Tfw you're the court jester in a comedy, but mistakenly believe you're playing King Henry.

The etymology of Galatasaray, as in the football team from Instanbul, is generally understood as coming from 'Galatian Palace'

I hope this graphic isn't covered by copyright anymore. Really tempted to use it in fiction as either a megacorp sigil or a heraldic stamp, like the (remarkably morally ambiguous) example below. lparchive.org/Drakengard-3...

Look, I know I'm the only person who actually reads budget documents. Boring stuff, I get it. But I can't emphasize enough how surreal and weird this is. It's psychotic, it's schizophrenic, it's dreamlike and nightmarish. Federal budget docs written like Trump's truth social posts...

Am currently in Germany and loving all of the wildflowers and landscaping around town.

I think this is actually a microcosm of the Starmer era, doing umpteen less successful things to try and avoid doing the thing everyone has been advising you to in a failed attempt to "look serious" and avoid admitting you were wrong.

Every duty crew has that one guy that will give oxygen to a damn pigeon.

Fri 17 July ~100 people have been killed in flash floods caused by extreme rain⛈️ across Togo, Ghana & Cote d'Ivoire >800 wild🔥 destroy forests, towns & fill the Nth American sky w deadly smoke XR Sybils condemn @albomp.bsky.social govt's 👎36 Coal & Gas approvals 👎42 Coal projects in the pipeline

One of the (many) interesting details in Belfast's excellent Titanic Museum is the explanation that the reason people came to do ship building there is that those were good middle class jobs!

Theatrical corruption.

Everyone in the US and Canada are free to walk head first into a wildfire. Get out there and claim your freedom, Eric.

Yeah, but you see If Good Guys win, Good things follow. If Good things don't follow, task was too immense.

another big W for Merrick Garland. truly he was focused on doing his job in a quick and efficient fashion

we genuinely need Spanish-language media pushing this

A Canadian helicopter pilot was killed fighting a wildfire in Colorado last weekend.

Really excited to learn that Republican lawmakers believe nations should be held responsible for environmental damage that has long-term downstream consequences for other countries. Gonna be very helpful in the climate suits.

Goldman and Espaliat are notably absent from this list. Helps explain why they lost their primaries in NYC.

GOODLANDER? Jake Sullivan's Wife Goodlander?? AIPACloss?? Joe Biden's fucking Padawan??

Food systems are a major source of both CO2 (thru land conversions) and non-CO2 gases. The issue is, technological solutions and substitutions are scare. Food systems climate solutions are mainly dependent on governance and behavioural change, which while possible, are challenging.

This detail is potentially noteworthy.

I saw Jurassic Park as a starved, impoverished kid in 1990s US-sanctioned Iraq on Saddam's State TV. One of the most unforgettable film experiences of my whole life to this day. Will watch it again tonight in Sam Neill's honour😭❤️‍🩹

watched this, thought huh yeah i guess this sad old woman is kind of funny, moved on. ran into it a bunch more times kept wondering what i was missing about this heartbroken grandmother. oh. it's mick jagger

One of the things @modacitylife.com talks about in this pod is the benefits *for children* of being able to build a spatial map in their heads by moving through space on a bike, rather than than just: get in a car, see a blur in the windshield, get out in different place.

Shout out to the Capitol Hill press secretary who I remember having to red-faced explain what “teabagging” was to her “not terribly old, but definitely didn’t read media that’d explain it to her” boss. She was a pro.

I just checked to confirm the director is Israeli - to collaborate with an Israeli to make your country more bombable. The Nafisi racket never ends

Yes I do have a special interest in the way Iran is represented because through the years (when Nafisi was popular) I was not allowed to go to school or visit a library as a hijabi in Turkey I was always told it was to protect Turkey from turning into Iran

I appreciate some decorum around death but they are very eager to praise the dead man who has so much blood on his hands

As usual, MattY gets close to a point but can’t accept the uncertainty and nonlinearity of politics and public opinion. Public opinion is not stable, and is often swayed by the stances of politicians. At the same time, it is true that politicians will often be constrained by it.

This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

“No Dickheads” was how the ALP won their last two elections.

Ah yes, the famous elliptical trickiness of "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

Recently, Met Police raided a Quaker Meeting House , forcing entry to arrest 6 young women attending a meeting about the climate crisis & Gaza. but someone whose policy proposals include the setting up of killing fields is free to stand for parliament 😐 .. That's a bit horrifying isn't it ?

I appreciate Medhi saying what needs to be said here. I wish he had a post equally forthright about his support for Platner, what he's learned from his failure of judgement there, and how Zeteo might do better in future.

One of the people JFK celebrated in his Profiles in Courage book was Republican Senator Edmund G Ross, who cast the deciding vote to acquit Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial.

How about when he threw an angry tantrum in defense of a SCOTUS nominee credibly accused of rape? Did you all have a good collegial chuckle over that?

What democrata think they're doing with their high minded bipartisanship is leading by example and showing the American people that a more congenial and polite politics is possible. What they're actually doing is convincing undecideds that the behavior of Republicans is acceptable actually

8:36am for me....my 79 yo mother had texted me at 7:45am this morning. I initially thought she'd meant to say Mitch McConnell, but had gotten confused. Nope.

he actually did the meme

If killing Chef Jose Andres’ people is now the norm, what the entire f***? Mostly volunteers out to feed people are now targets?

Now imagine what the voiceless powerless Palestinians in the OCCUPIED West Bank have to go through on daily basis.

The illegal war waged by America and Israel on Iran is resulting in the radicalisation of more and more Iranians??? What a totally unexpected, shocking outcome that is!

You'll find USians lashing out against Arabs on this site for being disgruntled with their US-backed dictators. As if they are supposed to be grateful & "realize the importance of opposing Trump." It is not only US exceptionalist garbage, but it shows the real dynamics between the region & the US.

sorry has anybody done this bit yet

Triumph of the Will Stancil

kind of prestigious. "this diarrhea came from a kennedy..". our camelot...

There it is, in balck and white.

So much so that they sent painters