EL BARTO ANTI-WORK

Not the important bit here but watching these guys throw about a dozen smoke grenades into the wind is sending me.

Your Nationalism is not Antifa.

Winston Churchill was not Antifa.
General Patton was not Antifa.
Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa.
That’s literally the point.

rt to spread awareness.

Lmao

If memory serves, that was one particular statue, but I can also imagine that statue fucking could have been a larger cultural phenomena that, over time, came to be blamed on one statue

I'm afraid I don't get this one

Pausanias also recounts that the statue was kept constantly coated with olive oil to counter the harmful effect on the ivory caused by the "marshiness" of the Altis grove. The floor in front of the image was paved with black tiles and surrounded by a raised rim of marble to contain the oil.[7] This reservoir acted as a reflecting pool which doubled the apparent height of the statue.[8]

Reading about an ancient Greek statue

Good luck, dude. Wishing you the best in all this.

Takedown Fails: Artists Are Seeing Their Music Removed From DSPs for Streaming Fraud They Didn’t Commit Streaming fraud is one of the industry's biggest challenges — but some artists are having their music removed from DSPs for fraud they didn't commit.

Something similar happened to Benn Jordan and this is a subject (the intersection of tech and commerce) he's interested in. I suspect he might be a guy worth reaching out to.

The reviews are in

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal. “I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said. “Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical. “We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

I had a friend who was 6'1" and when guys would exaggerate their height around them, they would say they were 5'10" which, I imagine, was a devastating emotional blow.

See, I'm not upset that I'm missing that stuff.

For a little while in my late teens, for reasons I can't explain, if I smoked a blunt I would have a literal halucinatory experience that concluded with me falling asleep and periodically waking up and yelling crazy bullshit ("GET THE SOUTHERNERS AGAINST THE WALL!") at whoever was still hanging out

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Danny Devito in a limo driver's suit, holding an egg and offering it to someone off camera in the back seat of the vehicle they're in

Can I offer you a nice Dogon egg in this trying time?

Like a half dozen times a year and wake up with the knowledge that I was dreaming - a vague feeling of "I was busy last night" - and I maybe remember dreams into a waking state two or three times a year.

I will say, as much as dreaming sounds fascinating, I suspect I lucked out here.

SIGMUND FREUD The Interpretation of Dreams The Complete and Definitive Text Translated and Edited by James Strachey

A little bloated but pretty fascinating. His diversion in "symbols" in dreams is a sore-thumb late addition to the text that only subtracts from its premise. I obviously don't buy all of this but god damn it does make me wish I remembered a dream every once in a while.

The "Eye of the Duck" podcast did an episode on it in their The Thing series that was illuminating as far as the production went if that stuff interests you

It's exactly that, but they do set a lot of people and things on fire and it's pretty wild to watch. Also the air force finds a crashed ufo and accidentally blow it up 5 minutes later which I don't think is supposed to be saying anything in particular about our armed forces but also says everything.

Have you ever seen the original? Very silly movie but worth a watch

It's bridging on an intellectual property violation

"A love letter" is a pretty generous way to put that lol.

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

"Most people don't know [eyes welling up] they don't know that lyme is a gift. For the most spiritually [crying] only the spiritually advanced individuals receive the gift of lyme"

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

Pontius came into a coffee shop I was working in once and left us an $8 tip on a small cup of coffee making him far and away the most generous celebrity I've ever served drinks to.

I don't know enough about gaming culture to speak on this with any confidence but it does make perfect sense to me that the bulk of gaming journalism would be focused on "how efficiently was capital converted into assets?", rather than "what do these assets mean?"

Lol that rules

Yes, I know there is a conservative intellectual tradition that I'm sure that maybe a handful of reactionaries could cite as being the genesis of their thought (like, I'm sure the Raw Egg Nationalist references Nietzsche), but I'm thinking more narrowly than "conservatives"