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to keep me insane during my PhD

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Happy low opacity elrond day to all who celebrate it

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Anyone else remember rishi sunaks plan to class anyone who criticises the government or the country as extremists and send them to re-education programs? Feels like a good time to remind people

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More information: He said that he wanted to expand the definition of extremism to include 'vilifying the UK' and to make it a cause for referral to Prevent.

His wording, which specifically said that some people questioned the right of the UK to exist, worried independence campaigners in Wales and Scotland, who - fairly reasonably, if you ask me - are essentially asking for the break up of the UK.

Despite Sunak's re-assurances that it won't apply when used to criticise the UK government, indpendence campaigners are worried that, along with the Tory's increasingly authoritarian anti-protest laws, it's an attempt to crackdown on any dissent at all.

Prevent itself has been heavily criticised for years. It's worth noting that the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism criticised it for criminalising children, (same article from the National.wales, above). It's also widely, and often, decried as discriminatory.

Sunak's plans also want Prevent to refocus away from right-wing terrorism, to Islamist religious extremists, because he says they're the real threat. Miqdaad Versi points out in the Guardian that the Met Police said: “19 out of 20 children who were arrested in the previous 12 months for terrorism offences were linked to an extreme right-wing ideology”. The statistic is part of an incisive opinion piece criticising Sunak's plan, and it's worth a read.

All in all, more chilling authoritarianism from the Tory Party. Good stuff. I've no reason to believe that he's changed his mind on the policy, so it's probably a good bet that it'll be back when he gets in. It's not like he's producing a manifesto - he doesn't need to, we don't get a say. Democracy.

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Leng Guangmin | MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

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Guangmin Leng (Chinese, b. 1986), Flowing temperature, 2019. Mixed media on canvas, 200 × 150 cm

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Leng Guangmin (Chinese, b. 1986), Fruit, 2021. Mixed media on canvas, 50 × 35 cm

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Leng Guangmin (Chinese, b. 1986), Mist I, 2021. Mixed media on canvas, 200 × 150 cm

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i cannot stop laughing at send no pee

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the start of the goblin and grim reaper’s 200k enemies to lovers slowburn bromance  ✧ goblin (도깨비), episode 1

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“The lives of the living were intertwined with those of the dead in a way unfathomable to our era where the Freudian analysis of dreams has eradicated conversation in favour of nocturnal shadows, broken the fragile network of messages between the dead and the living, destroyed the night’s disquieting yet exciting colloquy with the dead, interrupted social memory whereby the past is transmitted orally, verbally, by advice proffered, warnings issued, and messages of foreboding received from household spirits.”

— Piero Camporesi, The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore.

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sangwoo: *exists* jaeyoung’s brain: drag him jaeyoung: why? jaeyoung’s brain: you gotta

SEMANTIC ERROR: episode 4 // episode 6 // episode 7

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Goblin Market is first and foremost a poem about hunger and our desire to eat our fill of that which will satisfy us. The profusion of enticing fruits with which the poem opens— “Plump unpecked cherries,/Melons and raspberries,/Bloom-down-cheeked peaches” — speaks immediately to this hunger as well as setting up a paradigm of temptation. And in this tale of two sisters, it is the sister who hungers, beset by restless desire, who quickly becomes the initial focus of the poem. Laura is, quite simply, hungry, and, as she “rear[s] her glossy head/And whisper[s] like the restless brook”, she begins to consider what might feed her. 

—Marylu Hill | “Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me”: Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market 

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For my thesis research, I placed carpet pieces sprayed liberally with Calvin Klein Obsession for Men near my camera traps as it’s been documented to attract wild cats. It was an extra fun surprise to see who else enjoyed it

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Something, like nothing, happens anywhere. Takaya Katsuragawa (because)