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Προπύλαια πριν λίγο

Το κτίριο της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών μετά από καταιγίδα.

October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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lkrory21

@lkrory21.bsky.social

Μια από τις ελάχιστες -και τελευταία μέχρι σήμερα- συνεντεύξεις του Burial, δόθηκε στον Dan Hancox το 2007 και είναι πλέον ολοκλήρη διαθέσιμη στο web

danhancox.substack.com/p/burials-la...

Burial's last interview

A little exclusive, because why not

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September 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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Καταπληκτικό διήγημα

Νίκος Σαραντάκος @nikosarantakos.bsky.social · Sep 28

Η τελευταία αρκούδα του Πίνδου (του Δημήτρη Χατζή)

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Η τελευταία αρκούδα του Πίνδου (του Δημήτρη Χατζή)

Ο τίτλος είναι κάπως παραπλανητικός, αφού υποβάλλει την ιδέα ότι πρόκειται για αυτοτελές έργο. Στην πραγματικότητα, θα δημοσιεύσω σήμερα ένα απόσπασμα από το μυθιστόρημα του Δημήτρη Χατζή «Το διπλό…

sarantakos.wordpress.com

September 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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The Violence Prerogative: all oppressive, criminal, and genocidal governments cloak their atrocities in the language of virtue (Noam Chomsky & Nathan J. Robinson) www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

September 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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NEWS 24/7

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“Με βασάνιζαν καθημερινά, σκότωναν μπροστά μου”

Οι άνθρωποι που τόσο το ευρωπαϊκό όσο και το ελληνικό δικαστήριο προστάτευσε από την πολιτική της ελληνικής κυβέρνησης για άμεση απέλαση, μιλούν στο Magazine.

www.news247.gr

August 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM

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EFSYN

@efsyntakton.bsky.social

Εργα Παλαιστίνιων καλλιτεχνών που ζουν και εργάζονται στην εμπόλεμη Λωρίδα της Γάζας θα φιλοξενήσει ο χώρος πολιτισμού «Λόφος art project» στην Κυψέλη.
www.efsyn.gr/nisides/4832...

«Ποια ομορφιά μπορεί να επιβιώσει στην πλήρη άρνηση της ανθρωπιάς;»

Εργα Παλαιστίνιων καλλιτεχνών που ζουν και εργάζονται στην εμπόλεμη Λωρίδα της Γάζας θα φιλοξενήσει, από τις 18 Σεπτεμβρίου ο χώρος πολιτισμού «Λόφος art project» στην Κυψέλη.

www.efsyn.gr

August 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM

Head Charge

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ESO: A very hungry planet

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A very hungry planet

www.eso.org

August 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Adam H Johnson

@ahjohnson.bsky.social

As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.

It’s Not Just 'Netanyahu': The Rise of Liberals’ One Bad Man Theory to Explain Away Gaza Genocide

Attempts to pin the horrors on “Netanyahu" obscure the reality of just how popular genocide is with US elites and within Israel itself.

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August 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM

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Michael Sappir

@m.sappir.net

In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples

Stickers Against Germany – the Diasporist

The antideutsch leftists papering cities in pro-Israel stickers

thediasporist.de

August 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism (Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic)

pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/s...

Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism (19 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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July 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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chris

@yrpalchris.bsky.social

linked herein is this extraordinary open letter from Eisenstein, printed in the New York Times in 1934, objecting to Goebbels attempting to hijack his aesthetics for Nazi propaganda

EISENSTEIN ΤΟ GOEBBELS
APPARENTLY tired of the frequent citing by Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, of "Potemkin" as a work to be imitated, if possible, by the co-ordinated German motion picture makers, Sergei M. Eisenstein, the director of the great Russian naval film, recently wrote an open letter to Dr. Goebbels. It is given as follows by the Pariser Tageblatt, an émigré German newspaper edited by Georg Bernhard in the French capital:
"I don't doubt that under the term 'Armored Cruiser' you include not only 'Potemkin' but also the whole triumphant development of our film art during the last few years. We all know that only real life, the truth about life and the realistic presentation of life can serve as the basis for genuine art,
"What a work of art a truthful film of the Germany of today could be! But truth and National Socialism cannot be reconciled. He who is for truth cannot line up with National Socialism. He who is for truth is against you!
"How do you dare, anyway, to talk about life any place? You, who are bringing death and banishment to everything living and everything good in your country with the executioner's ax and the machine gun! You, who are executing the best sons of the German proletariat and are scattering to the four corners of the earth all those constituting the pride of real German science and of the cultured people of the whole world!
"How do you dare to ask your film artists to give truthful рісtures of life without enjoining them, first of all, to trumpet forth to the world the torments of the thousands who are being tortured to death in the catacombs of your prisons and in the casements of your jails?
"Where do you find brazenness enough to talk about the truth at all after you have erected such a Babylonian tower of infamies and lies in Leipzig?"

July 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Ground Control to Major Tom

The "David Bowie" cat (with a yellow right eye and a blue left eye) is in the same place as last Easter (in a pedestrian street of a town in Northwest Greece).

July 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera

chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-gaza-r...

The Gaza Riviera

Israeli society cheers on the Gaza slaughterhouse and sees in genocide not a crime, but a utopian fantasy.

chrishedges.substack.com

July 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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madoc cairns

@madoc.bsky.social

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

July 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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EFSYN

@efsyntakton.bsky.social

Ανατρέχοντας στην περίοδο της χούντας, ο ΣΦΕΑ αποδομεί την κυβερνητική επιχειρηματολογία για την αναστολή των αιτήσεων ασύλου των μεταναστών.

Σκληρή αντίδραση ΣΦΕΑ στην (ν)τροπολία Πλεύρη: «Στα χνάρια της χούντας» η κυβέρνηση

Ανατρέχοντας στην περίοδο της χούντας, ο ΣΦΕΑ αποδομεί την κυβερνητική επιχειρηματολογία για την αναστολή των αιτήσεων ασύλου των μεταναστών.

www.efsyn.gr

July 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM

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Perry Bacon

@perrybaconjr.bsky.social

This is a great @ahjohnson.bsky.social piece, with important connections and insights in every paragraph.

inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

Zohran Mamdani and the Anatomy of a Bogus “Antisemitism” Scandal

The smears against Mamdani—based on cynical weaponization of identity politics—are straight out of a playbook used to defame any critics of Israel’s government.

inthesetimes.com

July 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Head Charge

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In 1924, the pro-child labor campaign was successful with a 74% opposition to the proposed regulations.

ballotpedia.org/Massachusett...

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · May 28

Incredible

On the ballot on Election Day, November 4, as Referendum No. 7, will appear the question as to whether the people of Massachusetts will advise their Legislature to ratify the so-called "Child Labor" Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
If this Amendment is ratified it will give to Congress, 500 miles away, the power-
1. To take away the sovereign rights of the states and destroy local self-government which is the strength of our democracy.
2. To take away from you the control of the education of your children and give it to a political bureau in Wash-ington.
3. To dictate when and how your children shall be allowed to work.
4. To subject your children and your home to the inspection of a federal agent.
The laws of Massachusetts in regard to children are wise and good.
If this amendment passes they can all be done away with.
Massachusetts is only one of forty-eight states. Her influence in Congress is not great and the laws in regard to your children will be dictated by those who live under different conditions and have different ideals.
Wise Child Labor Laws are necessary but the proposed amendment gives the power to Congress to take away the rights of parents and to bring about the nationalization of their children.
IF YOU GIVE THIS POWER TO CONGRESS YOU CAN NEVER
TAKE IT BACK.
The passage of this amendment would be a calamity to the Nation.
Don't be deceived. If you love your children look on the last page of your ballot and put a cross (X) opposite
NO on REFERENDUM 7.
CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO PROTECT OUR HOMES AND CHILDREN

May 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM

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Capybara

@chiguire79.bsky.social

Τζούντιθ Μπάτλερ: «Θέλουμε να ζήσουμε με ανοιχτή ή με κλειστή καρδιά;»
www.lifo.gr/culture/vivl...

«Θέλουμε να ζήσουμε με ανοιχτή ή με κλειστή καρδιά;» | LiFO

Μια κορυφαία προσωπικότητα της σύγχρονης παγκόσμιας διανόησης μιλά στη LiFO για τo «φάντασμα» της λεγόμενης ιδεολογίας του φύλου, για το όραμα μιας «ανοιχτόκαρδης κοινωνίας» και για τις εμπειρίες ζωής...

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May 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM

Head Charge

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Silent Heist: 70 years on, we’re still chasing Rififi (Brandon Streussnig) letterboxd.com/journal/rifi...

Silent Heist: 70 years on, we’re still chasing Rififi • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

To fête the 70th anniversary of Rififi, Brandon Streussnig investigates the deep impact of the influential 1955 French noir, from the safe-cracking in Thief to the wire heist in Mission: Impossible.

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May 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM

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Ελ Σαλβαδόρ: Ναγκίμπ Μπουκέλε, «ο πιο cool δικτάτορας του κόσμου» (Γιώργος Λιερός)
www.efsyn.gr/kosmos/latin...

Ελ Σαλβαδόρ: Ναγκίμπ Μπουκέλε, «ο πιο cool δικτάτορας του κόσμου»

Ανταποκρίσεις από την Λατινική Αμερική: Κανένας δεν περιέγραψε καλύτερα τον Μπουκέλε απ’ ότι ο ίδιος τον εαυτό του: ο πιο cool δικτάτορας του κόσμου.

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May 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM

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Bret Devereaux: Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c...

Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…

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May 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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Cory Doctorow reviews Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People', a tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z...

Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People’ (23 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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May 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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@dytistn.bsky.social

The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...