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Jan Breslau
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"I may mean to inflict a prick, not a wound, or not to wound the person whom I wound, or not to deal a wound of this kind."
The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, V. 8. 6
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Think twice before calling yourself a storyteller. They've appropriated that too, and for what? For maximising 'the corporate narrative': www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Storytellers: how the world’s oldest job became the hottest new corporate job title
Big tech, retailers and compliance firms are hiring people to ‘own the narrative’. But what do they actually mean by that?
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Be bold — read much — write much — publish little — keep aloof from the little wits, and fear nothing." – Edgar Allan Poe, October 1843
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... The dire situation in Quilicura, CHILE. AI and data centres feeding our thirst for connection and novelty cause a massive environmental crisis to the local water supply.
ARTE Reportage - Data Centre Drought - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
In Chile water is disappearing, and not just because of drought. Data centres have been built on the outskirts of the capital Santiago for google and other tech giants, encouraged by the socialist gov...
www.arte.tv
December 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"The reason why the law does not cover all cases is that there are matters about which it is impossible to lay down a law, so that they require a special decree. For that which is variable needs a variable rule, like the leaden rule employed in the Lesbian style of masonry..." Nicom. Ethics V.10.6-7
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Reposted by Jan Breslau
Yesterday, in just one day, I am told that the Ukrainians killed or critically wounded 900 Russians. In one day. All for the imperial dreams of a tyrant
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
From Dora Marsden, with Love (1909)
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The Merge
YouTube video by Swans - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
What a nice little group of lads... Getting together for the cause... Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
manchestermill.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Everyone wants Ukraine to be a nation of heroes – but no one wants to talk about the violence required to sustain armed resistance to Russia’s invasion

www.equator.org/articles/the... Bad Peace...
The Demand for Silence • EQUATOR
Everyone wants Ukraine to be a nation of heroes – but no one wants to talk about the violence required to sustain armed resistance to Russia’s invasion
www.equator.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Jan Breslau
L’Union européenne trouve un accord pour interdire toute importation de gaz russe d’ici à l’automne 2027
L’Union européenne trouve un accord pour interdire toute importation de gaz russe d’ici à l’automne 2027
« C’est l’aube d’une nouvelle ère, celle de l’indépendance énergétique totale de l’Europe vis-à-vis de la Russie », a réagi la présidente de la Commision européenne Ursula von der Leyen.
www.lemonde.fr
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Translated from Arabic by Omar Berrada www.equator.org/articles/i-l...
I Left My Sorrows in the Laundry Basin • EQUATOR
Translated from Arabic by Omar Berrada
www.equator.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM