"Fascists can’t dance. Fascists can’t create. They can only silence, steal, or twist what’s alive into something hallow and dead. ... Joy is dangerous. Expression is dangerous. Difference is dangerous. That's why fascists try to kill it."

That fateful night in October of 1982:

Mate, are you alright? It’s OK if you’re not.. Every 90 minutes, someone in the UK takes their own life. Kick off the conversation. youtube.com/watch?v=atrt...

improving films with muppets: thread

They just get giddy and think it will solve all their problems, choosing not to reckon with the *politics* of the AI revolution. Instead they allow AI companies to do it for them, risking the creation of a new set of oligarchs, the like and power of which we’ve not yet seen.

NEW: Weekend News Agents No-one can be certain how transformational AI will be:to the economy, to human psychology, to the human experience. I am absolutely certain our politicians haven’t thought about it enough or begun to properly grapple with the economic, regulatory and political implications

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Lads, I’m not sure you’ve quite got the hang of this secrecy stuff.

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun 911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great me: so who do we call 911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

“Rather than getting despondent - which is easy, at the moment - we’ve got to mobilise, we’ve got to get active." — HOPE not hate CEO @nicklowles.bsky.social, speaking to @theguardian.com today.

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

It means 'motorway'

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Quick reminder, this is what leadership from government against ethnonationalism and Xenophobia looks like. Starmer/McSweeney could literally copy-paste the Australian governments statement from two weeks ago and it would be better than the current deafening silence

Latest updates on the radical right march tomorrow in London, and the counter protest led by Stand up to Racism, including advice from the police👇 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tommy-robinson-protest-london-free-speech-met-police-stand-up-to-racism-b1247421.html

Morning our new album is out today. theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/my-bru...

Rather than debate whether there are people on Bluesky celebrating the death of an extremist (there are) I’m more interested in the question of what might be appropriate responses to the death of an extremist. Because if people think these are simple or obvious, I think they’re being delusional.

This is such positive, powerful, direct communication. The fact that this seems so remarkable and so rare speaks volumes about our failure to stand up to the fossil fuel lobby.

Delighted to announce that next in the quiet details series is a true legend of the electronic music world, the wonderful Chloe Harris, here as Raica @chloeharris.bsky.social 
 Out now on digital and CD with long-form edition, six panel digipack and fine art print. Digital half-price until 19th Sept

🚨 Good news! Another win for a progressive party - this time in Norway. But it was close - and as we are seeing everywhere the radical right surged in popularity. https://www.politico.eu/article/labor-party-norway-elections-polls-vote-europe-soverign-wealth-fund/

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

Just to expand a little. Suddenly in the US there are a large number of people who find themselves with arbitrary power over many others but no experience or training in how to use that power. The results are cruelty, brutality and the demonisation of the vulnerable and marginalised.

Man baby cries over party he’s not invited to.

'This country needs migrants' Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration

You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗ Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.

And their educational needs

i'm not sure how to process this

There has so far been no AI generated bestselling book. No AI generated hit record. No AI generated blockbuster film or TV show. No evidence yet in fact that there is any commercial demand at all for individual AI generated artworks. But there HAVE been 1,000 pieces about how inevitable they are

muppetized book covers: thread

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

Nearly a million people marched against Brexit. Not front page news. 50 people gather outside a hotel. National news for weeks. "Fears of mass unrest", media says.

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

How we're all changing under the gaze of AI, as we learn to see ourselves as the machine sees us iandunt.substack.com/p/machine-me...

Feel like more reading can only be a good thing.

It is great to hear that @democracyforward.org and @asanews.bsky.social won their lawsuit against the Trump administration.

⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here. ✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that: www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...

TEACHERS: If you're looking for a reading to assign, to help explain why you're banning AI from your classroom, here ya go. There didn't seem to be one article that rounds up all the major issues. I tried to do that here, so it's a long read. Feel free to use/share as you like.

The delicate dance of revealing more or less of who we are for one another, as it happens at the café counter. Co-authored with Sylvaine Tuncer. #EMCA #geosky

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Pushing airport expansion is a bad idea. On all counts. Invest in trains instead. Anyone not convinced, read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Early-career, under-the-radar, doing-it-yourself? There’s funding with your name on it. From solo female artists to grassroots promoters — PRS Foundation has grants to help you grow. 🔗 buff.ly/HoWxSW6 #NTE #PRSFoundation #NTIA #EarlyCareer

My 85 year-old mother regularly wanders around the West End post theatre.

Tune of the Day Fatima Yamaha - What's a Girl to Do (2004/2015) #TOTD #vinyl #vinylcollection #discogs youtu.be/Y5vLH5YVZLw?...

A special JD Twitch fundraiser on Friday 8 August with Jarvis Cocker, Joe Goddard (Hot Chip), Heavenly Jukebox and more thesocial.seetickets.com/event/social...

OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

Thousands of Best for Britain’s supporters have made complaints to Sky News about their excessive coverage of Reform UK. 🚫 Be the next one - it takes less than two minutes: buff.ly/fFocxz4 🗞️ Read more here: buff.ly/nUoilWI

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.