still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Really good (and horrible) profile by al jaz after his release
Picked up Janet Biehl’s graphic novel about Rojava at BICS this weekend and it is really good, really recommend
![Although Eberhardt largely devoted herself to the Muslim way of life, she frequently partook of marijuana and alcohol[27] and had many lovers.[28][29][30] According to a friend, Eberhardt "drank more than a Legionnaire, smoked more kief than a hashish addict and made love for the love of making love".[31] She was heterosexual, but often treated sexual intercourse as impersonal.[32] The reason for her Arabic companions' tolerance of her lifestyle has been debated by biographers. According to Mackworth, the "delicate courtesy of the Arabs" led them to treat Eberhardt as a man because she wished to live as one.[28] Eberhardt's behaviour made her an outcast with the French settlers and the colonial administration, who watched her closely.[33] Seeing no reason why a woman would choose the company of impoverished Arabs over her fellow Europeans, they eventually concluded she must be an English agent, sent to stir up resentment towards the French.[34]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccx736akpb6shxepjax25osb/bafkreiccx443xvncgtioz2xhqey73fruanigbngpg4msbir4jy6vururpa)
Although Eberhardt largely devoted herself to the Muslim way of life, she frequently partook of marijuana and alcohol[27] and had many lovers.[28][29][30] According to a friend, Eberhardt "drank more than a Legionnaire, smoked more kief than a hashish addict and made love for the love of making love".[31] She was heterosexual, but often treated sexual intercourse as impersonal.[32] The reason for her Arabic companions' tolerance of her lifestyle has been debated by biographers. According to Mackworth, the "delicate courtesy of the Arabs" led them to treat Eberhardt as a man because she wished to live as one.[28] Eberhardt's behaviour made her an outcast with the French settlers and the colonial administration, who watched her closely.[33] Seeing no reason why a woman would choose the company of impoverished Arabs over her fellow Europeans, they eventually concluded she must be an English agent, sent to stir up resentment towards the French.[34]
can someone normal write a good biography of this guy ideally a comic book
U.S. Navy destroyer repeatedly warned an Iranian-flagged cargo ship to stop over a six-hour period on Sunday before firing on the ship's engine room, disabling the Iran-bound vessel to allow helicopter-borne Marines to board and seize it, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. When the crew of the Touska, the Iranian ship, ignored the American warnings, a destroyer fired its MK 45 gun into the cargo ship's engine room, Central Command said. On Sunday, Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit were conducting a search of the vessel, which is now in American custody. 1 hour ago
One of the most blatant examples of sane-washing I've ever seen from the NYT.
This was an unarmed cargo vessel in international waters, crewed by noncombatants!
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Palantir are fashy?
Do you know at all which collection this is in ?
Unlike Eden II, where the video game can spasmodically stretch, ignoring material constraints, to cover all of reality, the video game in A/S/L lies underneath, a superstructure, a narrative, an arcana guiding these women’s lives, just as real– the moments where it peeks through as possibility are goosebump-raising. They cannot perceive this structure except in doubtful glimpses– it is both inside and outside them, showing us, the reader, that there is something connecting perception beyond the shadows anyone individually sees on their own wall. The shadows are shared– a reality exists that affects us whether or not we understand it. Jeanne Thornton is the best at writing teenagers and I think she is one of the greatest at writing sorcery, magic, invocation and dreams. Wroten seems to shine most when writing about dyads, mangled-frustrated romantic desire, the darkness of small children, and the indignant hope for total future purity which can still exist at the bottom of a pit.
my basic thesis is thornton is writing about people relating to each other and dreaming through the magic superstructure of the game, whereas wroten is preoccupied with relating to the Self through the game’s medium…with a christian preoccupation with dyads and purity
This review, in its non-comics-head engagement with what amounts to the first few pages, rushes the summary of the central plot, which is that Ellis (who uses they/them), in reaction to ennui and internal pain and maybe a bit of a rotten crush on a hot femme housemate, engineers a promising virtual reality where anything is possible– only to have it stolen by a stubbly professor who sells it to a wicked corporation, who use it to attempt to control everyone. The housemates, together with the professor’s genius five-year-old daughter and, eventually, the regretful, alcoholic professor himself, then attempt to wrest control of the game and the world back from the corporation. They remove corporate control of the game and then vanish into it; the world outside the game then dies. I am not sure if Wroten would agree with me, but it seems thematically linked to The Chronicles of Narnia’s final book, The Last Battle, where virtue is tested against satanic evil before yeeting everyone good into a healed world where their bodies no longer matter
One of the taking off places for writing this is that libraryjournal barely describes what eden ii is about in their review, while comicsbeat mainly just says “it’s clever” without deeply engaging in its themes
halschrieve.substack.com/p/new-trans-... someone else (who knows video games) should write longform about Eden II and A/S/L and the trans video game novel/comic but i wrote something to try to get other people to read and discuss these two fascinating books
We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
I wanna talk very briefly about jail support, what it is, and how important it is.
Jail support isn’t really for folks who want to put in an hour a month and call it a day. It requires more commitment than some other volunteer options. But it’s both very important and very meaningful work.
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
They desperately want people talking about the danger of their dogshit extruder gaining sentience, and not the fact that it is currently actually factually poisoning Black people in the poor regions where they build data centers. Or convincing people to kill themselves, etc.
People on here don't realize that reading Israeli media on its own terms can radicalize you just as much as anything else against Zionism. The vast majority of quotes I see coming out of Channels 12 and 13 are from security officials whining that Lebanese villagers are allowed to go home.
He added: "I believe very strongly that women's wards should be for biological women. What do we do about tha biological female who is a trans man, looks, sounds, presents, lives, his life as a man is biologically female? We wouldn't put him on a women's ward. That would be degrading for him and humiliating And cruel.
Wes streeting admits what he is doing is "humilating and cruel".
But only for trans men (that look and sound man enough).
Perfectly happy to inflict cruelty and humiliation on trans women.
Source. LBC
i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew
alt="A pentagram shaped image that looks like a metal medallion. At the top is a skull wearing a military helmet with glowing red eyes and two machine guns pointing out of its ears, below that is the text “operation Metro Surge Minnesota” with the text below that saying “one nation under God”. Below that aer images of Donald Trump and another white men both looking stern and angry, and below that 5 figures clothed in military tactical equipment, with face masks, helmets, and Appear to be machine guns or sniper rifles with these logos on their chests: Bortac, Hsi SRT, FPS, Borstar, Border patrol. At the bottom is a German Shepherd looking at the viewer with its mouth open. The overall impression is grim, with the esthetics of a badly designed early 2000s video game"
alt="An image of pentagonal metal medallion. At the top is a skull in a military helmet with glowing red eyes and two machine guns crossed behind it, and beneath that is a scene of several soldiers wearing full tactical gear and carrying some sort of banner that looks vaguely like an American flag (a large blue field of stars with tiny red and white stripes at the fringe). Behind them a military helicopter in a dark cloudy sky descending on an explosion; the explosion has what appear to be six or seven rocket tracers coming out of it. The helicopter is shining a spotlight down on the ground. The whole thing looks like a terrible video game from the 1990s, and carries the unmistakable whiff of AI generated design"
Behold the "challenge coin" the federal government is giving to folks who worked on Minneapolis detentions and deportations
it's both predictable -- the sort of garish video-game conflict imagery in which Trump's administration revels -- and grotesque
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-a...
a lot of people don't know this, but your library card actually gives you access to a underground tunnel network of strange architecture and unclear purpose
A DOJ press release accused Heather Morrow of assaulting an ICE agent.
When video showed Morrow hadn't attacked anyone and was tackled by an officer, prosecutors dropped the felony charges but promptly filed a misdemeanor case against her.
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An indescribably gray silver wet slab of something sits adjacent to a fecal-looking pile of meat. The canned carrots look kind of okay
who needs radio hanoi when we do this to ourselves
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... the images of the food US marines are eating on board the USS abraham lincoln in this article are sending me
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... let mamdani know you would like 0.5% of the city budget for libraries in perpetuity pretty please
Noooo Democrats are playing 4D chess, it's not their fault all the pieces are invisible and they don't know the rules 🥺
ICE is arresting delivery drivers at a San Diego military base. According to an attorney interviewed by Kate Morrissey, military police at the gates call ICE on any driver who is not a citizen or green card holder, even if they have permission to be in the country. capitalandmain.com/ice-has-arre...
We've come a long way from "those who are willing to trade their liberty for security will soon end up with neither."
chelsea manning looking fly as hell in a nice suit being perp walked by a dipshit party city looking nypd cop named "anger"
yesterday in NYC, jewish voice for peace organized a protest against arms sale to israel. 90 people got detained after a traffic sit in held right in front of chuck schumer's office.
as usual, chelsea manning has the coolest perp walk photos. cop's name is "anger" lmfao.
