Endlessly grim to me how facile and empty these peoples' visions of the New World Order are; they're tearing up fifty years of international agreements and progress and imperfect stumbling towards the possibility of a better world and all they want out of it is to be a gangster petrostate.
In the 12th century the monk Richard of Devizes wrote the following:
"Apud Bristollum nemo est qui non sit uel fuerit saponarius, et omnis francus saponarios amat ut stercorarios."
Naughty Richard.
this is explicitly genocidal
U had me at every single president of my lifetime, signed someone old enough to remember Clinton wagging the dog on children's hospitals in Iraq, Obama drone striking weddings in Yemen and Biden giving all our money and bombs to IDF to murder little children in Palestine
“The chronic ongoing problem, for nearly two decades, is that the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis proponents withhold the evidence they claim to have,” Boslough said. “When independent scientists ask to see it — in the form of materials, for example — we are attacked for ‘suggesting fraud.’” 👀
I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults.
There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds.
Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.
Government Would Wheel Your Granny Off A Cliff If Big Tech Company Asked, Finds Report https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/02/23/government-would-wheel-your-granny-off-a-cliff-if-big-tech-company-asked-finds-report/
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
I'm the person who gets to spend my Friday morning in court finding this stuff out btw.
"War Queer" sounds like it would be the most amazing band on Earth
Detail of a Roman tomb wall with a semicircular painted lunette showing faded red and blue figures on a white background.
New discovery: A large burial ground dating from the Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity has been uncovered in Rome’s Ostiense Necropolis during pre-construction works.
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correct
there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard
the thing is that it's very likely that both Noem *and* Trump are lying. 1
Jeff Sachs spreads lies and manipulations about Ukraine; he appears on russian propaganda shows and speaks for Ru at the UN. There's no excuse to defer to his academic credentials, platform him, and treat him w respect. Whoever does it (for e.g. the Irish president) is complicit in Ru propaganda.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
There are many more images of this amazing ring at the museum's link: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
People have used the word "normalize" for years to criticize the media and describe the erosion of democratic norms under this orange menace. I want folks to consider what everyday normalization in action looks like. I posted yesterday about the whistleblower evidence that Kash Patel betrayed his office by spiking the investigation of Renee Good's murder for political reasons and the need for severe consequences if this proves true. As always happens in such situations, a good number of the commenters replied with some version of "Nothing will happen." Some struck a fatalistic, commiserating tone while others turned the sentiment into an insult about how clueless and naive anyone must be to treat the depredations of these people as worthy of comment much less to demand accountability. (The latter happens much more on Threads where I also have a platform, rarely here.) That is normalization in action. Fatalism, world-weary cynicism and aggressive sanctimony are direct assaults on the strengthening of norms and the spotlighting of corruption, misconduct and crimes. It is the equivalent on an individual level of media platforms reporting on these depredations like they are ordinary exercises of public policy and executive discretion.
With permission I'm sharing a post from The Other Place by my friend Tobias, who's a constitutional law professor, because it touches on this question of how we tell the story and what the consequences of that are.
Join us to mark #IWD2026 with tours, talks, screenings & exhibitions celebrating women’s stories, creativity & impact across Irish history.
Explore Ireland’s cultural heritage through women’s experiences on Sun 8 March. #SpeirGorm #HerStory
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A churchyard tour of Old St Pancras churchyard
Gravestones gathered around a tree known as the Hardy Tree
If you’re ever in the St Pancras area, take a walk through the Old St Pancras Churchyard. It has survived despite several attempts to acquire the land for a railway goods yard. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, managed the disinterment of human remains when he worked for Arthur Blomfield, architect.
It’s funny to realize that my frustration tolerance is through the ceiling because I choose to do mathematics and drawing and my god am I always disappointed in myself
people are so extraordinary in what they can do
The Younger Dryas comet impact "theory" is dying a not-fast-enough death.
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
I hope this gets more people to see this important and heartbreaking movie.
Bullying people won't work. People have a genocide in real time on their phones and a majority of Americans want it to end.
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For about $2.5 billion a day, we could provide a $500 per month UBI to every American — adults and kids. Poverty would be reduced by 65%. Child poverty would drop by over 80%. Extreme poverty would be essentially eliminated. Inequality would drop by about 20%.
We can do/be so much better than this.
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
Mark Kelly to Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby: "I'm trying to understand whether you believe Iran can be primarily contained by our regional partners, which is what you wrote a few weeks ago, or is it imminent threat to the US as President Trump just told the American people? Can't be both"
