Alexander Kasbohm

Which means half of Americans are against abolishing ICE or don’t care. Half the population either don’t have a problem with a fascist state terrorist organisation or actively support it. Which is fucking scary.

Ergo-Proxy und Psycho-Pass sind ziemlich toll.

Hab bislang nur gutes über den Film gelesen. Scheint aber wohl doch nicht ganz unproblematisch zu sein?

In Germany there was (or still is) a magazine called „Business Punk“, aimed at „unconventional“ business types. Who probably think that having tattoos or piercings while playing the exploitation game somehow makes them „punk“. The style outlived the substance.

Ich erinnere mich noch, wie Raab in seiner Sendung Bernd Begemann zu Gast hatte, und ihn - wie alle seine Gäste - mit seinem Schaumstoffhammer geschlagen hat und das sehr lustig fand. Begemann hat ihm angepisst den Hammer entwunden und hart zurückgeschlagen. Das wiederum fand ich sehr lustig.

He wasn’t completely wrong. The major difference is that Trump stopped pretending to be anything else.

The state of it all… my brother used to teach portuguese literature at uni. There were actually students, who decided to study Portuguese Literature and never heard of Fernando Pessoa. Or didn’t know what a „dandy“ is. But your example takes that to a new level.

Army of the Kind | Lindsay O’Connor Stern If PETA looked yesterday like a radical organization with a weakness for the burlesque, its techniques only reflect contemporary America.

PETA and MAHA might seem like strange bedfellows, but as Lindsay O’Connor Stern explains, they share many common interests, namely vaccine skepticism and a disdain for scientific research.

This is beautiful. All of them. I really love Alasdair Gray‘s work. I still have a postcard he sent me with a post script to an interview I made with him in the early 2000s.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Oh, I didn’t know Friends Again were active again. Would have loved to be there!

Rod Dreher and JD Vance and their ilk do not, in fact, want to return to the Middle Ages, nor do they want to undo the Enlightenment, what they want is a fascist society that requires a mythical Golden Age that never existed, a neomedieval bullshit sphere to justify their atrocities.

But there were two good years in my life! 1982/83 (counting as one year) and 1991. And the first half of 1990. Damn… no padding…. I am not good at „no padding“… year without my involvement: 1927!

If…

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist!

Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

But the level of complacency is staggering. Not only regarding immigration, but also the war that is led against the poor. No protests, nothing. They keep harassing the most vulnerable and pushing more people into this vulnerability and yet: nothing.

I think a contributing factor might be, that the current US government is openly destroying everything „western civilisation“ pretended to stand for, while the EU keeps pretending. There weren’t major protests in the US while they kept pretending.

Online stuff *is* traumatising. And overwhelming. And particularly for people somewhere on the autism/adhd/hypersensitivity spectrum it can be quite discomforting.

Just watched Ozu‘s Late Autumn yesterday. Which also has Setsuku Hara in it. Nice coincidence and great Screenshot.

US judiciary scraps climate chapter from scientific evidence manual The U.S. federal judiciary has withdrawn a chapter from the newest edition of its reference manual on scientific evidence that addressed climate change after Republican state attorneys general argued ...

US Judiciary deletes a chapter on law and #climate science because apparently science is a left-leaning concept and MAGAs complained.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Life from 50 onwards basically feels like: „And to save some time you will experience the rest of your life in fast forward mode“.
„Wait! Can you pause a second? I haven’t quite adapted to 2020 yet and it is already 2025!“
„No, I can‘t. And it is 2026.

I am 53. I am still unprepared. And absolutely bewildered by the speed.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

The coins and the chlorinated pool in particular really turn me off. The rest sounds interesting.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I have mine for almost thirty years now. Working fine. But I have a new one as well, for communication with people who should take me seriously. I rarely use it.

Has a very trumpian vibe.

The world really is completely derailed. I remember when G.W.Bush/Cheney got into office I thought: „The others were bad, but this is really absurd and dangerous.“ And now they seem like a beacon of intellect and sanity.