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Someone should ask him who invented the numerals he uses to count tapeworms in his sewage milk.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here”

The golden birches of Glen Feshie #Scotland #GlenFeshie #Cairngorms #Rothiemurchus www.damianshields.com

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Woke up to the news from Brasil and Serbia and this popped right into my head. youtu.be/NxFGrkwqZPk?...

📌 ICYMI — John Berger at 100 — @peterjukes.bsky.social Peter Jukes celebrates the centenary of the birth of John Berger – one of the figures who inspires Byline Times’ analysis on the ideas we think…

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

This is hands down the dumbest defense I've ever heard of Trump's economy by one of his own advisors. Stacey Abrams and I discuss.

Just got out of Wildwood with zero expectations going in. Best I can describe it is if Jim Henson's Labyrinth took place inside Princess Mononoke as a modern day Grimm's Fairy Tales. It's dark and takes the violence of its world with deadly seriousness. It's an absolute masterpiece. 10/10.

“Red sky in the morning/Shepherd’s warning”? No sign of the storm yet, apart from the red sky.

childhood is scary. your clothes, food, home, schedule, and friends are dictated by your guardians. you can't control your body yet. the world is full of mysteries; when you don't understand them and ask about it, people treat you like you're stupid. horror is intuitive to children.

Kurt Vonnegut, From 'Slaughterhouse Five'

‘Darling, you’re in Scotland now, they have their own ways there!’

The defence secretary telling the public to stockpile in case of emergency, but not for anything in particular, just for one of the many shit things that could happen that we have no real state plan for, really does capture the mood of times

While we're talking about Dwight Eisenhower...

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This painting by the artist Adriaen Coorte, made in 1699, shows a simple bunch of dramatically lit asparagus, on a stone shelf. Still life paintings of food, often called Vanitas, were a common theme in Dutch art in the 17th century and alluded to moral themes such as the brevity of life.

Hey y'all--There are signs the flu season is off to an unusually early start. This means I would amend my typical "by Halloween" advice-*now* is a good time to get your vaccine if you haven't already. Protection takes about 2 weeks to build up. Stay well! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Hans Hoffmann of Nuremberg, Munich, & Prague. Painted after nature & after Durer. Here, hedgehog.

Yeni bir şey pişiyor. Kelimeler, cümleler, sahneler birbirine bağlanıyor. Karakterler doğuyor, konuşuyor, aşık bile oluyorlar. Henüz hepsi kâğıt üzerinde. Ama her an her şey olabilir. “Bizi izlemeye devam edin!” ☺️

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Enoki Toshiyuki [榎俊幸] (Japanese, b. 1961, Tokyo, Japan) - Black Cat Paintings

Absolutely beautifully put. 👇

Harvey Keitel and Romy Schneider in Death Watch (1980). In a future where dying of illness is very rare, terminally ill Katherine Mortenhoe becomes a celebrity and Roddy, a man with camera implants in his brain, secretly records her for a morbid TV show called Death Watch.

This morning. #glasgow #kelvinway

How an opposition news channel in Turkey mysteriously ended its broadcast about the latest financial scandal and switched, during the breakfast show hour, to scenes boasting the Turkish countryside. Halk TV has state-appointed administrators this morning.

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Seeing the original Pride flag, dyed, stitched and flown by Gilbert Bake et al was a magical moment. This piece of fabric is blazing beacon of hope for so many of us, our gayeaux tapestry, telling our stories and proclaiming our existence. It's in Cork Public Museum at the moment :)

Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad (1961) represents the ultimate instance of narrative ambiguity. The objectivity of an encounter between a man and a woman is rendered unknowable through ambiguous flashbacks and disorienting temporal and spatial shifts.

Time, Series 3 on BBC is wonderful. Better than many feature films I saw recently. I watched first 2 episodes last night and Episode 3 killed me tonight. Wow.

My admiration for Zelenskyy is off the scale. The word "hero" doesn't come close.

It's amazing to see George Carlin predict our truly shitty current situation here in America, decades ago in his stand-up. The man was a genius and a prophet. Damn, I miss him.

Can we take just a few seconds to acknowledge the birth of a new classic meme

Animaris Rex is an 18-metre-long walking 'beach animal' propelled by the wind, created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. Original post

The artist and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian traveled to Suriname in 1699 to paint animals in watercolor. Her work introduced European readers to creatures they had never seen before, Susan Tallman writes.

How strange! Alt-Right bot activity being reported as nosediving after Ukraine bombed the shit out Russia’s data centres. What a bizarre coincidence!

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What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

The Kremlin intelligence psyop that has been poisoning American politics for decades is literally burning. Ukraine removed all the Russian bots on social media just in time for the US midterm election. Ukraine really is defending the entire free world! Thank you, Ukraine! 💛💙 x.com/youranoncent...

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

Yes, you read that right. The late horror writer, Peter Straub, once defined evil like this: "A flabby jealous devil of the second rate, flaunting itself." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.” [anyhumanever.com]

Pure evil, and anyone who engages with or watches or shares is a goddamned sociopathic ghoul.

A strangely beautiful film: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. www.imdb.com/video/vi4178...

This evening's sunset behind the fairground rides on South Street in Glasgow. #glasgow #sunset #fairground #glasgowtoday #silhouette

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