Musk’s sociopathic narcism means he’s so obsessed with the numerical barrier of a trillion, that’s he’s clearly bent the will of shareholders by using his indecorous control of the means of political communication and spectral control of federal budgets. But yeah, free market or something.

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

The comedy wildlife photograph of the year shortlist is something you should all see if you want to brighten up your bleak Friday... #photography

The woman on TikTok who is calling evangelical churches in the US and asking for baby formula - basically calling out the hypocrisy of them - is amazing. What’s even more incredible are the comments defending the churches…

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us for the 2025 Gordon Manley Lecture "Major Revisions: Thinking ocean space from RHUL to HIFMB" by Professor Kimberley Peters, HIFMB. Thursday 27th November 2025, 6pm, Shilling Auditorium, Royal Holloway, University of London. Free, in person, public lecture.

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

Shocked. This is my shocked face.

Of all his cognitive decline, THIS might be the thing that makes the GOP finally invoke the 25th

It's happening

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Rebellions are built on hope

I ran a field trip to New York City every year for a decade (before the affordability meant we had to can it) and I know it’s streets very well indeed. It’s one of the most beautiful, incandescent cities on the planet and to have @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will only make it more so. congrats!!

The success of Mamdani, alongside Michelle Wu and Brandons Scott & Johnson, tells me that we should simply abolish the nation-state and replace it with a socialist federation of urban municipalities.

It's not rocket science: hope brings people out to vote.

Honey, the only “path” to the White House now is littered with the bodies of fascists

Sometimes TikTok throws us an absolute timeless gem

Call me a Georgist if you must, but one of the key moves we need to implement a much fairer tax policy in this country is to disaggregate the value of buildings and the land they occupy and tax the former properly. Land Tax was abolished in 1963, but bringing it back is well overdue.

Sometimes TikTok throws us an absolute timeless gem

We don’t punch racists as much as we used to. That’s needs to change

My daughter saw me eat a KitKat and I don’t snap the figures apart, I just bite into both like a normal chocolate bar. She’s now demanding to be taken into foster care

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In a classic tale of 'peaking too soon', Reform's anti-immigrant bashing is starting to wear thin with the polling, so now they're going after benefit claimants. Presumably they'll just keep cycling through all marginal groups from now till the next election? Strap in, it'll be wild.

I'm not an economist, but I can only assume that metal detectors at UK train stations would crash the economy so bad it'd make 2008 look like a blip.

Saw Terminator Live last night at the Hammersmith Apollo - the 'band' was full of metallic percussionists and some synths. Easy to forget how 'industrial' the original soundtrack was, but live, it's amazing how evocative & emotional it is. Recommended!

The fact that one of the most homophobic players in the premier league is called Idrissa Gueye - pronounced GAY - will never not be funny

This isn't 'bad optics', it's the whole damn point. They want to be seen to be living up while the majority starve because it amplifies their dominance over us. They're doing it because they can bank on our apathy.

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

Let's play a game of breaking dancing or epileptic fit #totp

There's 5 of them up there #totp

TOP DRUMMING #totp

"It's their first appearance on Top of the Pops!" After this vocal performance, it's very likely to be their last #totp

BREAKING NEWS: JK Rowling funding an anti-Mansun campaign #totp

I think he's miming playing that keyboard #totp

Why is this 70s exactly? It's about as sterotypically 90s as it gets #totp

They look like academics at the Christmas party #totp

Starting with an absolute dirge track is it? Liking opening a play by setting fire to the stage #totp

Suffolk NEOM

Just your regular reminder that cars are 2-ton killing machines and should be treated as second class citizens in any space where there are humans.

Want a horror film that is actually left wing critique this Halloween? The top 5 are: 5. Candyman: critique of white academic liberalism 4. Dawn of the Dead: the best anti-consumerist film there is 3. Get Out: post-racial society is a myth 2. Jaws: the shark is capitalism 1. Alien: men are shit

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

Calling someone a 'prince' in the first place is so ridiculously antiquated, hierarchical and stupid that to strip him of it is not really a punishment; it's a tokenistic effort to stop calls for his imprisonment.

Reform logic: Reeves should be sacked for not knowing that the letting agent was sloppy and told her that something was correct when it wasn't. Pochin shouldn't be sacked for saying the most racist thing to come out of an MPs mouth for decades.

As Mark Fisher noted about the incredibly prescient Children of Men, "internment camps and franchise coffee bars co-exist"

Musk calls for civil war in the UK, yet the government still doing deals with Starlink? Cool, cool.

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago. Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

It might wear off quicker if they didn’t keep copying what he’s doing

Zohran Mamdani caught lying about having a body with organs, yet when pressed, he admitted that his body is actually without organs, and hence is the inevitable, unconstrained manifestation of desires that may take upon unprecedented forms.