A book that covers all aspects of male queer life in Belfast from c. 1890 to 1960: cruising the city centre for sex, creating communities, reading queer novels, and navigating the tolerance offered by their families and neighbourhoods.
pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati...
Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18 ... two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark California case about social media addiction.
Disgraced Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa (Boulder Shambhala) and his disgraced son Sakyong Mipham were doing and saying the same things as
the utah-az pedo cults
AND
the kundalini crew
for access to sex, $, followers
Mandelson's private commercial ambitions in Chinese markets compromised his ability to represent the United Kingdom objectively
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pete...
Never-legally-convicted paedophile Michael Jackson ... everyone forgets about Jordan Chandler, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson & out-of-court settlements “he had sex with them ... never denied is that he spent nights behind closed doors with lots of little boys”
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
#China is investigating Ding Yexian, former deputy secretary in #Lhasa for corruption. He served in #Tibet for many years. I tell #RFA Tibetan that this shows the actual situation despite all claims of assistance being sent by #Beijing to Tibet. www.rfa.org/tibetan/tibe...
Alyssa Farah Griffin on today's The View - "...(a politician) doesn't pick a fight with the Pope, Dolly Parton, or the Dalai Lama..."
Sage advice...
@bookgreeble.bsky.social
Text in Tibetan looks #Dzogchen Naljor Chenpo or Mahayoga tantric practice ... Samten = Meditation
Stability of meditative concentration is beyond ordinary thought ...
In a state of pure awareness, the eye of wisdom does not waver. This, is the ultimate, original state ...
A leaf from a printed pecha in Tibetan script (?) with a typed label reading "Page from 200 year old Tibetan Prayer-Book."
This week in surprise fragments while looking for something else!
In late February 2026, the PLA Xizang (Tibet) Military District published a video that showed personnel, likely from the 53rd Mountain Combined Arms Brigade, conducting a live-fire training exercise at a PLAA base that involved soldiers firing a new 64mm double-barrel grenade discharger.
❓What is axial spondyloarthritis, and how do regulatory T cells shape inflammation and immune balance in this disease?
To find out, take a look at a recent Review by Pacheco et al.:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is being powered by $24 billion from Gulf sovereign wealth funds, with Saudi Arabia’s PIF $12 billion, and sovereign wealth funds for Abu Dhabi and Qatar $6 billion each.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Axial spondyloarthritis represents a continuum, and not everyone has structural changes in the sacroiliac joints visible on plain radiograph.
#axSpA#ASAS#Rheumatology
"For those called to become translators — working from Tibetan or other languages into their own — translation requires sensitivity to meaning, context, and intention. It is rooted in lineage, responsibility, and care."
If Trump 's dementia were Alzheimer's "It would be better because he would be diminished and so his, you know, underlying personality disorder, the malignant narcissism, would be getting diminished and he'd becoming less, in terms of what he was able to do ..."
www.the-express.com/news/politic...
![Susan Boyle - Wild Horses (Daxson Bootleg) Live @ Transmission Poland 2022 [4K Video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:arv4qzdex422o2cfyvs2ns2l/bafkreigrp4ggrsivtapfufxegegd77ufbc4q3dvv2waavxpxxagdck3y5q)
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Happy Birthday Trance Legend Susan Boyle
A new and powerful volume on #Ambedkar's view of #caste and #Buddhist philosophy - my review of Pradeep Gokhale's _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy.
www.academia.edu/106577235/My...
“It is now, for all intents and purposes, a military regime ... Mojtaba Khamenei is the window dressing. In today’s Iran, the Sepah rules alone at the top,” he says, using a Persian nickname for the IRGC.
Trump is such a loser
time.com/article/2026...
Put anxiety out of your mind Some kinds of anxiety are vague and hard to identify, so trying to view yourself objectively can help. If you are anxious, be aware that this is what you are feeling, then visualise it as something physical that can be separated from your body. Say to yourself, ‘I know I’m experiencing anxiety right now, and there’s so much I should think about, but for now I’m going to put this anxiety out of my mind and sleep tonight – I will worry about things later.’ In many cases, when you come back the next morning after a good night’s sleep, the anxiety will be gone.
I will worry about things later. In many cases, when you come back the next morning after a good night’s sleep, the anxiety will be gone.
Nobuko Nakano is a neuroscientist. Her book Lucky People: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Attracting Luck, Cultivating Success and Leading a Happier Life
Hong Kong dissidents fear China’s hand in campaign of intimidation and attacks in UK
British-based activists reveal a rise in violence and harassment – and say police are ignoring their concerns
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Museums are not neutral. Following the DISSENT conference @tsamtruk.bsky.social reflects on the politics of naming. The term 'Xizang' erases Tibetan identity, but our advocacy brings real change. Read the full reflection on the GATPM website. #Tibet #Museums #GATPM
tsamtruk.com/2026/03/29/d...
🎶 you are a great interpreter of songs 🎤 go on tour!
Spent some more time singing this afternoon; hope you enjoy me doing a bit of 'Glacier' by John Grant 🙂💜🎵
Composer Erland Cooper concludes his "Cities of the Imagination" series on #BBCRadio3 with an exploration of this geometric earthly paradise.
A tantric mandala brought to life.
#Radio3 #TheEssay #Shambhala #ErlandCooper
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Kyabje Chime Rinpoche (1941–2026): A Living Link Between Free Tibet and the West
tsamtruk.com/2026/03/25/k...
On looking afresh into my Nibelungen poem I recognised with surprise that the very things that now so embarrassed me theoretically had long been familiar to me in my own poetical conception. Now at last I could understand my Wotan, and I returned with chastened mind to the renewed study of Schopenhauer’s book.
Wagner on Schopenhauer’s philosophy, ‘a gift from heaven' ... "What charlatans all these Hegels etc. are beside him! His principal idea, the final denial of the will to live, is of terrible seriousness, but it is uniquely redeeming ... Now at last I could understand my Wotan" #philsky
It mirrors Schopenhauer’s "denial of the will-to-live", where the individual transcends their personal desires & "pure, will-less subject of knowledge", a state where one perceives the essence of things rather than their utility to the self. #philsky #skyphil
Wagner's phrase shows that the intellectual soil for Schopenhauer's synthesis of Kantian idealism and Indian soteriology had already been prepared in German letters before Schopenhauer even opened the Oupnek'hat for the first time ...
