Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon

Suicide In The Trenches

by Siegfried Sassoon

I knew a simple soldier boy

Who grinned at life in empty joy,

Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,

And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,

With crumps and lice and lack of rum,

He put a bullet through his brain.

No one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye

Who cheer when soldier lads march by,

Sneak home and pray you'll never know

The hell where youth and laughter go.

History

it's kind of crazy that, like, every other early- to mid-20th-century intellectual was overtly fawning over Stalin and we all just sort of shrugged and moved on

often hardly even a mention in their bios

"yeah, supported the rise of a murderous regime. whoopsie. nbd"

— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) October 8, 2024

 

An Insight

The thing to grasp about the regime is that it's not interested in governing the people but controlling them and extracting resources from them. America is facing what many European countries, and the UK, are now facing: a simmering conflict between state and nation. https://t.co/ijOTBl29vA

— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) October 7, 2024

 

I see wonderful things

The Andromeda galaxy is 6 times bigger in the sky than the full Moon: it's just too dim to clearly see it with the naked eye.

This composite image shows what it would look like at night if it was just brighter.

[📸 Tom Buckley-Houston] pic.twitter.com/aAdjEqnpiY

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 9, 2024

 

Offbeat HUmor

Panic In Florida As Biden Instructs FEMA To Set Up Floating Pier For Aid Delivery pic.twitter.com/VKB5zeNzow

— Associated Fress (@AssociatedFress) October 8, 2024

 

Data Talks

NEW BLOG POST: The Inevitable Upward Revision in FBI Violent Crime Numbers

✅John Lott/@JohnRLottJr , writing for the New York Post, revealed that the FBI quietly revised its national violent crime rates for 2021 and 2022 in its 2023 report.
✅This revision shows a 4.5%… pic.twitter.com/lBWh4z218a

— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) October 5, 2024

 

Unknown title by Jose Escofet (Spanish, 1930 - )

Unknown title by Jose Escofet (Spanish, 1930 - )

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John, Jack and Alice

John Tenniel was the chief cartoonist of the British magazine Punch for some fifty years as well as the original illustrator of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in 1865 and 1871 respectively.

The Nemesis of Neglect, a famous image and article published in Punch magazine on 29 September 1888 when Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, was stalking the streets of Whitechapel, London. The image was drawn by John Tenniel. It depicts a phantom in the street… pic.twitter.com/U1CThjtLwX

— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) November 3, 2024

There floats a phantom on the slum’s foul air,

Shaping, to eyes which have the gift of seeing,

Into the Spectre of that loathly lair.

Face it – for vain is fleeing!

Red-handed, ruthless, furtive, unerect,

‘Tis murderous Crime  – the Nemesis of Neglect!

 

History

Wild that Sears and Roebuck had a warehouse the size of a small European country and you could basically put a letter in the mail and a few weeks later your house showed up in pieces at your nearest railyard pic.twitter.com/o4CRAkUZq5

— Rust Belt Kid (@rustbeltkid1) October 7, 2024

 

An Insight

If I belong to the sex class whose body is provably organised to produce eggs rather than sperm, and to bear rather than beget children, I am a woman. Also members of my sex class: women with Swyer syndrome, though our chromosomes differ. pic.twitter.com/ie06Kh7X3V

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 7, 2024