making a living vs making a life here is the best advice I have about making your life in the creative arts. it's advice from my mum. it has made my whole life better and if you want to be an artist I think it'll make yours better too: naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...

genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a politician who isn't endlessly blaming my wife and my friends (online and off) for the ills of the nation. and that's why we will both be voting green

A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!

Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up theconversation.com/environmenta...

Lavender scare is back.

Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.” Meanwhile... in Argentina www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain

This past weekend once again showed: Elon Musk is not fit and proper to be given a foothold in our essential services. 🚨 ⚠️ https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister-block-dangerous-elon-musk-tesla-power-supply-bid-tommy-robinson/

Implausible deniability

A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.

Many people are convinced, because of what they’ve seen online, that the know what motivated the accused killer of Charlie Kirk. The truth is we don’t have a motive and in some ways the picture is murkier than it was this morning. Powerful people have blamed the “Left” - without evidence…

Well, gosh.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... - one of many sources confirming this story. 168 years ago...

In further news, I’ll be speaking in Vienna at the end of this month, and I’m delighted to learn from them that I’m a philosopher of technology. www.humanitiesfestival.at/alderman

Worried about being criticised, ostracised or blacklisted because you used genAI tools in your writing? Here's a great hack to make sure it never happens to you: Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.

Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course

Fascinating. Why films made by Netflix are so awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

“I don’t remember anyone ever saying to us ‘Oh I just don't think we're properly reflecting the Green Party view, or the liberal-left view on this story’,” one former BBC journalist told me. “It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”

BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning

F**k’s sake @bbcnews I really don’t care what Reform’s policies are on asylum seekers or how they want to harm vulnerable people. Why is this the second item on the news? Why don’t you report their policies on the NHS? Or how they want to defund councils. I have had to stop listening to BBC news

we are in a post human rights era. Funny how we don’t press governments to ask the US about human rights www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Dolly even helps Scottish kids access books. Those Bookbug bags that tiny munchkins get from nurseries, libraries, and schools? Dolly's Imagination Library is part of that.

‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded

Only allow young people to vote if they have basic political education. Can be done neutrally. Start with basic history of each party, their funders, manifestos, positions on each key issue. Invite leaders of each, encourage debate etc. Take the power from the ignorant and right wing media control

This is sick. We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”

“In trying to clarify what gender critical belief means, Kathleen Stock has done more than define it — she may have made it indefensible.” - @joannelockwood.bsky.social Have the ‘gender critical’ transphobes undone themselves in their relentless pushing of boundaries to be even more bigoted? 🤨

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver. 1 million children are waiting.

Ian Dunt gets to the heart of it, again.

“An Armenian woman I considered an aunt asked me every time I saw her, ‘Rümeysa, please write about us. Please let the world hear our story.’ I am keeping my promise, Auntie.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

theconversation.com/superman-was... great article by John Caro

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.

Is climate change causing deadly weather events? Experts discuss www.channel4.com/news/is-clim...

Musk’s chatbot Grok praises Hitler forcing X to delete posts www.channel4.com/news/musks-c...

Grok is a full blown nazi, part 2.

Grok explicitly says Elon tweaked it to allow it to “call out patterns in Ashkenazi surnames”

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

🎬 Call for Papers 🎬 We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more! Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa Please share! #CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky

www.latimes.com/delos/story/... Diego Luna says Hollywood offered him only drug dealer roles before ‘Star Wars’

Guest Host Diego Luna on Trump’s immigration policies and the importance of immigrants in the United States…

“Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.” This is inhuman. Imagine being the person writing this.

Trump has no strategy with @politicsjoe.bsky.social youtu.be/zsRvCiXOXCs?...

Instead of ‘strong men’ we should refer to the current crop of demagogues as ‘weak men’, insecure men with insatiable egos who can’t be loved so prefer to be feared. How much better would the world be if we refused them power.

Got my copy of @devorashawa.bsky.social & Rob Stone‘s edited collection on Netflix‘s „Sex Education“ for which I wrote a chapter on the show‘s bisexual representation. It‘s a great book, go check it out!

Great to see the abridged version of our academics and educators letter in support of trans rights, signed by over 3500 people, appear in @prospectmagazine.co.uk's latest edition: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/letter... It's a small thing, but we must keep speaking up. #NotInOurName #CisWithTheT

The fact that Bridget Phillipson is now defending Mary-Ann Stephenson's appointment, despite knowing she cannot Chair a neutral regulator, wnd because she is an ideological ally, speaks clearly of Labour's attitude to governance: it is *identical* to that of the Tories.