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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 2h

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 4h

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙

Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.

Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.

An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

Tomorrow, a week on from Thursday's attack on the Manchester synagogue, this will be marked as a day of solidarity and mourning by civic groups from across all faiths and none. You are also invited to join online sharing #britainstandstogether

More information
together.org.uk/articles/bri...

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I think I agree, more or less. It's very hard to sustain the belief that some kind of plurality of people at these demos are doing so in complete innocence of the implication. Maybe - maybe! - on some random Saturday, sure, but not today.

Mïra Vogel ïs responsïble ()=== @trabimechanic.bsky.social · 1d

I do take Palestine demos today as expressions of support for the October 7th atrocities, and I do assume the people attending are either clueless or active supporters. I do consider 'Globalise the intifada' to be inciteful, and certainly as outrageous as 'Gllobalise the nakbah' would be.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

OK, *now* we're going to have a problem (I thought you were ona dealine!)

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

It's a bit "man v bear" really. Yes, I could be attacked & die in Israel. But people there would not ask what I was wearing, or if I think the bear had its reasons, or why I hate all bears & want them to go extinct, or chant that we should globalise bear attacks.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I was in Israel last week visiting family, and in the midst of the unreality that is Yom Kippur nothing was as mind-bending as the fact that I felt safer there - in an active war zone! I was mere miles away from the Syrian border FFS! - than I would have done here.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

"There is nowhere in the United Kingdom where large gatherings of Jewish people can now take place without some form of security. [...] There is essentially nowhere else in Europe where something like this is not also true."

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

"I do not opine on this from some lofty arena where Jews are not targets. No such place exists."

The Manchester synagogue attack inspires 'her skirt was too short' antisemitism

I do not opine on this from some lofty arena where Jews are not targets. No such place exists.

thecjn.ca

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Mm-hmm. Swinging Vienna didn't turn out all that well, so... (as I keep saying, I'm not the descendant of optimistic people)

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the thing about lifeboats is that they're not meant to be attractive. You'd only get into one, however well-run, if you had literally no other alternative (except to die), right?

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Go work!

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Guardiaoscura @guardiaoscura.bsky.social · 1d

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely do admire Layla Moran's conduct throughout this entire hellish two years. She has empathy & integrity most of the people passionate about the conflict (myself included, sometimes) patently lack.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Today we remember the victims of the 7/10 atrocities, deadly ripples of which continue to engulf far too many innocents. As @laylamoran.bsky.social said last year, we must hold ALL the people suffering in our hearts. If Layla can do it, with loved ones in peril, can we ask any less of ourselves? ~AA

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed, but the main female characters are self-defined slackers, even if they're in a different register than cruder comedy.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't characterise the fandom as leftwing as much as woke-avant-le-mot. In particular, certain kinds of sexual/gender politics that became mainstream only in the 2010s were already the dominant idiom for us in 1997. They got bundled in with "leftwing" only later.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

"I still cannot believe that a journalist was attached to the terrorists, his coverage then legitimised, quoted and shown by major media outlets [...] I think those images were designed to break and terrorise those of us who were not there."

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

www.theguardian.com

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Israelis pay respects to victims of October 7 music festival attack, two years on

On the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack, Israelis visit a memorial at the site where Hamas gunmen killed more than 370 people and seized dozens of hostages at the Nova music festival

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I understand that is what is meant by accountability, I just don't agree that it's ever been a 'load bearing feature of masculinity'. My question was about how you see male accountability manifest in the world. Just one timely example is that Golda resigned after 1973, Bibi would never.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

That's interesting, how do you cash that out? My pinned tweet on the other place for years was about how the essence of patriarchy is that women take the moral blame for men's actions, & I think that's still true.

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 1d

Petition: Inquiry into sexual violence in NHS hospitals
I want the Government to have an inquiry into sexual violence being reported in NHS hospitals, to come up with a plan to reduce incidents. Only 17,000 signatures so far, 100,000 needed,. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Inquiry into sexual violence in NHS hospitals

I want the Government to have an inquiry into sexual violence being reported in NHS hospitals, to come up with a plan to reduce incidents.

petition.parliament.uk

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion' is a good stab at it. Also, in a different way, 'Reality Bites'. But it was a pretty short-lived 90s thing, the trope died fairly quickly I think.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Mahmoud Darwish (as himself) in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Notre Musique', 2004.

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