garbage.mp3

born to be mild

[garbage.mp3 @juicychuck]

This is the most successful day of my life

[HarryHew @harryhew]

It's official: The Beatles' first album, PLEASE PLEASE ME, was released closer to the 1800s than to the present day.

Dec 31, 1899 to March 22, 1963 = 23,091 days
March 22, 1963 to June 11, 2026 = 23,092 days

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Draven1683 I fucking love Canada.

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy. https://t.co/ovxAOYRSnN

[garbage.mp3 @juicychuck]

@ApolloKage Siddhartha by Herman Hasse. Beautiful writing, concise and life-changing novel if you have interest in philosophical/spiritual ideas and coming-of-age stories.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

[0live 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇺 🐇🐈🦌 @0liviaolive]

i hold extremist political views such as "people should have their basic needs met" and "war crimes are bad" and "we should not accelerate the apocalypse for the profits of a few oil companies"

[Fiona Small @FionaSmall]

Happy Independence Day, America

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Right before it invaded Ukraine, Russia proposed a peace treaty centered on Ukraine not joining NATO. The US refused to even discuss it, citing NATO's "open door" policy.

Right after Russia invaded, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators drafted a peace deal centered on Ukraine not joining NATO. The US and allies sabotaged it.

Hundreds of thousands of dead later, Ukraine now gets told that it's too corrupt to join NATO anytime soon. The US has dangled NATO membership to use Ukraine to bait and bleed Russia. The "open door" is simply a back-door to fight Russia:

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Growing up in France I was always surrounded with people of North African or Levant origins but it took me living in other countries during my adulthood - countries actually respectful of the diversity of cultures in their midst - to realize just how uniquely intolerant France was.

Our education system, our institutions, basically enforce one culture which we call "universalist" but which is fundamentally at odds in myriads of ways with the culture of those six million people. Six million people of whom we know absolutely nothing: we're not told their history (or only the parts that clashed with ours, told from our vantage), we don't know anything about their traditions, and their language not only isn't taught at schools but speaking it is frowned upon, seen as a lack of "integration".

School basically teaches these kids "our ancestors the Gauls", which would be laughable if it wasn't so depressing... The result is that you end up producing generations of kids who feel they don't really belong - they're like "wait a minute, our ancestors weren't actually the Gauls..." - but who also progressively lose their culture of origin, since they, alongside everyone else, aren't taught anything about it.

And as is painfully obvious with Macron's geopolitics, politically speaking they're largely disenfranchised. In the eyes of the French state THE big victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are the Israelis. Macron has organized national pro-Israel tributes almost on a monthly basis since Oct 7 but not a single one for the Palestinians. What message does this send to these six million French citizens?

I could add a million other things, like our media ecosystem that routinely accuses these people of being the root of all of France's problems, or the yearly "laïcité" (secularism) national debate we have around this or that Muslim practice not being "compatible with the values of the French republic", which is a clear dog whistle.

Having now seen how things are done so much better in other countries - particularly Asian countries like China, Malaysia or Singapore - I'm amazed at the lack of wisdom of the French way. It almost feels viciously backwards and ignorant. The Asian approach typically is that it's foolish to try to make people change their culture, it's better to respect them as they are, but in return ask for the same amount of respect back. In short "I won't try to teach you that your ancestors are the Gauls, I won't try to suppress your language and your traditions and make you adopt mine, live the way you want BUT don't ask me to change my ways either. Let's all live together in harmony, respectful of our differences."

For instance here in Malaysia where I am writing these lines there's a large "native" Malay Muslim population, as well as a large Chinese Malaysian and Indian population. And all their most important festivals are national bank holidays: Eid, Chinese new year and Deepavali! We just celebrated Chinese new year and the whole country stopped for it, with fireworks everywhere in the streets.

Same thing in China: if you belong to one of the 56 recognized ethnic minorities of the country, you are bathed in your own culture, you learn your own dialect, wear your ethnic clothes and China is extremely careful to celebrate this diversity at any opportunity they get (just watch the latest CCTV Chinese New Year gala).

Of course there are still some tensions between communities in these countries, some resentment on specific matters, but it's immensely more harmonious than in France, in fact it's not even remotely comparable.

Not sure where France goes from there. Insanely the trend seems to go in exactly the wrong direction: with even less respect for difference, more Le Pen-like hardline, more foolish "integration" which I'm afraid can only fail. The only wise way, I think, is mutual respect instead of suppression.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Elmo I'm gonna be real I am at my fucking limit

[🪽🐚𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆🐚🪽 @FedericoS15190]

For my english speaking buds in here, to let y'all know what's happening in my country:

At 9 PM today Javier Milei came in via national broadcast to announce the nullifying, by a DNU ("Necessity & Urgency Decree" - so a presidential edict), of around 300 laws, featuring...

[Sera Koulabdara @SeraKoulabdara]

YES

[Bazmati Vice @BazmatiVice]

🎶 NEW MUSIC OUT NOW 🎶
Streaming: https://t.co/um7vg6IK1B
Bandcamp: https://t.co/if2IUxeigH

[Josh Begley @joshbegley]

ta-nehisi coates on palestine

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

Hard to overstate what a brave piece of journalism this is https://t.co/TW779nEPDw

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Let's say it again: The BIGGEST fake news comes from the establishment media. When the stakes are high, it barely bothers to hide its role as mouthpiece for Western propaganda.

This is another Iraqi WMD moment. We are being gaslit. Believe your eyes and ears, and the laws of physics, not the lies being peddled by our leaders and media about last night's missile strike on the Baptist hospital in Gaza:

1. No Palestinian group has a rocket that can hit a hospital, killing hundreds. What they have are glorified fireworks that can cause minor damage and the occasional death or two. If Hamas or Islamic Jihad could cause the kind of damage that happened last night, you would hear about it happening in Tel Aviv or Ashkelon too. You don't because they can't.

2. Israel's apologists (and there are lots of them) are sharing all sorts of videos unrelated to the hospital strike. But the video of the strike itself shows that an incredibly large and powerful weapon is used. Listen to the noise the missile makes just before the hit – that whooshing noise is caused by its phenomenal velocity as it cuts through the air. That is *not* the noise of a falling Palestinian rocket.

If you watch videos being shared of Palestinian rockets being fired, notice how slowly they travel. Almost at a snail's pace. If they fail, they drop at free fall speed, not the near-supersonic speed of the missile that hit the hospital. To think otherwise is to misunderstand the laws of physics.

3. Israel's apologists are trying to further muddy the waters by suggesting that either a Palestinian rocket fell, or was intercepted, and the rocket or fragments of it hit a very large ammo dump in the hospital. Let's just accept the racist premise that hundreds of families were quite happy to seek safety next to a huge stash of explosives in the middle of a relentless Israeli bombing campaign. Let's also accept the fantastical idea that a falling glorified firework or fragment of it could penetrate the hospital's strong walls and set off such an explosion. If all this was true, you would still see a series of secondary explosions as the arms were detonated by the initial explosion. You don't because there is only one explosion – from an enormous missile.

4. It's a desperate psyop, so Israel has now released a recording of two Hamas militants conveniently having a chat after the missile strike, discussing whether they or Islamic Jihad did it. This is the same Israel that did not detect months of planning by Hamas that was needed to organise its breakout 10 days ago. But Israel got lucky this time, it seems, and just happened to be listening in when Huey and Louie decided to self-incriminate.

Remember Israel has a whole unit of 'mistaravim', Israeli Jewish undercover agents trained to pose as Palestinians and secretly operate among Palestinians. Israel produced a highly popular TV series about such people in Gaza called Fauda. You have to be beyond credulous to think that Israel couldn't, and wouldn't, rig up a call like this to fool us, just as it regularly fools Palestinians in Gaza.

Most of the people spreading these lies know they are lies, including the media, and most especially the Middle East and defence correspondents. At least a few, like the BBC's Jeremy Bowen and Jon Donnison, are trying cautiously to suggest it's unlikely a Hamas rocket could cause damage on the scale seen at the Gaza hospital. But it's not unlikely. It's impossible, and they know it. They just don't dare say it.

[emily wilder @vv1lder]

from a friend in gaza in the last few days, shared with her permission. it is hell on earth.

[garbage.mp3 @juicychuck]

A 7th grader asked me for help with a vocab problem: "which of these words can be said to CAPITULATE". She wasn't sure if "building" would be a possibility, I said no, how could a building capitulate? She replied: well, what about 9/11 💀💀