Roger Rimbaud

As an Iranian in exile as some call it, I want nothing more than a regime change in Iran.

But what I don't want is my country destroyed, people killed, and all looted by Americans!

#FuckYourWar

As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

One thing is clear.

Keir Starmer is singularly incapable of standing up to Donald Trump.

Cllr Drew Swinerd I think that this is one of the most disturbing election results in British history. The Green Party, with its long, honourable tradition of environmental activism is now being used as a vehicle for Islamism. For starters, it has a deputy leader, Mothin Ali, who called a rabbi an 'animal' for serving in the IDF and who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' upon winning election. Now in this by-election, the Greens distributed leaflets and issued videos in Urdu. Why is using English insufficient? Why is it that in England that there is a sizeable part of a constituency that must be appealed to in a language of Pakistan? Why are those people from that background so special as to warrant this distinct treatment? Why are they being targeted specifically based upon culture and religion? Mothin Ali has apparently said it is for 'inclusivity'... but what about the constituents who don't speak Urdu? This is a colossal failure of 'multiculturalism' and the aim of endeavouring to unite us as a single, cohesive nation with a common identity. Then there is the messaging. We have seen lazy accusations of racism against the Reform candidate, Labour or anyone else who tries to stand in the way of the Greens. There was a video featuring Netanyahu and Modi meeting Keir Starmer and David Lammy... in a bold move to be anti-Jewish *and* anti-Hindu at the same time. Why should Palestine and Kashmir now become issues in a by-election in Greater Manchester? The Green Party has been promoting advocates who say that people should vote for them 'from an Islamic perspective. Whatever happened to voting from a local or national perspective rather than a sectarian one?

Just one of many posts flooding social media and using the same language. A cynic might suspect a coordinated campaign to cast doubt on the results.

This story has been puzzling, because im still not clear exactly what is meant to have happened where, or why DV insists there was egregious family voting but the council seems so sure nothing was raised with them on the day (bar one concern, I’m told, which apparently turned out to be innocent)

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss Fund and purchase

Jackson Pollock, There Were Seven in Eight, c. 1945
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135439

Happy Saint David’s Day to all who celebrate
‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd'

Makes me so so fucking mad.

Black-and-white magazine-style portrait of a woman (Jean Seberg) with a short pixie haircut, resting her hand against her face, holding a close to finished cig and looking toward the camera.

Uberto Guidotti for Daisy de Galard • Jean Seberg

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled viruses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the bacteria, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The two women had known each other before moving to Birmingham: they both had been educated at the University of Oxford and met while working at the library in Somerville College. Like Rose, Margery was also an accomplished academic and passionate about social reform. She later became one of the first women magistrates in Britain and campaigned for penal reform. The two women became inseparable during their time at Birmingham. Stories about their relationship chart a joyful romance filled with laughter and fun. They organised events for their students, including dances, plays and sports, with a house principle being essentially ‘the right to be silly’. This principle was part of their commitment to equality in higher education: like male students, they should have the right to be both serious and silly at University. They also enjoyed quieter hobbies including needlework and birdwatching and wrote poetry to each other as gifts. Margery kept the poems that Rose sent to her for the rest of her life; the verses were filled with love, signed with epithets including ‘yours that loves you more every day.’

Margery Fry with the ornamental birdbath Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham - a white woman in Edwardian dress is grinning while sticking her hand into the fountain spray of a bowl situated atop a 1m plinth in the garden of University House, the first women-only hall of residence on campus. But throughout 1918 the Great Influenza pandemic was starting to take hold and during her trip Rose became ill. She died that winter in New York, just as she was getting ready to return to the UK. Rose’s inscription is included in the University’s First World War memorial outside the Great Hall in the Aston Webb Building. Only a handful of women are listed on the memorial and Rose was recognised because in going to the US to represent Britain, she was representing her country and, in succumbing to illness, she also died for her country. Heartbreakingly, Margery was never notified of Rose’s illness so was not able to send her a last message. She heard of Rose’s death only afterwards, via telegram. Margery commissioned the birdbath to honour Rose and her love of nature and to remember their time spent birdwatching together. Even after leaving Birmingham, and returning to Oxford, she continued to send money for the upkeep of the birdbath and to preserve Rose’s feminist legacy.

An ornamental birdbath, tucked away by the Business School, bears witness to an enduring love between two of the University of Birmingham’s early feminist pioneers, Rose Sidgwick and Margery Fry, which was cut short by the 1918 Great Influenza pandemic
#LGBTQHistoryMonth (h/t @momoulton.bsky.social)

Good job. Better late than never!

From 10 false flagged vessels a week to 2 per month, there has been a clear drop in the number of false flagged vessels, visiting the Baltic.

Sierra Leone, Cameroon absorbed most.

Now - we have false flagged container vessels on the rise! Gotta catch them all.

Kamala speaks out against Trump's attack on Iran.

In the future, our grandchildren will ask us why no one stopped Trump before he killed millions of people.

Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.

Head of CBS News (and, soon, CNN) taunting Zohran and cheerleading Israel/Trump’s war on Iran almost nobody wants

In case there’s still any question about the agenda behind these networks now

Strong Message Here - History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds Is history still written by the victors? How to people try and control their legacy?

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“God Forgives… I Don’t!” aka Dio perdona… Io no! by Giuseppe Colizzi (1967) Terence Hill in El Puntal (Polopos) #Almeria #Cinema #Western #photography

The Americans and Israelis are going to kill their way through several levels of Iran's command hierarchy.

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them."

Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Begin Doctrine: The Lessons of Osirak and Deir ez-Zor | INSS The decision to attack a nuclear reactor in enemy territory is one of the most difficult decisions that an Israeli leader may face. Prime Minister Menahem Begin drafted the unofficial doctrine that is...

People may not be aware of 'the Begin doctrine'. Its been around for decades

www.inss.org.il/publication/...

'I was trapped': Modern slavery rises across London A modern slavery survivor has told BBC London how he was manipulated into criminal activity.

Statistically neurodivergent individuals are at heightened risk of exploitation.
Modern slavery is not an "immigration issue". It is a wider one, affecting people from all walks of life, with intersectionalities with disability, gender, age, poverty etc. 1/

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Elliott Abrams, from near the US and Israel:

1. The date of the attack was agreed two weeks ago
2. Aiming for regime change is a profound change in stated Israeli and US goals
3. It's a campaign, not a strike

www.cfr.org/articles/gau...

Easy Rider (1969) Written by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper Directed by Dennis Hopper.

Bir insan doğduğunda zayıf ve esnektir. Öldüğü zamansa kaskatı ve duygusuzdur. Bir ağaç doğarken körpe ve yumuşaktır. Ama kuru ve sert hale geldiğinde ölüp gider.

Sertlik ve güç, ölümün arkadaşlarıdır.

- Andrei Tarkovski / Stalker (1979)

This is a symptom of the U.S. military’s erroneous conception of strategy as scale. If it’s happening at a large scale, it must be strategic.

It’s difficult. It takes a lot of folks and resources. It requires high level commanders.

But it’s not strategic.

Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere Is the global atmospheric commons destined to be an industrial waste dumping ground?

Another example of human activity expanding faster than our ability to understand its consequences.

the US and israel are doing Russian things now
this is horiffic

US and Israel: “We care about the Iranian people”

*Iranian leftists exists*

US and Israel: “LOL you are the first to go”