Lana

Thou shall not be a victim, thou shall not be a perpetrator, and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.Yehuda Bauer

[Yugoslavian Visuals @YugoslavVisuals]

Somewhere in rural Macedonia, 1970s.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@MartinKoolhoven Prachtig, zeg!

[Oğuz Pancar @opancaro]

Riccardo Moncalvo, Cold Morning in the Suburbs of Turin, 1955

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@HighSierraMan @Variety I second this!

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

An Iranian athlete is about to be killed.
Yes, killed.
Mohammad-Javad Vafaee-Sani has been moved to solitary.
He was arrested during the 2019 uprising and accused of burning government buildings, charges he has repeatedly denied.
His only “crime” was standing with his people, demanding dignity and freedom.

We have seen this story before.
We saw it with #NavidAfkari.
So here’s the question for the global sports community:
Are you going to watch another athlete die in silence?

Athletes, Olympians, fighters, runners, this is your moment.
Post his name.
Share his story.
Pressure your federations.
Stand up.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

If socialism "siphons value" from capitalism, then explain why capitalism keeps collapsing without socialist intervention.

The Great Depression was not solved by markets.

It was solved by public works, regulation, and state planning.

2008 was not saved by capitalism.

It was saved by massive government bailouts and nationalized risk.

COVID did not expose the strength of markets.

It exposed that without state intervention millions more would have died and the economy would have imploded.

If socialism is a parasite, capitalism seems oddly dependent on its host.

Your claim assumes socialism only survives when it extracts from capitalism.

So answer this:

Why did China lift 800 million people out of poverty faster than any capitalist nation in history?

Why does Cuba outperform the U.S. in healthcare despite 65 years of blockade?

Why did Vietnam go from bomb craters to one of the fastest-growing economies in the world?

These are not parasites.

These are systems building value in spite of capitalist sabotage.

Meanwhile, what does capitalism "build"?

Debt bubbles.

Monopolies.

Financial crises.

Private profit with public cost.

A global system where eight men own more than half of humanity.

And the richest capitalist countries on earth depend on:

Slave-labor supply chains.

Colonial-era extraction networks.

Resource theft.

Military protection of trade routes.

Sanctions to prevent competition.

A reserve currency backed by force, not merit.

If socialism depends on capitalism, why does capitalism need an empire to survive?

Why does it need coups, sanctions, invasions, blockades, and privatization regimes to function?

Why does every socialist project face external sabotage while every capitalist failure demands socialist rescue?

Maybe the truth is simpler.

Socialism works where it is allowed to.

Capitalism works only when socialism keeps it from collapsing.

Your narrative is not economic literacy.

It is insecurity dressed as certainty.

Because deep down you know:

If capitalism ever had to compete on equal terms, it would lose to the very systems it tries to strangle.

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@IJzendoornV Schandalig bloot inderdaad. Kijk die knieën:)
(Dat land is de weg kwijt, lijkt het)

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier.

Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@ChrisAalberts @job_vdbroek Niet naar meningen kijken - zegt de man! Wel meteen nadat hij iemand als dom en kwaadaardig in een zin beschreef.

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@LinchZhang @dangainor @magpiemixture A big thank you from me as well!

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@7leagueboots @alexmassie "She appears to think".

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

One of our favourite For Emma videos.
"Silly Old Pops"
Turn on the volume and enjoy...

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Reyhan Turk

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@MrEwanMorrison To be used in a film made based on the novel

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

"For Emma" is a novel for all of us

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

A cracking review and Interview in the Sunday Post on The new novel - For Emma - and my writing.
Link in comments:,

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@MrEwanMorrison Oh, yes. Beautifully melancholic.

[Lana @UndineSpragg]

@MrEwanMorrison Three grand reasons to buy this novel

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

So sad to hear Val Kilmer has passed away.
Val is one of my favourite actors, from Top Secret!, Real Genius, through to Top Gun, Willow, The Doors, Tombstones, True Romance, Batman Forever, Heat, Spartan and Top Gun: Maverick, I was there for the entire journey.
Rest well, Val