If this is implemented w/o watering down, it would be the most comprehensive trade restriction with Israel any country has put up so far. It would ban not just import of settler goods (wine, dates, etc) but ban both import and export of services, aka bank transactions, construction tenders, tourism.

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

As! Per! My! Previous! Email! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Huge ears so he can hear it coming home

Look at the ears on this lad.

Yesterday our crew found a rubber boat in distress. All 27 people could be embarked onto the Louise Michel. As several other boats were earlier reported in the area through mayday relays, our crew continued the search until the evening but had to abandon due to the night. 1/2

Solar power provided a quarter of the European Union’s electricity for the first time in June 2026 Solar generated a record 52TWh of electricity during the month, accounting for 25% of EU power generation. www.energylivenews.com/2026/07/14/s...

The Sumac Centre in Nottingham is celebrating paying off its mortgage after 25 years! I'm watching an old film from 2004 when I was involved during the early years and thinking I want to do this kind of thing again.

Getting an abacus tattoo so I can always count on myself.

📣 Op-ed today in EU Observer 🚜 While farmers suffer the heat, in Brussels Copa-Cogeca and Croplife (pesticide industry) lobbyists join forces to dismantle pesticide safety rules - against the interests of farmers. 👇 Read here: euobserver.com/227840/the-f...

when we say women aren’t safe anywhere, this is what we mean

*sitting in a world that has been rendered nigh uninhabitable within a century-and-a-half because of the introduction of cars*: haha i bet you fools also would have been against cars smh

"Everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes" In my experience lots of people are ok to do the dishes and they're heroes and usually they are women, because women don't see that work as shameful. But men do not see that leadership as leadership and so women get fed up and leave.

"A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK"

The Swedish government says "don't worry, this lost notebook from a Nato meeting doesn't include any classified material", and they expect us to be like Ok Yay🥰

I often say the rise in students coming to our dept with diagnoses of various kinds of neurodivergence has been matched with a corresponding fall of students coming with generalised depression. Because, you know. They're getting a diagnosis of the actual problem rather than feeling they don't fit.

Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

We don't need to be serious about security. We have Finland /s

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

This is the third one in 12 months?

For some reason Sweden's national security advisors keep being some of the most insecure people.

"My journey into anarchism did not start with textbooks or academic theories. It started with the heavy, suffocating weight of patriarchy" Worth reading this interview with Amora, an anarchist feminist fighter with a small local defence force in Myanmar. 1/

more like Castile Day, right

you do understand ... that Black people are not the canary in the Coal mine anymore... you get that right? You're in the mine with us

France must have had a bad batch of absinthe

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

He's already dead He's already dead!

France's only option this second half is to press Henry IV's claim to the city of Pamplona.

I have to assume Substack is throwing some fat stacks of cash at prominent authors to launch on the platform in 2026, in exchange for ignoring the fact the company openly embrace nazis and white supremacists for engagement

This match's Fourth Official is from Sweden and called Glen and I feel like I already know exactly what he looks like and sounds like based on that.

Ohhh Oyarzabal is a Basque name. I thought it sounded Carthaginian.

Wtf i like var now

Does anybody have a good reference image depicting a Roman military officer (Equite class, c. 1st century)? Preferably in either ceremonial garb (muscled cuirass) or in armour worn during travelling. #AncientBluesky #History #Classics #RomanArchaeology

One does not simply walk into next door and smash up their gnome.

Anyway, the traditional "way things were" so beloved by reactionaries was largely made up by some terrible 19th century hacks who even then couldn't ever hammer all the old stories enough to fit into their bullshit racist project. The past is, blessedly, too goddamn complicated for that.

If you want data to survive the next 40,000 years we still haven't beaten the technique of going into a cave and painting it on the walls.

There's a parallel here in how the European political mainstream has gone bananas for throwing out immigrants precisely during an era of *spectacularly successful* immigration integration.

I would really like to include this image from a trans rights protest in my book, Common Sense and Its Others, with an eye on the placard "Your Common Sense Isn't Our Common Sense," but I can find the original source to ask for permission (I've tried google image reverse search). Any ideas anyone?

Anyway. Crusades don't stop in 1453. Crusade studies isn't just a subset of medievak history.

On my way to yet another health appointment with one of my children and yet again bracing myself to be condescended to by a professional who assumes I know nothing and care nothing for my child's health.

FYI - You (I mean all of you) can submit a police report to Police Scotland to record an offence. This is both a crime under voyeurism (2007) and the more recent sharing of intimate materials laws. www.scotland.police.uk/secureforms/...

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There's a bit near the end of Around the World in Eighty Days when Phineas Fogg starts burning his ship to feed its steam engine. That's how I see modern political parties acting. They are combusting the legacy of 100 years of democratic infrastructure in order to steam ahead for a little longer.

A suit of armour like this is about as 'medieval' as Captain Jack Sparrow.

*looks inside so-called medieval fantasy* *Actually early modern fantasy*

Someone please write the full song.

För att förtydliga är det här en förklaring för hur sjukvården påverkas även om sjukvården enligt lagen ska vara undantagen från angiverikravet.