Rupert Koopman

Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical

Author Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment, ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical

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Thames Water spend around 30% of your bill on interest covering the debt mountain that was accumulated when it was looted under MacQuarrie a decade ago. That's just the will of the market.

Sorry, kid, the government cancelled research into a cure for your disease. The man who swims in sewage and snorts cocaine in public restrooms said it's bad for you. Besides, there's no money now that we're locking up your friend's parents and the guys who mowed our lawn.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Perhaps we should cut Farage a bit of slack on this as the commute to Mar e Lago is a long one.
#Farage #Trump #Russia #ReformUK

watching these racist losers freak out about Bad Bunny, i'm reminded that one of the gifts i received in 12 step recovery is "the ability to contemplate a world that goes on without me"

FISH HELL IS OVER I SENT THE INVOICE

looking SPECIFICALLY for:

1. someone experienced with the Zoom livestream feature

2. someone who can throw together a logo / graphics pretty quickly

3. someone who can get a web landing page set up pretty quickly

4. 1-3 people to tally donations the night of

if that's you, please holler! 💖

"Yes. I told my wife, hey, we're in Jeff's neighborhood! You know, the guy who plead guilty to soliciting a minor for sex? I bet the kids would love to meet him!"

Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

I am ready to shove these guys in a dumpster and so is everyone else and “well we’ve got it in the bag so I’ll stay home” is just not going to be a problem

we all want to spike the football here

Been thinking a bit about the way that John Brockman acted as Epstein's scientist collector and would organize dinners where Epstein would just happen to show up and I think a lesson here for *white scientists* is if you're being invited to all-white events, that might be actively intentional 🧪

They wrote their emails thinking they were never going to be caught.

They write their excuses because they are sorry they got caught.

Mercury rising!

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit The firm wants to create a network of "orbital data centres" to power artificial intelligence.

Not content to fuck up the planet, he's also gonna fuck up the sky

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The thing I struggle with the most is that they just have no fucking integrity at all

No concept of it

And I cannot intuit living that way

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

Same game that gold mining companies have been playing in South Africa for decades

The first time I saw a rendering of The Line all I could think about was how many birds it would kill and how the vast majority of architects either don't give a damn about window kills or can't be bothered to learn about them

checking every couple minutes to make sure nobody has definitively ruled It out because having hope is a beautiful thing

Good morning from Greece - Lake Kerkini in the north to be more precise.

Our guests are currently enjoying a chilly boat trip on the lake - keeping warm being mesmerised by the Dalmatian Pelicans they're there to see & photograph.

Yellow book cover: Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano.

Decided in this moment to reread some Galeano. First page: “The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.”

I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art

“No one respects women more than I do. No one.” — Trump, 2016 when confronted with the numerous sexual assault allegations.

AI is like this giant fucking boat we all were forced to get on, and it's a boat they stole, and also it barely floats, and also it's not going anywhere good. So it either takes us somewhere we hate, or it fucking sinks, so either way, fuck AI.

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
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