Not to reopen the Blake Lively Pandora's box, but this is further proof that the people she exposed for mounting a smear campaign against her do this regularly and deliberately. www.thecut.com/article/did-...
Thank you very much for sharing!
New & recent non-fiction. I am currently reading Elemental by @snellarthur.bsky.social, as expected an excellent, absorbing book. Pictures with the new Antony Beevor book on Rasputin, and The Last Kings of Hollywood.
Plus recent paperbacks for a range of interests.
#booksky
Pete Hegseth's "Department of War" spent $7.4 million on lobster tails, more than $15 million on ribeye steaks, and hundreds of thousands on doughnuts...in September.
openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagon-s...
Tomorrow in beautiful Lewes!
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
Claude's a fancy Predictive Text machine, yet the framing of the technology allows people who commit atrocities to transfer blame onto it. It's like an accountant blaming Excel for fucking up your tax return.
Every time I see one of his posts now, my brain imagines Harrison Ford growling “Donald, you can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it”
This is my favourite kind of human being these days.
They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
“Can’t be a Nazi, his wife is Jewish” is a moronic thing to say so smugly and so confidently in a world in which Stephen Miller exists
Breanna Stewart’s package of finishing moves at the rim is unreal.
A brilliant student up here in Canada was getting ahead in a poetry competition, reading a poem about sexual assault — until her principal and superintendent decided to ban her from reading it. Please take a moment to sign this petition in Josephine’s support.
c.org/CXqj48qZG7
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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what the fuck
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For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!
This is an insane thing to say. Insane. “If the Final Solution is in the news / under discussion at the highest levels, the op ed page at a national newspaper should be publishing pieces that make the case for the Final Solution. Even if it’s the Final Solution!”
…Insane.
Seems like a thing more people should be mad about
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier
On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.
There are several ways a dictatorship can transition to a democracy. A foreign power assassinating the dictator in an unprovoked war isn't one of them.
The US/Israeli illegal attack on Iran should be understood to be a clear violation of the Olympic Truce (much as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was which led to its suspension by the IOC) and result in bans for 2028 and the stripping of those Games from LA.
apnews.com/article/olym...
If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
Quite the headline change on this piece
“man bad, we killed man, that makes us good” is real baby-brained stuff
Child rapists are dropping bombs on little girls and the best the Dems can do is ask them to file the proper paperwork.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”
I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
