As one of the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk's clubs & groups, on Saturday we'll be doing short performances in public spots local to Turnpike Lane, then moving on to a big party at the #bookshop. Come & see if you can catch us at it, & join us for drinks after! #music #live #london #northlondon #haringey

The Dark Coast are delighted to be invited to play a Hibernation Sessions livestream - 7pm BST Sunday April 12th. FREE (donations welcome) Link via Hibernation Sessions group: facebook.com/groups/46961... #music #london #livemusic

Business rates are on the rise, the economic situation doesn't seem to be improving in the UK, and life is generally hard. Yet people still love books and are buying books. Unfortunately for us, they often just go to a large online retailer rather than a local truly independent community bookshop.

For a bunch of people supposedly passionate about reading books, they're sure going out of their way to find extra reasons not to enjoy them as much as possible.

A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

The next All Good Music Club event is our #Music #Jam! Monday 13th April - come along and bring your voice, your instrument, or even just your ears if you want to listen in. We play anything we like, covers or originals. 7pm, @allgoodbookshop.co.uk, 35 Turnpike Lane. #bookshop #london

I am reminded of a friend who teaches at a private school, who's said one of his biggest challenges in recent years has been, incredibly, trying to instil in his pupils the understanding that putting in effort to work & get good at things brings results one can take pride in. They stare blankly.

I wish people want to be writers without having written had the decency to just be pub bores talking your ear off about their dogshit idea for a novel, as is tradition.

There's a lot of conservative politics rooted in the fundamental idea that accommodations of difference are "special treatment" at constant risk of being poached by the "undeserving", and that suffering is both an inevitable fact of life and virtuous. It's a contemptible social rot.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Joseph Lewczak (Truth Seeker)‬ ‪@truthseeker59.bsky.social‬ · 16h This painting is titled "Clairvoyant" and was created by the French artist Pierre Bonnard. (1867–1947). Style: Post-Impressionism/Intimism

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love how "get paid while doing your job" is a constant source of contention between employers and employees, as if there's any possible argument against it other than "i want to steal my employee's time"

This is just obscenely cute.

Very funny to pen an entire article about the need for intellectual when you yourself are belligerently demonstrating a pigheaded inability to learn any lessons whatsoever

Stunningly horrible tweet from the Home Office. Tars everyone from 4 countries with the same brush.

#OtD 27 Mar 1904 Mother Jones, the legendary Irish-American labour organiser, was ordered out of Colorado by authorities for "stirring up" striking coal miners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9927...

well I guess it's true what they say because I genuinely did not expect the Spanish inquisition

Huh. Probably a bad idea to base an economy on it

I might have missed someone so correct me if I'm wrong, but afaics not a single Big Platform Centrist has yet condemned this repulsive Islamophobia & antisemitism from The Sepccy. This fits with their now established pattern of silence whenever the rightwing or fash do an antisemitism against Zack

we are going to be 6 soon and it has been a bit of a journey #haringeybookshop #bookshop #books allgoodbookshop.co.uk/blog/f/six-y...

You know things are clearly going so well for the US government when the White House starts channeling Gru from Despicable Me.

The sun starts to rise towards mid-archway now as we head towards Summer. The first one I have had this year as it was so quiet up there this morning. Taken in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

“There can be no clearer example of a violation of human rights than the economic embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.” 📲 Read the full article by Muhemsi Mwakihwelo.

Today’s Canadian painting is “Quebec Impression” painted by Bertram Brooker in 1942.

My painting MONUMENT VALLEY

If you can't say to your child "the man in black fled across the desert" and get a "and the gunslinger followed " in response You 🫵🏿 have forgotten the face of your father.

Good riddance, Sora. What you made with Sora did NOT matter. You could have rebuilt a war torn country with the money corporations spunked on that. Ended world hunger. Eased housing crisis in several places. And for what? Glorified piracy and a complete disregard for art. Fuck it, fuck it to hell.

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

I’ve been politically active for a long time and it is very much my experience that trans folks don’t hesitate to help others but others often hesitate to align with trans folks. All our movements would be greatly weakened and impoverished if trans and GNC people stepped back from them.

need to watch more porn, improve the standards

With release of images of Dwayne "The #Rock" Johnson as #Maui in the #Moana live action remake, seen a few dodgy posts on his appropriacy on ethnic grounds. Reminder: CGI Maui was based directly on his grandfather, Samoan wrestler High Chief Peter Maivia. No comment on potential quality of film.

Can't say how proud I am that we've made it this far. We opened TWO WEEKS before the pandemic. Against the backdrop of Covid, one of the longest periods of economic downturn & cost of living crisis, we've survived SIX YEARS, and we're doing better all the time. Come celebrate with us. #BookSky

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

It's really not good that faced with the complete impotence of the American left in the face of Israel's genocide in Gaza a bunch of people seem to have decided that being antisemitic somehow makes you more radically pro-Palestine and like buddy it Does Not Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's a pyramid scheme where men allow themselves to be exploited and submit to the authority of more powerful men in exchange for getting to exploit those who aren't men. The modern male grievance movement makes the most sense when you see them as outraged over this implicit contract being broken.

I said "And this sustained project of privatisation and deregulation turned Britain from a place which made things people need to a place which made money for people who owned things." And the City said:

Absolutely horrific. Sounds like there's not much of a balm in Gilead after all.

If half, only HALF, of the money and resources wasted on AI was used to restore wetlands, plant trees, build solar/wind/nuclear, improve existing infrastructure (rail transport specially), and logistics to avoid food spoilage, we would go from over 1.5C rising temp to -0.5C by 2100.

It's a miracle Cubans achieved any quality of life when you learn about America's deranged behaviour after the revolution. An extraordinary history

But all the sizzling intellects powered by quantum computing braniums with the most advanced levels of Sensible available were insisting to me no more than 20months ago that the party had been rebuilt to the most exacting standards of awesomeness. So how can this be? Surely they weren't wrong?

I'd like to dedicate this post to everyone who said there was no point in fighting this. And to point out most of the value in AI companies is derived from their past scraping and in a just world, we'd be looking at billions in compensation.

And like at least two thirds of these fucks didn't stay cancelled, they just wrote books and went back out on the circuit with a different grift!

Uses his own platform to regularly and frequently put out declarations intended to undermine democracy, and not only does Starmer's government refuse to do anything to sanction him, but they allow the turd to be handed EVEN MORE BUSINESS here. Fucking state of it.