Hurray! #NAFO

Starmer’s oblique strategy for preventing Andy Burnham from winning the Makerfield by-election appears to be a rushed ill-conceived social media policy.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.

When "Tommy" Yaxley Lennon is openly praising Russia when he visits Mr Racist Musk Senior there, the links to his financial backers are clear www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Goblin Throne Part III page 31 is up! Today's page: spring thaw. www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/094/ 16 days left to back the Kickstarter! We're just a few backers shy of 700 :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

congratulations to the kinks, i love waterloo sunset

Around $10 of comics on the bus seat being roundly ignored by my fellow passengers in a way that a $10 bill would not be.

And, since the murders were very observably committed with racist motivation, they should be taken as a genocide, and Musk and Trump and the rest of DOGE and all elected and appointed Republican officeholders should face appropriate penalties. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

New: I wrote about everyone intently watching the long process of removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and how it revealed our insatiable thirst for accountability — and for his humiliation.

BBC Guest: “I think Gianni Infantino and FIFA are a bunch of greedy fucks.” BBC: “Apologies for the language.”

Nice thing to see on my way home.

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

Teaching the concepts of shouting and screaming in class by shout and screaming is very therapeutic.

Would Starmer be in a worse position now if the NEC hadn’t blocked Andy Burnham standing at the Gorton and Denton by-election?

This month @explodingarrow.bsky.social is letting me post articles from The Comics Courier on Shelfdust so they’ve available online for the first time. If you enjoy reading, consider backing the current Courier Kickstarter at www.comicscourier.com!

Trans is beautiful because it's people living their truth! All of us will not be free until trans people are free.

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It’s Friday and time for another #FridayTeacherTask. This week it’s all about getting a random object delivered to a colleague by a student. Good luck, your time starts now. #TaskmasterEducation #teacher #wellbeing #education

😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇

BREAKING NEWS! shelfdust.com/2026/06/11/b...

heartbroken about Satrapi's death. Sharing this incredible interview she so graciously gave to PW www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Wow.. nerves of steel

Art of the day Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883–1957)

Wow, isn’t that ceasefire going well?

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

@royalsociety.org Please remove Elon from your organization.

We wander the 2026 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, building up an appetite for ice creams and macarons at the nearby Pierre Marcolini 🔥 📍Venue: RA, Piccadilly, London 📅 Dates: June 16 – August 23, 2026 🎨 Theme: "Interconnectedness", chosen by exhibition coordinator Ryan Gander

Walt Disney’s The Black Hole is a glorious mess of a movie that is so compelling in large part because it is such a mess…

I will buy a subscription to the first mainstream Irish publication that simply states the truth in the headline of a news report that "racist pogroms" took place in Belfast last night and doesn't weasel word it by calling it a "protest" and continues do so

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

That thing when you realise you have more copies of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking in the house than you thought.

This Saturday, June 13, I’ll be at The Last Bookstore DTLA’s Spring Arts Tower Takeover with Laser Joan and Errand Boys! There will be over 100 of vendors with comics, books, art, zines, toys, vinyl, & more! www.lastbookstorela.com/event-detail... #thelastbookstore #springartstowertakeover #dtla

My frequent desire to read multiple other books aside from the one I am currently reading is a wonder to behold.

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

Waiting for the backrooms fan crowd to discover Charlotte Perkins Gillman (and the express their exasperation that she doesn’t mention ‘levels’ once!)

“I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview,"

As Archbishop Tutu said about apartheid with regards to the Truth and Reconciliation hearings: "Those who claimed they did not know cannot very well say so now. They know.” Except we have internet. We have social media. People know now. We know. We cannot claim otherwise.

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

A spooky Saturday to you all! The weather may be uncertain, but books are always there for you! Stop by either @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social location to get your next favourite read! Don't forget, we're only haunting Union Station for 17 more days! 🧡👻📚

Has anyone suggested that better editing would obviate the trend towards a 2x listening speed?

When even the charity shops are fleeing the high street, #depressionindicators.

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

Coming soon to BBC Radio 4… Stewart Lee on @resonancefm.bsky.social

You find lots of things tucked into books you are tasked with throwing away. Today it was photos of wall and furniture patterns discarded by a one-time member of the Chatsworth Avenue School PTA.

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.