The joke about Chelsea Clinton that should have sunk John McCain
Posted on June 8, 2024
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ShortcutsJohn McCainMcCain’s 1998 joke about Clinton packed in several layers of misogyny and was dubbed ‘too vile to repeat’ Imagine the stink that would erupt were David Cameron to stand up in front of a dinner of rich Conservative backers and make a “joke” that implied that Sarah Brown had had a lesbian affair with Jacqui Smith and produced a love child (and an ugly one to boot). Can you imagine British papers deciding to downplay the story because it was in such bad taste, allowing Cameron to carry on with his assault on Downing Street?
[Read More]This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan review explosive post-punk novel
Posted on June 8, 2024
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One of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years … David Keenan. Photograph: Heather LeighOne of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years … David Keenan. Photograph: Heather LeighFictionReviewA portrait of a fictional Airdrie rock group morphs into a haunting, hallucinatory vision of the early 80sWho were the local legends round where you grew up? The beautiful losers and the outsider freaks: did they form the greatest band any of you had ever seen, play a few obscure gigs then break up after the lead singer killed himself?
[Read More]Tourism starting to bleed the Lickan Antay people of the Atacama desert dry | Conservation and indig
Posted on June 8, 2024
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The Los Flamencos national reserve, in the north of Chile. Photograph: Riccardo PravettoniChile’s Los Flamencos reserve is the country’s first to be co-managed by the state and indigenous people. Yet the Lickan Antay’s existence is still a battle by Marine Gauthier and Riccardo Pravettoni in San Pedro de Atacama“Welcome to Calama, the city of sun and copper”, proclaims the banner at the entrance to the city, near the Atacama desert. A little further along the road are tourist signs: “Los Flamencos national reserve”, “Death valley”, “Salt desert”.
[Read More]Alex Needham | The Guardian
Posted on June 7, 2024
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The Pulitzer prize-winning musical shows the world what it’s like ‘to travel in a fat, Black queer body’. Writer Michael R Jackson, a former Lion King usher who based it on his life, relives his astounding success
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Christian Christensen | The Guardian
Posted on June 7, 2024
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Is the social media company so relaxed about Trump’s tweets because it gains so much from them, asks Christian Christensen, journalism professor at Stockholm University
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Jaroslava Moserova | | The Guardian
Posted on June 7, 2024
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ObituaryJaroslava MoserovaCzech plastic surgeon who treated Jan Palach, politician and authorIn January 1969 the burns specialist and plastic surgeon Jaroslava Moserova, who has died of cancer aged 76, came face to face with the despair provoked by the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. That was when a still conscious Jan Palach, the student who had set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square as a protest against that invasion, was brought to her clinic at Prague's Vinohrady hospital.
[Read More]Porn data: visualising fetish space | Science
Posted on June 7, 2024
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The Lay ScientistSciencePorn data: visualising fetish spaceWhat are the most expensive kinks? Is porn keeping track with inflation, and is it possible to map ‘fetish-space’? Porn metadata could help find the answers to these and many other questions about human sexuality.
Porn is one of the biggest yet worst-covered topics in popular discourse. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry that sits at the heart of human sexuality in the 21st century. Many people watch it, though few talk about it, and for better or worse it exerts a major influence over our culture; but we know relatively little about it.
[Read More]Seun Shote, 'superbly talented' actor, dies unexpectedly aged 47 | Theatre
Posted on June 7, 2024
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Theatre This article is more than 2 years oldSeun Shote, 'superbly talented' actor, dies unexpectedly aged 47This article is more than 2 years oldShote appeared on the West End, television and stages across the UK, and was artistic director of Orísun Productions, focusing on talent from the African diaspora
Tributes have been paid to actor Seun Shote, who has died unexpectedly at 47. Shote was nominated for an Offies award for his blistering performance as a Trinidadian police commissioner in Mustapha Matura’s Play Mas at Richmond’s Orange Tree theatre in 2015.
[Read More]Sylvia Kristel obituary | Movies
Posted on June 7, 2024
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MoviesObituarySylvia Kristel obituaryHer film career was dominated by her role as EmmanuelleThere can be few film actors so closely associated with one role as was Sylvia Kristel, who has died of cancer aged 60. The title role of the sexually adventurous housewife in Emmanuelle (1974) became a reference for every part she played subsequently. This was not surprising, as the Dutch star did play a character called Emmanuelle, with few variations, many times over.
[Read More]What the heck is going on? Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth | Particle
Posted on June 7, 2024
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Particle physics This article is more than 1 month old‘What the heck is going on?’ Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to EarthThis article is more than 1 month oldAmaterasu particle, one of highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, is coming from an apparently empty region of space
Astronomers have detected a rare and extremely high-energy particle falling to Earth that is causing bafflement because it is coming from an apparently empty region of space.
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