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Re-boosting this thread with alt-text for this post: This image shows a book with a white background and an illustration of a black highwayman's mask on the cover. The title reads: Don't Steal This Book: A Plea from Authors.

In other news whatever Petey is taking, it’s making him look like he dislocated his jaw like a python in this picture and it gives a whole new level to the word “grim”.

Love this kind of science. Also “The squeal of peeling tape, explained” feels like the title of a banger poem

Even this list of Mamdani-focused articles doesn't give a real perspective. 7 of this guy's last 11 pieces are about the mayor.

Which raises a question: what's the editorial decision making here?

Did an editor decide they needed a "Mamdani might be bad, actually" column?

Yet more confirmation of my “face of a poet, soul of a Chav” read of Timotee Chalemet.

Shame she didn’t get a new husband to go with the coat.

It's interesting how easy it is for people to look at someone *wildly* succeeding at a horrific goal, and continue acting as if they are failing at a very different goal which they have repeatedly and loudly declared they do not have.

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*points to my previous post about sentient genital warts*

When you privilege racism over pretty much everything else (except more money for the super rich) it’s inevitable that barely sentient genital warts like this dude float to the top like pond scum.

As an aside he may want his one word to be ‘sunblock’. Just saying.

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

That dog’s face is yelling “why me” really loudly.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

The blatant sexism and homophobia. I’ve never understood why my son can rise further up the hierarchy than I can because of the penis I grew for him.

100% agree. I got a text the other day that said “mum this is my new number can you call to check it’s correct”. You don’t need to be a teenage Angelina Jolie or Jonny Lee Miller sporting a punk hair cuts to pull that hack.

Don’t worry I’m in the derp trenches with you. All I can remember was that it was less invasive than the myeloid.

Yeah I watched a movie with Paul Mescale and Andrew Scott that’s on Disney and the difference was night and day.

Hollywood would have us believe.

The jury is still out here. On the one hand, as you say, soooo cute. On the other he dates a Kardashian. I also realised he tends towards the gimmick when acting (the Bob Dylan hair, the moustache in his latest) and while I’m not saying he’s a bad actor, I don’t think he’s quite the wonder kid +

I’ll get my phone! It only works on there. While I have you can you remember the name of the scan we talked about a while ago? They want to do the myloid ct and aunty val has been asking me to ask you for days and I keep forgetting to say.

Yup. the United States of America wouldn’t exist without genocide. And that instinct is absolutely still there.

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

Most common was a situation where the lower earning partner did work that wasn't recognized as work. Tutoring, sewing, laundry, domestic labor that people perceive now as worthless. It brought in 20 to 40% of the household income. And often the land or furnishings for that house came from her.

When we talk about genocides in the U.S., there are the many genocides of tribal nations that have been ongoing for centuries. There is also the genocide of Black people, the conditions of which have never gone away. This can be useful historical context for things happening now.

At its most basic Trump voters are experiencing the impact of the tacit deal they made with the Bigot - exactly how much, in very real terms, they’ll have to pay for their racism.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Just came to me watching Dune on the tv and seeing him out with Kylie Jenner.🤭

In a lot of ways it’s confirming it. So while I agree there is a reckoning coming and the need to forge a new narrative, it will be largely for privileged folks to do the work. So that tends to mean white cis straight and able bodied.

clay) maintains the veneer of truth because it embodies and reflects back the privileged “we”. For other groups the narrative has never been this clean, this simple. It’s laced with caveats and underpinned by violence of every kind. For that “we” current events aren’t destroying their narrative. +