Beautifully articulated truth from the Muslim Council of Britain

Gaza doesn’t need words—it needs action 💔 People are searching for food to survive, waiting for medicine to live, and many have lost everything… yet remain strong. Don’t delay kindness. Your support today could save a life. Donate, share, be hope 🤲 gofund.me/35fdca7d

Nobody talks about weevils any more. Was a cure developed that they’re keeping secret?

And again, till people take notice…

Observer: Are you all right hun? Attila: Yep, every single one of us.

Sorry, but I'm going to get real annoying about this. If you're an Irish artist/creative, this survey only takes a few minutes to do. As mentioned by Ian Fay, this is getting brigaded by far right types over on X, and we need to drown them out.

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Oisin McGann here provides a very clear and beautifully articulated analysis of the life and challenges of a professional creative artist, and makes it abundantly clear why a Universal Basic Income (for everyone, not just artists) is the intelligent solution. Well worth the read.

This is who runs this account:

I am not a cog in the wheel @happimess73.bsky.social

america: we need more people everyone else: didn't you ju- america: NOT THOSE ONES

liven up a trip to the shop by getting them to throw the change into your mouth

It is past time the world was subjected to a long-form rant from this magnificently demented madman.

who called it a dog licence and not a barking ticket

Yes.

This site needs a bookmark function.

I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child. It's a genocide.

This is outrageous! Wtf does asylum mean if a woman can be returned to a country where she has no right even to speak or show her face in public?

"It’s not that OpenAI picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates. OAI picked Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach It is display of power: You, as artist, animator, illustrator, writer are powerless. We will take what we want & do what we want. Because we can"

This report should break something in all of us. 15,613 children. The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0. 26% were under the age of 5

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

The Irish have started calling Conor McGregor, ‘Andrew Tayto’.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

We are tired of Israel. Not Gaza

Writer friends - a very good thread from Nate Federman listing the questions that can really acid-test your script, particularly aimed at comedy. Read and learn…

People hardly ever talk about ley lines any more. It’s frustrating but understandable. I memorised so many of them back in the day. Not one of them ever got me leid.

'Monolingualism is carbon monoxide to culture, multilingualism is culture's oxygen.' Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Cé níos fearr ná duine ciallmhar Afracach chun é seo a mhíniú dúinn go léir! Ouvre tes oreilles, ouvre ton coeur - Obre les orelles, obre el cor - افتح أذنيك وافتح قلبك - 打开你的耳朵，打开你的心

The mighty Paul Duane has made his doco on the former Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy available FOR FREE! Watch it, and please wire him a few yoyos in thanks because, you know, rent in Dublin, the artists hard life etc. We need him to keep making stuff.

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

we need more people like you @happimess73.bsky.social

Just a reminder that in 2018, Palestinians in Gaza mounted the Great March of Return to PEACEFULLY show the world their plight. They walked, unarmed, to Israel's military fences around Gaza in peaceful protest. Israel shot 8,000 with live ammunition, killed 220 Palestinians. 36,143 in total injured.

Byline Times - one of the very few sources of real journalism in todays climate. This needs to get out there before it’s squashed.

Byline Times is facing major DDOS (malicious traffic-flooding) issues on our site apparently after this article went live... bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

Everything is temporary. So why are you feeling stressed? If that easy time passed, this difficult time will too. Gurdeep.org

Some common writing advice is to open with a hook and to kill your darlings, but Peter Pan teaches us that you can also be successful by opening with your Darlings and killing your Hook.

I'm someone's bad idea @happimess73.bsky.social #Neurodivergent #poetry

A partial list of things done to me in hospitals: Spat at Racially abused (weekly) Punched Scratched Strangled twice Stabbed (in the fucking back!) Almost stabbed x3 Shoved Objects thrown at me (by police!) This is over a period of 15 years. ...But one does not hit back. I understand, though.

This is no way for humans to have to live in 2025. Please donate or share if you can't.

Right, you fucks, if you live in the UK sign this. If you don’t live in the UK share it as some of your followers might and they should sign this.

This headline is an out and out lie. *Zero* was spent on ‘upkeep’ of camps. €790,769 was spent on trying to prevent the camps (which, as someone who works on that road, I saw no problems with) from forming, and removing them once formed. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

This is Abbes Birhane’s experience in Dublin. We must resist this, call it out, be vocal and visible in defence of our brothers and sisters. This needs to end now.

It’s so hard hunting down paid work as a creative artist, I genuinely look forward to the day the tech bros get it together and create minimum-wage unskilled jobs for us, generating little original ideas then churning out product based on them to feed their huge AI furnaces.

Mark Ruffalo sounds like the name a dog would give if he was pretending to be a man.

I accept I might be biased because we are blood relations, but bsky.app/profile/snow... is so brilliantly, surreally funny he absolutely merits a follow - if he'll let you!