@owenjones.bsky.social may have had his conference pass cancelled but this was 100% worth it.

Wow… just watched one of the flotilla boats be boarded by the IDF on the livestream of a Portuguese crew member and the person shouting “put your fucking hands up!” was certainly British, judging from the accent. Go figure.

Hi (Scottish and Irish) gays, Liz and I will be cruising your neighbourhoods next year!

“Ezra Klein contends that living with one another on the basis of ‘social shame and cultural pressure’ cannot work and would not be worthwhile if it did: a nation where such things flourished would not be ‘a free country.’” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

🔔 freelance researcher call At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

After threats from the Israeli Football Association, Reebok has said they are not removing sponsorship and offered a new paean to the banality of evil: “We don’t do politics; we do sport.”

The Swedish UPPSALA DECLARATION now has 2,557 signatories. The EUROPEAN DECLARATION is catching up with 2,458 from EU/EEA/UK/CH. All signatories refuse to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.

Amelia Gentleman visited the XBiz conference in Amsterdam and tells us about it in the latest @theguardian.com Today in Focus. Here’s my response. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

He just really doesn’t like subtitles.

Good riddance www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/vc...

I ❤️ sports! GO, SPORTS! 🥵🔥 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Benjamin Netanyahu truly is a despicable human being.

I was casually watching @france24.com in English while having my lunch, then heard them report from the Tokyo Games Fair about how some company has some product that allows “invalids” to play games through eye movements, and asked myself “what in the eugenics is this journalism?” 🤯

Giving Gaza for Tony Blair to temporarily “govern” would really be the cherry on top of the war criminal imperialist cake.

It’s PhD defence day at work, for Victoria Kawesa’s “Black Mask/White Sins: Becoming a Balck Antiracist Obuntu Bulamu African Feminist.” The amazing Gloria Wekker is leading a really generative discussion as Victoria’s opponent. The thesis can be downloaded here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

A couple of things I’ve got coming out before the end of the year

Die @dgsoziologie.bsky.social will die Kooperation mit Wissenschaftler:innen unter prekären Bedingungen erleichtern. Wen Sie meint: Israelische Forscher:innen, später vielleicht auch ukrainische. Palästinensische Forscher:innen, deren Universitäten Israel mit deutschen Waffen zerstört, ...

Delicacies delivered by post! 🖤🖤🖤

The Canadian Opera Company either employs no gays, or exclusively gays. I ♥️ COC.

Disgusting

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

Me describing my future 50th birthday party in my future memoir

Been eagerly waiting for this one, by my @benwritesthings.bsky.social to be out! thediasporist.de/the-bitter-t...

Colleagues in the EU, sign this uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/

Just got the latest @blnreview.bsky.social in the post

Ciao da Palermo where finally there’s a conference with a title I can relate to.

It's too easy to hear the story of Cindy Bi suing her surrogate for murder & infer that what we need to get rid of is surrogacy (rather than the way parenthood is organized under capitalism). So many ppl sent me the Wired article that I ended up writing my response: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I cannot believe they let me publish these two paragraphs, but I am glad they did

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

This is amazing! My Ben at his best seeing and honouring the magnificent @vaginaldavis.bsky.social 🥰

The accomplices of genocide are also genociders, and I hope Lammy, Starmer, Cooper and their ilk will spend their last days rotting in painful unbearable misery. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Also, if you zoom on my left shoulder, this is what you’ll see, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Heading to Palermo to deliver one of the plenary talks at this conference of deviants 🥰

It’s Berlin Art Week and—months after having his feelings hurt by Nan Goldin bringing up the genocide at her opening—Klaus Bisenbach has invited Berliners to turn up at the Neue Nationalgalerie on Sunday to “ring bells for peace” 🤮, so I’ve made an art to commemorate the obscene occasion.

The US denied visas to Palestinian officials for the UNGA, a blatant move to silence Palestine. The empty chair left by their absence will be a powerful symbol and won’t go unnoticed. It speaks of genocide, occupation, and Israel’s annexation efforts.

Just in case you find yourself in/around Hamburg on Dec 4, I’ll be giving a talk at the Kunsverein titled “Imagining Sex, Imagining Us: Pornography, Transnational Print Culture, and the Invention of “Gay Europe,” in the context of their great-looking new exhibit www.kunstverein.de/program/imag...

“Our children’s brains are being rewired [by screens]” and the “temptation to stop their homework to look at really harmful content online,” as well as “using devices instead of pen and paper.” My god, Radio 4’s Today programme is truly a window into the mass hallucination that is England.

"If, as these works suggest, queer theory is finally ready to talk about sex, we must be prepared for a confusion of tongues." Jordan Osserman explores the possibilities and contradictions inherent in certain queer subcultures and practices. lareviewofbooks.org/article/cruising-as-moral-practice/

Sweet engagement with CROSSINGS, especially coming from a Lacanian like adorable Jordan Osserman! 🥰https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cruising-as-moral-practice/