"There are bad movies, and then there are movies that drain all life and joy out of a person’s soul. The new animated Animal Farm falls firmly into the latter category."

Great read.

I find that telling any students thinking about an academic career any part of my story is a good way to help set reasonable expectations .

I don't want to be a dream crusher but the realities are incredibly bleak.

my therapist, rubbing his temples: the demonic composite of Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch the FT made to illustrate a Janan Ganesh piece isn't real and it can't hurt you

the demonic composite of Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch the FT made to illustrate a Janan Ganesh piece:

Auden’s Musée des Beaux Artes

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

Companies building data centers are "targeting" Indigenous communities where there is often less legal infrastructure to hold them accountable, says Krystal Two Bulls from @honortheearth.bsky.social.

"Right now, we're looking at about 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands."

J's brother lives in Hamilton, ON, and apparently on the way to his kid's school they go through the underpass where Ilya cries in Russian on the phone to Shane, and it's now full of graffiti about Heated Rivalry

Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist.

Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :)

news.sky.com/story/human-...

"I NEVER SAW A WILD THING SORRY FOR ITSELF" - D.H. Lawrence Lick your wounds, honey. Walk it off. It's okay if you had to bite those hands to keep them from reaching. It's okay if the middle was actually the end. I know, you feel like sunsets are your story, but you still have your heart like morning. Come now, heave your aching body, leave that dead thing to rot in the dirt. I know, love caught you like a collar, but you still have your heart like water. I know, you feel broken open, but you still have your heart like a seed, split and growing green in the sun. L.E. Bowman

I Never Saw a Wild a Thing Sorry for Itself ~ L.E. Bowman

An old time-y illustration of a Hawthorn.

Today is Quartidi the 4th of Floréal in the year 234.
Floréal is the month of flowers.
Today we celebrate hawthorn. #JacobinDay

More information on hawthorn

Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth.

a teenage boy just made it clear to me that he thought the shirt im wearing was advertising the two separate concepts of guns and of roses

Right, this is the thing, scandals used to involve things where you'd go 'wow, that is a nice house' or 'well, that is a lot of money' or indeed 'sex is great, though'.

Whereas the Partygate parties were the kind of thing you would want to swerve even if they were *not* illegal.

don't think I can read this without becoming homicidal :) but may be of interest to others:

An old time-y illustration of a Ferns.

Today is Tridi the 3rd of Floréal in the year 234.
Floréal is the month of flowers.
Today we celebrate ferns. #JacobinDay

More information on ferns

I have no idea what platform this is from. But it's from a tattoo artist saying AI art sucks. I'm not typing all this out, someone else can alt4me or whatever.

My tattoo artist just reposted this enthusiastically endorsing the messaging "what next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?"

Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

it doesn’t work in Much Ado About Nothing only because everything Beatrice and Benedick say already has an implicit “bitch” at the start

“What, my dear Lady Disdain? Bitch, are you yet living?”

“Bitch, I would eat his heart in the marketplace”

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

This is the kind of betrayal a nation carries out when its leaders don't believe in the concept of allies and that views promises as something for suckers.

It also makes our armed forces less safe. No nation will ever trust us again. Why should they? We stab our friends in the back.

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

(Reposted with ALT text)

everyone please stop calling ai glasses the "pervert glasses". this is appropriation of swirly glasses from pervert scientist women

A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.

Shop window with Herman Miller office chairs in the window

Anyone in East London looking for decent office/gaming chairs:

The office clear out place on Lea Bridge road has got a batch of Herman Millers in.

350 + VAT but suspect they can be negotiated down. #london #walthamstow

'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' YouTube video by Middle East Eye

‘Soaked in Blood,’ the Middle East Eye documentary that just won a Webby award, was produced by a team that included cameraman Mohamed Salama, who was killed before its release in an Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' https://aje.news/niqwe0

Technofacism? Why Palantir's pro-West ‘manifesto' has critics alarmed Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and 'technofascism'.

Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and 'technofascism'.

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.