Matthew Agius

My favourite is the second to last movie in the series : Lowball Offer to a Vampire

Realised that my (me=European, living in Europe) feed had waaayy too much Trump-doom material in it, and that this was dragging my spirits down...UNTIL I discovered the veritable ray of light that is @aoc.bsky.social
You go, lady. All power to you.

Over The Shoulder I think of Voyager engulfed by darkness, the fingertip we cut and threw, shunned by the perennial forgiveness of Earth’s parochial gravity; pushed beyond the staccato braille laid down by doddering asteroids; beyond the glances from the most curious and odd unhinged moons; brushed only by the breath of those youngest, still nameless gods. We hold a famed picture of its last look back at our pale blue dot: all of us are drowning within that single suspended tear.

Hullo @alanparrywriter.co.uk Thanks for being Mission Control for #poemsabout #silentplanet
#poetry

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

A Palestinian man breaks down as he carries what he can carry away from his home after the occupation ordered the evacuation of his neighborhood.

Targeted Killings: Israeli soldier from Munich allegedly shot unarmed men in Gaza Two snipers in the Israeli army are thought to have committed war crimes in Gaza. Video evidence appears to corroborate those accusations. One of them is a young man from Bavaria.

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

One hell of an investigation by the journalists involved. Saddened but not surprised about the inaction by prosecutors though, it seems there is a wide international consensus that the IDF can do whatever it likes to whomever it likes.

My greatest struggles are rooted in the "you can achieve anything, as long as you try hard enough" message that I internalised as a child, mostly from kids' TV.

It's a lie. Well-intentioned, probably, but still false.

Please, if you're trying but not achieving your aims, *it is not your fault*

"Sauron pushes the boundaries of ring technology"

- Gondor Telegraph

Germany and Italy say they export lots of goods to Kyrgyzstan (black), but Kyrgyz import data (blue) show little arriving from either. Kyrgyzstan is just what it says on the invoice. This stuff obviously goes to Russia. Poland & Lithuania stopped this racket. Why won't Germany and Italy do the same?

This C.S. Lewis quote lives rent free in my head Not that I'm complaining, mind you

I'm wouldn't dream of adding or subtracting anything from a C.S. Lewis quote

Matt (@matthewagius) Today was not a good day for the rule of law in America or any other democracy and its lessons must be learned quickly, because the noose is tightening. This Facebook post by political historian @He...

Free anti-authoritarianism playbook here:
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Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Legend has it that if the capuccino's hot enough, you can hear squeaky little "ow ow ew eow"s.

insane dictator wanna-be hosts batshit European leader playdate just another perfectly normal day in the White House

substack.com/@jefftiedric...

It takes a lot to make me laugh these days, so thank you,
@jefftiedrich.bsky.social

Isn't it funny that whenever Trump and Putin speak to each other, some form of election-related crisis, potential or not, seems to appear shortly after?
Weird.

As the kids say today, “Clock it.”

I'm calling it: we need less AI, not more. From devaluing effort, to wrecking the environment, to stunting creativity; in some ways, AI is already an existential threat to mankind that if left unchecked, is only going to get worse.

Not happy to do this but, fuck it: Shameless plug to an article on this topic that I wrote a few days ago, coming up.

open.substack.com/pub/matthewa...

Everyone seems to want less AI, not more, but guess what the moneyed techbros have in store for us?

That's right: AI everything. Yay

Gaza’s hospitals were meant to heal. Now they’re targets The systematic destruction of Gaza’s hospitals is not just barbarism, it’s a moral line crossed forever

"I haven’t written much about Gaza. But watching doctors and nurses disappear, watching emergency responders shot in the head, watching hospital wards stripped and maternity units left to rot – I realised my silence was becoming complicity" | The Bear

@bearlypolitics.co.uk

That’s exactly what this is about.
Distraction. For all of this and that lame duck, low energy spectacle

Watch this clip. Popcorn recommended.

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

Elle Cordova
@ellecordova.bsky.social

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THIS THIS THIS

The Upside Down: Old Nick’s Game John Mitchinson considers whether the Devil still has some lessons to teach us

The Upside Down: Old Nick’s Game

John Mitchinson considers whether the Devil still has some lessons to teach us

Sound on 😽🤍 #cat #purr

Daily Mail's gonna Daily Mail, I guess...