Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia.
Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.
I'll pick a fellow reader over a company any day. Perhaps in solidarity with that little anarchic comic heart.
Go ahead, read 'em where you can. Hopefully the stories stay with you. Hopefully, when you can, you'll own a copy.
I'm good. I'm happy.
Justo hoy, Netanyahu lanza su ataque más duro contra el Líbano desde que empezó la ofensiva.
Su desprecio por la vida y el derecho internacional es intolerable.
Toca hablar claro:
- Líbano debe formar parte del alto al fuego.
- La comunidad internacional debe condenar esta nueva violación del derecho internacional.
- La Unión Europea debe suspender su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.
- Y no debe haber impunidad ante estos actos criminales.
We let Perdido Street Station Author China Miéville loose in the Folio library… and these are his all-time favourite Folio picks 📚
What do you think of his choices? 👀 Part 2 coming soon.
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“This is the second night of my very first tour. Calling it the-*audience cheers*- yo, yeah, baby! Calling it The Farewell Tour cause I'm 67 with a heart condition. Ah, but you know? Who cares?”
*sigh* Oh, Peter! 🥹 #PeterCapaldi#SweetIllusions#Academy3 https://t.co/FINgo6FwUN
Many a true word spoke in jest...
"A lot of sexual harrassment stuff in the news of late... I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging... that many of the predators, not all, but many of them....
Looking back at the last five or six years, the landscape of the things we love - Star Wars, the MCU, DC, and the gaming world - has changed. But it’s not just the stories that have changed; it’s the way we talk about them.
We’ve moved into an era where "fandom" has been hijacked by an industry of outrage. I’ve watched as platforms have become flooded with "rage bait" -content designed specifically to make you angry; to make you feel like your childhood is under attack, and to convince you that everything you love is "dead" or "failing."
The truth? Anger is profitable. Clicks are currency, and nothing generates a payout quite like a thumbnail of a crying actor or a headline screaming about a "disaster."
I’m drawing a line in the sand. I will not contribute to the "grift."
I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the state of these communities, and I’ve decided that my voice will not be part of the noise. I refuse to manufacture fake outrage for monetized views. I refuse to treat a movie or a video game like a battlefield in a culture war.
Life is too short, and our time is too valuable to spend it cataloging every minor grievance or feeding the flames of negativity. There is enough bitterness in the world; our hobbies should be our refuge, not another source of stress.
From now on, this space is about celebration.
I want to talk about the moments that made us cheer, the characters that inspired us, and the developers and creators who are actually doing the work.
I want to build a community that remembers why we fell in love with these worlds in the first place. If you’re tired of the "doom-and-gloom" cycle, if you’re tired of being told you should be angry about a casting choice or a plot point, then you’re in the right place.
Let’s stop rewarding the outrage. Let’s start celebrating the art.
Focus on the light. Let the rest go.
48 HOURS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
December 5: The European Union fines X €120 million. First penalty ever under the Digital Services Act.
December 7: The owner of X calls for the EU to be abolished.
“I mean it. Not kidding.”
8 million views. 194,000 likes. And counting.
This is not a regulatory dispute. This is the owner of the world’s town square, serving simultaneously as a senior US government official, calling for the dissolution of a 27-nation political union governing 450 million citizens and €17 trillion in combined GDP.
The sequence:
Fine issued. Ad account terminated. Abolition demanded.
Three moves. Forty-eight hours. The post-war European order now faces its most direct challenge from a private citizen since 1945.
What makes this different from every billionaire grievance before it:
He owns the platform.
He advises the American president.
He controls the satellites.
He builds the rockets.
He moves markets with single sentences.
The EU has no app store to threaten. No ad revenue to pull. No infrastructure leverage. Their only power was regulatory. And the man they fined just told 600 million monthly users their institution should cease to exist.
If Brussels escalates, they validate his narrative of overreach.
If Brussels retreats, they signal regulatory capture.
If Brussels ignores, they appear irrelevant.
There is no clean exit.
The question is no longer whether platforms are too powerful.
The question is whether anyone remains powerful enough to govern them.
We are watching the collision between 20th century institutions and 21st century infrastructure in real time.
The tribunal has been dismissed by the defendant.
What comes next has no precedent.
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated , uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the “most wealthy person in the world.”
Truly it was out of curiosity: why a person with unlimited resources exhibits so little appreciation or even awareness of the things that most people value as giving meaning to life. Just minimally well to do people donate to charities, local museums & libraries & the like; they support the commonweal. & unlike the very wealthy these people pay high income taxes.
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.
Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews
"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"
"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people"
(via @vulture)