While the Burmese Junta claimed to have demolished KK Park, a major scam centre in Myawaddy, numerous Starlink Terminals are still visible on the roofs of still-standing buildings in recent satellite imagery. Entirely new scam compounds are under construction nearby.

group chats, you say?

🧵Geolocations of ALL sites that the Indian Army has claimed to have hit in Pakistan and Kashmir. 1. Masjid Syedna Bilal/Hazrat Bilal 34.385846°N 73.456974°E It appears to have been a direct hit, according to after-strike ground photos. google.com/maps/place/3...

High-res satellite imagery released as part of the emergency response to the Burmese earthquakes shows the exact location of the surface rupture of the strike-slip. On the outskirts of Tharzi. google.com/maps/place/2.. Gif in the next post. @kyle-bradley.bsky.social @judithgeology.bsky.social

I've been going through the imagery and mapping any destroyed/damaged structure, particular rescue priorities (potential mass casualty events) and IDP locations in all the imagery available. google.com/maps/d/edit?... Please check the map and share widely with anyone who will find it useful.

Myanmar Earthquake Damage - Google My Maps

ANY organisation can use this data for any purpose. Notes on methodology: Destroyed locations: All identified destroyed/damaged sites have been identified from satellite imagery. The sites were dete...

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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Here are two neighbouring villages in Burma, the first under Resistance Control, the second under Military Junta control. Where would you prefer to live?

Recent satellite imagery from Jan shows the resistance-aligned Kachin Independence Army establishing fortified frontlines on the outskirts of the Kachin capital, Myitkyina (close to Waingmaw town). For much of the war, the resistance has been asymmetrical. Now not as much.

Drone footage from the Burmese Junta shows the Resistance-aligned Arakan Army taking up positions around Nyaung Ko Village, 15km from the Directorate of Defence Industries Factory complex #9, a significant ammo factory for Junta troops across the country.

Following the collapse of TNLA and SAC talks in Burma, the resistance group has restarted their offensive on the major artillery command in Taung Hkam. Sit-Tat strike footage shows that they have already reached Manmaw village and isolated the two garrisons in the command.

The Karenni resistance in Burma just captured the final Junta border outpost in the state, Taung Katone (တောင်ကတုံး), ~40 border outposts were captured/abandoned in total since the start of the coup, and there is now a stretch of 350km of the Thai border with NO junta presence.

Over the weekend, a second battalion in the Burmese city of Bhamo fell to the Kachin Independence Army in their months-long offensive. This follows the airport and an armoured battalion which were captured in Jan. It also splits the remaining Junta camps into 3 pockets.

something here aint right

This afternoon I read this 1978 essay on the socio-cultural rise of Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany. Primarily because I sensed there would be some shared vibes with the right-wing obsession with DEI as a cultural code for racism/sexism and signalling in-groupness. And ho-boy. Thoughts. ⬇️

Also known as 'No wonder shorebirds are so universally endangered'

Nathan Ruser@nrg8000.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was pottering around old Aussie music and decided I wanted to geolocate this album cover. It's a Perth band, so probably in WA somewhere and the album's from 1986, but no clue beyond that. Let's go! Kudos to whoever beats me (and no googling).

I was pottering around old Aussie music and decided I wanted to geolocate this album cover. It's a Perth band, so probably in WA somewhere and the album's from 1986, but no clue beyond that. Let's go! Kudos to whoever beats me (and no googling).

Another clear example of how Resistance governance in Burma is unambiguously better for everyone. www.bnionline.net/en/news/myan... The scale of corruption and mismanagement in Junta-controlled areas is astounding. Better opposition governance helped the Syrian regime to fall. Burma's next.

"Trapped between the SAC’s wilful indifference and a lack of political will among other countries, the KNU now faces daunting challenges... Shwe Kokko is therefore... a litmus test for the KNU’s ability to safeguard the collective future of the Karen people" myanmar-now.org/en/news/shwe...

Shwe Kokko: How governance failures and political quagmire created Myanmar’s most notorious crime hub

The current notoriety of the Shwe Kokko New City Project can only be understood within the context of Myanmar’s past and present eras of military misrule

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The Arakan Army in western Myanmar has now advanced 10km into Ayeyarwady Region along the Gwa axis, ~20km into Ayeyarwady towards Bawmi, has reached the border on the Toungup axis and is clashing within a few kilometres of the Magway border along the Ann axis. The message is clear. They will push.

Celebrating the Year of the Snake with some amazing snakes I've seen in Australia over my time. - Coastal Carpet Python - Green Tree Python - Red-bellied Black-Snake - Tiger Snake

For Holocaust Memorial Day and with the accelerating rise of authoritarianism in the States, you should all read (or listen to, it's an amazingly done audiobook) The Diary Keepers by Nina Siegal, reflecting on ordinary reactions to the Nazi occupation and Holocaust in the Netherlands

Good thing there is absolutely no historical precedent for any of this "Those seeking jobs have been told they will have to prove their “enthusiasm” to enact Trump’s agenda and have been asked when their moment of “MAGA revelation” occurred." apnews.com/article/trum...

Loyalty tests and MAGA checks: Inside the Trump White House's intense screening of job-seekers

Job-seekers hoping to join the new Trump administration are facing a series of intense loyalty tests.

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What a photo

Baltic Sea is at a 25.6 times higher frequency of cable 'accidents' than normal levels with today's breakage Looking at period Nov 15 2024 - Jan 31 2025 and basing on napkin stats below. The error margin in my stats is huge, but is not 25 times off. 8 breakages in 2.5m vs normal of 1.5/annually

auonsson@auonsson.bsky.social · 2y ago

150-200 cables are damaged each year, 15% (7-43) by anchors. If we assume Baltic maritime activity is 5% of the global total (likely way too high) Baltic Sea ought to see 1.5 incidents per year. 2023 & 2024 averaged at 6 breaks annually, 4 x higher. Map, visual aid for eyeballing 5%.

I crossposted a hidden camera recording of a neo nazi saying Nazi things on both here and twitter. Guess which platform has had dozens of people replying 'he's right actually'....

#Myanmar ( #Burma ) 🇲🇲: People's Defense Forces ( #PDF ) attacked Military Council Base in Ye Township, #Mon State. Group notably used Truck-mounted Craft-made Multiple Launching Rocket System (MLRS) —Improvised 6-tube Launcher and HE-Frag rockets. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

A Superb Fairy-Wren peeking out of the flowers

so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports

Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities

The average DC foreign policy/international security critter probably needs to substantially stretch their imagination concerning how weird world affairs are about to get.

One of the birds in this flock is very rare and only recorded a handful of times in Eastern Australia in the last 10 years, the rest are common as muck. Who can pick it?