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is it Giro Day?
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South Yorkshire, global.
'Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?' - Chico Marx 1933
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museum.of.emilyk.art
The election of Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor has exposed a gulf between the younger and older generations of American Jews. I made this zine to explore a significant part of that divide.

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A smartphone shows a social media post of people waving Palestinian flags. At the center it says "(Anti)Zionism, Social Justice, and Jewish Gen Z by Emily K." ANTI-ZIONISM AND SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HAVE GROWN AMONG LEFTIST AND LEFTY JEWS, ESPECIALLY AMONG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 30. AND YET, JEWISH KIDS WERE AND STILL ARE GIVEN A JEWISH EDUCATION THAT IS BROADLY "PRO-ISRAEL." image: Jewish people at a protest carrying signs that say “Free Palestine” and “Boycott Divest Sanction.” I THINK THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS AT PLAY, AND NO, I DON'T THINK TIKTOK IS TO BLAME. MILLENNIALS AND ZOOMERS GREW UP IN A SYNAGOGUE CULTURE THAT HAS, IN MY EXPERIENCE, DONE A SUBPAR JOB TEACHING JEWISH HISTORY. MY OWN JEWISH EDUCATION SKEWED HEAVILY TOWARD ASHKENAZI/EASTERN EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES, MADE STORIES OF OPPRESSION AND THE HOLOCAUST A CENTRAL POINT OF OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND GLOSSED OVER THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Image: an online chat between two friends. Amir_S: Just heard from my Dad. My cousin was killed in the Gaza strikes.. Hannah: Oh my god.. I'm so so sorry Amir_S: My uncle is stranded in the West Bank because his work permit was revoked. He can't get to the funeral, if they can even have one THIS KIND OF EDUCATION LEAVES A VOID OF KNOWLEDGE TO BE FILLED, OFTEN BY FREE-FLOWING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. AND WHILE I DON'T THINK SOCIAL MEDIA ITSELF IS A CAUSE OF THE SHIFT IN YOUNG JEWISH ATTITUDES, THE FACT THAT WE ARE MUCH MORE ONLINE THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS HAS DOUBTLESSLY AFFECTED OUR VIEWS. FOR ONE THING, IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO TALK DIRECTLY TO PALESTINIANS. GEN Z HAS NEVER KNOWN AN "UNDERDOG ISRAEL.” MILLENNIALS AND GEN Z WERE BORN INTO A WORLD WHERE NOT ONLY DOES ISRAEL EXIST, IT'S A MIGHTY NATION WITH ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED MILITARIES IN THE WORLD. IT HAS THE UNSHAKING BACKING OF THE UNITED STATES FINANCIALLY AND POLITICALLY, AND HAS RECEIVED LITTLE - IF ANY - PUSHBACK FOR THEIR ACTIONS. BOOMERS REMEMBER THE SIX DAY WAR AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, TWO CONFLICTS THAT WERE A REAL THREAT TO ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE. MILLENNIALS REMEMBER THE 2ND INTIFADA, IN WHICH HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS WERE MURDERED BY TERRORISTS. MANY OF US REMEMBER PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN'S ASSASSINATION. BUT GEN Z ONLY KNOWS AN ISRAEL WITH AN ENTRENCHED RIGHT WING GOVERNMENT MORE INTERESTED IN UPHOLDING AN UNJUST STATUS QUO THAN ACHIEVING TRUE PEACE. GAZA HAS BEEN UNDER BLOCKADE SINCE 2006. THE OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK STARTED DECADES BEFORE THAT. THEY'VE ONLY KNOWN AN ISRAEL AT ODDS WITH THEIR BASIC MORALS. Image: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Ayalet Shaked with right wing coalition logos surrounding them. Above them is the word "HaLikud." BACKLASH TO THE STATUS QUO OF JEWISH EDUCATION. I REMEMBER FEELING EXHAUSTED BY HOW THE HOLOCAUST WAS MADE A CENTRAL PART OF MY JEWISH EDUCATION. WHEN JEWISH JOY WAS INCLUDED, IT WAS USUALLY FRAMED AROUND SURVIVAL - MOST OFTEN FROM AN ASHKENAZI PERSPECTIVE. WHERE WAS THE JEWISH JOY THAT CAME FROM WITHIN? WHERE WAS THE BRILLIANT, OFTEN HUMOROUS, TALMUDIC EPHEMERA THAT MADE US SO UNIQUE AS PEOPLE OF SCRIPTURE? WHERE WAS THE MYSTICISM SO CAREFULLY GUARDED BY OUR ANCESTORS? IF ALL WE KNOW IS OPPRESSION, THEN THE SAFEGUARD OF ISRAEL MUST BE DEFENDED AT ALL COSTS. JEWISH YOUTH ARE TAUGHT TO SUPPORT ZIONISM NOT AS A COMPLEX POLITICAL MOVEMENT, BUT AS PART OF THE EXISTENTIAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WIDER WORLD'S ANTISEMITISM. SO WHEN THEY LEARN FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE NAKBA, AND THE HARSH REALITIES OF LIVING UNDER OCCUPATION, ZIONISM MORPHS FROM A MOVEMENT FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO AN OPPRESSIVE, RIGHT WING IDEOLOGY THAT WAS ALWAYS INVESTED IN ETHNIC DISPLACEMENT. Images: Nazis torment religious Jews in the shtetl by mocking them and cutting their beards.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
cutoid242.bsky.social
Against all the odds, a heartening and inspiring victory for #Mamdani in New York and around the world

Cuomo, Democrats, Labour Party in this country, won't stand up to racism, fascism and poverty. It's up to socialists and Mamdani shows it can be done.

Sensational speech here youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
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November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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moorsandedges.bsky.social
Up Mickleden Beck to reach Cut Gate with views over Howden and Bleaklow moors
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.
"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? . We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called the economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been, projects of mutual creation." . - David Graeber
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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moorsandedges.bsky.social
The path down Abbey Brook #PeakDistrict
September 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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mostlyrambling.bsky.social
A photo you took that brings you inner peace.

#PeakDistrict
View across moorland in the foreground to a ridge of connected hills. Beyond that is another large hill with a rocky summit and behind that across the horizon stretches an escarpment with outcrops of rock. Blue sky and light cloud above.
August 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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pepsffk.bsky.social
Need the BBC's passive voice on this:

A bullet has entered the neck of Charlie Kirk.
September 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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darrencullen.bsky.social
This made my day today.

Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - royalnavy.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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symaag.bsky.social
52 years after #Chile coup.
This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest.
✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield
September 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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gillhughes.bsky.social
And a glorious journey home through #Winnarts #Pass in the evening sun. #PeakDistrict #Castleton
August 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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lowerresolution.bsky.social
View from Bamford Edge to Ashopton Viaduct on the Snake Pass crossing Ladybower Reservoir on the edge of Sheffield, August 2025 #fujifilm #photography #landscape #peakdistrict
Colour image of Ashopton Viaduct on the Snake Pass crossing Ladybower Reservoir on the edge of Sheffield taken in August 2025. The viaduct is named after the drowned village of Ashopton which stood near the site of the bridge. The picture was taken from Bamford edge and shows the currently low level of water in the reservoir run by Severn Trent serving Nottingham, Derby and Leicester Camera : Fujifilm X-T5 Lens : 75mm f1.8 Samyang Aperture/speed/ISO : f3.5 1/1300s ISO125 Simulation : Classic Chrome
August 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
You can also add money to his commissary doc.dc.gov/service/auto...
Elias Rodriguez
August 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
If you haven't read his manifesto, you should www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel...
The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto
900-word document cites Gaza as motive
www.kenklippenstein.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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samanthaellis.bsky.social
Today! (And afterwards on BBC Sounds). I had the best time talking to the very erudite & joy-giving @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social.
August 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social

presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
cutoid242.bsky.social
Stunning from #VonSudenfed
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Von Sudenfeld : RHINOHEAD (Si Begg Psycho Dancehall Remix 2007)
For your listening pleasure... The remixes Domino didn't want to release of this wonderful project by Mouse On Mars and Mark E Smith. Recorded in 2007.
soundcloud.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Someone tell me, what is the point of being a Labour MP?

What is it for?
roterote.bsky.social roterote @roterote.bsky.social · Aug 21
Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South, urged Sir Keir Starmer to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

archive.ph/u6Snj
First Labour MP calls for withdrawal from ECHR
August 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
He called for us to abandon the Refugee Convention too.

Why not?

The post-war period & the laws we put in place to prevent it ever happening again are over, my friends.

We're onto a new pre-war period right now. And our only choice is whether we, or the powerful, burn.
August 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...
August 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Annoying ICE is my new favorite morning commute activity ✊
August 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
cutoid242.bsky.social
Disability rights activists in Hillsborough #Sheffield are running free training sessions for anyone who wants to become a Personal Independence Payment advocate.

Support and mutual aid in the face of state cruelty.
Info/sign-up🔽
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#PIP #DisabilityRights
August 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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gregk.co.uk
An excerpt from Omar El Akkad on the grotesque ideological poverty of contemporary liberalism:
Once again, the party's supporters react to these demonstrations by chanting "Four more years, four more years," which by now can no longer be described as simply ghoulish. There is instead a kind of mechanical fear laced in it, a sense among these people, as there has been a sense among all people at all times on whom the judgment of future historians has started to dawn, that they have stepped too far into complicity with something evil. Look up photographs of what we now consider this country's—any country's— most morally diseased moments. The dogs being let loose on men and women asking for basic dignity, the marching of undesirables through the streets, the wrath, the bloodlust. Ignore, for a moment, the people engaged most directly in the violence. Look instead at the faces of those who watch from the sidelines. Often, what you'll find is not an expression of proud support or the shock and horror all these people will claim to have felt much later, after the verdict is in. Rather, you'll see a childish little smirk. It's the smirk of someone who has come to realize the ugliness of the enterprise they have passively aligned with but cannot muster the courage to abandon now. The soul, what's left of it, buckles under the weight of contradiction, and all one can do is hide behind that pained little smirk, the half-stance of the spineless, the chanting, with not quite enough conviction, of four more years, four more years, as the bodies pile up outside one's door. It's difficult to live in this country in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be. From this outcome, everything is reverse-engineered. Being seen as someone who believes in justice-not the messy, fraught work of achieving it—is the starting point of any conversation on justice. Saying the right slogans supersedes whatever it is those slogans are … Beyond the stream of distractions, there is a much more existential vulnerability. Whatever derangement currently occupies conservative American politics is, at least, something of very real consequence: the minority groups they want to legislate out of every facet of society, the books they want to ban, the mechanisms of democracy they want to subvert—none of it is hypothetical. But if inoffensive centrism is seen to be concerned with these things only in as far as it reflects on the centrist's self-image, if the Hillary Clintons of the world can muster great outrage at the fortunes of the Barbie movie at the Oscars but nothing at population-wide military murder sprees, then every Republican will always be able to say, truthfully: At least there's no contradiction between what I am, what I claim concerns me, and what I plan to do. This is the crux of it, the unavoidable reckoning. Every morning countless well-paid, well-educated foot soldiers in the employ of the Democratic Party wake up and decide on the day's talking points. Every morning a small army of spokespeople step to the lecterns and deliver statements about how much the president cares for innocent lives, or the immense effort the United States makes to minimize unnecessary suffering, or whatever it is that needs to be said that day so as to launder the evil done between the last press conference and this one. A growing number of people ask a different question; the world asks a different question. The world, full of people who factor not one iota in the calculus of those morning meetings, looks upon this and asks, simply: Beyond self-interest, what do you believe in? And every morning the answer, dressed up in anesthetic euphemism and dependent on our collective capacity for resignation to the lesser of two evils, is: Nothing. It's a kind of thinking predicated on the implicit belief that, for certain people, the only choice is between negations of varying severity. The system does not work for you, was never intended to work for you, but as an act of magnanimity on our part, you may choose the degree to which it works against you. While any liberal politician who succumbs to the lure of this framing may benefit in the short term, there is an inevitable and deeply unpleasant terminus waiting. Eventually, the calculus becomes, on pragmatic terms, clear. How much worse can some hypothetical oppression be compared to the current, very real one, which has the additional indignity of being propped up politically and financially by the same Free World whose leaders simultaneously give impassioned speeches about their support for democracy? If both outcomes entail injury, why should anyone opt for the one that adds insult too? For some, even a hint of self-interest already produces these kinds of results— consider the gaggle of world-famous sports stars who've happily sided with murderous regimes such as that of Saudi Arabia, helping whitewash the government's image in exchange for not much more than money. For others, the bar is much, much higher. But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this. Countless otherwise pragmatic people who would in any other circumstance choose liberalism by default will instead decide none of this is worth the damage to one's soul. They will instead support no one, vote for no one, wash their hands of any ordering of the world that results in choices no better than this. And the obvious _centrist refrain—But do you want the deranged right wing to win?—should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.
August 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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youngbill.bsky.social
On this, the anniversary week of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, you'd be hard pushed from the aerial footage to tell the difference between there and current day Gaza.
August 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
cutoid242.bsky.social
Fascists kill genocide witness
#AnasAlSharif #StopGenocide #FreePalestine
August 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem
Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩
BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif
Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.
zeteo.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM