Paul Harland

Sounds plausible. bsky.app/profile/pabl...

Noted.

This complements or normalises Bataille's La Parte Maudite, but also overlooks something. Apart from leaving out the non-human, of course, but before, and beyond, that - just by reading back what Lefebvre says - whatever you think you're looking at, through your structured view, the rest you're not.

Naturally I'm getting distracted (checking refs!) reading my intro to Baudrillard, @davidgunkel.bsky.social @digitaldang.bsky.social. It's funny how many insights from the last century - or to be fair, from all the centuries before - are still uncovering new (or new-looking) ways to be exemplified.

"Everyday life, in a sense residual, defined by 'what is left over' after all distinct, superior, specialized, structured activities have been singled out by analysis, must be defined as a totality."

Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre - from his Foreword to the Second Edition (translated by John Moore).

Ce schéma méritait d'être traduit en français.

(Car la mécanique infernale décrite colle aussi avec les politiques publiques menées en France depuis tant d'années)

This made me think of the many splendid posts of @mooseallain.bsky.social.

Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.

Fired. Investigated. Silenced. Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Donald Trump — from federal workers and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. It’s the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

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I believe you made a comment a while back along these lines about childcare... @joshgellers.bsky.social?

And as featured in a The West Wing episode (sort of).

I respect anyone who goes down a rabbit hole this hard 🫡

Trump’s Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist (Published 2022)

"On Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Fuentes led a large group of groypers to the Capitol where they rallied outside in support of Mr. Trump." www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/u... Later, “unexpectedly...” he became “a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.” Well!

Text: Farage’s ‘banter’ Sir, It is baffling that Nigel Farage should complain that the complaints being made against him are political in nature (“Farage’s accuser rejects banter claim”, Nov 26). Of course they are. The people now speaking out made a judgment that for as long as Farage remained a marginal figure, the abuse they suffered in the past was a personal matter. Now that he apparently is close to gaining significant political power, they have decided to put their experiences in the public, and political, domain. This seems to me entirely logical and gives us all information on which to make our own (political) decision. Sarah Mulholland Goldsithney, Cornwall

Text: Sir, Sixty-five years ago I was a boarder at Clifton College, where I attended Polacks House, which was the only boarding house for Jewish students at any public school in Britain. I was obliged to study German, which I hated, not least because I was the only Jewish boy in the class. On the last lesson of term I deliberately arrived late, and as I walked into class a boy whose name and appearance I remember perfectly shouted “Ach, the Jew boy, why are you so late?” This incident has stayed with me for life, mainly for the shame I felt at not having the courage to confront this bully and his sniggering mates. We should not imagine for one moment that boyhood recollections are not reliable and painful. They are. Richard Cyzer London W1

Letters in Times today

"Eating people is nutritious" - would that help?

I guarantee this will work, just don't hold me to it.

So, you think calculus is hard? Good luck making sense of the right to vote in Habsburg Austria

(from a wonderful article by Birgitta Bader-Zaar) 🗃️

Sprouts.

One for Bolton Greens. bsky.app/profile/bolt...

For Lib Dem members and supporters (am neither - of any party).

Foreign interference or opportunistic grifting: why are so many pro-Trump X accounts based in Asia? A new feature on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter allows users to see the location of other accounts. It has resulted in a firestorm of recriminations

Foreign interference or opportunistic grifting: why are so many pro-Trump X accounts based in Asia?

Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’ The long read: The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated – and for the next decade, I worked...

"There was a pitfall we didn’t really see at the time: you could win power through airtime, but you couldn’t govern with it." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Reflections on a political movement in transit, by @lilithverstrynge.bsky.social

YouTube video by USC Africa - U.S. Initiative Africa – U.S. Forum: Update on the war in Sudan

Follow up: youtu.be/gSxyfjdxnKs?...

Ding dong!

I think I'd need a few coffees as well as the fruit and some tissues to get through either book.

It hits.

"Spit Out a Hit, You Mother-Fucking Machine"
This one's for Breaking Rust
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I think I'd need a few coffees as well as the fruit and some tissues to get through either book.

So they say.