working at the nyt

bet you nerds are excited for the Rubin!

i keep thinking about that article in the economist from 5 years ago about the role of bottle girls for powerful men, it's like the skeleton key for understanding our politics www.economist.com/news/2020/06...

lmao I remembered I think the first ever present I got off a girl was a Fear Factory VHS

Join me at Solidarity Rally with Gloucestershire Phlebotomists www.megaphone.org.uk/events/solid...

Me, as a therapist: you’re right, everyone else is stupid and wrong, only me and you can see it - come back next week and give me another £100 for this affirmation hour

looking at this coming from being in south London for 20 years all I see is the prospect of a multi story pop-up complex, utterly mugging off the multicultural creatives, fusioning their ma‘s recipes for dreams fame whilst some venture capitalist reaps millions in rent and rising land value

Me, leaving the house this morning: nothing human is alien to me! Me, visiting a British retail park: help me I’ve been abducted by aliens

#OtD 13 Nov 1972 100s of people in Kirkby, England, blocked roads around Tower Hill to prevent bailiffs from evicting eight tenants who had been on rent strike against the Housing Finances Act. The council then decided it would not evict any strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8518...

At my hospital this is predated on the functions of 100s of admin staff being replaced with the NHS app and electronic patient records. The IT department focused exclusively on EPR for 6 months yet when it launched it broke so many things they turned it off and declared a critical incident.

Intermittently for about 10 years now I’ve moaned about the amount of coverage we get of “young people” who can’t afford a mortgage when this was the real problem - my parents are both in their 60s, they don’t house share, but they’re both in private accommodation

I swear to god whenever you’re reading about something dodgy this mfer is always at the scene of the crime

Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could: * make camming illegal * redefine escort ads as pimping * render model contracts unenforceable * criminalize discussions of teen sexuality And a whole lot more ...

Mahmoud was a student when the genocide began, now he's trying his best to help his family survive. Please help them if you can:

Hello I’m a white person I’ve got bang into Afro pessimism now I’m going to write an article entitled “The Non-existence Of Black Film”, it’s going to help me get tenure track at some point!

From all accounts, Brianna Ghey found community and support online, contrasing with the extreme bullying and harassment she found in person. Her killers knew each other and knew her in person. She died because she was transgender, not because she used a fucking phone.

Wise [for my own going grift career]

Literally just trying to check my bluesky DMs and that’s it lol

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I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!

Is sex work a trade union issue? Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective. 27/11/2025 7-8:30PM Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...

Had a fascinating conversation w a dozen sex workers today—ages 25-60ish, some w their infants w them. Main takeaway: USAID cuts hit their work HARD, not just bc ppl who lost their jobs are also now doing sex work, but bc USAID projects led to conferences whose attendees hired them (& no longer do)

apropos of a conversation with @pashukanist.bsky.social I am once again convinced people on the left in the US really should pay more attention to the UK and specifically the limitations of and roles played by the Labour Party. I think for progressives in the US it's very easy to go along with a

Very funny that David miller has decided Trotskyist’s are also the enemy - like talk about shooting your own audience lol

I want to agree on principle but the only principle I have is class nationalism and I think it’s worth pointing out that it’s only us working class people which are conscripted to die for countries that give us nothing

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left them homeless & starving as winter approaches. They've lost their savings, & urgently need funds for essentials & shelter:

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Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left them homeless & starving as winter approaches. They've lost their savings, & urgently need funds for essentials & shelter:

I recall around 1990 an elderly supply teacher explaining to my class what war is actually like, macho mythology aside. The sound bullets make. Men crying for their mummys as they die on the battlefield. It's haunted me ever since, and certainly played a role in politicising me.

The 2025 water bottle riot

Organising a strike of HM speakers - demand? Bring our bottles of water back

listening to these stories breaks me everytime, there's no training that can prepare you for these stories yet we've got to do what we can to help.

It’s because the WW2 tradition doesn’t acknowledge the racism of euro societies - so fascists can slither back in unimpeded on the backs of anti-blackness, Islamophobia, and all that other business they get mad at

Hey heads up everyone apparently we have to keep receipts for all of our property every otherwise the train company won't reimburse for property damage even when it's down to their own passenger assist access fails and passengers being aggressive while clearly having sharp items on them

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There are no words for how evil this is

The cope before and after the election has been the same - and it’s fundamentally 1. Anti democratic but also 2. Anti constitutional even according to their own rules - “Mamdani would have lost if the constituency were different!” - like, ok? So would churchll or Hitler?

being back the cordoba caliphate mashallah 🕋

Given all my ancient history posts, check out this animated map that I've been working on for a while: youtu.be/9fW3D0VlEvY

Guys gruel story someone quoted that non-bino tweet I did a couple of years back at me at work lmao

London, I’m in you

Listen to @bloodwork.show

#OtD 6 Nov 1903 Hilde Radusch was born. She was a German anti-fascist, feminist, lesbian, postal worker and communist activist. She was jailed by the Nazis in 1933, then released and went underground, surviving the war and remaining active stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1065...

Strikingly, of the 45 Minneapolis Police officers whose videos we've just released, more than 24% have killed community members while on duty, and a large swath of other officers had numerous accounts of egregious actions against the community. 🚔

The Spectre of State Capitalism in the @oupacademic.bsky.social DSA series is #OpenAccess and especially relevant to understanding current transformations in global capitalism. Read the latest reviews, awards and podcasts on this important piece of scholarly work: buff.ly/3nRNwFb

Well I was in full support of the complete destruction of civil infrastructures, social reproduction and the environment in Afghanistan until now I’m just hearing it’s actually about drugs?! What the fuck?