🇮🇱The UK government changed the law in 2011 to help Israelis visit Britain without fear of arrest. Since then, it has granted special immunity to at least nine Israeli officials who have been accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity👇 www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...

#WATCH | Crowds gather to send off the Global Sumud Flotilla as it sails for Gaza, determined to break the illegal siege, open a humanitarian corridor, and confront the genocide of the Palestinian people.

RIP Rick Davies youtu.be/NN2fOKP41tc?...

love the ideas; glad I didn't have to do any of the woodwork youtu.be/q5OMBYKNXW8?...

I have the kind of hangover where every noise feels like a tap on the head with a lobster hammer; where every tune sounds like uncomfortable psychedelia; where every passer-by looks like they're doing 70s disco-dancing in a swimming pool 🤢

This! youtu.be/_jIvvvDI4wo?...

Scottish punk rock band The Rezillos performing "(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures" live on Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978. From the band's debut album Can't Stand the Rezillos. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYz...

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

Fascism doesn’t arrive with jackboots. It creeps in with talk radio jokes, pub racism, and slogans that turn neighbours into strangers. It means: - voting - calling out lies - helping locally - backing fairness over fear That’s how you cut Farage down to size: by refusing to let hate sound normal.

but reporters at the President's ensuing press conference were unable to detect any difference

was enjoying this till I had a lurch wondering whether today's ICE agents think this is what they look like, rather than the flatulent bovine cross between the KKK and Mall Cop they actually are

OKAY BUT WHAT IF HE IS KING MIDAS. AND THAT ALSO EXPLAINS THE HAND MAKEUP. WHAT IF

A painting I did of a an artist friend at work in an orange cord suit. This was a small painting on paper. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #art #artist #painting #acrylicpainting #artwork #artyear #artshow #artshare #blueskyart #smArtist

'Soft secession' in the US: cause for some hope as well as some more worry about where the administration's relentless politics of division and continuing attempts to centralise power will lead.

an enjoyable longer read on something many encounter but don't always have a context for exploring

We don't tax the rich so we don't have funding for critical public infrastructure so we have to rely on the rich to for critical services which makes the rich richer while public services degrade which increases our reliance on the rich so we don't tax the rich and don't have funding for critical pu

The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

If you accidentally leave a banana skin in a bag long enough you can use it as a shoehorn, or a very small canoe.

It’s Back-To-School Month! Remember, reading is fundamental for ages 5 through 79!

the more I clean the house the more dirt I see; feel there is a lesson somewhere but not sure what it is

lucid conversation between two Jewish people which comes from a place of concern for the long-term welfare - and humanity - of people in Israel as well as Palestine youtu.be/X5kXCdzt_us?...

As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street. This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history. No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.

"The number of private schools [in the UK] has actually increased from 2,421 to 2,456" since VAT was put on their fees. No calamitous shift of pupils from private schools to state schools, either. In other words, the scare mongering from vested interests was wrong open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Ronnie Tutt was a longtime drummer for Elvis Presley who also worked with artists such as Jerry Garcia & Stevie Nicks. He died at age 83 in 2021. Here he is drumming up a storm on a live performance of "Suspicious Minds" in 1970. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9v6a...

Should never, ever have happened Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost £200bn, according to a report into the policy’s contribution to Britain’s housing crisis. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

The best possible party vibe is the cozy zombie enclave party vibe.

Acclaimed Experimental theatre director and playwright Robert Wilson has died at 83. Two of his most known works were collaborations with Philip Glass (Einstein on the Beach) and William S. Burroughs and Tom Waits (The Black Rider). #RIPRobertWilson m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8kg...

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people. You could call it wink murder. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A Labour government led by a human rights lawyer completely at odds with international standards of human rights

At last, a new socialist party is being born ... "Jeremy Corbyn and [Zarah Sultana] will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country" To register and stay in touch go to actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

if neoliberalism were a drug, the number of side effects reported over the last 45 years would have seen it banned & replaced with something better.

alcohol misuse coaches keep popping up on my feeds (how do they know?) "you can have fun without alcohol!" they chirrup - like, thanks, I know: my problem is not how to have fun it's how to numb the utter insanity of the world

HOW TO BUILD A STORY #dada There are four phases to a story: 1. the predicament 2. the dicament 3. the postdicament 4. the ennui

make life make sense

press repeating to New Yorkers the same crap they say to us: if someone slightly progressive gets in, all the millionaires will leave. (a) they don't actually leave (b) if they only stay when they don't have to pay taxes, what contribution are we supposed to be grateful for?

as deterrents go, I just wonder whether not supporting war crimes abroad could be cheaper than buying nuclear bombers

no to disability benefit cuts! supporting Fight4Life's 'die-in' highlighting the real-world impact of withdrawing support from where it's needed.

I guess my worry rn is that Netanyahu's government has said it wants regime change in Iran, so without that, having gone this far, the likelihood of a genuine ceasefire seems difficult to bank on. And at the same time the headlines are again diverted from other news. news.un.org/en/story/202...

well sure but Rubio told America to forget about intelligence (somewhat superfluous instruction)

it's almost as if Netanyahu doesn't do whatever Trump says

the most sensible thing I've heard from Trump, grasping the obvious olive branch instead of escalating (when a bunch of media were already getting feral). I wonder what's next.

Cher was giving me a bit of gay inspiration at the gym so I thought I'd pass it on youtu.be/2PgGnzCy-HQ?...

anyone old enough to remember 2003 is old enough to know this is bullshit