#BBC and #BAFTA you had choice and time and we have seen what you chose - to pit #Ableism against #Racism You could have done by right by all 3 men. You insulted 2 of the best actors and left the man with Tourettes to take the fall. A sad day. Sad because it wasn’t shocking.

We used to say "never again" but as long as we are humans, good will have to fight evil. #ICE #WESEEYOU

The politics of AI are anti-human. This comparison is disgusting.

Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

1. I think most liberals are probably familiar with one part of what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank Wilhoit put it in 2018: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

I am once again stating the obvious by saying that the whole “low information voters” thing is a media tactic to normalise Trumpism because what do you mean these people have the capacity to find EVERY conspiracy theory about climate change and trans people, but none to believe Trump is evil.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Shoutout to everyone trying or yearning to live the fullness of themselves.

everyone who's smarter than me was right-- Palestine was the proving ground. It was a demonstration that, even in this information environment, even as it was live-streamed, genocide can happen and this global power structure is either indifferent or impotent to stand in the way.

You can hear the authors of our report on public service broadcasting in conversation with @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on the future of the BBC www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

And I think about Eric Garner’s last words so often, I have this beautiful poem by Ross Gay memorised:

I think about Elijah McClain a lot. How he was a sweet, lovely young soul who used to play the violin for stray cats. How brutally his young life ended and how the State sent riot police to interrupt the violin vigil in his name. The cruelty was always the point.

In the words of Frederick Douglass, “Power concedes nothing without a demand.”

Choosing your #Coloniser. An inportant watch re #Greenland I think some folks are misunderstanding the magnitude of this moment. An #Inuit woman aligns herself with #peopleofcolour and reminds us that they too watch world dynamics of discrimination & #Racism youtube.com/watch?v=DMPe...

Just seen a news item about this. What a wonderful thing to do #Dementia #Disco Totally free, do support them if you can. 💚 www.dementiadisco.org

Ryan Coogler has a fascination with the year 1992. This movie ends in that year, and it’s also the year Black Panther begins. It’s also the year Malcolm X was released in theaters which Coogler acknowledges is one of his favorite movies. #HATM

"Before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life." That line recontextualizes the entire film, followed by Stack's line - "For just a moment, we were free." This is a story about real life, real history, real stories wrapped up in a fantastical vampire tale. 🫡 #HATM

Thank you Emma. My inner hippy needed your feel good article on being a #Vegan 💚 (I was a vegan in the 90s when it wasn’t fashionable. Now a pescatarian) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Precisely.

Rather than look at the consequences of wealth built on #slavery, we’ll just do it again, because we can’t admit it’s the only way #capitalism works. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A lovely listen.The teenager who came before RosaParks Sadly #ClaudetteColvin died this week. #BusBoycott #USApartheid www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's already being done at scale, with insurance, with loans, real estate, cars, any instance where the real price is already obscured and reliant on credit scores. And it always results in it being more expensive to be poor.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Robert, you can’t jump ship when you’ve been booted out. I’m no fan of the Tories but these 2 got publicly spanked today. #Reform #Tories We all deserve better from our #politicians and our #press urgh.

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Watching #BBC journalists discuss the latest soap opera between #Tories and #Reform earlier today was sobering. They couldn’t hide their glee.

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Also, starting Jan 15th the option to opt-out of your content being used to train AI ends.

someone said big pharma should periodically release quaaludes for a limited time, like a narcotic mcrib

The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

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Why is anybody surprised? #Europe #Colonisation #Empire #Theftoflandpeopleandresources It seems all museums and history professors have failed.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

A crucial point. Elon Musk and several other tech executives are right now producing and distributing child pornography, and that is how the media should be covering this.

Evening

This is really good. Because when we (and AA actors) talk about Brits playing AA roles. We dont often hear from Brit actors who do thevresearch or make the connection to the same culture. Wunmi is as tied to Annie as many of us. Same root, diff branch.

Lorelei Cloud was born 3 years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. She is now vice chair of the Southern Ute Tribe. “I don’t want future generations to have to deal with any of what we’ve had to.”

✨ Happy New Year from everyone at BRLSI! ✨ Thank you for being part of our community in 2025. We’re looking forward to another year of talks, workshops and conversations. Here’s to an inspiring 2026 🥂

www.nuhorizons.uk/post/a-very-... My brother came to #Bath 🥰 Happy Days. #Parkrun #Christmas #ChristmasParkrun #Parkwalk #Running #Walking

my friend, a Woody Guthrie scholar who has become friends with the family, published a beautiful essay this week prompted by some inane lyrics from Welles www.anotherjaneprattthing.com/p/after-year...

And we’re only £400 away from our fundraising goal for 2025. If anyone wants to get us over the top.

I keep explaining this and people keep replying "but look at the way the Ls are slanted" or "the ink looks slightly different on the second page". WUT? Did I lapse into Greek?

"In retrospect, the Court’s willingness a quarter-century later in Palmer v. Thompson to allow cities to shut down public swimming pools rather than allow Black people to use them makes a lot more sense." whew Lord

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.