Once again tips for dealing with the heat. These tips don't guarantee that you will enjoy the heat but they will make it easier than not doing them.

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

Recognition of the State of Palestine isn't an especially left-wing accomplishment in 2024, 2025 or 2026 when the vast majority of the world had already recognized it by 2011.

You know who I am, he said.

making arrabiata sauce with this on := peak experience

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🎵 Biffy Clyro - Mountains🎵 (Image taken as we drove through Glencoe today) #Mountains #Scotland #Photography #BlackAndWhite

Happy Midsummer and Juneteenth, throw old white racists off cliffs to celebrate both.

✨JUNETEENTH MUTUAL AID THREAD ✨ Here’s a thread with Black folks you can support in celebration of #Juneteenth. Do some good - even if you’re sending $3 to a Black person to treat themselves to a dessert or a coffee! Circulate & give to at least one person in the thread if you have the means 💜

A fundamental principle is that we *never* cede ground to the far right. If they steal our terms and concepts - which they do all the time - we seize them back and explain the reality behind them. In fact we can leverage their misuse of our terms, to refocus attention on what they really mean.

For the July issue of Harper’s, I tried to work through my feelings about the United States at this particular moment by surveying the America 250/Freedom 250 industrial complex and otherwise driving around the Keystone State: harpers.org/archive/2026...

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

When Biden's corpse was in office the dems looking for something to blame for ppl opposing the US/Israel genocide of Gaza then drummed up some anti tiktok legislation that was "anti surveillance" wrt Tiktok but not against any of the US oligarchies and current business model of the internet haa

I love how "center left" in the US and UK will do moral panics about the internet and try to limit kids' access to social media but not do anything about the material conditions of children's lives or how the predatory surveillance economy works, it's such a beautiful expression of dead centrism.

Working on it (魔法少女)

I interviewed Keith Ridgway for @irishtimes.com about his outstanding new novel ‘Dooneen’. Published @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

i adore this book, i recommend it. extravagantly generous, wide-awake, beautiful, ugly. "holy fuck" and "oh god, no" both things i said aloud while reading.

The london underground can say it. Why can’t the Labour party or the BBC??? There is no anti-white racism. There are no legitimate concerns. There’s just racism wearing middle class clothes.

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My review of "The Story of Capital" by @davidharvey.org is out , marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2270...

The author of this column, Susanna Rustin,was described to me by Guardian staffers as a “militant and obsessive anti-trans activist" in 2021.

Nathan @goldwagnathan.bsky.social hits the mark on all these things and so you should read the piece.

New SFULTRA. I talk about the latest Antoine Volodine translation The Monroe Girls and discuss whether the many things that make him great may also make him a hard sell, even to uh...'brodernists'(???). Free to all on this link or in all the usual pod places soon. www.patreon.com/posts/159229...

requiescat, sonny rollins, and thank you for so much.

loved reading this very, very much. audacious, dizzying, real. thank you @blipstress.bsky.social & @littlepuss.net

“In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status-quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

jfc 16 byte demo and the track fuckin' bangs stupid sexy sierpiński triangles hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_...

Archie Goodwin and Steve Ditko send Ted Nugent to Hell.

“What this analysis shows is that trans people’s wellbeing & public attitudes towards trans people have worsened since 2017, in conjunction with the rise of an organised GC movement.” New analysis by Amnesty International exposes how UK media enable transphobia. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

"Finally, a Foolproof System"

Good news! (Great news actually) I secured an apartment in Virginia officially and am moving out there come July! Thanks to the people who have donated so far I was able to get out there and scout out apartments, pay application fees etc. So thank you! Still so much to do tho, how about a share?

good company when in a bad way jimorourkenwm.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-...

For telling the truth about how the media covered the stabbings in Golders Green (and Southwark) The Times is administering a punishment beating to Misan Harriman, Britain's most prominent Black cultural leader. Don't speak out whilst Black is the lesson it's trying to teach.

Hey! Did you know we're closing at the end of the year? There's not long to pick up one of our fantastic comics. Whether you enjoy sci-fi, fantasy, autobio, horror, romance, your next favourite read might be a couple of clicks away! 🐉 quindriepress.com

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

have been wading through a low volume of tiring shit, mostly of my own making, all day, and then this record hits like the best medicine.

obviously this youtu.be/QbnYPrXx8H8

The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter Dedication’, is published today. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/p...

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! Hello everyone, I'm Gustavo and I'm an illustrator open for new projects! I'm also seeking representation :D

Running with the Tide. Mixed media. 25 x 15 cm

TIL there was a moment in time when ZZ Top sampled Autechre. (Yes, that's the correct way around.) www.whosampled.com/sample/54172...

Milling about at the gig

One of my favourite ever images from space, up there with the eerie images of the surface of Venus - a tiny glimpse of the crags of a Gothic, fleeing micro-world in a whirlwind of stars, made all the moodier by the Lumiere-Brothers scratchiness

24/4/26 - nocturn