I’m very excited for this! On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

Americans in the comments completely misunderstanding that “community leaders” and “British” does not mean what they they think it does here are really missing how fucking dark this actually is. There’s a reason I - someone not from that part of the world - doesn’t pass comment and just listens

Just a thing - what's *very* adult humour?

No, BBC News (at 6), innocent families were not “forced from their homes” in Belfast by “masked protestors”. They were attacked by racist thugs. Sort out your language, please.

Look, all I'm saying is now is the time for Dr Woof

In these difficult times I'm just glad that Friday Night Dinner is still available for all my mental health needs

Tune!

An impartial journalist might contextualise the Belfast knife attack with *evidence*: 282 knife offences every day on average & foreign born nationals under-represented in violent crime. Chris Mason spoke instead of right wing *narratives* of migrants, borders & crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Women's voices often get deeper as they age. Another candidate for the "public wrong about nearly everything" file.

Tonight's #AwesomeFoursome from the #Iceland archives are all close-ups of icebergs in the incredible Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon.

bsky.app/profile/eliz... This was the most important bit, and Owen actually went in for the kill and made them look like fools. I hope someone clips this, it's very near the end and it showed the full absurdity of the guidance and the EHRC in a nutshell.

The more I hear about this world cup, the more I believe they're just going to denyentry to all the best football players

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

Most people will experience mental and bodily differences at some point in their lives and likely care for a person with a disability, making it one of the most relatable subjects a museum can engage with.

Is that her very progressive husband?

Anyway, brb gotta go down the park and net me a pigeon or perhaps a parakeet 🍗🍗

It's madness to criminalise cannabis - making it legal would mean that much modern day slavery, child exploitation & funding of class A drugs & illegal arms trade would be removed. Regulation & taxation wouldn't be a bad idea -high THC content cannabis connected to psychosis could be controlled.

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

Anyone on here know the proportion of NHS G.P.s who also work in private medicine? Or where I could find that info? For a thing (relative who constantly moans about how rubbish NHS is and claims they're all on the take, why else would they only work part time?).

And yet I've almost never heard this reality deployed to excuse women's behavior, and women are overall far less prone to violence than men, so the idea that PTSD explains abuse can take a hike. For me violence, outside self-defense, always begins with entitlement to harm/control others....

Back at @wigmore-hall.org.uk and this is the first time I’ve ever seen The Fall and Henry Purcell on the same setlist

Nature finds a way

I've just turned off all the autocorrect and predictive functions, and entering text has just become so much quicker and easier. I wish I'd done it years ago!

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Great letter from Paul Ramsbottom, CEO of the Wolfson Foundation in the Times today

They are all very deliberately ignoring the express wishes of Henry Nowak's family; the judge's sentencing report & the obvious, albeit brief, consequences of a crime being reported exclusively by a lying associate of the perpetrator. It may feel futile but this has to be repeated again & again.

A Skeptical Guide to UFO Cases and Claims With Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster film "Disclosure Day" about to debut, scientists and educators will face a new barrage of student and public questions about UFOs (or, as they have been rebranded, UAPs). 🧪 👽️

I am so not going to let turquoise arseholes get me down, when there are so many other things that are demanding to get me down first.

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Classic rookie error Connections Puzzle #1089 🟦🟪🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

There’s nothing a fascist hates more than someone feeling joyous and having friends

Some (most) of the vileness directed at the grieving family and the police is from bots. This is either to stir up racists, or to make the rest of us feel despair at the state of the world. Don‘t give in to hopelessness, call your friends, have some good times, they want us to feel down so RESIST!

I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

Really good thread (and a really good follow also)

I mean, the UK government barred me from speaking to a conference that they literally invited me to speak at and tried to ruin my career because I retweeted SuperTanskii, called Nadine Dorries a car crash, and called Rees Mogg a haunted pencil. Bit nobody can ban Farage from inciting violence?

Abolish the BBC

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For right wing chunters in the UK, us people with Eastern European surnames are only flexibly white. We're white when it suits them. We're not white when they get their way.

The Supreme Court appear to *despise* the concept of universal human rights, which I'm sure is fine.

We lost Jonathan Joss exactly One Year ago today. A neighbor burned his house, killed his dogs and shot him in the street for being Gay. Never forget Jonathan Joss. #KingOfTheHill #JohnRedcorn

Compare and contrast

Sit on it, that should work

Oh, no reason.

Racism spreads when institutions legitimise it.

Our recommendations focus on the platforms themselves: a clearer definition of “safety by design” in the Online Safety Act, and a stronger Ofcom code of practice.

I’ve often thought this. The kind of language this letter outlines is unhelpful, too, because it doesn‘t allow a survivor to describe how they feel, the impact it’s had on them. It’s almost like you have to stick to a template - not useful. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

#OtD 1 Jun 1985 British police attacked people visiting Stonehenge in the "Battle of the Beanfield". Policed smashed vehicle windows, dragged people out through the broken glass, and then beat them. More here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8100...

This completely blew my mind the first time I saw it, and still does, tbh.

This is a massively good thread, and Naomi has far more compassion and understanding than I have so far been able to show.