fucking YES green win in MCR!! 🌿 A very nice first week welcome (not my constituency but STILL).

I can't even speak about Nurul Amin Shah Alam. All I have to say is that the people constantly distinguishing between ICE, CBP and the REGULAR COPS are fools. That's it.

it's quite crazy to see pictures of the snow in NYC, meanwhile in London I went for a run in a t-shirt yesterday

terrible sunday post but this was built by moi in Webflow and if you want a cool cms website, I'M YOUR GUY (i also do sweet little hand-coded projects, like my own website but you don't get a CMS with those)

not to toot my own horn but the ICCT website is looking sick (i mean, it is because of all that 🔥 CONTENT)

Radio Paradise really slaps at the moment

Though about NY, the bit on libraries is well worth a read.

We're trying, compañero! Always open to proposals, suggestions, collaborations, and donations! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

academia is built on so much unpaid labour it is wild

I sometimes think climate action would get better support in the UK if we renamed the phenomenon Global Raining.

"We appointed FF Studio as our partners...This can’t-be-topped team wore their expertise lightly. They operated thoroughly inside the tent as we’d hoped...They delivered at pace, with high standards and most importantly, any problems were shared problems that we figured out together."

Lizzie wrote a very pleasing account of my favourite project of last year with the V&A

i've turned into a person who was OBSESSIVE about using em dash and even occasionally using bigger dashes because ✨ aesthetics ✨ to using hyphens because i don't want to be associated with generative LLMs. reason 1093 to be an AI hater

this plus an unending barrage of bad news literally from Jan 3rd and ongoing - it is unbearable (more so because one can do nothing but bear it)

On March 3, Mariam Motamedi Fraser leads a discussion of Herd/Species. This is an in person event so spots are limited, you don't want to miss it.

I’m still not used to everyone in Manchester calling me love / darling and I’m lowkey obsessed. Im at risk of turning into a friendly person! At this advanced age of my life!

absolutely fighting for my life this month and the gym might be the only thing keeping me alive (despite the fact i was bullied into going up in squats and i think i saw the other side briefly)

Join us! Lots happening as we kick off events in 2026 - wetlandic thought, animal readings, writing sessions, bringing down capitalism, book launches to come, big ideas, critical explorations and speculative experiments. What’s not to love? Sign up for updates at www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

‘They say it’s the future, and if we’re not on board we’ll be left behind.’

i love reading forthcoming texts and it feels very special and fancy BUT also deeply frustrating because when it’s a good one, you can't cite it and tell everyone to read it and damn if i'm not 1 chapter in a being BOWLED OVER

Bringing Animali into the ICCT fold. Still run by me, still the vibe of having a chat with your pals

On the first Tuesday of every month, we have Animali: a slow reading group. Read the text together online and discuss. Meaningful, literary texts about animals.

We've got a lot on in February! The next installment of A Thousand Wetlands: Capitalism as Drainage, Dams and Delusions, discussing online Feb 10

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Thinking about the ICE detention centres brought to mind this poem, written by anti-apartheid poet Chris Van Wyk. poetscorner.blog/2022/07/19/i...

back in freelance land, spent the week in user research which is literally the best part of my job

the teams chat noise popping off during a meeting is so fucking grating SHUT UP ffs every day a reason to hate microsoft

Renee Nicole Good wasn't the first person killed by ICE. In 2025, 32 people died in ICE custody. In 2026, at least 2 people were killed by ICE, starting with Keith Porter on NYE. #AbolishICE

this year has not been off to a good start

in a moment of great personal growth, I have swapped my 3rd morning coffee for decaf

“un-spin yourself from the Five Apps of the Apocalypse and reclaim the Internet as a set of tools you use to build something you can own & be proud of” 👏👏

I edited and committed a file from GitHub app on my phone. it was too easy and felt very wrong. the most millennial thing about me might be big screen for important things

Fav books of 2025 xoxo

i've been crewing for my friend's overnight ultra cycle and started reading discipline and punish around 4am this morning. the first 5 pages just a solid, detailed description of torture and dismemberment. ok!

“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticise every rebellion, couldn’t metabolise Palestine. It still can’t.”

More like degenerative AI amirite

I have discovered an excellent way to write productively after a full days work … with glass of wine in the pub potentially ruinous for my finances and health

the people who want this probably wouldn’t speak to their grandparents when they are alive

it's such a tell that someone doesn't really know their field when someone says that ’no one is looking at [their research area]‘ ... sorry, you aren't foucault and are probably not quite as original as you think

I’m at a training course in Oxford, one of the richest universities and they have provided instant coffee. Sir!

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

earlier this month i started reading the collected poems of Rumi ebook but I had to stop becomes some things are not meant to be backlit

burying the lede "We received $4m (£3m) in start-up money from the Bezos Earth Fund"

it's bluesky so i'm using wikipedia as my source (fight me) but i'm newly obsessed Thales. what a guy! 'According to Aristotle, Thales (c. 624 – 545 BCE), the first Greek philosopher, posited a theory which held "that everything is full of gods". Thales believed that magnets demonstrated this.'

Many trees in London are at risk because of increased temperatures, report from @londoncentric.media (scroll down) www.londoncentric.media/i/180414264/...

London Centric consistently the best reporting for Londoners. Also in this story, bad news for trees :(

i would die happy(er) if i never had to see a tutor wax prolific about how bad students are (see also, interview panels complaining about applicants) often in the tone of concern or 'trying to be helpful' but cannot hide their disdain. get a different job tbh.