Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

starting a rumor that these are also the missing Clinton emails

Surprising songs that Smash Hits reproduced lyrics for: Kill The Poor by The Dead Kennedys (November 13-26 1980 edition)

VIZ TOP TIPS Teach young children how to count to four by playing Ramones songs in nursery school

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

he's right but yeah that's how this works

got some $ale$ of all my hoarded stuff in the last few days. I've been ditching things, donating to archives and selling stuff for some time now. I think it's particularly important to archive underground and DIY culture. That stuff just disappears, and it's amazing local history.

I had an amazing evening judging the South East Art prize at the Sorrell Town Hall. 182 artworks, 96 entrants, and a beautiful community vibe. #SouthernBeachesRepresent

So the fabled "Police intelligence" didn't extend to figuring out what a demo notice from an outfit called "White Australia" might involve. Interesting. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Threads (Threads FFS!) now has more daily active users than his hellsite full of bots, porn and nazis. Why are democratic governments / politicians and media figures still there?

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

Ok my EG Whitlam yarn. Early 90's Gough is speaker at a national Young Labor dinner. I'm a new SVP and get to sit next to him. He's being introduced by another delegate - at inappropriate length. Gough leans in a bit to me and asks *do the voice* "Comrade, what faction is this fuckwit in?"

Yes, one of these 10,000 flights was mine; not sure if I will ever get home. Total strangers talking together frightened of what T***p will do next to disrupt the lives of US citizens. We seem to have no protection against him. He doesn’t even care if he hurts people who’d voted for him now.

I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.

Honoured that my ‘Burning the books’ - the @harvardpress.bsky.social edition - should feature in @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social - a must- see for anyone concerned about the freedom to read and to think - it highlights the courageous libraries defending democracy in America

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!

Richest nation in human history

oh wonderful I broke the resume formatting

far out, Amyl and The Sniffers got nominated for a Grammy. It's amazing that something that's actually good got a look.

spent days sweating over 250 words for a writing gig i really want, everything else is on hold. I think i have done it and i am so bloody tired

For the Sunday crowd, my latest Substack post is about the forgotten author Jane Gallion, her publisher Essex House, and the hard graft that was being one of America’s first female smut writers. Free to read at the link below (although paid subs are welcome. andrewnette.substack.com/p/jane-galli...

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

The women who actually use Kenwood Ladies Pond spoke clearly: the 900 members democratically voted to maintain their trans+ inclusive policy, in place since 2019. 🏊‍♀️ notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-r... #TransInclusion #KenwoodLadiesPond #TransRightsAreHumanRights @nionwomen.bsky.social

I was just leafing through 1725 occult tome The Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage in search of scary invocations for the BOOK, and I came across this list of subordinate spirits to the princes of Hell.

New #OpenAccess #History from @uclpress.bsky.social Rent Strikes A history of collective tenant actions across the world uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

I love that the two greatest Anglophone cities of the world are both now run by democratic socialist Muslim men of South Asian descent. Very here for the first Sadiq–Zohran bilateral ♥️ photo: @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Trump's Nazification of America has had a profound effect in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Every single Republican has been voted off the school board. The American people recognize the threat and consequences of authoritarian fascism.

This is important to remember. the Devs are libetarian weirdos. Not leftists.

Zohran Mamdani ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for mayor — one that barely touched on climate change. Once he's in office, how will the one-time self-described "ecosocialist" govern? Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with the backstory: heatmap.news/politics/zoh...

Welfare payments should never be used as a mechanism of control or surveillance

This should have happened a long time ago (and the quota should probably be higher), but this is a step in the right direction.

Manufacturers should be forced to recycle batteries at the end of their lives to deliver significant safety, environmental and financial benefits.

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

Just fell down a rabbit hole of apps that you can secretly install on people’s phones to notify you if they watch porn and holy shit what is wrong with everyone

some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies

I once got on a bus having just bought a Pret breakfast bowl and realised I hadn't picked up a spoon to eat it with. The best I could find was a credit card I had in my wallet which had split down the middle. Luckily the woman sitting next to me had a spoon and offered it to me when she saw this.

I never know what counts in those "first record you ever bought" things because there's a very blurry line between "parents buy you records for birthday/Xmas", "pester mum to buy you record while you're with her at the shops" and "mum gives you money but you spend it while at the shops with her".

The Doctor, Leela and K9 team up with the Brigadier to tackle The Silence, before heading to ancient Egypt for a fateful encounter with Cleopatra. ‘The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Last Queen of the Nile’ Big Finish audio review: cultbox.co.uk/reviews/the-...

Why are families doing it tough? Why are families doing it tough? #AusPol

You know what's exempt from Labor's enviro laws? AUKUS. Apparently the US alliance controls even this. The damage cause by a nuclear waste dump can literally be written off if the Environment Minister wants to.

RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded

I've been saying for *years* that YouTube is a far-right radicalisation engine on a grand scale. Probably even more so than Twitter is even now in the Musk era.

Sadly that burrito bloke you're all saying was the only billionaire to earn his money was a major Trump donor :-/

you must belittle australian book critics who have not read and reviewed Nock Loose. They are weak willed, and their publications are false and pitiable.

Low @ Ogden Theatre, Denver CO, 1995-09-26 https://thatsthethingaboutthat.blogspot.com/2025/11/low-ogden-theatre-denver-co-1995-09-26.html

If you want kids to read: -Reopen the closed libraries -Give them free books -Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students -Work on adult literacy Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test www.theguardian.com/politics/202...