Ian Glendinning

3 strikes and you're out. If you're looking for an "argument" I have rules. psybertron.org/rules-of-rheto… If after 3 exchanges I consider you to be arguing in bad faith - strawmen, whataboutery, ignoring actual content, etc - I routinely block. Life's too short😎

Looks like this graphic is still needed unfortunately... 👀

Hello @marksandspencer I think you need to issue a public apology to this lady who was treated so badly by your store manager. Or perhaps we need a mass boycott??👇🏻👇🏻

Blair is absolutely right, not that anyone will listen to his politically astute analysis. Say what you like about him, but he won three elections.

Self is writing some brilliant stuff in these Sitreps, including this one about how destructively anti-human phone addiction is, which I read on my phone.

Today’s Russian papers publish Moscow’s threat to launch a new wave of “systematic strikes” on Kyiv. But one paper reports on a “split [inside Russia] between those in favour of continuing the special military operation and those who believe it’s time to end it…” #ReadingRussia

But if a religion's spokesmen make it clear that it wants to take over a country, isn't that a threat ? And if some moderate Muslims can reassure us that the vast majority of Muslims do not constitute a threat, could they please speak out ?

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

@ThoNg676733 And I take it her story is about Dylan?

A strangely beautiful song, she is a storyteller, a poet.

Leo XIV quotes Plato VII: "As Plato wrote, the deepest and most important things are learned only after much time and effort, by engaging in discussion with others, “striking upon” ideas and experiences together like flint until the spark of understanding is kindled within us."

Love this.

@redrumlisa Or green, even.

The Greens are not the party of the working class they are the party of the student activist, the bourgeois left & the Pro Palestine fever. There is nothing working class about the Greens.

"We also call on the new Health Secretary, @jamesmurray_ldn , to honour the Government’s commitment to meet with the nurses who have borne the brunt of this failure. Their voices must be heard, not dismissed, so that such a situation can never arise again." Full comment piece by Darlington nurse, Bethany Hutchison, in the @Daily_Express 👇🏻 express.co.uk/news/uk/220923…

@untimelysalts I've been calling it PoPoMo for decades. #PostPostModernism

Modernism has died. Premodernism is not coming back. Postmodernism is a dead-end. The only way forward is: ÜBERMODERNISM.

Donald Trump ran for office for three reasons: 1) stay out of jail 2) exact revenge on his enemies 3) line his pockets Everything else he says is bullshit.

🚨🚨That statement is 100% correct. In addition, TRUMP is determined to place his name and likeness on every aspect of American culture, public lands and he is attempting to rewrite history. All of this is his attempt to gain immortality in his demented mind. His campaign to whitewash facts, truth and reality is greater than the propaganda campaign of 1933 Germany. In order to repair the damage TRUMP has created to this Nation to include: 1) National Reputation 2) International Reputation 3) The Rule of Law 4) Norms & Mores 5) Common Decency 6) Reality, Facts & Truth to name just a few. The new Democratic President of the United States must immediately during the first ninety (90) days of his/her Administration erase, remove, delete, destroy and otherwise eliminate any remnants of the TRUMP name, likeness and/or branding of this fascist convicted felon. After this is accomplished, then and only then can the healing/rebuilding of this country begin. #WatchThisSpace

If you can’t afford to pay your staff properly, you can’t run a restaurant!

RIP Sonny Rollins I've long held the hypothesis that the Earth is held together by old jazz cats from the 40's & 50's, so things are gonna get even crazier with the departureof the Colossus.

“Free Palestine.” I grew up on those words. In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them. In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to. Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all. Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge. What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that. Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine. In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence? Palestine is still first. So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with. So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews. And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state? You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media. Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position. 📍#Israel

😒 I have worked with AI for 30 years. I ran an AI games studio for OpenAI’s biggest customer. I have 8 patents, founded 5 technology companies, and have an Emmy for interactive fiction, 2 Grand Prix Cyberlions, an Innovation Award from GDC & a few Webbys. Not a Luddite.

How does the Antichrist operate on the physical plane? He constructs a system for usurping freewill for himself. “We could never win an election… because we were such a small minority, but maybe you could change the world unilaterally through a technological means… Technology is this incredible alternative to politics… It is not a way to fix it. It is a way to escape.” Peter Thiel has partnered with Russia, Israel, Saudi, Jeffrey Epstein, and countless fascists around the world to build this “technological means.” We are living inside it. This website is one of its biggest tools. Peter Thiel is one demented 80-year-old heartbeat from essentially being the president. James Bowman was plucked out of Yale by Peter Thiel and converted to “JD Vance” in a lab.