every single president since James Monroe has had the exact same policy toward Latin America as Donald Trump: unlimited crimes against humanity for financial gain at any time for any or for no reason at all

“Nobody who is abusing their elevated pedestal to urge America’s crackpot fascist government to unilaterally attack another country, is welcome” seems like a perfectly reasonable position to me www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

People are gonna try to tell you that it's important to mention Maduro is bad at every turn but I'm here to tell you the only thing anyone needs to say right now is that the US must absolutely stop its imperialist aggression against Venezuela. It's as simple as that.

somehow i thought the Boxing Day test was the next one in the Ashes but NO theres a test started today so i get to enjoy some more English humiliation and ineptitude. love that

Iron law: every person who goes out of their way to say that the "Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis" absolutely believes that the Soviets were worse than the Nazis.

this is actually a really good visual metaphor for explaining why the lines in this sort of poetry are broken the way they are.

literary translators are either going to organize against this or wind up editing machine translations for poverty wages forever.

anybody else ever listen to Cream and just sort of lightly mourn what a wanker Clapton subsequently became?

lol

sigh youtu.be/oVpdheFs3Qw?...

you could see when the teams came out of the tunnel at the start and the half which team was confident and which was not.

i saw these in person recently and it absolutely fucked me up

hear me out: Kieran Tierney, player-manager (lol) reo owed the team that after the awful defending for their goal. scales is terrifying. st mirren for sure came into this with their tails up smelling their chance.

oh so so many many...

troops how do we feel about young Mr Watson of Kilmarnock (current value around €2 mil on transfermarkt)? youtu.be/KmOEJXQ8uuw?...

Works of art, which lack artistic quality, have no force, however progressive they are politically. Therefore, we oppose both works of art with a wrong political viewpoint and the tendency towards the "poster and slogan style" which is correct in political viewpoint but lacking in artistic power.

ahahaha

all part of my plan (Woke 2)

*polite little cough*

🍀sub-optimal🍀

weird time for a game of checkers, mate

Yang far and away the standout so far for me.

somebody showed Nancy KT's goal for Scotland on their phone just now and he moved him to the right

whomst amongst us?

funfunfun question to ponder. gonna offer: the fetish character of the bourgeois class itself, glimpsed in the attempt to reconstitute a past, while also at the same time constructing a future, neither of which feature class struggle of any kind

I kinda miss Glasgow today Nikon N60 | Fuji Superia 400 #filmphotography

ye pour communion wine in at the top and it comes out the bottom as soup

when they order whatever youre lowest on at 5:02 pm

[Our purpose is] to ensure that literature and art fit well into the whole revolutionary machine as a component part,

Oxymoron renamed after moron US Institute of Peace renamed after Trump - BBC News share.google/IzYEUMiOMyn7...

twas a mighty knock. guy is such a fucking bloke one forgets what a freak of nature he is with a bat in hand.

guy swallowed a jewelled egg. cops "surveilled the suspected and waited for nature to do its part in the jewel's recovery"

For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian. "Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".

watching the ashes and england could easily be 4 or 5 down instead of the 2 they are. its the fifth over

one of the great stylists on history's most overplayed instrument

lol. lmao, even morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cruc...

that *is* Brecht behind the guy in the glasses, aint it?

a hundred years from now they dig up a box in what used to be my garden and find a big dusty book with a cover that reads, in gold glittery letters, Klemperer's Diary 2: Back 2 Fascism

fucking orcs, man

here are five weird shows i saw instead

lotta bucks for a guy who has such a good slider he has a nervous breakdown and coughs up a crooked number every time somebody hits it

i remember when martin di michaelis went to england, hearing the commentators talk about him like he was a bond villain and realizing that the motherfuckers were actually fully racist against argentines

simple really 💅

these absurd prices aside, cannot recommend anyone come here for any reason, let alone to be gouged by fifa. its a mess here and cant really ve considered safe. and i would expect anyone with over irish republican sympathies, to say nothing of real connections, to be turned away if not detained

gotta be these monstrosities from Forest Green Rovers this season. home and away this awful shows real commitment

francis is rapping the verses and leo is singing the hooks

ouch

you idiot, you buffoon, you simpleton, Woke 2 *is* rage