It's the weekend so of course I've been awake since about 4:30. ☹️

Fiction: My superior mind has transcended the need for sleep and has instead dedicated itself to fixing all of the world's problems 24/7.

Reality: The world is exhausting and my little brain can't cope. Where is my off button?

#Hungary is an authoritarian rump-state that is dependent upon #EU welfare. Although Hungary has more than twice the population of metropolitan #Boston, it has less than half the annual #GDP as Boston.

Hungary is where the far-right trumpists went to take lessons on creating an autocratic state out of a democratic one.

#farright #trump #maga #authoritarianism #democracy #US

Una bella intervista a Paola Caridi (che ha appena pubblicato «Sudari. Elegia per Gaza») sul «Sole 24 ore»:

«C’è uno scollamento ormai evidentissimo tra i decisori e quello che possiamo chiamare l’opinione pubblica, la società nel suo complesso, sia dal punto di vista politico sia dei mestieri, una distanza tra i decisori e i senza potere, riprendendo Václav Havel, che torna potente in questo tempo di genocidio. I senza potere non sono impotenti, fanno quello possono fare, ma soprattutto fanno quello che è giusto fare. Qual è l’unico obiettivo di ora: rompere l’assedio, portare cibo, aprire Gaza, far finire il genocidio. Sembra una follia, qualcosa di completamente irrealizzabile, ma non è vero».

ilsole24ore.com/art/i-sudari-q…

#Gaza #Palestina #genocidio #libri

I sudari: quei bozzoli che fanno finalmente vedere i corpi

«Non possiamo vivere senza i nomi degli uccisi» dice Paola Caridi, giornalista ed esperta di Medio Oriente rivendicando la necessità di nominare tutte le persone ammazzate a Gaza, cui ha dedicato un’elegia moderna

^{Lara Ricci (Il Sole 24 ORE)}

Building in the #Kalimarmaro neighbourhood of #Pangrati district, #Athens, #Greece.

#photography #monochrome #architecture
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Quelle del nostro presidente, al forum Ambrosetti, devono essere parole che trovino la nostra applicazione pratica.
Abbiamo "pericoli e regressioni che non sono ineluttabili".

#sergiomattarella #Quirinale #forumambrosetti

quirinale.it/elementi/138365

Reflection

#photography #blackandwhite
#abstract #reflection
#architecturephotography
#blackandwhitephotography
#abstractphotography
#bwphotography

So this morning its worth noting that for the first time in history the three 'Great Offices' of the British Govt. - Home, and Foreign Secretaries, and Chancellor - are now all held by women.

Starmer's reshuffle may present some political risks & challenges to the newly appointed, but lets just pause for a minute just to celebrate this latest first for women in politics....

#politics #women #feminism

Open war against #Crimean #Tatars began long before russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine

russia resorted to a new level of savagery and lawlessness in September 2021, with two young Crimean Tatars, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, savagely tortured

russia’s war against Ukraine began on 27 February 2014, with its offensive against Crimean Tatars beginning immediately afterwards.

khpg.org/en/1608814963

Open war against Crimean Tatars began long before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russia resorted to a new level of savagery and lawlessness in September 2021, with two young Crimean Tatars, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, savagely tortured, and imprisoned to this day

^{Human Rights in Ukraine}

Il Passaglia è più “British“. Diplomi per 90 studenti
Martedì al Liceo si terrà la cerimonia di consegna delle certificazioni Cambridge .

lanazione.it/lucca/cronaca/il-…

Il Passaglia è più “British“. Diplomi per 90 studenti

^{LAURA SARTINI (La Nazione)}

Mediaset e Rai stanno battibeccando su chi fa più cultura - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/09/05/rai-mediaset-access-prime-time/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Cultura @cultura-ilPost

Mediaset e Rai stanno battibeccando su chi fa più cultura

In uno scambio di frecciatine tra dirigenti, dopo che “La ruota della fortuna” ha superato lo share di “Affari tuoi”

^{Il Post}

The Stalinist bureaucracy launches a war on the Trotskyist movement - World Socialist Web Site

wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/0…

The Stalinist bureaucracy launches a war on the Trotskyist movement

This lecture documents the beginning war on the Trotskyist movement in the USSR in 1928-1932.

^{World Socialist Web Site}

On the night of 6 September (from 18:00 on 5 September), the enemy attacked #Ukraine with 91 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of dummy drones

Preliminary data, as of 09:00, air defence forces shot down/suppressed 68 enemy Shahed-type UAVs and various types of dummy drones

Eighteen strike UAVs were recorded hitting eight locations, with downed UAVs (debris) falling in four locations.

Several enemy UAVs in the air, the attack continues

Xi, putin, Kim and the optics of a new world order

by Amy Hawkins, Andrew Roth and Helen Davidson

Alliance of global autocrats has been accelerated by Donald Trump’s use of political and economic pressure against friends and foes alike

theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…

Xi, Putin, Kim and the optics of a new world order

^{Amy Hawkins (The Guardian)}

Non più sciatta, ma da amare: la strada è lunga, ma Gattuso ci sta restituendo l'Italia
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Nazionale/06-09-2025/gattuso-e-un-italia-da-amare-il-commento-di-garlando-sulla-gazzetta_preview.shtml?reason=unauthenticated&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Calcio @calcio-Gazzetta

Non più sciatta, ma da amare: la strada è lunga, ma Gattuso ci sta restituendo l'Italia

La Nazionale contro l'Estonia ha fatto solo il suo dovere, però il dato certo è che ora risponde alla guida del ct e del suo credibile gruppo di lavoro. La frattura tra Spalletti e il gruppo e l'umiliazione con la Svizzera sembrano un ricordo...

^{Luigi Garlando (La Gazzetta dello Sport)}

CD copy of It’s Blitz! (2009) by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

This is the album where they reinvented themselves. Less punk snarl, more art-pop polish—but still unmistakably them. Critics ate it up, and fans mostly did too. I get why: tracks like “Zero” and “Heads Will Roll” are stone-cold classics.

But the mastering? Brutal. Crushed dynamics, loudness pushed way past the red. It’s exhausting to sit through with headphones. And yet, the bonus tracks—four stripped-down acoustic cuts—sound phenomenal, simply because they’re allowed to breathe.

Proof, once again, that louder doesn’t mean better. If you’re going to live with this album long-term, the vinyl is almost certainly the way to go.

@recordpics

“Europe Remains a Mute Spectator while Gaza Bleeds amid Genocide”

by Ranjan Solomon in The Palestine Chronicle on Substack

@palestine
@israel @yemen @lebanon @EUCommission @europe

“This is why #Europe invokes ‘international law’ in Ukraine but retreats into #silence in Gaza. The #colonial instinct endures: Europe deems Palestinian lives expendable in the pursuit of geopolitical order“

open.substack.com/pub/palestin…

#Press #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Resistance #Israel #Genocide #Famine #WarCrimes

Europe Remains a Mute Spectator while Gaza Bleeds amid Genocide

By Ranjan Solomon

^{The Palestine Chronicle}

Moraine Lake

#photography
#landscape
#lake
#mountains

It's #BandcampFriday, and I want to remind folks that I'm giving away proceeds from this EP to families and individuals in Gaza, thanks to gazafunds.com and now @aral's Gaza Verified project. You can name your price, or you can download for free and give some money to someone in Gaza yourself. 😀 I hope these songs will renew your hope that one day Palestine will be free.

arendleejessurun.bandcamp.com/…

#FreePalestine

Two Anti-War Songs, by Arend Lee Jessurun

2 track album

^{Arend Lee Jessurun}

今日の散歩: 祇園・白川筋 (白川南通)
この季節の白川筋は主に「なすありの径 (花見小路通～東大路通間の白川沿い)」を中心に撮れ高がムクゲばっかりになるんですよね。で、ムクゲを避けると、このようにサルスベリとヒルガオになるｗ

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

Däyòsne Delain, wenòsne phe dag-jèzareri anklatè dye dalòsne Hönšidało

#conlang #writing #scifi

Joy's favorite 🧣 is KEFFIYEH , your not alone Aral @aral 😊

#Palestine @palestine #Gaza

If NY State wants to do some proper trolling, and possibly save some lives, they could require vaccine passports for anyone entering from Florida.

NY doesn't want your fucking polio.

@quinta

From: @theonion
threads.com/@theonion/post/DOP…

The Onion (@theonion) on Threads

New Safety Features Coming To ChatGPT https://theonion.com/new-safety-features-coming-to-chatgpt/

^Threads

This week's US #COVID19 update is a quick five-minute read. Highlights:

- COVID is rising but may be nearing a summer peak.
- Risks are almost 2x greater in the South and West than in the Northeast and Midwest.
- Studies published in the past 4 months prove each reinfection raises chronic health risks.

medium.com/@augieray_66704/cov…

COVID Surge Continues in US: Update for September 5, 2025

COVID Surge Continues in US: Update for September 5, 2025 This week’s wastewater data tells about the same story as last week: COVID is high in the South and West, low in the Northeast and Midwest …

^{Augie Ray (Medium)}