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Someone ask Susie Dent!

Billionaires are beyond evil. Their greed and labor theft is a blight on the world.

They give absolutely nothing back.

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self-care

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Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend... The song mentioned. A whimsical track describing a whimsical painting.

Details from The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke by the British painter Richard Dadd, who died #onthisday in 1886 whilst in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Read more on the man and his mesmerising work in Nicholas Tromans’ essay — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/richard-dadds-master-stroke #OTD

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Well, to have an opinion on this one has to understand the position every public institution on Germany is in. Which is: being part of the nation of the perpetrators. Because - unlike pretty much every other nation, especially the USA - we don't have a comfortable buffet-like culture when it comes to deciding what is part of our history and responsibility, which would allow us to just pick the nice parts and blame everything negative on someone else.

Every artist exhibiting here has to understand the basic rule that after murdering six million jews in an attempt to eradicate them entirely, it is just not an option to express solidarity with people who want to continue that process or use rhetoric implying it. This is a pretty binary issue. It isn't really new knowledge but something people dealing with Germany can very very easily learn about, if their education so far has left this part of history out. Similar situations in the past have made clear, that there are red lines one will not be allowed to cross.

And if artists cannot agree to that basic rule, they should be honest enough to refuse the invitation right from the start, rather than testing how far they can go and then play the victim.

If an artist sees destroying Israel as an integral part of Afrofuturism, maybe Germany just isn't the place to exhibit. Maybe there are better places where a discussion about Israel's right to exist can be held while not standing on the ashes of six million people.

This really should not be that hard to understand.

“The museum really asked us to water down our ideas about how we define Afrofuturism and its relationship to liberation,” Butler continued. “As a team, our position on freeing Palestine is also tied to our relationship to Afrofuturism."

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Me getting into the mood to check the news.

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David Sipress

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This. Americans did obviously not care for any of that. It was all about somebody eating the cats and eating the dogs and eating the pets and preventing another one of those pesky women from becoming president.

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Writer Nate White on why the Brits dislike Trump

... After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?’ If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

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Amazing - the statue cries human tears.

Ba dum tss!

Thank you, thank you, I will see myself out...

The annual cleaning process of the Ushiku Daibutsu location: Ushiku, Japan

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They will send their new CEO down to Trump the Hutt to kiss the ring and the slate will be wiped clean. The class of people profiting is the class who will rule from now on. UH is probably glad that this happened now and not earlier, when even just a minimum of accountability was still a thing.

“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.

Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.

Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.

The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.

… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.

The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.

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Queen - DON'T STOP ME NOW (1978)

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When you have two options, it should be a nobrainer whether to vote for the side preventing that it gets even worse or to let the other side do its thing. It really isn't that complicated.

They made a choice. It is irrelevant why they made this choice, as the result is what matters. And they are responsible for the result. They will have to live with that and should be reminded of it whenever they pretend it wasn't their choice.

Great work you dipshits.