@singemonkey.bsky.social
I love to torture myself seeking fine-grained understanding of events over which I have no control.
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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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Israeli military stopped an ambulance from helping him for several minutes, causing his condition to worsen.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Israeli military stopped an ambulance from helping him for several minutes, causing his condition to worsen.
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⭕️ JUST IN: A Palestinian child has died from gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired tear gas bombs at olive pickers near Beita, south Nablus, 2 weeks ago, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. The child, Asem Maalla, succumbed on Tues. to injuries sustained during the army’s assault on...
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
⭕️ JUST IN: A Palestinian child has died from gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired tear gas bombs at olive pickers near Beita, south Nablus, 2 weeks ago, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. The child, Asem Maalla, succumbed on Tues. to injuries sustained during the army’s assault on...
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Odds of Venezuela getting bombed just went up. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
House Democrats release Epstein email that claimed Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim
In the 2011 email, the disgraced financier wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims and that encounter “has never once been mentioned” by polic...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Odds of Venezuela getting bombed just went up. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
His killers were denied amnesty at the Truth And Reconciliation Commission for lack of disclosure. But no prosecutions have followed. Many suggest this was to hide collusion between the apartheid government and members of the post-apartheid ANC government. #southafrica
No perpetrators have been brought to justice after 1977 death-in-detention of famed anti-apartheid leader, Steve Biko.
Will South Africa’s Biko inquest finally yield justice for struggle icon?
No perpetrators have been brought to justice after 1977 death-in-detention of famed anti-apartheid leader, Steve Biko.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
His killers were denied amnesty at the Truth And Reconciliation Commission for lack of disclosure. But no prosecutions have followed. Many suggest this was to hide collusion between the apartheid government and members of the post-apartheid ANC government. #southafrica
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Oh mate. You're not supposed to just *say* it. You're supposed to say "Oh, you know the ones" or refuse to answer while running down the road chased by an angry goose saying "What views motherfucker?"
Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour, on Newsnight, when talking about the government:
“I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force”
When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’:
“It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..”
Now we know…
“I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force”
When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’:
“It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..”
Now we know…
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Oh mate. You're not supposed to just *say* it. You're supposed to say "Oh, you know the ones" or refuse to answer while running down the road chased by an angry goose saying "What views motherfucker?"
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HORROR FANS WANTED!
My friend and colleague Mathias Clasen desperately needs horror fans to help with his new study. The survey below doesn't take long to complete, and your participation is appreciated by him and his collaborators.
Details 👇
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/brighton/i...
My friend and colleague Mathias Clasen desperately needs horror fans to help with his new study. The survey below doesn't take long to complete, and your participation is appreciated by him and his collaborators.
Details 👇
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/brighton/i...
Identifying the Relationship between personal concerns and enjoyment of horror films (Denmark)
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
HORROR FANS WANTED!
My friend and colleague Mathias Clasen desperately needs horror fans to help with his new study. The survey below doesn't take long to complete, and your participation is appreciated by him and his collaborators.
Details 👇
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/brighton/i...
My friend and colleague Mathias Clasen desperately needs horror fans to help with his new study. The survey below doesn't take long to complete, and your participation is appreciated by him and his collaborators.
Details 👇
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/brighton/i...
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
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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
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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.