Duncan
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Stacking shelves in the marketplace of ideas. Also I make music.
http://brickbatsmusic.bandcamp.com
Stacking shelves in the marketplace of ideas. Also I make music.
http://brickbatsmusic.bandcamp.com
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Period: Nanboku-chō period (14th century).
Material: Made of bronze and wood with pigments.
Significance: The sculpture represents the fusion of Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that occurred in medieval Japan. The deer is considered a sacred messenger of the Kasuga Shrine deities in Nara, Japan.
Material: Made of bronze and wood with pigments.
Significance: The sculpture represents the fusion of Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that occurred in medieval Japan. The deer is considered a sacred messenger of the Kasuga Shrine deities in Nara, Japan.
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Period: Nanboku-chō period (14th century).
Material: Made of bronze and wood with pigments.
Significance: The sculpture represents the fusion of Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that occurred in medieval Japan. The deer is considered a sacred messenger of the Kasuga Shrine deities in Nara, Japan.
Material: Made of bronze and wood with pigments.
Significance: The sculpture represents the fusion of Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that occurred in medieval Japan. The deer is considered a sacred messenger of the Kasuga Shrine deities in Nara, Japan.
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
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hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
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original Channel 4 report of Farage's bigoted school days was over 12 years ago (Sept 2013). didn't land at all because the wider press didn't engage with it for even a day. British journalists submitted Jeremy Corbyn to an order of magnitude more scrutiny for saying he loved James Joyce's Ulysses
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
original Channel 4 report of Farage's bigoted school days was over 12 years ago (Sept 2013). didn't land at all because the wider press didn't engage with it for even a day. British journalists submitted Jeremy Corbyn to an order of magnitude more scrutiny for saying he loved James Joyce's Ulysses
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Wes Streeting accuses BMA of behaving like 'moaning minnies'
Wes Streeting accuses BMA of behaving like 'moaning minnies'
The health secretary has accused the British Medical Association of "juvenile delinquency" and behaving like "moaning minnies" after the union announced that resident doctors will go on strike in the run-up to Christmas.
news.sky.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million
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'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
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"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain
12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, says watchdog
12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, says watchdog
None of the former officers accused by the IOPC will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired
Twelve police officers would have faced disciplinary cases of gross misconduct for a catalogue of professional failings relating to the Hillsborough disaster if they were still serving, the police watchdog has said.
However, no former officer named by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired. Some, including Peter Wright, the chief constable of South Yorkshire police at the time of the 1989 disaster, have died. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain
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Compare with the original scene and not only can you see how they used an alternate or pre-FX version where they haven’t digitally removed the crew, you can also see how horrible the colours and the lighting looks in this new one.
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Compare with the original scene and not only can you see how they used an alternate or pre-FX version where they haven’t digitally removed the crew, you can also see how horrible the colours and the lighting looks in this new one.
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
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special forces shot at a mosquito net until there was no movement. He said: “When the net was uncovered it was women and children. The incident was covered up and the individual who did the shooting was given some form of award to make it look legitimate.”
Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raised
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
special forces shot at a mosquito net until there was no movement. He said: “When the net was uncovered it was women and children. The incident was covered up and the individual who did the shooting was given some form of award to make it look legitimate.”
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All I can say is, if you're a working person earning less than £71k who honesly believes benefit claimants are earning that much, quit your job. Go on. What could go wrong?
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
All I can say is, if you're a working person earning less than £71k who honesly believes benefit claimants are earning that much, quit your job. Go on. What could go wrong?
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
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You've got to be kidding me
Interesting assertion from Bari Weiss’s The Free Press. I’m sure they apply it consistently around the world, right?
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You've got to be kidding me
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The perception of dominance is the appeal. That’s literally the only thing that “Western Civilization” offers people like this and that’s what they mean. Own people, own property. It’s the “birthright” to hurt their lessers that they champion. That’s pretty much it.
It is odd to me that, like, you'd think it'd be parody if you said: to be clear, they only like the bad bits of Western Civilisation -- but that turns out to be true. They like the rapacious imperial murder, but not the art or intellectual achievements or civil liberties, etc.
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The perception of dominance is the appeal. That’s literally the only thing that “Western Civilization” offers people like this and that’s what they mean. Own people, own property. It’s the “birthright” to hurt their lessers that they champion. That’s pretty much it.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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She's the best to ever do it.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
She's the best to ever do it.
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Britain: a lot of history that citizens can get in trouble for describing in critical terms, and not much of a future.
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Britain: a lot of history that citizens can get in trouble for describing in critical terms, and not much of a future.
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Portrait de Mme. K. https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227966
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Portrait de Mme. K. https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227966
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.