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bobjmsn, 8 days ago to random

Harry's Last Stand

D-Day was not about making society a safe haven for the undertaxed wealth of the 1%.

Ideologically and economically, 2024 is only a few steps away from the 1930s. Our fascism has a digital component whereas ninety years ago, theirs was strictly analogue.

The epochs are similar in inequality, populist politics, xenophobia and fear

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/d-day-was-not-about-making-society?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

bobjmsn, 8 days ago to history

Photo of the Day

Mount Vesuvius

For ten days in March 1944, Mount Vesuvius spewed volcanic rock and ash into the air and poured a river of molten lava down the mountainside.

It was a major eruption.

Three Italian villages and part of a fourth were destroyed.

And no volcanic activity at Vesuvius since then even comes close to the scale of this event.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-40f?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography #volcano

bobjmsn, 9 days ago to random

Harry's Last Stand

Neoliberalism created another lost generation. Chapters from the Green & Pleasant Land

Neoliberalism has created another lost generation. This one will never be found because our politics were broken by corruption the way stage four cancer eats away at the vital organs of an afflicted patient.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/neoliberalism-created-another-lost?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

bobjmsn, 15 days ago to random

Normal Island News

Israel says decapitated babies are no longer reason to respond with genocide
It's different when they do the decapitating

Israel has suddenly decided that decapitated babies are not justification to commit a retaliatory genocide after it decapitated babies by dropping 8 one-ton bombs on tents in a refugee camp, and bombed the Kuwaiti hospital to take it out of operation before the survivors could be taken there.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/israel-says-decapitated-babies-are?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #GazaGenocide

bobjmsn, 18 days ago to random

Good Law Project.
"Earlier this month, the Tories informed me they had passed my data to the Daily Mail. So, I sent the Mail a data subject access request to find out exactly what data it holds on me."

In its reply, the Mail has pushed back, to argue that carrying out the search “would be wholly disproportionate and an unwarranted interference with its Article 10 rights” which protects freedom of expression in – the European Convention on Human Rights.

To donate:
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/daily-mail-human-rights/?utm_source=Good+Law+Project&utm_campaign=b6e1042a4b-EMAIL_DailyMailData_2024_05_24_04_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db5adb9599-b00fe98505-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=b6e1042a4b&mc_eid=029f2a5337

bobjmsn, 19 days ago to Autism

"I was an Autistic psychiatric inpatient: Here’s what I would change in the mental health system "

Autistic people are exposed to inordinately high rates of trauma and mistreatment. It is unsurprising then that a large portion of us develop mental health struggles. Where there are concerns around mental health, there are also issues regarding inpatient treatment, both voluntary and involuntary, under the UK’s Mental Health Act.

https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/07/27/i-was-an-autistic-psychiatric-inpatient-heres-what-i-would-change-in-the-mental-health-system/

#autism #MentalHealth

bobjmsn, 19 days ago to politics

Normal Island News

Rishi Sunak decides to end political career with general election
Even I don't think he stands a chance!

Rishi Sunak, the UK’s greatest prime minister since Liz Truss, has announced he will be stepping down through a process known as a “general election” that he has zero chance of winning.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/rishi-sunak-decides-to-end-political?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #satire #UKGeneralElection #politics

RickiTarr, 20 days ago to random

If the gods exist, it's mighty presumptuous to think they have our best interests at heart, or even think about us at all.

RickiTarr, 24 days 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, 24 days 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, 25 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, 25 days ago to random

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

bobjmsn, 26 days ago to environment

End peak rail fares in Scotland for good.

Petition:

https://greens.scot/endpeakfares

#RailTravel #environment #travel

bobjmsn, 27 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, 27 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, 27 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, 28 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, 28 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, 29 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, 29 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, 29 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, 29 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