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jemmesedi

@jemmesedi@c.im

Intermittent humanities education worker. Brit resident in USA.

Profile picture: Boy standing thigh deep in the ocean, holding a trident in his left hand. Image created by AI.

Header picture: Ocean waves. Picture from US government National Ocean Service.

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jemmesedi, to UKpolitics
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Professional Brit Farage shows his commitment to the UK by shunning the election there so he can help out Donald Trump in the US.

Nigel Farage says he will not stand in UK general election | Nigel Farage | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/nigel-farage-says-he-will-not-stand-in-uk-general-election-reform

#UKPolitics #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #NigelFarage

jemmesedi, to UKpolitics
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The joy of Brexit.

Why travelling on Eurostar from the UK is about to become much trickier | Rail industry | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/26/why-travelling-on-eurostar-from-the-uk-is-about-to-become-much-trickier

jemmesedi, to Philippines
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What do you think?

‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice | GM | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/greenpeace-blocks-planting-of-lifesaving-golden-rice-philippines

jemmesedi, to music
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I'm definitely a music person, if only because much of the music to which I listen has lyrics in a language I do not understand.

What about you?

Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: Music Versus Lyrics | Dirt

https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/05/music-versus-lyrics

#Music #Songs #Lyrics #WordsOrMusic #MusicVersusLyrics

jemmesedi, to Aesthetics
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@pixelcats
@s1m0n4

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Do you remember how we were discussing taste and evaluation a little while ago?

In connection with issues we talked about, this is the kind of story that interests me:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/apple-music-top-100-albums-ranks-lauryn-hill-the-beatles-b2550215.html

#PopularCulture #Aesthetics

jemmesedi, to China
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This suggestion seems sensible to me and could spark a useful global debate.

However, I'm neither Chinese nor that well informed on Sinophobia, so I would be keen to hear comments from anybody more clued up than I am.

A working definition of Sinophobia would improve the China debate | Lowy Institute

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/working-definition-sinophobia-would-improve-china-debate

jemmesedi, to Texas
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Whitney Mitchell, who was engaged to Foster before his death at the hands of Perry, laid out her feelings about the pardon in a statement sent to the Observer.

“I loved Garrett Foster. I thought we were going to grow old together. He was the love of my life. He still is. I am heartbroken by this lawlessness,“ she said. “With this pardon, the Governor has desecrated the life of a murdered Texan and US Air Force veteran, and impugned [the] jury’s just verdict. He has declared that Texans who hold political views that are different from his—and different from those in power—can be killed in this State with impunity.”

#Texas #GarrettFoster #WhitneyMitchell #Racism #Murder

jemmesedi, to goodyearwelt
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I recently posted about my hatred for cargo pants.

I don't resile from that judgement, but some posts from @pixelcats expressive of her generosity of spirit reminded me that I need to take care not to be a curmudgeon:

https://apobangpo.space/@pixelcats/112470323675719164

https://apobangpo.space/@pixelcats/112470332426960177

So, in keeping with that more affirmative mode, I put it to you that the Chelsea boot is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_boot

#Shoes #ChelseaBoot #HistoryOfDress #Footwear #Fashion

jemmesedi, to UKpolitics
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The use of UK crown dependencies, and overseas territories for tax avoidance, tax evasion, and money laundering must be ended.

To plead "If we don't do it, somebody else will" is to adopt the rhetoric of pimps and pushers.

Nearly 40% of dirty money is laundered in London and UK crown dependencies | Tax havens | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/nearly-40-of-dirty-money-is-laundered-in-london-and-uk-crown-dependenies

jemmesedi, to kpop
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I''m one of what seems to be a small minority of Kpop fans in not liking aespa -- Supernova.

This experience brings me back to questions that I consider frequently:

  • Do we really believe that taste is purely subjective, as is so frequently affirmed in pop culture media?

  • Does it make sense to say that one can have defective taste or in some way be mistaken in one's artistic preferences?

#Kpop #PopularCulture #Aesthetics #Taste #Normativity #Aespa #Supernova #GirlGroups #PhilosophyOfArt

jemmesedi, to Fashion
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I loathe cargo pants.

A brief history of cargo pants, the military’s greatest fashion contribution

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2020/09/12/a-brief-history-of-cargo-pants-the-militarys-greatest-fashion-contribution/

#CargoPants #HistoryOfDress #Costume #Fashion #MilitaryUniform

jemmesedi, to random
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Lou Harrison -- In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel

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There I was, enjoying what seemed to me to be an interesting fusion of East and West...

https://youtu.be/pwzdUceyIdI?si=tVIz5rhRTcLQMaxN

#LouHarrison #Gamelan #AmericanGamelan

jemmesedi, to random
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I had forgotten she is the Baroness Shafik, of Camden in the London Borough of Camden and of Alexandria in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Minouche Shafik: the UK peer facing choppy waters over Gaza protests at Columbia | US campus protests | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/minouche-shafik-uk-peer-columbia-university-president-gaza-protests

jemmesedi, to Canada
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>>Is there an official, graspable Canadian identity? No. We are fraught with incomplete reconciliation, spats about carbon and immigration, and regional jealousy. Tims bears witness to it and makes bearing it easier. It’s where a tired refugee can land. It’s hockey cards and retro treats. Identity crisis? Here’s some quick-serve in a large red cup, brewed fresh every twenty minutes.<<

I'm always interested in reading about Canada, but am not well informed enough to judge the worth of this piece. Could a Canadian chip in here?

Tim Hortons Is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists | The Walrus

https://thewalrus.ca/tim-hortons-canada/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

jemmesedi, to USpolitics
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This picture shows US ruling class masculinity at its most unattractive.

Let us hope that history does a swipe left.

Photograph from the Po Publica article "Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court"

#USPolitics #SupremeCourt #Masculinity #SamuelAlito #Corruption

jemmesedi, to Jpop
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Ayumi Hamasaki -- M

https://youtu.be/03y-KyezDS4?si=Mo_LF9VykJ3_BIPZ

Using a random number generator, I went to song #157 on my playlist #33. I enjoyed listening to a song that I had not played for a long time.

Although Ayumi Hamasaki is famous in Japan, I suspect that outside Japan her name remains unknown outside the circles of East Asian music fans.

#Serendipity #AyumiHamasaki #Jpop #Japan

jemmesedi, to food
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Articles like this make me warm to a plant based diet.

Can You Eat Cicadas? | TIME

https://time.com/6968973/cicadas-food-how-to-catch-clean-cook-eat/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#Entomophagy #Food #Diet #Insects #Cicadas #PlantBasedDiet

jemmesedi, to sciencefiction
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Can you recommend some science fiction for me to read?

I haven't read much of this genre, but I will tell you a little of my likes and dislikes in what I have read so that you have a better idea of what I might enjoy:

  • At the moment I am reading Philip K Dick's "A Scanner Darkly". I don't hate it, but I am not in love with the drug use and the late sixties/ early seventies hippie speak. On the other hand, the theme of surveillance has caught my attention.

  • I have also enjoyed the loss . .of identity narrative in "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said" and the counterfactual history of "The Man in the High Castle"."Ubik" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" both impressed me. Although I am attracted by what I hear about the religious dimension of "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer", I don't have an urge to read PKD beyond that.

  • I read Stanislaw Lem's 'Solaris" some time ago but remember enjoying it.

  • I absolutely hated the right wing politics of "Ender's Game". I also disliked "Stranger in a Strange Land".

  • As a teenager, I found "Dune" unreadable, but did like John Wyndham.

  • Science Fiction or Science fictionish films I have enjoyed include Blade Runner" , "Gattaca", 'The Truman Show"
    and 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".

  • I disliked the original "Star Wars" and count myself lucky in that I have not wasted time or money on the rest of the .franchise

  • I am much more interested in ideas, societies, relationships, and language than I am in whizzbang technology.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions - thanks!

jemmesedi, to random
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I could spend hours with these photographs.

The Frank Capra picture shows him as being so much more than a purveyor of 'Capracorn".

‘A bygone world of glamour’: Hollywood and the age of couture – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/27/a-bygone-world-of-glamour-hollywood-and-the-age-of-couture-in-pictures-george-hoyningen-huene

jemmesedi, to ai
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I've just wasted far too much time playing with AI art generators.

Why do they so often have problems with hands?

Look at this example from the Hotpot AI art generator:
#AI #AIArt

jemmesedi, to restaurants
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Think about the destruction of this unique community treasure the next time some libertarian is glibly trying to persuade you that minimizing constraints on private property will maximize social welfare.

Radical pay-what-you-can restaurant faces eviction from mill it refurbished | Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/22/radical-pay-what-you-can-restaurant-faces-eviction-from-mill-it-refurbished



jemmesedi, to HashtagGames
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#limerickafamousperson
#HashtagGames

This Limerick dedicated to the Voters of the United States of America.

Whenever you're taking a dump
Please think about Donald J Trump
Don't let him stay
Just flush him away
Like the stuff that comes out of your rump.

#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #Limerick #PresidentialElection2024

jemmesedi, to art
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White Chrysanthemums -- kiku no kaori

Kajita Hanko -- Japanese -- 1902

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

jemmesedi, to australia
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@pixelcats
@rLok

Have you ever encountered one of these?

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2017/02/worlds-deadliest-spider-the-sydney-funnel-web/

#Australia #Spiders

jemmesedi, to random
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>>I haven't taught (outside of private tutoring) since 2016 <<

Sorry - my mistake to assume you were in teaching.

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