5 Reasons the Adidas “Mandarin Jacket” Is Not Technically Chinese (And Why That’s Perfect)

"We should stop searching for “pure” origins in culture, especially ones belonging to such long, complex histories as the broader Chinese civilization." caroyim.substack.com/p/5-reasons-...

💥 Kennst Du schon unseren NCBI-Newsletter?

💌 Wir schicken 6x/Jahr Neuigkeiten, Hinweise zu unseren aktuellsten Angeboten, Kursen und Veranstaltungen.

🔗 Wenn Du die Januar Ausgabe nicht verpassen willst, abonniere noch schnell unseren Newsletter: 👉 eepurl.com/bgv4dD

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

And gloves are called "shoes for hands"!

🎯

That's the aftermath of the russian drone attack on the local market in Kharkiv. russia wages the war against kids in their beds, playgrounds, children's hospitals, now also against the toy shops. Here's what you stand for when you lobby for russia.
📸: Suspilne Kharkiv

These: Es gibt keine Male Loneliness Epidemic. Es gibt lediglich eine Gruppe von Männern, die es aufgrund toxisch männlicher Sozialisierung nicht schaffen Beziehungsmodelle zu leben, von denen beide gleichermaßen profitieren. Für immer mehr Frauen ist das aber nachvollziehbarerweise bare Minimum. 💁🏻‍♀️

Sometimes it's better to think in terms of scene rather than word count, as in: sit down to write a scene and don't worry about hitting a specific word goal.

J'ai eu droit au classique "tu es payée par Big Pharma". Après avoir expliqué pourquoi c'est important qu'un maximum de gens soient vaccinés et partagé la page Wikipédia sur l'immunité du troupeau.

Comment on se sent sur les réseaux sociaux après avoir été banni par un antivax ou dans un groupe antivax...

Many people think that if Ukrainians surrendered, we’d get peace.

No, we’d get much more wars.

If we didn’t defend our independence now, those of us who survive genocide under occupation would later be thrown into the meat grinder of russia’s imperial conquests against other sovereign states.

A circular manhole cover (although I suspect there is no hole under it) set in a piece of pavement. It has a star pattern, and poking through the holes are little bits of greenery, taking any opportunity they can.

Life

Pareil. C'est déprimant de voir certains ignorer délibérément la séparation des pouvoirs.

not one but two––one prose poem and my first crime short story.

Übrigens:

Mit dem heutigen Urteil gegen Frau #LePen wurde weder das Ende der Demokratie noch das Ende der Rechtsextremen eingeleitet.

Der Rechtsstaat hat das gemacht, was Rechtsstaaten machen:

Straftäter verurteilt. Punkt.

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat?

ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details)
smh - Secret Message Hahahaha
tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis
idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat)
gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

On this day, three years ago in Mariupol—just days before the russians began turning a peaceful city of almost half a million residents into a massive cemetery.

💔

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

i got my first boost on #Medium for my article that sadly predicted the Jan 6 pardons. feels surreal to see it gain traction. read here: medium.com/@galdysofmon...

When I was a bookseller I was the science fiction and fantasy buyer for the shop and a customer told me all about this one day. I ordered all her available books immediately. I’m not doing a “I never liked him anyway” but I’ve been a bit “Is he though?” about Gaiman ever since.

Politico: Germany’s AfD sparks firestorm by distributing fake deportation tickets to migrants
The incident comes as far-right leaders are embracing increasingly radical proposals to deport migrants en masse ahead of a national election.

Correctiv made this ‘Grafik des Tages’

The New York Magazine/Vulture piece on Gaiman is detailed and horrifying, so please only read it if you're prepared for explicit accounts of sexual abuse, rape and coercion

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

A Burn It Down video extravaganza, and thoughts on Neil Gaiman, creative gods, American Gods and rotten pedestals Hello!  Chicago folks, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m., I’ll be in conversation with my friend Steve Darnall at The Book Cellar in Chicago. The occasion is the reissue of Uncle Sam, a brilliant graph...

I wrote this five months ago. burner-account.ghost.io/a-burn-it-do...

Decades after a landmark rape trial in France, the Pelicot case shows 'shame has changed sides' Agnès Fichot witnessed the humiliations and insults suffered by rape victims during the historic Aix-en-Provence rape trial in 1978. Almost half a century later, she followed the 2024 Pelicot mass rap...

www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/... “The most important thing has changed. Society's view of the victim. It seems that a woman's dignity now exists. It is respected and upheld by public opinion. Shame has changed sides." Agnès Fichot interviewed by Annik Cojean

I'll be talking to @bbcmaryam.bsky.social
tomorrow about Gisele Pelicot and why sentencing is necessary but not sufficient to bring the change we need.

Fabulous art work by Victoria Villasana (victoriavillasana.com)

Russland tut alles, um die europ. Demokratien zu destabilisieren.

Bemerkenswert ist, wie billig das ist.

Die FakeNews Kampagne um die Judensterne in F kurz nach dem 7.10. Massaker der Hamas hat 3.000 Euro gekostet.
Dann noch ein paar Bots aus dem russischen Botfarmen und schon geht es viral

My artist sister drew and wrote about 100 inspiring women, and this has been published in a book.
Here portrait of
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel laureate, writer, teacher and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. First woman in history of Iranian justice to have served as a judge