peak performance

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

Carving returned to marae after more than 100 years

you don’t have to fuck people over to survive

On this, the day of Tina Turner's birth, the coolest story I ever heard about her was after Jeff Beck played guitar on Private Dancer he asked her to sign his guitar and she carved her name on it with a switchblade and filled in the gouges with green nailpolish and that is style you can't buy

algorithm assuming I'm an author and that's very kind of you given my output so far

meditating on the least threatening "come at me bro" I've ever heard

Mani’s death has had me fiddling about with The Stone Roses 🎸🎶

We should all be concerned that decades-old Aboriginal rights slogans (ie Always was always will be; no pride in genocide; land back, no justice no peace) are being outlawed by government & ill-intent lobbying settlers. These are sovereign slogans. They've purpose. There's no pride in ANY genocide

must not lick the forbidden ice cream

Facts www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

She used to be my babysitter growing up, please boost: www.gofundme.com/f/khamia-fig...

UNAIDS says millions across the world lost access to treatment and preventive care due to financial shortfalls.

it's been done judgedredd.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_...

FISHBOOOOOOOOONNNE

#Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech to #US Congress played down the civilian death toll in #Gaza. “How many civilians were killed? Practically none.” #Israeli forces have killed more than 68,000 #Palestinians, over 20,000 children killed۔ x.com/TheQudsTimes...

"right-wing hardliners" oohh you mean nazis. They hit a buncha nazis and now the german state is punishing em for hitting a bunch of nazis okay got it now

man I'm gassy today

Can I get a Black Friday discount on my rent though 🫴🏽

Increase the whimsy.

RIP early portrait of Jimmy Cliff 1980s

"go on bluesky" they said, "it'll be fun they said" bluesky: "HEY YOU WANNA READ ABOUT HOW PEOPLE FIND RFK JR SEXY"

fuckin with the algorithm by typing 'fish bicycle souffle badger antfarm aldous huxley woodchipper' into a post

not being famous is very relaxing, I find

most of the news services still stuck to twitter, huh

I talk about her in my Black abolitionists of NYC walking tour and usually no one has heard of her but she was Rosa Parks on the bus 100 years before that incident.

A manuscript doesn't feel like a potential novel until about 40,000 solid words have been written. Before that, it's a spectre that haunts your dreams, a half-formed being that taunts you as you stare at a screen. Yes, I'm avoiding writing again

To learn more about queer Indigenous people, check out our BlaQademics page w/ queer Indigenous (here/elsewhere) academics w/ lived experience & research on behalf and always w/ our communities.Trying to turn us into a grand tragedy when we're doing the work is ridiculous. queer-as.org/blaqademics/

Proud that my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is one of them, 🤖🐬🦿🇳🇬🇺🇸.

Sharing with respect: Of all the pieces I've read so far, this stands out. Candace Maracle centres First Nations' voices, who expertly discuss the situation, and focus on First Nations people who were harmed, plus possible retributions and reparations. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Just gonna say this: our families don't all hate or revile us as queer Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people aren't trying to find a way to alienate our families and friends. This white queer rendering of queer Aboriginal people as cast out by mob is ridiculous and a colonial fantasy. And racist.

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff's connection with Te Tiriti and Aotearoa

Au Soudan, les paramilitaires des FSR annoncent une trêve unilatérale de trois mois

"But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppeteer or a trader of slaves", - this is the unstated mirror image of the central theme in Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come".

A particularly bad couple of months for losing musical heroes. 😔

The Bongo Man has gone. Adieu, sir. And thanks a lot—for now I'm an experienced man, and I can understand even this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

😔 I loved the songs and the film. Thank you, Jimmy.

In an extraordinary journey, a Palestinian man used a jet ski to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe after he fled the war in Gaza.

Jimmy Cliff Jimmy Cliff oh Jimmy Cliff rest well sir one of the greats has passed away may you rest well www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAb...

Solomon Islands Pidgin Language Week kicks off in New Zealand

In the US, Muslims are seen as antisemitic by default. I've experienced this my whole life.

I would punch each and every US 'founding father' in the face repeatedly and thoroughly and then I'd do it again

“We are the ones that are saying what the forest is demanding. We are the ones that are saying what the river is asking for. We are going through a lot of violence in our territories.”

“She learned to use ink to slowly cover her reflection in the water, hiding it from every eye, until her skin grew a waterproof shell.” From HER NAME IS A RIVER, our latest #Fridaypoem by Tangqing Zhang. overland.org.au/2025/11/her-...

No. Nigeria doesn't suffer from poor leadership. Nor from bad governance. Or societies that can't hold their leaders to account. It's the victim of sinister plots (in the West's capitals) to hold her down. Why? Because, unleashed, the Nigerian Prometheus will take fire back.

"...when she asked why she was being tested in this way the psychologist told her: "To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being." " This still happens today? WTF! Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned […]

Why the Irish can spin a a good yarn;-)