Colin Wright on X - "This person just got a PhD in human sexuality for a thesis about "How Queer Witches Heal Without Western Psychology" and why "magic" should be a "public health priority." From the abstract: "What can queer pagan liminal healing practices teach therapists and other practitioners? Investigating the dichotomies of clinical versus spiritual and history versus present, as well as the inherent liminality between queer memory and queer futurity, aid us in understanding the many subaltern patterns of queer witch healing that are created in the absence of support from mental health fields of practice.""
Mustafa and Zejneba Hardaga, Izet and Bachriya Hardaga, Ahmed Sadik - "In April 1941 when the Germans invaded Yugoslavia, Sarajevo was bombed from the air. The home of the Kavilio family was destroyed. They had fled to the hills when the bombing began, and were now without a home. As they were walking to the family factory, they met Mustafa Hardaga, a Muslim friend who was the owner of the factory building. He immediately offered them to stay at his house. The Hardagas were observant Muslims. The household included Mustafa and his wife Zejneba, and his brother Izet and wife Bachriya. According to their Muslim tradition, the women were supposed to wear a veil and cover their faces in front of strangers. Having a strange man sleep at their home was a most unusual step. However, as Zejneba described many years later, their husbands welcomed the Kavilios and told them that they would now be part of the family. “Our home is your home”, they said, and to demonstrate this point, the women were not obliged to cover their faces in the presence of Josef Kavilio, since he was now a member of the family. The Kavilio family stayed with the Hardagas for a short while until Josef Kavilio was able to move his wife and children to Mostar, in an area under Italian control, where Jews were relatively safe. Kavilio himself stayed behind to liquidate his business. Eventually he was arrested and imprisoned by the Ustasa. Because of the heavy snow, the prisoners could not be transferred from Sarajevo to the infamous Jasenovac camp near Zagreb, where the Croatians systematically killed Serbs, Jews and Roma. Instead the prisoners were taken, with their legs chained, to clear the roads from snow. This is where Zejneba saw Kvilio. Kavilio later testified that he saw her standing at the street corner, her face traditionally veiled, watching the plight of their family friend with tears in her eyes. Undisturbed by the danger, she began to bring food to the prisoners. Josef Kavilio eventually managed to escape and returned to the Hardaga home. The family welcomed him warmly and nursed him back to health. The Gestapo headquarters were nearby, and the danger was immense. In his testimony Josef described the notices on the walls threatening those who would hide Serbs and Jews with the death penalty. Not wanting to endanger the Hardagas life, Josef decided to flee to Mostar and join his family... The Kavilio family immigrated to Israel. In 1984 they asked Yad Vashem to recognize the Hardaga family and Ahmed Sadik as Righteous Among the Nations. A year later, Zejneba Hardaga came to Israel to plant a tree in her family’s name. Fifty years after the Holocaust, when in 1994 Sarajevo was under the attack of Serb forces, Zejneba and her family were in great distress. With the help of the Joint Distribution Committee, Yad Vashem appealed to the President of Bosnia to permit Zejneba to come to Israel. In February 1994 Zejneba, her daughter her husband and child arrived in Israel and were welcomed by government officials, representatives of Yad Vashem and the Kavilios. The Hardagas had sheltered a Jewish family during the darkest period in Jewish history. It was now the State of Israel that paid back the debt and helped the Hardagas in their time of distress. It was probably this deep bond that prompted Zejneba’s daughter – Sarah Pecanac – and her family to convert to Judaism"
Richard H. Ebright on X - "(These are career tracks chosen only by academics who realize that they are uncompetitive, or are becoming uncompetitive, for the research-focused careers for which they trained. Often as they realize they are experiencing initial signs of dementia and mental incapacitation.)"
Jason Locasale on X - "When middle-management salaries inside universities approach seven figures while tenured associate professors make around $120K, universities select for people who angle and connive their way up the corporate ladder. It’s not surprising that many of them end up treating scholarship with disdain and professors as peons — the system reinforces that mentality through the compensation, status, and authority they give to admins."
coldbutt on X - ""Teach a people to hate themselves and their history and they are defenseless against mind viruses and re-program E.g. I met a kid called Nelson. I said "cool, named after a hero" . He looked at me blankly and said "I'm named after the Simpsons kid" (Nelson Muntz, the bully)""
Meme - "SMALL BUSTED WOMEN HAVE BIG HEARTS
SMALL BUSTED WOMEN Know that people can read the entire message on their T-Shirts
SMALL BUSTED WOMEN Can go braless; it's comfortable in warm weather and sexier the year-round.
SMALL BUSTED WOMEN Can take an aerobic dance class without running the risk of knocking themselves out.
SMALL BUSTED WOMEN Can wear designer clothes"
Meme - Possum Reviews: "Have you ever wondered why wholesome content attracts toxic fandoms? It's because wholesome content appeals to people who don't like to have their sensibilities challenged. They're attracted to things that are safe and inoffensive. This ensures that you end up with a bunch of easily offended, self-righteous people all in one place. There's nothing these people love more than to dogpile on someone for a mild offense or disagreement so they can show the tribe that they're "one of the good guys" by tilting at the windmill of the week. Beware of the audience you cultivate."
Cartoon: FARTING SuPeR RACISTS
Fandom: nice people who are socially well-adjusted.
Cartoon: WHOLESOME HUGGING HELPING BUNNIES
Fandom: perverts and sex criminals who bully people to suicide."
Pitbull plays a gig in Alaska after a Facebook vote - "Pitbull has fulfilled his promise to perform a gig in a remote part of Alaska after a Facebook vote to have him play a supermarket show was hijacked. The rapper vowed to go through with the gig in Kodiak, which has a population of 6,000, after it came out top. He was greeted by locals, presented with a 'bear survival kit' and given a key to the town by the mayor. He tweeted: "Thank U (sic) Kodiak, I am honoured truly."... The rapper's visit was organised after he vowed to play in whichever Walmart store received the most votes on Facebook. A Twitter campaign encouraged people to vote for Kodiak, Alaska - one of the national chain's most remote stores. The store is located in the town of Kodiak on the Alaskan island of the same name."
From 2012
U.S. Customs And Border Protection Agent Leaves Canadian In Tears Following Personal Attack For Frequent Visits To New York City : r/TourismHell - "Why are Canadians still going to the USA......have some pride"
"Millions of Canadians still cross the border every month"
"Spineless cowards*. My best friend does it for work once every few months. Im spineless too since I havent called him out. Ill tell my own company to fuck off with that shit before I step foot in the US."
"Lol so your friend should quit his job to make Reddit happy? Is Reddit going to supplement his income?"
U.S. Customs And Border Protection Agent Leaves Canadian In Tears Following Personal Attack For Frequent Visits To New York City : r/TourismHell - "So I'm spineless for wanting to go to an American friends wedding, despite not vising the states before that since like 2015. Go fuck yourself lmao"
Left wingers are so deranged
[deleted by user] : r/ontario - "Buddy and I went out drinking with some friends we were not expecting to run into. Instead of ubering home, he called CAA said his car wasn’t able to get out of first gear. CAA drove us home and I passed out on his couch LOL"
Meme - "TO ALL EMPLOYEES. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, THAT THE CAMERA IS ON ALL THE TIME. WHEN YOU ARE ON THE CLOCK YOU ARE WORKING FOR LEE'S CARIBBEAN RESTAURANT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING IN THE RESTAURANT, ALSO FOR WHAT GOES ON IN THERE. ANYONE WHO TAKES ANYTHING OUT OF THE RESTAURANT, FOOD, DRINKS, GROCERIES ETC, WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT OR WITHOUT MY PERMISSIOM WILL BE CHARGED $25.00 PER ITEM. IT IS ALSO EVERYONE RESPONSIBILITY TO LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE COMES INTO THE RESTAURANT AND TAKE ANYTHING. I AM NOT ASKING ANYONE TO PUT HIM OR HERSELF IN DANGER. JUST LET ME KNOW IMMEDIATELY BY ***. Management"
Indonesian research scandal: Academic misconduct under scrutiny - "The almost cartoonish antics of an Indonesian researcher at an international scientific conference has opened a Pandora’s box of alleged academic misconduct, putting Indonesian academia under the spotlight. The scandal surfaced after UK-based Indonesian medical researcher Wa Ode Dwi Daningrat posted a series of Instagram stories on May 22 about another Indonesian researcher at the 2026 International Society of Pneumonia and Pneumococcal Diseases conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the conference, held from May 17 to 21, Dwi observed the researcher, later identified as Prihantini, changing her hijab and switching name tags in an apparent attempt to pose as other members of her team. “I found it so bizarre. Usually if someone presents on behalf of a colleague or teammate, they just say so. They don’t have to change name tags,” Dwi, 35, told The Straits Times. When confronted by Dwi and other Indonesian conference participants, Prihantini struggled to answer basic questions about her own research, which claimed to involve locations as far-flung as the Peruvian Andes, Lebanon or South Sudan, while involving only Indonesian researchers. Dwi also learnt that Prihantini and three supposed teammates had all been awarded travel grants to attend the conference, but only Prihantini attended – apparently intending to present all 15 of the team’s submitted abstracts herself... Dwi’s fellow UK-based researcher Ida Bagus Mandhara Brasika summarised the incident in a May 25 Instagram post titled “Damaging Indonesia’s Reputation on the World Stage: Fraud Scandal at an International Conference”. It quickly went viral and has since garnered over 236,000 likes and 97,000 shares. The post triggered internet sleuths to investigate the researchers, who appeared to be part of a possibly fictitious “AI-BioMedicine Research Group” led by Yogyakarta State University (UNY) graduate Rifaldy Fajar. What they found suggested the Copenhagen incident was not an isolated one: Rifaldy and associates appeared to have submitted suspiciously similar abstracts to dozens of international conferences over several years... In a particularly striking development, Rifaldy’s own mother, Elfiany Syafruddin, came forward to say that her name had been used in research articles and conference submissions without her knowledge... Academic misconduct is not uncommon in Indonesia. In 2023, for example, a whistleblower triggered an Education Ministry investigation into dozens of academics at Lambung Mangkurat University in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, who were accused of publishing low-quality articles in problematic journals in order to meet professorship requirements. The investigation resulted in the ministry revoking 28 professor titles between 2024 and 2025. But according to Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo, an Indonesian public health researcher who runs the blog ScienceWatchdog.id, such misconduct is unusual among early-career academics – Prihantini and Rifaldy completed their bachelor’s degrees only in 2019 and 2018 respectively."
Alpha News on X - "Photo shows fitting rooms at Apple Valley Target blocked off for prayer space marked with Ramadan sign One fitting room door displayed a sign reading: "RAMADAN MUBARAK" and "This room is being used for prayer. Please do not enter.""
Amazon Cancels New Stargate Series For The One Reason No Sci-Fi Fan Wants To Hear - "it looks like Amazon decided to axe a show for hardcore sci-fi fans because it was being built to appeal to…hardcore sci-fi fans... It’s rare for a show so far along to be canceled instead of redesigned to fit better with the network, which means the differences had to be considered insurmountable. On the face of it, this sounds like the new Stargate was being designed for fans of Stargate SG-1. The same die-hard fanbase who has kept the franchise alive for over 30 years, filling multiple conventions each year, buying spin-off novels, binging Atlantis and Universe, and they think “Wormhole X-Treme” is one of the best episodes of any sci-fi series. That should be the target audience and not a reason to cancel a series. Sci-fi fans will never outnumber the people watching Reacher, but keep in mind that Amazon also produces Fallout and Invincible, two niche genre shows. This is the same company that saved The Expanse, one of the greatest sci-fi shows of the last 15 years, from cancellation. Yet, early reporting is that’s exactly why Amazon decided to again disappoint Stargate fans with another revival tease."
@levelsio on X - "Amazon ($19.99) is a showroom for Aliexpress
Aliexpress ($5.17) is a showroom for Taobao
Taobao ($2.48) is a showroom for Alibaba
Alibaba ($0.69) is a showroom for well whoever actually makes the thing! Via @pandrewhk"
BBC bosses were ‘protected from GB News grillings’ - "BBC bosses were prevented from appearing on GB News because the environment would be “challenging”, its former communications chief has claimed. John Shield, the broadcaster’s director of communications from 2013 to 2025, advised senior executives to give interviews to GB News and make the case for the BBC. He was overruled... “The BBC should go on to some difficult and challenging platforms that might well intrinsically not like the BBC and make the case, because you will reach an audience who otherwise won’t hear your views. “And I think it’s important to do that, to make that case, and to do it often. “Making the case in places that are perhaps hostile – if you navigate those and do them well, you come out with a huge amount of credit.”... According to a forthcoming biography of Nigel Farage, written by Lord Ashcroft, the Reform leader will never be invited to appear on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Lord Ashcroft quoted an unnamed BBC source who said that Mr Farage had “effectively been blacklisted”. The BBC has denied this. Mr Shield said: “The whole point about the BBC having people from all walks of life and all political views on the BBC, including people like Nigel Farage, is precisely to have a range of views which are challenged and heard and listened to, and then the public makes up its own mind based on all that.”"
How ignorant. Doesn't he know that if you criticise the (left wing) media, that's fascism? There's no need for the BBC to give GB News more publicity by going on it!
Audience member takes over from orchestra’s sick pianist - "When a keyboardist fell ill in the middle of a concert in Australia, it seemed that the performance would have to be abandoned. That was until a young member of the audience came forward and offered to fill in. The medical emergency happened during a screening in Sydney of La La Land, in which a live orchestra performed the film’s score as the movie played on a giant screen... The concert at Sydney’s Darling Harbour Theatre went off smoothly until the interval, when Justin Hurwitz, the award-winning composer and conductor of the film, revealed that the keyboardist had fallen ill. Urgently in need of a replacement, his staff started calling pianists they knew, asking whether they could step in. But none of them could make it in time. So Mr Hurwitz asked the audience whether there was anyone who might happen to have the high-level skills to sight-read the music and play along with the rest of the orchestra without a moment’s rehearsal. Step forward, Sterling Nasa – a 21-year-old who plays organ and piano and also teaches bagpipes."
Leftist curators ruining museums are not just at work in London - "When I first moved from London to Birmingham, I remember spending hours in BMAG’s “Industrial Gallery”. Peering through the glass, I found ceramics, jewellery, stained glass, metalwork and other significant artefacts from the Arts and Crafts movement. They were all integral pieces of Birmingham’s inspiring history. Now, the same gallery space has been revamped with pretend roadworks, a mocked-up vintage poster of a pedestrian ramp, and old pub signs. These are neither works of art nor historical items. Visitors are greeted with a mock notice, “Diversion: Road Closed for Event”. This terrible joke plays into the unfair claim that Birmingham is a cultural wasteland: the very notion I have been fighting against in my own exhibition projects. Meanwhile, where there were once beautifully decorated ceramics by Victorian designer William De Morgan and objects by Morris & Co is now a large photograph of… a piece of bread. Mounted poorly on a tacky piece of board, the caption says “Crusty Cob” and asks: “What is your favourite filling?” It’s part of a so-called A-to-Z of Birmingham, with the display tacked up like an amateur school project with stereotypical views of the city. B is for Balti, T is for BT Tower, Y is for “Yes Bab”, and so it goes on. This is nothing less than an insulting caricature. It’s as if the curators assume us Brummies can only understand ourselves with the obvious parts of our culture exaggerated and regurgitated at us. Other renovated displays are similarly egregious. One show’s a re-created house with a wall of photographs of everyday people. Above the arrangements are the painfully unoriginal words, “Live Love Laugh/Birmingham”. The set-up feels like it’s been generated by an algorithm. It looks like physically realised AI slop. On another wall, a giant neon sign flashes “Made in Birmingham” in hot pink, signalling the museum as a backdrop and brand for influencers. What has been put on show, and how it’s been presented, reveals a desperation to be relevant. In tone and style, it also betrays a low estimation of the general public’s intelligence, curiosity and interest in culture. This museum, which first opened its Grade II* listed doors in 1885, has forgotten its core role and responsibility. As the Museums Association argues, these havens of history “enable people to explore collections or inspiration, learning and enjoyment. They are institutions that collect, safeguard and make accessible artefacts and specimens, which they hold in trust for society.” Built around the city’s civic pride, the museum’s foundational motto reads: “By the gains of industry we promote art.” Sadly, today, that pride, and the art, are missing. Works on display once included Botticelli’s The Descent of the Holy Ghost and others by Orazio Gentileschi, Simone Martini, Petrus Christus, Eugène Delacroix and Canaletto. They’ve all gone. The walls of the museum’s Round Room – which used to be painted red – were once full to bursting in a style reminiscent of the National Gallery. Now, poorly executed contemporary artworks hang in place of the true masterpieces, and the room itself has been re-painted in sad hotel-lobby white. The curation proclaims “One Fresh Take” and patronisingly claims to show viewers “how art can be a way to see the world differently”. But it’s made apparent that there is only one accepted viewpoint – ideology comes first with some poorly executed contemporary artworks taking the place of true masterpieces. Where, too, are the modernist sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore – works of national and international importance – which were once on display? Locally significant works are also missing. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Birmingham Surrealists Conroy Maddox, John Melville, Emmy Bridgwater, Oscar Mellor, and Desmond Morris brought the strangest of all modern art movements to the West Midlands. None of this revolutionary group are represented. Tellingly, I notice that four galleries of pre-Raphaelite works – seemingly survivors of the renovation – are noticeably busier, with visitors clearly more absorbed by these great works of art. Having said that, I can’t find local hero Edward Burne-Jones’s masterpiece, The Star of Bethlehem... It’s seemingly been decided then that our wonderfully diverse local audiences don’t deserve, or won’t appreciate, masterpieces on show. In turn, this reinforces the false idea that art is elitist and only for certain groups of people. Such a belief goes against the museum’s stated mission, to foster “greater community engagement”."
China forced Indians to retreat with 'secret microwave pulse weapon' - "Chinese troops used 'microwave' weapons to force Indian soldiers to retreat by making them violently sick during a Himalayan stand-off, a professor has claimed. The electromagnetic weapons which cook the human tissue of enemy troops 'turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven' and made the Indian soldiers vomit, international studies expert Jin Canrong told his students in Beijing. The microwave weapons heat water molecules in the same way as the kitchen appliance, targeting water under the skin and causing increasing amounts of pain to the target from ranges of up to 0.6 miles away. Jin hailed the Chinese forces for 'beautifully' executing the move which cleared out Indian troops without violating a ban on gunfire along the disputed border. It is the first known use of microwave weapons on a battlefield... There is some suspicion that similar weapons were used against US diplomatic personnel who mysteriously fell ill in China and Cuba in a series of incidents beginning in 2016. America's equivalent 'heat ray', the Active Denial System, was unveiled in 2007 and deployed to Afghanistan but apparently never used against hostile troops. The Pentagon touted it as 'the first non-lethal, directed-energy, counter-personnel system with an extended range greater than currently fielded non-lethal weapons'. Fears of a political backlash were thought to have contributed to its withdrawal from Afghanistan, although the US government said it complied with international law."
From 2020. Time to condemn the US for violating international law and praise China for following it
Malaysia's Greatest Car Theft Story Involves One Guy Stealing The Same Porsche Twice In One Day - "The man then asked the salesman for the keys because he wanted to hear the roar of the engine. When he got a hold of the keys, the man stunned everyone in the showroom when he drove off with the car, smashing through the windows. However, the man's masterplan for a quick getaway was dashed, because after driving for just 2km, the Porsche ran out of fuel. He was forced to abandon the high-performance by the side of the road and took off on foot. According to Reuters, the police subsequently found the car and hauled it back to their compound to have the paperwork processed. That's the end of the story, right? Well, not by a long shot, dear friends. The man went back for the Porsche again. Later that night, at around 10.45pm, the man reportedly showed up at the police station where the Porsche was kept - this time, with a fuel cannister in hand. He reportedly cut the perimeter fence, snuck into the compound, re-fuelled the car and drove off with it again. How is that possible, you ask? Well, when he abandoned the car earlier in the day, he kept the car keys... Unfortunately, the man was once again forced to ditch his dream car when he realised that he couldn't escape all the roadblocks set up to stop his escape. The car was reportedly found abandoned in a secluded spot near Maktab Perguruan Tuanku Bainun in Mengkuang, and the man was nowhere to be found. A full investigation ensued, with the police lifting fingerprints from the car and theorising that this could be the work of more than one man. Amazingly, the suspect was never caught and he could still be roaming free today."
M’sian who used to live in KL says living in SG is “really cheap, cheap, cheap” - "Facebook user, Nizam Nizam, took to Facebook group “Complaint Singapore” to compare the cost of living between the two neighbouring countries. He first explains that during his residency in Kuala Lumpur earning Malaysian money, he would spend between RM30 to RM60 on meals and snacks outside. “Even go to a cheap eatery, it’s RM12 for chicken rice,” lamented Nizam. But he noticed a change upon living in Singapore and earning (their) money. “Everything in Singapore is really cheap, cheap, cheap,” observed Nizam, adding that he would cringe every time he heard his Singaporean colleagues complain that GST has gone up and everything was “expensive”. However he then admits that the only actual expensive thing in Singapore is the cars. Nizam also highlighted how cheap the housing was in Singapore as long as people “met the requirements” and the drawbacks being it was “a shoe box” sized house... A netizen backed Nizam’s thoughts, “I totally agree, and I have personally experienced the high cost of living in Malaysia, especially in KL and JB. You’ll understand when you get a job in Malaysia (earning ringgit) and try to make ends meet.”"
