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Jonathan Emmesedi
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Intermittent humanities education worker. Brit resident in USA.

Profile picture: Boy standing thigh deep in the ocean, holding a trident in his left hand. Image […]

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at fabryczna station, łódź, dec 2025

#monochrome #blackandwhite #photography
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Charles I in Three Positions -- Anthony van Dyck -- Oil on canvas - 1635/6 -- The King's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Scotland.

Neither monster nor martyr, but a flawed character doomed in his attempt to rule three divergent and strife filled kingdoms and […]

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December 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Who needs "Live, laugh, love" when you can have Liv, May, Zena, Woni, and Minami live?

RESCENE -- Bloom -- It's Live
https://youtu.be/tf84FgQgi80?si=3S-h8Vp3d9edamn0

#kpop #rescene #bloom #ITSlive #girlgroups
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Anderson & Gustafson kläder, affärsexteriör, skyltfönster. Sydvästra hörnet Storgatan - Fredsgatan.

Örebro läns museum -- OLM-91-102-2340 -- Public domain

#sweden #Örebro #photography #knutborg
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
https://youtu.be/u47akvsMT_8?si=tgA74uVPswhcxA9o

Depressing but worth watching nevertheless. I'm not sure about the best way forward.

#useducation #education #nationalasessmentofeducationalprogress #naep
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Pre-1947 Fashions, Slacks August 1946.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)

Title: Toni Frissell Photograph Collection
Date: August 1946
Keywords: American photographer, portrait photography, Junior Bazaar

The Toni Frissell […]

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December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
RESCENE

I don't usually pay that much attention to album sales figures, but I'm happy to see that "Lip Bomb" is doing well.

RESCENE are one of my favourite groups, so I want them to be successful and enjoy long and happy careers as idols.

T to R: Liv, May, Zena, Woni […]

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December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
https://aeon.co/essays/way-down-south-slavery-far-beyond-the-united-states

>>Nowhere in the Americas was slavery a mild institution, and throughout the western hemisphere slavery was foundational to European conquest and settlement. But nor have slavery and race in the Americas been the same […]
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c.im
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k520v4xro

A bad deal for the UK, as drug prices will be forced up.

Pharmaceutical companies hate the bargaining power that the NHS enjoys because of its centralized purchasing system and will be delighted to see the UK government buckle under the US attack […]
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c.im
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
https://www.compassonline.org.uk/compass-statement-on-labours-asylum-policy/

Although this statement is on the right track overall, one important consideration is missing.

Migration is good in itself. Just as it's good that people can move about within the UK, so it's good that people can take […]
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c.im
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#kpopmonday #sandglass

A GFriend classic - the title in Korea translates as "Running through time":

GFriend -- Rough
https://youtu.be/r_6q_-d-7Sk?si=OkJFJXGlMVkXi9sl

>> I wasn't able to tell you but I liked you
Like a dream from the younger days, like a miracle
If I could run through time and […]
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c.im
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.

Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once […]

[Original post on c.im]
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
#kpopmonday #sandglass

Thank you for organizing this @Erzbet !

One of my favourite OMG B sides:

Oh My Girl -- Love O'Clock
https://youtu.be/-sooewVtjJU?si=iBVNoPvqoW4Xzvvv

@nikunashi Who would have thought that OMG would come up more than once for this theme?

#kpop #ohmygirl #loveoclock […]
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c.im
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Everything you need to know about what happened at Your Party’s founding conference
It wasn't a chilled affair... TweetShareWhatsAppMail **It’s unlikely that many people were expecting the founding conference of Your Party to be a chilled affair. But if they were, they’d have been bitterly disappointed, as _Left Foot Forward_ learnt reporting on the ground and from the conference hall. It was at times a somewhat chaotic with public spats, open divisions and controversies rife throughout.** It did end on a firmly uninteresting note though, as Jeremy Corbyn announced that members had voted for the party’s name to remain ‘Your Party’. But that was a rare moment of stability at a conference that appeared for much of its duration anything but stable. Because it started very dramatically. Late on Friday – the day before the conference formally opened – it came to light that leading members of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) had been expelled from Your Party for being members of more than one party. This became a key backdrop for Zarah Sultana’s rally held on the same evening, where members gathered to call for more democracy in the party going forward. At that rally, allegations were thrown around against ‘faceless, nameless bureaucrats’ within Your Party and claims that a ‘witch-hunt’ was being coordinated. One attendee even accused Jeremy Corbyn himself of carrying out that ‘witch-hunt’, something he was forced to deny as ‘absurd’ the following morning at a press huddle immediately before he delivered his opening speech to the conference. In that speech, Corbyn made a strong plea for unity within the party at the conference, imploring members to “listen to each other, learn from each other, and be respectful to each other”. That plea didn’t seem to be heeded by Sultana, who arrived at the conference venue to tell journalists that there was a ‘toxic culture’ within the party. After she’d spoken to a huddle of the media, she then promptly turned around and walked up the hill away from the venue. It later became clear that she was boycotting the event and refusing to enter the venue as a result of the ‘witch-hunt’. She maintained that boycott for the remainder of the first day of the conference. Meanwhile, while all this was playing out outside of the main conference hall, members were inside thrashing out the founding documents of the new political party. A series of votes were held over the weekend on key elements of the party’s structures, as well as its ‘political statement’ – a broad document which establishes the party’s ideological grounding. In an extremely narrow vote, members backed a ‘collective leadership’ model, where there will be no single party leader and instead a central executive committee (CEC) will be elected and appoint people to be public facing spokespeople. Alongside this, members endorsed structures which will see local branches have autonomy over their spending and to allow Your Party members to hold ‘dual membership’ with other like minded political parties, a list of which will be determined by the CEC. For those still keeping up, these constitutional arrangements and democratic structures were all advocated for by Sultana. Speaking of Sultana, once she had broken her boycott of the founding conference of the party she was founding, she delivered her keynote address to members on Sunday afternoon. Despite having won all the major votes at the conference, she didn’t strike a conciliatory tone. Instead, she used her address to once again hit out at those ‘nameless, faceless bureaucrats and argued that the expulsion of members was “undemocratic” and an “attack on members and this movement”. What do the other MPs involved in setting up Your Party make of all this? There are two of them left (Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed both quit in the run up to the conference), and _Left Foot Forward_ interviewed both of them this weekend. Shockat Adam – who unseated Jon Ashworth in the 2024 general election – said that he doesn’t ‘believe in expulsions’ in the aftermath of SWP members being given the boot. He also told _Left Foot Forward_ that he thought that the disagreements they are having now internally within Your Party “will make us stronger”, adding “I think we can get out differences out the way now, and that will make us a lot stronger for the future.” Meanwhile, Ayoub Khan – the fourth and final Your Party MP – told _Left Foot Forward_ that Your Party ‘is the vehicle that can deliver real change and hope’. He also said he wanted to see electoral collaboration between Your Party and the Greens. What does this all mean for Your Party going forward? The left wing journalist Owen Jones was reporting from the conference, and _Left Foot Forward_ asked him about just this. He wasn’t particularly optimistic, comparing Your Party’s founding to the infamous and disastrous Fyre Festival and branding it a ‘clusterf*ck’. Well, in the coming months we’ll see whether labels like that stick, and whether the party can – as Corbyn asked it to – unite. Your Party has indicated that elections to the new Central Executive Committee, which will in the future act as its leadership, will conclude by the end of February. That will be another key moment that will determine the fledgling party’s future. Watch this space I guess… **_Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward_** _Left Foot Forward doesn't have the backing of big business or billionaires. We rely on the kind and generous support of ordinary people like you. You can support hard-hitting journalism that holds the right to account, provides a forum for debate among progressives, and covers the stories the rest of the media ignore. Donate today. _ Donate today ### Related posts: 1. Zarah Sultana is now boycotting her own party’s conference 2. These are the four different things Your Party could be called after the founding conference this weekend 3. Everything you need to know about Your Party’s founding conference 4. Zarah Sultana hits out at ‘nameless, faceless’ Your Party ‘bureaucrats’ in conference speech Comments are closed.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Every Sunday I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen RESCENE -- Bloom -- On the Spot.

On the day of the Bloom MV release, I noted how it was "my Kpop cup of tea".

I'm posting this performance […]
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c.im
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Muse" is such a good song!

ME:I -- Muse -- ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL 2025
https://youtu.be/3hpjZ-nKVDg?si=qxYqEClQ4r_XnOq4

#jpop #mei #muse #jpopfringenibbling
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
@toblaveistobluff

Hello,

I've just finished listening to your podcast about your discovery of Kpop.

As an older male Kpop fan whose first degree was in philosophy and who loved the Loona project while Jaden Jeong was at the helm, I very much enjoyed hearing what you had to say.

I see you've […]
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c.im
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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WASH POST: “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed Hegseth’s order to leave no survivors.”

Lawless. Murder.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Léon BONNAT

Bayonne 1833 - 1922 Monchy-Saint-Éloi

Portrait of Loulia Cahen d’Anvers, née Rosalie Louise Loulia Warschawsky -- 1891 -- Oil on Canvas

This portrait hangs in the newly reopened Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne , France.

I'd love to go there […]

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November 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For […]
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c.im
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-news/aristocrat-searching-wife-good-breeder-1525428

Of course this horrible old man is not typical of England today, yet the fact of Britain having spawned him pains this Brit.

#britishculture #reaction
Aristocrat, 79, offers $65,000 for wife to run 2 castles and be a 'good breeder'
Sir Benjamin Slade, 79, is on the hunt for a new wife who must be a good ballroom dancer, able to fire a shotgun and be at least 20 years younger than him
www.themirror.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
https://miesbcn.com/the-pavilion/

Yours to contemplate if the festive decor and general hobbylobbyosity of the USA at this time of year is getting to you.

#modernism #barcelonapavilion #MiesvanderRohe #lillyreich #architecture #design #interiordesign
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/ten-kinds-of-happiness

What took the edge off my happiness in exploring this delightful page was my noticing it was "presented by JOYWARD New and only at ❤️ CVS".

A press release from Woonsocket, R.I. tells the expectant world of the launch of "Joyward™ […]
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c.im
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
STAYC -- Bebe
https://youtu.be/gFy5sIfEF7U?si=-INnMU-7Ma3rwu1g

More Thanksgiving joy for me.

Instead of having to endure yet another viewing of "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving", I have got the 177 videos of my "Kpop girl groups in black outfits" playlist on shuffle and am currently enjoying […]
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c.im
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM