@singemonkey.bsky.social
I love to torture myself seeking fine-grained understanding of events over which I have no control.
I've been working on this '96 Japanese-made sunburst Jazzmaster since I got it in 2017, I think. It came with '60s reissue pickups and a USA trem. I've replaced the tune-o-matic with a JM bridge, put on the mint guard, gotoh vintage tuners, red and blue MXR knobs. Got a vintage white strap. #guitar
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I've been working on this '96 Japanese-made sunburst Jazzmaster since I got it in 2017, I think. It came with '60s reissue pickups and a USA trem. I've replaced the tune-o-matic with a JM bridge, put on the mint guard, gotoh vintage tuners, red and blue MXR knobs. Got a vintage white strap. #guitar
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🚨 NEW | Greens lead with young people (18-25)
🟢 GRN – 32% (+16)
🔴 LAB – 25% (-18)
➡️ REF – 20% (+7)
🔵 CON – 11% (-1)
🟠 LD – 9% (-3)
This is a proper weighted poll, not a subsample.
Via @Savanta_UK, 4-7 Nov (+/- vs Mar)
🟢 GRN – 32% (+16)
🔴 LAB – 25% (-18)
➡️ REF – 20% (+7)
🔵 CON – 11% (-1)
🟠 LD – 9% (-3)
This is a proper weighted poll, not a subsample.
Via @Savanta_UK, 4-7 Nov (+/- vs Mar)
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🚨 NEW | Greens lead with young people (18-25)
🟢 GRN – 32% (+16)
🔴 LAB – 25% (-18)
➡️ REF – 20% (+7)
🔵 CON – 11% (-1)
🟠 LD – 9% (-3)
This is a proper weighted poll, not a subsample.
Via @Savanta_UK, 4-7 Nov (+/- vs Mar)
🟢 GRN – 32% (+16)
🔴 LAB – 25% (-18)
➡️ REF – 20% (+7)
🔵 CON – 11% (-1)
🟠 LD – 9% (-3)
This is a proper weighted poll, not a subsample.
Via @Savanta_UK, 4-7 Nov (+/- vs Mar)
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That secret trick that's helping China beat the West: Believe in and fund science.
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
That secret trick that's helping China beat the West: Believe in and fund science.
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Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman (1957)
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman (1957)
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You see a photograph of Frida Kahlo laughing and realise you've reached the end of the internet
August 30, 2023 at 10:12 AM
You see a photograph of Frida Kahlo laughing and realise you've reached the end of the internet
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huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
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Note "The" is not kerned correctly
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November 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before
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New from @EmpirePodUK
Our Writers on Empire series continues with:
JOSEPH CONRAD:
From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
With Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University & author of The Dawn Watch
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
Our Writers on Empire series continues with:
JOSEPH CONRAD:
From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
With Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University & author of The Dawn Watch
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
New from @EmpirePodUK
Our Writers on Empire series continues with:
JOSEPH CONRAD:
From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
With Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University & author of The Dawn Watch
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
Our Writers on Empire series continues with:
JOSEPH CONRAD:
From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
With Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University & author of The Dawn Watch
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
This also outlines how the weaponisation of Islamophobia by Western elites is conditional. Mamdani, a social liberal and left-of-centre economically, is accused of planning sharia in NYC while, ex Al Qaeda, al-Sharaa and butcher MBS, actual proponents of sharia, are treated as moderates.
One is a former al-Qaeda leader, the other a US mayor. Guess which was invited to the White House
Trump’s world order: praising Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as an ‘attractive guy’, while disparaging the first Muslim mayor of New York as a ‘lunatic communist’.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This also outlines how the weaponisation of Islamophobia by Western elites is conditional. Mamdani, a social liberal and left-of-centre economically, is accused of planning sharia in NYC while, ex Al Qaeda, al-Sharaa and butcher MBS, actual proponents of sharia, are treated as moderates.
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From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
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Omg rollatini, involtini… basically, more stuff to do with eggplant.
Love it.
Love it.
August 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Omg rollatini, involtini… basically, more stuff to do with eggplant.
Love it.
Love it.
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🔴 “The Genocide Hasn’t Stopped”
Sharif Abdel Kouddous opened the Drop Site Livestream with a quick recap of the latest developments from the region. “The genocide in Gaza is continuing,” Sharif notes. “It has slowed with the so-called ceasefire, but it has not stopped” — airstrikes, shelling...
Sharif Abdel Kouddous opened the Drop Site Livestream with a quick recap of the latest developments from the region. “The genocide in Gaza is continuing,” Sharif notes. “It has slowed with the so-called ceasefire, but it has not stopped” — airstrikes, shelling...
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🔴 “The Genocide Hasn’t Stopped”
Sharif Abdel Kouddous opened the Drop Site Livestream with a quick recap of the latest developments from the region. “The genocide in Gaza is continuing,” Sharif notes. “It has slowed with the so-called ceasefire, but it has not stopped” — airstrikes, shelling...
Sharif Abdel Kouddous opened the Drop Site Livestream with a quick recap of the latest developments from the region. “The genocide in Gaza is continuing,” Sharif notes. “It has slowed with the so-called ceasefire, but it has not stopped” — airstrikes, shelling...
The rapid build out of clean energy will be far cheaper for South Africa in the long-term. But it requires electricity to be considered a national resource like water - with changes to law to coordinate a fractured system of regulation and provision.
Chris Yelland | Green industrialisation is SA’s cheapest path to net zero | News24
The conclusion of a new landmark study shows that economic efficiency and climate ambition are not in conflict but mutually reinforcing, writes Chris Yelland.
www.news24.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The rapid build out of clean energy will be far cheaper for South Africa in the long-term. But it requires electricity to be considered a national resource like water - with changes to law to coordinate a fractured system of regulation and provision.
In a rewards-for-performance scheme, could this turn Johannesburg’s water supply crisis around? #southafrica
New R16bn World Bank loan aimed at reviving SA cities | News24
The World Bank approved a $925 million loan for South Africa to support a six-year programme costing three times that amount, as the country seeks to revive its major cities.
www.news24.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
In a rewards-for-performance scheme, could this turn Johannesburg’s water supply crisis around? #southafrica
Sasha Stevenson is representing the Treatment Action Campaign in challenging aspects of the NHI bill and is interviewed here. It’s useful to see the concerns about the bill that *aren’t* motivated by maintaining privilege or profits but seeking to make it more fair. #southafrica #healthcare
Is the NHI channelling Operation Dudula’s healthcare blockades? | News24
This week, the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ruled that blocking foreigners from healthcare is unconstitutional. So why does the National Health Insurance Act say that’s what we should do when it...
www.news24.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Sasha Stevenson is representing the Treatment Action Campaign in challenging aspects of the NHI bill and is interviewed here. It’s useful to see the concerns about the bill that *aren’t* motivated by maintaining privilege or profits but seeking to make it more fair. #southafrica #healthcare
I did not expect to be enthralled by @sskorkowsky.bsky.social - best known for scenario reviews and ttrpg philosophy - giving the best researched breakdown of the dnd moral panic I’ve ever heard. Rollercoaster with many puzzle pieces new to me.
The 3 Waves of the RPG Moral Panic - RPG History
YouTube video by Seth Skorkowsky
m.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I did not expect to be enthralled by @sskorkowsky.bsky.social - best known for scenario reviews and ttrpg philosophy - giving the best researched breakdown of the dnd moral panic I’ve ever heard. Rollercoaster with many puzzle pieces new to me.
@empirepoduk.bsky.social Listening to the final Orwell episode now. As a South African who's worked in the field of TB (not clinically), I'll just join the chorus, I'd presume, of people saying that TB is still one of the biggest killers on Earth - although I presume William was talking about the UK
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
@empirepoduk.bsky.social Listening to the final Orwell episode now. As a South African who's worked in the field of TB (not clinically), I'll just join the chorus, I'd presume, of people saying that TB is still one of the biggest killers on Earth - although I presume William was talking about the UK
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Yes, the Democratic Party (DNC &/or "mainstream Democrats") is as invested in white male supremacist patriarchy as the GOP.
Their goal is attaining & retaining power, just like the GOP, & there are NO principles they won't betray to achieve that.
Their goal is attaining & retaining power, just like the GOP, & there are NO principles they won't betray to achieve that.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Yes, the Democratic Party (DNC &/or "mainstream Democrats") is as invested in white male supremacist patriarchy as the GOP.
Their goal is attaining & retaining power, just like the GOP, & there are NO principles they won't betray to achieve that.
Their goal is attaining & retaining power, just like the GOP, & there are NO principles they won't betray to achieve that.
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Saying Fuck You to any politician should not be proscribed by a professional body. Saying Fuck You to someone like Netanyhu should be praised.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Saying Fuck You to any politician should not be proscribed by a professional body. Saying Fuck You to someone like Netanyhu should be praised.
I’m an outsider, so maybe I’m wrong. But my impression is that Americans don’t emphasise enough that most Democratic politicians are in the investor class that benefits from Republican policies. To me it’s more than just pleasing campaign donors. They benefit from their voters’ impoverishment.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I’m an outsider, so maybe I’m wrong. But my impression is that Americans don’t emphasise enough that most Democratic politicians are in the investor class that benefits from Republican policies. To me it’s more than just pleasing campaign donors. They benefit from their voters’ impoverishment.
Or on how the organisation that refused to censure Wouter Basson - a doctor who sought to use his training in torture and the pursuit of genocide of black South Africans - sanctioned Dr Mofokeng for saying Fuck Netanyahu; a sentiment that no compassionate person should find unusual.
On language, power and the Tlaleng Mofokeng misjudgment by the Health Professions Council of SA www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...
Tlaleng Mofokeng: Language and misjudgment
The council’s censure of Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng for her social media posts about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu and propagandist Hillel Neuer is out of step with contemporary understandings of...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Or on how the organisation that refused to censure Wouter Basson - a doctor who sought to use his training in torture and the pursuit of genocide of black South Africans - sanctioned Dr Mofokeng for saying Fuck Netanyahu; a sentiment that no compassionate person should find unusual.
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Stop engaging with obvious trolls. Block and move on. They are nasty farts and the block button is the wind. Be healthier.
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Stop engaging with obvious trolls. Block and move on. They are nasty farts and the block button is the wind. Be healthier.
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a huge amount of labour mps are landlords.
The Labour Party - and Steve Reed - is completely out of touch with reality.
Landlords don't build homes; they drive up prices and suck away our wages. Housing should be a right, not a commodity.
Abolish landlords.
House everyone.
Landlords don't build homes; they drive up prices and suck away our wages. Housing should be a right, not a commodity.
Abolish landlords.
House everyone.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
a huge amount of labour mps are landlords.