Popped into the Building Centre on Store Street, Bloomsbury, just off Tottenham Court Road. Exhibit open until Friday. Various poems written, printed or carved on different media. #London #Art #GraphicDesign
https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/26-connections
We will continue to put people first: narrative journalism that illustrates how ordinary citizens are resisting tyranny.
A piece I wrote in January, calling the election for Trump, arguing he won't govern like a fascist but he will be worse than last time: more vengeful, supported by a base with which he has party-like relations and the state retrospectively accepting the Jan 6 coup
https://tempestmag.org/2024/01/what-it-means-to-say-trump-will-govern-like-a-fascist/
Even though fascism’s key thinkers and intellectual enablers came from different ideological backgrounds, this is what appealed to them, what ultimately united them behind the fascist leader. And so it is again today. 9/
How to Talk About Fascism in Trump's Second Term
Once the “Fourth Estate,” now the sideline observer. When did journalism start treating democracy’s meltdown as casual news? It’s time to ask: where’s the outrage?
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-to-talk-about-fascism-in-trumps-second-term/
@duhe.bsky.social But that came at the price of the devastation of Europe.
@atomicpoet Shows they're unable to connect with those who voted on the idea that T is a strong, moral and clever man, despite all evidence to the contrary.
@urbanfoxe I have just heard some Democrat apparatchik on the radio talking about "Well'll see n four years time if Trump does the things he said in the campaign." Hello? Bit late for that, and we've had 8 years of seeing what he does, in and out of power.
RIP Quincy Jones - such a massive figure and yet I still didn't realise half of the stuff he'd done - The Italian Job soundtrack, for example.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/04/quincy-jones-musician-michael-jackson-producer-dies
@solderandchaos I've got a great vegan carbonara recipe involving that, king oyster mushrooms and nutritional yeast.
One more In These Times comics section before the election
https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-ceasefire-gaza-trump-harris
M.Bjoernstroem, a Swedish mechanic/air traffic controller/one man construction company/videographer, in his latest 5 hour video where he builds a base for his new garage. #ASMR for middle aged blokes.
In this excerpt of The Atavist's latest, Mira Ptacin recounts Christopher Pohlhaus' plans to build a fascist training compound in rural Maine. The local journalists, veterans, lumberjacks, and policymakers weren't having it.
https://longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-concerned-citizens-drove-a-neo-nazi-out-of-rural-maine/
The piece that piqued me, for #organ and #choir is here, introduced by Revd Dr Sam Wells at St Martin's in the Fields last Thursday.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0yQHZNerpU&t=1715
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.