Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (I have never read it in one volume but cannot choose) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Breaking the ‘rules’ to say I’d read it before this photo but I love the whole mad story) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

Happy 100th birthday to one of the loveliest men alive bit.ly/4uq7ptW

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Qesser Zuhrah and Amy Gardiner-Gibson are on day 46 of their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on day 45. All are at a high risk of death. In 1981 - the last time there was a hunger strike like this - Martin Hurson died after 46 days.

Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly. That's more than 11 violations every single day. The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.

Testing… breaking… failing to honour… apparently synonyms now.

British.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

I'm so angry about #KingAndConqueror because the exec producer says: 'there's an obscuring mist that allows you to take artistic license in a way that doesn't feel inauthentic or unethical, because there's only so much we can know. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... 1/

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

The targeted killing of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of October 2023. No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed.

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly. 1/3

"The BBC’s recent refusal to air documentaries on Gaza is part of a systemic fear among UK journalists of reporting the plain facts"

Juliette Touma: "There is a much easier way, & that is to drive trucks through the borders" Airdrops are cover to allow Israels allies to point to actions being taken whilst the reality is they continue facilitating the extermination of the Palestinian people.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

Feeling very timely in this moment of a trans revival of Section 28... www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/15/r...

Caster Semenya is a cis woman. A cis woman who has been subject to human rights abuses. She’s won (again) by proving that the system is unfair and she wasn’t given a fair hearing. There’s no world in which her fight isn’t for women’s rights.

The documentary that the BBC refused to air showing the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities was broadcast by Channel 4 last night. Amnesty International researcher, Budour Hassan, explains the use of secret sites by the Israeli authorities.

🚨 Last night JK Rowling attacked The National as an "anti-woman newspaper". I think that is absolutely ridiculous chat. Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team. www.thenational.scot/news/2525321...

Remember when the US Congress voted for a “trans bathroom ban” on their premises, mostly to bully their solitary trans colleague, and we (the reasonable among us) all thought that outrageous? Obviously progressive Scotland would never do something like — oh. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2514895...

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW. (Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

This. As a cis woman, I reject the premise that trans women are a threat to me or to my womanhood.

Spare a thought today, too, for lesbian women, overwhelmingly trans inclusive, but who the Supreme Court has presented as exactly the opposite. Sorry but the heterosexual judges on the Supreme Court know better than you what you really think.

The Supreme Court ignored trans voices, harming trans people – and the fairness of its ruling. I’m ashamed of what our law has become, says @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social 💬 goodlaw.social/83qa

Absolutely heartbroken to learn of Hossam’s murder. He gave so much of himself and deserved so much more from this world and this life. Free Palestine.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

A hero passes www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hani Mahmoud reports on Israel cutting off electricity to the desalination plant in Gaza that provides drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people.

Feel like you know nothing about Sudan? I sat down with the team at Prospect Magazine to talk about the conflict, and why it’s NOT a forgotten war, but an invisibilised one: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Pussy willows by Margaret Ely Webb! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pu.... The full book is available here: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...

#MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges If you've not already had a look at this gorgeous astrolabe in Verona, check out the NY Times article. And for more context, this piece in the Guardian has more detail: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m...

“This is a textbook case of genocide.” Craig Mokhiber just resigned as Director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, after more than three decades of service in the UN. "We are failing again." His full resignation letter and final appeal are well worth reading.

A few weeks back I had a lovely day out with a friend at Pollock House and managed to prove to myself that there was a portrait in the house that had a startling resemblance to another friend. I first spotted it years ago but somehow never made it back to gather proof until now. So glad I found it!

And hello to another new social media platform. Sadly not joining this one because of Gish (unlike twitter & insta) but Jazz and Lola will enjoy having another audience. Once they wake up!