This and the 'your pet is killing the planet' story appear every 2-3 months. Which, if you're keeping track, is far more often than 'billionaires will eventually kill the planet because it's all they really know how to do' stories, which stand at zero.

I thought the guy who bought tiktok is Israel's biggest U.S. donor?

Bluesky keeps deleting Abo Jameel's fundraiser so you should definitely donate or share today

Another attack on October 7.

My quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There was a whole comics imprint I was fascinated by in my teens that have gone out of business and all their books are basically vapor. It would be a stretch to even call them cult classics, they were here for a few years and then gone again.

The hardest nostalgia to reconcile is the books you read as a kid that were too far from the zeitgeist, and they didn't stay in print.

There was much detail in the Indo about the investigative efforts the paper made in uncovering Gavin’s behaviour. What the newspaper and its editorial staff did not say is that the scoop was handed on a plate to them by Gavin’s tenant who happens to be a fellow colleague in Mediahuis, owner of the Indo and various titles, including the Sunday World. That former tenant is the deputy editor of the World, Niall Donald.

From the Phoenix - x.com/ThePhoenixMa...

The title illustration for Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimension

For research purposes, I'm reading this novel about a society that exists in only two dimensions and it's uh a little odd.

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Amazing scenes at Dublin Airport as the first of the Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla are due home! #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide 🇵🇸
Video Ruairí McKiernan

Y T folks’ business… A read… A listen… 1 of 3

Bluesky engineers when their website is successful

Learn about the vigilante group that protected queer people in 1970s San Francisco.
👉 buff.ly/Af0dS47 #GCNnews

YouTube video by Technology Connextras LED replacement bulbs for cars are bad and you shouldn't use them.

This is a hill I will die on.
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4

If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel.

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

its so messed up that there’s a kind of bug that eats your house

Top ten re-releases of the year have been:

SW:ROTS
Hamilton
Jaws
Princess Mononoke
Toy Story
Pride and Prej
Shin Godzilla
Avatar:TWOW
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Spider Man Trilogy

Greta Thunberg among Gaza flotilla detainees to leave Israel Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will be among more than 70 people of different nationalities to leave Israel on Monday after they were seized aboard an intercepted Gaza aid flotilla.

Greta Thunberg is among 28 French citizens, 27 Greeks, 15 Italians, and nine Swedes being flown to Athens today.

#SamudFlotilla #FreePalestine

Haaretz reports Germany to Withdraw From Eurovision if Contest Blocks Israel's Participation

Go to drunk, Germany. You’re bed!

Finally Tadhg Hickey & the others are on their way home to Ireland Love & solidarity to you all 🙏 Thank you all for standing up against genocide & terrorism You are true inspirations ❤️

Finally Tadhg Hickey & the others are on their way home to Ireland
Love & solidarity to you all 🙏
Thank you all for standing up against genocide & terrorism
You are true inspirations ❤️

It's not a huge move-the-needle trend, but we'll see how it continues next year (or indeed in the last two months of this year).

New stuff competing with very old stuff for space is already hugely affecting the music and tv industries, I guess movies are just next on the list.

Any other box office nerds noticing the huge uptick in re-releases this year?

I crunched the numbers on it, re-releases have made up about 1.8% of US box office this year.

Comparing like-with-like, they made up about 4.7% of the box office for movies that made less than 100 million.

Erasing Gaza's ecosystem Israel is rightly known for its technological prowess, not least when it comes to making war.

A recent article in The Guardian argues that Israel appears set to secure a new warfare breakthrough, “holocide – the complete destruction of every aspect of life in Gaza". Recommended arreticle from George Monbiot. #auspol #review #Gaza

Oh the irony. Shabana Mahmood would arrest her 2014 self now.

Prison Song, from Toxicity

Libs in the USA must have been this insufferable abt "hearing about the Jews in Europe ALL THE TIME!" before we entered WW2

Then they were brainwashed into believing we never aligned 100% with the Nazis during 99% of the conflict

And "One day everyone will have been against this" WILL happen again

The new V/H/S movie on Shudder is really good, one of the best of the series.

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.