On the power of satirists (see replies) bsky.app/profile/malk...

Lebanon's National Council for Scientific Research report into how environmental effects of Israeli incursions into southern Lebanon, Oct 2023 to Dec 2024, can be understood. It is horrendous. The cynical metaphor 'playbook' meets ecocide and the other -cides. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Die My Love (2025) Racist, narcissistic.

Lustybeg.

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

We adopted Mango last weekend. He respects the efforts of the International Workers Congress in securing a shorter working day but considers you could all go further

News reaches me that Labour has created a video using only Reform's words. *turns to camera*

Maybe stop Landlordising demons

An enigmatic visitor has arrived from Leeds. Get your copy here: gongfarm.cargo.site/Tom-Dom-Eart...

My wife woke up in the night & I was breathing like wind chimes/whistling/a girl crying. I'm a folk horror movie now. Can someone please help

The Public Source produce deep dives and essays that really acquaint you with Lebanon. Read this indepth sit down they had with the late Amal Khalil back in January. Che Guevara-esque, a fearless warrior of a journo, chasing the eye of the storms of war since 2006.

French engineer, pataphysician, jazz trumpeter, songwriter & author Boris Vian once designed a series of ramps intended to allow people to roll from one city to another. Boris Vian, come to Leeds

This is an intriguing thought! And reminds me I've been meaning to share Alfredo Bonanno's highly amusing anticipation of Gen AI in 'From Riot to Insurrection' (1988), with which I suspect JHP would have had a great deal of sympathy

It's proving very difficult to explain what this work has meant to me over the years. A kind of rewiring that matches the total rearrangement Tom describes, yes. Powerful, contradictory reactions, attraction & repulsion, awe & exasperation. It's inexhaustible & completely exhausting. Goodbye Jeremy.

Private markets again

"Bonner was imposed as the Croydon East CLP secretary by Labour’s London region, rather than being elected by local members. This was at a time when Labour’s London region was being run by Pearleen Sangha, a long-time associate of Morgan McSweeney"

The mountains of Myanmar, beautiful, bountiful, terrain that has protected some of the ethnic resistance groups for decades. Threatened by explotation. Edith in her latest #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar history thread gives a great overview of the part mountains have played in Myanmar's past & present.

Men could smash their foreheads with tiny hammers to make the glasses stick out less on their heads. Just a suggestion

I'm so glad there's no historical precedent for a President committing atrocities abroad to distract a domestic audience

All the critiques of managerialism over the years seem a little out of date now. It's interesting to put this stuff alongside the "woke CEOs" tirades of the Johnson ultra administration & think about how we entered a phase of government that has so little to do with how anything else works

Two separate stories today about Labour politicians announcing their new idea: both sidesing it

yes im sure this is the appropriate way to address mandelson being implicated in the epstein files etc. very serious outlet the bbc, not at all a deeply corrupt clown car

And BBC Politics (which I see whenever I visit my parents) is even more keen to tell us that we can't afford to fix anything. So what is a normal person to conclude, but that the economy isn't doing very well?

*subjected to prolonged periods of solitary confinement, obliged to defend themselves against charges the state never really intended to substantiate A Labour government presided over all of this. Turned a deaf ear to representations from the families of those in prison. Get rid of Labour.

Anyone got recommendations for a trans inclusive women's shelter that accepts donations? Got married yesterday 😊 We told people no presents but have been asked if there's a charity we would like donations to go to instead

Have you got rid of him yet

Have you got rid of him yet

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

It doesn't matter if those are "merely" words. It does not matter. What matters is if he's still the President tomorrow.

"there is every chance that this war finally bursts the AI bubble, bringing down the one pillar propping up the k-shaped US economy"

Just going to leave this here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shif...

The appropriation of "armchair general" for the sake of an entirely rhetorical, substance-less defence of an editorial board by a national security reporter would be funny if it weren't so obnoxious. America really does seem to be administered by spoiled, truculent children.

What would be the convert to Judaism version of the post about trad cath converts who think women shouldn't have driving licences?

One of these days I want to have another go at Merleau-Ponty's L'Oeil et l'Esprit. Still rue missing the big Cézanne retrospective at Tate a few years back

"there exists no viable alternative to petroleum as a material feedstock—the basic raw material—for synthetic production" Would like to read the whole thing but gave up my NLR subscription a long time ago over their Ukraine stance. Worth reading what's before the fade out though 👀

I mean I am in the market for video conferencing software not bloated with background processes disguised by gaslighting warnings about how actually it's my internet connection that's unstable, so yeah I too am curious to see how this develops

Pompei: Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi, 2025). This might be the best thing I've seen from Rosi, whom I admire very much. Amazing wide angle b&w landscape shots throughout, classic Rosi characters & humour.

Instructive contrast on the TL this morning. An interview with Hannah Spencer with concerning details about the impact of media disinformation on her reputation & personal safety; & a disingenuous display from a senior Sunday Times journalist unwilling to own up to promoting mass deportations.

Sharing some of the pics in my feed from yesterday’s anti-fascist march in London. I’ve lost track of who sent them so apologies if that’s you!

Every so often I see a pol sci academic muse on why people think conditions are bad in the UK. Then I talk to a school teacher about how kids come to school having not washed in several days, who haven't eaten breakfast before coming, who bring laundry to school so the teacher can take it home.

I was off work with stress several times last year. You know how people say they wouldn't wish something on their worst enemy? Yeah well this isn't one of those times, I hope the cunt dies on live television

We watched Swallow a while back, then recently as we prepare for marriage we watched Ready or Not & now Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen. In white America apparently all men are from weird, rich families, while women's families are poor/absent/dead. Can someone explain how this works please

I spent election day 2019 running a board getting the Labour vote out, in the pissing rain, on an estate where all the blocks were named after politicians, campaigners etc. The erstwhile Labour voter in Pankhurst House who told us they didn't see the point in voting really summed up the day for me.

Eid Mubarak to Ahmed & everyone who celebrates. Please consider donating/sharing 💚🖤🤍❤️

Thing is, the UK’s had half a dozen de facto Tory newspapers that refuse to be regulated, for decades. I’m afraid there’s no way through here without acknowledging that

This is all very moving 💚😭