Friends in UNISON - vote Andrea imho - best candidate

Daughter's new friend has come round for tea & I asked her what music she likes and she said "oh, I like really old music, like The Killers"

Today is Primidi the 1st of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate grapes.#JacobinDay More information on grapes

Happy New Year, citizens!

Same, but for Israel (assuming USA wasn't participating)?

Which of the world's armies would you need to combine to inflict a decisive military defeat on the USA comparable to Germany's in 1945 (occupation, division of territories, reconstitution of government)?

HNY

Anyway, fuck these racist and xenophobic fascists. I’m proud to be an immigrant, coming from a lineage of immigrants over the past 50 years from China and Norway and Ireland. Fuck borders. Fuck visas. Immigration made me who I am. Fuck you.

a harvest, of sorts

found an AI slop account that's videos of little men made out of food eating n themselves, I'm hooked

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

good afternoon, Liliane Lijn!

Things I have no desire to read: Hadley Freeman’s opinions on any Black person ever

Captain Cook.

Happy #BaeOfPigs day to all who celebrate

What's the word that describes the excessively twee-English packaging of non-European flavours in places like farm shops?

Is it worse to be good and not know it, or be shit and not know it?

Zuckerberg did one thing clever in his life, making a perving site he then pivoted into a site for your auntie to be racist on. Everything else has failed or he bought. He's not even proper evil, just an absolute dork with too much power.

My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US. As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x

And fucking Nick Cave too

Anyone? @bat020.bsky.social feel like you might know?

Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of Your Party

advanced minds of Bluesky -- I know the original of this poster well, but who is the adapted silhouette here supposed to be?

Your Party (Zarah’s Version)

Museum folks -- if you're thinking of engaging a digital agency and looking at their website, what do you want to know from their case studies?

Now my kids are googling 'sloppy seconds', thanks very much Nick Clegg

You cannot kill me in a way that matters.

It's mildly amusing me that both Hari Kunzru and Joe Thomas have written red, white & blue trilogies with the colours in exactly the same order: white (tears/riot), red (pill/menace), blue (ruin/true)

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

w h a t

Can someone explain to me in 4th International heredity terms who the (new) RCP are, pls?

Candyman reboot but this one's written by Julia Donaldson.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Happy sansculottides to all who celebrate!

good afternoon, extremely good vibes pub in Forest Hill

Farage is operating his own 'one in, one out' policy with MPs

Literary BlueSky! Suggestions please for novels written around 1905-1910 and set in London, which give a good sense of daily life in the city at that time?

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

Ah, sortition is it

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

The research in this area is very clear, right-wing radicals have been more likely in recent years to use violence. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Weird way to present promo interviews with a transphobic author on their own website.

Academic-skeety-pals: what are your impressions of the general state of online archives search (ie individual institutions' search facilities for hierarchically-catalogued archives and similar collections)? Any favourites? Any real stinkers?

KPOW! ZAP! BLAM! WHAMF! In 1979 the Anti-Nazi League published 'Action Pact', a comic showing schoolchildren Mike & Vince battling NF fascist lies together as the Justice Brothers National & local ephemera, photos & more feature in the archives of the Leamington Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Committee

Once again, as a Gen Xer I've just have to say that it's absolutely brilliant to not feel at all intellectually threatened by the newest cohort of graduates

🚨 @rammuseum.bsky.social klaxon 🚨

"Britain is a nation proudly built on tolerance, diversity and respect. Our flag represents our diverse country" (looks at British history) Um ...

'It has even picked up a nickname: “People just call it ‘Chat’,” she says.' This is about the level of creativity I'd expect from a habitual user of ChatGPT.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

breaking news: in response to a chant of “shoot keir starmer” at the fascist parade in london, the government has announced plans to shoot keir starmer