Said it on The Other Site but Unite Students is a titanic waiting to crash. We will look upon those empty tomes in 10-15 years as monuments to hubris, when the brit ruling class thought they could mug off Indian and Chinese kids forever with utterly shit education and racist migration laws.

In britain they want to convert them all into mega-clubs, when that inevitably fails, they'll no doubt turn them into nightingale prisons...

someone got mad at me because I suggested that the conviction of the women who allegedly had pictures of hangliders was a policing over-reach. Perhaps in Nov 2023 I think we could act offended in such a way, But Im just not sure today as 2k brit citizens are welcomed home from the IDF as free men

With the latest Home Office data showing police persistently acting in bad faith in the way they impose restrictions on protests, especially in London, are there still benefits in protest organisers talking to them at all? Why negotiate if it makes protesters less safe? netpol.org/2026/02/12/p...

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Alright this guy is totally out of control, I’m gonna have to prune it - it doesn’t have a centre of gravity anymore lol

So those guys that got arrested for planning a mass shooting in the uk were caught by undercovers. If you listen to the video it sounds like the undercover was posing as someone who could acquire weapons.…

The punks won’t be getting any equity 😞

It becomes easier to get your head around it when you make peace with the fact that Tyler Austin Harper is a bad faith actor whose USP is being the guy who bolsters right-wing worldview and criticism - get this… from the left!

The Met is keeping receipts for "enforcement at a later date" in case the Home Office's appeal succeeds.

There’s currently something like 200+ people in prison under “joint enterprise” - this means they didn’t personally commit a crime but they have a connection to someone who did (“gangs”) - yet nobody had powers to stop the Maniac Murder Cult?!

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

Academic friends - if you see any of those special little humanities post docs pop up, send it my way! (Viva isn’t until April but I gotta get moving!)

A relic from A more hopeful time

NEW✨ The hidden history of the Cameroon War and France’s neocolonial hold on Africa. Ewa Majczak @lsemedia.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk reviews The Cameroon War by Thomas Deltombe, @manueldomergue.bsky.social and Jacob Tatsitsa, translated by David Broder @versobooks.bsky.social

There's something particularly nasty and corrupt about not just that all these academics were begging this rich sociopath for research money, but that they all kept (and some keep) insisting that he was some great genius. And then his actual "intellectual" output reads like this total garbage

In our latest, @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social joins us to discuss “anti-aging” trends and longevity influencers as symptoms of imperial decline and the role the wellness industry has played in producing this moment of heightened fascism www.patreon.com/posts/150271...

Bernard Stiegler’s corpse vibrating with rage this morning

Those of us who like to say things like “popular culture is a complex space of ideology and antagonism, repression and resistance” really eating shit today: “The group that should be in the streets has been bought off by Jay Z” - Jes Stanley, CEO of Barclays

The yanks really ate when they replaced the “s” in a lot of suffixes with “z”. “Generalization” is better than “generalisation“ sorry

Academic friends - if you see any of those special little humanities post docs pop up, send it my way! (Viva isn’t until April but I gotta get moving!)

I used to be anti-cigerettes but these things are comparatively so much more undignifying

I, for one, Support Wes Streeting in his endeavour to be put next prime minister, I think it will be very funny and he should do it

’’mandatory” service charge seems to have replaced tips entirely - I’m not totaly against it, but it’s worth recognising what it is - prices are kept artificially low in restaurants via labour Intensification and wage stagnation - the service charge is the pay-rise being moved to the customer

No way he’s writing this stuff himself, the bits are too clean and the overall thing has too much cohesion

It’s lore that Bart reverts to Islam later in life btw

I'm still laughing at this 10 days later @rueshine.bsky.social 😅

There's 4 incredible metal compilations out @ £3 each today from literally dozens of bands I have a huge amount of love and respect for in aid of Palestine Children's Relief Fund with all proceeds going to them. Please show some support for an important cause and get some incredible music too 🖤🇵🇸 👇

I think when people think about "evil pedo billionaire conspiracy" they can often imagine it as working in the shadow one world government conspiracy theory sense, rather than how conspiracies actually work which looks more like The Traitors.

lmao Peter mandelson is a YCL alumni?!

Just received one of those great staff emails where it’s like “we want you to do a lot more work, and faster, but we promise this year is going to be even busier!” from management. The worst thing about kitchen work is it usually comes from a head chef whos on £10+ph more demanding you work like him

Third book let’s go

Not convinced by ppl who make 'well obviously' sort of statements about Chommo. I think what he was involved in with Epstein/Bannon is fundamentally different to Faurisson or Bosnia. What Chommo teaches us is that academics can be bought, and ppl who work at places like MIT are especially precious.

There is a brand new episode of SFULTRA, the only book podcast that has ever existed. It is about Samuel R. Delany and his book Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand. It's free to listen to here right now: www.patreon.com/posts/149597... and will appear in the usual podcast places later today.

Thank fuck for that, I was really worried that it was going to start naming normal people instead of billionaire Satanists and their sycophants

Wild how many men I know who drift rightward after breaking up with a woman

Unlike Palestine Action activists, this guy who planted a homemade bomb in a public place was granted bail.

This sort of line might work in America, but in the UK something like 50% of adults have a degree, thats far more people than voted Labour. If we can't foot the bill for our own education, why are we paying their wages?

Got stuck into this today. There's lots of bangers here

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

regresssion.bearblog.dev/is-history-h... new blog post, about architecture

Finished this up recently. A really thorough look at contemporary musical forms (like trap, field recordings and platform listening) that makes legible the dialectics of ideological domination, labour and social antagonism in music.

Went double barrell on a bloke I used to work with for this "palestine solidarity are hypocrits for not supporting iran protests" shite, bit of a back and forth and he accused me of not wanting to appear islamophobic - the right really think muslims are not political subjects in britain at all?

The dystopian in me thinks part of the reason why they're so desperate to roll out AI training is because so many essential services will be stripped back and replaced with AI. You'll need a population that, at the very least, has some basic working knowledge to navigate that hell

I just want rents to go down 😭

Cinema ticket issued by the collectivised entertainment union (SUEP) of the anarchist CNT for the Capitol cinema in La Rambla. 4 Oct 1937. Hija de Dracula (Dracula's daughter (1936). A bit of camp horror to escape from the real horror of war. Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War.

Listening to Catherine Malabou on Crisis and Critique about AI and I thought she might have something insisive to say but she… just gives up on thinking? Maybe we are in a sinulation anyway. Lazy stoner shit