We haven't read the book, but we read this: bsky.app/profile/grum...
(The ALT text has extra little details worth reading - for fun. Also the article on which this quote repost is based - not for fun.)
Lovely! (The video is, as well!)
A pyramid of glasses (often used to explain the "Trickle-Down Effect) is shown. The topmost one is much larger than the lower ones. A bottle labelled "WEALTH" is decanter into this topmost glass, but the liquid is syphoned off to a large bottle labelled "Offshore Account", so that NO wealth is reaching the lower glasses.
An excellent exposé of the supposed "Trickle-Down Effect".
I downloaded and uploaded here this image rather than linking to the post where I found it, because @bladeofthes.bsky.social hadn't provided an ALT text, so I have.
Creating a meme can be quite easy.
Ranter's quote repost to us* - bsky.app/profile/rant... - isn't really a meme, but the same technique can be used quite effectively.
* Our contribution to this chain used a GIF of the film in question.
Creating a meme can be quite easy.
Ranter's quote repost to us* - bsky.app/profile/rant... - isn't really a meme, but the same technique can be used quite effectively.
* Our contribution to this chain used a GIF of the film in question.
A case of "Those who can, do: those who can't, stand on the sidelines and give advice"?
"The Dirty Dublin"
#MakeAMovieOrSongIrish
Puffed-up @paulatreidesno7.bsky.social ("I'm the most intelligent person on Bluesky!"*) posted this (see screenshot) as a reply to me. After I quote-reposted it with👇, he blocked me... which saves me the trouble of muting the irritating twat.
* not an exact quote, but that is his whole attitude.
If you're one of those who boast "I've voted Labour my whole adult life!", you should take a good look at what Labour has now become.
Voting Green (or leftist Independent) doesn't make you a traitor to the cause.
The LABOUR PARTY is the real traitor here.
#VoteToryScumOut! Including NeoTory Lab!
@paulatreidesno7.bsky.social makes a fool of himself in multiple debates, then claims that he's of superior intelligence and insults the intelligence of anyone who disagrees with him.
🙄🙄
More extensive comment on all of this can be found in the ALT texts of the 2 screenshots attached to my post👇👇.
The Shankill Redemption
#MakeAMovieOrSongIrish
This👇 WAS a quote-repost of somebody's post which said "I made the very principled decision to not have sex with Salma Hayek".
But the author of that - for incomprehensible reasons - decided to cut its moorings.
🙄🤷♂️☹️
(He didn't delete his post nor block me, so my [identical to👇] reply to it is OK?🤷♂️)
1 week and 22½ hours until this offer runs out!
If only there were a birthday or some other special occasion before then. You know: as an excuse for giving a book as a present... 🤔🤔🤔
I know! Let's ask Little Susie whether she has any ideas.
Anyone who says Donald Trump is not who we are needs to do a deep dive into the presidencies of Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, Warren Harding, and Ronald Reagan, because I hate to tell you this but they're all the same guy
Can anyone help with the scribes' research?
I understand that they're offering a pint of St. Elno's finest dandelion wine - made by Alexa, the maid - to anyone who can substantially help with their inquiries. (Alexa insisted on the word "substantially". 'That's the best dandelion wine!' she says.)
@johnharris1969.bsky.social cited 6 reasons for Harris' loss, including 1 of his own invention.
Not only did he neglect to mention her lies, ineptitude, & silencing of PRO-HUMAN-RIGHTS protestors, he left out the fact that over TEN MILLION Biden20 voters decided not to vote for her.
🙄
The TRUE Left
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. correctly pointed out that 11/11 used to be Armistice Day (celebrating the end of WWI, AKA PEACE). It now honors those 🇺🇸s who fought in ANY war (Vietnam, Iraq...)
"They took something sacred and twisted it into something profane!" ~ Vonnegut
FUCK 🇺🇸 IMPERIALISM! ~ JimmyHiD
I'm Top Frog at @lagranota.bsky.social, but most of my recent (read: "since October, 2023") bsky activity has been about the genocide + 🇬🇧 politics (election) + 🇺🇸 politics (election).
However, I DO love 📚 #books! (See la-granota.com/list.htm and la-granota.com/blogs )
📚 #books
This is an open invitation to ALL writers - of whatever genre & for whichever age group - INCLUDING those with no previous writing experience, to join our writing team, which includes the zombies of Shakespeare, Carroll, Austen, Dickens, Wilde, & Cervantes; also @wandem.bsky.social and me
@johnharris1969.bsky.social is 1 such Spin Doctor masquerading as a political analyst. His opinion piece is so full of codswallop that it could be called a codpiece. He calls Kamala H "left" and "progressive"!
🤣🤣🤣
No mention of the genocide, nor that KH tried to SILENCE Progressives...Who abstained.
The 30-day ultimatum/free-pass was calculated to take 🇺🇸+🇮🇱 past election day, USA.
So the Biden administration could say "See? We gave Israel an ULTIMATUM!" while people were still undecided about how to vote, without PRE-ELECTION embarrassment of having Israel piss all over yet ANOTHER "ultimatum".
If Jill Stein does particularly well in November, maybe there will be a chance to break the 2-party stranglehold in the USA, as well. Maybe in the 2026 midterms, maybe in '28.
For that hope alone, it's worth voting for her. Ditto for other anti-genocide candidates, e.g. Claudia&Karina, Cornel West
#8/🧵 about favourite musicians who died 2020-24.
As promised, I return to John Prine (1946-2020).
I can't think of any Prine songs that I don't like, but this is one of my very favourites.
The accompanying slide show is really good, as well.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwG...
Hello out there!
You shouldn't even cede the point about "inconvenience".
If it's inconvenient to a woman to carry a pregnancy to term (for WHATEVER REASON) she has the right to CHOOSE not to.
The other day, Stevie Nicks revealed that if she hadn't chosen to abort in 1979, it would've been the end of Fleetwood Mac
Now less than 25 hours left to get this free digital book! (Not an e-book, so that it can be read either on-line [in 25 hours?!] or any time on ALMOST* any device [phone, tablet, computer].)
More info (including a link to reviews) in replies to La Gr@not@'s post.
* not on the one shown in the GIF!
1st post in Jimmy's 10-post reply to 🦇💩🤪 who accused him of helping Trump (pathetic Lib trope🙄), said that she wouldn't block him because she doesn't block people who hold different political views (she's an apologist for Harris and her stance on Israel/Palestine/Lebanon)... and then blocked him.
Another logical conclusion if you follow that argument is that the "Democratic" Party [by embracing GOP members with enthusiasm + scuttling to the right behind the GOP's march even further to the right + adopting CURRENT (fascist) GOP policies (e.g. on immigrants, Law&Order)] is confirmed right-wing
Biden didn't campaign in 2020 on funding a genocide. NONE of you/us voted to give him a mandate to support the slaughter of tens of thousands of children.
Anyone who votes for Harris24 WILL be giving her that MANDATE, because she IS campaigning on continued arming/funding the bloodbath. Your choice
Read this and Ms. Wong's reply to it before you bleat, for the hundredth time, "But Trump would be worse... and REALLY bad for us in the USA!"
Dems have done virtually NOTHING in the last 4 years to protect your rights - no matter WHICH marginalised group you belong to!
Look at the left-hand sheep