It had been so long since I’d had my work hanging in a gallery, and having a selection of my ‘Women of Discord’ on display in not just any gallery but a proper one in central Manchester did give me the feeling of being back on track after so many years of artistically floundering. Amongst […]
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Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies & star Ncuti Gatwa preview this season's Beatles episode - including how "copyright law" inspired it.
Been There, Smelled That explores the aromas of places around the world. Travel writer Maggie Downs investigates some of the world’s most potent smells, looks at how odor cultivates a connection to place, and presents how humans engage with smells, from scents that have endured generations to the latest innovations in aroma-making.
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My dad always said he could smell a storm coming.
When I was little, I thought this was just some folksy midwestern thing, similar to how my uncle would split a persimmon seed with a pocketknife to forecast the upcoming winter.
Now I know my dad’s saying to be true—in part because I do it too, flinging open the front door and sniffing the air to see what kind of weather is coming. But also because that’s how aromas work. Shifts in temperature, air currents, humidity, and barometric pressure all encourage odor molecules to circulate.
On a larger scale, those shifts mean that climate change alters what we smell. Like snow, for instance.
Teeing up a Trump election in the House You think the skies will go dark for four minutes today? How about for four years or permanently? For your Robert F. KennedyJr.-leaning friends. RFK Jr.’s New York director hates Democrats and Joe Biden so much that she dreams of seeing the 2024 presidential election decided for Trump in a GOP-led House. Whether or not this plan is far-fetched, it reflects nihilism masquerading as progress. Not unlike making America great again by demolishing the republic and replacing it with a Gileadish autocracy. How d’ya like that, libs? Somewhere in my dusty memory is a plot line in which someone plans their own suicide to look like a murder and configures the evidence to implicate a former lover(?). To hate someone that much…. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● For The Win, 5th Edition is ready for download. Request a copy of my free countywide GOTV planning guide at ForTheWin.us.
Russia’s Recklessness with Zaporizhzhia – Europe's Largest Nuclear Power Plant
1. If you give love, you will get love. But no pressure—only if you want to!
2. Peace starts inside you. And if you can’t get it to start, I can give you mine instead. Would be happy to!
3. Love is the greatest gift, though I’m sure any gift from you would be amazing. And if you didn’t get me a gift, that’s totally okay too. I probably made it really unclear that gifts are welcome. My bad.
4. The universe is made of pure joy, so don’t waste it. Hope that doesn’t sound too intense. I just mean that if you want joy, it’s definitely there for you to take—but only if you feel like it.
5. You only get one life, so live it the way you want to, but also don’t feel you have to listen to me. No stress if you want to do your thing.
6. Your joy can change the world, but I also know you’ve been super busy, so if this isn’t a good time to change the world, you can do it whenever is good for you. And if there isn’t a good time, it’s truly very okay.
7. Laughter is the soul cleansing itself—not that I think your soul needs cleansing. I’m just sharing this in case you want to cleanse it. And, anyway, I’m probably wrong, so never mind.
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A Team GB spokesperson told Nathan Jones-Sparkes that the British Olympic Association was very clear with the press that its new kit design would always feature the Union Jack
The Home Office has for several years run a programme to supply Mosques, temples and Synagogues with security equipment including CCTV cameras. This has recently been extended with more than £117m allocated for mosques, Muslim faith schools and community centres. This follows a £70m package for Jewish groups. The CCTV camera systems are installed through […]
The Israeli army is using an AI-assisted targeting system called Lavender in Gaza. Are we really willing to entrust an algorithm with the lives and deaths of human beings?
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While industry leaders plead poverty to fight a proposed staffing standard, private equity owners are funneling cash into their affiliated real estate and management firms.
As part of a another current project, which I will have more to say about soon, I was trawling through early Internet archives of the Post Keynesian Thought (PKT) listserv archives and was reminded that I began my degrowth journey many years ago. Going back in time and coming across things that one has written…
This is one of the stunning moments I will never forget: He wanted to keep his numbers down…
Channel 7 has taken a break from surfing the dark net for sex and drugs to call their favourite son, Bruce Lehrmann, to tell him he won’t be on this year’s Bachelor program but instead will be on SAS Australia.... Read More ›
Trump says he made over $50 million and maybe he did. But I think I’d wait for the fundraising reports to come in before treating that as a confirmed number. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but he tends to exaggerate a little bit. On the other hand, those crooked gazzilionaires really might have added a zero to their checks when they heard this: Donald Trump promised to keep billionaires’ taxes low at a fundraising dinner Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., held at the home of billionaire John Paulson. A Trump campaign official told NBC News that the former president “spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war.” NBC News requested to have a reporter present at the fundraiser, but the campaign refused. […] Some billionaires who abandoned Trump in the wake of Jan.
Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I Am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guantánamo Bay detention facility. As I was soon to discover, those two disparate events in my life spoke to one another with cosmic overtones. Mind you, I’ve been covering Guantánamo since President George W. Bush and his team, having responded to the 9/11 attacks by launching their disastrous “Global War on Terror,” set up that offshore prison to house people American forces had captured. Previewing Diaz’s movie, I was surprised at how it unnerved me. After so... Read more
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He’s not going to find it Trump told a rally audience last week that he would be coming up with a policy on abortion in the next week. (And yes, everyone made the same joke about “infrastructure week and health care reform in two weeks” joke when he did it.) But he does have to come up with something because his own people are waiting for the magic words he’s been promising that will put this whole thing to rest. Unfortunately for him, it’s not possible: Former President Donald Trump is vowing to solve the abortion dilemma that has dogged Republican candidates since the fall of Roe v. Wade with his singular dealmaking acumen. The presumptive Republican nominee, who has pledged to make a statement on abortion this week, has said for months that if elected he would “come together with all groups” and “negotiate something” that would “make both sides happy,” suggesting that “15 weeks seems to be a number that people are agreeing at.” “We’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years,” he said.
A uniquely Ukrainian strain of Neo-Nazism is spreading throughout Europe, which openly advocates violence against minorities while seeking new recruits. With Kiev’s army collapsing and a narrative of Western betrayal gaining currency, the horror inflicted on residents of Donbas for a decade could very soon be coming to a city near you. Centuria, an ultra-violent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi faction, has cemented itself in six cities across Germany, and is seeking to expand its local presence. According to Junge Welt, a Berlin-based […]
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It’s even more ghastly when you read the whole thing. I just thought I’d put this up as we go into the final week before the 2016 Stormy Daniels election fraud case begins on the 15th. Think about what he said and the fact that dozens of other women have accused him of the same thing and that he’s even been held liable for defamation and sexual assault for over 90 million dollars. The man is a reprehensible reprobate on a level we’ve never encountered in presidential politics — and we’ve had some real beauts when it comes to womanizing. This man is truly disgusting.