This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly.
We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
Robert Hughes
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
What are we doing here? It’s not journalism, whatever it is.
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
Because Vance is a living node in a Russia-funded propaganda machine; everyone should please notice that there is nothing American about having to fly to a foreign country to try to influence its election so that your own career can continue as planned.
It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back.
wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html
Three elderly witches laugh as they fly over farmsteads, copper pots of coffee dangling from the front of their brooms
Swedish Easter witches, armed with pots of coffee, are flying to their yearly gathering at the island of Blåkulla. ☕️
🎨 Jenny Nyström, 1911
According to Mehr News Agency, a semi-official Iranian outlet, Kamal Kharazi, a former Iranian foreign minister, was injured in what it described as an attack on residential buildings in Tehran by the United States and Israel on Wednesday. Kharazi was considered a veteran policy expert and a moderate politician and the head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Council, which sets the country’s overall foreign policy. Two Iranian officials said Kharazi had been overseeing engagement with Pakistan for a possible meeting between Iranian officials and Vice President JD Vance. The officials said the targeting of Kharazi is being viewed as an attempt to derail diplomacy.
This is the sort of gangsterism that even Genghis Khan found to be offensive, it breaks a taboo that predates the very idea of true international law.
Will never forget — truly think about it too often tbh — how in July of 2024 using the words “ethnic cleansing” in a panel description at an SF convention describing Israel’s actions was considered inflammatory rhetoric & I was asked to reword it to not put off prospective attendees
As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.
The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them.
A fascinating, complex view.
NEW: Israel becomes the first state in history to write INTO LAW the death sentence for one, specific ethnic group.
This is Cabinet member Ben Gvir celebrating with champagne after the vote.
This is not a government, it is a death cult. They won’t serve champagne in The Hague.
(🎥 Cradle Media)
Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian village of Jalud during Eid al-Fitr, torching homes and wounding at least one person.
The attack comes amid a surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank, where over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023.
Israel is killing an average of 8 children a day in Lebanon.
In Gaza, it killed an average of 28.
x.com/mosababutoha...
Amy Madigan won and that dbag Chalamet didn't, so I'm happy.
#Oscars.
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
Why the heck respected news outlets are still spending their time trying to put a rational interpretation on a speech by a guy who literally doesn't know what he's thinking or saying from minute to minute, goodness only knows.
"...the most obviously depraved and disgusting politician that the West has created in living memory." Key word here is obviously. And yet apparently it isn't for so many people. It will never stop shocking me. Stop. Supporting.This. Criminal. youtu.be/TDl2GMS6iiA?...
imagine a world where regulators would actually fucking do something about this
Contemplating the immensity of what Frederick Wiseman brought to documentary filmmaking is too dizzying a task to take on the same day he leaves us. Put it this way: he lived to be 96 while never ceasing to find new ways to see & film & show the world around him in all its complexity. A+ job on life
This is straight-up Nazi rhetoric from Musk, and the only tiny thing I can do is address myself to those of you who are still on X. No more excuses about how you need "reach" or how good the conversation is there or the importance of debate. You will not regret walking away, and it's time.
Finally a news outlet reporting on something that everybody is aware of. The presenter asks the question at the end, but it's almost an afterthought: we all know why this isn't being talked about.
youtu.be/jGy8RbM6tnk?...
@en.france24.com
here's a gift link to @nitasha.bsky.social's story, which shows just how forcefully Musk is pushing sexual content, including sexual abuse and harassment content—including of children.
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
youtu.be/aKoCZKtpS3Q?...
