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Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Why is "no Zionism" the #2 rule for a community concerning Europe?English5·8 days agoI am curious, what do you think Zionism is actually?
I don’t think I can continue contributing when there’s literally a rule condoning ethnic discrimination
The rule against Zionism is literally the opposite of “a rule condoning ethnic discrimination”. This community’s second rule is actually redundant with its first one, but it’s worth stating separately due to the prevalence of misunderstandings about it.
FYI, aside from being predicated on the forced displacement and/or murder of the Palestinian people, Herzl’s Zionism (to which the state of Israel explicitly credits its existence) has also always been rooted in antisemitism.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto pics@lemmy.world•My wife's new tablecloth. Is it white with gold, or blue with black?3·10 days agoit’s a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Science Memes@mander.xyz•The cell wall is the wall of the cell.English4·12 days agoWikipedia says:
The mitochondrion is popularly nicknamed the “powerhouse of the cell”, a phrase popularized by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 Scientific American article of the same name.[4]
But know your meme attributes its meme status to this tumblr post from 2013:
Contrary to comments in many places like this reddit thread from 2018, I suspect the phrase wasn’t actually used in many textbooks or very commonly known prior to that tumblr post.
(If you search on Google Books you can find numerous textbooks using the phrase. Range-based search on Google Books appears to be broken so I’m not sure, but all the ones I checked were published well after 2013.)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?English3·12 days agoYou better find a way to make it easy, soldier, or I’m gonna start pushing buttons!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visasEnglish311·12 days agoin other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:
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in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.
in all seriousness, renaming someone else’s account and presenting it to CBP as one’s own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto GrapheneOS [Unofficial]@lemmy.ml•GrapheneOS On Pixel Devices Will ContinueEnglish3·12 days agoSecurity risks are privacy risks.
also vice-versa
wouldn’t want it any other way
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Astrophotography@lemmy.world•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish61·13 days ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Photography@lemmy.ml•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish2·13 days ago
Thanks, that is exactly the one I was looking for here when I found this article!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Photography@lemmy.ml•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish3·13 days agowhere is this?
edit: via this comment I see it is Stonehenge von Tiefenpölz, aka Fränkischen Stonehenge built by artist Alexander Lämmlein between 2018 and 2023 in Tiefenpölz, Upper Franconia.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPMto Linux@lemmy.ml•postmarketOS v25.06: the one with systemdEnglish11·13 days agoyou can still use OpenRC instead if you want, and sxmo will continue to do so by default.
you can read here about why they added systemd.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Dozens attend 'Hetero Awesome Fest' in IdahoEnglish50·13 days ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?English9·13 days agoThe acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•PigletEnglish6·18 days ago




fyi this is how you can put alt text (and, separately, a title which is displayed as a tooltip) on images on lemmy.