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August vs September

Literally reading Moby Dick (via Metcalf's Genoa) when this cloud swims by.

I hope your adblocker doesn't catch this one.

Orcutt Shelley Miller is the best live band since sliced tea.

PSA: penultimate does NOT mean super-duper-ultimate

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

A watershed moment to flush all those turds away. I'm so happy, I could cry.

Kazuhito Yamashita (1961 - 2026)

Bandcamp bans AI music

Georg Elser, after the interrogation by the Gestapo in 1939, following his assassination attempt on Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess, Rosenberg, Streicher & Ley. If it weren't for the fog, Elser would have single-handedly prevented the greatest failure of mankind. (1/10)

20 songs Steve Albini posted two years ago today exactly (plus a fortnight plus a day). Here as a playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How am I only the 300th person to see this? Nina Nastasia has released another wonderful album (and 3 music videos) and I'm only finding out about it 3 months later. She's bypassing the streaming platforms, selling it only direct-to-fan via bandcamp: ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

Today, Japan celebrates Mountain Day for the tenth time. The kanji character for "eight" (八) looks like a mountain, 11 like two trees, so naturally August 11 became a new public holiday dedicated to: appreciating mountains. I just like that.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched (doing this by the book for once)

How I wish I lived in a world where anything meant anything anymore. Where an 11,000 word article on how you sacrificed the lives of tens of thousands for your own personal gain would be a career-ender. How long would Watergate stay in the news today? Surely not long enough for Nixon to resign.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

#lastfour #letterboxdfifthofjuly

Five things to remember about war:

Wonderful evening

Please help me bang the drum: @forbidden-stories.bsky.social should have a billion followers. They're a nonprofit dedicated to continuing the work of journalists who've been imprisoned/abducted/murdered for their work. Their investigations (on Gaza, Ukraine...) are invaluable & free to read here:

Forbidden Stories has long documented attacks on the media and exposed how Israeli forces have sought to evade accountability, through cross-border investigations like the #GazaProject. Today, alongside 130+ global press freedom leaders, we join the urgent call for immediate access to Gaza.

Please help me bang the drum: @forbidden-stories.bsky.social should have a billion followers. They're a nonprofit dedicated to continuing the work of journalists who've been imprisoned/abducted/murdered for their work. Their investigations (on Gaza, Ukraine...) are invaluable & free to read here:

The least streamed song on Rich Dawson's new album might be my favourite song of 2025. Mountains of finger food, flutes of fizz Billowing bunting my self-loathing is A purse full of bile whose drawstrings are this cheery smile "How've you been getting on?" Sausage rolls and vol-au-vents

"deal" is a magic word, part of the Trumpian spell, but vacuous. Challenge to reporters: write the news, especially regarding Ukraine, without using it.

This is the only white noise video that drowns out the subwoofer array of the travelling circus across the road. Spare a thought for those poor dromedaries, torn from the tranquil wadi into the eternal noise of electronic tightrope music.

Beatrice Rana's incredible new recording of Bach's keyboard concertos. Check it out for her wonderful, effortless playing, & the communal, joyous atmosphere, & the rare balance between modern piano and the small string orchestra of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. 10/10

The literal motto of the EU: United in Diversity

The current state of the used Tesla market in Germany

[Fucking kill him (2x) Kill him already kill him] (3x) Just Fucking kill him (2x) Fucking kill him already kill him Fucking kill him (2x) Kill him already kill him Kill him already (2x) "Just" breaks the regular pattern, a disturbance reflected in a later trochee & epizeuxis w/ "fucking kill him".

We're gonna tear your playhouse down

We need to build a European Silicon Valley and actively recruit highly trained scientists and professionals who don't feel at home in the US anymore. Build the reservoir, pump and pipes for their brain drain. So much potential.

Someone on reddit made English subtitles for Claude Malhuret's powerful speech at the French Senate. Truly one for the history books.

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[Fucking kill him (2x) Kill him already kill him] (3x) Just Fucking kill him (2x) Fucking kill him already kill him Fucking kill him (2x) Kill him already kill him Kill him already (2x) "Just" breaks the regular pattern, a disturbance reflected in a later trochee & epizeuxis w/ "fucking kill him".

22 Feb 1943 - Sophie Scholl's last words: "Such a fine, sunny day and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred into action?"

Elser was executed in Dachau, on April 9, 1945 - like many other prominent dissidents - as Hitler's regime collapsed. For years, Nazi propaganda and conspiracy theories obscured his legacy. But Georg Elser, acting alone, came closer than anyone to saving millions from war and genocide. (10/10)

Ungedeckte Schecks in Wahlprogrammen. ifo-Institut (!) zeigt jetzt auch große Finanzierungslücken bei BSW, AfD, FDP und CDU.

Two ways to misread satire: 1. Take it literally. 2. Dismiss the earnest within. The tenderness of "where her garments come together, where I used to lay my face" is still as tender. And that second half - when you listen to it today - you just can't help but feel it deep in your guts.

Wir erinnern an Regina Rivka Becher, Max Meir Blum, Leopold Arie Leib Gimpel, David Jakubowicz, Siegfried Offenbacher, Georg Eljakim Pfau und Rosa Drucker. Sie starben bei dem antisemitischen Anschlag auf das Wohnheim der Jüdischen Gemeinde am 13. Februar 1970 in München.

Glory to Ukraine.

Americans love to tell each other that, if they had a time-machine, they'd kill baby Hitler. They say that because it's - conveniently - impossible. When their actual present-time government builds an actual concentration camp for immigrants, they can't even be bothered to show up to a protest.

In early 1939, Elser began gathering materials for his bomb. He stole explosives and detonators from a quarry where he worked and hid them in a false-bottom suitcase. In his parents' orchard, he tested prototypes, refining a timer mechanism to ensure precision. (5/10)

"At least 1,426,000 people have demonstrated against the right across Germany since the beginning of the year."

300,000 against fascism Bravo, München! ❤️

Bit tired of people compiling evidence like they're unravelling some grand mystery. The case is long solved. They never tried to hide it: They're taking away your rights. They're coming for all of them, one by one, till it's over. So put away your calabash pipe and stand in their fucking way.

mood