Someone should write a book about this. Oh wait, I did, TWENTY YEARS ago. #dejavu #WisdomOfWhores. www.devex.com/news/are-fai...
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Someone should write a book about this. Oh wait, I did, TWENTY YEARS ago. #dejavu #WisdomOfWhores. www.devex.com/news/are-fai...
Ya, udah...
Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.
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THIS!
If you are in the UK and believe people have a right to die with dignity, please sign the petition to stop a few crusty old Lords from filibustering the Assisted Dying Bill to death. They don't have the right to overrule the Commons. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Lambeth – London County Council (LCC) and Greater London Council (GLC) Architect’s Department, 1963-68 Image © Morley von Sternberg
BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign.
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The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.
Decent account of Jakarta's groundhog stock market woes, including this gem of Order Baru 2.0 double-speak: "enforcement has been constrained by political realities." Gift link. www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026...
President Barrack Obama looking cheekily thoughtful
Your Black History Moment
Not in The Epstein Files.
Actually, the two categories are "fuckable and irrelevant" and "not fuckable, and irrelevant".
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
The following message is courtesy of Dr Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium.
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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Type F Pillar Box - David Mellor, 1968
Type A Edward VIII Pillar Box - 1936
📮 Happy 50th birthday to our friends at the @lbsg.org! Founded in 1976 they’re the recognised authority on the history and development of Britain’s 800 different types of post box, of which there are 11,500+ across the country.
To celebrate, here are 10 of our favourite C20 post box designs... 🧵
Kalau terjadi di Indonesia, Jakarta nanti jadi kota hantu murni.
A sunset over a pool with trees in the distance, the skies colours reflecting on the water.
Sunset over the fen.
#scape
#photography
I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
I'll settle for "no more deaths at the hands of agents". The word 'rogue' suggests that ICE is not proactively hiring white boys whose worldview is shaped by shoot-em-up video games. Right now, rogue is more or less the job description.
We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️
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THIS!!! Though I'm sad that it came from someone made redundant by WHO rather than those still in the building who might push for real reform. speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2026/01/26/t...
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
User @backintimeag: The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
Never thought I'd be secretly wishing I were Canadian. Mark Carney's speech definitely merits 17 minutes of your time. youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
I'd say the biggest issue with charity, aid or philanthropy is that structural inequalities continue to make them necessary.
Oddly, Hartarto doesn't mention how much of this "bilateral cooperation" is Indonesian companies investing in China.
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
