#AI is a threat to all of us. UK military looks at allowing lethal strikes without human approval - www.ft.com/content/a216... via @FT

Totally agree. Free drinking water is the mark of a civilised society. No restaurant should be too posh to serve tap water - www.ft.com/content/8ac9... via @FT

This is excellent. Should AI steal your job? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

China is trying to destroy the Uyghur people and culture. Up to 1 million people may be in detention. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I hate him. Benjamin Netanyahu orders Israeli forces to take control of 70% of Gaza - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Samsung workers set for $400,000 bonus after deal to share AI profits - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Pretty obvious, because neoliberalism was never a coherent economic theory - it was propaganda by the rich to justify them grabbing even more. Bury it.

Keir Starmer's government abandoning UK citizens who show solidarity with Palestinians. Scottish flotilla activist to return home today after being 'left to wander airport' www.thenational.scot/news/2613396...

Absolutely. The anti-AI revolt is here, and I am ready for it. It's a technology designed specifically to replace humans and make oligarchs richer. It doesn't even work properly. It's a terrible idea on so many levels. The new Luddite movement - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

I may have cried a little www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Democrats still in denial. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/its-...

When are our politicians going to stop protecting these animals? Expel the ambassadors. Cut off diplomatic relations. Total econmic and cultural boycott. This can't continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This is funny. An African humanitarian visits Scotland, suffering under the English boot. The Intrepid Humanitarian | Into the heart of dankness, part 2: Brave Hearts: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/column/2026/... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

I am so glad I cancelled my Spotify account. It's not a platform for people who love music. www.ft.com/content/016f...

When the AI crash happens, it will take the entire US economy with ir. The impossible maths of the AI boom - www.ft.com/content/32bf... via @FT

Israeli forces have pushed past the “Yellow Line” that divides the Gaza Strip in half and now control 65% of the territory. Residents call the new border Gaza’s “apartheid wall.” mondoweiss.net/2026/05/how-... #Palestine #Israel

"Voters would always require non-neoliberal reasons to vote for neoliberal policies. The dynamite they used was the politics of race. Crude evolutionary theory was deployed to argue that there were hierarchies of freedom: when we start bending over backwards to let others in we drag everyone down.“

Still colonising. Israel seizes 1,000 sq km under Benjamin Netanyahu’s war strategy - www.ft.com/content/1c15... via @FT

Gee, I wonder which South African city is could be? businesstech.co.za/news/lifesty...

Israeli soldiers have once again attacked a flotilla seeking to bring much-needed aid to Gaza. They attacked the flotilla in international waters. Gaza remains blockaded as a part of the ongoing genocide. For the Israeli government, simply considering Palestinians to be human beings is a crime.

Trump is clearly presiding over a rapid and dramatic decline in American power and prestige. The American century is over. The problem is that countries in decline can be really dangerous - lool at the destruction caused by Russia, a basket case, over the past decades.

I think that this is one of the most effective centre left political posters I've seen in a long time - the hidden work that makes the good life possible.

This is depressing. Humanity is dying out because people are glued to their phones instead of meeting each other. Also, houses are too expensive. Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

I find it very disappointing that both @swisspost.bsky.social and @galaxus.ch have been subjected to the relentless process of #enshittification. The post office no longer attempts to deliver my parcels. You can't contact a person at either business: just an AI chatbot that can't help.

Eurovision is a joke. Shut it down. It claims to promote inclusion but its whitewashing genocide. Israel’s Eurovision role triggers deep split in contest - www.ft.com/content/9fb8... via @FT

More than 20 MSPs were sworn in to the Scottish Parliament after saying their oaths and affirmations in languages such as Gaelic, Mandarin, Shetlandic, French and Scots. Here's a full list of the 15 languages MSPs spoke while swearing in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

“One place to which the Bund did not spread was Palestine. Its members believed that Jews should fight for full rights wherever they were, not in a new homeland somewhere else.” —Adam Hochschild

Now that it's been published in the @nytimes.com, will the world finally believe it? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

I think the Jess Phillips letter is really damning, "It has taken me a year to get you to agree to even threaten to legislate in this space. Not legislate, just threaten. This is the definition of incremental change. Nothing bold about it" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm not saying this because I particularly think he should stand for leader but it does feel Quite Interesting that Labour actually has this other mayor who's been successfully running a much bigger city for a longer period of time but for some reason no one's waiting for him to save the party

China’s first electric car plant in Europe mired in allegations of worker abuse www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Israel is planning show trials: "The special military tribunals, which will be headquartered in Jerusalem and televised, are set to try imprisoned militants for crimes of genocide, murder, impairing the sovereignty of the state of Israel." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I hate this shit. @theguardian.com inventing microtrends for clickbait in a culture war they're stoking. I am pretty sure almost no one, male or female, wants to be divorced. It's traumatic. If this was a one off, it wouldn't bug me, but there's a relentless drip-drip-drip of this content.

DEAR RESTAURANTS: Your servers are not volunteers. If you can't afford to pay them more than 2.13% of what you charge, you can't afford to run a business. Thank you!

Murdering children is fine. Targeting journalists is fine. Raping prisoners is fine. But damage a statue, and you go to jail. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Four years since Palestinian-American journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces, progress toward justice has stalled, adding further fuel to what has become a global crisis of impunity for attacks on journalists. Our statement: buff.ly/yQqBDa4

The fifth anniversary of the end of the first #Covid lockdown here in Geneva. I remember it so clearly, the sense of being let out of prison.

The environmental cost of the green transition: apps.npr.org/indonesia-ni...

This is an interesting piece and connects to a convo i was having with friends yesterday, about how one of my challenges recently is persuading students that I want *their* thoughts and analysis about things, and that it coming *from them* is the entire point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This looks good. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

The Guardian looking very foolish now.

As is now painfully obvious, political centrism (government by neoliberal technocrats) is in its final death throes. The only beneficiary of their demise is the racist, nativist, xenophobic, idiot-right. The only viable alternative to the catastrophe of their rise is an avowedly antifascist left.

"The Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism & and principles, and it won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it." David Graeber (2020)

Israel is kidnapping people in international waters. Where is the outrage? www.thenational.scot/news/2608722...

Keir Starmer's government covering up Israel's murder of journalists. www.thenational.scot/news/2608800...

Israel is losing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Media treatment of Polanski has been shocking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are ruled by idiots. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Total impunity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...