+1. İn fact, +10.

So many art nude photographers and models are fed up of this.

İt's not just about reach, you're affirming negativity and judgmentalism towards nudity. That causes, for models esp., real world harms.

The stone floor has been washed down. In the middle distance a glass display case holds a dozen or so nargiles for sale. The light from the display case shines on the wet floor.

the nargile cafe late at night. The door into one of the side rooms has been closed but through the bars you can see the TV is still on. On the right of the image is the doorway into the kitchen. On the far wall of the kitchen hang the marpuc for the nargiles, the leather tube through which the air is drawn to the mouthpiece. On the left of the image is one of the wooden benches, and emerging from beneath the bench is a cat.

the nargile cafe, a darkened room with just a couple of lights on the high ceiling. All the benches are empty. The Arabic calligraphy is visible framed on the walls. At the far end of the room a single figure reaches for the switch to turn out the lights.

3am in the nargile cafe #Istanbul #medrese
#streetphotography

The issue with professional expertise is, if you're a clinician treating a patient with NPD (or suspected) then sure, you need certification. İf you're just trying to stay the hell away for your own safety then reasonable suspicion is ample grounds.

İt doesn't even need to be the real JD. An inflatable will do.

NPD isn't just s medical diagnosis, being able to recognise it and take appropriate self-preservation action is an essential skill for safe living for all of us.

Now if the US were to establish some kind of Tribunal and invite evidence from other nations, and invite judges from other countries to share the bench.

But you guys would have to set that up and send out the invites.

I agree, it needs to be global, but we don't have an effective international court and I don't see how one could be established, like Nürnberg, in a timely manner.

Tünel Square in the rain. #İstanbul
#streetphotography

bonus points for 'the smoking gun that keeps on smoking' - an eminently nickable phrase.

I think so.

Nothing's getting away from that once it closes on its prey.

I think that's connected somehow to the fact she can't see herself in a mirror.

There's a verse in James chapter 1 about this, IIRC.

The Duke: early role. Centurion at cross. Line, 'Surely this was the Son of God'.
Dir: Put more awe into it.
JW. 'Aw, surely this was ..'

More theological depth by a mile than the glammed up hucksteress.

The world, I can assure you, looks on in appalled wonder.

İch auch

Prunes. They should bomb it with prunes.

Can't you put some kind of lock on your phone to stop yourself doing this?

Thank you, Jeff Tiedrich. This is the bit I saw from his quote and I naturally assumed it was about Trump.

The full convo is indeed glorious.

You may be looking at a Barca fan rather than a parent.

That's a thing and a half, David.

Photo of a C-130 military aircraft for carrying massive loads

And a C-130 so they can bring their egos with them

That's beautiful

In many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as morally good or bad. US has the highest rate (53%) saying fellow citizens are morally bad.

This stat seems pretty bad and really stark compared to other places

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

The man is not an adult. He has no coherent moral worldview, that is to say, no vision of the common weal.

President Trump, After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation. In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani and by defeating ISIS. Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again. As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives. I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now. You can reverse…

🚨BREAKING: Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has RESIGNED in protest at the war in Iran.

Wow.

“I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”

insightful and infuriating indeed.

I'd add the 'Russian World' ideology that legitimates Putin's expansionism, perhaps not quite as ancient but similarly mythic

here's one for Christian readings of the conquest narrrative too; by
@ddelgadovive.bsky.social via @theradr.bsky.social
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/joshua/

it's a new take on that thing where the village clockwinder sets the village clock by the village bobby's watch and the village bobby sets his watch ..

with an added Three Faces of Eve / Fight Club twist

only have audio commentary here but it's sounding a bit desperate

There are consciously, deliberately coordinated networks of control and influence. Each of them is like a tentacle, and like biological tentacles, there's distributed rationality, but there's also coordinated signalling. They're like neural networks.

Big labels aren't enough.