My favourite discourse is when someone points at a poll and says "do you really think that the most racist THIRTY PERCENT of committed UK voters could POSSIBLY be racist" like it's some kind of gotcha. Yes of course they are FFS just look around you

I was planning a few visits of London’s Open House Festival this weekend- disappointed to see their main sponsor is AirBnB. Not only does AirBnB actively harm architectural heritages worldwide, it also rents West Bank properties stolen from Palestinians and illegally occupied. Regretfully, boycott!

Stay safe today London! The Met police (aided by expensive loan forces from across England and Wales) only made 400 arrests yesterday so there are 800 suspected terrorists ON THE LOOSE. Absolute jokers #FreePalestine

CW domestic violence/ gender based violence. So depressing that the British media can produce a sentence like this, straight-faced. Osbourne knocked his wife’s teeth out and was thoroughly rehabilitated in the interests of light television profits. What next, J*hnny D*pp hosts a teatime quiz show?

This week I read two “pandemic novels” (by coincidence), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count and Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy By The Sea, both good, and it amazed me how little I think now about how the pandemic felt. Locked in a box in my memory.

@fgcommunitygarden.bsky.social I dunno who The Language Shop is who kindly translated your signs but they obviously don’t have an Urdu dictionary- welcome to the, ahem, Nadrag Ytinumoc Tag Tserof! Pretty embarrassing in #ForestGate #Newham

Hey Thames Water thanks for raising my bill by 40% to make your shitty company looking desirable to venture capital. I also really appreciate this little note about mending leaks and drips- I will endeavour, like you, to keep my daily wastage under half a billion litres! We’re all in it together.

Incredibly concerned to see the forcible interception of the Madleen in international waters, and thinking of all those who were on board and have been detained. UK must condemn this breach of international law and immediately demand their release.

Credit where credit’s due- Deepseek does write a better undergraduate essay than ChatGPT.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Highly disappointed to receive an email from conference organisers at @falmouthuniversity.bsky.social saying I can’t bring my toddler on campus while I present a paper. I’m copresenting with a colleague so she would be fully supervised- astounding barriers to single parent academics for 2025!

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Last few years of global politics have been addended by “at least the pope’s alright.”* This is not a particularly great addendum for the world’s left. *except on abortion

A few years back, centrist Democrats & the Very Serious People mocked & dismissed the slogan ‘abolish ICE’. Today’s actions are a reminder of how ICE is a rogue, lawless agency that is easily weaponized by an authoritarian administration & that it very much should be abolished.

The use of ICE and immigration detention as extrajudicial disciplinary measure - not new, but one of the great shames of our time. #freemahmoudkhalil

Why do they have to drive me crazy with “this programme contains strong and frequent language”? Why? WHY? Is it strong or is it frequent I’M TRYING TO RELAX HERE.

Feminist comradeship with Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social has been one of the greatest gifts of the past 5 years of my life. @Pinkomagazine.bsky.social asked me to interview her about cisness, sexual difference, care labor. This was the result. It will nourish you: pinko.online/web/on-the-c...

⚠️ 3 of Newham's 4 most #DangerousJunctions for cycling on TfL Cycleway 2, where the cycle track vanishes 💔 Last month a man in his 20s was killed 📢 Join our protest on Mon to tell @transportforlondon.bsky.social and Newham Council to save lives on #StratfordHighStreet 📢 lcc.org.uk/events/newha...

My sister, totally on point!

Looking to compile a list: What are the key queer literature and queer academic books from South Asia that have been most influential for you? Please share!

I inherited my grandmother’s electric blanket when she died in 2019. I assume she bought it in the early 1980s. Toasty! 🔥

Hope everyone is having a great day! I’m just trudging through a thick bank of icy mist in order to have my mind and body exploited! No one is physically forcing me to do this.

Absolutely MAD how normalised it is that we get up at 6am, alarm blaring, just as the heating is creaking to life, and stagger about in the frigid half dark, preparing ourselves to shiver on a tube station platform in a zero degree misty morning, all only to make money for someone else, EVERY DAY!