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Thursday 12 April 2018

carnival | golden child on elevator booster seat lights up death awareness cafe with contagious fink smile

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Dong Xuan Market | by chrjs.0510 
Dong Xuan Market [Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 7 January 2018

Dong Xuan Market | by chrjs.0510

Dong Xuan Market [Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 7 January 2018

Dong Xuan Market | by chrjs.0510

Dong Xuan Market [Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 7 January 2018
carnival

In the valley of silent screaming souls the meat wheel is spinning
the sound of knives high in the air slashing through clouds is not a real sound
the officer from the body collection squad has been at this difficult night work for years
from the first few nights already knew he would never get used to sleepwalking
the meat wheel always spinning spinning difficult to control
the bodies coming out of their graves to bend your thinking into shapes you don't understand
in a language without words you never get used to it
no sound yet somehow you know what they are saying
the meat wheel keeps on spinning you just do your job you never get used to it



Thailand Bite the dust at Bangkok's 'death awareness' cafe #AFP Photo Lillian Suwanrumpha: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 11 April 2018


France Protestors are surrounded by tear gas during clashes with anti-riot police in the ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Photo by @LoicVenance: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 11 April 2018
 
DONG XUAN MARKET | by chrjs.0510
 
Dong Xuan Market [Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017 

DONG XUAN MARKET | by chrjs.0510
 
Dong Xuan Market [Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017 

DONG XUAN MARKET | by chrjs.0510
 
Dong Xuan Market [Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017

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*** [Oslo]: photo by johnpaddler, 2 April 2018 

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*** [Oslo]: photo by johnpaddler, 2 April 2018

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 Untitled: photo by Job Jetwichan Chaowadee, 4 April 2018

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Untitled: photo by Job Jetwichan Chaowadee, 4 April 2018

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 Untitled: photo by Job Jetwichan Chaowadee, 4 April 2018

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas
 
 Untitled [Såo Paulo]: photo by Gustavo Minas, 11 January 2018

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 Untitled [Såo Paulo]: photo by Gustavo Minas, 11 January 2018
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Untitled | by Gustavo Minas
 
Untitled [Såo Paulo]: photo by Gustavo Minas, 11 January 2018

Mission Focus | by yotung

Mission Focus | by yotung

Mission Focus | New Orleans, Louisiana: photo by Tom Young, 1 February 2018
Mission Focus | by yotung

Mission Focus | New Orleans, Louisiana: photo by Tom Young, 1 February 2018

7 comments:

TC said...

A nation of sheep

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I'm angry at Facebook – but I'm also addicted. How do I break free?

Like you, I have no idea how to wean myself off the platform, but acknowledgement is the first step to recovery

If you would like advice from Emma Brockes on how to be a human online, send us a brief description of your concerns to: human.online@theguardian.com

Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes
@emmabrockes

Thu 12 Apr 2018 03.01 EDT
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Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress to testify over the company’s use of data.
Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress to testify over the company’s use of data. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

I am too far in to leave Facebook, but I want to register my disapproval of the company after their part in the data leak to Cambridge Analytica. What should I do?

TC said...

"Too far in" = I am a robot

TC said...

oh, and in case you're just getting up... the world's still here

drumpf backed down, of course

big pussy

TC said...

... but not as big as zuck!!

TC said...

... or you, if you're like robo-emma, and just can't tear yourself away....

Mose23 said...

The meat wheel spinning in endless abbatoirs, in Gaza's borders, in Eastern Ghouta, in Myanmar, ad infinitum. The gears of the great fuckwit charm that goes for History these days.

If Mark Zuckerberg didn't exist would Emma Brockes have to invent him?

(I'm sure I met Ms. Brockes in a former life in Londinium).

TC said...

The poor dear sounds a nervous wreck.

Though the strikes may now calm many anxieties.

Shuffling defensively down nearby commercial block in first hour of war encountered a fellow doing sketches for new building project who said he had no idea what was happening anywhere on earth but that - and this knowingly - it's all down to market forces now.