It would not be difficult, practically speaking, for someone from within the journalist/commentary clique whom Suzanne considers peers, to drop her an email and ask her what the 'killing off' of 'trans ideology' would look like, in real terms, including and especially for those immediately affected.

As Tressie McMillan Cottom said recently about GenAI, nothing is inevitable, in getting academics to think GenAI is inevitable we work to make it so.

Palestinian reporters have paid a terrible price in another horrific year for journalist killings | Jane Martinson

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

With 6.5 poets per acre, Ireland is especially vulnerable www.wired.com/story/poems-...

‘For the Gilets Noirs, an anti-racist collective of undocumented migrants, detention and asylum are their own kind of prison: “In Africa we get killed directly. Here it’s death over a low heat. You wake up in the morning and someone has gone mad in the night.”’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Ten blog posts emerging from a discussion group I’ve been part of on the ‘cultural locations of fascism’ with a great bunch of writers, organised as part of the relaunch of the States of Cultural Analysis blog of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies. reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The fact that he was found guilty of criminal damage doesn't make the headline, and the person whose property he damaged is described as a "transgender activist" but Linehan has "well-publicised strong views on gender issues". 🙄 This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.

My first academic job was in DKIT, and I had a great time working there - this seems like a really exciting move for them.

We are one of the most petty, miserable, mean-spirited, spiteful little islands in the world. The process we force these people through is already dehumanising and a stain on the moral character of us all. And this ghoul thinks it is too generous. I'm gonna lose it. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Give me a chance, it’s only Thursday. I’ll ruin it eventually I’m sure.

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

It's almost like... like maybe the fascism *never* actually arose from working class "economic anxiety"... like maybe the working class *weren't* actually the ones radicalised by bourgeois resentment of "cancel culture" and "wokeness"... like maybe the working class have... more pragmatic priorities

"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands." hold up. tell me more about that

also our political anthem is literally called the Internationale! it’s far more reasonable for us to care about NYC than it is for right-wingers to care about Trump

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division." Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

Irish media, international news: OMG Farage! Musk! 😭 “Populism” everywhere 😤 Irish media domestic news: let’s get Declan Ganley on again to say our democracy is corrupt and country overrun by immigrants. Oh and John Collison to tell us how to run the state as a techbro enterprise.

Politicians defending these despicable "legitimate concerns" protests have carried the ball up the pitch for the riots at citywest. Thank God Eimer is there cause none of these people, TDs included, seem to give a shit when it's a white Irish man brutalizing, abusing, or murdering women or children

Would love the moratorium to return … #Rtept

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Clever by Norway to distract Trump from invading them in a fit of pique by giving it to a ‘peace activist’ who really wants him to invade Venezuela instead.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

This, by @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social, is very good if very upsetting tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/tyne...

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

Look What You Leftists Made Us Do: A Never-Ending Series.

Yes he very civilly said my wife was too stupid to be a pilot and my money controls the world and we both were degenerates who should be killed, he said all that very civilly

Dear fucking god. BBC 6pm news: Story one: over 100k Tommy Robinson demonstrators Story two: the govt promises deportations of boat migrants to France will begin next week

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

Every time a reactionary ‘taboo-breaker’ becomes a free speech icon/martyr, sacralisation demands that their critics are fired, silenced,threatened, purged.This gets called hypocrisy, but that would require free speech be a coherent idea, rather than the technology of power it’s always been.

“Such violence is antithetical to America” according to the Editorial Board of the NYT. They picked a fine day to muscle in on The Onion.

Foreign Affairs Committee expected to recommend services be included in Occupied Territories Bill

Israel is purposely trying to mass murder babies. www.threads.com/@mohotgazi/p...

Looking forward to hosting this excellent conference

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Lisa Nandy used to be chair of Labour Friends of Palestine

obviously this is mental in and of itself but man alive it really does suck extra hard when you think about all the ACTUAL CRIMES the police just isn't investigating, because of "lack of resources"

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

Broadcast Kneecap from Glastonbury, but voiced by an actor

Solidarity with colleagues and friends in Newcastle, some of the best academics I know

Only because of all the novels it stole.

Ireland's anti-trans movement is insane even by the standards of anti-trans movements because genuinely nobody gives a fuck outside of a few literal nazis and also newspaper opinion writers, and the latter are very upset that the nazis are the only other people who care and constantly whine about it

IRGS director, Prof. Debbie Ging, speaking on a panel with Prof. @gavant.bsky.social and Prof. Alan Finlayson at yesterday's international symposium on Reaction(ary) Media at @ucddublin.bsky.social, discussing Future Directions for the Study of Reactionary Media. #DCUResearch

Looks like even Simon Harris as Minister for Foreign Affairs is now using the term genocide. Well past time now for those who dismissed and, in some cases, denigrated those who raised the alarm to acknowledge this reality.

The wrong flag, the wrong emoji, the wrong word, the wrong sign, the wrong chant, the wrong meme, the wrong place, the wrong association, the wrong gesture, the wrong speech. The ‘Snowflakes’ Guide to Genocide Distraction.