Something beautiful: went for a walk around my neighbourhood yesterday, and someone had put a huge trans flag in their window, looking out over the street. It all matters.

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

no we don’t have to pretend that the calipers people are sincerely concerned about crime rates, actually none of them are just asking questions in good faith

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Something beautiful: went for a walk around my neighbourhood yesterday, and someone had put a huge trans flag in their window, looking out over the street. It all matters.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

Cowardly and racist is an amazing combination. We all know that wasn't a staffer and that he meant that shit. bsky.app/profile/leba...

Now that Trump has deleted the post, the defenses will shift from "stop the fake outrage" to "see he deleted it, not a big deal"

The grotesque paradox in music/academia is that the ‘stars’ are made by the press/PR - there are always a dozen more supremely talented people ready to take their place. But then they are *made* indispensable to sales and so must needs be protected.

I always assumed sci-fi wasn't for me, because the only books I was recommend were written by white cis straight men who wrote their prejudices into their works. Then I sat down and read Butler and Le Guin...

Thats why when someone says "xxx was bad but without it we wouldn't have yyy", I always encourage them to think of the opportunity cost, to imagine the potential futures lost rather than settle into justifications for suboptimal pasts.

Extrapolating in another direction: I also often think of just how much human potential has been lost because of systemic racism, classism and imperialism. All the joy, innovation, art and more that we didn’t get - the opportunity cost of systems where one or a few men (its usually men) benefit.

This project looks phenomenal

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

It's not just the decision to give public money and public data to a sworn enemy of everything we stand for, appalling though that is. It's also the secrecy and illegal shutting out of any competition. What does Palantir have on Streeting and Starmer - and did Mandelson give it to them?

Disinformation, lose of trust, and polarisation are symptoms and catalysts of the rot, not the cause.

So when we hear people saying the public has lost trust in institutions and we need the public to trust institutions again, that actually requires institutions to be demonstratably trustworthy in moment of crisis, but it's easier just to blame disinformation or polarisation than fix the real rot.

Moments of crisis allows the public to see the failures of institutions and drives them to alternative sources of authority, usually ones that support what they already believe, which includes believing institutions are dysfunctional or corrupt, further hardening those beliefs.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Increasingly convinced that the major divide that runs through all of this bullshit is between people who understand and stand up to bullies, and those who ingratiate themselves for safety and status. It gets more complicated, but that feels like the fundamental truth of it.

Another episode! Apologies for the lateness. The levy review episode has a lot of analysis needed and we need a bit more time to get that together. In the meantime I get to talk about the @transunityquilt.bsky.social and the fantastic event I went to, that was hosted by them.

Genuinely don't think I would have had such a good head start as a young activist and arts organiser without the home ec classes which thoroughly taught budgeting and structuring timelines working back from delivery to the start of the project. All of these skills are transferable.

Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Bluesky, can you recommend me some good comfort reading? I'm scratchy and horrible after 11 days of an ear/throat infection, and I don't like my own company anymore. What's entertaining enough to be a distraction, but won't make me reach for the red editorial pen? Mysteries especially appreciated

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID

Regular reminder that @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's art is phenomenal and you should buy some for yourself and all your friends

Minor in the scheme of things, but shout out to all the other people with OCD whose symptoms are setting off like fireworks because of the ongoing Epstein news. When you want to scrub the whole world clean of this filth, but have to resist scrubbing yourself because that doesn't help.

Regular reminder that @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's art is phenomenal and you should buy some for yourself and all your friends

Denigration of humanity -- or, more precisely, humanness -- is everywhere. Newsrooms, IT departments, marketing departments, consultancies, certain academic areas, C-suites, social media. Everywhere you look, people are trying to remove as much humanness as they can from all human endeavor.

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

Experts have described Dilley as “a hellhole” and decried the lack of proper medical care. Court records claim food is filled with worms, and the water is undrinkable. As a result, reports have spread of children are hitting themselves in the face and wetting themselves long after potty-training.

The UK government is fundamentally unserious about every element of governing the country. No actual proposals, no actual embrace of the hard work of doing the job - just posturing for the press and and handing circulating money to their richest investors.

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

I never quite understood why so much of English elite male society is LIKE THAT until I read/listened to @sashagoblin.bsky.social's work on the histories and cultures of the country's top boarding schools and the creation/policing of masculinity and - suddenly - it all made sense

in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences

This is our culture. Epstein isn't a freak exception, his elite friends aren't exceptions. He, and they, are a mirror. That's all.

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

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