Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

the new album by the cords is ideal jangly indie pop. recommended if you want something sweet & fun!! but with enough noise to help balance it out a bit (although my tolerance for twee jangle even without noise is higher than most)

Forcing people to use digital communication without adequate training is setting them up for becoming victims of scammers & hackers. It is CRUEL.

thinking again about when my best friend (who is german) had to borrow our friend's android phone to apply for his settled status after brexit bc the app you needed to do it on wasn't available for iphone.....they make it as hard as possible, and this was someone who has a phone/access/literacy

anything like ID cards being brought in, especially *digital* ID (just like digital visas) will massively disadvantage and marginalise the most vulnerable. sideline them even more than the systems we live in already sideline them. many people are without digital access and/or digital literacy

So lads this is the big one the one that will win everyone over: an app. It spies on you but you can also report your neighbour so yknow ups and downs

taskmaster tonight was so much fun, as ever. really enjoyed seeing reece shearsmith fall over lots of collapsible chairs… and open phil ellis’s mystery box

anything like ID cards being brought in, especially *digital* ID (just like digital visas) will massively disadvantage and marginalise the most vulnerable. sideline them even more than the systems we live in already sideline them. many people are without digital access and/or digital literacy

save me, dangerous crow boy whose job it is to destroy plastic. save me from the plastic fibres

‼️The fuckers bombed the area near the food distribution site in North where Sameer Project's team was working. From Translating Falasteen: "EMERGENCY: As food packages were being organized for a distribution, the occupation bombed a residential building, leveling the area

spring dogwood, summer oak 🌳

a general strike shut down italy on monday in support of palestine & now this is happening. international worker solidarity still has power!!

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

there is something uniquely cringey and terrible about UK corporate podcast ads

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

It seemed pretty clear from yesterday's hearing that the reason for the trafficking claim being raised later on was that the claimant was only able to access good lawyers after getting removal directions, after the Home Office and two lots of lawyers on the detained duty advice scheme heard that

Նռան գույնը / The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 🇦🇲 Directed by Sergei Parajanov

so did anyone get raptured yet

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

found a great selection of books in wanstead charity shops today!!

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

but in a way isn’t it just that all my life there’s panic in america oh oh oh, oh there's trouble in america oh oh oh, oh there’s panic in america

This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads.... www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259... #UKKidlit #Edusky

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

published today by @versobooks.bsky.social ! www.versobooks.com/products/2862-amateurs (discount on @blackwells.bsky.social just saying... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...)

Weather perfect, good food & lager. This is the life. Audrey.

time lapse of Janine receiving her baby spinach leaf

let them get raptured, fine, just let the rest of us get on with waiting patiently for the new thomas pynchon novel

The US is imposing 1000% tariffs on ma, the concept of emptiness or negative space in Japanese cinema. From now on if a character quietly admires a river or sips a cup of tea, theaters will be taxed millions

Autumn is here, and so are the cyclamen! Happy autumnal equinox, the beginning of my favourite season. 🌱

40% off books on the fitzcarraldo website right now pals

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

sometimes i just lie here and think of the lemon & anchovy pasta i ate in naples back in april. sensational

The Maine Heritage Orchard people were out in force, with the usual insane displays of apple types (plus heritage apple tastings)

The hospital director, arrested and tortured by Israel, has just seen his brother and other family members killed.

one of my least favourite types of insomnia is when i just wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. 😶

Simeón, Gennady Spirin.

Reporting here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

In Denmark, if you’re pregnant and the government thinks you will be a bad parent because you were abused as a child, they can give you a test asking “what’s glass made of?” and “what’s the big staircase in Rome called?”If you fail they take your baby after birth. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

SD Twin Peaks figures made for an issue of Hobby Japan (issue unknown, but safe to say early 90s). Not my scan, so I gotta track down this issue.

who wants to read an article about some incredible 1990s direct action? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

on our way to the slow film festival :) it’s in leytonstone! the other side from us, but still

It's been exactly 10 years since one of the funnest days to be online ever