Anndra
@anndra.bsky.social
Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based He/him/e
The Marx quote came up and it always makes me think of one of the GOAT tweets
![Tweet by Joe Kerr @societylivr1984:
There's an old saying in Schelling-I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling-that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
[Attached is a photo of George W Bush at a microphone]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:455ovagdvxrpidbm2mevqj3q/bafkreiarl4osuzbgobzdw4k6afhtiyeagkeezhoas5gsao6hn73etyldxa)
Yes, I forgot Sunak wasn’t PM and was the Chancellor at the time, I’ve got holes in my head, Rishi then became PM because the man that burnt people and money to Moloch was rewarded by the media, he killed people, the man killed people
If we’re discussing covid, back in August 2020 the Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, introduced a programme that subsidised £850m for people to congregate in enclosed spaces and get infected with the disease that killed people, then the state broadcaster depicted him as a superhero
![Initially, Yasuhiro Imagawa was brought on board to direct.[3][1] He is credited with coining the word "escaflowne", a Latin-based derivative of the word "escalation", that would be used in the title.[3][1] Imagawa imagined a series that was heavily male-oriented and would feature a shapely heroine and dramatic battles.[1] However, he left the project before production started to direct Mobile Fighter G Gundam.[1] Without a director, the series was put on hold and Kawamori left to work on other projects. After two years, Sunrise revisited the project and brought in relative newcomer Kazuki Akane as the new director.[3][1] To broaden the potential audience, Akane decided to add more girl-oriented elements to the series. The suggestive elements were removed, several of the male characters were given more "beautiful boy" appearances, and the plot element around the tarot cards were added.[3][1] Akane also redesigned Hitomi, taking her from a curvy, air-headed, long-haired girl with glasses to a slim, athletic, short-haired and more intelligent and confident girl.[3][1]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l6ptfyxmm7th6oqxn53zmgzr/bafkreidtarhpyu6kl4mmavejkgytqznjtwf2imgjhpqf7sbgwcqa7ak54u)
Amnesty UK have apologised to JK Rowling for rightfully calling out her anti-rights rhetoric. Shame on them. A human rights organisation should not cave to pressure from billionaires, especially those who wish to make supporting human rights a terrorist offence. xoxo BASH BACK
this new google feature is bonkers but I get strong Weird Freak vibes from the article writer who seems very concerned about the potential for people using it to falsely accuse Israel of bombing hospitals in Gaza
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d agoAbsolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
they’re creating a GENIE… a GENIE that can grant… ANY WISH. I love to hear that the entire economy depends on CREATING A GENIE. Sign me up, buster! Invest my retirement account in the GENIE MACHINE that can grant ANY WISH
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
KING EDWARD: i expect to have this hundred years' war wrapped up by september
you know, that recent adaptation of All Quiet On The Western Front was very bad and stupid but at least the protagonist didn't say "World War One is terrible"
The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · last wk.Made a semi-annual theater trip for The Odyssey and I’m glad I did. An incredible film unblemished by even a single thought forming inside its perfect head. I’ve never laughed louder in a theater than when Matt Damon said “our age of bronze is crumbling” in the denouement.
Reform UK – in what should be shocking but really isn’t – have refused to take any action at all against their councillor Story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2641592...
Reform councillor breaks silence after sharing stage with neo-Nazis at Glasgow rally
A REFORM UK councillor who shared a stage with neo-Nazis at a Glasgow demonstration that descended into racist violence has broken her silence ...
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She cannot claim to be ignorant of the Homeland Party, because in 2024 she apologised after ‘liking’ a series of posts talking up the group. One post read: ‘The [Homeland Party] is the only party that will truly support our people’ www.thenational.scot/news/2424826...
Suspended Scottish Labour councillor liked tweets promoting far-right party
A GLASGOW Labour councillor suspended over a race row has been urged to stand down after promoting a far right party chaired by a former BNP…
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Reform UK councillor Audrey Dempsey shared a stage with neo-Nazis at a violent rally in Glasgow on Saturday. She has now broken her silence, claiming she saw 'nobody even remotely resembling a Nazi'. But there's a problem 🧵
“Drum Dancer” (1973) by the brilliant Inuk sculptor Karoo Ashevak, who carved figures from stories he heard in his traditional childhood out of weathered old pieces of whalebone left by 19th-century whalers and Inuit ancestors.
say these words out loud to instantly die: "Boy George releases song in solidarity with Israel"
can we get to the part of the King in the North plotline where he gets Red Weddinged, please
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last wk.#GMB: "On welfare.. [Burnham] says he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits.. so in his words 'you might increase the conditions required to receive benefits'"
Tomorrow, Lord Walney, who was responsible in part for the proscription of Palestine Action, will publish an article in The Times arguing that BASH BACK be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. We will not be intimidated. Neither should you. xoxo BASH BACK
Killing an illegally-present, occupying soldier is verbatim the most legal thing a person is allowed to do under every single international law.
I like social media such as this because they genuinely put me in touch with all kinds of interesting people with valuable perspectives which aren't my own, but they also show me absolute belters. Just saw someone complain that accurate critiques of society make them feel bad so nobody should do it
Another Labour election loser whose principles melt away at the first chance of a job for life without any pesky voters to worry about.
every so often I see a prominent poster on here (~30k followers) who is taken very seriously by a lot of people but I mostly remember when they said, years ago, that criticism of Ed Miliband for any reason was de facto antisemitic because he's Jewish and he was their emotional support politician
I once told my partner about the Long Range Desert Patrol while completely asleep
BayBayFriend@baybayfriend.bsky.social · 2w agoSleep talking boyfriend expectations: No… This is wrong… You’re her best friend! Sleep talking boyfriend reality: [unintelligible] [unintelligible] the mizzenmast
