Sometimes @ichotiner.bsky.social really does have to do barely anything to get his interview subjects to glaringly expose their bullshit. This is one of those times. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

bloody plumbers coming over here taking our seats in parliament

Psychopomp & Circumstance has finally made it to UK bookshops so I've finally read it and damn, @edenroyce.bsky.social, that's an extremely good novella. A beautiful little quiet and powerful thing.

I think it’s very telling about the state of the BBC right now that they deemed it acceptable to keep a racial slur in the broadcast of the BAFTAs, but decided they needed to cut the phrase “Free Palestine” from a winners speech.

Phillipson's argument seems to be that a lot of this shouldn't require specialist plans – it should be built into general education. I agree. But whilst you build up that accessibility (which takes time) it's unconscionable to leave disabled kids who need it without individualised support.

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

Nick Land tries to play vague and esoteric a lot of the time but he's a fucking fascist. Smart well off nerds like him because the ambiguity feels like nuance and the esotericism makes them feel smart huffing his farts.

I need more adherence to precedent than just this, come on now

I just had a falling out with @umactually.bsky.social on @dropout.tv because THE TURKISH DELIGHT ISN'T A BRIBE TO EDMUND! It's part of *grooming* him to betray his family, he doesn't actually get any for DOING IT!

Over the course of the last month or so I've reread @amalelmohtar.com's Seasons of Glass and Iron, one story or poem after each book. And I've put my thoughts on it down in electrons, this time. www.waterstones.com/reviews/seas...

The very existence (let alone the wording) of this consultation is an outrage, but please fill it in anyway, it doesn't take long.

I'm going to win.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Brennan Lee Mulligan. Tobias Forge (as Papa). Ncuti Gatwa. All very different options and very different shows but that's sort of the point.

Feel like the impact of the Guardian’s “EXCLUSIVE: Substack Profits From Nazis” headline is spoiled a little by the entire row of Related Stories at the bottom being ”Substack ❤️s Nazis” stories from the last several years

A police procedural in an alternative history Britain split between Celts, Saxons and the Norse? I'm looking forward to this event in Glasgow, come along if you fancy finding out more.

What do you call someone whose instinct, confronted by evidence that their policies are contributing to a massive increase in deaths, is to cover it up? And should that person be a Labour Minister? Or in prison?

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

This isn't news to anyone who has followed people like @annaleen.bsky.social or @sarahgailey.bsky.social or many others for a while, but I'm glad it's getting wider coverage

Watched the new Muppet Show special last night, and it was just the closest thing to perfect. Sabrina Carpenter is amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrFs...

this is the question.

I think, @tkingfisher.com, you should see if @orbitbooks.bsky.social can swing a collab with these folks for Daggerbound... youtube.com/shorts/QxpxV...

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

This is a great time to get off Substack. Beehive and Ghost are good alternatives. As an added benefit, your blog won't be driving traffic to Nazis and their sycophants.

Archaeology not only as justification for, but in this case actively a weapon of, ethnic cleansing and land grabbing www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I've just read this and, look. It's far from an original thought at this point but I don't see how the world recovers from watching, allowing, encouraging this genocide, this barbarity, perpetrated by Israel. www.plutobooks.com/product/gaza...

"Ceasefire". The genocide is ongoing, only now under the pretence of peace. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I will just continue to say, opsec does matter, now more than ever. Please do not look to Johnny-come-lately "all the anarchists I don't like are feds, actually" adventurists for opsec advice. Especially when they've spent the past 48 hours saying it's good and virtuous to snitch-record protesters

I'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.

Jury nullification for the win. And if you needed to understand why the government want to get rid of jury trials, look no further than this.

Interesting! You could go quite meta there: from Quixote's POV he's a human, and all the other characters as Muppets, but when we switch to Sancho's POV Quixote is a Muppet and the other characters are human.

World's least surprising stat, now with alt text:

In some good news, thankfully this argument carried the day and we're not importing the tremendously harmful Nordic Model. Full decriminalisation now!

Watching The Voice of Hind Rajab, one is forcefully reminded of the way the Israeli army used a six year old child as bait to murder emergency responders, before murdering the child. And one is confronted with the impossibility of living in the world in which that happened consequence free.

In a world where every single children's book written by an LGBT author risks getting banned and the author pedojacketed by pedo-protecting republican politicians I really don't wanna use rhetoric that encourages this kind of attitude

My favorite (derogatory) climate denier argument: emissions reduction in one state will not fix all of climate change, so we shouldn’t do anything. A perfect distillation of the sterile cult of individualism, right there.

Yeah a while back I read MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA by Claire Dederer and it left me a little bit frustrated because I felt that it didn't really grapple with this knowledge. Like, it grabbed it and then let it go immediately; it didn't engage. I did like --

Going to actually lose my mind at establishment libs being like "what works better, mutual aid and cop watching or my stereotype of anarchists?" Sir, anarchists are absolute sluts for mutual aid and cop watching. It's like 90% of their deal

I mean, I haven’t accidentally given tickets to a convicted child rapist, have you?

Some of the tidbits in @mackeza.bsky.social's Super Nintendo are amazing. The Ravel-Zelda link is amazing.

Second thing: Neil Gaiman coming back? In this economy? No, bro, go count your money and stfu. As of APRIL of 2025, he was SUING one of his (alleged) survivors! I HAVE A SNEAKING SUSPICION THE RICH, ENDLESSLY GLORIFIED MAN DID NOT DO THE FUCKING WORK FAM! www.vulture.com/article/neil...

furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman

People like to praise SpaceX, but let's be real: it was founded on the dream of ridding Earth of Elon Musk by shooting him into space, and it has yet to accomplish this feat

I feel like the word "dox" has lost all meaning. Doxxing is posting someone's PRIVATE info, like their tax identifier, in order to facilitate crimes against them. Identifying someone by name is not "doxxing," and identifying a public servant by name is not unethical.

Reminding you that Britain was trying to deport people to Rwanda throughout the last year's of the previous administration and set up a floating prison for refugees that lasted 2 years. This American Exceptionalism is weird and when people buy into it our history of our racism is erased.

An expert academic says that trans' children's rights are not being respected in Scotland, and that the government must confront the "eliminationist" campaign against them. Exclusive for @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2579218...

he should gather up all the last surviving vestiges of not-cryptofascist-neoliberal-cunt Labour and just fuck off and form a new party standing proudly in the centre of milquetoast moderate liberalism, they could call it the Social Democrat Party or something, that would be a deep cut and hilarious

*Looks at second sentence* So it's a legalized lynching law

if you enjoyed that Glaswegian trans woman arranging to get publicly booted in the balls wait until you see Labour’s 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election campaign