🔎 From the archive: Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network — Matt Bernardini
🔁 Relevant again: Robinson back in Moscow, promoting violence in the UK again
Everyone using X - including the UK government - is facilitating this neo-Nazi's calls for violence in the UK. This is morally indefensible. Just stop already.
Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.
#haiku #flowers #peony #BlueSkyPoets #photography
Watch the earthquake waves from the M7.8 earthquake in the Philippines as they were detected by seismometers across North America.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
A pearl is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand.
What longing built our bodies and around what grains?
- #KhalilGibran, 'Sand and Foam'
Standard stage magician's misdirection trick
Even accepting his definition of “learning” here means acquiring novel data, it’s notable that he doesn’t seem to think you can learn valuable things about YOURSELF.
Also he’s flat wrong even then, as anyone who’s found the first record of a species in a particular range on iNaturalist can attest.