My first encounter with this absolutely extraordinary place, thanks to @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social Incredible to imagine all the hours devoted to collecting, arranging and assembling this labour of love spelled out in shells spacesarchives.org/explore/sear...

These remarkable women of early electronic music pushed the boundaries of technology and composition, turning circuits, sine waves, and tape loops into music. https://disc.gs/3ZWRk1U

Mushroom Cloud of the Nuclear Bomb by Winifred Deane c.1967 painted in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital while she was compelled to live there. Fears about & protests against nuclear proliferation are expressed by multiple people & feature in several works from The Adamson Collection

🎂 Celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the beloved cloth cat Bagpuss, and share Sandra Kerr’s vivid memories of the 1960s folk revival in this classic episode from 2024. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/39467e

Sometimes you play a plastic trumpet in the hope of charming the stars Sometimes you put a rug on a polished floor even though you might as well set a mantrap Sometimes you eat chocolate finger hedgehogs & ghastly rabbit shaped blancmange three meals a day Sometimes you make origami knuckledusters

Couldn't make it to the gig last night? You can donate to Trans Healthcare Access Glasgow here:

More than 86,000 women have now signed the Not In Our Name letter to say that trans exclusion is not what we want and should not be done on our behalf. If you’re a woman who believes in dignity, fairness and standing alongside our trans+ siblings, add your name: notinourname.org.uk

Here's the link just to make it as easy as possible: www.dorsetarchivestrust.org/project/sylv...

This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage

Drawing created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey c.midC20th, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us

This uhhh really sounds like it's the YouTube solution, "an invisible, unaccountable AI will decide whether to demote you from adult* privileges", which is kind of the worst possible solution in the world * We might also say "citizen" or "human" here

This is unbearable and yet, so many are forced to bear it

In a sense, the US and Iran both believe this is the Last War but Israel believes it is the forever war.

They want to rule a region of rubble and the US is, at best, perfectly fine with this albeit not motivated by it and at worst is actively in agreement.

Everyone and their mother with a set of eyes and ears and an iota of brain matter can tell you what a permanentized two tier racial system is called. These guys are flailing because it's undeniable anymore.

Next two years will be very funny

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

I won’t lie, it would’ve rankled with me to see Tony Blair and George Bush II getting whacked off on TV by the press, crowing about the peaceful Iraqi liberal democracy they had created. But me having to eat shit over that would’ve been vastly preferable to what actually happened.

celebrating the deaths of schoolgirls because your son drove his tank into a river in a completely different country

I've changed my mind AI can actually replace me. They finally invented the machine that gets progressively more ambitious ideas and then gives up

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

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what if instead of doing this powerpoint slide i just laid down on the floor and stayed there forever

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

Quick translation of the IDF statement ordering all of south Lebanon's population to immediately leave. Keep in mind that Israel has never stopped bombing south Lebanon since the 'ceasefire.' They are now taking the next step to destroy as much of the country as they can.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

free icecream machine for international women’s day…liberal feminism is BACK

when the toilets accommodate men, women and snake demons

Here's the Ecuador invasion, btw. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Of the 42 countries in the World Cup: Trump is invading 2 (Iran and, as of yesterday, Ecuador) Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and to a lesser extent, Jordan are caught in the crossfire Trump is threatening another, likely favorite Spain, bc it refuses to join Trump's illegal war www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

The issue with the coverage of the far right is that it is generally done to make those covering it and their audience feel good about themselves rather that actually tackles the roots of the issue We cannot defeat the far right if we refuse to address systemic forms of oppression

Just think of all those years he spent supressing his pyromania. Must have been so hard for him.

If there is any aphorism Scottish politics has engraved in letters of fire ten feet high, yay upon the very heavens, it's this one

twatamari

for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick

If we mean “making him into a balloon animal”, then yes.

What did I say? I said: the lads refused point blank to stop or change in the 2010s, because they were absolutely determined to enforce their will. Well, here we now are in the ruin of that plan: they have pushed it and pushed it until they broke it, and god only knows what happens as a result.

As the Trashfuture lads say: the political/media culture of Britain is “It’s shit, it’s supposed to be shit and if you don’t like it, fuck off”. It’s unsurprising that people inside these circles have no answer for the increasingly large number of people who don’t like it.

This is unfortunate, because the entire point of both this government and the previous one was: Fuck you, it will never be better. Whatever promises Johnson made, there was never any intent do anything more than a new flowerbed on a roundabout and maybe a few new leisure centres.

I misremembered the timing. King was upbraided by the head of the RNC in 2018 for his repeated white nationalist comments, but it wasn't until he said he didn't understand why "white nationalism" was such a bad term in 2019 that he was booted from committees. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...

It's an index of how much the GOP has radicalized since 2017 that the same party would ostracize King for saying things back then that today they would almost all endorse wholeheartedly (or at least condone). Then again, Steve King was the co-chair of Ted Cruz's 2016 Presidential campaign...so...

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

The Afghan War remains entirely in the memory bin where it was thrown within about one week of the most embarrassing headlines dropping off the front page of news websites, but I guess we can’t have anything.

Interesting to see the lads do recall the Iraq Inquiry happened after all, because if you watched the hundreds of TV appearances by Tony and Alastair and read endless articles about them, you might have been under the impression that it didn’t, and you dreamed it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pure evil. And they're not even trying to hide it.

They keep saying yes to interviews because their job is to say the words, and not to think about what the words actually mean.