Highly recommend listening to the In Our Time episode on The Library of Nineveh, reading up on the same on Wikipedia, then enjoying a galaxy brained moment of what it means to take part in the shared history of knowledge keeping.

2025 has been a very "The world is going to end TOMORROW" sort of year. Taking a step back reminds you that the soul-crushing immediacy of it all is part of how their propaganda machine floods the zone. The goal is to keep you overwhelmed and paralyzed with a short attention span.

Making a difference in the world doesn't mean instant gratification. "Plant trees under which you'll never sit" If you're digging in your heels in your community; if you're engaged in a long term project that might take years to complete; if you're writing a book - we need your work too.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Keep going

In an abusive relationship, the perpetrator makes the biggest power grabs when he feels his control over the victim is slipping. I’m keeping that in mind whenever we see massive escalations from Trump. It’s all still very dangerous. But these moments are a sign of weakness, not strength.

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

On that note: disappearing to spend the next 36 hours making a new music/theatre piece with longterm collaborator/friend Jamie Hale (nominated for Sky Arts Theatre Award this week!). Premiering in November at Transpose at the Barbican Centre - more details on that soon!

I'm finding it really interesting to see a light turned on what so many trans and gender diverse people experience regularly in their offline lives, and have for decades. The last time a classical music colleague asked me what was in my pants - openly, in rehearsal, without pushback - was 2019.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

London stays winning

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

googling "how do I download Andor before cancelling Disney subscription"

this is the shit i want to see

If you want to make Disney know that firing Kimmel at the behest of Trump isn't acceptable, this seems like good advice.

Panicking is actually not the best or only thing you can do right now. You don’t need to listen to influencers who are intentionally causing you anxiety. Having a lot of followers on this platform does not give them the right to control your emotions or actions.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Don't be chickenshit.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

let me also flag @transsolidarity.bsky.social as a useful hub for resources on how to raise your voice on this www.transsolidarityalliance.com/home

Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

and also yes, if you have straight cis friends/ family who are not hostile to LGBT people, but perhaps haven't really woken up to how bad its gotten then send them stuff and ask them to read it if my article's useful for that, great, but there's loads of stuff out there bsky.app/profile/polp...

yes - this piece is very much intended as a 'call to action' call or email your MP (see below to find their details) - ideally write something in your own words (tho by all means supplement that with my article if desired) members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

Also “we need to learn to live with MAGA, which is now a stable and normal fact about American politics” is just a weird position to take given the ongoing collapse of Trump’s popular support

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

This is how repressive oligarchies work (corporate autocracies).

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

From Twitter/X to FB to TikTok to Washington Post to CBS. Any opposition to this fascist project needs to focus, in part, on building and/or securing information infrastructure to ensure channels of dissent exist & remain available. The Dems have taken this infrastructure for granted. It’s gone.

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

just really reminded of vladimir putin pulling a satirical late night puppet show called "kukli" (dolls) that mocked him off russian tv in 2002

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

I'd take the other side of all this seriously if anyone ever bothered to offer any solutions to our political divisions beyond "let's talk better." We live in the world we live in. No one has an actual way out of it because there isn't one. So let's take the world as it is, fight, and win.

Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time

Because I've seen some prominent cis allies saying that they hope Streeting's most recent words are a good sign: this is the entire point - he's always got some reasonable sounding words to placate cis people as he continues to meet with transphobic bigots and enact brutally transphobic policies.

Massive images of Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew have been projected onto the walls of Windsor Castle just in time for Trump’s arrival.