Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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It just goes on and on. And our government is providing them with arms.
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
after the argument
a pylon's hum
dusk
#haiku
#micropoetry
in a dark barn
behind the cheese shop
chained cows
#haiku
#micropoetry
#vegan
When an allegedly democratic socialist party announces a policy to confiscate and sell the belongings of people fleeing war, it indicates that something’s rotten in the heart of our politics.
#UKPolitics
#Labour
#RefugeesWelcome
If you really loved horses, yours wouldn’t be standing alone in a muddy paddock for 23 hours a day waiting for you to decide it exists. You love riding horses,not horses.
Anti-communist hysteria on the far right: a witch hunt conducted where there are almost no witches.
health check
the chewed nails
of a nurse
#haiku
#micropoetry
Turns out they weren't against authoritarianism. They just really hated hand sanitiser.
Amazing how the “COVID rules are state tyranny!” people
are now like, “Fascism? Sure, why not.”
If you consider one of your biggest enemies to be a group called Anti-Fascist Action, you might want to think about what that makes you.
after the storm
a bruised apple
crumble
#haiku
That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
In the midst of horrific mass killings and violence, British-made military equipment has been found in Sudan.
It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.
cafe sparrows
sharing a croissant
in summer rain
#haiku #micropoetry
“No one deserves to live the way we are living in this world. But what truly hurts is the sense of isolation.”
summer evening
a cat watches the pigeons
make love
#haiku
#micropoetry
We cannot stand by as Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza—47 people today, including children and desperate aid‐seekers, amid a worsening humanitarian collapse and famine. This brutality must end NOW. Demand an immediate ceasefire. Share. #CeasefireNow #HumanRights
Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
ocean wind
finding it's voice
in the reeds
#haiku
#micropoetry
Today is Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa’s birthday, so here are some of his haiku, translated by Robert Hass. This is one of my favourites (and to which I can relate)!
don’t worry, spider
I keep house
casually
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa
#SenryuSunday
"It was quite entertaining to watch them try to peel them off their bodies. They're very fast-moving.. But once they went down to the fish room and touched a bit of ice, they became a bit more sedate." - this is genuinely disturbing.
The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
a hot sun
taken into the sea
by the river
Basho
