Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

God, I am so, so sick of these monsters. I am sick of the people who enable them and give them power

Glasgow you’ve got one more chance to see this really stunning dark, beautiful show. Then Edinburgh folks you’d be a fool to miss it at the Trav next week. So exciting to see this kind of work (and Shotput especially!) on main stages in Scotland

pay your freelancers on time (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

🕶️ Neo. Guns. Gravity-defying kicks. Stuntman unpacks action heroes, violence, and the rulebook of masculinity, one slow-mo move at a time. 💥 Touring this Autumn: superfanperformance.co.uk/portfolio/st... #Stuntman #theatre #physicaltheatre #masculinity

STUNTMAN is hitting the road this Autumn. Part dance, part theatre, part homage to explosive masculinity – don’t miss this genre-defying, high-octane performance on tour across the UK. Photo: @stillmotionarts. Scenography: Rachel O'Neill. Lighting: Michaella Fee

It's so easy for the actual human truth to be buried in the discourse, for our hearts to become inured, deadened under all the bluster and bullshit. "How dare he! Death? To the IDF? He is worse than a Nazi!" Meanwhile every person, child, innocent killed by the IDF is a real person, really now dead.

Mega chuffed for this show to be getting back out… and to ENGLAND of all places! Come see us, it’s fun and silly and good I think

At the end of the day, whoever you are, your position on all this comes down to one question: do you and can you understand Palestinians as fully human, as sharing equally and totally in your humanity?

"chants about death to particular groups" being in the IDF isn't a protected characteristic, dickheads

The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow sent the cops on its own community bc they organised a cultural programme around Palestine on its premises, in protest of the CCA's board refusal to sign PACBI. Read ArtWorkers 4 Palestine Scotland's statement: www.instagram.com/p/DLUKIXkIt_...

People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't count. (this is from the Cass report)

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Reva Viard is a citizen of France. Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep Reva safe! Email: [email protected] & [email protected] ...2/

Imagine outsourcing all your thinking to a guy who still only has two Pokémon badges after 80 hours of gameplay.

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

Thom Dorke

1/2 👋 Hello, we’re SUPERFAN, and we make playful, thought-provoking theatre and circus for adults and young audiences across Scotland. 2025 marks the first year that we’ll be recieving Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding, which will provide us with more stability to make and share our work.

🎉 We are delighted that two productions that were part of #EdChildrensFest2024 have been nominated for CATs Awards 🎉 ⭐️ So Far So Good, by SUPERFAN, commissioned by Imaginate, in partnership with Aberdeen Performing Arts ⭐️ The Yellow Canary by Glass Performance criticsawards.theatrescotland.com

What exactly is the point of Labour?

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Trans women ARE biologically women and no biased court can stop that basic fact from being true. Sex is a homeostatic property cluster containing an array of primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual characteristics. Trans people can and do change sex

Trans rights are human rights, absolutely fuck this bigotry. Solidarity with trans folk today and every day 🏳️‍⚧️

Fuck terfs and fuck bigots. Solidarity with trans people forever.

Ah crap, there goes the life where I wasn’t thinking about Blue Prince all the time

Genuinely surprised by the number of UK arts organisations that are completely cool with AI despite it ripping off artists and being awful for the environment because it makes their lives a little easier. It's almost like their "we care" stance is bullshit hypocrisy.

my contribution to today's discourse is this: BDS calls to boycott are not ethical consumer activism in the normal sense of voting with your wallet. BDS is a organized palestinian resistance movement modelled directly on the successful efforts of the AAM in their part ending south african apartheid

NEW from @dropsitenews.com: BDS adds Microsoft as a "priority target" for boycott, zeroes in on Game Pass, XBox, Minecraft. Microsoft's AI and cloud programs have been critical to Israel's genocide www.dropsitenews.com/p/bds-calls-...

cool to look at a funder’s accreditation guidelines and see an image for your own work… wrongly accredited

a monday night softly crying through the credits to @jumpovertheage.com‘s Citizen Sleeper 2. Such a beautiful final bit of text, and that Amos Roddy music hitting at the perfect moment! thinking about time and fragility & community. Proper stunning sequel to one of my all time faves

Eid Mubarak, also free Palestine.

Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you: aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-...

Yep. Fine work, @keefstuart.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...

be great if all other "difficult decisions" amounted to "doing the exact same thing as has been done for the last 15 years despite overwhelming evidence of the damage caused" life would be a breeze

Honestly a bit grossed out by the 'you/ your loved ones could become disabled, so we should care about disability rights' posts, you know. We should care about disability rights because there *are* disabled people. That should be all it takes. See also 'what if that was your child getting bombed?'

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I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values. Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

for fucks sake stop writing about these people. stop framing cultural works as weekly discussion points. stop elevating media illiteracy, youre essentially "both sides"ing criticism

hello bluesky, if you have children and/or like fun music (written with and for kids) Sprog Rocks debut album BORN READY is out today. You can get it on Bandcamp (or most of the other places) sprogrock.bandcamp.com/

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

hello bluesky, if you have children and/or like fun music (written with and for kids) Sprog Rocks debut album BORN READY is out today. You can get it on Bandcamp (or most of the other places) sprogrock.bandcamp.com/

See when we had the Arches, it was a space in the city centre with multiple rehearsal rooms where someone who had never made a professional show in their life could email the office and ask to book in for like a week, and get it no bother, and come in and make a theatre show in there for free

Watching my government fall for the tech-bro AI rug pull in real time gambling all of the money in the country right before the bubble burst

Some breaking (seemingly good!) news... Summerhall to pay out money owed to artists that performed at the venue during this year's Edinburgh Fringe More soon @thestage.bsky.social

2025 is the year to go to gigs in person. Talk to artists. Buy their work directly. This stuff is the battery hen farms of the art world. They are awful for the artist, the environment and you, the audience. Demand better.

I can’t wait for this. The first game is just such a beautifully written and thoughtfully designed exploration of survival and community under capitalism and I still listen to the soundtrack ALL the time 🍄❤️

I know we are saying 2025 for Citizen Sleeper 2 but TRUST ME when I say you don't have as long as you think to catch up on Citizen Sleeper if you haven't already... PLUS It's 70% OFF in the Steam Autumn sale as well so... store.steampowered.com/app/1578650/... (...go play it)

The most useful function of a theatre outreach or participation department is not, as people often think, to change people outside 'in the community'. It's to change the organisation itself. (A thread - reposted from LinkedIn)

Advertising for a new Ed Fringe chief exec with a salary around £100k just feels like they’re taking the piss, right?? Given what most people working at the festival are making, and particularly when they’re holding half a million quid of artists’ money? And while almost every arts org is in limbo.

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh