Ted

Ewww

Board of Peace - Season 1

As my friend Judy says: "They've been saying that since The Hammurabi"

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Gaza: The Reckoning The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.

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"A functioning police state needs no police". I know its creepy old William Burroughs, but I always thought it was a good observation - especially with the implication that there is only need to police in the presence of resistance

Barm cake - Wikipedia

I'd always thought it was "Barm Cakes" - for me, one of the funniest things about that movie is the observation of the way English people speak English.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barm_cake

Certainly a concerted effort to break your arm

Jim: An Insight Into One Of Our Finest Minds I have made this post free for everyone to read but if you'd like to support my writing you can do so, at a price of your choice, from £2 per month/£20 per year, by clicking on the button above. This ...

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#WATCH | A new video shows the consequences of Israel's two-year "military operation" (Genocide) in the capital of the Gaza Strip.

That. Exactly that.

Fourth International–Posadist - Wikipedia

The Posadists were way ahead of their time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_...

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

With alt text.

Handsomest Orange Cat Ever. Stiil miss the vicious, paranoid, child-hating old bastard

BBC "Is it the same anti-establishment populist message that propelled Trump to victory - only in the left's image".
WTF? Giving people childcare, housing and transport is EXACTLY the same as drenching neighbourhoods in teargas, lifting people off the streets, and concentration camps. No difference

I’m totally baffled by how so many English politicians can be seemingly in-awe of a mythical halcyon past that didn’t happen, while simultaneously apparently unaware of historical events that certainly did happen like English Football clubs being banned from Europe, Enoch Powell, or The Cold War.

The Grand Old Duke Of York, he had twelve million quid. He gave it to someone he'd never met for something he never did

As I held my first grandchild in my arms for the first time in May 2024. I had many of these thoughts. Thank you for putting them into words better than I ever could.

On Parenthood and Genocide A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s children & families have proven to be the most vulnerable.

In this 2024 piece, sociologist and new mother @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the unbearable loss of Palestinian children—and the power of parental love as resistance.

Racism and misogyny in The Met? Surely not? You could have knocked me down with a feather

Night Sky on Mars

#nasadailyupdates

Rhyming masses with masses. Thats genius right there

So. Let me get this straight. A couple of bands say things at Glastonbury. That's terrible. But Pulp's set is interrupted by advertising for the arms industry and we are all cool with that?

Omg they appear to have let an LLM generate the description of this signal generator

The populist right have been trying to appropriate Fortunate Son as anti-elite, pro-soldier for a while now. Not sure they are succeeding

In Ann Jungman's Lucy and The Wolf series Lucy and her family live in a tower block in South London. The wolf from Little Red Riding Hood for some reason comes to live with them

Occasionally the beings behind the simulation drop us a hint

Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’

This week’s column

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If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed If you're running off your mouth And his buddy lives down south If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed If he's got a stupid haircut he's a Fed If he's got a stupid haircut he's a Fed If his haircut's tight and high Fits better with a suit and tie If he's got a stupid haircut he's a Fed If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed If he wants you to repeat it Where the chat room won't delete it If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed