Seeing many many bees in the garden. This has been the best year yet for biodiversity in the yard.
In Canada news, the last federal election saw the center left ndp get wiped in favour of the libs and the cons, to the point that the party leader, jagmeet singh, stepped down. The ndp is now doing a leadership contest for their next leader. Yves engler, noted critic of Canadian foreign policy and pro-palestine activist threw his hat in the ring.
He's good. Dimitri lascaris had a similar history and message and ran for leadership of the green party of canada a few years ago. He came close but was defeated by status quo Elizabeth may. Will engler do better this time? Sentiment is much more against Israel than it was a few years ago, so charges of antisemitism will probably not land as well. We'll see.
The trans megathread
herodotus' the histories is a wild ride, definitely the chad of history compared to thucydides the virgin.
I mean this is the kid starver policy with less steps
Brutal public opinion polling out of Israeli showing that the vast majority of Jewish Israelis are pro genocide
Why is it in first person what the fuck lmao.
I bet musk typed that paragraph himself and hard coded the LLM to heavily weight that input to its training data for responses related to musk-Epstein.
That's exactly why I chose it 
Shakespeare invented all kinds of words and phrases that are now part of the ordinary English lexicon. Most English speakers are probably familiar with many idioms that originated with Shakespeare even if they don't know it. Beast with two backs, it's all Greek to me, band of brothers, star crossed lovers, and the most relevant one to a marxist news thread - what's past is prologue.
It's merchant of Venice. The movie version with al Pacino is excellent. Pacino plays shylock.
And yes it's a complex play with respect to antisemitism. At the simplest level, it is about a vengeful Jewish merchant who wants to claim his pound of flesh for a debt owed, killing the (Christian) debtor, and how Christians by-your-logic the jew out of his claim, forcing him to convert, taking his daughter and his wealth. There are lots of tropes of shylock the hand rubbing Jewish money lender stereotype who charges exorbitant interest of Christians. It was written in a deeply antisemitic country/time/place and was surely put on in many places with shylock explicitly as the antagonist and villain. The nazis loved it.
It's also canonically sympathetic to shylock and the Jewish people - shylock is motivated by commitment to the law and a sense of loyalty to oneself. He's a flawed character, hypocritical in his own way, but his flaws are a reflection of a lifetime of experiencing antisemitism, instances of which are illustrated in the play (Antonio has been screwing with shylock's business because he's a jew, shylock's daughter Jessica runs away with/is absconded by a shady Christian, and ultimately shylock is forced through lawfare to convert under penalty of death and will his entire estate to the same shady Christian). The famous monologue "if you prick us, do we not bleed" is explicitly about how Jews are no less human than Christians (nazi productions of merchant of venice cut this speech apparently). Also, Antonio and bassiano, the guys who borrow the money from shylock in the first place, are idiot fuck boy antisemites who 100% have it coming. The trial at the end of the show is clearly a kangaroo court farce.
There's also a modern play called shylock that explores these themes in a meta way. In that show, an actor is playing shylock in a production of merchant of venice that is being shut down because of charges of antisemitism. The actor playing shylock is a Jewish guy who talks about how he chose to portray shylock as a villain and thus earns the opprobium of Jewish theatre critics for being a race traitor. The theme of this metaplay is that art should be challenging and that you, the baby brained audience, should read and watch film/plays with a critical eye even if it hurts your feelings.
My username is a Shakespeare reference from hamlet. The carp of truth refers to finding the truth with the help of lies.
But why would they do that. Professional gambling adds so much value to society and professional gamblers aren't at all like second order parasites
right on. I made dandelion jelly a couple years ago. I didn't love it enough to do it again, but I'm glad I did it once. it had a nice floral flavour and scent. let me tell you, it takes a heck of a lot of flower petals to do it
have you noticed more birds too? i've found that successive years of rewilding/improving biodiversity stack up over time. I really hope I am here to see this place in 20 years when trees I've planted are grown.