From Heatmap Daily: “Americans often refer to their electricity or gas providers as ‘public utilities.’ But only about 15% of the population is served by a government-owned, customer-owned, or member-owned electric utility.” The rest are private monopolies. #ClimateCrisis
Perspective on Palestine — Review of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
In The Hundred Years' War on Palestine Rashid Khalidi takes us through six turning points of modern Palestinian history woven with family and personal history, including his frontline experience escaping Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon War. Khalidi has a long history as an advocate and an academic and writes a highly detailed account with an insider view. He covers the early Zionist movement, the Nakba of 1948, the Six Day War of 1967, the Lebanon War, the Intifadas and the rise of Hamas, giving context throughout as to who the geostrategic players are and how they change.
My copy of EMPTY KYOTO and 2024 Calendar from @hermosawave@photog.social has arrived! 📸🎋⛩️
hermosawavephotography.com/emptykyot…
My uncle-in-law was decorated with the “Order of the Rising Sun” 🎖️ for his contributions to basketball in Japan 🎊 This is his medal. When you tilt it in the light it really shines! ✨
Chili crab time! 🦀
Interesting ideological analysis of Cixin Liu’s popular Three Body series, especially this bit on how Chinese and American reactionaries use one another
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/1…
He also has this striking map showing countries coloured depending on if most of their wealth is owned by the bottom 80% or top 5%. (Luckily in this map New Zealand and Australia were not left out… still not suprised though)
From www.rubenmathisen.com/blank-2
Maps showing “% of Total Wealth Owned by the Top 1 Percent” per country by continent.
From www.rubenmathisen.com/blank-2
Another great video from About Here:
#density #urbandesign
It is Dec 15th in the year of our Lord Buddha 2566 and it is deva-damned 23°C out here‼️ 🥵
Adobe PDFs… just… no… NO! 😫
Daughter’s grade 6 class is working on the topic of “materialism” right now. It is inspired by this photography project from a while ago where families around the world brought all thier belongings outside for a portriat:
https://gigazine.net/news/20110901_families_and_their_possessions/
I’ve heard of “ducks in a row” … but… 📸 🐦
My 14 year old daughter to me: “I’ve never seen a grown man cry… except for when you watch Totoro. Every… single… time…”
Truth! 🥹🥹🥹🌱🌽🐈🚌
Blue skies and primary colours walking around the neighborhood today 📸 #Osaka #Tenma #Ogimachi
Started reading The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi 📚
Only one chapter in and it’s more complex than I thought. Got new perspective on the “triple bind” of metropole (London) enabler (League of Nations) and settlers that don’t answer to the metropole. So much detail in this book.
Been shopping for overear headphones to replace my old Sony’s. Today these landed in my inbox randomly! They look great! Love the idea of repairables that can last forever. They are just missing the holy grail feature for headphones: a MUTE button 🔇
Started listening to the full-cast audio of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett 👼😈 📚
Finished How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra 📚
Enjoyed it a lot. Full of wonder! See my chapter notes here: www.goodreads.com/review/sh…
Osaka Tenmangu. Sugawara-no-Michizane stopped on his way to Dazaifu before being elevated to God of Letters. (Learn more about him and the fight against covid: chadkohalyk.com/2020/09/1…)
More 📸 flic.kr/s/aHBqjB6…
