What happened was the lease to The Theatre (actual name) was coming to an end, and the asshole landlord Giles Allen refused to extend it. He even tried to argue that since he owned the land, he also owned The Theatre itself (see: asshole).
So the Burbages and/or Shakespeare came up with a very clever solution: While they did not own the land The Theatre was on, they did in fact own The Theatre itself. So they hired people to dismantle The Theatre in Shoreditch on the sly and take the pieces to set up a new one in Southwark.
Across the Thames River.
In the winter when the Thames was frozen solid.
During Christmas.
The plan was successful, and they reconstructed their new playhouse by the summer of 1599: The Globe, now famous for being the home of Shakespeare’s later plays, from Henry V or Julius Caesar on.
Definitely one of the most badass moments in Shakespeare’s actual life.
Americans all across the political spectrum are actually not normal about soooo many countries, it is insane.
Israel. This goes beyond saying but both left wingers and righ wingers are convinced that the country is some sort of demon incarnate, they are blaming it for anything ranging from ICE to the Spain migration crisis, to their own political polarization. Generally antisemetism has made people all across the spectrum very stupid. And even a lot of the American supporters of Israel are insane evangelicals that only support israel bcs of their bs fantasies of Armageddon. So yeah no one is normal abt that country
AMERICA ITSELF. I feel like a lot of the polarization in american politics is bcs american politics have become a reckoning abt the question ''is america good?''. And one side insists it is the best and most glorious country in the world that has been wronged by everyone while some (although not all and the problem isn't as big as it is on the american right) leftists insist that country is beyond redemption and has produced nothing good (Shocker: Saying a country is beyond redemption is literaly the most unhelpful thing if the goal is to make it better)
China. Sorry but we either have the Hasan Piker types that try to fetishize it, ignoring the oppresion of the Tibetans or the Uyghrus or the political repression in general, or we have people convinced of the fact that China is an evil hellhole ignoring the fact that in the last decades the standards of living for the averege chinese person have JUMPED. As much as I don't like the chinese government, ignoring that basic fact doesn;'t help anyone and it is just stupid. Similarly to how it is stupid for people to just rage abt how china wants to dominate over africa through economic programs while supporting the withdrawal of USAID that allows for US to compete with china. Gnerally, maybe treating a geopolitical rival as either a cartoon hero or a cartoon villain is a bad strategy.
Any country in Subsaharan africa. In which conservatives and right wingers will assume people there are stupid and backwards ignoring both colonialism and other objective geographical conditions that led to the underdevelopment and have nothing to do with their racist bs theories. And then left wingers will soooo often push some noble savage bullshit and be like ''ohhh it is so wholesome these people are in touch with nature and traditions'' ignoring the fact people in Kenya or Tanzania WANT to industrialize, WANT to become richer and that doesn't make them greedy. Neither is their poverty some sort of mroal virtue to be upkept.
BOTTOM LINE: PLS DON'T TREAT COUNTRIES LIKE CARTOONS I BEG YOU I BEG YOU .
Everyone who watches any Star Trek show should thank Lucille Ball for saving the original series, and therefore bringing us so many shows, movies, books, and fanfiction terms from it even after all these years.
re: LRB, tbh idk that we can call the Nazi presence in Pro-Palestine spaces “infiltration” when the Father of Palestinian Nationalism recruited for the Waffen SS, and that legacy has carried forward in the rhetoric and practices of nearly every government or major organization that the movement has spawned.
that’s what the cause has always been about.
Palestinians do have a right to form a state for “the right to not be stateless” reasons, but there’s never been a time when the “Free Palestine” movement cared more about that than the negation of Israel, or was not defined by its antisemitism. this is not a good cause that went bad because outsiders poisoned it; it is a cause that has always had a venomous aspect, and purposefully keeps Palestinians in a position to be aggrieved for recruitment and fundraising purposes, in order to fuel an eternal intifada.
if anything, Jewish true believers, who genuinely care about the humanitarian dimension for both Israelis & Palestinians, are the infiltrators. we are the outliers who don’t belong in that movement, not the Nazis.
Hi, not sure if I can ask this properly but you seem sensible in such matters so here goes: any thoughts on this article (contains graphic images) that claims the IDF deliberately targetted kids? https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/gunshot-palestine-children-israel-war~v1819649/
I've addressed this libel previously
Go read that, then come back here.
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Caught up? Good. Let's continue:
Volkskrant, in a total absence of any verifiable evidence, relies entirely on the allegations of "doctors in Gaza."
I've worked in healthcare for 25 years. If I have a bias, I'm biased to believe and support healthcare professionals
But here are some of those same doctors in Gaza:
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Doctors in Gaza have repeatedly been proven to be Hamas officers who ran command centers out of Gaza hospitals in violation of international humanitarian law.
There's been literally no confirmed evidence of systematic targeting of children by Israelis - but there's been copious evidence of Hamas and PIJ targeting children. All they have are allegations. They know that if the allegations are repeated often enough, they'll be regarded as true.
They learned this tactic from masters of deception
Repetition makes things seem true. That's how and why social media has been weaponized so effectively.
Every unsupported allegation is a confession.
They are what they accuse Israelis of being and all it takes is a cursory review of the evidence to see that - but most people don't bother looking at evidence. It's much more satisfying to embrace the repeated, socially-rewarded, emotionally satisfying lie than to do the work required to seek the truth.
Also worth noting: doctors who are not Hamas have stated that sometimes their choices were between "toe the party line" and "stop being a doctor or indeed perhaps living." They'd turn a blind eye to things like hospitals being used as weapons bases because all of their options were bad, and they had to make a judgment call, sometimes in a matter of seconds.
I don't think we should hold that decision against them. If there was a gun in your face and a woman bleeding behind a curtain who needed your help, what would you do? Can you say? Can you even guess? I can tell you what I'd do. I might be able to save the woman if I say "sure, I didn't see anything." If I speak up, we both die, and the weapons get installed anyway. I'd play along. It's a horrible thing, to say that; but let's be real. "No! I'll never allow you to bring instruments of death into my house of healing!" is a Hollywood move. These doctors acted under duress and did what they judged to be best for their patients.
But. We do know, because they have told us, that they lied. On video, in press statements, they lied to protect their patients and families. And that means that unless we can be 100% sure a doctor is able to speak freely and without coercion, we can't fully trust any doctor's statements from Gaza. Not until Hamas is gone.
The torrent of hate even led Mamdani—a long-documented opposer of Israel—to condemn his wife's erstwhile collaborator.
yet again, wish I had a better source, if any outlets would show concern about these things, it would be nice.
A disgraced Palestinian author who has openly celebrated the murder of Jews and Christians has received a coveted book deal from Simon & Sch
A disgraced Palestinian author who has openly celebrated the murder of Jews and Christians has received a coveted book deal from Simon & Schuster, the prestigious New York City publishing house, the Washington Free Beacon can report.
Susan Abulhawa, who has attacked "Jewish Supremacist Vampires" and called Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre "a spectacular moment," has reached an agreement for Atria Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint, to republish two of her novels in September.
Jessica Laino, a spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster, sent a press release in July to the Free Beacon trumpeting the news and praising Abulhawa's "signature lyrical voice" and "nuanced characters."
Laino said Atria would rerelease Abulhawa's past novels Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water on Sept. 29, 2026.
Atria is a prestigious imprint that has published bestselling authors such as Colleen Hoover, Brad Thor, Janet Evanovich, and Philippa Gregory.
Abulhawa first came to wide public attention months after the Free Beacon revealed that Rama Duwaji, the N-word-slinging, Oct. 7-celebrating wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, had provided illustrations for an essay published in the Abulhawa book Every Moment Is a Life.
The essay was published in February in Everything Is Political—an offshoot of self-described "environmental & social justice nonprofit organization" Slow Factory.
Abulhawa's record of posting explosive content denigrating Jews and celebrating violence was evident long before the Duwaji collaboration.
In one December 2025 post on X, Abulhawa wrote that Israelis are "rootless, soulless ghouls" and in September of that year called Israel a "cultureless, rootless human aberration in the form of a manufactured 'nation,'" adding that "we live in the time of jewish supremacist demons."
Also in September, Abulhawa described a pro-Israel commentator as a "lying Jewish supremacist cockroach" and bemoaned "Dual loyalty zionists."
Abulhawa described Israelis as "demonic parasite[s]" in a November post in which she said "Israel must be dismantled if humanity is going to have any chance at a moral future" and in another post said "we will have our revenge someday" against the "sons of satan."
The torrent of hate even led Mamdani—a long-documented opposer of Israel—to condemn his wife's erstwhile collaborator.
"I think that that rhetoric is patently unacceptable. I think it's reprehensible," Mamdani said of Abulhawa at a March 13 press conference, when asked about his wife's artistic collaboration with the writer (Mamdani claims Duwaji didn't know about the postings).
Abulhawa's hate-filled rants have continued even after Simon & Schuster announced the book deal. In a July 31 post on X Abulhawa declared the Holocaust had "lost its meaning" and that "the whole world is sick of hearing about it."
"These clowns invoke that genocide with every perceived slight," Abulhawa complained. "There is an extreme overrepresentation of Jews in every branch of government, media, and culture."
Earlier in July, she suggested that Jews were to blame for bringing the Holocaust onto themselves, and that it could soon happen again.
"The way zios keep boasting about the extraordinary power they wield reminds me of how they also boasted and took credit for Germany's defeat in the First World War that culminated in the Treaty of Versailles and led to the rise of extreme anti-Jewish sentiment. History will rhyme," read a July 24 post on X, which now has a community note to inform users it directly repeats the Nazi-era "stab-in-the-back" blood libel against Jews.
Rest in power Comrade Kozo Okamoto. You were an inspiration to all who knew you and all who knew of your heroic life. You were an embodiment of solidarity and love of the people," Abulhawa posted the very next day.
Okamoto was the last surviving participant of the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, which left 26 people dead, including 17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico. Lod Airport, in Tel Aviv, is now Ben Gurion International Airport.
Representatives for Simon & Schuster, Atria, and its parent company, the private equity firm KKR, did not respond to requests for comment.
Abulhawa's jubilant reaction to the Hamas slaughter of Israelis was consistent with the demonizing of the Jewish state promoted continuously
Palestinian American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa. Photo: Screenshot Prominent Palestinian-American writer Susan Abulhawa has seemingl
“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)
red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂
Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but If you want, here’s a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out “The Designer’s Dictionary of Color” by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something
Xoxo
-Designer
What isColor Theory? Color theory is a term used to describe the collection of rules and guidelines regarding the use of color in art and de
I like that the presumption here is that “No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth” rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to “this is a hospital and that looks like blood”
like, color theory doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and sploches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway’s floor, an infographic won’t override the viewers’ instinct.
Fiscal hawks recognize that running government programs cost money, and since they don't want to pay that money, they want to cut the program. I disagree with the latter (I don't think we should cut most programs) but (in general) that means we need to pay for it. This is where I take issue with certain campaign promises. The paying for it part is critical. You cannot say 1) government programs for all and 2) only the uber wealthy will have to pay for it. Universal childcare, healthcare, investments in infrastructure, social security, basic income... these can't be paid for by taxes on the ultra wealthy alone. Or even by cutting spending you don't like. Or even if you add in the wealthy. You need to be willing to say "you, middle class America, your taxes will go up, they will go up a lot, and I think the program is worth it." Anything less than that is not the truth. And if that turns off voters then whatever you're proposing was never happening. It may not happen even if people say they're okay with higher taxes. People said for years that they'd be okay with slightly higher prices in exchange for higher wages across the board and guess what. They fucking weren't. The lowest earners incomes' rose the most under Biden and people lost their goddamn minds over it. That's the electorate. Figure out your pay fors and persuade people to accept them, really truly accept them, or admit you can't deliver what you're promising. Because if you don't they elect Republicans to come in and gut your precious program.
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?
Following an amazing three days in Las Vegas, we want to send a heartfelt Thank You to Anthony Sharpe and Travis McMahon for being a pivotal part of making this year's Miss Fisher Con one we'll be talking about for years to come. We couldn't have celebrated 10 years of Miss Fisher Con without them!
Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.
Odysseus: Regret it why?
Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.
Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in.
*A couple of months later*
Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit.
Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure.
