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There is no evidence Hamas killed members of the Bibas family. Israel is using their death to manufacture consent for genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/ther...

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Watched Anne of Green Gables (1985) - two "made for TV" movies. Very good (if set in the wrong period - Edwardian rather than Victorian) but to my English-raised ear, Anne just sounds sarcastic when making her apologies. Making a fool of the adults. I'll have to read the novels now...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Coming across this gem of an old blog post is why I don’t leave social media. The ridiculous use by Gladwell of (Korean) culture to explain plane crashes was brilliantly exposed & added excellent insights to the “DEI as common sense” BS as the racism it is.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like it'll be an exciting last few days of the sumo championship. Lead contender is Kinpozan from Kazahkstan with 2 losses, followed by two Mongolians and two Japanese each with 3 losses. I'll be rooting for Kirishima, born in a nomadic community whose granddad was a Mongolian wrestling champ.

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Israeli forces block ambulances from entering Jenin and its refugee camp during "Operation Iron Wall," leaving Palestinians "bleeding out in the streets" as at least 10 are killed and dozens wounded. 🔴 LIVE updates:

submitted 55 days ago • 22 comments

Feel an sudden urge to watch a Peter Cushing film - Hound of the Baskervilles or She.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

".. the genocide of Indigenous populations – a direct consequence of the planetary revolt against freedom, in the past 500 years – is naturalised as a perennial absence of people. @davidwengrow.bsky.social

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 83 days ago • 9 comments

Bought a PD James to read over the holidays with a glass of port - Death in Holy Orders. Another wind-swept English coastal location beloved of James. Up the A12 too - familiar old ground, at least as far as Woodbridge. (Never been all the way up to Lowestoft but used to love Suffolk/Norfolk.)

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe on a par with the 1928 Banana Massacre of United Fruit Company workers, with death estimates ranging widely from 45-2,000.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I just want to point out that this is the single best write up of Syria's current military-political landscape that exists anywhere right now. That includes everything published so far by all the fancy D. C. think tanks, policy institutes, universities, newspaper and television explainers, etc.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

On the “Mizuho” service from Hakata to Kobe this morning. Reclining seats are nice and wide, braille seat numbers on the grab handle, stowable cup holder, wooden trim. Nice touches.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

On the single-track branch between Kashii and Saitozaki, Fukuoka. Only partial electrification but they replaced the old DMU with an EMU that uses battery on the sections without power - smoother and quieter. Each station has a cute mascot. Even branch lines get some love.

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“..the truth is that the idea of a British liberal democracy is unravelling before our eyes. When the guardians of the liberal order, of the rule of law and humanitarianism, are unmasked as charlatans - as is the case with both Starmer and Biden - the forces of darkness rush in to fill the void.”

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Early for the meeting near Azabu-Juban so a slower, civilised start to the day. Cup of tea and an apple pie at a local (non-chain) cafe while finishing a chapter of my current read.

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Interesting gain from reading more modern histories incorporating recent scholarship is the realisation that many received historical tropes are largely myths created for propaganda and retroactive justifications for e.g. imperialism: “Western Civilisation”, “The Dark Ages”, “The Renaissance”.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking of commercial determinants of poor health, Nestle should win the top prize 🏆 Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, but not in western countries www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

It's a sad competition out there. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what they, and other commercial milk formula companies, do. Check out the Lancet Breastfeeding Series for an overview. www.thelancet.com/series/Breas...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

"Facebook, Google and Amazon have destroyed the actual bulwark against autocratic leaders – local journalism – while cozying up to actual autocracy. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Started the revised edition of Robert Tombs’s ‘The English and their History’. Over 900 pages not including notes, but has to be limited in depth if not breadth. Up-to-date with findings from recent scholarship. Enjoyable so far. Wonder how it compares with Peter Ackroyd’s work?

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

To Bluesky, or not to Bluesky — that is the question. pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u...

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

A comparison of train driver seats - Osaka Monorail and on the JR Fukuchiyama line. Monorail uses a single T-handle controller and applicable speed limit on each track section lights up and annunciated by a bell. JR train uses power and brake handles, and has ATS (automatic train stop).

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

Tactile/braille panel on lavatory door of Shinkansen showing the layout of the room and explanation of facilities, including sink, toilet/washlet, washlet controls/paper/seat cleaner/dustbin and folding baby seat. #accessibility

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning from Tokyo station. Domestic trip for a change - getting the Nozomi Shinkansen down to Osaka.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Multinationals are taking billions of litres of bottled water from UK aquifers. My story: www.theguardian.com/environment/... To see my FOI data on water abstraction for bottled water in England: wordpress.com/post/grace-l... @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

NHK Great Nature - tectonics and volcanism in Anatolia and their associated landforms. Hadn’t realised association with the Afar plume, linking volcanism in Ethiopia via Arabia lava fields with Anatolia. Based on lead isotope ratio analysis. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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I'M ALIVE!!! Fuck you, Schrödinger!

submitted 117 days ago • 1024 comments

Morning virtual flight Seoul Gimpo to Shanghai Pudong as KAL1893, an A300-600 (JAS paint job though). VATSIM ATC from Shanghai Center. Have to be aware of available levels on the old Akara Corridor, and China uses metric altitudes. FIR boundary dispute between Korea and China has settled down.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

So Japan’s Seto Inland Sea is a horst and graben landscape caused by crustal compression due to lateral strike-slip movement along the Median Tectonic Line. The major islands (Awaji-Jima etc.) are on the horsts. (NHK’s GeoJapan programme. Can’t find any English references.)

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

Finished the last of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. A sort of anti-C. S. Lewis. While both have children coming of age battling dark forces in parallel universes, Narnia is a Christian allegory while Pullman’s work is anti-religion. Both deserve to be considered as classics.

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment