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At a time when education is under attack it is useful to understand why people should study literature and fiction. Amongst other things it is so as to be able to distinguish fact from fiction, and to be able to distinguish between true and false.

Cré na Cille is the best description of social media and internet forums there is. Disembodied voices bickering and repeating old grievances ad infinitum.

That's Saturday taken care of.

I suspect billionaires believe that their relative wealth gives them the right to edit their own histories, and other people's futures.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has been plugged in to US money for some time

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The far right march of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) turned out fewer people than Trans Pride or Palestine solidarity.
This is not a movement with mass support. No matter what US far right money tries to pretend.

Early social media exchange of views

This campaign would resonance for whatever editor in the Spectator who commissioned the article, who is probably on the side of the mass market press that wants to make money out of soft-porn pictures of girls, some of whom were young enough to be victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

There is a sliver of truth to this in England.

Around the time of the enquiry into the Murdoch papers (for hacking into the phone of a dead 13 yo girl who had been abducted and murdered) there was a campaign against "page 3" in UK tabloids.

Page 3 was a daily picture of a topless girl in tabloids.

Choose your online engagement.

This is Leo. He is patiently waiting for this guy to throw the ball. Gonna be here a while. 13/10 (TT: twogoldenleos)

I'm more a fan of the En dash – than the Em dash — I think that may be due to vague minamilism

And on a personal note, I really prefer to have smaller numbers of likes (sounds so weird to say online, right?)

But thinking about it, the bigger the number is, the bigger is the reach, the easier people can steal, use it without my concent.

The bigger the pain is for me to take care of that.

good to see Carl Sagan condemning the bloated cost of Star Wars here, clearly he already had an inkling of what the future movies would look like.

you could possibly change the signs on the sign?

kebab + pizza = TACOS

Denim, reality and appearances, cheap manufacture and culture wars.

I’m told I need to find a way to live together, in harmony, with these loathsome bigots, and I don’t really feel any desire to try. I would rather work to undermine them, to humiliate them, to deny them peace or joy.

A friend will come and help you move house
A good friend will help you move a body

Bove looks like he would be a good friend to trump

This explains donald trump's lack of clss.

He keeps saying Pardon! instead of saying What?

I always wondered why The Clash wrote that song: Rock the Kaaba.

Five stages of Trump-Epstein
• Denial of ever knowing Epstein
• Anger at failure to edit the files
• attempt Bargain with Rupert M
• attack De Press in desperation
• Accept offer to spend exile in Trump Towers, Gaza
#TrumpEpstein

Two days ago I posted about how many folks said disabled people who can’t cook for themselves should be institutionalized.

Today Trump signs an executive order permitting the arrest and institutionalization of homeless people & those with mental disabilities.

Eugenics.

continuing to run the UBI experiment 14,000,605 times every decade in search of one time it ever won't produce clear positive results for everyone involved so there can finally be an example for the ultra wealthy people to point to illustrating why we can't do that like they've always been saying

"Succession" vs "The Apprentice"

The News of the Screws Vs The Screw-loose in the News

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

Plutocrats waving signs declaring various obviously good things (rural electrification, charitable foundations, etc) to be “socialistic”; in the foreground, one puzzled Average Guy says to another “I guess they’re trying to sell us on socialism.” June 7, 1954.

This Herblock cartoon was published 71 years ago, and it’s just as pertinent now.

Feels like I'm seeing where Brendan Gleeson gets the inspiration for some of the characters he plays.

Only-Epiphanies.con

Clearly not a conservative