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c. 1890 Postcard
HAPPY NEW YEAR GO INTO THE SOUP
I was looking for references and stumbled across a series of paintings from 1930s by Soviet painter Alexander Samokhvalov called "The young women of metro construction"
forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!
Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.
Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.
This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?
There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.
I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:
Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.
This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.
Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.
Please keep love in your hearts for the Nigerian people.
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i understand its chronic pain but every day seems a bit excessive
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Her name was Judy-Lynn del Rey. And she became the most powerful editor in science fiction history.
Born in 1943 with achondroplastic dwarfism, Judy-Lynn grew up devouring science fiction in New York City's public libraries. At a time when the genre was dismissed as pulp fiction for teenage boys, she saw something else entirely: the future of storytelling.
She started at the bottom—an office assistant at Galaxy, the most prestigious science fiction magazine of the 1960s. Within four years, she was managing editor.
Then Ballantine Books came calling.
When she arrived at Ballantine in 1973, science fiction and fantasy were afterthoughts in publishing. Fantasy in particular was considered unsellable—unless you were Tolkien. Judy-Lynn thought that was nonsense.
Her first major move was audacious: she cut ties with one of Ballantine's bestselling authors, John Norman, whose "Gor" novels were popular but notoriously misogynistic. It was a risk. She didn't care.
Then came the gamble that changed everything.
In 1976, someone brought her an opportunity: the novelization rights to an upcoming space movie by a young director named George Lucas. Hollywood thought the film would bomb. Studio executives were skeptical. Most publishers passed.
Judy-Lynn said yes.
The Star Wars novelization sold 4.5 million copies before the movie even premiered.
She would later call herself the "Mama of Star Wars."
In 1977, she launched Del Rey Books—her own imprint, with her husband Lester editing fantasy while she oversaw everything else. Their first original novel was Terry Brooks's The Sword of Shannara. It became a phenomenon.
She didn't stop there.
Remember The Princess Bride? The original 1973 novel had flopped. It was headed for obscurity. Judy-Lynn rescued it, reissuing it in 1977 with a striking gate-fold cover and an aggressive marketing campaign. Without her intervention, there might never have been a movie.
She published the Star Trek Log series. She championed Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant trilogy—convincing Ballantine to release all three books on the same day from a completely unknown author. Unprecedented.
She published Anne McCaffrey's The White Dragon—the first science fiction novel ever to hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
And she did all of this while competitors called her imprint "Death-Rey Books"—because she was utterly dominant.
Between 1977 and 1990, Del Rey Books had 65 titles reach bestseller lists. That was more than every other science fiction and fantasy publisher combined.
Arthur C. Clarke called her "the most brilliant editor I ever encountered."
Philip K. Dick went further: "The greatest editor since Maxwell Perkins"—the legendary editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
But here's what burns: the science fiction community never nominated her for a Hugo Award while she was alive. Not once. The men who ran the industry praised her in private and overlooked her in public.
In October 1985, Judy-Lynn suffered a brain hemorrhage. She died four months later, at 42.
Only then did the Hugo committee vote to give her the Best Professional Editor award.
Her husband Lester refused to accept it.
He said Judy-Lynn would have objected—that it was given only because she had just died. That it came too late.
He was right.
Judy-Lynn del Rey transformed science fiction from a niche hobby into a cultural force. She made fantasy into a mainstream publishing category. She bet on Star Wars when no one else would. She saved The Princess Bride from oblivion. She published the first #1 New York Times science fiction bestseller.
She did all of this standing 4'1" tall in an industry run by men who underestimated her at every turn.
The next time you pick up a fantasy novel, or watch a Star Wars movie, or quote The Princess Bride—
Now you know who made it possible.
the power of a bowl of rice mixed with some fucking bullshit cannot be overstated
Eleven people have been killed in an attack targeting a Hanukkah event on the beach.
Tonight is the first night of Chanukkah. This gathering would have been a celebration to mark the holiday’s start. There were 1000 people there; 11 dead (plus one of the shooters), and 29 wounded, so far. They haven’t finished counting the casualties.
I mostly focus on antisemitism in America, but Diaspora communities all over the world have suffered a sharp uptick in antisemitic attacks in recent years:
A year ago, a synagogue was set on fire in Melbourne.
This January, a home formerly owned by by a Jewish community leader was vandalized with antisemitic slogans and two cars set on fire
A few days later, a childcare center near a Jewish school and synagogue was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti and firebombed
Two other synagogues were vandalized during this period
Members of the Australian Jewish community, though grief-stricken by this latest attack, are not surprised by it. Nor am I. We’re seeing the same bullshit here in the US, British and French Jews report much the same, and so forth. This is the new normal.
I know many of my Gentile friends are going to respond with expressions of support and sympathy. I’m grateful for that, I truly am, but I need you to do more. I need you to educate yourself about antisemitism, and to push back against it when you see it in your friend circles. Here are some books on the topic that may be useful for you:
Antisemitism: the Longest Hatred
Jews Don’t Count
On Antisemitism
This is becoming the norm for us: violent, sometimes deadly, attacks on Jews on our holidays.
We cannot stop that ourselves, though we’ll continue to try. But we cannot make our communities safe without non-Jewish allies. It’s simply not possible.
Every one of you that has said you support Jews, that you’d “punch nazis,” that you’d have hidden Jews in the Holocaust…
Now is your chance to step up. We need you to.
May the memories of those lost be for a blessing.
Q: After the performance, when you went to take a group photo with Yang Hongji-laoshi and the Tsinghua choir, did it feel like you’d accidentally walked into a club of senior citizen academic gods?
zhou shen + talking about his group photo with the tsinghua university choir
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Hello friends may I request photos of your pets this morning? I will be non specific as to reasoning, but it is shaping up already to be a difficult morning.
i love seeing my friends interests mentioned somewhere. its like woaaah. thats My Friends interest. from My Friend. wow. epic friend reference
*putting my hand in the cavernous space between what you are and what you pretend to be, and wiggling it around* woah haha is there meant to be that much emptiness here? lol are you like okay bestie? omg this kind of tickles my hand does this tickle your nothing? #yournothing <3