Skiing commentator: ‘He’s showing the patience of a Montessori teacher.’ Bizarrely specific.

Using “Epstein Class” is smart, but it makes no sense to include George Soros alongside Elon Musk. The only audience that cares about Soros is a conspiracy theorist one, and it is reckless to engage in that bs.

I've been singing this to myself all day

Shit, the number one thing that would help you develop your artistic skills is UBI

This short video adds some further thoughts on what it's like to be monotropic. It explains and also shows how to support monotropic Autistic individuals Created by Wenn Lawson youtu.be/cJb52LdWmSQ?...

I never got over his real hands.

The existence of downhill skiing implies the existence of uphill skiing, which I would very much like to see.

Don't remove the racist post. Remove the racist from his post.

Do the one about the dishwasher! #totp

If you're watching the 1989 #totp on BBC4 now, and you don't know about my book on the History of 1980s Pop Music, do give it a go, because there's plenty of material relating to this episode.

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats. It's all there. He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players. Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

The 6th Philosophy Disability and Social Change conference is continuing today and tomorrow, free and online. Loads of great speakers and i'll be joining tomorrow afternoon to talk about Boy Scout Fascism. biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/26/p...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

now that’s what I call antisemitism the donors were gathered! They talk about it in their own article! this is egregious

Chomsky’s casual misogyny with Epstein says a lot about what counts as left wing. This is a guy who co-wrote an entire book about the press manufacturing consent without once mentioning patriarchy (or white supremacy). We need a definition of ‘left’ that doesn’t center the concerns of white men.

This is a good observation. People voted brexit because they wanted change on that day, but the actual effect was in the future. This future. It's very hard to engage with brexit publically because giving dire news is not what people want from figures who are meant to exude reassurance

Beautiful outfits! I'd consider taking up skiing* just to wear them. *Maybe not skiing. Apres ski

Well that escalated quickly.

The Epstein story is a story about transnational businessmen with no limits, falling into interests in eugenic race science, and how racism and sexism are intertwined. To avoid the critique of racism, sexism, and capitalism, some are going to redirect the anger into antisemitism. Don't fall for it.

Also see: Inventory of traditional Scottish textiles: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Tweeds.

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

🧵 We are the Nexus Project, an advocacy organization fighting both antisemitism and the weaponization of the Jewish community's very real fears for political gain.

Any variant of this “joke” gets a block from me. It’s not funny to normalize anti-Jewish hate speech.

Why are the team on the left dressed as Rod, Jane and Freddy? #MockTheWeek

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

#IntoTheGroove is 99p on Kindle at the moment. Which is ‘good for exposure’, apparently. Maybe don’t do that as a Valentine’s Day option, though.

I think a lot of Christians tend to think of Judaism as essentially pre-Jesus Christianity and so see it as this static unchanging thing, when in reality Modern Rabbinic Judaism is almost as different from Second Temple Judaism as Christianity is.

Weird Pride Day 4th March 2026 Weird Pride in a Hostile World This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, & reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind Find out more weirdpride.day

🗣️"Reading and discussion are part of the same life-world. Education is not a discrete system marked by credits and deliverables, but a way of inhabiting time." #AcademicSky

Over 170 US celebrities join Black-Jewish alliance The aim of the organization is to stand together to counter antisemitism and racism within the industry. www.jpost.com/opinion/over...

Just watch it! You'll see why

Maybe get a cat? #totp

#totp Where are the other two Bennett sisters?

#Oxford friends, I'm doing a book launch at the fab Gulp Fiction bookshop on 19th March. It would be great to see you there. fixr.co/event/penny-...

both Iran and Israel can be horrible regimes. you don't need to pick a side.

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

The 5-year-old boy from Minneapolis who was wearing the blue knit hat with floppy ears when he was abducted by ICE appears almost comatose from trauma:

"Oy, Ir Narishe Tsionistn" Jewish Anti-Zionist song from 1931! This song is older than even Israel itself And today it became more relevant than ever before Lyrics below 👇

The BBC are replacing Davie with Davies, who will in turn yield to Daviest.

This in person (UK) and online! A reading and discussion of Annah, Infinite, an experimental work of creative non-fiction that challenges #ArtHistory, confronts colonial #ableism, and reclaims a stolen spirit… the young girl in Annah la Javanaise (1893-94), Gauguin’s famous painting. #Lit #ArtSky

Snapped at my laptop: ‘I HAVE enabled pop-ups, you FUCK!’

I am so tired and tetchy today. Tetchy tetchy tetchy.

Your worth is not determined by your health. Your worth is not determined by your job, marital status or economic output. Everyone is deserving of shelter, food, healthcare and social supports. No one should have to “earn them”. When basic needs are met, society is better off.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Hi. What’s your party’s take on the decimation of higher education in the UK?

A Longtailed Tit painted onto a Watney’s beer mat from the 1960s. darrenhaymanart.com

The Tory dismantling of high education structures inevitably meant the decimation of local universities and campuses, sooner or later. The Labour government decided to continue Tory policies, so it happens on their watch.