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As a Michigander, I feel like this naming makes light of a real tragedy.
I wonder what the intended analogy/metaphor is. https://mastodon.pointless.net/@jasper/115312486776024875

https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/gypsy-traveller-sites-fires-2025/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BBCProms
- 2025
John Storgårds conducts the BBC Singers, the BBC Philharmonic and English National Opera Orchestra & Chorus with star soloists in Shostakovich’s operatic tragedy, Lady Macbeth.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hn3l

Tragedy and Resistance #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/24/tragedy-and-resistance

Tragedy, unity, and defiance in Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/20/tragedy-unity-and-defiance-in.html

Whenever I see a clip of someone throwing around the Video Game Line after a tragedy I gotta check the upload date to see if it was just an out of context clip from 2004 or something new.

i just hope that, long after he deploys the illegal it/its schizoaffective palestinian o9a-affiliated jihadist former gifted kid he's grooming on trump, even after he turns all homeless people and his wife into biofuel and dies of reticulan aids from unprotected peter thiel, everybody keeps using this one image of him

Charlie Kirk had every right to his views and to the way that he expressed them,
even if he did not support that right for other people.
He founded the Professor Watchlist, committed to singling out academics he believed discriminated against conservative views, scholarship, and students,
-- leading to threats against some of the instructors named.
He regularly attacked the LGBTQ community, saying, “God’s perfect law…[says gay people] shall be stoned to death.”

Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was
The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Capitalism can’t have pesky facts spoiling its plans for human extinction now, can it? https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115428564988842528

Ruth Mottram (@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get. #NCKF25

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#NCKF25

Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles (Andy Newman/New York Times)
https://www.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

The tragedy of a vile person like Charlie Kirk is that we’ve even heard of him, that a person like that managed to hold so many microphones for so long.
He shouldn’t have been shot. He should have been cut off by everyone in every space where he tried to hold the microphone, shamed into living isolated and miserable in his mom’s basement where nobody would ever feel the need to shoot him.

This anonymous coward is an example of the worst of humanity.
(There is a reason his account – and yes, I will bet good money it’s a him – is anonymous.)
He is trying to smear our Gaza Verified campaign (https://gaza-verified.org) which is run by @…

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference (Andy Newman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/nyregion/wikipedia-conference-gunman.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p27#a251018p27

This is very telling but my favorite super power would be to stop time. Not for any creepy reasons, but rather because I sometimes believe there's so much happening and I'd love to take the adequate time to respond to it all or process it. Just take one day and do everything I have been wanting to do and that has been piling up in my mind for years!
The biggest tragedy of life is that there will always be too little time for it all.

Watched Ex Machina yesterday, today I'm watching 'Men' (2022) since several of you recommended it.
#movies #film

Men (2022)
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.

Honestly, you know what some blue state governors should do?
Send their NG troops to DC to "help."
Openly say that they trust their troops more than SC and OH troops to obey the law and know what's allowed and what's not,
and they're sending them to reduce the likelihood of a tragedy.
https…

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
#AmReading

I'm tired of hearing about the bodies of those Israeli hostages who died and haven't been returned. It is a devastated war zone and no doubt many died in the bombing. Hardly surprising if they can't all be found now. I'd like to see the same concern for the remains of all those Palestinian children, women and men who were killed by Israel and who lie under tons of rubble. Their families won't be able to retrieve their remains.
It's a tragedy for all but let's…

To have a stair like this makes one feel alive. It's a tragedy that this is forbidden in some
countries.

Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/14/charlie-kirk-killing
> In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not onl…

Uvalde schools deploy AI gun detection technology after 2022 tragedy https://youtu.be/Cy-gTMG-qx4?si=pKtUhW9-Ug5ygU-P

#AI is a great example of the Tragedy of the Commons. We all know it’s trashing the planet but we carry on using it because ‘everyone else is’.
#Environment

The first tragedy here is that we’ve all even heard of Charlie Kirk in the first place.
That dude should have spent his long useless life holed up in his basement ostracized by his neighbors, shunned, shamed, legally constrained, and anonymous to almost everyone.
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Tragedy and Resistance
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I guess the new Red Sonja flick had only a VERY limited release here in the USA a day or two ago. I haven't seen anything about it at all advertising-wise (not that I really watch real/primetime TV).
EDIT: It was a ONE day release (thanks, @…!) on the 13th (sheesh) but luckily will be coming to video on demand on the 29th.

Red Sonja (2025)
A young girl rises from the ashes of tragedy to become the most feared warrior woman of all time: the She-Devil with a Sword.

#jetbrains #junie = tragedy
The transition from crying to laughing has been so easy.
People are still trying to use it and failing because they thought to get a fully working product from the makers of their own IDE. haha, you fool!
Till today, no apology => bad behavior…

Today's episode of #DemocracyNow is important. #MsRachel, heralded as a modern Mr. Rogers, has opened millions of apolitical eyes to the tragedy in #Gaza. If you can spare an hour, you won't regre…

YouTube Star Ms. Rachel on Her Gaza Advocacy: “My Deep Care for Children Doesn’t Stop at Any Border”
We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza. Her YouTube channel for young children became wildly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic and today has more than 16 million subscribers. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Accurso has used her social media reach to speak out for Palestinian children facing hunger, disease, injury and death. She has been hailed as the heir to Mister…

#resist #censorship #Disney #NBC

Good Morning #Canada
Like many provinces, Nova Scotia has hundreds of abandoned towns because of depleted minerals, harsh living conditions, or forced relocation. But the ghost town of Broughton in Cape Breton must surely be haunted because of a suicide by one of its most important residents. Founded by the promise of coal mining, no amount of money was spared on the design of its buildings and streets. But poor management and family tragedy doomed the town, and today, only ruins remain. Oooooooo.....
Here's a delightful video on Broughton with narration that is suitable for #Halloween. Don't watch it alone...
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
National and personal tragedy inspire Rodrigo's most famous work.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jj9p

#NYT: Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
That'll make an interesting Wikipedia article and discussion.
Seriously though, sad to hear this news and glad no one was hurt.
#wikipedia #guns #news #Manhattan #NYC

#Pennsylvania #SteelPlant tragedy takes 3 lives and dozens more injured after #explosions at joint #NipponSteel operated U.S. Steel C…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Kurt Weill, Golda Schultz, Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Robin Ticciati:
🎵 Lost In The Stars - Musical Tragedy ; Lost In The Stars
#KurtWeill #GoldaSchultz #ChamberOrchestraofEurope #RobinTicciati