Hannah Spencer nailed it in her maiden speech, you can't have equality without solidarity. This International Women’s Day, we stand shoulder to shoulder with our trans siblings.

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

Research has shown adults walking or cycling are 14% more likely to die in a collision when the car involved is an SUV; children are 77% more likely. For children under 9, the risk of fatality is three times higher if struck by an SUV compared with a smaller car. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I’m sure this be very useful for Scotland at the UN when the English Gvt tells them Scotland isn’t a colony because it has self governance.

The administration put all their best and brightest together to solve the whole Strait of Hormuz situation and I think they knocked it out of the park.

Interesting discussion going on in this thread - essentially posing the idea of the Lords being acting like advisory board for the government away full of experts. Can we?

How it started ... How it's going

Yes, Universal committing to giving its movies longer theatrical windows is great for moviegoing. But if you’ve been following its biggest releases, the move shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.

Yeah, man, it’s an absolute mystery why so many people are going all in on AI refusal. Maybe they absolutely do understand the ways in which AI is “useful” to the people hawking AI in the words of those very people.

analysts now expect a third year of falling sales for Tesla, along with a eye-watering negative free cash flow of more than $5 billion finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-d...

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

[March 12th, 1946] BREAKING: Judy Garland gave birth to her first child, a six-pound ten-ounce daughter named Liza Minnelli, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. The father is director Vincente Minnelli.

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

Wrote a scary essay

This feels like MORE WORK FOR MOTHER by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, which explored the irony that many of the technical advances in housework and the kitchen did nothing to ease the burden on women but instead increased it.

Thanks to all who rode to our financial rescue by visiting our homegrown arts bookstore mzs.press. You rule! Special thanks to my lady Judith (aka @mzspress.bsky.social), whose stewardship is what makes the store special. Check out her latest baby, the music section: mzs.press/Music-Collec...

This is so lovely

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Here's a reminder that the Bylines Network is running a special event on power, people and democracy in the US tomorrow. It's aimed primarily at a non-US audience who want to better understand what's happening there, and it's now open to the public on payment of a one-time £3.50 fee.

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

Some thoughts on Okja (Bong Joon Ho, 2017), which we watched as the final film in Representing Animals today. It's an obvious predecessor to Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho, 2025), both of which use animal alterity and oppression as a lens to critique capitalism. Both also have a similar cartoonish tone.

15 years ago right about this time of day, the Tohoku-oki earthquake was unleashed, with as much as 100 meters of fault slip documented at the Japan Trench. The resulting tsunami rocked Japan and the world, claiming ~18,000 lives. It was one of only 5 M9 quakes ever recorded. ⚒️

"Forget Andrew Tate, this is the real manosphere. One whose edges we can’t even see because we’re living inside it," @carolecadwalla

As Nick Clegg’s in the spotlight again, here’s a short thread of the time I took his bizarre 2020 Politico photo shoot and turned them into Edinburgh posters. 1/4

Political will.

you want to see a murder

Seeing people deriding The Bride! for being too heavy-handed in its feminist messaging on the same day The Hollywood Reporter releases an interview with Harvey Weinstein from prison is giving me whiplash.

Quote posting with a proof of concept. tubitv.com/movies/10000...

Exactly! Look at this shit. The Washington Post doesn't exist anymore. Bezos killed it. This is why we need to throw these pubs in the garbage and stop referencing them. They're not real anymore. You learn nothing and get fed shit.

Nay, Reaper, you bony motherfucker! Ye shall not claim Jello just yet! Go hit up Pennsylvania Avenue instead. A few folks there are seriously overdue for a visit. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy. When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.

On Georges Méliès’s re-discovered 1897 sci-fi short, and the enduring anxiety of technological replacement: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Effi o Blaenau hits screens in June. Beautifully shot, a fierce central performance. Marc Evans has been prolific in Welsh filmmaking, but this is closest to House of America, a film that made me and my friends feel seen amongst Cool Cymru bluster. Go see it! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Matt is a wonderful writer, he's really supportive to the community and he runs a fantastic bookshop. If you live stateside get some treasures from there mzs.press

I love John Cale. I went to see him with an ex once in Cardiff and was down the front and entranced and the ex told me that John Cale was flirting with me and I was encouraging it and that's the reason he is now an ex.

Yes! Cannot wait!

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

"One acquaintance of Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of Ali Khamenei, told me that he was the most dangerous man in the world and considerably more violent and ideological than his father. One thing Mojtaba is not is a religious scholar." #EpsteinWar

Happy International Women's Day! Go watch a movie directed by a woman like: TITANE, RAW - Julia Ducournau LUCKY, 12 HOUR SHIFT - Brea Grant A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT - Ana Lily Amirpour THE SUBSTANCE - Coralie Fargeat TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID - Issa López SLASH/BACK - Nyla Innuksuk #filmsky

Truly, nobody did it like Satoshi Kon.

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

This feels like something The Righteous Gemstones would have sold.

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

I used to hate International Women's Day until I spent the day in Tijuana where it was a riot against the patriarchy. Where race and imperialism was at its core. Happy International Women's Day to the women who fight.

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