Today’s #ThursdayFiveList is #ColorfulPictures (we’ll let the spelling slide). Songs about drawing, painting, visual arts or about a colour/ colours.

As today (in UK) we have the #GortonAndDenton by-election happening, I thought I’d simply go for one colour: #Green!

Green Isaac - Prefab Sprout
https://youtu.be/C_3TJ7djPlo

Green Calx - Aphex Twin
https://youtu.be/HQnY6JejCrE

Green-Eyed Loco Man - The Fall
https://youtu.be/YxINpOY24-s

Green - Four Tet
https://youtu.be/m3X-XEjTqz4

Crystalline Green - Goldfrapp
https://youtu.be/4mZZOIBD0wA

Go Greens! 💚

#EverythingIsPolitical

The absence of political culture, or rather the depoliticization of the tech world in a nutshell

#tech
#Politics
#EverythingIsPolitical

Via > @rakoo 🔗 https://blah.rako.space/objects/0685e029-9344-4bc9-881e-89b37f4ef505

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10/14/a-hack-is-not-enough/

A Hack is Not Enough

> There is a tendency, especially among technically competent people, to use the ability to work around a requirement as an excuse to avoid dealing with it.
[…]

Hypothesis:
The US Religious right is putting the kibosh on NASA's mars missions, because they don't like NASA having maybe found signs of life on mars.

Specifically signs of chemosynthesis in sedimentary rocks.

#NASA #Mars #LifeOnMars #EverythingIsPolitical

I went to the Edinburgh Jazz Festival's carnival. I haven't been for several years. It was even more fun than I expected! And the sun came out.

Lots of exotic costumes from all around the world. It was wonderfully inclusive - just great to see people from so many nations getting on, supporting each other and just having fun. Everyone was smiling!

I took lots of pictures with my camera, and these with my phone.

#multiculturalism #Edinburgh #photography #FreePalestine #EverythingIsPolitical

Masterclass in Gaslighting: Israel's Victim Song @ Eurovision

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=phuxruHIABo

#artwashing #genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #esc2025 #eurovision2025 #EverythingIsPolitical #IndieNile #PalestineGenocide @palestine @israel

#politics as a concept is never not dangerous. It didn't just start to be this year or the last. If it did to you, you might google "solidarity" and check your #privileges

#intersectionality #marginalization #marginalisation #EverythingIsPolitical

I like some good craftivism.

"Eat the Rich" hat - free pattern

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/eat-the-rich

#knitting @knitting #fiberarts @fiberarts #craftivism #everythingispolitical

Since apparently it needs repeating:

Yes, capitalism is boiling the planet. Yes, it's capitalism and not some special, uniquely corrupted system that's somehow distinct from Real Pure Equitable Regulatable Non-Toxic Capitalism(TM). Yes, capitalism may have changed and gotten worse lately, but that doesn't mean its earlier iterations were at all redeemable. They all contributed to getting us to this planet-boiling point.

Stop defending the system that's killing millions and incubating multiple infectious diseases rather than disturb business as usual. Stop letting your friends defend it. Capitalism is biocide. Capitalism is death. Abbey was right: capitalism is the ideology of a cancer cell.

#capitalism #economics #politics #EverythingIsPolitical #degrowth

ONE HATH BLOGGED

The statements in this blogpost are me, noticing what beliefs I think I hold.

What do you call someone who stands by these?

https://courtcan.com/2024/02/06/what-do-you-call-someone-who-stands-by-these-statements/

#politics
#religion
#government
#EverythingIsPolitical
#community
#democracy
#production
#writing
#blogging