I'm tuning out of things a bit — between hearing white people decide things about Islamophobia earlier today on the radio, then white people deciding things about racist slurs now, as white people bomb the shit out of the Middle East again, I'm quite drained really want to escape this insanity

Our wars are yet another reason why I don't get into jingoistic BS or Black intradiasporic xenophobia or US flag waving. The only time on Twitter I got out of pocket was for a hot minute during Black in Bali. Caribbean colleagues called me in. I received it. You cannot SEE from inside the hegemon.

mental health truck stop

Meg Hyland. We’ll never know what happened. 2025. Coloured pencil, ink, Posca pen. Named after what my doctor said when I tried to get help after the experience.

And isn't it great to see those vibrant colours in the Commons! #HopenotHate

we couldn't fix the economics so we're diving head first into bigotry

Had lunch today with an African-American friend who just looked absolutely exhausted by her compatriots' gawping in shock at their own government's actions, when they really shouldn't be gawping at all. This continual innocence is so draining. This is who these people have always, always been.

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

he's cumulatively torched so much goodwill now I don't know if it matters, even if he says something reasonable

not angry just disappointed

Oh no what is it now. #news #cat #comic #hiss #smartphone

A senior Danish guy in the Social Democrats said to me that Denmark does not think of itself as a multicultural country whereas Britain does, which makes our situation very different.

Mutually Assured Delusion 😣

this section of the new British Citizenship test (Who exactly is it legitimate to hate in public?) is going to be a tricky one I've read it a few times and still haven't quite got the difference printing it out though, to wave around if I'm attacked on the street 🤞🏾

From yesterday's Observer.

thinking about this, and remembering how vital it was that Russia didn't control the skies above Ukraine; more mixed in Syria supporting Assad's regime and how utterly Israel has destroyed Gaza, with immensely overmatched force, no guardrails or qualms

for our own safety, we've decided to declare ourselves a legitimate target

On the danger of conflating legitimate concerns with illegitimate prejudices bsky.app/profile/sund...

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

We’re in one of those situations where reporting and analysis of what has happened is really useful. And where “here’s what could happen next” will get a lot of clicks but is fundamentally almost useless.

the system IS broken so it's legitimate to resent the smallest group, the most vulnerable people trapped within it, with nowhere to go, no say whatsoever, regarding relatively small amounts of the budget, instead of showing actual leadership £2.8 / £1,370 billion ≈ 2% of total budget

Britain is just an outpost now Airstrip One no independent Great Power hasn't sunk in yet, so the dissonance is wild the cracks may bring some overdue light on how to think about the past, why other people wince at your patriotism, and then what truly shared global values might look like one day

fwiw there is never going to be a good answer to the question "what should a UK government do faced with a mad US President given frightening levels of powers by his own party?"

the entire project of real existing Starmerism, as crafted by McSweeney and Mandelson on Planet Epstein, depends on the Greens continuing to lack electoral credibility that assumption has gone and many MPs are set on a clear change of direction [I'm not sure if the rest truly understand that yet]

cat-whistling

FIFA Peace Prize : elimination rounds

I heard the Israeli strikes in Beirut, which were so loud they echoed across multiple neighborhoods. The explosions could be heard in Dahiya, the Hezbollah bastion in southern Beirut. The Israeli military said it carried out targeted strikes against Hezbollah members in Beirut and southern Lebanon

white male privilege is one hell of a drug to kick, societally

For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

the absolute best you can do in defense of this guy is to claim that he has no idea what's going on in this country and no desire to change that. as political pitches go there are better ones

the Danish model doesn't work there

mustn't forget the pivotal role of the British royals with gildwashing many of the families which were installed and elevated across the region as well, but thank goodness they have such impeccable judgement, all comes down to superior bloodlines

This is my great-great grandmother, Sarah Kinsler Gibson Davis. 🙏🏾 She's the only child of our ancestors Daniel and Mary Katherine Kinsler whom our family has a picture of... she has more than a thousand descendants. The enslavers brought our ancestors to Florida in 1842 during the Seminole Wars.

Eleanor Green Dawley Jones US mathematician. 1 of 1st African-American women to earn PhD in maths, @ Syracuse Uni. Consultant for development of college mathematics curriculums & speaker at events to encourage women & minorities to pursue careers in science & maths. d. #OTD 1 Mar 2021 bit.ly/3Ad32Jv

chaos everywhere + vilify the refugees

Something lovely in a rough day. baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...

should have put money on it? 😣

'defensive action'

She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work

people hurt people hurt other people

🧐 sectarian voting analysis useful G+D 🧵👇🏽

🥼 🐕 A therapy dog treating a cat for (perhaps) melancholy, Detail of a 15th-c. manuscript, unknown artist. Edinburgh University Library. On the right the reduced version. 🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #catsofbluesky #caturday #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #medievalsky

keep seeing this do the rounds but statistically it's nonsense: the Cybertruck numbers are too small to extrapolate from meaningfully, and all their drivers are deeply stupid asshats — not representative of the population at large, need help wiping their own bums, miracle they've made it this far

prove you aren't a heartless robot

Look how Laura Kuenssberg refuses to examine Farage’s own specific history of hatred, despite it being at the core of his offering. In 2026, that’s not only a choice, it’s wilful normalisation.

people dying people torn apart people in utter terror

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. These first 2 months have seen so many heavy developments. But making art helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 10 more.

an additional external wrinkle on what's in this thread I was a bit thrown in Pretoria several decades ago, I think in Paul Kruger's old home/Ditsong Kruger Museum now two letters of moral support, laid side by side, for the plucky Boers against the violent Imperial global hegemon of their day…

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

like the home secretary, I ✅ visited recently ✅ misunderstood ✅ lined up targets