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It’s literally this bit

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/04/11/the…

The new German government has effectively spoken out against EU enlargement—i.e., against the admission of new full members—in its coalition agreement. This could actually be good news for the Western Balkans – if the right conclusions are drawn from it.

“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news…I want a death that the world will hear.” She was about to get married; a film about her life in Gaza had just been finished. 10 of her family were killed with her. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

All the talk about the disastrous Cronenberg Q&A reminded me of the Jonathan Glazer interview at the BFI, when the first question from the audience was so atrociously bad that they immediately ended the Q&A

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Our investigation found that a factory owned by the billionaire former prime minister, Andrej Babis, should have been the prime suspect in an environmental disaster. But the prosecutors and courts looked elsewhere. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/05/22/ana… Illustration: BIRN

Glasgow, Scotland, 1980 Raymond Depardon

Some personal news

⚡️Tomorrow: Drop Site’s Middle East editor @SharifKouddous and Drop Site contributor in the occupied West Bank Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي, join Tariq Kenney-Shawa for a live Al-Shabaka panel on Israel’s War on Palestinian Journalists. Tune in Wednesday, May 28 at 10AM ET / 5PM Palestine time.

Literary agent told me teens can't read third person omniscient anymore.

Took me literally this long to realize he meant 'coverage'

It should be illegal to post movie clips on the internet. Its nice to have a laugh but I think we've been irresponsible and its time to reel it back in. Movies must not become fodder for short form video content. Hold the line.

Gaza. "Aid distribution", 2025.

David, famous for his undisclosed nuclear arsenal

I think this is best understood at Romney-Republican entryism. The "respectable right" are sad that their party is now a Nazi death cult, so they're trying to take over the Democratic Party and turn it into Reagan's Republican Party (which is to say, a polite far right party).

Turin Spring #artbots #dechirico