Can confirm.

A statement from Sikh MPs on the murder of Henry Nowak.

Live on Elgin Open Mic Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 8:00 pm. 220 Elgin, #2 Web: www.liveonelgin.com/calendar/event/?ID=KHE6Y2L Get there early, say hi your host, grab a drink and sign up to do some music, comedy, poetry, or whatever else! Sign up closes at 7:45pm

In reality, racist attacks are the largest part of hate crime, often violent or threatening. Policing is weakened by under-reporting, low victim satisfaction, missing ethnicity data, low charge rates + long-running institutional failures recognised since Macpherson. bsky.app/profile/step...

I'm stunned and saddened to learn of the death of Raul Pacheco-Vega. He was an enthusiastic, generous supporter of early career scholars. He used blogs and social media to teach and to create community. He was clearly a scholar who cared, and our community is richer for his having been a part of it.

Stephen Colbert had Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen during the final week of his show, trump couldn't even get Milli Vanilli!

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

[Watching Sesame Street with my son] ME: In Spain, Elmo is called The Mo WIFE: *from another room* YOU'RE A TERRIBLE FATHER

Pardon me, folks, but I need to lie down a moment.

Our solidarity goes to our colleagues at the University of Nottingham. Your fight is our fight!

Lovely weekend in Cardiff at the tail end of the spring half term (and the calming of high heat). We dropped in at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre, where my employers @islamukcentre.bsky.social joined a broader display on diverse faith groups in Cardiff. Top job as ever by @abdulazim.bsky.social

Not long to go now! Have you registered?

#Cologne Cathedral from the platform at the Central station. 35mm shot, cropped square because I liked it better that way. 📷Fed 4 🎞️Kentmere Pan 400 #photography #filmphotography #blackandwhite #sovietcamera #abstract

Me, I'm not ready to throw in the towel.

Flatbread holding a thing (or things). Tacos are probably the chief, and Mexican/Latin American examples are superlative, but I love them from all over the world.

"Dollar Signs" by Snailhouse, who now goes by his name Michael Feuerstack. snailhouse.bandcamp.com/track/dollar...

Arsenal something something aussi Go Habs Go

Someone is being cheeky* at the charity shop in Caerphilly. *or ignorant

Queue "Well, that was summer" from British people in conversation now.

A very penblywdd hapus to Neil Finn, one of my songwriting heroes. It was so wonderful when he and the latest formation of Crowded House came to Cardiff two years ago. Singing with them was just magical, and he approved of our collective tunefulness.

Milli Vanilli? The group that was a laughingstock in the 1990s because they won a Grammy for a song that someone else sang for them? That tracks.

Terrible stuff, folks. Unlike 30 yrs ago when I wrote this song, the Colorado Avalanche will not win the Stanley Cup. And my Cdn NHL-conspiracy-theorist brain worries that Gary "the fix is in" Bettman wants Vegas to take it all. So, uh, as the text in the video sez, #GoHabsGo youtu.be/E6B96hph-Ys

My university is seemingly planning to remove most of the humanities books from our library to build open teaching space. My humanities colleagues and I are having to move to new shared offices this summer where the expectation is that we won't have space for (or need!) all the books we have now...

Worth the struggle even without the job prospects. (But don't forget about the job prospects. They're dismal.)

A Snake Sculpture 6th-11th Century AD, from U Thong Thailand.

I got a special greeting when my family & I paddled to the floating stage in Whistler where my friend Robyn was performing a few summers back. She waited this song til she saw us paddling. Robyn was the romantic lead in F's Rainbow & sang this one. anearthwithoutgrammar.wordpress.com/2024/06/07/s...

RIP to a legend from *that* generation. youtu.be/fdakJqKPRDE?...

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

'Leo calls for transparency, responsibility and accountability in the development and use of AI. “Calling for prudence, rigorous evaluation and even, at times, a slower pace in adopting AI does not mean opposing progress; instead, it is an exercise of responsible care for the human family.”'

Didn’t set out to produce such a long thread. But in the end, this turned into my “H.I.” (human intelligence), if you will, summary of the Pope’s powerful statement on AI and, ultimately, Christian humanism.

The position taken by separatism advocates, that it will give them stronger negotiating power, is “a very dangerous bluff,” the prime minister said. “I saw firsthand what happened in the United Kingdom," he said, recalling the “Brexit” vote that resulted in that country quitting the European Union.

Now Playing On untidyradio.com It Comes to This by Michael Munnik! https://michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/track/it-comes-to-this Follow

Spent the bank holiday walking up and down the Garth in the sunshine while my youngest son explained the grandmapocalypse.

This video's getting some more love on YouTube today. My favourite song since I was a kid is Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes". Three chords & a superlative bit of fiction. Here's the 2nd half with me helming a horn section. One of those life-long dream moments. youtu.be/8Wo-AdcqWS4

Happy birthday to my old mate and musical collaborator Ira Pelletier. We went from DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, thru grunge, to your bluegrass and my indiefolk. It's always been good. I recorded Ira's song "I'm Going to India" on my first EP in 2006. michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/track/im-goi...

Laurence "the 6th most talented" Fox and teeny Tommy Robinson, have had their appearance at the Oxford Union cancelled. Enjoy your Bank Holiday weekend.

It sucks living in a world where the stupidest, most evil people seem to have all the power But then again, reading 12th century Muslim ulama, 7th century Chinese scholar-bureaucrats, or 1st century Roman poets, that does seem to be the norm

What a fantastic off-the-cuff sermon from our funniest Catholic.

Happy birthday to my old mate and musical collaborator Ira Pelletier. We went from DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, thru grunge, to your bluegrass and my indiefolk. It's always been good. I recorded Ira's song "I'm Going to India" on my first EP in 2006. michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/track/im-goi...

Talking just now with a colleague about the state of decision making in our institution, and he grimly says "Ours is not to reason why." And I get it. But also, we're lecturers and researchers, damn it. Our is *precisely* to reason why. That's our job!

This feels apposite.

A long shot but if anyone knows of funding avenues for Nigerian students to study in the UK please get in touch. We have an exceptional student for the MA environmental humanities who needs funding support to get here.

Finally, favourite video? That’d be “Fly to Heaven” from my latest record. Besides the song being a real departure for me musically (w synth collab from my mate Ira Pelletier), my daughter did this all with stop-motion and original artwork. Incredibly cool - a unique look. youtu.be/QweDUX6nbrE

Most ambitious video? “The One that Haunts Me”, also from the 2023 record. I had less of a concept going in & more time pressure, so I took the camera on a family walk to the Gower & stitched together random footage. My daughter shot the me bits & also drew the images. Not bad! youtu.be/grbDj-501hE

Biggest climber in a day? My cover of Paul Simon’s “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” from my album release show. So gratifying with the horn section! Why so many? I hadn’t posted in a while, and I think the algorithm served me dopamine to get me back. Also, folks dig covers. youtu.be/8Wo-AdcqWS4

It’s the 3rd birthday of my YouTube channel - a vehicle for live clips & creative videos to illustrate my music. The most viewed? “Anchors Aweigh”, lead single from my 2023 record Driving Through America at Night. Cool song. Video concept mine and, I dare say, well executed. youtu.be/czmnU9Ccfx8

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem