"[L]argest 'defense' exports deal from Israel to Greece." "[M]ore than $3 billion." "It will benefit Rafael and Israel Aerospace Industries, two firms which have provided arms used during the Gaza genocide." #Greece #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #EU #Military #Housing #Weapons #Technology #Genocide
Greece becomes a bigger partner in Israel's crimes
Athens awards huge deal to firms benefiting from Gaza genocide.
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I (Greek Orthodox on paper) grew up in a place that was so overwhelmingly Catholic that I didn't know quite what Protestants were until I learned about the Reformation in high school, and didn't meet any believers until college. I didn't meet any hardcore evangelicals until I moved to California.
Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · yesterdaymy grandmother grew up in Bensonhurst, and until high school, she believed that the two religions were Jewish and Italian because everybody she knew was one of those two things. Jews go to shul and Italians go to church and those are the two religions there are
"Die Tradition aller toten Geschlechter lastet wie ein Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden."
Politico@politico.com · yesterday“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
I assume Tommy's dad has already written him out of the will for his failure.
Well I'm going to bad-faith interpret this as him supporting the Sisi regime.
Started watching the new season of The Lowdown tonight. Good to have this show back, but I'm a little thrown by the fact that Betty Gilpin, at least here, has just the tiniest hint of the Innsmouth Look. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying.
Whether it’s Barack Obama putting Dijon mustard on a hamburger or Donald Trump bringing millions of Ukrainians to the brink of starvation, both men have made unorthodox food choices.
I don't think Kimberly Guilfoyle understands how lucky she is that everybody in the November 17 Group is dead or in jail.
it happens that i've been thinking about this for other reasons lately and will voice some of it on a podcast soon but it is REALLY interesting how fiction was historically disparaged for being untrue and misleading but has now warped into a reservoir of "possibilities to which I can feel entitled"
All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.
The entire British Library Tales of the Weird series.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoquestion for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?
This is the right day to share this mural that was painted in my old hometown in Massachusetts in 2020 (I think).
Walking the line in my auto factory and screaming at all the workers to make the cars stupider and more dangerous. They love this, it helps motivate them. "It's going to be able drive upside down," I yell through a megaphone. "It's going to be able to fart."
Please, anyone still willing to buy a car from that fucking Nazi, buy one of these and immediately drive it upside down off a bridge, I beg of you. Do it.
Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · 4d ago"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.
"biological sex" A trans man is a biological man. He isn't made of machine parts. A trans woman is a biological woman. She isn't a formed out of light like a hologram. But when you cave to fascist language, it makes it easier for fascists to communicate and enact fascist policies like this.
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 4d agowww.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I can't really describe how evil and cruel this is. I can't really describe how this is one of the most awful policies I've ever heard, and how much it will hurt people. I don't even really have the words.
Oscar Belgal was shot in the neck by ICE. The bullet’s still there. He’s lost feeling in half his face. Lost hearing in an ear. Because they won’t disturb that bullet. ICE has him in detention, not a hospital. They’re taking better care of that bullet than that man.
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 4d agoA week after he was shot by ICE agents in Marble Hill, Oscar Belgal still has a bullet lodged in his neck. The agents who arrested him, according to a habeas petition filed for his release yesterday, did not have a lawful warrant. hellgatenyc.com/ice-oscar-be...
I have always stood up to him and that will never change. The pedophile protector will never silence me.
Just noticed Penguin Classics is putting this one out this week; our edition came out in like 2009. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789720...
The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat: 9780143139058 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A nineteenth-century novel about a bisexual, biracial vampire, written by a forgotten legend of Victorian horror A Penguin Classic Published the same year as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Florence Marryat’...
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Yes Donald, you could destroy the reputation of Bill fucking Clinton. Come on, kid.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: "Honestly, I could've done numbers on Hillary Clinton. I could've done numbers on Bill Clinton. I could've done numbers on Barack Hussein Obama. Still could. I still could. I could do big numbers if I wanted to. Go after them. Criminally. Destroy their reputations."
Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.
of american life. the same indignities you and i have had to endure all our lives. they broke him. they made him a nazi who is married to a person of color. a man who, as a matter of public policy, hates his own children. he is one of the weakest creatures you will ever lay eyes on. finish him
Buncha really shitty Greeks in the news these days making the rest of us look bad
Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 4d agoAlexandros Paporakis, 19, spent years planning a mass shooting and had been targeting the temple for two months, according to prosecutors.
