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The Whole is Shattered and Wrecked “The whole is shattered and wrecked”: human ecology, relationality and dùthchas in the testimonies of the Free Church ministers of the far north-west to the Napier Commission. This is a…

Gemma Smith - The Whole is Shattered and Wrecked (Bella Caledonia, 05.8.2025)

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/08/05/t...

Highly recommend! Scottish Gael #Dùthchas, #Gàidhealtachd, late feudal relationships, indigenous relationality, connectedness with all that is around us, past, present & future..

MML, by Dorian Wood track by Dorian Wood

Dorian Wood - MML (12.6.2025)

dorianwood.bandcamp.com/track/mml

Yanis Varoufakis EXPOSED How Tech Lords Enslaved Humanity Welcome to the REAL Matrix

Yanis Varoufakis - How Tech Lords Enslaved Humanity aka How the 'Cloudists' control us (DoubleDown News, 13.5.2025)

www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/m...

#TechnoFeudalism

Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030

Meanwhile on Planet Earth
(28.5.2025)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Open Your Eyes: Fake News for Dummies

Rather than use the term 'fake news', learn more about the difference between Mis-information, Dis-information & Mal-information..

www.openyoureyes.info/en/database

Disinfo .EU: "Defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods.. [T]he trap laid by anti-democratic movements.. Rather than playing by their rules, we must focus on protecting our shared rights and strengthening democracy."

www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...

Levellers of Digital Power - Fingo Welcome to the Equalizers of Digital Power online course! This course is specifically designed for civil society organizations and other active citizens.

The 'Levellers of Digital Power' online course:
* Understand the principles & power dynamics related to digitalization
* Explore your opportunities to utilize digitalization & digital power
* Envision & begin creating a more just digital world

fingo.fi/en/levellers...

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
[thank you Dyne.org newsletter]

velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

Rethinking Freedom in the Digital Age: The Rise of the Carepunks Privacy is a fundamental human right, woven into national constitutions and protected by laws that upheld liberty, dignity, and autonomy.

Rethinking Freedom in the Digital Age: The Rise of the Carepunks
(10 Apr 2025)

"Privacy is a fundamental human right.. [I]ndividuals can live, think, and express themselves without fear."

news.dyne.org/the-rise-of-...

#CarePunks #DyneOrg

The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

Ane Hjort Guttu - The End of Art Education as We Know It (Kunstkritikk, 22.05.20)

"The new art academies that emerged in the Nordic region during the 2010s offer multi-functional spaces. They also prescribe a new role for the artist: project manager."

kunstkritikk.com/the-end-of-a...

Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital Sure, they want “profit at all costs” but ask yourself, ‘why is enshittification profitable?’

Update on #Enshittification via the term's wordsmith Cory Doctorow's Medium acc (20.1.2025)

doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Speaking truth to tech gods: I return to TED Six years ago I was sued for libel. This time, I call Silicon Valley collaborators and data rapists. What could possibly go wrong?

Carole Cadwalladr - Speaking Truth to the Tech Gods (10.4.2025) open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

ok this one is my favourite so far #AprilFools

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Jubilation in South Korea After President Who Declared Martial Law Is Ousted

Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

I’ve been critical of Sen. Booker throughout his speech, because he did it to politically enrich himself. It will likely be successful in elevating his position within the Democratic Party.

It was also profoundly historic & heroic. This is what leadership looks like.

He should be Minority Leader.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements

ChrisMcGreal - Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements (Democracy Now!, 27.3.2025) #ChrisMcGreal #DemocracyNow!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv3...

Medicine shortages after Brexit – Scotland’s model for pharmacy offers lessons for England’s future Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above and: Drug companies notified the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) about disruptions to supply 1,938 times during last year –…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/03/22/m...

Protest then and now – 30 years since Pollok Free State Protest then and now – Celebrating radical love and surviving the Valentine’s Day Massacre 30 years since Pollok Free State. We look back thirty years after the police broke up Pollok Free St…

David Lees, Katherine Mackinnon, Pablo Kala, Dan Glass - Protest then and now – Celebrating radical love and surviving the Valentine’s Day Massacre 30 years since Pollok Free State (Bella Caledonia, 27.3.2025)

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/27/p...

Eight hidden suitcases Meet the Soviet physicist who hosted the USSR’s best-known underground parties and recorded the greatest writers of his era — Meduza Alexander Krivomazov was a Soviet physicist who spent the 1970s and early 1980s organizing house parties with writers and artists in his small one-bedroom flat in Moscow. The parties grew into an unde...

Kristina Safonova - Eight hidden suitcases (Meduza, 21.2.2020)

"Meet the Soviet physicist - Alexander Krivomazov - who hosted the USSR’s best-known underground parties and recorded the greatest writers of his era."

[Abridged trans. to english by Olga Zeveleva]

meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Gaza’s children: what can the future possibly hold for them? Tens of thousands of children have been wounded in Gaza, which now has the most child amputees per capita in the world. Even those evacuated for treatment face an impossible path

Gaza’s children: what can the future possibly hold for them?
Ahmed Moor (The Guardian, 27 Mar 2025); Image credit: Hannah Yoon.

This article is devastating. But I argue it is a 'must read' type of journalism.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The Age of Territorial Expansion | Michael Albertus Land is Power

Planet Critical - The Age of Territorial Expansion | Michael Albertus (06.03.2025)

"We are in the beginning of an age of territorial expansion, as nations seek to shore up more resources, wealth and power by acquiring land."

www.planetcritical.com/p/the-age-of...

Trump 2.0: The Idiocy of Certitude - How to Reclaim Doubt What the world needs now is another self-assured Theory-Bro Like I Need a Hole in the Head

Mike Watson (Revol Press) - Trump 2.0: The idiocy of Certitude - How to Reclaim Doubt (18.3.2025)

open.substack.com/pub/revolpre...

YouTube video by Colin HQ Bass Generator @ Rezerection - The Harlequinade - NYE 1992

Bass Generator @ Rezerection - The Harlequinade - NYE 1992
1hr 19min in.. "Dance while the record spins"..
youtu.be/fBLbzIx8FHU?...

War and Broken Britain The broken nature of Britain and British politics continues to unfold as large groups of people operate in mutual incomprehension. Talk of conscription is being openly discussed by some – eve…

Mike Small - War and Broken Britain (10.3.2024, Bella Caledonia)

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/10/w...

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe And What to Do. A guest essay by Laurie Winer

Laurie Winer - What to Expect When You're Expecting Catastrophe (13.3.2025, Snyder: Thinking about..)

snyder.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...

Rebecca Solnit on the "stupid coup" Rebecca Solnit on the silver lining of this chaotic, incompetent authoritarianism. Plus: resistance, coalition-building, purity politics, hope, gathering, and roses

The Stupid Coup.

the.ink/p/the-stupid...

Students block access to Serbian state TV station amid nationwide protests Anti-government rally in Belgrade this weekend billed as climax to months of unrest since Novi Sad tragedy last year

The student-led protests are coming to a head in Serbia.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...