Thread: #StreetFood on @Netflix is a glorious AND timely reminder of the power of street food in the daily rituals of cities. I was fortunate enough to study #Portland’s street food scene. There are usually 4 key narratives that shape street food sites (and cities).

The current war according to Trump

Belgium got robbed. Super glad for Albania and Iceland though. #Eurovision2025

It's #Eurovision2025 time again and after months, (I am still listening to and) my favourites are STILL: 1. Lithuania 🇱🇹 - Katarsis' -Tavo Akys 2. Albania 🇦🇱 - Shkodra Elektronike - Zjerm 3. Belgium 🇧🇪 - Red Sebastian - Strobe Lights 4. Germany 🇩🇪 - Abor & Tynna - Baller

One of the main reasons I LOVE #Eurovision2025 is the interesting music from the continent. Think Maneskin and Go_A. My current favourite is Lithuania's awesome entry by Katarsis. It reminds me a little of proper indie like Glasvegas, Geneva, Sigur Ros youtube.com/watch?v=R2f2aZ6F…

Thailand being awesome once again.

Tutorials with students on a beautiful Saturday morning. Weather is an amazing 14 degrees, it's quiet and surrounded by lots of green.

Y'all....The people's faces in the background and Peter Griffins voice has killed me. ☠️☠️☠️

what the husband in anatomy of a fall was doing before he fell off the roof

A movement that no longer demands to be taken seriously. Very well, you shall have your wish. Parading around in your knickers with everything on show while telling the world you are asexual. You're either mocking us or us you, but it matters little. This is oppression as a leisure activity, a bourgeois gender gap year pretending to be one of the gays. A fundamental misuse of our public and political space which ought to be given over to protesting state sponsored castration in gender abattoirs but instead we play host to your vapid and fundamentally silly claims of marginalisation. Well might you smile. You've taken the gay rights movement for the fools they are.

A rich, rich metaphor

Shake it Off

Glass Animals is one of the better acts in music now and A Tear In Space proves it. Freaking awesome video too. #GlassAnimals youtu.be/9-LI98Q-rsg?si=-S6y…

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No other Star Wars show or movie has given us more strong, complex and fascinating women than Andor. And somehow this didn't cause any uproar online. Perhaps the key is writing great characters, regardless of their gender. Bix Caleen (1/8)

What happens when you don't suspend a student. A case study. About 15/16 months ago. A student is chronically disruptive, and is intentionally miserable to his teacher. The teacher is at her wits end, and meetings are held to figure it all out. Here's what happened 1/

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This is the clincher, really. “You’re non-binary. Loads of kids will see you and want to be like you…” And there we have it. This is how it works. Kids emulate & idolise famous entertainers. They copy. They ape. They repeat. They want to be like them. They want to be them. They hear a word, a phrase. They think it’s cool. They then adopt that word. Why? It makes them stand out, feel special, unique, part of something. Gives them a recognisable identity. Yup. All fine & dandy. Punk, Goth, Rockers, Mods, Hippies etc. All based around how one looked & behaved. We all had our gang, our club. It’s normal as a youngster. Perfectly normal. Except this is not what non-binaries are doing. They are teaching kids that it not only gives you power & a victim-status over others, it allows then to take imaginary shelter under the unnecessary & superfluous ‘trans/que*r umbrella’. Protection from what??? Clothes? Make-up? Earrings?? Nobody cares. NOBODY. These hundreds of new ‘genders’ have hitched a unwarranted, unwanted ride onto the gay movement’s backs, men & women, who went through absolute f***king HELL to get to where we were just 10 years ago. These “que*r identifying straight folx”, who insist & demand they are part of a persecuted group are a f***ing insult & a slap in the face to those who, slowly & painfully, rolled out the velvet carpet, many decades before them, under VERY REAL DANGER & HATRED, for these vapid, entitled, insta-victim narcissists. “Oh leave them alone! It doesn’t harm anyone else? Why are you so offended by it?” Because it’s all based on a lie. On a grift. On a fantasy. It HARMS women, gay people, transsexuals. People who’ve really had to struggle, suffer & endure true marginalisation. It matters. IT MATTERS A GREAT DEAL. If one criticises Miss Thug’s behaviour, say, it gives one license to brand others as ‘bigots’. This is a very slippery slope. It’s a very sneaky way , carefully fed to kids in schools, on social media, by lobby groups, by charities, by governments of slowly breaking down women’s ability to draw boundaries & defend their privacy, their sports, their dignity by smashing down the barriers & the social contract between men & women. It totally undermines gay people who are tethered to the alphabet spaghetti Q mess, whether they like it or not. We’ve worked for years for mutual respect, equality & understanding. And it’s utterly galling to see all that gruelling work thrown away by a fledgling, false but deeply imbedded, ideology. A cow has very little to worry about if it wanders into a vegan restaurant, stuffed with hungry diners. God help the poor moo if it haplessly wanders into a steakhouse….

What strikes me most about the Eurovision situation in particular is how Bambie and those who support her have completely failed to see the obvious - that in all their "anti-establishment rebellion", the majority of votes for their side came from executives. The people voted the other way. Because there's no such thing as state sponsored, corporate punk. It's an oxymoron. You know what punk is? It isn't an aesthetic. It's a Jewish girl telling the press she won't let a lynch mob outside her hotel room break her spirit. It's going on stage and standing firm regardless of death threats. You can scream and wear all the black lipstick you like - you're still giving My Little Pony when you think you're giving Sex Pistols.