October

As Archbishop Tutu put it with regards to South Africa: "Those who claimed they did not know cannot very well say so now. They know.” -- There is no atonement for Gaza, ever. There is only– ever– the unsparing, lifelong, work of repentance and repair.

guy in 3000 bc: remember when tools were made of stone 🪨 now every thing is bronze 😡 we used to live in cave ⛰️ now we sleep in hut 😪 instead of hunting ox 🐮 we make them pull plow 🌾 who else wish we could go back 😩

The Kubrick stare is a technique used to portray insane, evil or unstable characters

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

The very first episode of 'Joe 90' was released 57 years ago today. Your week won't get any better than this, trust me.

It's your last day to pick blackberries. After Michaelmas they turn sour because the devil pissed/spat on them #folklore

From His Chest · 2021

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

Look what we have here then.

UK: pls can we have a crumb of affordable homes and non-cost-of-living-crisis Starmer: so you're saying you want *spins wheel* ID cards

BL Cotton MS Tiberius B. i. The dragon must be in the barrow, aged, proud in treasure. The fish must be in the water, propagating its kind. The king must wait in the hall, dealing in rings. The bear must be on the heath, old and terrible. 'Maxims II', 11th century #BookologyThursday

And I'll be back with the titan that is @thestorybeast.bsky.social! The man who has served every Terror Tapes live show we've done in London! Come and see us with live music and a never-before-heard Halloween special!

The Press Conference:

Gut yontiff to everyone!

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

This short film is a fave of mine, an excellent mix of dreamy sci-fi and kitchen sink realism, sounds like a great project You can watch The Watchers for free on the BFI player here: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

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Of course, even if it were only focused on Muslims, spreading the "great replacement" conspiracy would be wrong. But the fact that the Israeli right can fail to realize how dangerous this conspiracy theory is to diaspora Jews is a sign of how blinkered they've become by ethnonationalism.

Lammy is asked to provide one tangible difference that recognising the state of Palestine will make to the situation in Gaza. He can't To be clear, what the UK govt is doing is recognising a Palestinian state while it supports & helps Israel exterminate the Palestinian people.

People getting the internet at home meant young men no longer got a basic grounding in arthouse cinema while looking for nudity on TV.

duck with binoculars watching the first person to make bread: Holy shit guys they are really onto something here!

This Week's Onion Magazine:

A surprising number of people seem to regard Nazism as an understandable and natural reaction to heavy eye makeup.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

This reminds me of this comic, that David Revoy just created recently: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/...

As always,

You can’t see her but she’s just out of frame, loving Christian values too.

Finally found a good guy wearing an England flag.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Bowery At Night, c.1895, by W. Louis Sonntag, Jr.

We all need to be having these conversations.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

#poetry Of The Empire Mary Oliver

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

Den of Geek have finally paid me to write an article about my "Every Doctor Who Parody Is Secretly An Audition" theory. With a bit of help from @misterabk.bsky.social. www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-wh...

Medical diagnosis

New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought

Day 218 Making my Hands Bigger UPDATE this is joes wife after he posted this he died today his hands were too big just pendulous bloated sacks of blood and meat with bones floating somewhere inside he was on an escalator and they got caught & his whole body was pulled in and pulped I am a widow now

Slightly diminish a book: Love In The Time Of The Sniffles

This bit of Shari Lewis in Vegas performing Lamb Chop as an alcoholic who's horny for Burt Reynolds is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

hello my baby hello my honey

incredible work. become uncarryable.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Which one should I munch on, the blue or red snack? 😋 A Southern Right Whale, estimated to be around 18 meters long and weighing 80 tons, caught on camera. Stunning. These whales are relatively harmless and they are known to interact with humans. Amazing creatures. #southernrightwhale #sealife