Happy Twin Peaks Day!

Today is the last chance to name-your-price for my new album 'Bones'. It‘s droney, drifty and dreamy - and if you haven’t checked it out, now is the perfect time to do so. Of course there is also a limited cassette edition should you prefer the physical side of things. I hope you enjoy music and it will provide the soundtrack to many calm moments to come. Thank you so much for your support. It means the world to me. 🖖 jogginghouse.bandcamp.com

My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care

That's a luxury many people don't have

Some are trans and live in the USA

Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations

Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up

Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity

So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off

"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html

#Deutschland

@ghostdrone *after peaceful protesters had been attacked by violent police forces and hooligans

Tensions soar in Serbia as angry protesters clash with police, set fire to party offices

#serbiaprotests #protest #serbia #protests

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/tensions-soar-in-serbia-as-angry-protesters-clash-with-police-set-fire-to-party-offices/ar-AA1KE8nZ

"Tear gas, smoke bombs, police beatings, and the military. The second day of mass protests in Serbia has been marked by arrests, police brutality, attacks on journalists and government impunity. However, citizens do not appear to be backing down." #protest #protests #serbia #serbiaprotests
https://www.masina.rs/eng/tear-gas-and-defiance-serbias-streets-erupt-against-state-violence/

Disappointed, but not surprised, that AOC turned out to be another genocide enabler, while masking herself as a "progressive".

Radiohead will turn out to be the U2 of the 21st century, not in musical terms, but because of the asshole-ry of their frontman.

He's a cunt and I now regret ever buying a Radiohead record.

Where is the big, great anti-war activist Thom Yorke and what does he think of the forced mass starvation of people in Gaza?

This is what happens in a genocide when it’s too late to stop it and the denial and humanitarian camouflage have already killed thousands and thousands more are on the brink because of a criminal regime. This is when the enablers jump ship. It’s a stage in genocide.

"1,600 Israeli passengers on board the Crown Iris were prevented from disembarking... when more than 300 demonstrators on the Cycladic isle made clear they were unwelcome over Israel’s conduct of the war and treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. A large banner emblazoned with the words Stop the Genocide was held aloft alongside Palestinian flags." - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/israeli-cruise-rerouted-after-aegean-islanders-protest-gaza-war

This is what we, as individuals, must do, as well as lobbying our governments: isolate Israel culturally, commercially, etc...

It worked for South Africa, it can work for Israel too - indeed it IS working - https://bdsmovement.net/

We live in terrifying times. Every day we watch as Israel commits more and more crimes while those in power in the west clamp down on protest and arrest ordinary folk. On the home front the norm has become boost the rich at the expense of the poor and othering minorities. Is this a window into our times? The people in power watch how the world reacts to extremism. Might they be calculating just what else they can get away with? Has the sleepwalk towards fascism become a goose-step march?

Thank you for inventing heavy metal together with the rest of Black Sabbath.

Rest in power, Prince of Darkness. #ozzyosbourne

It's about time.

Some 140,000 protesters rally against populist Serbia govt
#Serbia #protest
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250628-around-140-000-rally-in-belgrade-ratcheting-up-calls-for-elections

Slavija square in Belgrade, Serbia, where an estimated 150,000 people have gathered for a big student-led protest against the government demanding parliamentary elections.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLc9TeLtuZ1/?igsh=MWo0Zzk5MGZneHd1Yg==

#ICYMI our chat with anarchists in Serbia about the protests and horizontal organizing that have rocked the state since November 2024.
Check it out at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/23/prefiguring-autonomy-student-led-social-movement-in-serbia-shake-the-government/

#Serbia #LRAD #protest
https://news.sky.com/story/none-one-or-16-how-many-acoustic-weapons-does-the-serbian-government-have-and-did-it-use-them-on-peaceful-protesters-13350399