The year is 2003. 17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

There’re 5 UK people in the #GlobalSumudFlotilla delivering aid to Gaza, so I’m writing to my 🇬🇧MP asking they ensure protection from attack & are immediately released . 🇬🇧UK people, especially if you have a Labour MP- this is 1 thing you can do too #flotilla freedomflotilla.org/2025/10/01/i...

There’re 5 UK people in the #GlobalSumudFlotilla delivering aid to Gaza, so I’m writing to my 🇬🇧MP asking they ensure protection from attack & are immediately released . 🇬🇧UK people, especially if you have a Labour MP- this is 1 thing you can do too #flotilla freedomflotilla.org/2025/10/01/i...

READ: Studies consistently show that Jewish Israelis view Palestinians as less than human. This deep-seated racism is rooted in the Zionist colonial project and helps explain the broad support for the Gaza genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/in-i...

🇪🇺 What has russia gained in response to these crimes? Trade Bypassing sanctions Participation in the Paralympics Participation in film festivals 🤔 and much more... #UkrainianView

👏👏👏 it’s a start EBU to vote on Israel's participation in Eurovision www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Note to self

Our Chief Executive @henleydarren.bsky.social said: 'By bringing together the cultural community, the creative sector, health professionals and policy makers, our goal is to ensure the UK continues to lead the way in creative health.’ Read the report: buff.ly/PcqLwLj

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

5-6pm: Ghost Frequency From fractured compositions to shifting tonal landscapes, Ghost Frequency is where unseen vibrations reshape the boundaries of sound. @eaxlr.com | ghostfrequency.xyz #Experimental #Noise #MusiqueConcrete #Drone #Electronic *⏰CEST

This sort of plain-speaking truth shouldn't be unusual. But in our batshit-crazy decline as a nation, it really is. And one has to keep pinching oneself at how insanely Starmer and co are behaving. I don't even begin to understand him. But I hope I understand @zackpolanski.bsky.social very well.

New for me yesterday was hearing the very talented #CharlotteJolly, with ❤️Laura Cannell ❤️ & ❤️Loula Yorke❤️ in Suffolk. Loved the processional collaboration w Cannell as moved through the church, the audience humming as one in F. This is Jolly’s Winter Fields. She’s on Bandcamp

Saw the wonderful musician #LauraCannell last night, w her feral folk-medieval contemporary classical combination all her own, via Norfolk folklore. She had me when she introduced a version of a medieval Hildegard of Bingen piece by quoting her, ‘Remain brave in a world that is being shipwrecked’ ❤️

He’s good at this 👏👏👏

And here it is again, on all over TikTok and YouTube- for sept 23/4 this week.

All I can say is, this whole Charlie Kirk shit is weird and embarrassing.

It’s all over YouTube too, the Rapture is apparently happening this Tuesday or Wednesday Sept 23/4. Not quite sure if this is batshit American Christian Zionists, or other evangelicals, but they’re getting ready to leave this planet in the coming week. 🍿👀

Just a few paintings of the 86 billion #neurons which help generate our every sensation & thought. Untangled Series India ink, colored pencil on hand dyed kozo paper Created using the @alleninstitute.org Cell Type Database for references. Which is open to everyone. #OpenScienceWeek 🧪 #SciArt

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Note to self

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Honestly, I just keep coming back to something @ibogost.bsky.social said years ago: “We were not meant to talk to each other this much.”

Bluesky is my only social media & I hardly anyone on here are people I see irl. Quit Meta & Twitter ages ago. It’s a relief to retreat into the shadows sometimes. SM can be wonderful & was about 10-12 years ago. Meanwhile there’s smaller chat groups & newsletters. Agreeing with the comment below 👇

This is outstanding. And, while research doesn’t get much of a hearing these days on identity issues, everything in it is consistent with piles of research. Anti-racism norms don’t drop from the sky. They are built and buttressed by elites drawing red lines. They can be eroded when elites don’t.

Wow, leaked Discord chats from Kirk's shooter are shockingly... normal. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Love Manchan Magan. While it’s sad news about his terminal diagnosis- this is joyful, wildly adventurous in thought & love interview- highly recommended! We need this in these days. I'm listening to “I have no fear of death” - Manchán Magan on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/GLQsonvHWkim...

He’s very nearly a media concoction, driving clicks and engagement at the cost of the common good. It is exhausting. I am very sad to say the BBC have played an important part of this for years.

Note to self

America is such a strange country.

I need people to know Gamergate is the Nexus point for everything happening today

There were 200K people watching Nick Fuentes's show last night. We've been warning about him and his growing influence for years. Trump dined with him. MTG attended his conference. This is a MAGA and Republican problem which is now the world's problem.

For those of you catching up on emerging evidence that Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, is a groyper, here's a primer. Hat tip: @‪katillogical.bsky.social‬ {And memo to Kash Patel: if you want to honor Kirk, release the Epstein files. You're welcome.]

Opening on Saturday! Melanie Manchot's FVU-commissioned film 'Celebration (Cyprus Street)' (2010) is showing at Arnolfini in Bristol ✨

Suspect lots of people here don't realise how big a deal Kirk was on TikTok in the UK. Twins have seen loads of videos about him (mostly him being "owned" by progressive students). Lots of chat about it already on their WhatsApps. Much more so than anything in UK politics.

I don’t know what you think about Charlie Kirk’s attempted assassination, but I know you’re not talking about Qatar anymore

In 1907, Dr. Julius Neubronner submitted a patent application for a new invention: the pigeon camera. What came next was some very early photos taken of Earth from above. See the images. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/S7rpMg

Well well well… suddenly it makes sense. There is wealth of investigative reporting from Double Down News behind this report, which raises lots of serious questions for UK citizens youtu.be/RBNW6h9uB28?...

6 September 1876 | Czech Jew, Max Beran, was born in Mančice. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Gaza Activist Mahmoud Massri in an urgent message: "I’m speaking because our voices are fading… please, look at Gaza"

Gotcha 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

As Omar El Akkad says, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Read this as many times as you need to. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Concerning news that the Conservatives led by Kemi Badenoch have banned @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending their annual conference - ironically amid the party's claim to uphold free speech: bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

“It struck me as a very bizarre presentation to come here and to advocate for the US to criticise the UK… when it's one of the freest societies on earth.” Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin on his clash with Nigel Farage over free speech at the US House Judiciary Committee. #Newsnight

Aristo-fraudster who raised millions for Nigel Farage sets up opaque new company. Secretive new political firm set up by ‘posh’ George Cottrell raises ‘real red flags’, anti-corruption expert warns. www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...