In Japan, the Philosophical Stance Against Having Children www.sapiens.org/culture/japa...

Some days when every news I hear makes me feel crazy and sick, I think, "Man, imagine if I just joined the other side so all those things made me happy instead and I could get paid for pretending to like them." And then I wonder how many people are doing exactly that. I mean other than JD Vance.

No doubt the China Dream is safe in the hands of a great helmsman who seems to have done an MBA in military personnel management at the Stalin School of Government

When you listen to bro music, don't be surprised they're behaving like bros

Jabba the Hut: "Nobody should grift without giving me my share"

No one can take your virtue from you; it is yours alone and cannot be harmed by fortune or circumstance. — Epictetus #Stoicism #DailyStoicThoughts #Mindfulness

"Radigue pursued an exciting musical life, moving from electroacoustic feedback to electronic music (with the help of her inseparable ARP 2500) and finally reinventing herself through fruitful collaborations with numerous instrumentalists.” R.I.P. Éliane Radigue buff.ly/ShlQoU5

Happy Boozer

I managed to track down the Armitage III Visual File CD-ROM I posted about earlier, and got it running in a Japanese version of Windows 98 for the proper language support. Appropriately cyberpunk vibes for the video viewer. ⚡

post old memes to confuse young people

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Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files more times than Jesus Christ is mentioned in the bible.

(comic) Fixing Employee Satisfaction

😳The missile attack on Kyiv was caught on camera in space. The YouTube channel AstronautiCAST claims that the ISS camera captured the missiles' flight and the work of the air defense system. The authenticity of the video and the date of filming need to be verified.

Indigenous artists across are reclaiming spaces and narratives through music and song. Vanessa Morris (Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri) delivers her guide First Nations Music in So-Called Australia, by Vanessa Morris buff.ly/dxvLgKh

Four years of full-scale invasion. Twelve years of war. Centuries of struggle. There will be Ukraine, one way or another. There will be Ukraine, and it will be glorious.

Many artists I work with have constant requests from “slavic artists abroad” wanting to collaborate, usually comes with “my grandpa’s neighbor’s dog was Ukrainian”

I need you friends to pray for Dzyga today. This brave doggo is gonna have surgery today. 😭

"Wildlife" by John Kovalic, 1987-1998 May 25th, 1997 as seen in the Wisconsin State Journal

Saw Ukrainians get called ‘winter latinos’ on instagram

Thinking that we can vote our way out of fascism is pure copium. I mean if it helps you feel like you have some form of control over everything that's going on I'm not going to stop you. However if you pick up a history book there are no examples of voting actually working to oust a tyrant.

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social

Michel Douay

"This album taught me that I don’t need to necessarily always write a fucking chorus. It doesn’t need to blow up into this big moment; the music can grow, do what it wants to do, and come to its natural climactic point." Jamie Campbell Bower on The Cure - Pornography buff.ly/5BowKqt

The Olympics look different from different places, depending, for example, on whether your viewing might be interrupted by an air raid siren or your electricity cut by a missile attack. snyder.substack.com/p/watching-t...

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

If you see this, post a monster

"We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language." - @funkittoys.bsky.social points out that history has always been ✨💕fucked💕✨, as illustrated by @erikamoen.bsky.social Public post with references: www.patreon.com/posts/150935...

'Roots is thrilling, immediate and punchy. You get the sense that, for Sepultura in 1996, ‘roots’ was a signifier of authenticity as much as of sense of place.' Happy Birthday to #Sepultura's Roots, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/bZGeJ3j

I would have added the recognition of regional languages, just for fun.

at the next round of Barnum and Bailey peace negotiations Zelenskyy should ask for 1000 nuclear warheads and 500 F-16s in exchange for Donbass

I remember a poll from 10 or 15 years ago that showed that 1 or 2% of Americans didn't know the name of their president.

God’s experiment with Creation was to create beings that were like Him except for a central exception, which is that for us there is a difference between speech and action. For Him they’re the same. We often indulge in the fantasy that this is true for us too.

Risk factors for autism, according to evidence. all data & sources bit.ly/AutismRisks

Names have been named, now what? The victims have banded together, now what? The corruption and impunity is out in the open, now what? The cover up has been revealed, now what? You have plenty of information that you are being ruled by death eaters and criminals, now what?

King

Time to set the record straight all of these years later. I’ve endured enough stupid rumors and insinuations wrt my departure from Bellingcat. This needed to be said. nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/did-you-le...

Polish PM Donald Tusk: “Poland does not foresee participation in President Trump’s Peace Council. “Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza. “Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”

What the Islamic regime did during the 2022–2023 protests was a crackdown. What it did this year was a massacre. Please stop using the word “crackdown” when describing what happened in Iran last month.

white people work so hard. even their restaurants are open on chinese new year

Wow.

Will never stop reminding people of this

And as I walked on Through troubled times My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes So where are the strong And who are the trusted? And where is the harmony? Sweet harmony