Ben Jeffares

Breaking: Trump Just Surrendered To Canada Mark Carney is a Goddamned revelation...

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

I’ve been gently trolling propaganda on Truth Social: Things like “really?” and “ that’s not what I heard” and then moving on, but I posted a link to this Substack, and was banned in about 15 minutes. Mwahahaha.
#Trump #TruthSocial #Canada #Propaganda #USPolitics

Social media posts created by or reposted by politically funded organisations should be treated as political advertising, and should be labelled and regulated as political advertising. #politics #propaganda #social #advertising

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

This presumes that we are all getting the same, and correct, information. We’re not.
Every act of defiance will be broadcast as threat. Every difference will be portrayed as the enemy.
Every act of kindness will be said to be woke.

In short, he was a very pretty fellow
Although his woes had turned him rather yellow.

Up to this point, it was all fine, but turning rather yellow? Rhyme overtook sense methinks.
#Byron #poetry #classics

#booksky

My most influential books… ...an expanding list. In no particular order, here are some books that I think are important, have hugely influenced my thinking, or I just think are worthwhile reading. I will try and get around to fuller reviews at some point. Links are to Goodreads pages. This will be an ongoing and growing list as time permits, so maybe return here once in a while.

My most influential books…

...an expanding list. In no particular order, here are some books that I think are important, have hugely influenced my thinking, or I just think are worthwhile reading. I will try and get around to fuller reviews at some point. Links are to Goodreads pages. This will be…

From logs, eventually This is a rather incomplete set of photos showing my recent chairmaking adventure using  using some logs acquired many years ago. Most of them had degraded and some rotted due to poor storage, but …

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When well researched journalism is behind paywalls, and propaganda is free, then what do you expect? #politics #pols

screenshot from city & state: Hochul says subway crime 'not statistically significant, but psychologically significant' The governor's supporters say the specter of National Guard troops checking bags will make New Yorkers feel safer, but activists say it's just a militarized version of stop-and-frisk. By REBECCA C. LEWIS MARCH 7, 2024 02:15 PM ET Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to tackle the "psychology of crime" with her plan to flood the New York City subway with National Guard troops performing bag checks. But she's facing intense criticism from both progressive lawmakers and civil rights groups who say that the governor's interest in improving the safety v

Cool how if you want to install an ADA-mandated elevator inside a subway station you have to do years of community input and environmental reviews justifying it, but if you want to fill the same subway station with guys holding M16s doing constitutionally-dubious searches its just "i've got a hunch"