I can’t stop thinking about this and I even talked to my therapist about it today and I think we all need to really absorb it because if we start from this understanding, figuring out how to fight hate and creeping antisemitism and transphobia and racism on the left will become so much more clear.

Folks, if you were following Hend because she used to be someone else, I get it. But it's time to cut her loose

supreme accidental comic timing in Commons just now during PMQs: Keir Starmer: “there is only one party leader who has shown he will say anything, no matter how divisive, if he is paid to do so” Speaker (calling the next question): “Nigel Farage”

@helenbarrett.bsky.social Congrats on the book.

And as it's the 40th birthday today of #GeorgeMichael's A Different Corner, here's my #FirstLastAnything chat with Joanne Limburg (@jlimburg.bsky.social) about that and many other things.

Pippa Durham, 39, who holds a first-class degree in Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic, had intended to become an academic, yet abandoned this plan on discovering that she would be required to do more than just fondling old books.

lots of people to block this morning saying "but... Israel". whatever your views are on Israel, Jews in London are Jews who could live in Israel but don't. surely if you have a problem with the existence of Israel you love and celebrate Jews living in Europe? or... not? somehow? for reasons?

I’ve already seen people call the attack on Jewish ambulances a “false flag”, saying every Jew should personally come out and condemn Netanyahu if they don’t want consequences, that the ambulances only serve a “Jewish area” that is a segregated “mini Israel”, posting memes etc. Stop!

This week on the blog, I get grumpy about Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and talk about medieval ideas of inequality (add your anarcho-syndicalist peasants here). #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/a...

Is there footage of Trump throwing a puffle at journalists in a rage or did I dream that?

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

Good thread re: the formula for narrative non-fiction Warning: once learned, you will see this formula everywhere

In case anyone is still unclear, “zio” isn’t short for “Zionist”, it’s a *KKK-originated slur* for Jews. Not Zionists, JEWS. Using it announces you as an ideological white supremacist and white supremacists recognize you as such.

Every now and then, my cat likes to pretend she’s in the video for Total Eclipse of the Heart. #totp

One of the hardest backing vocal jobs in pop, this, singing that first “Turn Around” before Bonnie Tyler gets stuck in — imagine if you failed to stifle a burp at Wembley Arena, nightmare #totp

I saw a non-Jewish person post something yesterday that I can't find, so I'll just say it my own Jewish self: If you're not Jewish, maybe don't try to explain to Jews what is and isn't antisemitism as Jews try to navigate the current meteoric rise of open, screaming, violent American antisemitism.

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Alas, Hite is only one of a long historical list of women who changed thinking about sex and then dropped from memory, so you've never heard of them either. Women changing thinking about sex is something that has to keep being rediscovered, sigh.

Shopping. Just misread ‘seasoned mince’ as ‘seasoned minge’.

It's happening in both left and progressive circles, it's poison, and if you announce otherwise then what you are announcing is at least one of three things: that 1) you do not understand antisemitism 2) you are not aware of what is happening in online left space, and/or 3) you are a liar

A full UBI, along with systematic health support and a housing safety net, will enhance productivity. Removing survival threats as part of a rebalancing of economies across the global north is essential if we are planning to survive the current era.

"[T]he process they seek to get ahead of is the point." Yes. This! Shout it from the rooftops.

The local jackdaws are nest building like there’s no tomorrow.

AOC: I think we know without a doubt that this is a war of choice—that Donald Trump has initiated all of these hostilities, killing American service members and innocent Iranians alike, and for no reason. He has a different reason every day.

Lady in Red, Chris de Burgh

The Israeli government is now doing to southern Lebanon what it has done to Gaza. Horror and death on an unimaginable scale. And still our governments supply weapons, intelligence and diplomatic support. #PartyToTheCrime

The autism spectrum is complicated, per a new graphic of 39 traits: “There is no single trait that defines autism: it encompasses differences in social communication skills, interests, sensory sensitivities, and more. Every person’s profile is unique.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

My work has a long gestation period. I should know this by now, and I do know it. But I still get frustrated with myself for being ‘unproductive’.

Yes,the emerging line is wily, ruthless Israel tricked poor, trusting, naive Donald Trump into a stupid, reckless war. GMAFB. Israel has absolutely pushed for this but ultimately it’s DONALD TRUMP who decided to take the US to war. He likes war! He likes blowing things up! He literally says it’s fun

'If you want a picture of the American future, imagine an ill fitting shoe stamping on a human face - for ever.'

I also worry. The forced equivalence between Judaism and Israel is both historically & politically inaccurate & dangerous. When this war really goes south, the "our guy got hoodwinked by Bibi" excuse is going to be most eagerly consumed by exactly the segment most vulnerable to antisemitic agitprop.

Friends! I work w/ the charity Arts Emergency which pairs artists from underprivileged backgrounds w/ working artist mentors. IT ROCKS. This week, donations are being doubled. Spare £5/10 & make art better? ❤️🎨 @artsemergency.bsky.social donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

It has just been brought to my attention that the greatest ever video in this genre is, in fact, cat jump fail vs Sail by AWOLNATION...

This is the kind of posts we need I times like these.

torn between thinking it's objectively hilarious that literally nobody wants to help Trump open the straits (it is) & feelings of impending doom because evidently 1/Trump can't do it 2/if it's not open v soon we are screwed, cannot run an economy on schadenfreude alone. (although: sooo renewable!)

“Autistic adults without intellectual disability are left to fall through every gap in the system and parents have to pick up the pieces,” said Sara, whose marriage fell apart under the pressure. From Ian Birrell's article in the i Paper (possibly behind a paywall): inews.co.uk/opinion/fail...

Published today! #EmergencyDream out now. Catch it at your local bookshop or there are unlimited signed copies through @samreadbookseller.bsky.social or I believe there are a few @lighthousebks.bsky.social.

[Sade voice 🎵]

YEPPPPPPPP

A number of people here seem to be road-testing the question "Just how overtly antisemitic can I get away with being on Bluesky?" right now. When you see it--especially in the name of leftism--name, shame, and block.

The British Media in a paragraph

My husband’s been living with this for seven years. It’s more common than you might think. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"The Epstein Class" is now a pretty obvious antisemitic dog whistle, even if people who started using this term certainly didn't mean it that way.

Morning Bluesky.

I’ve written another one of my somewhat irregular Substack posts. In this one, I try to reframe chemo as a Good Thing. open.substack.com/pub/janehill...

Cat playing a game with a passenger at a metro station in Istanbul: