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🎉We won! We’re thrilled to announce that tonight @newlinesmag.bsky.social podcast The Lede took home the award for Best Interview at this year’s NYC Podcast Award! Listen to the winning episode “Gaza and the Fall of Western Idealism” and all episodes here: newlinesmag.com/podcast/

A thoughtful and, yes, important essay from @monicamarks.bsky.social

I haven’t seen Eddington yet, but I agree with her assessment regarding “One Battle After Another” vis-à-vis “Civil War”.

Steve thinks about doing shenanigans

last week: viral clips of hamburger chain CEOs eating their “product”

this week: viral clips of dogebros in deposition “eating their product”

Well, given that I'm actually playing Kratos ... (feel free to overthink this)

Good article. I was interested in the way that you had to negotiate with the provenance of the skull-object to bring David into your repertoire.

A digital montage of “David Skeleton”. David is a skull with a flower for an eye, some fake skin stretched over their face, a long tangled black wig and a garland of dried flowers and dried hands. Yes hands. If you’d have backed the Redux kickstarter you could have got a postcard of this absolutely free.

A photo of a fake skull in a wig with smoke coming out of its holes.

A screenshot of an extract of the linked blog text which reads: I set up some further tests, and discovered just how well a hose from my smoke machine can fit into David's noggin. I used some hot glue to seal up some of the various cranial exits, to direct smoke from the nose and eyes. Because we all know that's going to be all the more special. (I do worry sometimes. I want you to know that.)

“Alas poor David Skeleton. i knew her, Horatio.” Vintage material from the Making Maskwitches blog.

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The Limited Power of Iran’s President Over the years, the already-constrained power of the country’s elected leader has been steadily eroded further

"The Islamic Republic was founded as a state in which clerical authority guided the political system. Four decades later, it may be evolving into something quite different." | Menahem Merhavy

The Bosphorus Strait, also known as the Istanbul Strait (İstanbul Boğazı in Turkish).

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read articles was the FT editorial board’s piece about the conflict in the Middle East. ft.trib.al/79hvoA9

Thanks for sharing this, we really enjoyed it.

No. He didn't discuss it with Putin because it isn't important to him.

"Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand"

Mark Felt (Deep Throat)

Terrific drawing. Thanks for sharing this.

The King is mad

But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, and arms, and heads, chopp’d off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at such a place”

I *love* a Finnish phd dissertation about Pokémon.

Oddly enough I was in Helsinki around the launch of Pokémon Go, and due to a bit of a language barrier between my two boys and the local Finnish kids, who were all out in the street catching pokemans, some really wonderful scenes transpired.

Does this erroneous comment have anything to do with Leilani Munter's observation on how tired we are of the misogynistic claptrap we have to put up with? Or did you just feel compelled to do your bit to add to it?

Dear Women’s USA Olympic Hockey Team — First, congratulations! Second: I drove race cars for 19 yrs & the amount of misogynistic crap I put up with in the garage was insane. The U.S. Men’s Hockey Team has now shown you their true colors. Believe them. They’re not friends of your team or women in general. I’m so tired of this misogyny in sports & everywhere else in American life, to be honest. The patriarchy sucks. Grow the fuck up or hand the keys over to the ladies. Maybe it’s time we drive.

Leilani Munter, y'all.

I'll likely be working on several commercial art projects in the first half of this year. If there are any publishers or novelists interested in commissioning artwork such as book covers, illustrations, or bonus item art, please feel free to reach out anytime.

a|state second edition is on sale at our webstore for a limited time. Check out the source of The Trouble Engine, and the faction rules used in Blades '68. handiwork.games/product/asta... #astaterpg

Nice.

The truly fascinating emergent world of EpsteinUIs
jmail.world
epsteinexposed.com
what else is out there like this?

Jon Batiste - FREEDOM YouTube video by JonBatisteVEVO

The groove continues because of this.

How tech turned against women [FREE TO READ] As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

Agree with all this except honestly I'm less optimistic that anything will ever be done to prevent more harm. People in power simply don't care. It's only girls, whatever.

Big tech is deeply hostile to women and, ofc, #banthepervertglasses

- as.ft.com/r/da4838c6-4...

Yes.
Better question: is it ethical to require an employee to kill a healthy human being in cold blood? Is it even legal under current employment law?

A regiment of 20 Khemri Tomb Guard. Each one has a brass and blue headdress and carries a kopesh.

The unit standard bearer. They all have the same tattered burial wrappings, and are adorned with shreds of armour.

I've put the finishing touches to these Tomb Guard, which will be led by my general and battle standard bearer. These are lovely models I was a bit daunted about painting all that detail but pleased with them now. That's the whole 2,000pt army complete - army photo tomorrow!

So much worse in every way than Profumo.