hesgen @hesgen@social.cleverlibre.org

The master of low expectations, lowers expectations.

#ukpolitics #green #climate #starmer #labour

Someone stopped from walking past to let me take this and I said, “Thank you, I wanted to get the ghosts.”

The sadness of a #CyberTruck owner.
"Days after launch, you sit at a red light. The novelty is gone, you aren't any happier. Maybe it's your imagination but the gaps in the door looks off. You think you saw a car full of teens laughing at you earlier. You're now 100k debt for a meme, and you feel nothing."

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

"In sum, in what matter so ever there is place for "addition" and "subtraction." there also is place for "reason;" and where these have no place, there "reason" has nothing to do at all."
Leviathan

English Philosopher Thomas Hobbes died #OTD in 1679. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.

Thomas Hobbes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1133

#books

Mit einer großen Ausstellung preist Russland seine Errungenschaften. Eine oberflächliche Schau der Eitelkeit – und plötzlich fällt das Wort „Ukraine“. https://taz.de/Ausstellung-bei-Moskau/!5973837/

The cherry on top of the shit sundae that is this climate denier president of the #cop28, is that his comment about "No science" backing up the need to phase out fossil fuels was while he spoke over (or mansplained) the actual guests in a talk called SHE CHANGES CLIMATE, a women-only panel about female perspectives on climate change.

He also topped it off by saying "I'm the man in charge".

The metaphor of ignorant toxic patriarchal capitalism would be too on the nose for fiction. But it's real

Give whoever wrote this headline a medal

Picture editor going the extra mile here
https://www.thejournal.ie/garda-use-of-force-bob-collins-policing-authority-review-helen-mcentee-6239413-Dec2023/

@Fiachra @geoglyphentropy @sinabhfuil
Image shows an old Twitter exchange. After a rant from a racist sockpuppet pretending to be Irish and outraged that immigrants probably don't speak Irish, the sock puppet is challenged to post something of his own on Irish.
The sock replies "Uimh."

What happened?
There isn't an Irish word for "No", but the sock didn't know that. He asked Google Translate for the Irish for "No." The software guesses he meant the abbreviation of "Number", which is "Uimh"