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Adrienne Matei notes what we sometimes miss about RFKJr's attack on public health, science, and research:
"From prescribing spiritual warfare to demonizing health experts, RFK Jr’s health empire has become a dangerous vehicle for a Christian nationalist worldview."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/1https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/03/christofascism-rfk-jr-health
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The two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire Wednesday as talks between the two countries collapses and a resumption of the war seems imminent
#WWIII
https://tripwirereporting.substack.com/p/us-iran-ceasefire-nears-end-with -
#David #Duke,
perhaps the most prominent face of outright white supremacy in the U.S.,
has described Russia as the
“key to white survival,”
and has added that,
“Of the many capital cities of Europe, it is accurate to say that Moscow is the Whitest of them all.”According to the Anti-Defamation League,
Duke also views Russia as a nation that
“presents an unmatched opportunity to help protect the longevity of the white race.”Duke
— who has claimed that he lived in Russia for five years, and saw one of his books sold in the Duma
— has praised Putin’s policies on Twitter,
including Russia’s actions in Syria,
and called for an “alliance” between the U.S. and Russia.Duke has additionally met Dugin on at least one occasion, although the circumstances of this meeting remain clouded.
Meanwhile, Business Insider’s Natasha Bertrand has reported that Duke maintains an apartment in Moscow,
one that he has sub-leased to #Preston #Wiginton, an American neo-Nazi who has helped host lectures from both Spencer and Dugin
—the latter, again, via video
—at Texas A&M University over the past two years.Secondary figures within the American white nationalist movement have similarly expressed their admiration for Putin
while promoting propaganda from the Kremlin-funded media.#Harold #Covington
—the head of the "Northwest Front",
an organization seeking to lead a white supremacist secession movement in the Pacific Northwest
—has described Russia as the “last great White empire.”And #Mike #Cernovich, whom The New Yorker calls the
“meme mastermind of the Alt-Right,”
has repeatedly shared material from Kremlin-funded media on his popular Twitter account,
often accompanied by Kremlin-friendly commentary.In October, Cernovich tweeted,
“Putin is a larger than life alpha male who loves his country and will fight to defend it.
Why *don’t* you admire him?
Brainwashing.”A few weeks later, Cernovich shared a story from Kremlin-funded Sputnik News, commenting,
“American Media (terrorist organization) v. Putin.
I believe Putin!”(5/N)
#Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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#David #Duke,
perhaps the most prominent face of outright white supremacy in the U.S.,
has described Russia as the
“key to white survival,”
and has added that,
“Of the many capital cities of Europe, it is accurate to say that Moscow is the Whitest of them all.”According to the Anti-Defamation League,
Duke also views Russia as a nation that
“presents an unmatched opportunity to help protect the longevity of the white race.”Duke
— who has claimed that he lived in Russia for five years, and saw one of his books sold in the Duma
— has praised Putin’s policies on Twitter,
including Russia’s actions in Syria,
and called for an “alliance” between the U.S. and Russia.Duke has additionally met Dugin on at least one occasion, although the circumstances of this meeting remain clouded.
Meanwhile, Business Insider’s Natasha Bertrand has reported that Duke maintains an apartment in Moscow,
one that he has sub-leased to #Preston #Wiginton, an American neo-Nazi who has helped host lectures from both Spencer and Dugin
—the latter, again, via video
—at Texas A&M University over the past two years.Secondary figures within the American white nationalist movement have similarly expressed their admiration for Putin
while promoting propaganda from the Kremlin-funded media.#Harold #Covington
—the head of the "Northwest Front",
an organization seeking to lead a white supremacist secession movement in the Pacific Northwest
—has described Russia as the “last great White empire.”And #Mike #Cernovich, whom The New Yorker calls the
“meme mastermind of the Alt-Right,”
has repeatedly shared material from Kremlin-funded media on his popular Twitter account,
often accompanied by Kremlin-friendly commentary.In October, Cernovich tweeted,
“Putin is a larger than life alpha male who loves his country and will fight to defend it.
Why *don’t* you admire him?
Brainwashing.”A few weeks later, Cernovich shared a story from Kremlin-funded Sputnik News, commenting,
“American Media (terrorist organization) v. Putin.
I believe Putin!”(5/N)
#Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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#David #Duke,
perhaps the most prominent face of outright white supremacy in the U.S.,
has described Russia as the
“key to white survival,”
and has added that,
“Of the many capital cities of Europe, it is accurate to say that Moscow is the Whitest of them all.”According to the Anti-Defamation League,
Duke also views Russia as a nation that
“presents an unmatched opportunity to help protect the longevity of the white race.”Duke
— who has claimed that he lived in Russia for five years, and saw one of his books sold in the Duma
— has praised Putin’s policies on Twitter,
including Russia’s actions in Syria,
and called for an “alliance” between the U.S. and Russia.Duke has additionally met Dugin on at least one occasion, although the circumstances of this meeting remain clouded.
Meanwhile, Business Insider’s Natasha Bertrand has reported that Duke maintains an apartment in Moscow,
one that he has sub-leased to #Preston #Wiginton, an American neo-Nazi who has helped host lectures from both Spencer and Dugin
—the latter, again, via video
—at Texas A&M University over the past two years.Secondary figures within the American white nationalist movement have similarly expressed their admiration for Putin
while promoting propaganda from the Kremlin-funded media.#Harold #Covington
—the head of the "Northwest Front",
an organization seeking to lead a white supremacist secession movement in the Pacific Northwest
—has described Russia as the “last great White empire.”And #Mike #Cernovich, whom The New Yorker calls the
“meme mastermind of the Alt-Right,”
has repeatedly shared material from Kremlin-funded media on his popular Twitter account,
often accompanied by Kremlin-friendly commentary.In October, Cernovich tweeted,
“Putin is a larger than life alpha male who loves his country and will fight to defend it.
Why *don’t* you admire him?
Brainwashing.”A few weeks later, Cernovich shared a story from Kremlin-funded Sputnik News, commenting,
“American Media (terrorist organization) v. Putin.
I believe Putin!”(5/N)
#Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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#David #Duke,
perhaps the most prominent face of outright white supremacy in the U.S.,
has described Russia as the
“key to white survival,”
and has added that,
“Of the many capital cities of Europe, it is accurate to say that Moscow is the Whitest of them all.”According to the Anti-Defamation League,
Duke also views Russia as a nation that
“presents an unmatched opportunity to help protect the longevity of the white race.”Duke
— who has claimed that he lived in Russia for five years, and saw one of his books sold in the Duma
— has praised Putin’s policies on Twitter,
including Russia’s actions in Syria,
and called for an “alliance” between the U.S. and Russia.Duke has additionally met Dugin on at least one occasion, although the circumstances of this meeting remain clouded.
Meanwhile, Business Insider’s Natasha Bertrand has reported that Duke maintains an apartment in Moscow,
one that he has sub-leased to #Preston #Wiginton, an American neo-Nazi who has helped host lectures from both Spencer and Dugin
—the latter, again, via video
—at Texas A&M University over the past two years.Secondary figures within the American white nationalist movement have similarly expressed their admiration for Putin
while promoting propaganda from the Kremlin-funded media.#Harold #Covington
—the head of the "Northwest Front",
an organization seeking to lead a white supremacist secession movement in the Pacific Northwest
—has described Russia as the “last great White empire.”And #Mike #Cernovich, whom The New Yorker calls the
“meme mastermind of the Alt-Right,”
has repeatedly shared material from Kremlin-funded media on his popular Twitter account,
often accompanied by Kremlin-friendly commentary.In October, Cernovich tweeted,
“Putin is a larger than life alpha male who loves his country and will fight to defend it.
Why *don’t* you admire him?
Brainwashing.”A few weeks later, Cernovich shared a story from Kremlin-funded Sputnik News, commenting,
“American Media (terrorist organization) v. Putin.
I believe Putin!”(5/N)
#Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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#David #Duke,
perhaps the most prominent face of outright white supremacy in the U.S.,
has described Russia as the
“key to white survival,”
and has added that,
“Of the many capital cities of Europe, it is accurate to say that Moscow is the Whitest of them all.”According to the Anti-Defamation League,
Duke also views Russia as a nation that
“presents an unmatched opportunity to help protect the longevity of the white race.”Duke
— who has claimed that he lived in Russia for five years, and saw one of his books sold in the Duma
— has praised Putin’s policies on Twitter,
including Russia’s actions in Syria,
and called for an “alliance” between the U.S. and Russia.Duke has additionally met Dugin on at least one occasion, although the circumstances of this meeting remain clouded.
Meanwhile, Business Insider’s Natasha Bertrand has reported that Duke maintains an apartment in Moscow,
one that he has sub-leased to #Preston #Wiginton, an American neo-Nazi who has helped host lectures from both Spencer and Dugin
—the latter, again, via video
—at Texas A&M University over the past two years.Secondary figures within the American white nationalist movement have similarly expressed their admiration for Putin
while promoting propaganda from the Kremlin-funded media.#Harold #Covington
—the head of the "Northwest Front",
an organization seeking to lead a white supremacist secession movement in the Pacific Northwest
—has described Russia as the “last great White empire.”And #Mike #Cernovich, whom The New Yorker calls the
“meme mastermind of the Alt-Right,”
has repeatedly shared material from Kremlin-funded media on his popular Twitter account,
often accompanied by Kremlin-friendly commentary.In October, Cernovich tweeted,
“Putin is a larger than life alpha male who loves his country and will fight to defend it.
Why *don’t* you admire him?
Brainwashing.”A few weeks later, Cernovich shared a story from Kremlin-funded Sputnik News, commenting,
“American Media (terrorist organization) v. Putin.
I believe Putin!”(5/N)
#Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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Let me carry your voice: famous actors read testimonies of Palestinians enduring Israeli torture
The “Let Me Carry Your Voice” is a series of testimonies of the torture endured by Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territory as a result of Israel’s genocide, decades-long occupation, and apartheid. In this edition, Annie Lennox, Javier Bardem, Guy Pearce and Laura Morante read the real stories of Palestinians.
Injustice is not abstract. It is engraved in people’s skin, bones, minds. It tears through everyday life, exposing the depths of human cruelty.
Justice is not abstract either. It begins with each of us. It demands courage, sacrifice, discomfort, change. It requires us to speak up, to demand accountability. To ensure that no story is pushed into the darkness. They want to silence Palestine. We will not let them.
https://youtu.be/XuDA-l2cQ6k?si=UG9lb6lMdo98PvKC
Green Summer Ride in Nagano, Japan
https://youtu.be/vFH2lGROUI8?si=S2kuHWABOqmIh3QO
Thaithong’s fairy lantern, a type of plant native to southeast Asia. Photo Chatree Lertsintanakorn
Jim Carey’s speech to university graduates about choosing a great path through life
https://youtu.be/RrOGQD4Z9A4?si=O2k0qrMd0n1OgBtp
Crispy Chinese Eggplant by Nagi
This is the end-game for sticky hot fried finger food people…the END GAME!
https://youtu.be/Hq3fRxXi8JY?si=UlG_CDMzF-PUmFk6
Jamie MacDougall Art and Music
This drawing really captures a beautiful and joyful moment between two species!
A pencil drawing of a woman and a baby gorilla by Jamie MacDougall Art and Music20 Japanese Words for Rain by Miya Ando
Turning picture and prose into a poignant meditation on nature’s impermanence.
“Sanbaine (A Sudden Evening Storm That Occurs So Quickly, One Has No Time To Make Even Three Bundles Of Rice)” by Miya AndoIn Western culture, there has always been a tendency to seek stability and permanence. Plato envisioned eternal truths in his theory of forms; Newton described a physical world governed by immutable laws; America’s Founding Fathers drafted a Constitution designed to endure the ages. Beneath all of this lies a discomfort with the notion that nothing lasts forever.
Miya 美夜 Ando has spent the past two decades confronting that impermanence in her artistic practice. Guided by the Japanese aphorism mono no aware — a recognition of reality’s fundamental transience — the Japanese and American visual artist often focuses on fleeting natural phenomena, such as clouds, lunar phases, and shooting stars.
This article is adapted from Miya Ando’s “Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words.”This focus animates her latest work, “Water of the Sky.” The book is a stunning bilingual compendium of 2,000 Japanese words for rain along with their English interpretations, all of which capture “the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions,” Ando writes: “When it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence.” Accompanying the text are 100 of her indigo drawings — rendered in pencil and micronized pure silver — each offering a visual display of rain’s varied forms.
Below, you’ll find five drawings and 20 words from Ando’s visual dictionary. The text ranges from “prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological to the mystical and from the minute to the vast,” she writes. “My visual interpretations of these terms are not so much illustrations as evocations, attempts to embody or imagine that particular rain’s precise and essential quality.”
— The Editors
Taikan Jiu: Mercy-from-drought rain
Kabashira Tateba, Ame: See a swarm of mosquitoes, signal of rain
Uki: Praying for rain
Onibi: Will-o’-the-wisp seen on rainy nights
Tokidoki Niwaka Ame: Sometimes light snow and rain showers
Tokidoki Niwaka Yuki: Sometimes snow or sometimes light snow or rain
Giu: False rain
Ama ga Nukeru: The skies open up, it rains like cats and dogs
Shinotsukuame: Intense rain that falls heavily, is very fine and strong like the Bamboo Grove at Shinotake
Uryū Ensa: Describes the appearance of a fisherman working in the rain
Hitome: One rain
Sau: Rain that falls on the river shoal
Amadoi: Sliding red beans to resemble the sound of rain
Nakidashisōna Soramoyō: The sky appears as though it is about to start crying
Kōu: Rain that comes exactly when you were waiting for it
Amagaeru Fukō: A boy who was punished and turned into a frog that cries before it rains for his misdeeds against his father
Sanbaine: A sudden evening storm that occurs so quickly, one has no time to make even three bundles of rice
Zubunure: Soaked by rain all the way through one’s clothing
Amaguri Higaki: In years of rain, chestnuts produce well; in years of sunshine, persimmons produce well
Kitsune no Yomeiri: The day that foxes have their wedding ceremony
“Shinotsukuame (Intense Rain That Falls Heavily, Is Very Fine And Strong Like The Bamboo Grove At Shinotake)” by Miya Ando “Sau (Rain That Falls On The River Shoal)” by Miya Ando“Kitsune no Yomeiri (The Day That Foxes Have Their Wedding Ceremony)” by Miya Ando“Uryū Ensa (Describes the Appearance of a Fisherman Working in the Rain)” by Miya Ando“Uki (Praying For Rain)” by Miya AndoI can relate to a fair few of these and a lot of the people who I associate with have these traits also. Found via BlueSky
Seagrass comes alive in the ebb and flow of the ocean
A mystical dance of amazement
This gilded Middle Eastern salon adorned with intricate frescoes to romantic floral patterns and warm colours is my perfect dream home.
Djuma Soundsystem – Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix)I don’t know Djuma Soundsystem I am so glad that now I do. The combination of dark electro and middle eastern influence is a match made in heaven. Trentemøller has an amazing and extensive back catalogue of dark electro and techno to explore and enjoy as well.
https://youtu.be/SHfqI7PntCc?si=m3KUg0uKmOD0VZQR
The enchanting Ottoman maps of ancient cities by Matrakçı Nasuh
The Bosnian-born polymath Matrakçı Nasuh earned his nickname from an unlikely source, inventing a military lawn game involving cudgels called “matrak”. But this 16th-century scholar’s legacy lays mainly in his exquisite miniature paintings documenting the Ottoman Empire’s landscapes and cities.
His most significant work, Fetihname-i Karabuğdan, chronicles Suleiman the Magnificent’s 1532–1555 Safavid campaign. The manuscript traces the Ottoman army’s route from Istanbul through Baghdad and Tabriz, then back through Halab and Eskisehir. Each city appears rendered with meticulous and charming detail.
Matrakçı’s precision and artful execution became so influential that it spawned a new genre of art! the “Matrakçı style.” via Public Domain Review
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“‘Deception Scenario’- Russia warns Iran as US Delegation Arrives in Islamabad”
by Palestine Chronicle Staff
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@iran“Russian sources have warned Iran to take seriously the possibility of a ‘media show’ or a ‘deception scenario’ being used by the US as a prelude to a new round of attacks, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency.
The warning, cited from an informed source, stressed that such a scenario should not be dismissed as mere political messaging, but rather considered a potential operational tactic aimed at shaping the conditions for renewed escalation”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Pakistan #Negotiations #Deception
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Mistborn: The Final Empire "Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think." Sale: $10.99 to $2.99 by Brandon Sanderson Rating: 4.7/5 (57,753 Reviews) #fantasy #books #booksky #epic #magic #heist #adventure
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A “saga of procrastination and sharp practice”: the thread about Leith’s Tally Toor
If you were to go down to Leith Docks and venture where security won’t let you go, you would eventually come across a squat, circular and very curious masonry structure. What you have just found is the Tally Toor, the Leith Martello Tower. You would be forgiven for not realising it was there or for never having heard of it. It doesn’t look like much of a tower, but that’s because most of it has been buried within the reclaimed land behind the Easter Breakwater of the Port of Leith. There was a time when this once stood proudly upon the rocks in the Leith Roads.
The Leith Martello Tower. CC-BY-SA 2.0 Richard WebbMartello Towers were a response to the threat of coastal attacks or even invasion during the Napoleonic period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They were built throughout the British Isles and out into the Empire, but Leith is one of only three that were constructed in Scotland. The word Martello (or Tally to Leithers) is an Anglicisation of Torra di Mortella – a medieval Genoese round tower in the north of Corsica. This fortification caused the Royal Navy such disproportionate trouble to overcome it during the Siege of Saint Florent in 1794 that it was taken as a model defensive outpost for home use. The thirty-three men at Mortella had resisted bombardment of British warships and had held off the 700 men sent ashore to take it that it inspired a home grown variant as a model defensive outpost.
Watercolor drawing “View of Mortella Tower” by William Porter, 1794-1796. The Mariners’ Museum #1936.0491.000001/QW83The basic design of the British tower is rather like a squat lighthouse and they were to be located at advantageous coastal positions. Entrance was via a raised door accessed through a retractable ladder to make capture from the land more difficult. Inside, behind the thick stone walls, were two floors of accommodation and storage for an officer and about twenty-five men. Buried within the foundations would be a well and/or water cistern and perhaps a storeroom. But unlike a lighthouse, instead of a navigation beacon on the top instead there was an open fighting platform fitted with two or three heavy guns that could pivot be trained to attack approaching targets. The height of the tower meant it fired down upon ships, affording a raised and protected position for observation and signalling.
British sketch plan of the Torra di Mortella made after capture in 1794. It shows how the three guns mounted atop could be pivoted to command wide arcs of fire against would be attackers. Royal Museums Greenwish, PAD1622The Tally Toor was not the first Georgian-era fortification to defend Leith. In 1779, Leith and Edinburgh had been threatened by the squadron of the American John Paul Jones during the War of Independence and the city had responded to the threat from the sea by building Leith Fort to guard the harbour entrance. The Fort was never entirely satisfactory and for most of its life was used as an ordnance depot, a drill barracks for artillery volunteers and as accommodation for army administrators. In light of its deficiencies in 1807 the Board of Ordnance proposed a thirty-two foot high Martello tower on the rocks at the mouth of the Port of Leith to improve the defences.
Admiralty coastal chart, Fisherrow to Queensferry, 1860. This shows the position of the Mortella (sic) Tower relative to the approach to the Port of Leith and also Leith Fort towards the lower, left-hand corner. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandSomewhat unusually, the tower was not to be built by the military but was left to the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh to construct. Work began in 1809 but due to a “saga of procrastination and sharp practice” and it was not finally handed over to the Board until nearly 30 years later in 1838. The below painting by Robert Norie shows the end of the outer breakwater at Leith as it then was, with the tower being accessible across the interidal rocks at low water. The incomplete base storeys are being used as a handy mooring point for fishing boats.
Martello Tower, Leith, Low Water by Robert Norie, 1830s © Edinburgh City MuseumsIt had cost £17,179 18s 4½d, and it wasn’t even finished! Plus ça change for a construction project by the council in Edinburgh! The final structure was 45 feet high, with 16 feet of foundations built down into the rocks. The base diameter was 80 feet and the gun platform at the top was large enough to accommodate not one but three pivoting cannons. As a result of this, from the top the tower has an elegant cloverleaf (or fidget spinner!) appearance on account of the three overlapping gun positions.
Plan and section of the Leith Martello Tower. The height between the lines of A and B has been truncated in half by the artist. Via Trove.Scot SC495680Within the foundations was a single central chamber and there were two staircases within the walls, leading up to the gun platform. Due to the relative peace with other European powers by the time it was completed the tower was not finally made ready to accept its guns until 1853, thirty-five years after it was first planned, prompted by the crisis of the Crimean War.
The Martello Tower is prominent on the right hand side of “Leith Races” by William Thomas Reed, c. 1811. © Edinburgh City MuseumsAccording to “Martello Towers Worldwide” (where would one be without a copy of that handy?) at that time it was armed with two 32-pdr cannons and was occupied (when required) by a detachment from Leith Fort until 1869 when it was mothballed. The 32-pdr was so-called because it fired a shot weighing thirty-two pounds and was the Royal Navy’s standard heavyweight shipboard weapon. The handy diagram below shows the main parts including the rammer, wad and pricker (no giggling at the back!)
Illustration of a 32 pounder cannonThese were the same such guns as were also mounted at Leith Fort itself, as can be seen in a series of earlier photos made there by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.
Major Crawford, Major Wright, Captain St George and Captain Bortingham of the Leith Fort Artillery. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-47. National Galleries ScotlandThe 1849 Ordnance Survey Town Plan clearly shows the tower and also one presumes the obvious route for the garrison to reach it should they ever need to across the barrier of intertidal rocks known as The Weir” the same route as shown in Norie’s painting.
OS 1849 Town Plan. Note the stairs from the sea wall on the left down to the rocks of “The Weir”. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThe rocks on which the Tower was situated, once the Mussell Cape Rocks, became known instead as the Martello Rocks. Further, smaller towers for the Forth were planned at Cramond Island and Inchkeith but were judged not to be a pressing need and so work never started; given how long it took and how much it cost to build the first, that was probably a sensible decision. These would have carried two 24-pdr cannons rather than the three 32-pdrs at Leith. In 1854, the Inspector General of Fortifications prepared a report on the Forth defences in which he stated:
At Leith there are at present twelve heavy guns, mounted for the protection of the harbour and roadstead at Leith Fort and on a tower; it would be, however, very desirable to establish two batteries and a small barrack on the Island of Inch Keith.
Burgoyne’s reportAfter 1869 the disarmed tower was abandoned, just 15 or so years after it had finally been completed and occupied. Thereafter its main function was an interesting navigation marker for the approaches to Leith.
“Leith Martello Tower” by Francis William Staines (1800-76), with Inchkeith in the background. via Artwarefineart.com.As war clouds gathered and dispersed again on the horizon, there were occasional plans to re-establish the Tower as a defensive position. It was proposed in the 1880s to mount a 6-inch Rifled Breech Loader (RBL) gun on top, which appears never to have been completed. In 1891 an even bigger 9.2-inch Breech Loader (BL) gun was proposed but by 1894 it was instead suggested to place two 6-inch BL guns on the dock walls. In 1899, approval was given for two 4.7-inch Quick Firing (QF) guns for the Tower but once again these do not ever seem to have been installed. The following year it was back to two 6-inch pieces but again these remained paper plans. All these proposals are detailed in The Fortification of the Firth of Forth 1880-1977 by Gordon J. Barclay and Ron Morris, published by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2019.
“View of golfers on Leith Links with Martello Tower in background”. Watercolour sketch by Walter F. K. Lyon, 1889. Neil Hynd bequest via Trove.Scot, DP312460In fact it does not seem that the Tower was ever actually re-armed to defend the Port against intrusion from the sea ever again. The citizens of Leith were however left with a curious object to explore, one which was easily accessible at low tide, and it became a source of fascination for generations of children. The picture below shows the scale of the abandoned fortification. Check out the boy in his swimmers looking over the parapet!
The Martello Tower at low tide, from “Martello Towers Worldwide” by W. H. ClementsBut that was not quite the end of the story for the Tower as a defensive position and it finally went to war in 1939 when it was reconfigured to act as an anti-aircraft gun platform. The insides were modified with hastily-built brick partition walls to reduce the risk of blast damage and on the top were mounted three concrete and cast iron positions for the guns.
Concrete gun bases and cast iron pedestals on the roof of the Tower in 1971. Trove.Scot SC495681After the war the Tower’s splendid isolation out at sea was about to be terminated. From the late 1930s onwards the Leith Docks Commissioners had been building vast new breakwaters around the harbour in an attempt to make it non-tideal and they were slowly edging towards the tower. By 1951 it was still outside the sea wall, but only just.
1951 aerial photo of the Martello Tower, from NCAP, showing ongoing land reclamation work behind itThe sea wall finally enclosed the tower in 1972 and with the land behind being built up by reclamation it appeared to be sinking lower and lower into the ground, when in reality the ground was rising higher and higher around it. The diagram below indicates just how deeply the tower was buried within the new docklands.
1972 cross section of the TowerThe slow march of Leith Docks out towards the Firth of Forth can be visualised in the below animation based on maps. It also shows how useful a defensive position the tower initially was when it was built, any ship wanting to enter the docks had to come around the Eastern and Middle Craigs and the Black Rocks, therefore had to pass close by the Tower’s guns.
We can no longer get anywhere near the Tower thanks to the stringent security at the docks, which has been stepped up significantly in recent years. Forth Ports, the current landowner, used to open it once a year to visitors but it’s been around a decade since anyone was afforded that privilege as far as I know. But we can still see the tower in art, look at enough paintings of Leith Docks and it pops up again and again.
“Dutchman off Leith”, an 1820s painting. The Martello Tower can be seen on the left of the short, just to the right of the steam paddle ship. © Edinburgh City LibrariesAnd if you are ever fortunate enough to get the chance to get up close and personal with it, look out for the mason’s marks left behind by the Irish Navvies who were engaged in its construction:
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America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/
#HackerNews #carpet #capital #toxic #legacy #empire #PFAS #environmental #issues
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SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour, released in 1996
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Adventure
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/spqr-the-empires-darkes…
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #win -
SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour, released in 1996
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Adventure
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/spqr-the-empires-darkes…
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #win -
SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour, released in 1996
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Adventure
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/spqr-the-empires-darkes…
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #win -
SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour, released in 1996
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Adventure
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/spqr-the-empires-darkes…
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #win -
SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour, released in 1996
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Adventure
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/spqr-the-empires-darkes…
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #win -
“Trump Taps Israel Lobbyist From Israeli Intelligence Cutout To Join Iran Negotiations”
by The Dissident on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran“By putting a lobbyist for Israel from a ‘think tank’ that is in reality a cover for an Israeli intelligence cutout, the Trump administration is guaranteeing that Israel will be driving the American side during negotiations with Iran”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/trump-taps-israel-lobbyist-from-israeli
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #EMET #Mossad #Negotiation #Stewart #FDDAction #Witkoff #AIPAC
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“Trump Taps Israel Lobbyist From Israeli Intelligence Cutout To Join Iran Negotiations”
by The Dissident on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran“By putting a lobbyist for Israel from a ‘think tank’ that is in reality a cover for an Israeli intelligence cutout, the Trump administration is guaranteeing that Israel will be driving the American side during negotiations with Iran”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/trump-taps-israel-lobbyist-from-israeli
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #EMET #Mossad #Negotiation #Stewart #FDDAction #Witkoff #AIPAC
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“Trump Taps Israel Lobbyist From Israeli Intelligence Cutout To Join Iran Negotiations”
by The Dissident on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran“By putting a lobbyist for Israel from a ‘think tank’ that is in reality a cover for an Israeli intelligence cutout, the Trump administration is guaranteeing that Israel will be driving the American side during negotiations with Iran”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/trump-taps-israel-lobbyist-from-israeli
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #EMET #Mossad #Negotiation #Stewart #FDDAction #Witkoff #AIPAC
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“Trump Taps Israel Lobbyist From Israeli Intelligence Cutout To Join Iran Negotiations”
by The Dissident on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran“By putting a lobbyist for Israel from a ‘think tank’ that is in reality a cover for an Israeli intelligence cutout, the Trump administration is guaranteeing that Israel will be driving the American side during negotiations with Iran”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/trump-taps-israel-lobbyist-from-israeli
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #EMET #Mossad #Negotiation #Stewart #FDDAction #Witkoff #AIPAC
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“Trump Taps Israel Lobbyist From Israeli Intelligence Cutout To Join Iran Negotiations”
by The Dissident on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran“By putting a lobbyist for Israel from a ‘think tank’ that is in reality a cover for an Israeli intelligence cutout, the Trump administration is guaranteeing that Israel will be driving the American side during negotiations with Iran”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/trump-taps-israel-lobbyist-from-israeli
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #EMET #Mossad #Negotiation #Stewart #FDDAction #Witkoff #AIPAC
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Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire and its #toxic legacy
Covering the world in carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay
By Dylan Jackson, Jason Dearen and Justin Price, February 5, 2026
"Bob Shaw glared at the executives from the chemical giant #3M across the table from him. He held up a carpet sample and pointed at the logo for Scotchgard on the back.
" 'That’s not a logo,' fumed Shaw, CEO of the world’s largest #carpet company, one attendee later recalled. 'That’s a target.'
"Weeks earlier, 3M Company announced it would reformulate its signature stain-resistance brand under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency because of human health and #environmental concerns.
"Mills like Shaw’s had been using Scotchgard in carpet production, releasing its chemical ingredients into the environment for decades. And on a massive scale: The shrewd CEO built Shaw Industries from a family firm in Dalton, Georgia, into a globally dominant carpet maker worth billions.
“I got 15 million of these out in the marketplace,” Shaw told his 3M visitors. 'What am I supposed to do about that?'
"A 3M executive replied that he didn’t know. Shaw threw the sample at him and left the room.
"The answer to Shaw’s Scotchgard question from that moment in 2000 would be the same as that of the broader industry. Carpet makers kept using closely related chemical alternatives for years, even after scientific studies and regulators warned of their accumulation in human blood and possible health effects. Customers expected stain resistance; nothing worked better than the family of chemicals known as PFAS.
"A lack of state and federal regulations allowed carpet companies and their suppliers to legally switch among different versions of these stain-and-soil resistant products. Meanwhile, the local public utility in Dalton responsible for ensuring safe drinking water coordinated with carpet executives in private meetings that would effectively shield their companies from oversight.
"Year after year, the chemicals traveled in water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in #Georgia and eastern #Alabama.
"The #pollution is so bad some researchers have identified the region as one of the nation’s PFAS hot spots. Today, the consequences can be found everywhere. PFAS, often called forever chemicals because they can take decades or more to break down, are in the water and the soil.
"They’re in the dust on floors where children crawl, the local #fish and #wildlife, and as ongoing research has shown, the people.
"Doctors have few answers for those like Dolly Baker who live downriver from Dalton’s carpet plants. She recently learned her blood has extraordinarily high PFAS levels.
" 'I feel like, I don’t know, almost like there’s a blanket over me, smothering me that I can’t get out from under,' she said. “It’s just, you’re trapped.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/#PFAS #Scotchguard #ThreeM #3MKnew #3MLied #BigChem #Accountability #WaterIsLife #CancerCausing #EnvironmentalPollution #ForeverChemicals #Carpeting #WoolRugs #HempRugs #DontTrustBigChem #PFASPollution
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Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire and its #toxic legacy
Covering the world in carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay
By Dylan Jackson, Jason Dearen and Justin Price, February 5, 2026
"Bob Shaw glared at the executives from the chemical giant #3M across the table from him. He held up a carpet sample and pointed at the logo for Scotchgard on the back.
" 'That’s not a logo,' fumed Shaw, CEO of the world’s largest #carpet company, one attendee later recalled. 'That’s a target.'
"Weeks earlier, 3M Company announced it would reformulate its signature stain-resistance brand under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency because of human health and #environmental concerns.
"Mills like Shaw’s had been using Scotchgard in carpet production, releasing its chemical ingredients into the environment for decades. And on a massive scale: The shrewd CEO built Shaw Industries from a family firm in Dalton, Georgia, into a globally dominant carpet maker worth billions.
“I got 15 million of these out in the marketplace,” Shaw told his 3M visitors. 'What am I supposed to do about that?'
"A 3M executive replied that he didn’t know. Shaw threw the sample at him and left the room.
"The answer to Shaw’s Scotchgard question from that moment in 2000 would be the same as that of the broader industry. Carpet makers kept using closely related chemical alternatives for years, even after scientific studies and regulators warned of their accumulation in human blood and possible health effects. Customers expected stain resistance; nothing worked better than the family of chemicals known as PFAS.
"A lack of state and federal regulations allowed carpet companies and their suppliers to legally switch among different versions of these stain-and-soil resistant products. Meanwhile, the local public utility in Dalton responsible for ensuring safe drinking water coordinated with carpet executives in private meetings that would effectively shield their companies from oversight.
"Year after year, the chemicals traveled in water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in #Georgia and eastern #Alabama.
"The #pollution is so bad some researchers have identified the region as one of the nation’s PFAS hot spots. Today, the consequences can be found everywhere. PFAS, often called forever chemicals because they can take decades or more to break down, are in the water and the soil.
"They’re in the dust on floors where children crawl, the local #fish and #wildlife, and as ongoing research has shown, the people.
"Doctors have few answers for those like Dolly Baker who live downriver from Dalton’s carpet plants. She recently learned her blood has extraordinarily high PFAS levels.
" 'I feel like, I don’t know, almost like there’s a blanket over me, smothering me that I can’t get out from under,' she said. “It’s just, you’re trapped.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/#PFAS #Scotchguard #ThreeM #3MKnew #3MLied #BigChem #Accountability #WaterIsLife #CancerCausing #EnvironmentalPollution #ForeverChemicals #Carpeting #WoolRugs #HempRugs #DontTrustBigChem #PFASPollution
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Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire and its #toxic legacy
Covering the world in carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay
By Dylan Jackson, Jason Dearen and Justin Price, February 5, 2026
"Bob Shaw glared at the executives from the chemical giant #3M across the table from him. He held up a carpet sample and pointed at the logo for Scotchgard on the back.
" 'That’s not a logo,' fumed Shaw, CEO of the world’s largest #carpet company, one attendee later recalled. 'That’s a target.'
"Weeks earlier, 3M Company announced it would reformulate its signature stain-resistance brand under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency because of human health and #environmental concerns.
"Mills like Shaw’s had been using Scotchgard in carpet production, releasing its chemical ingredients into the environment for decades. And on a massive scale: The shrewd CEO built Shaw Industries from a family firm in Dalton, Georgia, into a globally dominant carpet maker worth billions.
“I got 15 million of these out in the marketplace,” Shaw told his 3M visitors. 'What am I supposed to do about that?'
"A 3M executive replied that he didn’t know. Shaw threw the sample at him and left the room.
"The answer to Shaw’s Scotchgard question from that moment in 2000 would be the same as that of the broader industry. Carpet makers kept using closely related chemical alternatives for years, even after scientific studies and regulators warned of their accumulation in human blood and possible health effects. Customers expected stain resistance; nothing worked better than the family of chemicals known as PFAS.
"A lack of state and federal regulations allowed carpet companies and their suppliers to legally switch among different versions of these stain-and-soil resistant products. Meanwhile, the local public utility in Dalton responsible for ensuring safe drinking water coordinated with carpet executives in private meetings that would effectively shield their companies from oversight.
"Year after year, the chemicals traveled in water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in #Georgia and eastern #Alabama.
"The #pollution is so bad some researchers have identified the region as one of the nation’s PFAS hot spots. Today, the consequences can be found everywhere. PFAS, often called forever chemicals because they can take decades or more to break down, are in the water and the soil.
"They’re in the dust on floors where children crawl, the local #fish and #wildlife, and as ongoing research has shown, the people.
"Doctors have few answers for those like Dolly Baker who live downriver from Dalton’s carpet plants. She recently learned her blood has extraordinarily high PFAS levels.
" 'I feel like, I don’t know, almost like there’s a blanket over me, smothering me that I can’t get out from under,' she said. “It’s just, you’re trapped.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/#PFAS #Scotchguard #ThreeM #3MKnew #3MLied #BigChem #Accountability #WaterIsLife #CancerCausing #EnvironmentalPollution #ForeverChemicals #Carpeting #WoolRugs #HempRugs #DontTrustBigChem #PFASPollution
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Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire and its #toxic legacy
Covering the world in carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay
By Dylan Jackson, Jason Dearen and Justin Price, February 5, 2026
"Bob Shaw glared at the executives from the chemical giant #3M across the table from him. He held up a carpet sample and pointed at the logo for Scotchgard on the back.
" 'That’s not a logo,' fumed Shaw, CEO of the world’s largest #carpet company, one attendee later recalled. 'That’s a target.'
"Weeks earlier, 3M Company announced it would reformulate its signature stain-resistance brand under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency because of human health and #environmental concerns.
"Mills like Shaw’s had been using Scotchgard in carpet production, releasing its chemical ingredients into the environment for decades. And on a massive scale: The shrewd CEO built Shaw Industries from a family firm in Dalton, Georgia, into a globally dominant carpet maker worth billions.
“I got 15 million of these out in the marketplace,” Shaw told his 3M visitors. 'What am I supposed to do about that?'
"A 3M executive replied that he didn’t know. Shaw threw the sample at him and left the room.
"The answer to Shaw’s Scotchgard question from that moment in 2000 would be the same as that of the broader industry. Carpet makers kept using closely related chemical alternatives for years, even after scientific studies and regulators warned of their accumulation in human blood and possible health effects. Customers expected stain resistance; nothing worked better than the family of chemicals known as PFAS.
"A lack of state and federal regulations allowed carpet companies and their suppliers to legally switch among different versions of these stain-and-soil resistant products. Meanwhile, the local public utility in Dalton responsible for ensuring safe drinking water coordinated with carpet executives in private meetings that would effectively shield their companies from oversight.
"Year after year, the chemicals traveled in water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in #Georgia and eastern #Alabama.
"The #pollution is so bad some researchers have identified the region as one of the nation’s PFAS hot spots. Today, the consequences can be found everywhere. PFAS, often called forever chemicals because they can take decades or more to break down, are in the water and the soil.
"They’re in the dust on floors where children crawl, the local #fish and #wildlife, and as ongoing research has shown, the people.
"Doctors have few answers for those like Dolly Baker who live downriver from Dalton’s carpet plants. She recently learned her blood has extraordinarily high PFAS levels.
" 'I feel like, I don’t know, almost like there’s a blanket over me, smothering me that I can’t get out from under,' she said. “It’s just, you’re trapped.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/#PFAS #Scotchguard #ThreeM #3MKnew #3MLied #BigChem #Accountability #WaterIsLife #CancerCausing #EnvironmentalPollution #ForeverChemicals #Carpeting #WoolRugs #HempRugs #DontTrustBigChem #PFASPollution
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Star Wars Galaxies Legends kicks off Empire Day and Pride events and adds three new houses
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/06/19/star-wars-galaxies-legends-kicks-off-empire-day-and-pride-events-and-adds-three-new-houses
#StarWarsGalaxies #SWGLegends #MMORPG -
Star Wars Galaxies Legends kicks off Empire Day and Pride events and adds three new houses
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/06/19/star-wars-galaxies-legends-kicks-off-empire-day-and-pride-events-and-adds-three-new-houses
#StarWarsGalaxies #SWGLegends #MMORPG -
Star Wars Galaxies Legends kicks off Empire Day and Pride events and adds three new houses
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/06/19/star-wars-galaxies-legends-kicks-off-empire-day-and-pride-events-and-adds-three-new-houses
#StarWarsGalaxies #SWGLegends #MMORPG
