"How is this not only possible, but common? No one is being forced to do business with, or use the platforms run by, these companies. Can’t we simply vote with our feet?" Dave Mandl explores Cory Doctorow’s "Enshittification." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/giant-platforms-of-shit/

#AusPol #MECFS #LongCovid This is a shocking statistic 👇 PASC MECFS has left me profoundly disabled. This highly debilitating disease urgently needs more recognition and support! @markbutlermp.bsky.social

For decades, Black writers have enriched the Booker Library with stories that inspire, challenge and move readers. This Black History Month, rediscover these voices with a reading list, introduced by Booker Prize 1991 winner, Ben Okri. Find it below... https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/dba9hahipf

The Booker Prize, now also for kids. Launching 2026. Find out more ⤵️ https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/f8hfukgqvr

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6939... Detailed insightful piece by @fiammettarocco.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk back in March

Green Party level with the Labour Party for the first time. Let’s see if the media give the Greens as much coverage as they gave Farage when he didn’t even have MPs.

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#bookevent! STARS ON MOON LANE BOOK LAUNCH Captive: New Short Fiction from Africa 15/05 7-9 PM In conversation with: Sola Njoku Zanta Nkumane Josephine Sokan SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA MOON LANE INK, 300 STANSTEAD RD, LONDON SE23 1DE 💙📚

Stars on Moon Lane was a warm gathering on a cold day in south London w. #SolaNjoku #ZantaNkumane & #JoSokan at #MoonLaneInk bookshop in Catford/Forest Hill talking #Captive #AfricanLit

Next Thursday! #StarsonMoonLane

Next Thursday! #StarsonMoonLane

Netanyahu’s plan to ‘move’ Gaza’s people would be a vile act of ethnic cleansing against a population already facing genocide. Two months of total blockade have starved Palestinians. It must end now: reopen crossings, deliver aid at scale, and stop assaults on civilian lives.

Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman gave an inspiring lecture about the need for lawyers to protect democracy. I was honored that he noted the attacks and threats aimed at me. His words serve to steel my spine and make me more committed than ever to fighting for democracy. Thank you professor.🙏

📡 Broadcasting a new signal On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of RFE/RL’s fearless journalism. Watch the full Dispatch video + learn more about Jacknife Lee and Mitch Easter RFE remixes ffm.to/remrfe2025

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Mohsen was just released by the federal judge in VT!!

Stars on Moon Lane: Women rock Books rock Grace Jones rocks #IrenosenOkojie rocks #Nudibranch #ButterflyFish #Curandera #SpeakGigantular

Tonight! Stars on Moon Lane is 7-9pm 300 Stanstead Road, SE23 #AfricanLit #MoonLaneBooks With #IrenosenOkojie #London #South #SouthEast

Within the last decade, artificial intelligence has exploded into a trillion-dollar industry. Its rapid growth carries a significant energy cost, with implications for South Africa and global climate goals, as highlighted in a new report by the International Energy Agency.

Stars on Moon Lane is next Thursday evening! 7-9pm #AfricanLit #MoonLaneBooks @chikodili.bsky.social & #IrenosenOkojie #London

Stars on Moon Lane is next Thursday evening! 7-9pm #AfricanLit #MoonLaneBooks @chikodili.bsky.social & #IrenosenOkojie #London

Beautiful project to map receding glacier in mountains bordering Uganda and Congo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say

Fox News anchor tells us to plant Victory Gardens to fight a Trump’s tariff war except when we last did that we were fighting Nazis and, well www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2KaoNw8/

The Grinch who stole Easter. "Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, has been hit with levies of 21 per cent." on.ft.com/3XKgfFj

Last month we hosted Leye Adenle at Stars on Moon Lane. This month: 17 April: @chikodili.bsky.social & Irenosen Okojie are in conversation at #MoonLaneInk 7-9pm - Free and open to all. #BlytheSpirit #StarsOnMoonLane #London

The last time I did an even with Irenosen it was for the Caine Prize in 2020. This is long overdue! I love her!

Many thanks Brittle Paper! @brittlepaper.bsky.social

NEW: EU giving away 36,000 free train tickets for 18 year olds to travel around the bloc this summer over a month. Aim is to help EU citizens get to know other countries in the bloc. Details here. Applications can be made from today until 16 April. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Last month we hosted Leye Adenle at Stars on Moon Lane. This month: 17 April: @chikodili.bsky.social & Irenosen Okojie are in conversation at #MoonLaneInk 7-9pm - Free and open to all. #BlytheSpirit #StarsOnMoonLane #London

Prices are up. The market is down. 401k’s are in the tank. Social Security and Medicare are under attack. Donald Trump has broken every campaign promise he made – except one. Tax cuts for billionaires. Arriving right on schedule.

"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people." We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov

Cory Booker's speech is not just legendary for its length, but the content is breaking down every 'egregious' abuse of power in the US right now. More power to Cory. Who else will stand in the way? And who else will do the right thing? The time is now.

Read my full statement: www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-r...

BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Westminster Quakers are my community, one I have been connected to for over a decade. This is a vibrant & welcoming space that offers a place to worship & to gather, a true haven in the heart of the busy West End.

This is shocking, an egregious overreach by #MetPolice. Westminster #Quaker Meeting House is a place of peace, of worship & community. To be invaded so aggressively is a violation of the space AND of the right to freely assemble. #HomeSecretary & #PoliceCommissioner must respond. @quaker.org.uk

"We are deeply concerned about the shrinking space for civilians in Gaza." The UN Human Rights Office has accused Israel of violating international law by forcibly displacing Palestinians in Gaza under “mandatory evacuation orders”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/819rg7

‘Wasn’t Musk supposed to be busy getting humans to Mars by 2025? Kimbal Musk told his older brother that owning Twitter would be a “pimple on the ass of what should be your impact on the world”.’ Deborah Friedell on what Elon Musk did to Twiter: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried.

Donald Trump’s instructions to his team are to attack Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic and not, as one source described it, to “produce a scalp” by firing any members of his Cabinet, Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social report: theatln.tc/tem2cpGG

Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages

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Welcome to the first issue of Volume 9 of The Johannesburg Review of Books! johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/25/t...

how hard is it to message “rfk jr had his brain eaten by worms and wants to bring back diseases only pirates used to get”

If £95,000 A YEAR isn't enough for you - you shouldn't be in politics.