Rob
@rbiondo.bsky.social
History nerd who will get into discussions about almost anything history. Unapologetic antifascist. Straight Edge. Dabble with a camera and a darkroom enlarger often enough.
Italian Red Menace on the Hellsite
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Italian Red Menace on the Hellsite
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Well, shit! Assad is gone and although many hoped he would go eventually, I'm not sure how many people thought it would happen now even just 12 months ago.
December 8, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Well, shit! Assad is gone and although many hoped he would go eventually, I'm not sure how many people thought it would happen now even just 12 months ago.
...just to live in a country where it seems the issue came out of nowhere and has now been legalised.
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November 30, 2024 at 11:49 PM
...just to live in a country where it seems the issue came out of nowhere and has now been legalised.
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I fall on the side of allowing people to make that choice because ultimately people can and will find a way regardless of whether it's legal or not. But just find it very jarring that I grew up in a culture that was open about death and discussed assisted dying just...
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November 30, 2024 at 11:49 PM
I fall on the side of allowing people to make that choice because ultimately people can and will find a way regardless of whether it's legal or not. But just find it very jarring that I grew up in a culture that was open about death and discussed assisted dying just...
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On the other hand, assisted dying has been a hot topic in Italy for almost three decades. Death is a very public event (think posters on town notice boards, foot processions through the town towards the cemetery, black banners at the residence of the deceased). Yet assisted dying is illegal.
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November 30, 2024 at 11:49 PM
On the other hand, assisted dying has been a hot topic in Italy for almost three decades. Death is a very public event (think posters on town notice boards, foot processions through the town towards the cemetery, black banners at the residence of the deceased). Yet assisted dying is illegal.
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Seems like assisted dying is hardly ever talked about in Britain and yet the bill has passed the first round. My wife even pointed out that death is almost a taboo subject in Britain. If I think about it, death is a very private event and there are very few traces of it in its aftermath.
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November 30, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Seems like assisted dying is hardly ever talked about in Britain and yet the bill has passed the first round. My wife even pointed out that death is almost a taboo subject in Britain. If I think about it, death is a very private event and there are very few traces of it in its aftermath.
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Had a discussion about the Assisted Death Bill with my wife, an oncology nurse who often has to have very difficult conversations about end of life arrangements, and it dawned on me how surreal the whole thing is. Especially as someone who grew up in Italy.
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November 30, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Had a discussion about the Assisted Death Bill with my wife, an oncology nurse who often has to have very difficult conversations about end of life arrangements, and it dawned on me how surreal the whole thing is. Especially as someone who grew up in Italy.
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Gone on a completely unplanned detox from the Hellsite in preparation for leaving for good and holy shit, my mental health is so much better. Even more so coming on here and not seeing some of the most unhinged takes on politics.
November 26, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Gone on a completely unplanned detox from the Hellsite in preparation for leaving for good and holy shit, my mental health is so much better. Even more so coming on here and not seeing some of the most unhinged takes on politics.
Oh dear, this is going to piss a lot of people off. And that's not even counting Bibi and his merry band of racists.
BREAKING: The ICC issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
AT LAST.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
AT LAST.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
www.icc-cpi.int
November 21, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Oh dear, this is going to piss a lot of people off. And that's not even counting Bibi and his merry band of racists.
If people can watch Friends for the 15th re-run, the people can also have re-runs of weird medieval guys.
November 20, 2024 at 9:32 PM
If people can watch Friends for the 15th re-run, the people can also have re-runs of weird medieval guys.
For some reason, this old BBC documentary popped into my head and had to re-listen to it. Still holds a very important place in my heart because it changed my life 16 years ago.
youtu.be/8ws9Ylfwl68?...
youtu.be/8ws9Ylfwl68?...
Straight Edge Documentary 1/3
YouTube video by Bullet4MyAngelS
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November 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
For some reason, this old BBC documentary popped into my head and had to re-listen to it. Still holds a very important place in my heart because it changed my life 16 years ago.
youtu.be/8ws9Ylfwl68?...
youtu.be/8ws9Ylfwl68?...
It's also common sense disease prevention. Why risk another pandemic because someone else is so ignorant they won't do something that has been proven to be safe?
November 20, 2024 at 11:11 AM
It's also common sense disease prevention. Why risk another pandemic because someone else is so ignorant they won't do something that has been proven to be safe?
Bastani and Walker are both on that Trump era grifting arc.
Novara seem to be staying away from Bluesky.
With “logic” like this from Bastani you can see why.
With “logic” like this from Bastani you can see why.
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Bastani and Walker are both on that Trump era grifting arc.
The last time I can think of is the time I was waiting for a flight back to Manchester from Belfast and was browsing books. This girl, barely 5ft tall comes round. I stared at here trying to think where I had seen her before and turns out it was Maisie Williams and I must have looked like a lemon.
November 19, 2024 at 10:29 PM
The last time I can think of is the time I was waiting for a flight back to Manchester from Belfast and was browsing books. This girl, barely 5ft tall comes round. I stared at here trying to think where I had seen her before and turns out it was Maisie Williams and I must have looked like a lemon.
The second one was the time I was in Manchester and was crossing the road. A guy was crossing the road to my side and I swore I could recognise him. Turns out it was Ross Kemp and I almost face planted the floor because wasn't paying attention to where I was putting my feet.
November 19, 2024 at 10:29 PM
The second one was the time I was in Manchester and was crossing the road. A guy was crossing the road to my side and I swore I could recognise him. Turns out it was Ross Kemp and I almost face planted the floor because wasn't paying attention to where I was putting my feet.
Shockingly, I have a couple I can think of from the top of my head.
The first in time order was when I worked for a major airline's Italian ticketing line and a call from Marco Materazzi came through. I got starstruck and made a complete tit of myself mumbling something about the world cup in 2006.
The first in time order was when I worked for a major airline's Italian ticketing line and a call from Marco Materazzi came through. I got starstruck and made a complete tit of myself mumbling something about the world cup in 2006.
Twitter is doing “best celebrity interactions” discourse so we should do WORST ones
not necessarily like that they were a jerk, just that the interaction itself was a fail on some level
like one time Robert Sean Leonard walked past me and I short-circuited so badly I spilled guacamole on myself
not necessarily like that they were a jerk, just that the interaction itself was a fail on some level
like one time Robert Sean Leonard walked past me and I short-circuited so badly I spilled guacamole on myself
November 19, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Shockingly, I have a couple I can think of from the top of my head.
The first in time order was when I worked for a major airline's Italian ticketing line and a call from Marco Materazzi came through. I got starstruck and made a complete tit of myself mumbling something about the world cup in 2006.
The first in time order was when I worked for a major airline's Italian ticketing line and a call from Marco Materazzi came through. I got starstruck and made a complete tit of myself mumbling something about the world cup in 2006.
Now that landlords are distracted fighting the govt over having to pay less than half the inheritance tax other people have to pay, it's the perfect time to open a second front with mass trespassing on a 1932 scale to push for the same land access rights for England that Scotland already enjoys.
November 19, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Now that landlords are distracted fighting the govt over having to pay less than half the inheritance tax other people have to pay, it's the perfect time to open a second front with mass trespassing on a 1932 scale to push for the same land access rights for England that Scotland already enjoys.
Nope, I can't imagine how tense editorial meetings are.
November 19, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Nope, I can't imagine how tense editorial meetings are.
Oh it's 100% that. He can sense that Trump being elected back into office is going to shift discourse and media a certain way and he's priming his future position in that world. In a way I feel sorry for Ash Sarkar because Bastani isn't that far being Walker in terms of really ramping up the grift.
November 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Oh it's 100% that. He can sense that Trump being elected back into office is going to shift discourse and media a certain way and he's priming his future position in that world. In a way I feel sorry for Ash Sarkar because Bastani isn't that far being Walker in terms of really ramping up the grift.
And it defeats the whole point of a left wing alternative news media outlet. Surely the whole point is to provide an, you know, *alternative* POV rather than just subject its viewership to, as you say, shit they could hear anywhere else.
November 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
And it defeats the whole point of a left wing alternative news media outlet. Surely the whole point is to provide an, you know, *alternative* POV rather than just subject its viewership to, as you say, shit they could hear anywhere else.
Thanks to @trashfuture.bsky.social I have discovered that the Danish have come up with crypto Lebensborn.
open.spotify.com/episode/3mMz...
open.spotify.com/episode/3mMz...
The Dentists of Nonce Alcatraz
TRASHFUTURE · Episode
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November 18, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Thanks to @trashfuture.bsky.social I have discovered that the Danish have come up with crypto Lebensborn.
open.spotify.com/episode/3mMz...
open.spotify.com/episode/3mMz...
I don't speak German but spent 6 months as an exchange student with a load of German speakers. They already had a glib view of Austrians' language skills but then I heard Swiss German and I was dumbfounded, can't lie.
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I don't speak German but spent 6 months as an exchange student with a load of German speakers. They already had a glib view of Austrians' language skills but then I heard Swiss German and I was dumbfounded, can't lie.
I'm not entirely surprised that Swiss French speakers are closer to actual French French speakers. Always seems like other than Africa, Quebecois are the only real outliers.
November 18, 2024 at 7:20 AM
I'm not entirely surprised that Swiss French speakers are closer to actual French French speakers. Always seems like other than Africa, Quebecois are the only real outliers.
This is a real tragedy too because who knows where we would be today if decades of work and research hadn't gone up in literal smoke.
Fascists will always target the most marginalised first and then work their way up. Make no mistake about that.
Fascists will always target the most marginalised first and then work their way up. Make no mistake about that.
It is little known, but the first book burnings in Nazi Germany didn’t target Jewish writers. It was the burning of the library of the Institute of Sexual Research, which was a safe home for trans people.
It is no accident that fascists today walk that same dark path by targeting trans people. /5
It is no accident that fascists today walk that same dark path by targeting trans people. /5
November 18, 2024 at 2:52 AM
This is a real tragedy too because who knows where we would be today if decades of work and research hadn't gone up in literal smoke.
Fascists will always target the most marginalised first and then work their way up. Make no mistake about that.
Fascists will always target the most marginalised first and then work their way up. Make no mistake about that.
And she still had the gall to claim she's not lying about the encounter.
November 17, 2024 at 9:35 PM
And she still had the gall to claim she's not lying about the encounter.
Just not playing against each other. Things would get very dicey.
November 17, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Just not playing against each other. Things would get very dicey.