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Just not a real concern for people who have no experience of or interest in a reality outside their own witless privilege

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Ha! I also hate the way 'clean' is a political euphemism. Turns the stomach

and yes i am aware from friends with relationships there that life is more complex than that in the city itself and there are ways round some of the laws - i just cannot imagine discussing the country without even noticing that any of these problems exist

reminds me of someone who once told me they loved budapest under orban because it was 'clean' and 'safe.' just cold, smug selfishness & condescension

tbh these people are actually quite morally disgusting. they keep saying riyadh is 'safe'. i literally couldn't safely live there. homosexuality is punished at minimum by public flogging

their view of the world is terrifyingly clear - make money, have a 'good life', ignore anything bad happening to anyone who isn't exactly like them

2 white gen z men in a cafe just had a loud chat about how great riyadh is - lack of red tape, safe streets, late night shisha. they want to work there

OOH, great - they have no racist 'othering', they see some of the city's virtues

OTOH do they not see slave labourers, women & gay ppl as human?

And losing to [checks notes] every car in the world

Forget repair it's strangely surgical the tacked fault line

Today's Feature:

"Forget repair" by Sarah Howe from Foretokens published by @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social

Read here:
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What's Working Well

The body is in a sinkhole in the Mojave desert. There's no way Columbo is finding out which sinkhole. Even you don't know.

Your Blind Spot

Sometimes you can have a temper. It's understandable in this challenging economic climate. But shooting the cashier was excessive.

and the colour of money i should have mentioned. they're really all about drugs - he had a congenital heart condition and became addicted to phenobarbital. plus alcoholism and gambling. a happy camper.

walter tevis is a brilliant novelist - he also wrote the man who fell to earth.

I want every actress to have to do 1 day a year as a death doula and am willing to let them all out of jury duty in exchange. The rule: You don't know who you're getting until The Day and you have to accept whoever knocks.

[Pounding on door] It's me! Gabrielle Carteris!
Me: Dammit. Is it my time?

What a great idea! Title: 'The Second Hex.'

Sherlock Holmes:

Brb writing a moody literary thriller in which simone de beauvoir kills jean genet then herself

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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He's Avingnon of it

Things that offend right wing Christians: Saying 'fuck' at easter
This poster

Things that don't offend right wing Christians: Murdering Iranian children

a crowd of people at a concert with the word hard on the bottom right ALT: a crowd of people at a concert with the word hard on the bottom right

Let today in Hungary be a warmup for what we can do, for what we can have.

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They look like a surprised, defensive group of beachgoers in a horror movie

exactly!

stylish! she should have been doing Bond intros...