One of the many reasons I love Istanbul.

This terrified girl in Gaza is too young to know that we had the power to stop the bombs falling on her family, but we chose not to. She doesn't know of our profound and inescapable complicity. But we do.

I've seen few things that so clearly show the instinctive, irrational hatred of black people that so many White Nationalist people have.

Your acknowledgement of harm must be at least as public as the harm. If you said something harmful in public/ a staff meeting / a FB group /whatever, it's not enough to re-engage a key person privately. Not if your actions have other impacts & others don't know you've been making these efforts.

Carpet. Leg of sculpture tripod. Light from stained glass.

with Scarlot Rose last year #fineartnude #nude #portrait

The thing that I find most offensive about 'Jesus died in my place' evangelicalism is it has God perform a human sacrifice. The thing in the Jewish Bible that he finds the most revolting, see Jeremiah 19.

"Price increases are, in a sense, inflation." V. Putin At least it's a better grasp of economics than Trump.

#Ciné2025 172 - LE MYSTÈRE ALEXINA 1985 - René Féret #Gindou2025 Film d'une belle beauté graphique (mais dont la qualité acoustique était entachée par les mauvaises conditions de projection en plein air). Histoire toutefois troublante sur fond d'identité sexuelle en internat de jeunes filles.

Cat, a few years ago.

Lisa Fonssagrives on the Eiffel Tower with Erwin Blumenfeld in May 1939. The reckless joy and the huge skirt billowing in the sunlight. Life and optimism and knowing what was about to break across Europe in a few months. Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

Melissa #nude #fineartnude

one last one for tonight from the 2018 shoot with Ariel

#Newsnight .. bit of a pointless squabble tonight

another from that 2018 shoot with @arielanderssen.bsky.social

looking through old cards .. 2018 with @arielanderssen.bsky.social

half of these are barely on anyone's radar in the US and Europe. disclaimer: figures via ChatGPT, all unavoidably imprecise. Most casualties of war literally don't count.

questions being asked about Everton's new boot sponsor #LUFC

how are the ads on #LUTV so consistently shit? there's not much else to whinge about, so that's a plus #LUFC

applies to UK churches too

Going a bit Rembrandt with Valentina #portrait

Valentina #fineartnude one proceeds very slowly through the editing process. one wishes one could go quicker.

Valentina again #fineartnude #portrait puts me in mind of a brief exchange a couple of weeks ago with @mariesgallery.bsky.social about smiling / laughing photos and why we sometimes instinctively pass them over when picking what to edit as 'art'.

another of Valentina last year

🧵NEW: This is an unprecedented intervention. Almost every single living, former head of the IDF, Mossad (Israeli foreign intelligence), Shin Bet (domestic intelligence) & Police Commissioner urges an end to Israel’s war in Gaza. “This is an extremist government. It has taken us all hostage.” 1/

with Valentina last year .. these are late edits .. I get phobic about editing sometimes. A bit like writer's block.

Today is my first Sunday deliberately not going to church (as opposed to missing services for health reasons or whatever). #ChurchofScotland .. 40 years an elder, several as Session Clerk. Gone. I love the #CofS but it has broken me. This by ‪@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/john...

another with @arielanderssen.bsky.social a few years ago

At this point, the only reason left to support a man like this is that he reflects your hateful heart: he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your toxic misogyny, your ignorant bigotry, and your feelings of supremacy. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-pe...

I'm prone to #misprision, misreadings and mishearings. It can be fun, like when I found owl fat yoghurt in the fridge. But this headline almost gave me a conniption. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zichro L'MAAPACHA May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥 The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence, was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

"I cannot, of course, deny that these men are surprised that this is the law; they really are surprised that there is any such thing as law. These defendants did not rely on any law at all. Their program ignored and defied all law. That this is so will appear from many acts and statements. . ." /2

with @arielanderssen.bsky.social channeling Horst P Horst and Lisa Fonssagrives. Ariel, obviously, is Lisa, and I'm Horst. Just to be clear. #portrait

#Gaza and #Biafra: parallels: 1960s, oil-rich Biafra (largely Igbo) tried to secede from Nigeria; the national govt starved the region. #Genocide? recognised as such by neutrals - not the UK, which armed the Nigerian govt. theendofhistory.net/biafra-genoc...

with Scarlot Rose a few years ago #portrait #fineartnude .. well, nude enough

hate it when photographers can't decide which is the best version, colour or bw. More Victoriah #fineartnude #nude #portrait

Aviva Dautch reminds us: genocide doesn’t begin with one moment, it escalates through deniable, gradual steps. This isn’t “how it starts.” It’s already underway. The task now isn’t prevention, it’s intervention.👇

Victoriah #nude #fineartnude

definitely up for this secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

This is Gleichshaltung, the process whereby institutions and agencies not originally tasked with implementing racial politics 'synchronised' their policies to mesh with the authoritarian and racist priorities of the regime's core constituency.

This episode features one of my favorite Pitzer lines ever, and I'm going to steal it to be the first sentence of my Russian novel.

There’s a difference between appreciating your country and idolizing it. Patriotism invites accountability. Nationalism shuts it down.

Trying one of these AI language-learning apps. You get to converse with historical characters, such as Osiris, for example. Had a chat with him tonight. Told him I'd seen him in the supermarket in Istanbul. He denied it, of course. But he's unmistakable.

This is high art

Seen this @arielanderssen.bsky.social?

Wonder why Republicans are working so hard to pass their billionaire tax giveaway as fast as they can? It's because they know the American people are quickly learning about the bill — and hating it more and more every day. Their bill is aging like a rotting fish.

Gaza is the oven into which those marked for destruction are being thrown alive. A Jewish newspaper, citing Jewish soldiers: (HT @caitoz.bsky.social for link to article) archive.is/37RtH

Rampant antisemitism in Israeli Army "Ha’aretz article cites anonymous Israeli soldiers and officers, who it says accused the IDF of firing on Gazans who posed no danger to them." Netanyahu has described this as a blood libel. Article from JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) www.jns.org/haaretz-arti...

“We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together... you can't really get rid of one without getting rid of the others... the whole structure of American life must be changed.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Gift WaPo link: as authority for the brief required delay. the chief judge of the MD federal courts cited the All Writs Act giving judges authority to preserve the court’s jurisdiction by keeping a dispute available for review, and cited a 1966 precedent. Judge Luttig has pungent comments. /2, efn