This is a direct violation of long-standing US policy toward Taiwan.
Beginning with the 1982 version, the Six Assurances to Taiwan explicitly states that the U.S. will not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan.
Nor will the U.S. set an end date of arms sales to Taiwan.
17.02.2026 06:08 β π 668 π 211 π¬ 14 π 17
Graphic in an early Soviet style, showing three stages of a worker wielding a hammer onto a computer with the letters 'AI' on the screen. The text slogan on the image reads 'If you see AI, you block AI'
www.instagram.com/p/DEek40YOoRC/
16.02.2026 22:18 β π 374 π 112 π¬ 2 π 2
So, you know how heβs been trying to force Washington DC to rename Dulles airport to Trump airport? Heβs already trademarking the name so he can then force them them to buy licences for millions of dollars forever www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/trumps-...
16.02.2026 21:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
UPDATE: βFBI formally notified Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) on it will not provide the BCA with access to any information or evidence that it has collected in the 1/24 shooting death of Alex Pretti.β
π€A lawless regime. Abolish ICE.
dps.mn.gov/news/bca/sta...
16.02.2026 18:09 β π 1683 π 878 π¬ 108 π 66
Thatβs insane.
AND WHATS THE DOG PHOTO FOR.
16.02.2026 17:34 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
A colourful pastel pencil drawing of Take That on grey pastel mat, from the Do What You Like video shoot. Very wriggly , yassified Gary by accident
Inky red yellow exuberant hearty ambulance with also brown and ink and old fashioned and wibbles
Blue fox, on yellow. Simple but effective. Pastel. Sitting.
Jesus and traffic cones, delicate graphite pencil drawing with some pink and red and more delicacy, more delicacy than you can shake a stick at
#artists #art OK! I have now added four new original drawings to my website, available for sale. And here they blooming well are.
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Take That Leathery Nebulous, Amboolans of Love, Fox in Blue Pastels, and Jesus and the Cones. Indeed
16.02.2026 17:00 β π 49 π 18 π¬ 1 π 4
The holiday I deserve
16.02.2026 17:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A smug picture of Matthew Goodwin from the metro captioned METRO
MATTHEW GOODWIN INTERVIEW
"Reform will give incentives to women who have more children and will penalise those who don't.
Change is coming"
to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that heβs established here
16.02.2026 14:04 β π 407 π 74 π¬ 61 π 32
"You have a phishing course"
Give a man a phish he's lost his password. Teach a man to phish he has all the passwords.
16.02.2026 11:11 β π 77 π 25 π¬ 1 π 3
16.02.2026 00:35 β π 1414 π 418 π¬ 9 π 10
[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.]
JOEL:
Honey⦠what are you doing?
BRANDI:
Canβt sleep
Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year.
While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition.
JOEL:
Brandi⦠you're talking strange...
BRANDI:
Dammit Joel.
Itβs time you knew.
You're a Netflix character.
[Joel looks shocked]
BRANDI:
Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue.
Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the -
JOEL:
Stop explaining, Brandi!
[Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room].
JOEL:
So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and...
BRANDI:
Yep...
Warm/cool colour graded.
[Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]:
SECOND SCREEN
- A Netflix original -
[Ends]
16.02.2026 07:30 β π 785 π 270 π¬ 10 π 10
I do love a rainy-day painting
16.02.2026 08:21 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
(outside of Nazism) the least good look on the internet is complaining about people expecting (or just attempting!) to be paid for their work.
if you can't afford it that is totally legit & disappointing. but complaining at the person who is attempting to get paid is just entitled baby stuff
16.02.2026 08:08 β π 144 π 18 π¬ 6 π 1
The UK was declared measles free in 2017.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
15.02.2026 22:19 β π 1981 π 727 π¬ 71 π 35
and this is the slot machine logic at work
16.02.2026 03:37 β π 32 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably.
CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.
15.02.2026 18:45 β π 381 π 77 π¬ 9 π 4
I find if I know it is wrong it always bugs me even if most people would miss it. I am only just starting with cars having always been an aeroplane modeller, but I do fancy some of the familiar types of the 60s to 80s
15.02.2026 19:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks, helpful knowledge to squirrel away
15.02.2026 18:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It reminded me of the half-Mini in the Science Museum
15.02.2026 18:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I sent off for an EBBRO Renault 4 kit earlier today and this excellent Beetle gives me an ideaβ¦
15.02.2026 18:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This is terrific! What is the lower tin error?
15.02.2026 18:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It *literally* does.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
15.02.2026 13:38 β π 7424 π 867 π¬ 182 π 68
I just totally misread the visuals of this ancient advert as βrun over your husband and laugh at the corpseβ
15.02.2026 09:02 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Al can be naughty or nice, but what is it actually thinking?
Itβs not actually thinking. Please, stop this.
14.02.2026 21:51 β π 573 π 85 π¬ 16 π 6
We can easily solve that by destroying them all
14.02.2026 21:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Anyone fancy an art? That would perk me right up. And maybe you!
14.02.2026 20:54 β π 23 π 16 π¬ 1 π 0
Chat, does civilian control of the military extend to their commander in chief telling them how to vote?
14.02.2026 09:19 β π 39 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
wow he looked just like a tree
14.02.2026 15:57 β π 151 π 6 π¬ 11 π 0
See Ravilious, RT Ravilious. Itβs a rule
14.02.2026 15:58 β π 34 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
Will no one think of the poor billionaires? Over-leveraged on a bad product and fascism, celebrities don't even want their money, and respectable people with PhDs are teaching about harms and regulation. At least university administrators are upholding their duty by co-signing this gambling debt.
14.02.2026 14:02 β π 24 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0
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