Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
It's more like an understated documentary, at that time at the cutting edge in putting ordinary people on the screen, really just an almost cinéma vérité portrayal of the daily lives of some regular Aussies.
December 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It's more like an understated documentary, at that time at the cutting edge in putting ordinary people on the screen, really just an almost cinéma vérité portrayal of the daily lives of some regular Aussies.
Yes it's broadly the same point being made in his letter to the general, written days after his visit to the death camp.
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Yes it's broadly the same point being made in his letter to the general, written days after his visit to the death camp.
This is an excerpt from public evidence given by Harold Scruby, CEO of the Pedestrian Council of Australia Ltd, at the WA Community Development and Justice Standing Committee ‘Inquiry into the safety regulation and penalties associated with the use of eRideables’ on 13 August 2025.
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is an excerpt from public evidence given by Harold Scruby, CEO of the Pedestrian Council of Australia Ltd, at the WA Community Development and Justice Standing Committee ‘Inquiry into the safety regulation and penalties associated with the use of eRideables’ on 13 August 2025.
Just for the record, that's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Just for the record, that's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
That's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
That's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
That's not a real quote.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
That's not a real quote.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Workers seizing the means of cretinisation, appropriating technology that can only function by sapping enormous quantities of limited resources to further the tendency of the falling rate of intelligence, creating new forms of stupidity, workers control of the banality of evil.
But, for the Left.
But, for the Left.
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Workers seizing the means of cretinisation, appropriating technology that can only function by sapping enormous quantities of limited resources to further the tendency of the falling rate of intelligence, creating new forms of stupidity, workers control of the banality of evil.
But, for the Left.
But, for the Left.
On the bear crisis, sure, "large exclusion zone and forced evacuations in Fukushima" isn't exactly the same as what people mean by 'human encroachment', but it's still very much consequences of human institutions screwing up in ways that have large, in-this-case-also-irradiated ecological impact...
December 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
On the bear crisis, sure, "large exclusion zone and forced evacuations in Fukushima" isn't exactly the same as what people mean by 'human encroachment', but it's still very much consequences of human institutions screwing up in ways that have large, in-this-case-also-irradiated ecological impact...
Incidentally, when I search the British Library account here - @britishlibrary.bsky.social - no posts come up as containing the word 'ethos'.
Though I've never found the search function on this site very reliable.
Though I've never found the search function on this site very reliable.
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Incidentally, when I search the British Library account here - @britishlibrary.bsky.social - no posts come up as containing the word 'ethos'.
Though I've never found the search function on this site very reliable.
Though I've never found the search function on this site very reliable.
This should be an amazing, global, public collection of massive intersecting archives; instead there's privatisation and commodification and the restrictions on access entailed.
Governments and institutions working for a positive outcome could make something like the ProQuest model impossible.
Governments and institutions working for a positive outcome could make something like the ProQuest model impossible.
December 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This should be an amazing, global, public collection of massive intersecting archives; instead there's privatisation and commodification and the restrictions on access entailed.
Governments and institutions working for a positive outcome could make something like the ProQuest model impossible.
Governments and institutions working for a positive outcome could make something like the ProQuest model impossible.
Still no functioning national ETD archive post-EThOS. North America also had issues sustaining a large-scale ETD archive, at least with the NDLTD. OATD and the Canadian archive survive.
Some individual institutional archives are working backwards digitising, a few reaching the 19th century.
Some individual institutional archives are working backwards digitising, a few reaching the 19th century.
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Still no functioning national ETD archive post-EThOS. North America also had issues sustaining a large-scale ETD archive, at least with the NDLTD. OATD and the Canadian archive survive.
Some individual institutional archives are working backwards digitising, a few reaching the 19th century.
Some individual institutional archives are working backwards digitising, a few reaching the 19th century.
Protecting the kids.
It can be upsetting to see the mass murder and deliberately created starvation of children that have been the predictable results of policies broadly shared by most of the political mainstream in the UK and Australia, as well as the US.
Best if those videos don't get seen.
It can be upsetting to see the mass murder and deliberately created starvation of children that have been the predictable results of policies broadly shared by most of the political mainstream in the UK and Australia, as well as the US.
Best if those videos don't get seen.
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Protecting the kids.
It can be upsetting to see the mass murder and deliberately created starvation of children that have been the predictable results of policies broadly shared by most of the political mainstream in the UK and Australia, as well as the US.
Best if those videos don't get seen.
It can be upsetting to see the mass murder and deliberately created starvation of children that have been the predictable results of policies broadly shared by most of the political mainstream in the UK and Australia, as well as the US.
Best if those videos don't get seen.
Like, meet up with a Palestinian child trying to document the still very much ongoing settler-colonial violence and expansion of the Israeli state, the exposure of which is one of the core reasons why the US political mainstream has been so horrified by people having access to inconvenient media...?
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Like, meet up with a Palestinian child trying to document the still very much ongoing settler-colonial violence and expansion of the Israeli state, the exposure of which is one of the core reasons why the US political mainstream has been so horrified by people having access to inconvenient media...?
Incidentally, I just came across this in the 30 September 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Incidentally, I just came across this in the 30 September 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
From the 18 February 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
From the 18 February 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
Even if they just stopped committing them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Even if they just stopped committing them.
Imagine if people had tried to de-legitimate opposition to the Apartheid South African regime by claiming that reports of oppression were just reflections of “anti-white racism”, or “anti-Afrikaan bigotry”?
December 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
If greater time and resources were spent better teaching the actual history of the twentieth century, instead of doing things like propping up compulsory patriotism and trying to erase black people from portrayals of US history, people might be able to recognise the manipulative lies being deployed.
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
If greater time and resources were spent better teaching the actual history of the twentieth century, instead of doing things like propping up compulsory patriotism and trying to erase black people from portrayals of US history, people might be able to recognise the manipulative lies being deployed.
Now, supporters of Israeli settler-colonial expansion, Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing have built large institutions, government departments, lobbying groups, semi- or entirely-covert propaganda organisations, using framing closely paralleling colonial and white supremacist propaganda.
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Now, supporters of Israeli settler-colonial expansion, Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing have built large institutions, government departments, lobbying groups, semi- or entirely-covert propaganda organisations, using framing closely paralleling colonial and white supremacist propaganda.
Conservatives in the United States, the UK and Australia for decades would dismiss resistance to the Apartheid South African regime as Communist-inspired, anti-white and terrorist, even into the '80s.
December 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Conservatives in the United States, the UK and Australia for decades would dismiss resistance to the Apartheid South African regime as Communist-inspired, anti-white and terrorist, even into the '80s.