Defective Cook

Every day in the regime Also, John Carpenter was teaching us about the absurd

Haaretz: Likud spending millions of shekels to place observers/activists outside polling stations in Arab areas to “document” what is happening and look out for election fraud (which they have determined in advance that they will find).

Israeli media reports deepening rift between Netanyahu and army chief over Iran preparations ahead of elections

Dress https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/97303

Israel's high court rejected a petition to prevent 2,000 'observers' carrying guns in Palestinian-majority elections, raising fears of intimidation:

Una de las cosas que me llama la atención después de años fuera de España es que la gente ha internalizado la productividad y no para de hacer cosas sin necesidad ninguna. A veces estás agobiado pero el "No me da la vida" de muchos es autoprovocado. Para no mirar al vacío que es la vida, pienso.

La IA lleva automáticamente a tener resultados de lo que sea. A mí qué me importan los resultados si lo que importa es el proceso. Por eso te gusta la gente aunque no te dé bola. Porque si fuera por resultados no existiría ni el amor, ni la creación, ni el perder el tiempo que es lo mejor de la vida

Palestinians are voting in Israel to ensure their very survival - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinians-are-voting-israel-ensure-their-very-survival

Important: Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held a phone call with Vladimir Putin to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing peace talks. The call was "frank and substantive".

Children and Their Grandmother Among Civilians Killed in Jordanian Airstrikes in Southern Syria. An image shows children and their grandmother among the civilians reportedly killed in Jordanian airstrikes in the Daraa countryside in southern Syria on Monday night. 🧵

⚡️ Norwegian MP Peter Frølich bypassed outdated export restrictions to deliver thermal drones to Ukraine through his foundation, Fritt Ukraina. Following the delivery, Norway modernized its laws to legalize civilian drone exports. 🧵 1/3 ⬇️

Earlier today: Jonathan D. Miller, the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina’s Senate seat, was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with police following the posting of threats.

Serious damage reported after tornado hits Requinoa, Chile.

No Yemen, enquanto a batalha nos arredores de Taiz segue feroz, os Houthis estão agora focando nas montanhas mais ao sul que controlam o acesso ao estreito Bab al Madeb. E estão avançando. Nos últimos dias eles aumentaram seu controle sobre as montanhas Kahboub.

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

Ela postou essa hoje

Charge de um artista mexicana.

Candy sales have been slow so far this year.

ok

Even their AI Ilhan can cook. bsky.app/profile/anth...

The audio equipment is rebelling against every member of the regime now, refusing to transmit their lies

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

I'm not holding my breath for the ADL to comment on this "the Jewish guy is paying protesters" trope.

And then he stiffed them!

Trump is interrupted by a protester in Mississippi: "Shove that ballroom up your ass!"

JD Vance is interrupted by a second protester during his Kansas rally

Trump: The father was a handsome guy, tall, beautiful-looking guy, like, right out of Wall Street. He was in a beautiful dark pinstriped suit with a vest and, I mean, he was central casting for a movie

Trump's audience in Mississippi gives him a standing ovation after he promises them he won't rename the Mississippi River

lol, ok

Trump says protesters at his rallies are paid $250 by Soros

Trump: "We'll never be a manufacturing c**t, company -- uh -- country again"

here's a wide shot of the crowd Trump is about to speak to in Mississippi

he saw an ottoman in the crowd and lost his train of thought it happens

Breaking news: Brazil’s leading right-wing politician, Flávio Bolsonaro, effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president, after President Trump indicated he wouldn't intervene despite saying that the vote “looked like another rigged election.”

Marques specifically made a statement saying he is "absolutely confident in the entire electoral process," ie no we're not annulling the result cry about it. Sad! Used to be that sharing an underage trafficked sex worker with a guy meant you had a real bond. No one believes in loyalty any more.

One such ally is Kassio Nunes Marques, the supreme court justice that Jair Bolsonaro appointed pretty much specifically as a favor to Flávio, and who currently presides the superior electoral court in which he's been running interference for Flávio throughout the election.

A major factor in this is that his party won a bunch of legislative seats in the first round of the election, so really *they* did great and *he* lost, and by making noise or delegitimizing the election he's jeopardizing their wins.

Various Bolsonaro allies are engaged in various levels of soft decamping from Flávio, ranging from actively telling supporters not to protest the election result to privately telling him to recognize the result and shut the fuck up.

A very fun headline today: supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered Flávio Bolsonaro to hand in his passports and not leave the country while he's being investigated in a money laundering probe.

Brazilian man cries as he describes how Flavio Bolsonaro's acceptance of bribery led to a delay in rolling out vaccines in Brazil. His grandmother and great-aunt he says, died as a result of Bolsonaro paydayreport.com/a-brazilian-...

I continue to be fascinated by the official photos released by the White House. This one looks like a high school student's artsy darkroom experiment.

I’d give this a modicum of interest if he were showing up in the middle of the workday or something but come the fuck on

Dat moet wel voor het eerst zijn, dat in de risicoparagraaf voor een beursgang 'existential risks to humanity' worden genoemd. #Anthropic

Naturally. @axios.com $ANT www.axios.com/2026/10/26/c...

JEFFRIES: “.. we’re going to hold him accountable in the same way that we held Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem accountable. .. And Pete Hegseth needs to be pushed aside by the president, or we’re going to have to deal with that situation if he is not.” www.politico.com/live-updates...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

as a protester disrupts JD Vance's speech in Montana, the camera pans out to show the rather modest crowd he's speaking to

Moreno: "There's a lot of talk in the media about President Trump talking about Jon Husted's ass. The only ass we should be talking about is Sherrod Brown."