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[cARTel Gallery @GalleryCartel]

H E H E H E

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A Scottish Highland cow, just 2 hours old. 🤗🤗

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Paula Vennells.
In her 7 year tenure as CEO of the Post Office she waltzed off with £5.1 Mn; around £2.2 Mn coming from performance related incentives and pension in lieu payments.
Yet postmasters/mistresses are still waiting for their compensation.
#Newsnight #PostOfficeScandal

[Queen Mannie @DollyArmy2000]

The newly-reinstated Minister for Justice for the UK (formerly an Israeli Supreme Court clerk).
Earlier this year, she casually described the double-tapped US bombing of over 160 Iranian schoolgirls as "the realities of war", when there was actually no war.

[Darren of Plymouth @DarrenPlymouth]

Psychologist Stanley Milgram found that 80% of people do not have the psychological and moral resources to defy an authority's order, no matter how legitimate the order is. Only 20% have critical capacity.

This explains everything.

[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

Comedy genius from Jim Breuer back in the day - beautifully accurate. We gotta laugh in the face of utter tragedy:

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🤔 Louise Haigh is still not being honest.

“I made a mistake 13 years ago… I was mugged and mistakenly said my work phone was stolen.”

No. You did not “mistakenly” say it. You pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation. You deliberately reported your work phone as stolen to Aviva so they would issue you a new one. That is what the court record says. That is what you admitted to. Calling it a simple mistake after all these years is just another version of the same dishonesty.

A spent conviction does not rewrite what happened. It does not turn a deliberate false representation into an innocent error. And it certainly does not entitle you to demand a “second chance” at the highest levels of government while you continue to soft-pedal the facts.

You resigned as Transport Secretary in 2024 when this became public. Andy Burnham then brought you straight back as First Secretary of State. That is not accountability.

If after more than a decade you still cannot be honest and describe your own fraud without watering it down, you have no business anywhere near the levers of power.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

never forget the legend who did this at the height of lockdown era

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

Peak 2020.

A priest used a water gun to baptize a baby so everyone could stay socially distanced.

Looking back now, it’s hard to believe this was considered completely normal by so many people.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

During Covid this Lady was reported to Police as she should have been self-isolating.

So Men in Hazmats went and grabbed her out the Sea whilst she was surfing.

Why?

Science that’s why.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

It's not only that the deference and willingness to bend the knee to "Jewish" sensibilities, that is revealed in this episode of Burnham talking about Social Care in relation to the whole population at a Jewish venue.

Let's also recall that Jewish Care, despite its name is not an innocent organisation in the Jewish community. It's a member of the Jewish Leadership Council which is openly pro-Zionist. It collaborates with the community Security Trust and the Board of Deputies. It's Annual dinners include toasts to the President of Israel.

Burnham is sending a signal. Only Jewish (supremacist) opinions and perspectives matter.

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[Yugoslavian Visuals @YugoslavVisuals]

Jugoplastika advertisement, 1980s.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Many are focusing on the fact Boy George was jailed for chaining a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal rod, as Israeli soldiers often do to prisoners, and are ignoring that this is a historically terrible song in a particularly Israeli white guy reggae way

[J Wilderness @Jilderness]

Britpop-chaos-magician Alan McGee was lured into Tony Blair’s circle of influence prior to his leadership campaign. He attended a night at Chequers where the surprise guest was Jimmy Saville. Also in attendance was Admiral “the guy who presses the nuclear button” Boyce.

Saville was apparently making sexual advances towards Alan’s wife Kate, with Alan reluctant to say anything because of his “tasty” looking security guard.

McGee was also courted by the Royal Family and invited for supper 3 times by the then Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace

[Yugoslavian Visuals @YugoslavVisuals]

Macedonia, 1970s.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Friends — we're about to start our most exciting read-along yet.

The Brothers Karamazov.

If you've been on the fence about joining the book club, now's the time. You do not want to miss this.

We are reading it over the next 6-7 weeks. First discussion is on August 4, covering Books 1-4.

We read Crime and Punishment in May, and followed the harrowing yet illuminating journey of Raskolnikov. But The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's final and greatest work, takes his moral and spiritual ideas to their utmost height. Many consider it the greatest psychological novel ever written.

For those who want to join our "inner circle" and participate in the discussions directly, we are running a discount for 24 hours only...

25% off full membership!!

You'll get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next

https://t.co/t3TPBQCcgV

Of course, you may also read along for free and tune into the live broadcasts. Let's make this our biggest read-along ever!

See you inside.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Look what they took away from us 😞

[Black Lodge Cult @BlackLCult]

TWIN PEAKS. 2x22, "Beyond Life and Death" (1991)

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

🎬 Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)