Stranger In The Alps

This is about Ozaki Tomei, as he introduced himself to me and as he was known for most of his life. Wrote about his story in Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki and wrote a bio chapter in Shadows of Nagasaki edited by Chad Diehl.

omg, they filed the same nonsense in IL

ONCE AGAIN I AM ASKING YOU TO DENY ALAN DERSHOWITZ A PIEROGI

Spotted on the Q4 with @drichardsqns.bsky.social (last weekend).

‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’ Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association

"Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The Starmer government two signature policies are racism and genocide

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Man, that is genius

This is my favorite scene from PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (1985). Just as strangely beautiful as the first time I saw it.

“I don’t have sub-atomic particles or space, but what I do have is the potential energy to become the entire universe.”

Sir, he paid 6 consultants $200,000 for that joke. It has to be good

Vote for will stancil to secure personhood for AI girlfriends everywhere

better than the neighbor

Being able to shrug and walk away from the pile of burning corpses you're responsible for is how you know you've made it in this country

For the love of humanity. Drop Zionism Drop Israel. Evil incarnate. #econsky #gaza.

Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico residency is a rare example of fame used for good | Adrian Horton The megastar’s unprecedented 21-date residency is estimated to bring $200m into the local economy with early tickets exclusively reserved for locals

"No Me Quiero Ir De Aqui" features lavish sets built by 1,000 local workers.

Tickets to non-PRs sold with rooms in local hotels to avoid AirBnB use.

The residency will inject about $200m into the long-suffering local economy since "the US keeps PR in perpetual and extractive colonial purgatory."

literally the only counter argument you need is “jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals”

*Inspired

Green Dildo Coin. An amount spent on masked thugs and themed concentration camps that could house and feed every homeless person in America. Cage fights on a paved-over White House lawn. It really all boils down to losers who want to replace our society with a different one that just fucking sucks.

A "Clio Peppiatt Moon and Sun dress"

The British couture dress Andrew Cuomo's daughter wore to her wedding "afterparty" was her third dress of the evening and retails for more than one month's rent of the rent stabilized Astoria apartment that Mamdani pays and Cuomo is maligning.

Andrew Cuomo married a Kennedy and his daughter went to Deerfield Academy, Brown University, and summered on Hyannis Port, where last year at her grandmother Ethel's mansion, she had a 400-person wedding that was featured in Vogue Magazine. www.vogue.com/slideshow/ma...

Doing official photo ops with a country actively committing genocide is bad actually

These House Dems are having an AIPAC-funded smiling vacation in a country currently bombing and starving millions of people with weapons they voted to send to that country.

Truly sickening. Stomach-churning. Ghouls.

i mean yeah man LLMs do have the intelligence of a masters student but what they dont tell you is that their field is economics

In the US discourse, Chinese vehicles are either of inferior quality — something that seems hard to argue against Tesla, given its longstanding quality-control problems — or a cybersecurity threat, based on the notion that the Chinese government may tap into the infotainment systems in every vehicle made by a Chinese company. (No one tell them Volvo is now owned by Geely, or that models from Buick, Lincoln, and Polestar are imported from China.) Quite frankly, it’s silly and little more than a cover for protectionism. As Chinese automakers have gained more ground in the past few years, my desire to try driving some has only grown. That’s not really an option in Canada because our government has followed in the footsteps of the United States. But when I headed down to New Zealand earlier this year, I decided it was time to take some vehicles for a spin.

The United States puts out a lot of propaganda about the inferiority of Chinese vehicles and the threat they present. But it sounds more like justification for protectionism, to ensure US automakers that have fallen behind won’t succumb to competitive pressure.

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I drove some Chinese cars. Here’s what I thought. Western automakers are doomed if they keep trying to hide behind tariff walls

Chinese cars are taking the auto world by storm. But the US and Canada are being left behind.

On a recent trip to New Zealand, I decided to see what we’re missing by taking a few for a spin. US automakers won’t be able to hide behind tariffs for long.

It’s Government by unelected tyrants is what it is

Anna Lulis & @annamlulis Follow Pro-life NFL legend Tim Tebow shares a video holding his baby girl while working— humanizing fatherhood. Get married. Have kids.

Wow, holding a baby while looking at his computer. How does he do it all?

RFK Jr. Recommends Eating Good Cancer To Kill The Bad Cancer

RFK Jr. Recommends Eating Good Cancer To Kill The Bad Cancer theonion.com/rfk-jr-...