A poster series created by Toronto-based Rack And Pinion creative agency for PsiPhon (a mobile and desktop circumvention tool that provides uncensored net access) to shed light on government censorship of social media and Internet services around the world
Category Archives: Politics
Stinkygate
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Colm writes:
Not sure if this has made it’s way over to Ireland yet but it’s one of the biggest stories of the day here in Germany. [Greek Finance Minister Yanis] Varofakis took part in a political debate Sunday last on ARD (German state broadcaster) with the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. During the debate a video was showing of Varofakis giving a lecture from two years back, in which he gave the middle finger to Germany.
Varofakis denied this immediately and said that the video had been doctored. As you can imagine the German press, especially the more right leaning, had a mini field day with this, as it basically played into there ‘good fur nothin’ Greeks’ image there trying to spread at the minute. But today a slight spanner was thrown in the works.
A video released this morning by Jan Böhmermann, the host of Neon Magazine on ZDF (basically the RTE 2 of Germany), claims that he manipulated the video and posted it on the internet himself…they go to great lengths to show them manipulating the video, they even took the shadow detail into account. No one actually knows if Böhmermann is making this all up himself, or if he’s actually telling the truth. But as far as satire goes, it’s none too bad now!!!
PS. Giving the middle finger in German is called “jdm. den Stinkefinger zeigen”, which literally translates as showing someone the stinky finger…
I faked Yanis Varoufakis middle-finger video, says German TV presenter (Guardian)
The Rathkeale Parish Newsletter.
Der writes:
Rathkeale parish priest promotes gay cure. Joseph Nicolosi is a founding member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and was its president for some time. NARTH is a professional association that promotes the acceptance of conversion therapy, whose adherents purport successfully changing homosexuals into heterosexuals. This is not endorsed by any reputable psychological association in world, and is bloody dangerous!
Bonkers writes:
Major oversight not registering a Facebook page for the new party. I especially like the bit that goes: “Under our proposals, all those on welfare for over 18 months will be recruited into chain gangs and sent to Offaly where they will be set to work building a new prison…where they will then be incarcerated.”
Go Renua !
Just got a LinkedIn message “A call for help from Eamon Ryan” Greens_need_means money ask email. cc @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/XnLW4lvtk1
— Damien MuÎley [ ☰ ] (@damienmulley) March 7, 2015
Ethnomojis
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This week Apple launched its beta update iOS8.3, featuring a redesigned emoji keyboard with ethnically diverse skin tones for your smileys based on the Fitzpatrick scale – a dermatology standard adopted by the Unicode Consortium.
Other changes include same-sex and childless couple icons, plus an extra 300 non-human characters.
A new series of works unveiled this week by himself in the war-torn Palestinian enclave.
Greece Notes
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The Greek crisis documented in the appropriate medium of defaced Euro notes by Greek artist Stephanos.
He’s done one a day since this time last year. Austerity me ar
See the whole ‘Euro Banknote Bombing’ series here.
Nightmare
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A video highlighting the difficulties faced by members of the transgender community across Europe seeking gender recognition made for Transgender EU .
Bob Gallagher writes:
Proud to say the video was shot in Dublin with a talented mixture of Irish and international cast in front of the camera, and a very dedicated and brilliant crew behind it.
The video was made through an Irish production company called Invisible Thread, commissioned by TGEU in Berlin.
FIND OUT MORE: 34 Countries in Europe make this nightmare a reality (Transgender EU)
(Additional H/T: Jim Redmond)
Animator Bard Edlund visualises the paltry diversity of Oscar winners over the years (including his own advance predictions for 2015). He sez:
A lot of noise has been made about the lack of diversity among nominees for the Oscars this year. This video shows how many black, hispanic, and asian winners there have been throughout history, across four main categories — best actor/actress, supporting actor/actress, writing (original and adapted screenplays), and directing.