Thrilled to see Giovanni Tonolo publish this serious work and even more thrilled seeing him become one great historian of Africa. Looking forward to being enlightened by his work in the future.

I mean, ultimately chatgtp probably knows the truth to be honest.

And my verdict is: Mamdani should have never met Trump. He could have, should have, could have played the busy new mayor for a while. Now, we have entered deeper into grotesque: Mamdani calling himself a socialist next to the president who doesn't mind being called a fascist.

Ciao Ornella, amica da sempre, per sempre! se ne andò un pezzo di tutti noi 💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aERe...

Statistics are such: 1/3 of all cars in the UK atm are one or another kind of SUVs. 100 job applications for perhaps 1 interview. Go figure!

A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer. Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."

A lot of people criticized Black Mirror for being too didactic in its critiques of the dangers of technology, but compared to reality it was very subtle and nuanced. www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...

Did they do it Darth Vader style?

To think that I wasted my life pursuing a Phd in philosophy and learning all these languages, when I could have wasted it learning to become social media manager and live in blissful ignorance and actually perhaps get a job. 🤩

I try to have my partner brief me about British politics. Today's briefing: soon, you'll be deported, he said thinking it was a good joke. Good one, but not funny at all.

Whistles against ICE in NYC: 'Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said Hu, “you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.”' www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...

The problem here might be that political scientists and strategists are often indistinguishable.

Water bill: charge of or better for the private company which owns nobody knows what is twice the amount charged for water consumption of the household. Yes, the water should be nationalised.

Regardless of Trump, of course, of course the Dems should admit Clinton was what he was. But things being as they are and Dems being what they are, no tactics let along strategy and they will miss the obvious chance to move on from all that scheise.

Who’s funding Silicon Valley’s data-centre dream? It might be you. on.ft.com/482rnBG | opinion

Monograph yet to be written: Marx and French historians of his time. Wildly difficult, excruciating work, no wonder we have none to this day (to my knowledge at least, if you know, please do share the title). If I could return in time and do a PhD again, that is what I would write about.

This is quite the read on @lrb.co.uk "Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention"

Things being as they are and the likelihood of deportations as per mimicking in Britain increasing, I have started applying for jobs I am qualified, unqualified and overqualified to do. May the gods of Olympus have mercy on me because ideally we would all like to continue living together.

British right has since always been obsessed with the false idea that the BBC is somehow left wing, a view one can hold only if having a psychotic breakdown. Nonetheless, this entire mess shows that the next British government is likely to have Farage heading it.

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Psychotherapy as it used to be: Jung: I had a patient sent to me by my colleague. She had seen few therapists before me. At some point she'd feel the urge to slap her therapists. Once, she got up, I knew she'd slap me, so I preemptively slapped her. She fell on the floor. She never tried it again.

Jack De Johnette may your jazz soul rest in eternal drumming peace! You were one of the greatest ever to walk on the planet Earth.

Still one of my fav short films ever shot. 🫶 After an hour of (re)reading Aquinas' comment on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione - this is what came to my mind. I wish the world these days was as logical as it was for Aquinas or Aristotle for that matter.

Productivity of labour in our street: this morning, at 8 exactly two big vehicles parked, one with something like a crane. Of course, my 19 m.o. was thrilled to see it and wanted to go out so he could touch everything.

Reading this in dismay. Hoping it won't, but then, in today's world of insanity and democracy broken, it would really not be surprising, in which case I could expect to be deported- for not earning enough and not receiving any state assistance i.e. social benefits. Tories really helping Farage.

The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.

As much as one has to be aware of all this, it just strikes me as: the European nations developed because they ate meat and in general bcs of the improved diet (you know, we grew bigger, taller etc), but others should restrain themselves bcs our lives depend on them.

The temple of Aphrodite in Washington D.C. Trump friend of Epstein Trump grab 'em by the p**y Trump in Sex and the City. Trump demolish the White House.

What a wonderful rendering of the exhibition and consequently, what a wonderful read for my Sunday evening.

Nxperia Dutch stuff is hilarious. EUropeans, in their vanity, have forgotten a minor detail called reality. I know, I know, but seriously, is it for real? They seize everything, shares included and forget about the production facility in errrmmm... China. Vanitas of the EUropeans is mind boggling.

Do Marxists today read any of the older Marxists who have had a lot to say about this? Seems like our debates today are so impoverished because history begins yesterday.

Steven Pinker is a creep, reactionary, poor scientist, no humanist and an awful human being. He is the "psychologist" in question according to some. The scum of this world as is the rest of "academics" who, I would bet my life, are all equally depraved.

My latest passion: Japanese avant-garde drawings. If you have some reading suggestions, please send them over. Preferably something with drawings. War is peace and other artistic forms of our time not included!

This network is like an echo-chamber (of the liberals), which is what democracy is. Which is also why democracy is in the state it is. That other place is hell, but looks more like hell we live in.

There are such things as cultural differences (and good that there are!). It is due to these that postmodernism could ever really find its true expression in the anglosphere where it took the form of the confessions of the I, whereas in Europe it simply meant the end of Marxsim.

Why is this person writing sentences like this: ...though both industries [University and steel] are strategically important to the nation in different ways, nobody’s currently trying to shut down the last university in Britain to the strategic advantage of their Chinese rivals."

What on Earth? I still remember the report on Dutch fertility gynaecologist using his own sperm to father dozens of children. I think psychoanalysis might be of use here.

Odlično, premda malo previše Todorova za moj ukus. Nedavno sam u Sarajevu vidjela reprint ovih ilustracija na izložbi "Modra, ljubičasta, zelena, žuta" koja je bila postavljena u Crvenoj.

Most parents in Cambridge who are middle or upper middle class treat their children as future assets and the nurseries they take over are for one full of ideology of green imperialism, 2. are horror for the local community and less well-off children. There are no limits to gentrification.

I have lived in many countries in Europe, but never ever have I had neighbours like this. Incredibly petty, shitty and hostile people who lack basic human decency and elementary culture.

Hungary into the abyss.

'Ironically, most of the public still believe that most student places are scarce and rationed and that “getting in” is an achievement in and of itself, when the reverse is increasingly true'. 1/3

For over a year I wondered seeing all these baby socks and shoes (never saw them before obviously) how on earth does this happen and we keep seeing these cute little things around until today I discovered it myself. The phase of taking off shoes and socks while in the buggy has arrived.

Kenan Malik as usual spot on.

No words. Lapsed society.

This is lovely. Made me think that I belong to a generation which grew up with very solid educational programme on national TV(s)- this was before internet ofcs. and before those very educational programme(s) were deemed (too) elitist to be offered to the public. Now we have podcasts.

Marx to Arnold Ruge sometime 1843, sounds about right: ...Aristotle who wished to construct his Politics on the basis of our society would begin by writing: "Man is a social but wholly unpolitical animal"...

Of course she does. Astonishing indeed. A liquidation of the party which has existed for 200 years. Good morning to you too, how much of a reform for you? Yes, Prime Minister.

I love that out of all people Timothy Snyder decided to leave Yale for Toronto because of the "human rights abuse" - I mean he who abused the abuse of human rights and intelligence as such in pretty much everything he did. No film can be better than the reality we live in.

www.ft.com/content/5d5b... Pretty good in all its points. The esoteric one in particular.