as always, in need of hope 🪷

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that is insane 🤩

Stormy Weather in color - The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway | Colorized with DeOldify YouTube video by Black Pepper Swing

A very rare instance of colorisation actually doing justice to its subject imo. If any film sequence deserves to look as good as possible, it's this iconic example of sublime human dance skill
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMb...

ok, i'm imagining this as a movie opening now.... 😄

Neat. This sounds so interesting. I wish I was up to joining you in reading it.

i see i see 😊 that makes it all the more valuable as a historical resource. so cool it still exists and is accessible ❤️

She warned us in 2019 of the rise of racism and antisemitism and other bigotry being used by Russia to further propagandize us

And here we are

Probably the most telling prediction made by @kamalaharris.com

Deconstructing the mythmaking and propaganda generated by the US does not mean you have to accept the mythmaking and propaganda generated by the IRGC

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

The National Theatre will stream The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa for free. The performance from the winter 2024/25 run will be on YouTube from 12 March. A watch-along premiere will be at 7pm GMT, during which viewers will have the opportunity to interact through chat/polls. 👜

Both dates, that's a nice touch. I hope it is/becomes the norm. Looking forward to whatever you might want to share on the secular scams 😊

@vokabre.bsky.social sending you tonight's wishes for your safety and everyone else's

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How is the book, btw?

I am genuinely *begging* some of you - well-meaning, left-wing people on BlueSky, some of whom no doubt support the Green Party, to understand exactly where broad stroke "anti-Zionist" policies lead.

We know, because it happened in Poland from 1967-1968

jewishstudies.ceu.edu/sites/jewish...

like whether its a noun or verb, what tense, plural, etc. I haven't studied those for Persian or Arabic (though I've probably picked up more than I realise), but the al- formulation reduces the possibilities.

To parse it for you:
ibn = standard formulation 'son of' (Hebrew cognate ben)
DIN=justice, RHM=mercy
'Abd points to what follows as being a divine attribute/name so The Merciful.
Semitic langs structured around roots, knowing cognates covers a lot of ground. Prefixes, suffixes & vowels indicate more

Oh right, your knowledge is farther east, not Semitic. Sorry, I was chuffed thinking we finally had some overlap cause I'm interested in what you write about languages but don't know enough on those to contribute anything useful.
Anyway, that's my read of the name. I'm moderately confident of it.

Jamal the Just, servant of the Merciful; son of Umar son of Abi Bakr of Damascus.

Is that close? I know "din" as a Semitic word associated with justice. Arabic took it on a tangent though.

The Jawbarian sounds like IDK someone from another planet in Star Wars or something 😊

A Roman marble sculpture of four puppies, all curled up asleep together. Unearthed from the ruins of the House of the Faun in Pompeii, 1st century BCE, now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

I stopped talking to you - my reply was to someone else. Why are you starting up with me again?

Since you have though - if you sincerely mean "all the best", don't precede it by taking swipes at the other person in the same post. That really does undermine any sense of the wishes being sincere.

Black and white photograph of a man in casual outdoor attire, standing in a field with hands in pockets and a cigarette in his mouth, with a mountainous backdrop. Giorgio Perlasca as a soldier in 1935 during the Spanish Civil War. (via Yad Vashem)

In 1944, an Italian businessman with no diplomatic credentials posed as Spain’s acting diplomatic representative in Budapest and saved more than 5,000 Jews from Nazi deportation. His name was Giorgio Perlasca. Almost no one knew for 45 years.

#EternalLight

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He also closed with a swipe at me for answering his question "What are you trying to prove?" 🤷
Plus a male lack of understanding why a woman doesn't use her name online 🤦

Good point that the pagers themselves demonstrate the connection between the IRGC and Hezbollah. Thanks for making it.

You: "Why would Russia send these hard needed weapons to Hezbollah? Does not make sense."

Showing you how it makes sense (also not full drone but a nav system) that Hezbollah were the ones who hit the Cyprus base.

The pagers weren't a false flag. Israel took responsibility.

For me it was music from around the world. I've spent plenty on gigs and CDs since then but getting a start when I was broke and access was limited in the very early days of the internet made such a difference.

Iran via Hezbollah, not directly. Remember that part of the conversation? It's pretty key.

Ru & Iran cooperate. Iran supplies Hezbollah. Such a mystery how Ru tech could have gotten into Hezbollah's hands. I know, invent a false flag scenario so I can blame it on Israel!!! Whew. Close one there.

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Well if Hezbollah says it, it must be true, eh? They brought the journalists in after all. That article is full of spin. Suits your prejudices though, so yep, you'll swallow it whole.

And then use it to fantasise a false-flag attack 🤦

Iran drops cluster bombs on cities. Why not them?

⚠️ Roger Macmillan, counter-terrorism specialist, added: “Two apartments, direct line of sight, held through Mojtaba Khamenei. That’s not a property portfolio – it’s a permanent surveillance platform. This is a serious security breach.”

You are deeply prejudiced as well as ignorant. How privileged you must be to feel entitled to that.

And all so your fantasy of a false-flag attack works out. Come on.

Look at reality and what is known. Iran supplies Hezbollah, Ru & Iran cooperate on drones. No clandestine ops needed.

Hezbollah having Russian tech (it's just a nav system, not a full drone) via Iran is a vastly shorter leap than Israel having it.

You do know that Iran supplies Hezbollah, right? And Iran and Russia cooperate.

Yes, you've made it abundantly clear that you don't care about Iran, what they do, their proxies and the terror they wreak, or their people. Your fundamental ignorance of Iran's role in the ME is crystal clear.
But your shallowness won't change the reality of what Iran does.