Excellent verse that became w BobVylan track?

One of the hardest tunes of 2020. Because it's nothing but canny to real people. An alternative anthem in early 2020.

A pre-Covid tune about the miserable nature of working for the British state, wirtreb in early 2020 and it's only gotten my funding perfect. Whether you like alt-folk, prog-metal or really anything else you should do the Richard Dawson thing.

Honest words are the hardest to pronounce They stick in your throat and refuse to leave your mouth I lost sense of myself whilst hiding from the truth Lost fifteen years of my life whilst hiding love from you

"Love is a fickle thing", that's what you said to me "You know you could be happy if you wanted to be" Hand-me-down love letters from those I've loved before I keep them hidden, those words mean nothing to me anymore

Everybody's heart breaks in the same way The beginning and the end are one and the same You don't have love if you're not scared to lose it We keep these secrets until they're dead and faded away

I had to hide it from you You wouldn't expect it from me I couldn't give it to you If you'd asked me I had to hide it from you You wouldn't expect it from me I couldn't give it to you If you'd asked me

Everybody's heart breaks in the same way The beginning and the end are one and the same You don't have love if you're not scared to lose it We keep these secrets until they're dead and faded away You might also like Death Goals in Cursive Death Goals Loveless Death Goals Who The Fuck Is Sarah Tonin? Death Goals For what it's worth I'm sorry I kept it from you I was just so scared Of accepting my own truth

Our love for each other Is buried in those woods (x...)

(Drums and badassery)

There's no love lost We hate your guts and you hate ours back We're not valid, we're not real But we have everything you lack

You're all pigs, ignorant, feral It's the year of the guillotine And these old gods are looking frail

You can't erase You can't erase our existence (x)

'Jews are predisposed to calling for genocide and it's part of our rich but often misunderstood quirky cultural heritage, but we can't actually do it, even when we are, because.... reasons' is one one hell of a take from a 'left' history professor and author:

As the author of ‘Jews and Words’, a book that celebrates the Jewish culture of debate and textuality, I must spell out something that the book didn’t mention, a negative aspect of our talkative legacy.

You may not like it, but here it is.

This morning’s proceedings in The Hague focus on genocidical talk in the Israeli public sphere. There are dozens of examples: ministers, Knesset members, influencers. Even the manipulative Netanyahu mentioned Amalek, the ancient people that the Bible singled out for eradication. Never mind that great rabbis have determined long ago that Amalek is obsolete, and the biblical verdict does not apply to any existing nation.

What stands on trial today is the ancient Jewish habit of speaking to each other as if no one else is listening. The Jewish habit of making extreme statements irresponsibly, unthoughtfully, without expecting any payback.

For so many centuries we have exercised a wild freedom of speech among ourselves, in our own languages, relying on our own argumentative balance mechanism: extremism and moderation may clash, and moderation usually triumphs. The House of Shammai is legitimate, but the House of Hillel, the moderates, usually wins. Israeli verbal culture inherited this freedom. But Israel is also a liberal democracy and member of the global community. Most of the loudmouths crying Genocide and Amalek are not aware of the profound dissonance, the huge damage, the justified outrage. Some don’t care.

Only a small minority wants actual genocide in Gaza and are morally crippled enough to carry it through: the extreme national-religious right. The fact that Netanyahu allowed these thugs into his government and echoes their discourse is an eternal blot on Jewish history.

Our disputative, wordy culture deserves to be celebrated, but it must denounce its dangerous outcrop of inciters to blind violence. Their Amalekite speech has become too viable to bear. Too doable.

No, Israel is not conducting genocide. But its ongoing rant about “flattening Gaza” is no longer a quaint side effect of our argumentative heritage.

It is a crime, a travesty and a harrowing blow to the best of Jewish traditions.

Later, from her responses:

This horrific, dirty, ugly war is not genocide. If that was our intention, Gaza would cease to exist on 8/10 and 500 of our soldiers would still be alive.

Ah yes, genocide has to be the instantaneous Thanos-like removal of a population just like it was in Germany during the... errrr....

In news that won't surprise people paying attention at the time but has finally been 'noticed' by news reporting (the way British media usually operates), the funds for Starmer's leadership election including illegal donations, breaches of electoral law, and a shady slush fund from shady interests.

I linked the Novara article as the Sunday Times original is behind a paywall, plus there's some other links for context.

What's interesting to me is why this is reaching the surface of the British media now. The press hedging it's bets in case the dissent in the Tory party does take down Rishi? Plausible deniability as they grow uncomfortable with Labour's massive polling lead? A warning shot for some perceive recent sleight?

Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, has a strange reaction to a student at a 'fireside chat' recruitment even standing up and saying her name. She's then asked about Accenture's investments in fossil fuels and arms companies supporting Israel. But the questionnaire how scared and paranoid are these people in general? What are they being told by advisors and private security?

George Grosz was a fascinating and viceral painter, deeply scarred and influenced by his experience serving in the first world war, before he was discharged and left with psychiatric problems and a serious drinking problem. Many of his paintings from that period deal explictly with the horrors of war and the human cost juxtaposed against societal conflict.

His later work saw him fined by the German government and some of his collections ordered destroyed as they became more satrical and focused upon what he saw as the hypocracy of those that advocate for such violence - things like preachers vomiting grenades and Jesus being forced into conscription.

He also went to Russia in the 1920s, where he was initially detained as a spy, but released when proven not to be and even met Lenin. He lived in the US for most of his life after the '30s but eventually returned to Berlin, where he died falling down the stairs one night drunk.

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This is Thanet Parkway.

No ticket office, no information point, no staff, about as wide as a balance beam and less vibrant than a self-storage complex. It was supposed to cost £11m but somehow ended up spiralling to over £35m.

Southeastern Railways is on Twitter trying to answer or deflect angry questions, predominantly from disabled people, explaining the ever more complicated and absurd ways disabled people can 'request' assistance in using the station.

It's important to note that most of their answers rely on just saying that the trains on that line have conductors on the trains themselves who can help, at a time when both the government and the rail companies are pushing for DOO trains (Driver Operater Only i.e. no train staff apart from the driver who is not allowed to leave their cabin).

They've also been asked numerous times for the dimensions of the platform so that disabled users can check if there is enough space for their wheelchairs / mobility scooters. This is the only question they have repeatedly ignored.

It also appears that the station, which many local politicians have argued was not required, may have been promised as part of a deal with a housing developer to increase the value of the development they were building. Which is a whole other can of worms.

Kim Philby was an MI6 agent who had been working for the KGB since college. The man looked like a young Noam Chomsky, but spent his career fucking over MI6, the CIA, and notably Stephen Bandera's fascist 'resistance' movement in Ukraine.

Despite some gross but typical ingrained excuses for Western fascism...

When his forces reached the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, they found thousands of political prisoners had been slaughtered by the Soviets.

In retaliation, they joined the Gestapo in murdering thousands of Jews and Poles in the Lviv Pogrom. It is estimated that around one and a half million Jews were killed in Ukraine during the Holocaust.

The article is pretty damn good and talks frankly about Bandera and the UK/US effectively working with Nazis and spin-off fash as well as that legacy being celebrated in modern Ukraine.

I don't think it's smuggling in positive propoganda by stealth though. Just an accurate account and that reality, especially then, had a Soviet bias.

Also, Kim Philby Soviet stamp emoji when?