tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52378072024-02-19T08:41:51.566+00:00somediscosasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comBlogger4742125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-75647027223082289002023-03-06T09:59:00.000+00:002023-03-06T09:59:10.265+00:00'The facts of the joint Anglo-Saudi assault on Yemen are beyond question.'sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-14521836555763846862023-03-03T17:26:00.002+00:002023-03-03T17:26:45.611+00:00 OF COURSE IT'S NURSE LED WHO ELSE WOULD DO IT PROPERLYsasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-41013043268938596142022-11-04T20:18:00.000+00:002022-11-04T20:18:05.603+00:00We Albanians are just the latest scapegoats for Britain's failing ideological projectLea Ypi"...and brain drain is an open wound" additionally, evoked, specifically Filipino healthcare workers, immediately, at this end, for [gestures] reasons.And, more obviously threaded through the above's opening, Kadare's Linda B.YMMV etc (there's the rub)sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-13474547198285314592022-10-25T14:30:00.000+01:002022-10-25T14:30:04.992+01:00Very impressive speech from Sunak, sober, serious, everything Truss was not.Most importantly, the grim look on his face - refusing rightly to smile - underlined a new approach.— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) October 25, 2022
Court journalism.sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-17828421436001004912022-04-13T11:03:00.000+01:002022-04-13T11:03:01.756+01:00'By 2030, about 250 million people may experience high water stress in Africa,
with up to 700 million people displaced as a result'sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-76141662313111535932021-10-02T00:16:00.000+01:002021-10-02T00:16:05.474+01:00Fuck the Police by Mona Eltahawysasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-44750684011482024662021-09-15T22:40:00.001+01:002021-09-15T22:40:39.731+01:00 Horace's chickpea, lagane and leek soupsasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-34818398383428628312021-08-26T12:36:00.000+01:002021-08-26T12:36:10.408+01:00 climate (in)justice in Madagascarsasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-3057120454844128892021-07-16T00:52:00.002+01:002021-07-16T00:52:51.613+01:00RIP Dawn Fostersasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-33273258945836040052020-12-15T21:09:00.000+00:002020-12-15T21:09:08.907+00:00My family are Mununjali, from Beaudesert, part of the Yugambeh language group of the Scenic Rim and Gold Coast. South East Queensland is my home.sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-82957745475592078492020-06-13T10:45:00.000+01:002020-06-13T10:45:10.433+01:00Today’s featured work is another self-portrait, this time by the 17th century Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, Salvator Rosa.
Philosophy, about 1645
Salvator Rosa, 1615-1673
Oil on canvas, 116.3 x 94cm
Presented by the 6th Marquis of Lansdowne in memory of his father, 1933
© The National Gallery, Londonsasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-49359908043732931622020-05-10T12:39:00.000+01:002020-05-10T12:39:05.384+01:00Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose deliberately mixed messages. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose encircling individual politicians whilst being careful to shore up the wider Tory-liberal project. Choose waving away a decade of austerity. Choose your friends. Choose "counting is an inexact science". Choose precarity. Choose blaming sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-5128956181799010112020-04-23T17:42:00.001+01:002020-04-23T17:42:19.148+01:00Siri what is a cold chain?sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-7544085112889691182020-04-18T16:38:00.001+01:002020-04-18T16:38:58.803+01:00Of the many things it might be nice to brand on the foreheads of U.K. legacy media names, some public figures and various politicians etc. at the moment, our first submission is Stephanie Brittain:
The drivers and impacts of hunting and consumption of wild meat are not homogenous, and should not be treated as such
[link]sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-7725835102397962622020-03-21T16:29:00.002+00:002020-03-21T16:29:55.899+00:00Ingar Solty synthesises some aspects of coronavirus foregrounding here.
The claim that Spain and Italy are EU-peripherally analogous to the particularly stricken Greece seems off but given the forensics on what Cindi Katz might note as 'broad retreats from the social wage', his Engels from The Housing Question is quite the summary
Capitalist rule cannot allow itself the pleasure of creating sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-82052913138671011752019-04-09T18:36:00.000+01:002019-04-09T18:36:17.246+01:00Privilege
Into this sky which has
more airplanes
than other skies
I look and see half a dozen
small whitenesses passing
like tired stars
through the blue. I watch them
instead of watching
the woman swimming
in an oversized T-shirt that clings
to her body like slime, instead of
seeing the child splashing
in his inflatable sleeves
while his parents puff on
elaborate e-cigarettes.
Instead of sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-53294823293657086662019-03-23T22:37:00.002+00:002019-03-23T22:37:53.763+00:00an inland sea
living in the seasasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-82631385405398670372019-03-18T18:08:00.000+00:002019-03-18T18:08:21.689+00:00Beira.sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-92170744797911073432018-08-10T19:56:00.000+01:002018-08-10T19:56:33.499+01:00I study decision-making in violent contexts, and I was struck by Paul Bloom’s assertion that perpetrators of violence don’t dehumanize their victims but, rather, see them as humans and intentionally choose to harm them as such (Books, November 27th). Bloom seems to assume that one’s reasons for acting violently are consistent over time, and that the physical and mental responses to harming sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-2161344611622895832018-05-19T00:42:00.003+01:002018-05-19T00:44:08.930+01:00shout to someone who does more for me than they will ever know - probably the most of anyone ever bar well i'll stop now
(also double-bind of white privilege here in casually using the below, and yet still)
sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-38695672698116472902018-01-13T18:00:00.001+00:002018-01-13T18:00:23.570+00:00sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-65092663641452322582017-05-09T11:10:00.000+01:002017-05-09T11:10:57.240+01:00Miss Theenie stood watching. One by one, her children had left her and gone up north. Sam and Cleve to Ohio. Josie to Syracuse. Irene to Milwaukee. Now the man Miss Theenie had tried to keep Ida Mae from marrying in the first place was taking her away, too. Miss Theenie had no choice but to accept it and let Ida Mae and the grandchildren go for good. Miss Theenie drew them close to her, as she sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-66114315631419063962017-03-26T12:56:00.000+01:002017-03-26T12:56:52.868+01:00'in Lafcadio Hearn's travel narrative Two Years in the French West Indies in 1889. Hearn keeps asking what the Creole word means: he is told, variously, that it is a three-legged horse, a hanged man, a five-foot tall dog, or a fourteen-foot tall woman.'
Roger Luckhurst (2015).sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-68381288452191991372017-03-16T18:10:00.001+00:002017-03-16T18:10:31.778+00:00Nasreen gathered the food quickly, but she, too, noticed a series of odd smells carried into the house by the wind. 'At first, it smelled bad, like garbage,' she said. 'And then it was a good smell, like sweet apples. Then like eggs.' Before she went downstairs, she happened to check on a caged partridge that her father kept in the house. 'The bird was dying,' she said. 'It was on its side.' She sasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5237807.post-22080718679240001402017-03-14T17:36:00.000+00:002017-03-14T17:36:35.367+00:00Social grants are, in many senses, the glue holding families and communities together
Chris Webb on the social grants crisis in South Africasasosashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056665116244500993noreply@blogger.com