by the ground-up by people were disempowered in political and economic life, but engaged in actual street culture. Now it's an aesthetic dictated from the top down by giant corporations with no conenction to such cultures. And used by political and economic elites who want to appear as outsiders.