I've been saying "tactical success, strategic failure" but I'm reconsidering the partial credit

Early Lesson
Malaija Pootoogook ~ Inuk
2016

Woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was Saturday?!?

two people sitting on the ground outside a small pale building with a large window-a white woman, in her late 20s or early 30s perhaps, wearing a jacket and pants, holding a sandwich and looking sideways at an older, balding white male in a blue shirt, elbows on his knees, looking thoughtful.

watched Sorry, Baby (Victor)

Herzog good at finding documentary subjects

Getting the urge to reread Mythago Wood and maybe Lavondyss after I finish with Lord of the Rings

over on threads, this has lead to people promoting a website called "name him," where you can anonymously "name your rapist," which no one seems to realize is a horrible fucking idea. this site also requires you to register with your email before using it, adding more layers to the bad idea.

Black-and-white portrait of Norman Bethune standing outdoors. He wears a light-colored turtleneck sweater under a textured jacket. His hair is receding, and he has a short mustache and goatee. He looks slightly upward and away from the camera. A brick wall and a wooden post are visible behind him.

Dr. Norman Bethune was one of the most influential physicians of his era.
He pioneered the use of a mobile blood transfusion unit in war zones, and introduced modern medicine to rural China.
Revered in China, it took decades for Canada to honour him.
This is his story.

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Flying my x wing, desperately firing on Mary Poppins

MICHAEL is a truly insane biopic. Like, "Gee looks like he was really into toys and zoo animals and Peter Pan, and connected well with children. Anyway, let's not stick around for that Shaquille O'Neal-sized shoe to drop..." Such a bizarre, sinister undertaking.

They should write a song about a tart Caroline, maybe even a savory Caroline.

documentary in which the Minions reenact their past atrocities in Indonesia.

Babies

Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse - because viral hatred is highly profitable

In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived

Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power

The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.

I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment

Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.

Alex Jones seems to be taking the news well

Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyer Announces He Feels Safer as a Republican

Phone with a headphone jack. Separate from charging port.
Sell like hotcakes

Have been listening to J+MC’s Darklands a lot this month, so of course I woke up with ‘Blues from a Gun’ stuck in my head for some reason

Close them all, everywhere.

Embarkation
Alex Colville
1994

R.E.M. - Drive (Official HD Music Video) YouTube video by remhq

r.e.m
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UE7...

Saw my first ‘fuck Carney’ bumper sticker in the wild

Ahahahahahahaha

That Zohran interview was fucking nuts. The press is seemingly more interested in trying to get Zohran to be like "Well I might not accomplish all my goals" than they ever were investigating any of the corruption and sexual assault from Cuomo.

Exactly what he wants. He's been doing this repeatedly.

The worst poker player in the history of humanity.

Unusual report of a botched burial at sea in the 1730s.
Samuel Baldwin of Lymington, had wished to be buried off the Needles, but when they came to do so, the coffin refused to sink - even though he was encased in lead.
Some last minute boreholes persuaded the coffin at last to behave itself.

an ice cream truck for the neighborhood but it’s various kinds of hotdogs