UN: “Kids dying of starvation… what we give them is a peanut butter paste. We’ve been told we can’t bring that in because it’s a luxury.” AMANPOUR: “Seriously?”

Please sign and share, UEFA must expel apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people. #BanIsrael action.eko.org/a/uefa-ban-i...

Random, but I’m still looking for stable employment (research/analysis/writing/teaching) and I’m happy to send along my CV in English/French. Job has to be in the UK, Canada or online.

Q. Can you vote in the Presidential election next month? A. Of course I can. I always vote. Q. Are you on the Register? A. Why wouldn't I be? *Checks Register. Name absent* Q. Who erased me? *Applies to be registerred* There are only a few days left to register.

Tanzlinden are trees designed for dancing in. Found across Germany, the oldest is from the 1680s. The branches envelop a platform for meeting & dancing. henrykuppen.nl Happy Friday!

You were mostly rather risqué in last Sunday’s harvest festival themed caption contest. 🥇 @davidjarvis.bsky.social 🥈 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social =🥉 @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social @bluebookballoon.bsky.social and highly commended to @phlogginganorse.bsky.social More to amuse at #GirlsOwnCC

A modern story about the very roots of Halloween; about the horror, the mythology, the spirituality, the archaeology of a legendary hill, and the harvest festival that lies between life and death. Order for Ireland: www.amazon.ie/First-Fire-H... For the US: www.amazon.com/First-Fire-H...

Our @EmpirePodUK look at the deep history of Palestine continues THE GAZA EROTIC LITERARY FESTIVAL: THE GOLDEN AGE OF BYZANTINE GAZA With the brilliant Peter Sarris podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

It's out! Looking forward to a fantastic programme - lots and lots of things online on both Sat 11th and Sun 12th October as well as some excellent stuff in-person on the Saturday. Check out our guest line-up too! 2025.octocon.com/octocon-gues... #Octocon2025

When I saw that poll that showed that every single German political party's base wants an arms embargo or sanctions or recognition of Palestine I was floored. The turnover is coming whether the establishment blocs in each of these countries knows it or not.

Dearbhaile Brady and Roisin Ní Riain medal on final day of Para Swimming World Championships

Don't worry, we all know and talk about it amongst ourselves.

Someone has managed to drop a Palestinian flag at the very top of the Spire. Fair fucks. Gonna be comical watching Dublin City council trying to figure out how to get that down :) #Speirgorm

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted. von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

I'm a big fan of Carsie Blanton. Wonderful songs, some of which, like the one below, are political. But don't miss out on her love songs, which are often brilliant. youtube.com/shorts/VeAzP...

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app. The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books. Anyone willing to donate should contact [email protected].

Hey @emmanewman.bsky.social, you just sold a copy of Ministry For The Future. Good job 😮 The description reminds me a lot of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner.

Denise Gough played my favourite character in Andor. I had no idea she was One Of Us.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ — theonion.com/netanyahu-th...

We’re looking for volunteers! Eastercon is entirely volunteer-run, and we need people like you to make it happen ❤️ We’re always looking for new people to join, whether that’s pre-con or at-con, helping out every week or a one-off hour, everything helps build the convention 🧵

I use 'e is for envelope' to remember the difference.

Oh, excellent!

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

🚨 BREAKING: Plaid Cymru are leading the polls in #Wales! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The choice is clear: ✅ A pro-Wales Plaid Cymru ❌ Anti-Wales Reform UK that threatens our NHS It's a close race - help us win for Wales 👉 partyof.wales/get_involved

The UN has confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Only last week our government were denying this reality and continue to sell arms to Netanyahu's genocidal regime. They must wake up and act now to end the genocide.

I would say that the UN report on genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories is important and groundbreaking but anyone who isn't convinced of the facts already seems to me to be incapable of being convinced at any later date

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Galway International Arts Festival brought 400,000 people to the city. Irish times: 7 Irish Independent: 4 Galway Advertiser: 1 Connaught Tribune: 0. Those are the amount of reviews of shows taking part in GIAF. Utterly shameful.

RIP Italian writer/philosopher Dante Alighieri, died this day 1321. “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” “Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

A long-ish thread on this scandal and why it's so bad, which military historians and people interested in historiography may find interesting even if you're not Australian. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Getting vague memories of an inept Q telling Bond about new gadgets. A cigarette which will, over time, lead his enemy to an early death of emphysema though addiction, or a pill which when slipped in a drink will cause him to need to abandon his post to buy some Rennies. Feels very M&W Look though.

I feel I've seen this jok already on Netflix, but, why not again? youtu.be/I9M3go2bAIE?...

Oscar cách i ceird araili. www.sengoidelc.com/oscar-cach-i...

Have signed this joint statement, together with Green Party leaders from across the UK calling on the BBC to withdraw from Eurovision if Israel is allowed to participate. The BBC can not be complicit in any whitewashing of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!

"The decision will raise questions about its duty to be impartial as a public service news organisation" The Guardian on RTÉ's decision re Eurovision and as usual mistaking Ireland for Britain.

Lovely evening with a cohort from the Irish kidlit community for the launch of @oliviahopewriter.bsky.social's gorgeous new picture book, The Lonely Only Dinosaur, ably assisted by @writing.ie (most appropriate for a story about friendship)

Have written to my local TDs, Micheál Martin, Simon Harris about Ireland needing to support the Sumud Global Flotilla which has Irish citizens (and members of the Oireachtas on it!) as Israel attacks it in international waters, and to do more to sanction Israel. Feel free to adapt and send your own

Ultimately Google shot themselves in the foot; their initial innovation was using link networks to judge authority of content, they helped destroy those networks so it’s now incredibly hard for them to distinguish slop/spam from expertise

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

The new Banksy that Starmer doesn’t want anyone to see

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Brussels today. Almost a quarter of a million people on the streets marching for Palestine, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. This footage was captured by freelance photojournalist, Wahaj Bani Moufleh 👏

“Holocaust museum attacked for opposition to genocide” is fully through the looking glass

Speaking of this, I loved "The Call" by @thecallya.bsky.social, and you should absolutely read it and the sequel, "Invasion"! That being said, between Call and Invasion, my brain decided it can't handle reading that level of tense and gritty, so I haven't finished Invasion 😭

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

This should be damning. I doubt it will change a single thing.

Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...

Authors: if you get an email invite from the Greater Hopewell Book Club, it's a scam: it charges an appearance fee (which it misleadingly describes as an honorarium) of $150. (If this reminds you of other AI-generated solicitations you've rec'd recently, that's not a coincidence)