Simon Dean

@ihategod.bsky.social

Getting more left wing as I age, socialism/anarchism NHS mental health nurse 30 years working in substance use now retired Atheist ,Science NUFC Internationalist Trade unionist Abolish the monarch No to Nationalism yes to self determination.🇵🇸 No porn🚫

Hello, I'm Saeed from #Gaza. I'm working on setting up a small project so I can support 11 members of my family amidst the harsh and expensive conditions we're experiencing. I need $500 to complete the project. Eleven people are waiting for you, don't abandon us. 🥺🙏🇵🇸 chuffed.org/project/1876...

A selfie of Saeed in a pantry made with tarpaulins A textboon with "please help" 26/8/2 written on jtPicture of the pantryAnother picture of the pantry

"Stevens is a longtime supporter of Israel and once said "Israel comes to me in my dreams." She has said that she does not think Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and recently voted to continue funding Israel's military without conditions." Totally normal. Not at all insane.

On one hand, it's a good thing CBS finally told the truth. On the other hand, CBS can still go fuck themselves. Bullshit artist Bari Weiss and the Ellison family, even with all their money, can't buy back credibility. And smart Americans will never forgive them for what they did to Stephen Colbert.

UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani

Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...

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Stunning: HH 49/50 Over thousands of years, its boundary will move outward, eventually visually covering the distant background galaxy from Earth's viewpoint, demonstrating the dynamic, changing nature of astronomical phenomena. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, SSC)

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"A core feature of the modern GOP is the party’s open and obvious disdain for democracy." Source: By permission of Mike Luckovich and Creators Syndicate and Daily Kos, Lisa Needham

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“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.” ..(DaShanne Stokes) .. (cartoon David Horsey)

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Seems Joshua Bonehead-Brain passed Refuk's vetting late last year before deciding to become a Tory candidate. Farage will surely be furious, given his 'anger' at Badenough and the Tories for selecting him...

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If only when he's gone... Living out what Trump has put into place domestically, along with the chaos, death & destruction he's spread worldwide, is not going to be easy for most Americans to live through & for years to come.

61 years after the Voting Rights Act became law, Texans are still fighting to be counted at the ballot box. Yesterday, the voice of the people was so loud that the Tarrant County Commissioners Court had no choice but to table their attempt to cut polling locations before the midterm election.

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Disc of Chinkultic, 590 CE, Maya ball player, a ruler or elite participant, in ceremonial attire during a ritual ballgame. Framed by hieroglyphic inscriptions that record the event and its participants, this monument reflects the deep political, religious, and cultural significance of the ballgame.

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I'm a huge fan of archaeological photos where we get our first peek at objects in the field. Here, a 1st c. CE marble monopodium (table base) in the form of a naked boy holding a goose appears out of the lapilli in #Pompeii in 1952. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ 📸 left, me; right, see ALT

Marble sculpture of a naked boy with longish hair, wearing a cape and holding a small goose. He stands against a pilaster, which would have formed the support for a marble garden table. 

Photo: my own, taken at the exhibition “L’altra Pompei, vite comuni all’ombra del Vesuvio” ('The other Pompeii, ordinary lives in the shadow of Vesuvius'), held at the Pompeii palaestra.Black and white photo from the excavation of 1952, showing the head and top of the table support pilaster of this sculpture appearing out of a mound of lapilli, volcanic material (like loads of small pebbles or rocks). A brick column and brick wall are in the background. 

Photo courtesy of Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei