Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution. 🕯️ #NeverAgain

Today, we mourn the six million Jews and countless others murdered during the Holocaust. This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we recommit ourselves to honoring their memories and standing up to antisemitism and bigotry in all its forms.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Our tortoise doesn't seem to like Nick Cave's new album. I'm most disappointed in him.

An Employment Tribunal has ruled that the Darlington nurses were unlawfully harassed and discriminated against after being required to share women’s changing rooms with a male colleague. This case underlines the need for clear guidance — and for trade unions to stand firmly with women members.

Victory for the Darlington nurses in their tribunal case. From the judgement:

Iranian women and girls, in memory of Mahsa Amini, demand justice, and are burning a photo of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as an act of defiance. Mahsa's murder by Iran’s morality police sparked Iran's anti-impunity movement “Woman, Life, Freedom.” #3E #IranProtests #womenlifefreedom

Freedom for Iranians. #Iran

Free Iran!

The same influencers who coordinated “All Eyes on Gaza” and “All Eyes on Rafah” - along with slick graphics and celebrity amplification - can barely spare a line for the thousands beaten, tortured, executed, disappeared in Iran. The selective empathy is staggering. open.substack.com/pub/thealgem...

All eyes on the brave people of Iran. ✊✊✊

BREAKING 🚨: We are watching governments steer us toward 2.6C of heating, a future where the Amazon shifts toward savannah, ice sheets deteriorate and lethal heat becomes part of daily life. They know exactly what this means and still fund fossil fuels.

The Graun simply does not see women at all. It ignores our political & legal campaigning, erases the language that refers to us. Equates leftie feminists like myself to Boris Johnson. Appalling.

So nothing whatsoever about opposition across the political spectrum to the BBC overwriting sex with gender identity, erasing women when it means women ('pregnant people') & substituting woman when they mean man (male criminals with trans identities), then? Just Boris? Mendacious spin. Disgusting.

Friend messages to tell me how much she had enjoyed the Tove Janssen novel, Fair Play, which I had recommended, & which made her cry several times.

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

My nephew in law is running the Royal Parks half marathon tomorrow in memory of my niece Amelia, who he never actually met. Amelia died from an epileptic seizure at just 21 and he is raising money for the Amelia Roberts Fund (Epilepsy Society). Society.https://www.justgiving.com/page/jordanrunsbadly

On Yom Kippur— the holiest day for Jews— a synagogue in Manchester became a crime scene. Two murdered, more injured. This is what happens when hate is normalised, when Jew-haters are allowed to roam free. It has to stop.

This is the sort of shite Jewish people globally are faced with in the aftermath of attacks. Netanyahu is a war criminal, but Jews in Manchester have nothing to do with him or the state of Israel. Their murder was anti-semitic, not anti-zionist. Stop providing moral justification for terrorism.

Went to see Robert Plant last night. Utterly brilliant. Do grab a ticket for his tour if you can.

Yet another climate-wrecking decision from a Government intent on the pursuit of growth at all costs - but the only things that will grow as a result of this disastrous decision are pollution, noise, and climate chaos

France has banned internal flights where the train is less than 4 hours. Yes, our infrastructure isn't up to scratch for that yet but if government set a goal to do it in 10 years, it could be our moonshot.

This was in the bedside drawer of my Airbnb. Someone’s had a good night.

Regenerative braking for phones, so when you think better of a message or tweet, the process of furiously deleting it charges the battery.

Clearing drawers my wife finds my father’s slide rule. It doesn’t have sentimental value, but I find myself reluctant to simply bin it. What does one do with these tenacious, interstitial objects? Is there a slide-rule collector out there who might want it?

It’s a wicked world. But there are pure souls in it. If you’ve not been watching the Twiggy documentary on BBC2 I do recommend catching up with it.

I can recommend Gail’s work. We bought a big version of her print of Forton Services and it looks great on the wall. Northern Brutalism classic.

"leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to market forces undermines resilient subject provision and economic strategy, with lasting consequences for students and for universities’ ability to serve a public good.” 2/2

Belgium has been accused of “pure antisemitism” by Germany after a leading music festival cancelled a concert by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra because it has an Israeli conductor

Why do farmers need to do this? @RSPB #biodiversity #birds #wildlife

5 September 1938 | A Polish Jewish boy, Jchiel Bela Tiszman, was born in Płońsk. In 1942 he was deported from the ghetto in Płońsk to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber.

“Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who'll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But to force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?" One of the most famous quotes of the current era that spawned a hate fest.

And these transactivists as well? Should they be arrested by 5 armed police for tweets inciting violence full of death threats, 'terf genocide' & calling for women to be decapitated? terfisaslur.com

Morning lovely x I don’t know if you have read this but what they did with the story sounds absolutely revolting to me www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

It looks like it might be raining.

And now Yu-ting withdraws from the World Boxing Championships. Is anyone at all surprised? The new World Boxing policy is working. Good. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Glinner being arrested by 5 armed cops at Heathrow for 3 tweets is beyond comprehension. Whatever your views on him this is insane and pretty scary.

A worrying amount of people in the UK forget this:

10,000 taken to hospital in one week for heat-related illnesses in Japan #climatecrisis HT @ed-king.bsky.social mainichi.jp/english/arti...

This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My daughter was so inspired she's started two petitions. She wants to be a marine biologist. She is 12. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... chng.it/mq7KjktL7h

for actual fuck's sake. It's STILL AUGUST. www.thetimes.com/uk/article/i...

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