1928 Folk style Blues youtu.be/b8NJ-MIfFHI?...

One of the best, purest things in bsky is the interaction between all the adorable UK museums. If you’re not following @themerl.bsky.social, @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social, @romanpalace.bsky.social, and all the rest, what are you even doing?

EU must support Irans people in their #revolution against the regime. Its in EU own interest to have a real democracy in ME, and many will try to subvert the effort, as they are themselves autocracies, incl Erdogans Turkey. @kajakallas.bsky.social 🇪🇺 #IranRevolution

Extracts from the Jewish Chronicle's obituary for Paul Robeson #OnThisDay 1976; an account of his response to the Polish communist regime forbidding him to perform songs in Yiddish at a concert in Warsaw...

There's an hour in the days forecast where the percentage chance of rain goes all the way down to 90. Wee something to look forward to.

ohmigad I AM DISABLED COMMUNICATE WITH ME i feel seen 😅

considering it's very nearly midnight, it does appear that my attempts to get my body clock to behave more sensibly have rather utterly failed.

Learn the signs of abuse and become allergic to them. You are not different, your love is not special, you cannot heal him by your love.

Travel the world and experience as much as possible of other cultures, interact with people from all different walks of life.

Agree and I'll expand to add: See as much live performance as you can. Plays, sports, lectures, comedy, circus... It all creates opportunity to appreciate human excellence, which can give a brighter opinion of humanity than you might otherwise have.

See as much live music as you can. The only shows I’ve ever regretted are the ones I didn’t see.

it is pelting it down again. sun never got out of bed. the sky flirted with the idea of only one layer of cloud covering for a couple of hours earlier but now it's piling the duvets back on itself.

oh it's not raining. i guess this is what passes for a lovely day now.

Rare case of good immigration news from the US x.com/kareemrifai/status/2016688197833806253

This is an important post with Black and Jewish history in this country

it's 7:30 and i'm feeling sleepy. which means i'll be awake and bored out of my mind around 11:00 again.

Also: The vampire, foreign, blood-drinking, hidden among respectable society, mirrored antisemitic stereotypes already circulating in racial theory and popular science. The monster was fictional; the violence was not. #Victorian #vampires #Jewish #history

Additional Facts: These accusations were used to rationalize pogroms, grave desecrations, expulsions, and murders. By framing Jews as vampiric—parasitic, contagious, and undead—attackers could portray violence as defensive or purifying, rather than criminal. #Victorian #vampires #Jewish #history

Did you know? In the Victorian era, vampire folklore was used to excuse and legitimize violence against Jewish communities. In parts of Europe, Jewish people were accused of drinking Christian blood, spreading disease, and existing in a state that was not fully alive. #Victorian #history

The unavailable/substitutions list on my grocery order is frustrating and disheartening. I was looking forward to some of that.

A proselytizing atheist account which mostly reposts terribly clever atheist memes followed me. It feels like it's the 00s again and it's taking all of my will power not to snark in their replies.

You can make all the liberal universalist arguments you like. All-lives-mattering the Shoah, if you like. But if you aren't mentioning the words "Jew" or "Jewish" you're not describing what actually happened.

*Coughs* Person here who literally wrote a PhD thesis on the BBC's coverage of the Holocaust while it was actually happening: they did this then too.

Put community repair shops on every high street. Our work shows people love it, increases community interaction & helps people keep essential goods going for longer giving them more money to spend on food & utility bills It reduces waste and so reduces local authority costs. It is a win, win, win.

"The problem is that the entire appeal of Anne Frank to the wider world—as opposed to those who knew and loved her—lies in her lack of a future." Always read Dara Horn.

Arrests of doctors continue Doctors in #Iran arrested by the regime for treating protestors •Dr. Alireza Golchini (Surgeon, Qazvin) •Dr. Ameneh Soleimani (Ardabil) •Dr. Farhad Nadali (Surgeon, Gorgan) •Dr. Saber Dehghan (Surgeon, Sirjan) •Dr. Babak Pouramin (Emergency Physician)

All the young women who served as couriers were remarkable. Their bravery kept entire resistance networks alive, carrying messages, resources, and vital information — work that was often overlooked or forgotten. Tosia Altman’s life reminds us that courage can change the course of history. 5/6

Gentiles, I wholeheartedly encourage you to memorialize trans, gay, Roma, disabled, and political victims of the Holocaust, today. They deserve to be remembered. But, maybe, don’t treat this like a zero-sum game where it must be “reclaimed” from Jewish people.

DON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT #IRAN. Iranian protesters arrested for participating in nationwide protests are being held in overcrowded, unsafe conditions with no access to legal counsel or family.

today is Holocaust Memorial Day. i am numb and words feel so inadequate.

With the things that are currently happening, imagine getting up and lamenting that there are TOO MANY laws to protect human rights and safety.

On #HMD2026 we remember the six million Jews and five million Roma, LGBTQ+. disabled, political opponents and others murdered by the Nazis, alongside victims of subsequent genocides. Prejudice still continues to day within our communities and across the UK.

How accurately you pointed out One of the most catastrophic events of this century has occurred and the media is ignoring it. Are there hands behind the scenes?

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest level this century. It’s hard to think Trump isn’t acting purely in the interests of Russia and China.

the weather here continues to be pants and my brain feels as stuffed full of cotton wool as the sky

Note how in Abu Dhabi, Russia again rejected the ceasefire Ukraine agreed to almost a year ago. Ru doesn’t want peace. Journalists need to always front load this main point instead of talking about how the sides are still far apart as if they are equidistant and peace is in the middle.

Shalom friends, Need to vent your anger at crimes being carried out across this country by fascists who are violating the constitution and terrorizing our friends and neighbors? SAME. Welcome to the Elder Millennials of Zion Ill-Wishing Hotline: ICE Edition. JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE

i was not prepared. it seemed this lovely sweet thing, obvious where it was going, building up emotions but lulling us, well me at least, into complacency. and then woah. how can i possibly write a review without ruining that possibility for someone else?

me: could do with a good Thai movie, the lovely two hour+ kind also me: finds a good Thai movie, sees the duration and backs away. i am so tired.

made the mistake of thinking i might begin to grapple with Thai tones. why do i do this to tell myself? it's not like i'm ever going to speak to anyone in the language.

Some thoughts on creativity hayleygullen.substack.com/p/ideas-are-...

Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

You spent 2 years villifying Israel. They're the ONLY ones who GAF about the people of Iran. Aside from Iranians in the diaspora. The Islamic Regime who slaughtered 30K Iranians IN 2 DAYS also funded Hamas's attack on Israel. Making the people of Iran pay for your ignorance is sick. Greta? Ruffalo?

When the Jewish-Arab family realized their son had been kidnapped on Oct 7, Ramzy Nassar decided Liam’s part-Arab identity must be concealed, to prevent Hamas from treating him as ‘a son of a traitor’ www.timesofisrael.com/a-father-in-...

The news still leaking out of Iran is horrifying. A massacre of, credibly, tens of thousands of protesters in just a couple of days. It's not clear what the aims of a US strike would be, or its scope. But airlines are cancelling flights again and it's tense.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

There's actually no real comparison in terms of scale. But when scrolling posts like this, I'm not immediately sure if they're reports from Tehran or Minneapolis.

How on earth can the BBC still be relaying this demonstrably untrue information into its reporting at 942pm, without even "balancing" the false account, when they have the video footage & the analysis of it