TV news in US hotels: CNN, FOX, MSNBC (Maybe Newsmax and ONN, both far right) TV news in Copenhagen hotels: NHK (Japan), DW (German), Al Jazeera (Qatar), BBC (UK), La Monde (France), and DR (Denmark).
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TV news in US hotels: CNN, FOX, MSNBC (Maybe Newsmax and ONN, both far right) TV news in Copenhagen hotels: NHK (Japan), DW (German), Al Jazeera (Qatar), BBC (UK), La Monde (France), and DR (Denmark).
On Sunday, the International Association of Genocide Scholars said that Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide.”
That medal means nothing anymore. I feel sorry for people who actually deserved it.
More on the #SCO apnews.com/article/shan...
Hard times are about to set in. The harvest this year will be impacted, domestic prices will increase, and the labor shortage won't be filled across every sector from healthcare, agriculture, and construction. Employers will have to pay much more for non-immigrant labor. apnews.com/article/labo...
Perfect opportunity to use the following statement correctly: "I couldn't care less"
Normalizing a genocidal leader has never been kind to publications in the past. I suggest the economist take heed. Netanyahu is trying to avoid prison by prolonging genocide and ethnic cleansing. That is the long and the short of it.
The post-US world will be shaped (rightly or wrongly), by China, India, and the rest of the BRICS contingency. Europe will have to decide what that means for Europe and will need to help lead the rest of the west (UK, South America, and Canada) www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Than you!
Pops, 71 (©AM Brown, 2025) #photography #collage #mixedmedia
This is why the Dems are largely irrelevant. They absolutely insist on towing the corporate donor line. It's why they lost in 2016, and it's why they lost in 2024. What they are hoping for is a 2020-like victory - where "not Trump" suffices as a policy platform. It's wasaaay too late for that.
Genius really.
The best thing about having a blind dog is they sometimes just fall asleep in the middle of stuff.
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
I know things are grim right now, but, the spontaneous street parties all across the nation, when this man dies, are going to be off the chain.
Turkiye has ended all trade with Israel, closed all diplomatic ties, shut down travel from Israel, and closed all airspace to Israel. This is the appropriate response. Every decent country on earth should do the same.
I can’t even believe I got this photo. I wasn’t supposed to chase that day. I ran out to the edge of the desert at the last minute. I happened across this scene, but this cell wasn’t producing much lightning. Still, I set up the cameras & waited. Finally, it let loose this beastly double bolt. #azwx
A little check in at the Reality Hotel 1. Yes, it's genocide 2. Yes, it's fascism
A Picturesque shot of Gråsten Slot #Photography #PalacesandGardens
Here's a free meme for your meme stash. Use appropriately.
Ja! Jeg bor i sønderjylland men min sønderjyske er begrænset til at bruge "mojn" 😂
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Ooh an English edition of Politiken. For those of us who are not quite there yet with our Danish. politiken.dk/edition
This^
"And while entirely preventable there seems to be no desire to do anything about guns in the United States" - every European news anchor on yesterday's mass shooting (the 339th mass shooting this year).
Denne er så sjovt fordi det er rigtig.
More #PalacesandGardens This is Christiansborg Palace, the seat of the Danish government.
Something a little different for #WindowsonWednesday today. The windows on the Wyoming Territorial Prison Historical Prison Museum in Laramie. Also the prisoner transport wagon. #LaramieWyoming
Wow, I have actually been there. Long ago. It was actually the most memorable thing I experienced in Wyoming...and the Lane Frost T shirt I bought at a gas station.
Good.
Switched to Linux a couple years ago, would never go back, and now with LLMs, you can just query anything you need and it will show you how to do it or create code and modifications that go directly into your terminal program. Suuuper easy.
You don't have to use Word. There are dozens of better and more secure office products for free.
Time for Amtrak to stop service to DC.
An event not to miss!
I ended up with a veeeery pushy and scratchy Maine Coon cat this way. It would come in, eat all the other cats food, ask to be pet (then claw the shit out of you) then it would leave. I didn't even name her, just called her "Big Cat." She also ate tarantulas and would occasionally offer one to me.
Molveno (Trento) Il Lago di Bior
Dear Americans - Now is the phase where you begin forming underground resistance groups. There are many historical examples of how to do this. I SUGGEST 1. A public political wing (w/ plausible deniability) 2. An armed self-defense wing 3. An "invisible" wing for intel, sabotage, and recruitment.
This^
Last year I argued 'really existing liberalism' is an enabler rather than bulwark against far right politics I thought at the time it might be read as polemical but seeing how quickly the UK liberal elite is accepting the inevitability of a far-right takeover onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Hmm genuine human culture or AI slop. That's a really tough choice. In fact I think that human made cultural content and art is going to see a huge increase in value because the alternative floods the market with genuine garbage.
Trump can EAD. The US internet is basically unusable, filled with AI slop, surveillance software, scam-filled search results, and general propaganda. Via Euronews: EU defends sovereign right to regulate tech against Trump's latest tariff threat www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Broager Kirke #Photography #PalancesandGardens #Denmark
Standard Danish bakery run.
Indeed.
The proper assessment of what gets classified as "woke" From The New Leviathans by Gray
One of the most dangerous things the right has done is invert,warp and destroy the language of resistance to fascism. It’s why the far right is destroying education and trying to control our ability to think about systems, power and how they all intersect with race,gender and income.
This is correct
Meanwhile in Europe, over 50% of vehicle sales are electric, the majority of electricity comes from solar and wind (as high as 90% in some countries). The world moves on without the US, as it falls further behind in almost all areas of advanced society.
Tariffs are paid for by the American people. And the EU makes its own stuff, grows its own food, and doesn't need US products. And all the promises for purchases and investment are non-binding. While inconvenienced by Trump, the EU is largely indifferent. They'll just move on to other markets.
Aaaand the average American still can't afford healthcare, dental, college, a home, or a new car. It's almost as if the entire system is rigged to steal their big macs.
Boomers also fall for email scams from Nigerian Princes...
Let's Go #NordicStorm! Playoffs Baby! #Wildcard #ELF
Not a bad idea...
Personally I find it wild that the DNC is still pushing mainstream liberal candidates. Clapping back at Trump on social media is not actually fighting fascism. It's still performative politics. I don't know how many times they're going to have to learn this isn't a strategy that can win.
Pics from my afternoon walk today. #ruralphotography #danishlife #sonderjyllands
Yet another post-doc application begins
More #PalancesandGardens Frederiksborg Slot
looks great: new issue of New German Critique w/ special section ‘Critical Theory after Frankfurt’ ‘If the goal of Critical Theory is a Marxist analysis of society for the sake of emancipation, Critical Theory can & should include all who work in this direction’ read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
*paid for by the American consumer, of course.
I have a whole thing about #palacesandgardens so I'll start with my favorite - Fredensborg Slot. Dronning Margrethe spends significant time there still. What I love about Denmark is that castles are largely considered public property and you are basically free to roam when the royal family is away.
Just a couple pics taken on various walks this summer #photography #sønderjylland #denmark
The word for this is "genocide."
#PalacesandGardens #seasons A summer day in the gardens of Tjolöholm Castle near Kungsbacka, Sweden
Says a crazy man, yelling at us from a podium...
"While this paper is detailed, as well as nuanced,....I have some concerns."
Happy Babydog #dogs
This^
Ethnic cleansing
I was able to get all my loans relieved by expatriating. I recommend it.
"boatload of AI"... That's a no for me.
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Texas, Age 5 (©AM Brown, 2025) #collage #art #mixedmedia #minimalist
My post-doc applications = finding new ways to say "I can critique anything, literally anything, and I provide the necessary praxis for its undoing."
Endings No. 3 (©AM Brown, 2025) #sønderjylland #monochrome #photography
Digital Governmentality: Technological Subjectivation and AI share.google/HKZmi9gcUCs3...
Bounty of the late summer #photography #nature #denmark
Yeah I would definitely be interested in that as well. Is it less open world because of the time the story takes place - all the other mafias were pretty reliant on automobiles. Always seemed like a major part of the previous titles, zooming around, doing crime.
Thank you!
This^
🫡 Say no more. That's all the recommendations I need. 😂
If you are in America you are living through an unfolding fascist military occupation and you need to act like it. The pre Trump Normal is dead as is the constitution and you need to act like it. Pretending this isn’t happening or that someone will save you is only helping the fascists consolidate
Any good? I just replayed Mafia III and am anticipating The Old Country.
Glimpse (©AM Brown, 2025) #photoart #minimalistphotography #photography #longexposure
Tomorrow I will sleep in. As I have almost every morning since 2020.
i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
Just a couple strays #photoart #photography
I want to open a nightclub that's so exclusive no one gets in.
Lap dog.
In this episode of why Americans can't have good things... Imagine if they poured that effort into education, infrastructure, and healthcare - America wouldn't be a second rate country.
#storm in the #sky for #scape #landscapephotography #photography #art #photohour #road #landscape #drive #clouds #bluesky #eastcoastkin
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#urbanphotography #aabenraa
Jesus, Trump is a stunning fuckwit getting played by Putin.
Scary, I was just in Kliplev about a half hour before this happened. Fortunately the kids on board were okay.
- the hidden magic -
Man life is too short for that BS.
I'm just gonna set all my AI to talk to me like Holly Golightly