pray for me

This is something that I always tell colleagues who distrust postcolonial or gender studies: there’s valid criticisms of both their relationships to historical method (which are, incidentally, often formulated *inside* those fields), but a) both have developed important critiques

hare-brained 😹

just like lunar 'exploration'

Chief Justice Surya Kant said that the bench was ‘not interested in videos’ that show police allegedly using excessive force during Monday’s demonstration. scroll.in/latest/10944...

Stunning!

this is how your email finds me

Being active in student politics in the BJP era, I have realized that protests are extremely important, but what this government fears more is an electoral defeat. And that's the reason India stands in the typology of "electoral autocracy" more than anything else. The power that BJP exerts... (1/4)

Young people putting their bodies on the line, while standing up for their rights, are being tear gassed and lathi charged. Children as young as 12 years old. The state will not tolerate dissent or protests (that matter).

Teaching in an English classroom during a heatwave for 6 hours straight is a hell I wouldn't wish on anyone. Least of all young students.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social is this peak carbrain?

If the honours systems really worked in this country, he’d have died Sir Kevin Keegan

"PPE at Oxford is likely the most significant setback in human history," says me

I'm convinced

Out today!

we can decide whether our silence can become another weapon

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Sheila Das, head of gardens and parks at the National Trust, is replacing the idea of “messy” with “abundant” 🎉

Undeterred after facing police action, protesters returned to Jantar Mantar to continue their protest. Several protesters, injured in the lathicharge a day earlier, turned up at the protest site with bandages. Scenes from Jantar Mantar at midnight. 📷 Ayush Tiwari/ Scroll

What is frustrating is people who I'd generally agree with see historic preservation as NIMBY Stuff. This is memory work, this is places for people that can never be put back. If this is you, please take a moment to consider this thread and what's at stake.

honestly “we’ve lost that technology” seems incredibly appropriate for Homer

Australia joins 15 other countries committed to improving access to trusted information. The UK and Canada have also signed on, helping strengthen global collaboration through this initiative. The initiative is led by: - United Nations - UNESCO - Government of Brazil.

His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.

In theory, the moral clarity and steadfastness demonstrated in this statement condemning Israel’s war crimes should be the bare minimum. But in the meantime, Mamdani is a giant among cowardly politicians.

1/2

Grateful that ‘Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun’ (2019) is now earning royalty checks, small ones, but still, that means the photobook has earned out its advance (sold enough copies to cover the entire $20,000 advance). Photobooks are always niche so it means a lot, especially being even

I wonder how few people could have claimed to love and know their own country so well

Now do the civilian casualties...

(it's probably worth it)

Fishflies (mayflies) - nature's tree ornaments :) We had a big emergence the other evening. 🐛🌿

schoolgirls don't count

Death comes in many forms in Gaza. Whilst some children are now at imminent risk of starvation, one little girl burned to death, along with her family, following a recent attack. Her name was Amira and she was a friend of Mona, when some of you may remember - Aya and Majd's mute daughter. #Gaza 🍉

I watched the HandleBards perform Macbeth a few days ago at the Wittenham Clumps, and it was breathtakingly bonkers brilliant fun for all ages, do NOT make eye contact with Macbeth, and highly recommended 😻

I am really late to the #DinoConUK train - but I will indeed be there, and you can find me at stall 30! I will be selling art prints, as well as A3 & A2 Kem Kem formation posters! I will also be doing custom sketches! Please do drop by if you're interested in any of those, or just to say hi!

Two children onboard the boat bound for the Canary Islands lost their entire family before the passengers were picked up by a rescue operation from Mauritania. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/pB5j

New exhibition at the Horniman Museum. "This new photographic display looks at Koovagam and spotlights Indian transgender culture through the lens of Zoya Thomas Lobo, India’s first transgender photojournalist." www.horniman.ac.uk/event/meetin...

This is absolutely correct. Economists are largely centre-left for "exposure to reality" reasons. Far rightists who are not academic economists but who are paid to go on the television and tell lies don't just use the discipline as stolen glory, but straight-up destroy its public rep while doing so

“We’re not asking for permission to be here. We’re playing.” In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing in women's matches. It was, on paper, a massive blow to the Baltimore Ferals, one of hundreds of teams affiliated with International Gay Rugby. Instead, they kept playing.

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

I don't think we'll find true solutions to global problems until we recognise that the issues wracking majority Black and brown 'developing' countries are exactly the same, at root, as those destabilising majority white 'civilised' countries and see larger but common patterns #DesperateEconomics

Britain's blind spot is that it's only ever imposed authoritarianism, and parts of the culture remain fascist-nostalgic

Tyranny is domestic/child abuse on a society wide scale. You know Trumpism is the ideology of both rape and "Daddy takes off his belt"

So today I learned there are little doors in the gates to the Colosseum in Rome because the city cats go there at night to sleep. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social

I read this story yesterday and was too angry to really add anything useful and today...well, same. Inequality is a crime and the inhumanity of policy that deepens it is also a crime.

we've been trained to only see Islamic terrorism

Tolkien's inspiration for dwarf bread

Thoughts from a few months back on why 'tax raid' is such a dumb, undemocratic, propagandistic coinage. www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...

clearly nothing to see here scroll right along good people

1. What is Long Covid? 2. Is Long Covid the same as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? 3. How is Long Covid caused? 4. Why do only some people develop Long Covid – and why does Long Covid vary so much between people? 5. Is there an effective treatment? 6. Is Elon Musk FRS FFS undermining us and science?

“England’s green and pleasant land” becoming “England’s brown and scorched land” — effects of a long-lived heatwave and little rainfall on vegetation in England evident in these images from NOAA-20 today (left) and 18 July 2024 (right) during closer to average conditions.