I love this and genuinely believe that the only way to beat the machines is to become more animal. Eat the simulacra.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

🚨 BREAKING | 🇵🇸 WEST BANK Israeli occupation forces fired teargas canisters toward a mourning house in the village of Al‑Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah, for slain Palestinian child Mohammad Sa’ad Naasan, who was shot dead by Israeli forces on Friday.

Palestinian children face a booby-trapped robot in Gaza.

I'm also chuffed to have been asked to write the introduction to Gentlemen of the West. The new Polygon editions of her books are gorgeous with art works by Joan Eardley on the front. Here's a preorder link for them all. birlinn.co.uk/contributor/...

Comment: Efforts to militarise Ireland's economy, to further integrate us in NATO structures and an EU with aspirations for its own military, are related to our addiction to US money. It's impossible to deny our vassalage to the United States of America. www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered on January 15, 1919.

The sheer hypocrisy of Lord Toby Young‘s FSU. Kudos to Democracy For Sale for finding out anyway.

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

At least 32 Palestinians, including 7 infants, have died from extreme weather in Gaza’s displacement camps. More than 1.5 million Palestinians remain without heating, winter supplies, or safe shelter as Israel continues to restrict aid. #Infograph

The war on terror The war on drugs The war on saturated fat

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Demands Met on 73rd Day as Three End Strike prisonersforpalestine.org/statement-th...

Yep, and it made a lot of billionaires even wealthier while blowing up the national debt.

A final farewell to Hatem Abu Saleh, a nurse at Nasser Medical Complex, who was shot and killed this morning by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis.

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" Israel, From Genocide to Self-Destruction "I cannot envisage that one day the Israeli public will wake up and come back to its senses and say we were wrong to use force." Avi Shlaim via @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Nearly 60,000 women are on gynaecologist waiting list. I've signed this petition calling on Health Minister Mike Nesbitt to fund and expand endometriosis services in Northern Ireland - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/ex...

The arrogance of people who have backed foreign policy calamity after foreign policy calamity...

‘Deadly Exchange’: US sends hundreds of law enforcement to Israel to learn ‘worst practices’ from IDF therealnews.com/deadly-excha...

Always remember that the type of men drawn to this type of violence work are insecure cowards seeking to fill some void of masculinity and valour, and so one of the simplest and most effective ways to frustrate their work is to deny them that fulfilment by mercilessly insulting and humiliating them.

The @hindrajabfoundation.be has filed a criminal complaint in 🇦🇹 #Austria against Yonatan Akriv, an Israeli soldier accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts contributing to genocide during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Full details → https://bit.ly/49H6DQS

"How many of us have visited a public library’s zine rack, or attended a local print fair or zine fest? Under a fascist political regime, all oppositional discourse, literature, art, and life is subject to attack." -Red Schulte truthout.org/articles/ami...

A great read on how we can actually finally regulate tech and move away from the US government’s blackmail grip over global tech markets that are currently forced to favour US tech bros. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Heba Muraisi is entering Day 70 of her Hunger Strike. The UKGOV does NOTHING. Is doing NOTHING. If Heba dies, the Labour government has blood on its hands. #PrisonersForPalestine #HebaMuraisi

Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action.

This is also what Yvette Cooper, when she was UK Home Secretary, said about #PalestineAction. If you knew the secret stuff I know, you'd agree with me that they're terrorists. It's the cheapest and basest way for a politician to malign someone, and a clear sign of a flailing, undemocratic state.

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

This is Mary Lorraine’s 1967 painting of the art studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live. Little biographical detail is currently known to us, research in progress, but she seems to have been a dancer & had a connection to Boleskine Manor, once home to Aleister Crowley

'What is that supposed to mean? That the law is obsolete in the face of a white supremacist sexual exploitation material-generating machine?' It's the first column of the new year and it's grimmer than ever before, my friends.

🔴Tony Blair Institute talks lots about democracy But his week I contacted them for comment on this story The response? "You are an organisation with a long-standing and partisan anti-TBI agenda and we will not engage with your disingenuous questions." democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...

This film based on my story from Dance Move is now BAFTA longlisted. There was such an incredible group of people, all playing their parts, so that this project actually happened. Just brilliant.

Good’s last words to the ICE agent: “That’s fine. I’m not mad at you.” His to her, after shooting her in the face: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

This is what happens when you attempt to fill a vacuum with a moral vacuum.

"14 Palestinians, including children, have been killed in Israeli attacks across the strip [yesterday]" Yesterday Israel bombed displaced families living in makeshift tents. There is no ceasefire.

I've signed this petition calling on the NI Executive to ban power-hungry data centres in Northern Ireland - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/no...

My rights cannot be subject to your feelings. Sa'ed Atshan

Ah here. The 10 o’clock news on BBV Radio 4 is leading with ‘JD Vance has described a woman shot dead by an ICE officer in Minnesota as a deranged leftist carrying out a terrorist attack’ This is not public service broadcasting

Gaza 🇵🇸 | Gaza hospitals report that five children are among eight people killed today in Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple locations across the Gaza Strip. Medical sources say three of the children were torn apart, with remains collected in bags following the bombardment.

USA, USA How many kids have you killed today? Outside the US Consulate in Belfast this afternoon. There is blood on the stars and stripes. #HandsOffVenezuela #FreePalestine #FuckICE

“If one recognizes as I do that the root of the problem is the Jewish supremacist character of the state of Israel, it follows that ending the occupation is not enough; Israel, too, needs to be decolonized.” ~ Avi Shlaim irishpages.org/product/geno... @naamoduk.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social

Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Belfast this week. Join us!

"An elder is someone who is older than olive trees" is about asking why does the Israeli state harm olive trees, and reflecting on how I came to loathe state borders as someone who grew up in Lebanon to a Palestinian grandfather -- plus my love of trains. www.hauntologies.net/p/an-elder-i...

RIP Bela Tarr