Rop Gonggrijp
@rop.gonggri.jp
Doomscroller avant la lettre. This account is in English, public replies in other languages will be hidden. Occasional posts in Dutch on @rop.nl and in German on @deutsch.rop.nl
🔴 Würde Malta 35 reiche europäische Touristen in einem sinkenden Boot zurücklassen? Gerade jetzt kreist unsere Seabird 1 über einem Schlauchboot in Seenot in der maltesischen Such- und Rettungszone. Retweetet diesen Beitrag - sie brauchen eine Rettung, jetzt!
Now there's a cheap way to completely freak out the world: place 1M$ on one of these dates, a week or two before, and make the money trail impossible to trace.
Oh CRAP CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP ! (Openclaw and its descendants are an unmitigated disaster...)
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
When ICE is finally abolished, I think Quentin Tarantino should film the documentary.
I don't understand why the Democrats don't just put an end to this madness and signal that they would give control over Greenland back to Denmark when they get the White House ... ... unless ... ... they wouldn't. It seems such an obvious follow-up question to ask.
People that complain about Europe not making enough of a fist towards the U.S. while not understanding that Europe needs a massive program, right now, to become U.S.-cloud-independent A.S.A.P. are dangerously stupid. YES, I KNOW IT WILL BE DIFFICULT, BUT THE ALTERNATIVE SUCKS MUCH HARDER.
Traffic is gone, but AS's stay visible. I'm not a routing guru, but to me this suggests they do not block BGP. Any routing experts want to weigh in? Does this mean Iranians could use lots of VPN endpoints and Tor bridges on TCP port 179? ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?f...
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
Claire Nevin-Field@clairenf.bsky.social · 7mo ago“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
ICE tweet and song it refers to: "We'll have our home again" (Every single US white nationalist knows this song. If they have a Horst Wessel Lied right now, this is it.)
Holy smokes. I posted something here. My messages get bridged to Mastodon, and one contained a link to my own server. And I just happened to be looking at my server logs. I'll tell you one thing: if Mastodon ever becomes another order of magnitude bigger, we won't need dDoS tools anymore.
45k households without power in Berlin: high-voltage cables firebombed where they crossed a canal. Will take almost a week to repair. The police quickly judged the radical-left claim letter to be "authentic"
Fossile Kraftwerke abschalten ist Handarbeit. Nur Mut. Militante Neujahrgrüße.
von: Vulkangruppe : Den Herrschenden den Saft abdrehen - 4. Januar 2026
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I've barely posted. Was hoping to open a few more eyes, but it's all out in the open now. But holy cow this new US Nat. Sec. Strategy. Yes, there's the far-right nature. But at least as bad is how much of it was clearly written in Moscow. But hey, sure, migrate to the cloud. See what happens.
2025 National Security Strategy
of the United States of America
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Turns out he wasn't trying to escape, he was just curious how the tech worked. Hackers of the planet: defend Bolsonaro! He's one of us! (Except nah, how lame to not have the proper tools for the job.)
Jair Bolsonaro arrested after tampering with ankle tag ‘out of curiosity’
Brazilian ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody over fears he was going to abscond
theguardian.com
The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”
Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons.
apnews.com
Hmmmm, tough problem, I get it. Lemme think... Maybe you could give them badges and not have them wear full face-covering masks? Or have them behave more like law-enforcement and less like gangsters kidnapping regular people? Just floating some ideas here.
WIRED@wired.com · 9mo agoIn a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
Worth a read. Or so I think, anyway.
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench – by Mark L. Wolf
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TIL: Mamdani's father was introduced to Marxism in America. thewashingtonstandard.com/zohran-mamda...
1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville: “Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... 🧵
Opinion | James Carville: It’s Time for a Daring Political Maneuver, Democrats
nytimes.com
Dutch elections yesterday. Far-right got ~48 of 150 seats. Exit-polls put right-wing extremist PVV at 19 seats. The counted votes now indicate 26 seats. So to summarize the Dutch in 2025: one third nazis, and of those a quarter of the closeted variety. How's your day going?
Funny how 10 dead white people in Kyiv are framed as proof of a brutal war of aggression, and 100 dead brown people in Gaza are merely an increasingly fragile ceasefire.
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
theguardian.com
I see no potential conflicts of interest here... The Trump Media & Technology Group, which controls the social media platform, on Tuesday announced it would partner with Crypto.com to introduce “Truth Predict”, which would allow users “to react instantly to developments in major current events”.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social to allow trading on election results
US president’s social media platform enters prediction market sector
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Major surprise development! It turns out bad things happen when you allow people to wear random camo and masks instead of badges, and have them not show ID as they stuff people in unmarked cars.
ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN
Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as tensions rise amid a nationwide immigration crackdown.
edition.cnn.com
I hope you believe Sam Altman means well. In fact ... you better believe it, you might go insane otherwise.
Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
futurism.com
Hard to see how a war can be avoided at this point.
CNN - Donald Trump popularity 60 points below Canada in US polls
Also, 48% of Canadians sees the US as a potential threat, vs 7% in 2023.
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Crap, Trump's gamble with taxpayer money worked. (Probably not for the taxpayers, but that was never a concern anyway.)
Javier Milei hails ‘tipping point’ as his far-right party wins Argentina’s midterm elections
Result falls short of giving Milei a congressional majority but surprises many analysts after series of scandals
theguardian.com
Don't know the amount, but $130M is clearly just a drop in the bucket. Unless it goes to selected US Marines and special forces units that have special roles when the Insurrection Act is invoked, and whose loyalty to the king is too important to risk. Not revealing the donor is ... interesting.
Emma Evans@trance.bsky.social · 9mo agoSo a private donor paid $130 million to pay the troops. Except, based on what I can find googling around, it costs over $500 million per day JUST for the military's paychecks.
