Pavel Schelin gave a great interview 12.10.23 regarding EU, neoliberalism, wars in Ukraine and Israel, a neoliberal military-industrial complex and more. Decided to post the best points below since they look like uncomfortable truths no one is ready to face, even if I don’t agree with everything.  [Pavel Schelin works in Arestovich’s online-school ( Read more... )

"They don't want to spill too much pure blood, so they'll torture us a bit if we're mouthy but they won't actually kill us."

Harry didn't know what was worse, the things that Neville was saying or the matter-of-fact tone in which he said them.

[Chapter 29: The Lost Diadem]

The above "HP and the Deathly ( Read more... )

"One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way - said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; ( Read more... )

Aka "I hated Bill Gates before it became so fashionable" [from a web comic]
Killing Us Softly - Advertising's Image of Women
 
This serious theme is shown in an original & very humorous way in the 30 minutes long video.

Note: I used * standing for the letters “e” and “o” in some words due to fear (hopefully unreasonable) of lj’s banning policies. Do ( Read more... )

Ilkea wrote that after seeing "Women in Art" video, she noticed that "the women portraits were changing, but they were looking like the same woman." It's something I've heard from other bloggers too, which imo isn't a critique of the video, but shows that the beauty ideal of those painters was pretty similar. So she decided to make a video about ( Read more... )

Despite not living in US or Canada, I read many English blogs and ljs, and decided to give you the best posts, I have found. (Blog for Choice Day is specific to US, right?)


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Would you be disappointed in HP's character or even the series, if he deliberately killed Voldemort?

I started thinking about the topic after reading the fake spoiler, in which TMS, answering a question about Harry/Voldemort final confrontation, expressed the sentiment that Harry would never deliberately kill another human being. Many fans hold a ( Read more... )

 Six months to live/ Yair Lapid

What would you do, were you notified you had 6 months left to live?
I don’t remember how exactly I arrived to that, but I have got several very strange answers.
We were sitting in the evening of the sort A-2. Not the closest friends, but definitely dear to me people.
It was ( Read more... )