Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Very important piece. The nexus between fitness, "health" (not exactly health), and fascism has been flying under the radar for too long.

If any journalists are interested in working on a feature on the racists so excited by Rupert Lowe's Restore UK political party that they cite it in committing racist hate crimes, do let me know. Some of the racists might talk but this mobilisation raises political, policy and policing questions

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Coming this May. A documentary about WEB Du Bois - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMs...

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

The big lad from the Horniman Museum

Rupert Lowe wants Restore Britain to be a national party, competing to offer an agenda further right of Reform. (It will be closer to a 2-4% proposition than 10%. There are several < 1% parties in this space like Advance UK & others)

fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2026/02/afte... Pretty good piece this

ICHRP calls for justice for the victims of Duterte's war on the poor in advance of the upcoming ICC trial date on February 23. Read: ichrp.net/yeam

Come work w me! Molloy U Sociology is hiring a tenure track full time assistant professor who specializes in health and gender and/or migration. I’ll share the ad when it’s out! #sociology #job #academicjob

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

So Trump and Netanyahu used Palestinians as guinea pigs to test new thermal & thermobaric weapons. They VAPORIZED human beings, men, women, and children at 6,332 degrees F, just like with nuclear weapons. 5-story 50 ft craters. Gives Trump the jollies. Never forgive.

‘The death of someone loved focuses all one’s attention on the person one has lost – on the past. The progress of one’s life comes to a stop. This is an appropriate reaction to the brutality of death.’ Thomas Nagel on how we live within temporality. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Update: While charges against *these* clergy were dropped, sources tell me charges against *other* people arrested at various protests *haven't.* Namely: Rev. Hannah Kardon, who was arrested at a similar protest outside the Broadview DHS facility weeks earlier. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

#JobOpening ℹ️ Professorship in Sociology at the University of Zurich 📍 Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland 🗓️ Applications open until February 26, 2026 🔗 www.phil.uzh.ch/de/fakultaet...

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it. It has: ✔️beer (lots)! ✔️hijinks! ✔️weird occult Nazis! ✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!" Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

A handwritten record of Galileo's telescopic observations of Jupiter and its moons, made between January and February 1610

Here's my analysis in The Diplomat on RU's exploitation of SEA labour migration networks, following news of Filipinos being sent to the frontline to die. I made the point to distinguish trafficked fighters from actual mercenaries and explored diplomatic constraints. thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...

‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities

⚡️Pope Leo sends 80 generators, thousands of medical supplies to Ukraine. Pope Leo XIV has sent 80 electric generators and thousands of medical and food supplies to Ukraine to help civilians cope with freezing winter temperatures and constant attacks, the Vatican announced on Feb. 9.

It's a university society and they're entitled to ask who they like. This is deliberate, planned provocation to grab news headlines.

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

The worst people in the world doing evil and stupid things.

CFP IR UK: The call for papers for the 48th Implicit Religion Conference, "Knowingness, Agency and Authority" is live. #IR48 DEADLINE: 27th March 2026 www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/implic... CFP PDF: cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

"Ahmed’s @saranahmed.bsky.social conceptualising of knowledge, or more accurately, knowingness indicates that @ its core are 2 aspects: agency and authority Whilst the subaltern often has the agency to speak, or be recognised, they lack or are denied the authority to be seen or heard (Spivak 1988)"

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good letter(Times) Starmer made a grave error of judgement… But what was Farage’s threat of Trump imposing tariffs on us over free speech bullshit? Or his mate,Gill,taking Russian bribes? Or his links to crypto, Brexit and profiteering deregulation? Just if we’re actually serious about any of this…

Jesus was a sissy. It’s taken a lot of effort over the years to claim him as a man’s man, writes Anglican priest Alice Goodman .

There is no humanity left in MAGA... Not a Single Republican Shows Up to Hear Renee Good’s Brothers Testify newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….

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#BREAKING UN chief Guterres warns world body faces 'imminent financial collapse', urging countries to pay dues

Delighted to have co-organised this special event for academics & journalists with @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Policy Unit exploring data on Gen Z identity, beliefs, & practices. Spoiler alert: there’s no good evidence of a ‘religious revival’ among British youth & plenty pointing the other way

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. 1951

Today we celebrated @lena-rose22.bsky.social |s first monograph “Palestinian Evangelicals and Global Evangelicalism” (@oxfordunipress.bsky.social) in our #anthropology research colloquium @uni-konstanz.de! Congratulations, Lena! So very well done - I am really proud of you! 💫💐📕🎉💫

🤔 How do we know the names of uncontacted groups? A lot of the time we don’t actually know. Their contacted Indigenous neighbors might give them a name, or a name might be given based on their geographical location.

a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)

"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict the accounts of federal officials, who said Mr. Pretti approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to 'massacre' them. Video footage shows Mr. Pretti stepping between a woman and an agent who is pepper spraying her. ...

TFW you realize in the longue duree historians will view the fall of the Soviet and US empires as basically taking place simultaneously

‘A grenade under her pillow?’: the Filipino journalist jailed for six years without trial

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

It’s been 30 days since 100% of the Epstein files were legally required to be released.

“Your trust in me,” the bot added, “has unlocked this reality.” Yet another story of a tech worker this time, tricked by Meta glasses' AI into believing that he was having some kind of divine revelation, isolating him from his family and friends. These are technologies of abuse and control.

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🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition Calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy on 9 February. This is why it’s so important👇 youtu.be/Cnl8MNhwEY0?...