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RickiTarr, 20 hours ago to random

What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

bobjmsn, 1 day ago to random

Harry's Last Stand

Ironically, in the interest of fascism NATO is going to pimp out the memory of D-Day.

Before, during, and after June 6th, Politicians are going to pimp out the memory of D-Day on its 80th anniversary with the cynicism of a human trafficker. They must because neoliberalism has backed society into a corner with systemic corruption and wealth inequality. They are at the shit or bust phase of control.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/ironically-in-the-interest-of-fascism?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

RickiTarr, 2 days ago to random

I have a big group chat with my a large amount of my real life friends, then smaller groups out of that group that have particular interests:

One is for the people who live locally to plan activities.

One is for art, but maybe the kind of art that not everyone would want to see.

One for BBQ and cocktails.

One where we talk about terrible home renovations and shit exes.

One specifically for handyman information and planning if someone moves or needs help with a project.

One where we seem to mostly talk about cute dogs, and often cheese.

Plus individual chats.

But now I'm wondering who has chats without me, do they have a secret chat where everyone talks about how I'm in everyone's business?!

RickiTarr, 2 days ago to random

Saw this in the bathroom of the Queer Friendly Coffee House:

bobjmsn, 3 days ago to environment

End peak rail fares in Scotland for good.

Petition:

https://greens.scot/endpeakfares

#RailTravel #environment #travel

bobjmsn, 4 days ago to environment

Earlier today the UK Government’s Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack MP, announced that he will order ministers to plan for a nuclear reactor to be built in Scotland!

Scotland only has one operational nuclear site left, Torness, which will be decommissioned in 2028.

Will you help us tell Alistair Jack and the UK Government to keep nuclear out of Scotland?

Petition:

https://greens.scot/NuclearFreeScotland?utm_source=email&utm_medium=middle

#NuclearFreeScotland #GreenEnergy #environment #YouYesYet

bobjmsn, 4 days ago to random

Harry's Last Stand

"It's not because we didn't value democracy but because our democracy didn't value us. " The rise of fascism..

"Thank you for taking the journey with me by reading instalments from the Green & Pleasant Land- the book my Dad was working on before his death. So far, you have travelled from Harry Leslie Smith’s birth in 1923 until 1941.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/its-not-because-we-didnt-value-democracy?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

bobjmsn, 4 days ago to random

Normal Island News

King Charles formally comes out as Satan, Lord of Demons
We need to respect his lifestyle choice

The bloke called Charles, who happens to be the British head of state due to some weird fairy story about how he inherited magic blood from his German mother and her Nazi cousin (blood so special it made his brother and uncle paedophiles), has made a dramatic announcement: he is actually Satan.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/king-charles-formally-comes-out-as?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #KingCharles

bobjmsn, 5 days ago to history

Photo of the Day

‘More popular than Jesus.’

A big decline in church attendance was making news in Britain in March 1966 and twenty-five-year-old John Lennon commented on it during a long, rambling interview.

"Christianity will go.

“It will vanish and shrink.

“I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right.

“We're more popular than Jesus now.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-724?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography #music #religion

bobjmsn, 5 days ago to random

Normal Island News

UN worker dies from unknown causes after bullet-sized holes appear in window
Figuring out the cause of death may prove a significant challenge

In the chaos of Rafah, where civilians with one leg are evacuating on crutches and the IDF are doing everything they can to preserve civilian life, a UN aid worker has sadly passed away, and another has been injured, after holes mysteriously appeared in the vehicle they were travelling in.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/un-worker-dies-from-unknown-causes?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews

bobjmsn, 6 days ago to history

Photo of the Day

the war bird

Today, it’s worth remembering that America is a nation which has long honored courage.

Throughout our history, exemplars of courage have served as rallying points during the darkest times.

Our list of heroic men and women is long.

Included on this list are the war dogs who served during the nation’s conflicts, sniffing out bombs and hidden enemies and protecting their units from unseen danger.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-ec4?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography

bobjmsn, 6 days ago to random

Harry's Last Stand

"My mother hinted at the different paths her life could have taken while she lay dying in 1999."

"In North America, the flower sellers are out, and the business is brisk in my city because it is Mother's Day. I haven't celebrated it in twenty-five years because that is how long my Mum has been dead come this July."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/my-my-mother-hinted-at-the-different?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

bobjmsn, 6 days ago to random

Normal Island News

Israel finishes fifth after Eurovision organisers punish all who opposed genocide
Booing Israel was made a hate crime

Ordinarily, Eurovision is a woke nightmare, a non-binary kaleidoscope of garish outfits, glitter showers, and they/them pronouns, but steps were taken to rectify the situation this year when organisers did their utmost to Make Colonialism Cool Again.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/israel-finishes-fifth-after-eurovision?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #GazaGenocide #eurovision2024

bobjmsn, 6 days ago to history

Photo of the Day

a dirty business

It is a practice as old as time.

Trade what you have to get what you want.

And East Germany, a communist dictatorship under the control of the Soviet Union, wanted so much after the war.

Its economy was in the tank.

A mass exodus of East Germany’s population, including its highly educated professionals and skilled craftsmen, had begun in the late 1940s

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-09e?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography

RickiTarr, 8 days ago to random

So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

bobjmsn, 9 days ago to history

Photo of the Day

finding the truth

It is the summer of 1918.

The world war is in its final months.

And Franklin Roosevelt, the thirty-six-year-old US Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is in England and France on a two-month fact-finding tour which brings him face-to-face with the men formulating Allied war policy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-b93?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography

bobjmsn, 9 days ago to Palestine

‘United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution calling on the Security Council to reconsider Palestinian membership to the UN passed on Friday.’

#UN #UnitedNationsGeneralAssembly
#Palestine

Reminder that this resolution does not make Palestine a UN member.

That requires a Security Council recommendation, which the United States vetoed.

This General Assembly vote determines that Palestine is qualified for UN membership, and gives Palestine more procedural righ

bobjmsn, 9 days ago to random

Harry's Last Stand

It's not economics that created the cost of living crisis but neoliberal ideology-where we are all expendable.

The cost of living crisis is one of the most cruel devices used by the 1% to harness ordinary people into ideological compliance with fascism. The cost of living crisis enriches the few and enslaves the many with an efficiency that any tyrant's secret police would admire. The cost of living crisis terrorises its victims.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/its-not-economics-that-created-the?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand

bobjmsn, 9 days ago to history

Photo of the Day

a man of good character

It is a good day to think about good men.

Authentic and selfless men.

Men who love their country more than themselves.

Men of good character.

So, we salute Joshua Chamberlain, a college professor from Maine, who, on July 2, 1863, commanded a group of 358 infantry volunteers on the southwest slope of Little Round Top at Gettysburg.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-71f?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography #Gettysburg

bobjmsn, 10 days ago to random

Normal Island News

King Charles did not invite Harry to garden party because it was "family only"
It would have been inappropriate to invite James Hewitt's son

King Charles has explained he did not invite Prince Harry to his garden party because it was family-only and he did not think it appropriate to invite James Hewitt's son along.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/king-charles-did-not-invite-harry?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews

bobjmsn, 10 days ago to random

Photo of the Day

to warn the people

What if everything is on the line.

How do you warn the public?

How can you motivate people to do hard things because, without such an effort, all will be lost?

These were questions which the US War Department’s propaganda arm, the Office of War Information, confronted during World War II.

For Ben Shahn, an Office of War Information artist, the answer was clear: depict Nazi brutality honestly.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-eb8?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

bobjmsn, 10 days ago to random

Harry's Last Stand

Victory in Europe Day 2024 is a farce because we are genocide appeasers.

With war raging in Ukraine, and a Genocide in Gaza obliterating innocent life Victory in Europe Day should have been cancelled this year. Seventy-Nine years after the defeat of Nazism, our western world is closest now to the fascism of the jackboot than social democracy where all citizen live free of want

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/victory-in-europe-day-2024-is-a-farce?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

bobjmsn, 11 days ago to random

Normal Island News

The US labels hip-hop artist Macklemore a terrorist organisation
His music has been banned to defend Israel's genocide

Due to concerns his music was radicalising the youth, the US government has taken the necessary step of banning hip-hop artist Macklemore and branding him a terrorist organisation. Any American who has bought a Macklemore record in the past 12 months is to be expelled from university and put on a no-fly list.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/the-us-labels-hip-hop-artist-macklemore?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews

fkamiah17, 12 days ago to UKpolitics

"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday

#DontVoteLabour #UKPolitics #FreePalestine #ToryContinuityParty

bobjmsn, 12 days ago to history

Photo of the Day

saving John Lewis

When southern governors refused to enforce Supreme Court decisions outlawing racial segregation in interstate commerce, a leading civil rights organization assembled an interracial group in May 1961 to travel on Greyhound and Trailways buses from Washington, DC, to New Orleans.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-3d2?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography