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#BBCLauraK asks Sherbert Madmoo what she thought about Primal Scream combing the Star of David with the Swastika.
This can be seen clearly in this video.
And as much as I deplore the political entity of Israel, this projection during their song Swastika Eyes is antisemitic. It should be called out for what it is.
We don't need unhelpful drama like this from stupid pop stars
Girri loves rain.
She danced in the rain, did mighty wingers and felt the strong wind beneath her wings.
No pics of that as rain fell on the cameras making pics all blurry.
But the afterwards bedraggled look is so in focus.
#PeregrineFalcons in #OrangeNSW
nobody: who cries over a broken old phone?
me: *wiping the tears* no one but only me. 😮💨
What would a replacement cost you? Or a repair, but i think for yours that would cost more.
Might help if people had a dollar goal (I'm not sure but it seems to work for other folks)
I won't be able to help until *maybe* the end of January...i keep getting unexpected costs too 😔
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#ArtAdventCalendar 2025 Day 13: lightning crack.
I made this berry strainer in my first pottery class last year and it cracked when I bisque fired it. 😭 I set it aside while I worked on other things . . .
. . . and then, a couple of months ago, it struck me: a lightning crack! ⚡
#pottery #ceramics #MyWork #ArtAdventCalendarKZeta
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Here’s your yearly reminder to watch the best Christmas movie ever made.
I said what I said: BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVER MADE. 👻🎄
Morning everyone. Forgot to say that earlier. Hi. I've decided to behave as if I'm sick and need to just spend the day under a blanket with a cup of tea, because I kind of am sick, I just don't have an infection but I'm still a variety of poorly.
Hope you're all feeling better than I am.
Hayley Williams Is Independent at Last
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Hayley Williams is Paste's Artist of the Year
In August, Hayley Williams dropped 17 singles out of nowhere. Since then, Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party has become one of the year’s most beloved pop albums.Matt Mitchell (Jezebel)
Need For Speed Map IRL
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Need For Speed Map IRL
When driving around in video games, whether racing games like Mario Kart or open-world games like GTA, the game often displays a mini map in the corner of the screen that shows where the vehicle is…Hackaday
Game: Smeshariki: Kaleidoscope of Games 2 (Windows) (gamerip) (2007)
Song: chpok1
#music #videogames #gaming #gamemusic
Azerbaijan’s natural gas export to Greece rises in 10M2025
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Glasgow Warriors' stunning comeback victory over Toulouse in the Investec Champions Cup will do wonders for their confidence, says fly-half Adam Hastings.Andy Burke (BBC Sport)
#position : the spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place
- French: une position
- German: die Position
- Italian: posizione
- Portuguese: posição
- Spanish: posición
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King Charles gives post box to Antarctic research staff
The King sends a new post box to the remote station, where actual letters are seen as a "real lift".Helen Burchell (BBC News)
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Totts • • •On the topic of unhelpful things, I normally try to avoid this kind of name-based insult. People don’t get to choose their names and it is very easy to cross the line into the racist thing of refusing to call people with ‘foreign-sounding’ names by their correct name.
Her actions and speech are both deplorable, her name is not.
Totts
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •fair point. I approach if from a position of humour rather than insult. It was @normjess who first coined the expression.
Amusingly, and I do mean amusingly, #Frogface seems to be an understood moniker for Farage
Some people like @HarriettMB now use a 🐸 to identify him
Nothing to do with foreign sounding names
Tiny Blair
Cardboard Boy
I can not help myself
I engage in self-depreciation by "Totts" My partner, with humour, calls me Totty
I live in a very rich town
pookiesorcery
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Unknown parent • • •@HarriettMB @david_chisnall @normjess
Randy Andy
Darryl Hall and John the Other One
I guess we have always done this ...
GLC
in reply to Totts • • •It is a bit offensive, perhaps, that the state of Israel uses a religious symbol so centrally in its national flag, but there seem to be about 25 countries using a cross, and about 11 with a crescent, which I believe originated in Byzantium but is now considered a religious symbol. So while I'm not keen on conflating political and religious identity, we're a long way from outgrowing it.
Totts
in reply to GLC • • •@glc I make strenuous efforts to cleave the secular from the religious
In that way, no one can play the cheap card of AS as they did against Corbyn and destroyed his campaign
GLC
in reply to Totts • • •I'm not understanding how that plays out in this particular case.
Though I'm simply looking at what's posted and not familiar with, say, any of the group's past history.
Also, I'm based in the US. We have our dog whistles here, as we call them, and I'm more familiar with the context in such cases. But I do try to understand the situation in the UK.
Totts
in reply to GLC • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
Unknown parent • • •@normjess @HarriettMB
They do. Deliberately picking some insulting English words that sound a bit like someone's name is a common racist strategy to other people. And they then follow up with 'it's just a joke,' 'it's all in good fun,' and 'they should grow a thicker skin'.
I don't believe you (or @Geri ) intended it in this way, but when you use the same tactics as racists then you normalise them. And you hear about the experiences of folks like Diane Abbott and Sadiq Khan, where it starts with this kind of name calling and escalates. And when people call out the racists, they hide behind 'everyone on your side does it too!' And they can, because there are lots of examples.
Blonde Goth Jessica 🏳️⚧️ :antifa:
Unknown parent • • •@david_chisnall @HarriettMB
I get your point, I'm sure racists twist names like Mahmood and use them as insults
but I was disrespecting the name of someone who's doing incredible harm to immigrant communities I stand in solidarity with - as we speak
if you are concerned about some knock on effect to people with the same name I get that
it will never be my first line of attack, I am a person who goes on long policy based rants and only resorts to name calling when I'm spent and still raging
but we might also put ourselves in a corner where it becomes very hard - for people not as eloquent as me - to talk shit about someone who may be the next Labour Leader off the back of a mass deportation nightmare and take our politics down a very dark path indeed
some people need to be torn down in the public square - not by racism, by derision
its usually good advice to NOT copy me, so feel free to rise above, ignore me, cast me out - it wont be the first time x
Totts
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •Totts
Unknown parent • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Totts • • •@normjess @HarriettMB
It looks like @normjess has blocked me, so I can't see what that reply was. Oh well.
Totts
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •@david_chisnall @HarriettMB He has blocked me too. Frankly, David, the ad hom aspect of any argument is fallacious. I took him to task for using that. He, knowing I was right, decided to block rather than apologise.
I hold you in esteem, and I don't take kindly to you being casually insulted.
Xx
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Totts • • •@HarriettMB
I don’t feel insulted by being described as a fortunate cis guy. I have been Director of Studies in Computer Science at an all-women Cambridge College and sat on the Diversity and Inclusion Council for Microsoft Research (global). In both of these, I’ve worked with people who have faced the kind of prejudice and discrimination that I have been very fortunate to never have had to face.
No one has ever told me that boys can’t program. No one ever casually excluded me from attending a maths, physics, or computing after-school activity because they assumed boys wouldn’t be interested.
I’ve never been told that things I want to do are not appropriate for white folks. I’ve never been in a room where everyone laughed at my name and mispronounced it. I’ve never had people assume I’m stupid because of my caste.
Marrying the person I wanted to was uncontroversial. Holding hands in public does not expo
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I don’t feel insulted by being described as a fortunate cis guy. I have been Director of Studies in Computer Science at an all-women Cambridge College and sat on the Diversity and Inclusion Council for Microsoft Research (global). In both of these, I’ve worked with people who have faced the kind of prejudice and discrimination that I have been very fortunate to never have had to face.
No one has ever told me that boys can’t program. No one ever casually excluded me from attending a maths, physics, or computing after-school activity because they assumed boys wouldn’t be interested.
I’ve never been told that things I want to do are not appropriate for white folks. I’ve never been in a room where everyone laughed at my name and mispronounced it. I’ve never had people assume I’m stupid because of my caste.
Marrying the person I wanted to was uncontroversial. Holding hands in public does not expose us to a risk of hate crimes. No court has ever tried to rule that I can’t go into the toilet for people who look like me based on a school-level misunderstanding of biology.
And that’s why I make it a goal to help shape a society where that’s not an experience confined to a subset of the population.
Totts
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •@david_chisnall @HarriettMB
Strange how misogyny is a commonplace word, but for a man-hater: misandrist, philogynist? I wonder if there is a bias in language to things that are male, more words to describe things from a male point of view. Is there a male equivalent of bitch? Men are rarely described as abrasive.
As Thomas Hardy said: "It is hard for a woman to describe her worries and woes in language which is mainly made by men to express theirs"
That's an experience for 1/2 the planet.
ilias 🏴☠️💙💛
in reply to Totts • • •"Sherbert Madmoo" – wow fine Islamophobia.
though I didn't expect much from so-called "progressives" like you who in reality support terrorists and antisemites while pretending to be antiracist.