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jemmesedi

@jemmesedi@c.im

Intermittent humanities education worker. Brit resident in USA.

Profile picture: Boy standing thigh deep in the ocean, holding a trident in his left hand. Image created by AI.

Header picture: Ocean waves. Picture from US government National Ocean Service.

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jemmesedi, to random
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@kai

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/22/derek-jarman-ranked

Have you seen this ranking?

"Edward II " is very good!

jemmesedi, to tea
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If I ever take up idolatry, one of the shrines I will erect will be dedicated to Shennong. (Goes to kitchen to put kettle on)

http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/Chinese_tea/2011-07/15/content_22999489.htm

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

Thank you so very much!

I love your avatar, and I look forward to your posts coming into my feed.

jemmesedi,
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@zdl
I can't decide whether I like the ink line drawing or the water colour better.

I wish that I had even the faintest inkling of how to read Chinese characters, but I don't.

jemmesedi,
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@zdl
Oh - I didn't know that calligraphic characters are unitelligible to most readers.

Gosh - Chinese is beautiful but....challenging!

jemmesedi,
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@zdl
Did you learn Chinese in China or elsewhere? Or is it your first language?

jemmesedi,
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@zdl
gulps in awe

jemmesedi, to USpolitics
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I wish the people urging people not to vote for Biden because of Gaza would face up to the fact that the only person on this planet praying harder than Vladimir Putin for a Trump victory is Benjamin Netanyahu.

jemmesedi, to transit
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When it comes to transit, frequency is freedom.

>>...if you live in a single family house with a driveway and usually get around by car, imagine that there were an automated gate at the end of your driveway that only opened once an hour, on the hour. When it’s closed, you can’t get your car in or out. If that were your situation, your biggest transportation problem would not be traffic congestion, or how fast you can go on the freeway; it would be how to get this frigging gate to open more often. That’s how low frequency feels to a potential transit customer, and why frequency often swamps other factors, like speed, in determining whether transit is actually useful.<<

https://humantransit.org/basics/the-transit-ridership-recipe

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    jemmesedi,
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    @ryanhoulihan

    I had no idea that beard growth could resist this kind of treatment.

    I hope that it does go away sooner rather than later; it must be so frustrating!

    jemmesedi, to random
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    Sinclair Lewis is one of my favourite American authors.

    His novels are not only of historical interest, for they still offer valuable insights into the culture of the USA today.

    I would particularly recommend the 1925 "Arrowsmith" to any student or worker in medicine or the life sciences.

    jemmesedi, to kpop
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    Ningning -- aespa

    I like the quiet elegance of this outfit. The headband is a nice touch too.

    jemmesedi, to random
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    February 12th, 1947 saw Christian Dior stage his first couture collection, which would quickly be dubbed "The New Look".

    Although I adore the look, I understand why some women felt then and still feel now that it represented an attempt to constrict not just women's waists but their social roles after the scrambling of gender norms by the war.

    Or maybe that is a simplistic interpretation, one that disregards the pleasure the weaer migh gain from escaping boxy utility garments and instead moving and being seen in more shapely apparel.

    http://diorablestyle.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-12-1947-diors-new-look-is-born.html

    jemmesedi, to Scotland
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    🧵 1/3
    Infantry officer (unidentified) (Study for The Battle of Alexandria or The Landing of British Troops at Aboukir)

    Attributed to
    Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812)

    This picture is a random pluck from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. At first I was puzzled as to why that gallery had decided to add this picture to their collection, as there is no indication that the individual depicted belonged to a Scottish regiment or had any personal connection with Scotland. Nor is the artist to whom the work is attributed Scottish.

    A few clicks on Wikipedia dispelled my puzzlement... (read my replies to this post)



    jemmesedi,
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    The commander of the British troops at the 1801 Battle of Aboukir was a Scottish general, Sir Ralph Abercromby.

    His career is fascinating in all sorts of ways. You can read about him on Wikipedia here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abercromby

    His unwillingness to fight against the revolutionaries in North America is a reminder of how one can see the American Revolution as a split amongst the ruling elites of the Anglo-Atlantic world.

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    🧵 3/3

    Abercromby's career is also a reminder of how very different the place of Scotland in the United Kingdom has been from that of Ireland.

    Of course, a larger number of imperial generals and administrators came from Ireland, but they were almost all products of a Protestant elite ruling over a land that was, in some respects, a colony.

    Scotland's position was, of course, quite different. However unequal the relationship with England might have been, and however inequitable social relations within Scotland might also have been, there was nothing like the Ascendancy rule over a Roman Catholic peasantry that characterized so much of Ireland.

    These historical differences should make us pause before lumping in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales together when we consider possible futures for the UK.

    ChrisMayLA6, to random
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    Over the weekend abandoned plans to abolish the House of Lords, and now will merely seek some 'reforms' in the first Parliament of a Labour administration.

    I assume that the increasingly narrow, substance-free manifesto is part of the remnants of any policy.

    Its thinness is going to saving them a fortune in printing & paper!

    jemmesedi,
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    @doboprobodyne @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @Fasgadh @fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6

    In a more general critique of Starmer's of current tactics that I posted a couple of weeks ago, I briefly suggested why reform of the Lords is more than the needless courting of controversy:
    https://c.im/@jemmesedi/111795212014352414

    icastico, to vinyl
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    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew #vinyl @vinylrecords #jazz #JazzFusion #improvisation #NowPlaying

    Old friend on the turntable today.

    jemmesedi,
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    @icastico @vinylrecords

    One of the key records of my life.

    jemmesedi, to UnitedKingdom
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    🧵 1/3 Why would an Englishman like me want Scotland to remain in the Union?

    The Scottish need to hear from more English who value Scotland's place in the UK for reasons other than self interested economic or military considerations.

    I'm one of those English, and I'd like to put forth a couple of reasons for my wanting to share a country with the Scots. I'll append these as replies to this post.

    Picture -- "Caledonia, or an Emblem of Scotland" -- 1798 -- John Fairburn

    #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #ScottishIndependence #Unionism

    tikistitch, to thailand
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    Feulin’ up!!

    jemmesedi,
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    @tikistitch

    April -- Tinker Bell

    https://youtu.be/B9FTAcOK3cA?si=dJqgy4HesKGgAdqA

    Your image reminds me of a scene near the end one of my favourite kpop MVs.

    Alon, (edited ) to random
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    In more "left-wing anti-Semites think opposition to anti-Semitism is a German rather than Jewish thing" news, Greta Thunberg held a rally in Leipzig against Israel a week ago. She lives in Sweden, where the national government has fascists with anti-Semitic roots in the coalition. White anti-anti-racists who don't socialize with minorities think anti-racism is an invention of guilty white liberals and human resources; left-wing anti-Semites think guilty Germans invented anti-anti-Semitism.

    jemmesedi,
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    @paninid @Alon

    As @Alon notes, the term is of German origin. It was coined by the politician and journalist Wilhelm Marr as a "scientific" update of "Jew hatred" when he was agitating in the late 1870s and 1880s.

    You can read about Marr here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Marr

    >>While the concept of is millennia old<<

    I'm not sure that this is the best way to think about the history of antisemitism.

    Antisemitism should probably be distinguished from antijudaism. The former refers to a body of pseudoscientific racist beliefs about Jews; antisemitism focuses on ethnicity and "race", whereas antijudaism is an antagonism towards Jews as a religious community. Note that antijudaism tended to flourish in a religious (usually Christian but also Islamic) setting, and that antijudaic animus towards individuals and small groups could in theory be ended by conversion.

    The distinction isn't always clear cut ; consider late medieval and early modern Spanish hostility to conversos and demands for limpieza de sangre ("cleanliness of blood") It's clear that antisemitism grew out of early antijudaic attitudes.

    I also wonder about "millennia". as I think it makes the questionable suggestion that there has been perpetual and universal hostility to Jews. The Jews of antiquity were involved in conflicts with other groups and nations, such as the Romans under Hadrian or the Greek Seleucids of the 2nd century BCE, but it isn't clear to me how different in kind these conflicts were from those the Greeks , and Romans on the one hand and Gauls, Parthians, Carthaginians and so on. Jews were noted for their distinctive ethnoreligious practices, but there is - I think - a big gap between that observation and the kind of religiously fuelled hatred of Jews that grows up under Christianity.

    I'm being a tentative here because I'm not an expert in the subject. I suggest that

    Magda Teter
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    would be the Mastodonian expertb to consult on this!

    jemmesedi, to UKpolitics
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    A new Corbyn party on the left is good news for the right - The New European

    https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/a-new-corbyn-party-on-the-left-is-good-news-if-youre-on-the-right/

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    Really, I get it, but not too many people in the United States want to hear from people who don’t live here or vote here on who to vote for or how to fix our politics. I really would never think of telling someone in another country what to do, and it kind of goes without saying there’s quite a few that deserve criticism.

    It’s just irritating and turns people off. We all understand the U.S. has a huge impact, but really, it’s not helpful in the least.

    jemmesedi,
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    @TonyStark

    Perhaps we should think back to 2004 and Operation Clark County:

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/11/a-crazy-british-plot-to-help-kerry.html

    CultureDesk, (edited ) to movies
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    "Mean Girls: The Musical" comes out today (it started as a book, became a movie, turned into a stage musical and now is back on the big screen). To mark the occasion, @IndieWire has ranked the 63 best movie musicals of all time. Which do you think they ranked as the greatest ever (for what it's worth, we agree!)? Tell us in the comments your favorite musical, or one you think is criminally overlooked.

    https://flip.it/deIqOE

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    @CultureDesk @IndieWire

    I prefer "The Band Wagon" to "Singin' in the Rain". It's less celebratory and more thought provoking. Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire are dance magic.

    https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/apr/13/the-band-wagon-minnellis-musical-is-perfect-curtain-raiser-to-theatres-return

    jemmesedi, to kpop
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    @ShaMyouiMo
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    @baeelly
    @youronlyone
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    @PhrogLover
    @tikistitch
    @Xas
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    @juanolvera
    @whozkay
    @Erzbet
    @SaraR
    @hunkdisaster
    @KpopGG4ever
    @static
    @WandaLee58

    A question for you all:

    How much do the performance /visuals aspects of kpop matter to you?

    They're important for me; I'd be grief stricken if kpop MVs were to disappear from YouTube.

    There's no "right" answer to my question -- I'm just interested to hear how other kpop fans feel.

    #Kpop

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