Along the way we've enjoyed a range of workshops and performances including kimchi-making with Kenji Morimoto, a night of jazz-backed improv poetry with Christian Foley and friends, and magic with Mat Ricardo. That's it for this year...see you in 2026! #litfest #JerseyCi #JerseyFestivalofWords /end

I’m reading some poems tonight at the #jerseyfestivalofwords. If you’re nearby and fancy joining me, here’s where you can get a ticket: jerseyoperahouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... @jerseywordfest.bsky.social

As Jersey Festival of Words 2026 moves towards a close we're reflecting on ten days of incredible author talks, performances and workshops from a huge array of visiting and island-based authors... /1

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NEW: British children watching YouTube risk losing connection to British English & culture - algorithm pushes US content. So says the BBC's children's TV boss. Familiar to any parents of kids who say "math" & "garbage" YouTube's dominance getting discussed: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

THE PEOPLE: we want a nation based on the Christian values of love and forgiveness THEIR PRESIDENT: I hate my opponents and wish them ill THE PEOPLE: yeahhh <cheers and clapping>

One of the things I find vexing about Kimmel's sacking is how it reveals Disney to be precisely the disingenuous "virtue signaller" the right accused them of being. "BRAVELY" casting The Little Mermaid, so it made them $250m, but voluntarily kissing dictator sphincter, if they stand to lose a cent.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

This is why they’re deleting studies

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

It’s the politicisation of the midlife crisis and I’m only half joking. Loneliness, divorce, redundancy/not getting the deference they feel is due at work, loss of power + seeing that decline reflected in your town. What’s more startling in a way is the over-50 female reform shift

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

Spent a few hours typing up 40 mark written pieces from students’ English Pearson 2.0 First Language exam scripts today (verbatim) and then having ChatGPT mark them against the Pearson mark scheme #EduSky 1/

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

It should be everywhere.

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that." (ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

The moral panic over Bob Vylan isn't just extraordinarily dumb, it's profoundly hypocritical, and deeply sinister too.

From a liberated Jersey...

I forget who said it first, but one of the most profound things I’ve ever read on here was that the culture of the manosphere isn’t about men, it’s about boys - as in, appealing to the parts of their brain that miss being 14 with no responsibilities, playing video games while Mom makes them snacks

We’re now on day 3 of non-stop media coverage of some offensive words a punk rap band said at a music festival. I guess at least it’s giving pundits with integrity a chance to draw attention back to the context and fact Palestinian civilians seeking aid are being shot at and their food poisoned.

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Seeing people can only understand society through pop culture references:

We need to embed verification, sourcing, logic, and information literacy not as extra modules, but as core cognitive tools, woven through every subject from K–12 onwards. This isn’t about resisting disinformation. It’s about surviving an epistemic environment with collapsing gatekeepers

you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen” the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety” who are people going to take seriously?

I think about this comic at least once a week

BTW, the word for this is genocide, folks. How does anyone still support this? Why? www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

ADHD has a history stretching back to at least the early 1800s, with the first distinct description appearing in 1902. ADHD appeared in clinical manuals in 1952 in the first edition of the DSM. But none of this matters to these fascist fucks because history doesn't matter to them.

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man. Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

Got our own version of this going on with the anti-trans movement over here

List of countries not subjected to tariffs: Russia Belarus North Korea Cuba They apparently took the time to impose tariffs on several uninhabited islands, so the omissions are extra noteworthy. If you spot others please flag!

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

So this was a campaign promise not an observation.

A scary must-read about Jordan Peterson's gathering of the world's powerful players on the alt-right. @nationalobserver.com @desmog.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/10/o...

So those of us who didn't give him the benefit of the doubt were right, same as we were right about Brexit, Farage, the Tories, and Austerity. When do we get our apology?

Now with a capital F

January 29, 2023. It was all there for everyone to see, who cared enough to notice.

Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset. The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.

Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦

"America could really use a President right now." I have this thought more often than I care to consider recently... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...

Cambridge researchers are developing a solar-powered reactor that could turn CO2 into sustainable fuel – without harming the planet.

Woke up to see Donald Trump sharing a video on Truth Social about turning Gaza into a holiday resort with a giant gold statue of Trump, ending with a final shot of Trump and Netanyahu enjoying the beach together. Absolutely unhinged. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine. This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.

Yeah seems pretty obvious to me that this huge gender divide in the politics of young people is being driven by men's rights / manosphere videos that act as a gateway into alt right politics.