A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Behold, the genetic superiority of the master race. bsky.app/profile/chri...

The fate of the 2,787 people arrested for terrorism offences for peacefully holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” in silent vigils will be decided this Friday. The long-awaited Judicial Review ruling will be read out at 10am in the Royal Courts of Justice.

Looking forward to seeing if @aiannucci.bsky.social 's theory on AI plays out www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_s...

How about if it wasn’t a crisis, every time some wealthy political donor opens his dumb yakking mouth

Ratcliffe has blown a pernicious group’s cover. Tax exile millionaires including media moguls, who exploit everyone and everything for themselves disguised as patriots acting for the ‘left behind’ white working class. Scapegoating immigrants is their ruse. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If the planet was being trashed to make plutocrats happy, that'd be terrible, but at least someone would be happy about it. But these people are incapable of happiness. The planet is being trashed to make people who are incapable of happiness feel nothing. Also, a lot of them seem to be pedophiles.

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

Pink footed geese this morning over my house

This is wonderful. Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work. But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing. Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.

"Epstein’s victims, Trump’s victims, Russia’s victims, Israel’s victims. We are in mafia country now. A world of strong men where the rules-based order is dead. Jeffrey Epstein is the symbol of that. And, we now know, he also helped create it." www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...

🇻🇪 Bloomberg reported today that Venezuela is sending a crude oil cargo to Bazan Group, Israel’s largest refinery. But Venezuela is not directly selling oil to Israel. Since U.S. forces kidnapped Pres. Nicolás Maduro and Washington took control of Venezuela’s oil exports, all crude sales are being...

Well, the British press spent about five years roaring that the left were a cancer and a virulent infection that had to be excised and destroyed, to the point where regular punters were telling journos on doorsteps that their leader was himself personally a terrorist, so jot that down for starters

"Epstein’s victims, Trump’s victims, Russia’s victims, Israel’s victims. We are in mafia country now. A world of strong men where the rules-based order is dead. Jeffrey Epstein is the symbol of that. And, we now know, he also helped create it." www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...

Happy birthday, Gene! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpSz...

Born 91 years ago today: Gene Vincent (d. 1971). youtu.be/5zF8drKrZVs?...

So much to love in this Pentangle session from Jacqui McShee's perfect eye shadow & stock-still melodiousness to Terry Cox's loose precision to Danny Thompson's accent-you-don't-hear-from-musicians anymore. Smell the pale ale & Player's No6 pulsing from the screen... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESyc...

If anything, this is mild about the multiple slam-dunks Old Jezza could reach for here. The public despised *him* mostly thanks to one of the most terrifying all-channels hate campaigns ever waged in British political history. They hate his successors worse, just because they are being themselves.

Well, it’s not like the auld yin is wrong, is it.

The entire Tavistock scandal was over 8 complaints. They've fucked the entirety of trans and non binary peoples, because of 8 complaints, all of which have not materialised into anything as far as I can tell.

Starting to wonder if our world-renowned 4th estate can report anything correctly and whether there is any press outrage that isn't conjured up out of nothing ...

The year is 2045. Nurse is the only job left. It has been hastily retconned to a male coded job and every nurse now wears tactical combat gear and has a gun.

Once again, support for Israel as the liberal role model state was clearly a backdoor used to get the centre-left to adopt policies of the far right and acquiesce to fascism.

If we're talking about "left antisemitism", which absolutely does exist, we should consider it in the context of the accusation of such being used to destroy the British left by a man who just resigned in disgrace because of Epstein: www.declassifieduk.org/morgan-mcswe...

ICE plans to have a presence at the World Cup this summer, acting director Todd Lyons said Tuesday. "ICE, specifically Homeland Security Investigations, is a key part of the overall security apparatus for the World Cup," Lyons said before a House panel. www.axios.com/2026/02/10/i...

They had to have been telepathic. Nothing else explains the sheer brilliance of that band.

So much to love in this Pentangle session from Jacqui McShee's perfect eye shadow & stock-still melodiousness to Terry Cox's loose precision to Danny Thompson's accent-you-don't-hear-from-musicians anymore. Smell the pale ale & Player's No6 pulsing from the screen... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESyc...

‘Anticommunism’ and ‘antiterrorism’, twin battles against fictive enemies, spectral demons against whom anything and everything is permissible, a hatred made all the more potent and potential if they can be imbricated together to create the pretext for an all-encompassing violence without limit.

At some point in the future, maybe years or even decades from now, it will be a widely acknowledged fact that the moment we are living through was the result of a total legitimation of virulent Islamophobia, buttressed by and interwoven with age-old, All-American genocidal ‘anticommunism’ tropes.

Nobody told us we could have ten years of Tory rule AND chaos with Ed Miliband!

It’s not quite November 2021 levels of Noticing Things* but Things are centrally being Noticed

they’re doing this to me tomorrow

Rare Video: Vince Guaraldi’s First Televised Performance of “Linus and Lucy” (1964)

I just found this. I hope not one more life is lost because of Trump and his masked goon murderers. These are their smallest victims. Artist Danae has created a series of collages honoring children who have passed while in ICE custody. #DefundICE #ProudBlue

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one. Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

It’s the 136th anniversary today of some highly prized artefacts from Ancient Egypt being auctioned in Liverpool. From there, the 180,000 mummified cats in question went to their splendid and dignified final resting place. A museum? No. They were ground up and used for fertiliser 🧵

Your occasional reminder of how brilliant Eric Burdon and the Animals were ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30...

Good to see Lewis Goodall at least addressing this, a thing nobody else I’ve seen has had a go at.

I've never understood the knocking Eric received (and still does from time to time) for his psychedelic proselytising. Classist attitudes really. His acid revelation was as true as any of his peers

Your occasional reminder of how brilliant Eric Burdon and the Animals were ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30...

It is IMO worth noting that both Morgan and his media mates appear to have agreed very strongly on one thing: that 4.5% result for Liz Kendall did not mean her politics aren’t popular. It meant that the scum Labour Party members had to be stepped on and crushed.

I think this is correct that the end of Mandelson and McSweeney really marks the terminal decline of the Labour Party, a death long foretold. The political debate now is what might arise from the wreckage. averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-fa...

Yes, this is what happens when people who behave horrifically - insulting and abusing colleagues, conspiring with the press to stoke screaming hate campaigns against them, proposing absurdly harsh crackdowns and so on - are rewarded and rewarded beyond their wildest dreams.

Proud and honoured to have played lead guitar on this and most of the rest of Swell Maps' first new LP for 45 years. Here's the first video, and the album's up for pre-order on Bandcamp Friday today. Gigs soon! A fine female Hen Harrier towards the end too :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckQP...

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

The fact that it’s so cost-prohibitive to look this way may be part of why it’s so in demand. In an era when celebrities are increasingly transparent about their plastic surgeries, maybe the appeal of Mar-a-Lago-face isn’t so much “look how young I look,” but “look how expensive I look.”