Labour in a nutshell

Heartbreaking.

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All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy. "Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

If you’re cold, they’re cold. Let them in the Winter Palace.

High school choir director who left deep rural Oklahoma for college with $5 in his pocket and West Texas lawyer who went to school on the GI Bill.

I once got hired to address holiday cards to a list that included Yo-Yo Ma and the Queen of Jordan because my handwriting was so beautiful.

Moataz Nasr (Egyptian Artist), “There will be fire,“ 2022, Burnt matchsticks on wood.

Iranian monarchists when this whole thing ends with some ice-chewing psycho IRGC general in charge after cutting some kind of deal and a de facto Kurdish separatist state and also they can't even go to Dubai anymore

But Golestan Palace is most famed for its mirrored tilework. In the Safavid era, mirrors imported from Europe often arrived in shards. Rather than discarding broken mirrors, Iran's crafstmen developed this unique architectural element. Much of it now appears damaged.

Thinking aboutt migrants - in UAE and GCC countries. So far those killed in the UAE are Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi. every year, about 10,000 migrant workers die in gcc. Thinking about refugees in Pakistan w/ border escalation & war with Afghanistan. Already, 20% of global refugees are Afghan.

There is actually broadly speaking no need to have any discourse on the war against Iran beyond this: this is insane, and should not be happening, and Bibi and Trump alike will burn in hell for all the deaths they will cause.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Sometimes it do be like that

This statement should be professionally disqualifying for a journalist covering the middle east to make, but alas it isn't. Nearly every single statement made by the Biden administration about Gaza was a bald faced lie that everyone knew was a lie but never got reported as such.

Lajkó Félix, “Vigadó” Without question.

stolen from gotinterest on tumblr

I have more of a shotgun than a question

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

i guess my critique of the AOC remarks at the munich security conference (and ig biden's people as well) is that they all want to frame the current status quo as the result of a "system betrayed" and not, instead, as the result of deliberate choices, the system itself *being* the issue.

Klaus Kinski (left) and a dog.

April 1805. Napoleon has looksmaxxed Europe. Only the British Fleet mogs before him

did you catch this?

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

I worked this issue hard with my Afghan Evac partners when Kabul fell. We had volunteers from all walks of life, from every political stripe. This cause united us in purpose unlike anything else. And now, death sentences. Enraged.

There is no redemption for this country.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wish Americans would constantly be exposed to people who don’t even speak English debating and analyzing how best to intervene in their country and turn their homes to glass. Ideally they are discussing this in Spanish or Chinese. Would really help us grow as a culture I think.

Your experience really resonates. I feel that students simply shut down in the course bc they reject the idea that the professor knows more than them. And absolutely every form of truth has become disputed.

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

imagine finishing your email about a whites only secret society with a promise to send a post card from your lovely trip to Ivory Coast

The last show I saw at the Kennedy Center was Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History of Popular Music with a friend who is now a rabid Zionist and won’t speak to me, a neat encapsulation of the past three years.

This video from @katjagrudnik on Instagram is a perfect example of the algorithm delivering.

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

The fossil fuel analogy also suggests, correctly, that text on the internet is the inert remnants of language, not language itself

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Artificial Minds Mind and Language Green Visions and Toxic Landscapes The Ethics of Death, Immortality, and Contemporary Politics Love Ltd: Charity, Philanthropy, and Humanitarianism

This year, I’ve had sophomore and junior undergraduates at my private R2 university not know what the words “pragmatic” and “urban” meant.

why has cheesecake factory added 20 new items to their menu, it's like adding an extra chapter about the parisian sewers to les miserables

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

There is no "immigration problem" There is no migrant problem There is no problem with illegals There is no border crisis Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.

Genuinely formative

me and my buddies would beat this lump of coal with hammers