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[Jairo Calixto @jairocalixto]

No te van a dar Ventaneando!!!
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[Hernández @monerohernandez]

@leonardotoledo @IsraelQDigital ¡Bolas!

Ya le andan diciendo Arisraky.

[aidan @aidanshandle]

Aadam Jacobs snuck a tape recorder into roughly 10,000 chicago shows since 1989. the internet archive started digitizing them. i made a lil site to play them

[Smart Science @SmartScience]

🚨 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can now be completely eliminated, thanks to Mexican researchers.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[wolfgang fuckface @mustachetoilet]

The punchline here is incredible

[Helios @Heliouz__]

Como siempre, acepto sugerencias, quejas y hasta invitaciones.

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[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

The British Museum

[The Golden Age @thegoldenaged]

If Studio Ghibli made a horror film

[Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks]

Wait, so Trump is bringing people from Latin America illegally into the US?

[Tony Martin @mrtonymartin]

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Europeans are at previously unforeseen levels of monitoring the situation

[Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo @Claudiashein]

El Artículo 2, párrafo 4 de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas dice textualmente:

“Los Miembros de la Organización, en sus relaciones internacionales, se abstendrán de recurrir a la amenaza o al uso de la fuerza contra la integridad territorial o la independencia política de cualquier Estado, o en cualquier otra forma incompatible con los Propósitos de las Naciones Unidas.”

La posición del gobierno de México:

https://t.co/VUv9KJQLo0

[Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México @CulturaCiudadMx]

Este 31 de diciembre a partir de las 18 horas ven a disfrutar la fiesta de música electrónica más grande en Paseo de la Reforma.

Recibe el 2026 con un elenco internacional, en un ambiente de alegría, convivencia y espacio público para todas y todos.

¡La #CapitalDeLaTransformación celebra en familia y en comunidad!

@GobCDMX | @ClaraBrugadaM | @anafrancismor

[Pati Pé (cuenta PERSONAL) @patipenaloza]

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[Alvaro Delgado Gómez @alvaro_delgado]

@LCUgalde @cceoficialmx Cuánta autonomía del @INEMexico de @lorenzocordovav que hasta se reunían de manera clandestina con el PRIAN de @ClaudioXGG en el domicilio personal de @edmundo_jacobo, quien ahora construye un partido con los residuos de ese bloque 🤡

[björk @bjork]

so extremely honoured to be on this song with rosalía !
it is so thrilling to watch this woman grow :
congratulations to her with this incredible album
switching genre kung-fu style
this concept is fierce !
warmthness björk

Photo from Oral music video we released together almost two years ago ⚔️🦈

Berghain music video : https://t.co/svoCe7lnEu

[Rigoberto Almanza Rico @RigoAlmanza75]

Aunque cambien de logotipo no pueden cambiar que el PAN nació en 1939 como oposición al cardenismo y sus políticas progresistas, que detonaron la expropiación petrolera 🛢️. Esta, a su vez, surgió porque las "Siete Hermanas" (empresas extranjeras como Standard Oil) se negaron a firmar un contrato colectivo con los trabajadores, pese a estar obligadas por ley, en desacato a una sentencia de la SCJN. 😡💼

El partido fue fundado por abogados como Manuel Gómez Morín —quien defendía a rabiar a compañías como Standard Oil y Mexican Eagle—, reunió a élites conservadoras y ultracatolicas para blindar capitales privados contra el interés nacional. 🏛️💰

¡Es como si hoy abogados de Iberdrola o empresas evasoras de impuestos armaran un partido para cuidar sus privilegios, incluso con el descaro de pedir una intervención militar! 🤝🤑 ¿Les suena?

Un simple eslogan y retoques en su logotipo no cambian en nada su esencia, esa permanece intacta.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Western discourse about the ceasefire is so full of double standards it truly boggles the mind.

The West insists that Hamas must be disarmed because of October 7... but if we accept this logic we surely must conclude that Israel, which has committed *actual genocide for two years running*, must also be disarmed, and even more urgently.

The West insists that Hamas cannot have any role in governance of Gaza (irrespective of whatever the wishes of people in Gaza may be). But again, if we accept this logic then Netanyahu, Likud and the other parties that govern Israel, which again committed *actual genocide*, must also be forcibly removed and debarred from governance.

The West insists that Palestinians must be "deradicalized". How could this possibly not apply a thousand times more to Israeli society, which has actively conducted and supported the genocide with little to no dissent?

In other words, even by the West's own logic, leaving aside all other aspects of international law, we should disarm Israel, forcibly remove its government, and impose deradicalization on Israeli society in order to prevent it from posing any further threat.