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May 16th, 2025 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized | Print This Post Print This Post | |

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    Skepticynic
    May 16, 2025 at 1:54 am · Reply

    Even Canadian fake conservative Erik Kaufmann acknowledges woke progressivism is dead and dying.
    Western governments are a bit slow to catch on.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922973741740437843.html

    We are entering a post-progressive era. The cultural left-liberalism which emerged a century ago and took off in the late 1960s is exhausted

    Post-Trump the Left are beginning to wake up and de-woken. They’re licking their wounds, de-constructing, and doing the soul-searching that Australian so-called conservative Liberal parties need to do.
    Here in the colonies we’re a bit slow to catch on.

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      Ted1
      May 16, 2025 at 3:09 am · Reply

      “Post-progressivism argues that the end of the progressive grand narrative demands a new social science”.

      Well I’ll be woken!

      And he’s post Trump already!

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    Skepticynic
    May 16, 2025 at 2:07 am · Reply

    UK Citizen Sentenced to 10 Years in Saudi Arabia Over Deleted Tweet
    …
    A British citizen has been handed a 10-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia over a tweet that no longer exists and was seen by barely a few dozen people. The post, erased years ago from an account with just 37 followers, is now at the center of a case that exposes how harshly the Kingdom is punishing digital speech.
    Ahmed al-Doush, a senior business analyst with Bank of America, was taken into custody at Riyadh’s main airport on August 31, 2024, as he prepared to return to the UK with his wife and children following a family trip. He never made it onto the plane. Saudi officials stopped him at the departure gate and transferred him to a maximum-security prison, where he was kept in isolation for more than a month.
    It would be five months before Saudi authorities disclosed the supposed basis for his arrest: accusations that he used social media to “spread false and harmful information…”

    etc.
    https://archive.ph/6DKHb

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    David Maddison
    May 16, 2025 at 4:18 am · Reply

    Even as a child, I thought this show waa stupid.

    “Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men”.

    It waa made 1952-1953, before I was born, but endlessly repeated by Their ABC for many years after that.

    https://youtu.be/hcF9JSxkUSE

    From Wikipedia:

    Flower Pot Men features the story of Bill and Ben, two men made of terracotta flower pots who live at the bottom of an English garden. A third character, Little Weed, of indeterminate species resembling either a sunflower or a dandelion with a smiling face, is shown growing between two large flowerpots. The three are also sometimes visited by a tortoise called Slowcoach and, in one particular episode, the trio meet a faintly mysterious character made out of potatoes, Dan the Potato Man.

    Typically, while the “man who worked in the garden” would be away having his dinner, the two flower pot men, Bill and Ben, would emerge from their pots. After a minor adventure, a slight mishap would occur, for which someone would then take the blame: “Which of these two flowerpot men, was it Bill or was it Ben?” the narrator would trill in a quavering soprano; the culprit would then confess, before the gardener’s footsteps would be heard coming up the garden path; the flower pot men then would vanish into their pots and the “Goodbye” screen would appear. The final punch-line was, “..and I think the little house knew something about it; don’t you?”.

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    David Maddison
    May 16, 2025 at 4:21 am · Reply

    Gad Saad comment on Canada:

    https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1922883782626927097

    I love Canada. I’m Canadian. But Canada is no longer a serious country. It is irrevocably changed by a mixture of parasitized minds, cancerous socialism, and suicidal empathy.

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    Auto
    May 16, 2025 at 4:27 am · Reply

    Story tip
    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/

    Caveats in the link, but it looks as if one national supplier of kit has inserted some ‘backdoors’.
    I would do the same – and fully intend to do so, if I can work out how to do so in a wooden Welsh lovespoon.
    And if it profitably restrict Chinese actions …

    Auto

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