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photos of a young and old Oliver North under the post 'the guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. the guy on the right is a Fox news military analyst who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. they're the same guy'

‘25 jaar na Pim Fortuyn is rechts-radicaal een gevestigde, omvangrijke en invloedrijke stroming in de politiek. Daaromheen cirkelen naast ‘gewone burgers met oprechte zorgen’ ook staatsverlaters, emigranten naar Portugal of Paraguay, complotdenkers en neonazi’s.’

Labour is what happens when the nominally "center-left" party stands for absolutely nothing and just shifts more and more to the right in a foolish attempt to woo voters to their right: a massively unpopular party that's going to get absolutely crushed... and right-wing policies.

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Vandaag gaat het over Rijntje Biljardt, de eerste kookster die met naam en beeld een kookboek uitbracht, in 1840. Zij laat in een inleiding haar stem horen, en op de titelprent zie je haar in haar keuken aan de Herengracht in Amsterdam, waar ze toen werkzaam was. De tekenaar Johannes Stein ->2

Deze vijf multinationals bepalen wat de boer boert en wat u voor uw eten betaalt Een handvol bedrijven domineert de wereldwijde voedselvoorziening. Tegelijkertijd zouden diezelfde bedrijven speculeren op de prijzen van voedsel. Experts maken zich zorgen, zeker nu de geopolitieke c...

Nee, dit is geen complot.

Dit is scherpe onderzoeksjournalistiek van @tiesgijzel.bsky.social voor @ftm.nl.

www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de...

Column | Poppenkastjournalistiek Toen ik naar de seizoensopening van BBB keek, aflevering: de afsplitsing van Mona, drong steeds dezelfde vraag zich op. Heb ik gedroomd of is de hele Haagse televisieverslaggeving in slaap gedommeld? ...

Zoals wel vaker geeft @carolinatrujillo.bsky.social aan waar, hoe en waarom het fout gaat, in heldere bewoordingen.

“Als lobbyclub [ReMarkable] zich verkleedt als politieke partij [BBB], moeten journalisten – ook wanneer ze voor poppenkasten werken – niet doen of die partij geen lobbyclub meer is.”

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

This is the most important thing on the internet rn 🤣😭

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

(A wheel with four quadrants. The top left quadrant is red, and is marked "ANGER, Betrayal by Legit authority" In this quadrant are the words: Rage Vengeful Resentful Contempt/Disgust Disillusioned/cynical Mistrustful Disappointed Helpless Disbelief. The top right quadrant is blue and labeled "GUILT/SHAME, personal transgression" and includes the words Specific guilt Regret Remorse / Humiliated Self-contempt Self-loathing Self-disgust Shame. The bottom left quadrant is green and labelled "DISGUST Witnessing excessive violence, death, immoral acts" and includes the words, Outrage Indignation Rage non-Specific-guilt Sorrow/sadness Abhorrent Nauseated/Sickened Revolted/Repugnant Appalled/Disgusted Helpless/Overwhelmed HorrifiedHorrified. The bottom right quadrant is yellow, is labelled, "DISORIENTED, Unavoidable irresolvable moral conflict" and includes the words, Helpless/Powerless Confused/Uncertain Perplexed Futility Non-specific guilt/Failure Disillusioned/Cynical Apathetic Surreal/Meaningless/Absurd Hopeless/Despair Global resentment/Bitter Tragic remorse Lost Empty.)

no but really this stuff is no joke

(neither is the time I spent researching this piece and doing a literature review so I could summarize the ways to heal from moral injury so subscribe to Life is a Sacred Text if this stuff MATTERS)

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/moral-injury/

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Happening Now: A snowball fight is taking place at Washington Square Park in New York City

Oh boy, as a trans person, if this doesn't hit home right now

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

🧵 Yeşilgöz & Wilders roepen: "Werken moet lonen!" Maar wie profiteert écht van hun beleid? Hint: niet de werkenden. Tijd om het spindoek weg te trekken en de cijfers te laten spreken. 💸👇

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

The Epstein-Johnny Depp-Justin Baldoni connection These men shared some of the same crisis publicists and PR strategies.

Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

This is how you live a life

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

The thing that makes this extra funny to me is that I think the cat is about to say this is all moving too fast…

Roses are red
Violets are grue
In Ancient Egyptian,
Pashto, and Zulu

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Ángeles Flórez Peón sloot zich op haar 17e aan bij het verzet tegen Franco's fascisten. Na de oorlog moest ze Spanje ontvluchten; ze zat bijna 60 jaar in ballingschap. Ze overleed vorig jaar op 105-jarige leeftijd. Ze wordt gezien als symbool van het antifascisme.

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

“men are better at this thing that women can’t do”

“okay, women can do the thing but men do it better”

“okay, women do it better overall, but the real geniuses at it are men”

“okay, lots of the real geniuses are women, but the men geniuses have a certain something about them that’s special”

Part of the issue here is that people should not be seeking emotional support from a chatbot, which suggests that we should not be programming them to provide it at all, rather than figuring out the best answer for them to give when it is asked for.