From an Israeli newspaper…..

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

First Nations leaders from Guda Maluyligal in the Torres Strait are taking the Federal Government to court over rising sea levels and climate harm to their Island homes.

Next week, there will be a week-long hearing on the Australian Climate Case. This is the most consequential…

Seems appropriate

I have no words…… except to say that whatever force brought these two wonderful eccentrics together proves there’s still some silly loveliness in the world 😀💛

Eric Cantona performs 'If I Must Die', the last poem by professor Refaat Alareer.

An orangutan strolls through remains of a former rainforest.

This one of the most depressing photos I’ve ever seen.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Camus, Helen’s Exile, 1948

People can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.

— Matt Kahn, 2019

How transparently lawless are members of the U.S. Congress to threaten sanctions against the International Criminal Court for possibly charging Netanyahu. Why should Netanyahu's war crimes rise above the rule of law? axios.com/2024/04/29/icc…

How, indeed?

Puglia is a region where ancient olive trees often sport bizarre, fantastical shapes, often twisting and turning about themselves.

This one is over 1600 years old and it looks like a hug.

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
A Man seated reading at a Table in a Lofty Room
circa 1629
oil on panel; 55.1 cm x 46.5 cm

'Physical matter is music solidified' - Pythagoras

Above is a diagram of the harmonic series...
Below is a photo of a shell....

A question I'd ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles?

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

— Simone Weil

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

'As a [Jewish] people, we need another kind of exodus... from the ideological shackles of Zionism... a lot of my fellow Jews are stuck in an ideology that is causing us to betray our core values.'

Naomi Klein, to me, on a new Zeteo segment, 'Unshocked':
zeteo.com/p/new-series-n…

Ali Alishah sent to jail for 4 months for non violent protest trying to stop logging in Tas meanwhile at Spirit of Tas 8 log loads went on boat to Melbourne tonight subsidised by freight equalisation scheme. Vic loggers are driving increased logging in Tas. #politas