Japanese prints from 1873 depicting famous Western inventors and scholars in times of trouble. Pictured: Audubon (work eaten by mice), Carlyle (papers burnt), and Arkwright (spinning machine smashed by wife). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

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This is very illuminating for people who want to learn more about Sikhism and the Kirpan in the wake of Henry Nowak's murder open.substack.com/pub/fraserne...

Cats share a fascinating bond with humanity because when you see a cat walking around outside you and the cat share an equally intense but opposite reaction where the cat is like “ah shit I don’t want to talk to this guy” and you get to be like “cat my old friend! Come here buddy!”

Ten years of the most horrifyingly intense, vicious and inflammatory Fucking Around, now coming to a head in one summer of Finding Out after another.

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

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This is fifty years of reactionary right wing politics, right here: none of those people give a damn what’s real and they never did. They *enjoy being angry*, aren’t picky about why and they used to pay for retail outrage off news stands. Now, they can get it free from Indian wingnuts.

This is a Jewish-Palestinian group of activists putting their physical safety on the line today to protect Palestinian families from far-right ultranationalist Jews. Truly one of the most inspiring groups out there at this moment.

Was it perhaps a mistake to privatise and cut as much as possible, as a means of ensuring future governments would be helpless and incapable of improving anything or helping anyone? Well, I suggest your answer to that will depend upon how big and fancy your house is.

I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed

One from the archives. "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave"

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

Speak for yourself. Personally, I rarely use helium, plastics, energy or food. I’ll be fine.

if you get angry about kids in pubs i think fundamentally you are just quite an antisocial person

NEW ESSAY — “Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History” — In early modern Europe, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson explores: publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-a...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.

Important to understand that when all of these lads wail loudly about how much The Left Hates Britain, they don’t mean we hate Bargain Hunt or Greggs or Jarvis Cocker or Dundee United. They mean that we dislike and are opposed to *them*: they do not draw distinctions between themselves and “Britain”

I mean, *even I* would much prefer it if they had at least been basically competent, because I have to live in this country and raise a child here. Being able to say “We told you this would happen” is no comfort at all, it makes it much worse that it was all so avoidable and unnecessary.

not an iron law or anything but basically every assassination attempt on a political figure over the last 20 years has turned out to be driven by a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

It's hard to be polite about this drivel. Herzog carries water for Netanyahu, constantly. He has embraced settlements in the West Bank. He has no real independent support among the Israeli public. Most opposition voters see him as an embarrassment or worse. There is NO value in meeting him.

Generally I think it’s a lot easier to understand Reform UK and the general right wing movement behind it as the successful politicisation of being a cunt

Pulp’s Britpop classic “Common People,” the lead single to their album ‘Different Class,’ came out 30 years ago today! 🛒 The band just released another great song “Got To Have Her Love.” That’s from ‘More,’ their first album in 24 years, coming out next month. 👉 www.stereogum.com/2309148/pulp...

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

Good morning! This week's theme is St Paul's Cathedral. ------ 'St Paul's and Ludgate Hill' (c.1887) by William Logsdail (Private collection)

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

People talking and peacefully demonstrating is not a threat to society; but stopping them is. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Look guys, what even is a Nazi salute? Who even were the Nazis? What is reality? Who am I? Where is this? Wha

Happy 99th birthday to Dick Van Dyke, inventor of the DVD player.

Sorry, but I genuinely laughed out loud at that.

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years theonion.com/cia-realizes...

Sometimes you just need a website dedicated to old Japanese cassette tapes. tapefan.exblog.jp

"I have called a general election by mistake"

Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

“When I got sober, the career I thought I had was pretty much gone… I didn’t know if I was ever going to write music again. And then I was asked to write the songs for The Muppet Christmas Carol. Every now and then, the universe will line up to do something at the right time in your life.”

The abrupt warming in September – due primarily to Antarctica – came on top of already extraordinary warmth in August. The Antarctic changes might simply reflect natural polar variability but it added to a system already greatly warmed by man-made and natural causes. 9/