'I am extremely sad': celebrities react to the end of Stephen Colbert's Late Show
#MergerControversy #CBS #Disappointment #StephenColbert #CelebrityReactions
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/18/stephen-colbert-late-show-celebrities-react
“UKLFI said a Massive Attack show last month had prompted complaints by Jewish and Israeli audience members because it included comparison of Israel’s actions with the Holocaust ‘We wrote to Massive Attack to convey this, and requested that future performances do not repeat these actions. We believe in free speech and artistic expression however we felt this performance crossed a line and made audience members feel deeply traumatised.’” Not as traumatised as the people in #Gaza
Yesterday was my first bad day on Mastodon, and what happened to me could happen to you, so let me explain what went down, and how I got blocked by a lot of people.
In March, I wrote a post critical of Musk (picture 1). I then asked another Mastodon user (Harriett) whom I have found friendly, if she would help me translate a Danish phrase to English, and linked to the Musk post where the phrase would be relevant.
But yesterday — 4 months later — that blew up in my face. Here is how…
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@Geri More power to your elbow Geri. As one who has been fortunate not to have needed any benefit (and my late wife stubbornly refused to countenance claiming for her own disability, and we were fortunate enough to be able to live on one income), I look from the outside at the dreadful inequities inherent in the system that increasingly appears to be set up to punish those who are unable to work. Uncaring, unfeeling, discriminatory and thoroughly unfair. 😢
Not all heroes wear capes.
“I truly hope that people understand what’s happening. I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.”
Francesca Albanese
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Milton Friedman, organize the neoliberialism, which is the destruction of the west, the "huge plundering" as I used to call it. He won the nobel instead of a good shiny guillotine :P
Sooooo... we realised at the weekend that the blog Moira originally wrote about Althea Gibson for is offline.
Luckily, we kept a copy on file, so today we have a NEW blogpost with a revised and updated version.
Yesterday Dutch parliament shamefully passed an extreme law criminalizing being undocumented, and also criminalizing aiding undocumented people. The Dutch national police has now released a statement that they can't support this. Most appreciated. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/juli/4/00-reactie-politie-op-instemming-tweede-kamer-met-anmw.html
Been a while since I did this
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Regrettably, we already did. It's called "Brexit," and it fucked the entire country. Twat.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/glastonbury/rod-stewart-nigel-farage-reform-support-glastonbury-legends-slot-b2778834.html
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.