Tabhair dom Taarradhin (تراض)
December 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tabhair dom Taarradhin (تراض)
December 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Happy #BatMas everyone! Follow this thread ⬇️ or check out the hashtag to find out about a new bat species everyday, for 25 days! 🦇🌎🧪
#BatSky🧵
#BatSky🧵
a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf
ALT: a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf
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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“La vie est vaine,
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!
La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!
―George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!
La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!
―George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
December 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“La vie est vaine,
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!
La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!
―George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!
La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!
―George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
Quote of the Day
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Steve Maraboli @dailygrail.com
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Steve Maraboli @dailygrail.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Quote of the Day
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Steve Maraboli @dailygrail.com
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Steve Maraboli @dailygrail.com
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For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
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The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music
The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music
Besides Spotify, you can find good listening elsewhere.
buff.ly
August 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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Ex-Israeli spokesman: "You represent sharia. You represent the hatred of Western society."
Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal."
Full debate between me & an Israeli racist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal."
Full debate between me & an Israeli racist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ex-Israeli spokesman: "You represent sharia. You represent the hatred of Western society."
Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal."
Full debate between me & an Israeli racist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal."
Full debate between me & an Israeli racist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
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Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
Turns Out Meat Is Still the Ultimate Luxury
After four years of vegan cuisine, the fine-dining stalwart Eleven Madison Park is cooking animals again.
bit.ly
August 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
Jewish Israeli-American historian and Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov: Israel’s campaign in Gaza is genocidal Omer
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Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov: Israel’s campaign in Gaza is genocidal
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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August 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Jewish Israeli-American historian and Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov: Israel’s campaign in Gaza is genocidal Omer
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youtu.be/S_R2zk3BSnA?...
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🎉 New #Scicomm opportunity! 🎉
📅 Places now open for 4-week online course on science communication through poetry with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social.
🎁 Full bursaries available.
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#SciArt #CPD #PoetryInScience 🧪 #HigherEd #Poetry
📅 Places now open for 4-week online course on science communication through poetry with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social.
🎁 Full bursaries available.
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Science Communication through Poetry
At Edinburgh Napier University, we nurture talent and create knowledge that shapes communities all around the world.
napier.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🎉 New #Scicomm opportunity! 🎉
📅 Places now open for 4-week online course on science communication through poetry with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social.
🎁 Full bursaries available.
🔗 Register here: napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...
#SciArt #CPD #PoetryInScience 🧪 #HigherEd #Poetry
📅 Places now open for 4-week online course on science communication through poetry with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social.
🎁 Full bursaries available.
🔗 Register here: napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...
#SciArt #CPD #PoetryInScience 🧪 #HigherEd #Poetry
“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Robert Anton Wilson
Trump Bible GIF
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media.tenor.com
August 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Robert Anton Wilson
Graeber is unique in that he offers a blueprint for ecological survival that starts with everyday mutuality, non-hierarchical organisation, and the courage to treat alternative ways of living as already possible.
‘Wherever he encounters what seems to be a structural limit to human freedom, he inquires into its history and class basis.’
@leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber in our latest issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber in our latest issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Graeber is unique in that he offers a blueprint for ecological survival that starts with everyday mutuality, non-hierarchical organisation, and the courage to treat alternative ways of living as already possible.
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The New York Times Continues to Give Netanyahu the Benefit of the Doubt - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/t...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The New York Times Continues to Give Netanyahu the Benefit of the Doubt - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/t...
French philosopher Jacques Rancière says today’s politics is either hollow “police” showmanship or genuine “dissensus.” #PalestineAction www.critical-theory.com/who-the-fuck...
Who the Fuck is Jacques Ranciere? | Critical-Theory.com
www.critical-theory.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
French philosopher Jacques Rancière says today’s politics is either hollow “police” showmanship or genuine “dissensus.” #PalestineAction www.critical-theory.com/who-the-fuck...
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Amnesty International France just projected a giant message in the sky over Paris. 🕊️🌌⚖️
July 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Amnesty International France just projected a giant message in the sky over Paris. 🕊️🌌⚖️
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UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told
UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told
Intelligence assessment before proscription found that vast majority of group’s activities were lawful, court hears
An intelligence assessment before Palestine Action was banned under anti-terrorism laws found that the vast majority of its activities were lawful, a court has heard.
Raza Husain KC, appearing for Huda Ammori, a co-founder of the group, said Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group on 5 July was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told
Plastics and petrochemical industries wield outsized influence in global treaty negotiations, often overwhelming scientific voices and less-funded countries:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Plastics and petrochemical industries wield outsized influence in global treaty negotiations, often overwhelming scientific voices and less-funded countries:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Satire is a cultural safeguard, revealing the absurdities, cruelties and abuses of power. How long before mocking the U.S. government becomes a treasonous act?
"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Satire is a cultural safeguard, revealing the absurdities, cruelties and abuses of power. How long before mocking the U.S. government becomes a treasonous act?
Eric Idle ❤️https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/11/id-be-proud-to-be-thrown-out-of-america-eric-idle-on-trump-life-after-python-and-not-talking-before-lunch
‘I’d be proud to be thrown out of America!’ Eric Idle on Trump, life after Python and not talking before lunch
Ahead of his UK tour, the former Monty Python star responds to questions from Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Mamet, Janet Suzman, Steve Coogan, Bill Oddie and others
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Eric Idle ❤️https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/11/id-be-proud-to-be-thrown-out-of-america-eric-idle-on-trump-life-after-python-and-not-talking-before-lunch