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Once an astronomer, then a unix geek, now a writer of maritime non-fiction and historical fiction. Greenie on Bunurong country. Glass art avatar by Annie Rie.
My websitehttps://seabooks.net
The longer this drags on the more I resent everyone everywhere who resisted attempts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
@AnnaAnthro
For drama though, got to be Longest Day in Chang’an ...
@cstross Someone once said that the proper way to understand Art of War is to picture Sun Tzu rubbing his temples the whole time and exasperatedly saying to some rich failson prince, "I can't believe I have to say this but here we go again".

“Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.”

These fucking women-hating weirdo assholes.

I used to think my nemesis was the finance bro. My mistake. It's the Tech Bro. Specifically, this kind.

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

The New Republic

I'm not a fan of colorisation, but this colorised version of the legendary and phenomenal Nicholas Brothers Jumpin' Jive routine from Stormy Weather actually does give it the clarity and lift it deserves. No matter how many times I watch this I am still staggered that they (a) did it at all and (b) did it in ONE TAKE
#Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMbeDhG9fU

Stormy Weather in color - The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway | Colorized with DeOldify

The Nicholas Brothers' tap dance scene from the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943). Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing "Jumpin' Jive".✒ Subscribe to our ch...

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Trump’s middle-of-the-night Australian intervention drips with hypocrisy

The US president’s sympathy for the Iranian women’s soccer team in Australia comes despite his administration deporting plane loads of people back to Iran and into potential peril.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own

The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

Truthout

Israeli lobbying group “UN Watch” spread #disinformation about #FrancescaAlbanese, trying to silence her condemnations of the true “common enemy of humanity”—the illegal system of oppressive, corporate-media-military and #surveillance forces shaping a brutal new world order, and now bombing #Iran.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/04/francesca-albanese-gaza-and-the-military-propaganda-nexus-behind-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran/

#Gaza #Militaryindustrialcomplex #Palestine

Francesca Albanese, Gaza, and the Military-Propaganda Nexus Behind the US-Israeli War on Iran

When Francesca Albanese began to expose the big picture of expanding military domination, and warned of its global consequences, the campaign to discredit her went into high gear. The latest attacks on the Special Rapporteur came in response to a videotape appearance she made at a conference in Doha where she argued that this growing systemic threat should be viewed as a “common enemy of humanity.”

CounterPunch.org
@plsik @noctuaminervae No, they're American Christian Nationalists; this bullshit is part of their religious doctrine, and has been for several decades—they have a convoluted to-do list in order to invite Jesus to return, and blowing up the middle east is part of the agenda.