Tag: War
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Baby Crumpl Shark
Baby Shark has been haunting my dreams and nightmares…do do de do do do…. And now the Crumplbangers Gang have created a Baby Shark mashup album. Has it jumped the baby shark? No! no no no no no no….Radioshark, Rammshark, Mupshark, Lennoshark, Warshark, CairoShark, Minishark, it’s all there. My faves are the Baby Shark vs…
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Fat White Family – Feet
Loving the song and now video for Fat White Family’s Feet – a big hit at Duckie when I was there, I can guess the video also had part in that….Querelle and Genet (in fact I’m guessing the Panther/Cuban ‘rebels’ are a nod to his later work) meets Paul Cadmus, via a comment on the…
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Dancing in a war
Just come across the inspiring story of Ahmad Joudeh, fighting his own war to dance in Syria as a Palestinian, under the threat of being killed by terrorists. Very moving the shots of him dancing again at Palmyra, where he’d danced in 2007, and ISIS executions had previously happened, and is now destroyed. And dancing…
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Ancient Misogyny and Ageism online
I love Mary Beard and her work and do not hide that fact, so I love this interview with her by William Dalrymple. I’ve seen her face up to rude people on Twitter and yes, she does get them to back down usually…a force to be reckoned with! Her comments on the sexual violence of…
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War: Say it again
Sadly true GIF from Stewart Bremner. Really unhappy with what’s going on within the Government regarding Syria. Again, bombing and war is seen as the way to go after decades, even centuries of the same bloodthirsty tactics not working. So we get another generation of terrorists who saw their family slaughtered, and give Daesh/ISIS exactly…