Did you know the UK didn’t do any checks on EU meat imports at its border control posts for three years after Brexit?

#bandcampfriday is here, or so I hear:

jakubdolezal.bandcamp.com/album/happy-...

You might give it a try…

Azerské nemovitosti zůstávají ve Velké Británii skryty navzdory novému zákonu. V Česku vlastní majetek ázerbájdžánský úředník ministerstva daní nebo bratr šéfa ochranky prezidenta Alijeva 👉 www.investigace.cz/azerske-nemo...

"Is what we are witnessing a step in the direction of something familiar to us from the 20th century, namely full-blown fascism and totalitarianism? Or is this comparison itself a dangerous distraction?"

#zesvěta: Maďarsko ochránilo oligarchy před sankcemi 👉 www.investigace.cz/zesveta-mada...

🧵 2024 was a year of history repeating re reactions to technological change...

1.) US Surgeon General warned about kids and screens, just like in 1982 newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-the-s...

Jorge Luis Borges was deeply inspired by the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose prints of imaginary prisons and palaces captured the Argentinian author's imagination.

Listening while cooking:
Pink Floyd: One Slip
- 80’s commercial pop at it’s best. The drum part is weird, the first instrumental bridge definitely sounds like King Crimson for ten seconds (Tony Levin is indeed present here). Plus no guitar solo on Pink Floyd track - youtu.be/58qCZbxSvQk?...

This is the new reality of democracy. Election denialism isn’t going away nor is voter suppression. Litigation is a feature, not an exception of modern elections. If we are to be successful at winning elections and preserving democracy, that is the lesson we must learn and carry forward.

…rozhovor s Janem Andrem zde:

jazz.rozhlas.cz/v-new-yorku-...

The problem with Gladiator II is not the sharks in the Colosseum, it's the fact that they were such crap sharks. Plus the terrible politics. And everything else.

thesphinxblog.com/2024/12/07/l...