Listen to what @petitecreature1.bsky.social is saying here. Not just the bit about how good @iambapoet.com is for poets looking to bring their words vividly to life, but also to the really important part about auditions being open RIGHT NOW (and for only the next five days). iambapoet.com/audition

🧵 I think this is a big mistake for Nvidia and a sign of weakness.They have forced Google and others to fast track their own chip manufacturing capabilities and potentially sell them into the market www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

20 days. We have just overtaken the Lib Dems both in polling and in members. We're just getting started. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Fantastic to see our TrumpActionTracker featured in this @yorkshirebylines.co.uk article! @sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social Do have are read. Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info

"There must be lights burning brighter somewhere Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue If I can dream of a better land Where all my brothers walk hand in hand Tell me why, oh why, oh why can't my dream come true" (Elvis - written by Walter Earl Brown - inspired by MLK)

Perfidy: Europe is full of wealthy or influential establishment figures that are currently working hard to undermine the Union, European territorial integrity and democracy. They are in league with Trump & Netanyahu and/or Putin. Let's call them what they are - well funded traitors. Europe awake !

When are academics in Germany going to stand up for the rights of the brave Jewish activists in Germany who together with Palestinians have been protesting the genocide for 22 months, and who together with Palestinians have been criminalized, arrested, harassed, brutalized by the police etc?

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

Blessed are the really poor, for theirs is the kingdom of billionaires. Blessed are the MAGAs who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit nothing. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for blood, for they will be made full.

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What is left of humanity if Israel can commit genocide in Gaza for years and the world not only watches, but aids the killing? 🇵🇸

Dua Lipa fired her manager David Levy after learning he signed a letter urging Glastonbury Festival to ban pro-Palestinian rap group Kneecap.

It's not rocket science. The voters want actual, historical Democratic policies (New Deal basically). Donors to the Democratic leadership don't want that: they want neoliberal bullshit. So an insurgency is necessary and achievable.

The Labour party are political cuckqueans. They are platforming, supporting and raising the next generation of the hard right. The BBC reflects this shit show.

Not that it is a fucking outrage and utterly the opposite of British sense of fair play and justice. He has an instinct for bloodless responses.

Never forget what happened on September 10, 2025. That was when US Republicans blocked the release of the Epstein files. #opDeathEaters #EpsteinFiles #EndImpunity #3E

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Israel killed three of these four children in a drone strike targeting their car and an accompanying scooter in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. The entire family of six was hit – only the mother and eldest daughter survived, one of them critically injured and hospitalized.

Gratitude - SF Zen Center Dharma Talk for Oct 10, 2013 by Steve Stucky - his last public meditation before he died. We can all find something to be grateful for. Give gratitude for our lives and those we love. He was a special man. on.soundcloud.com/IcPyJD7HaxYT...

"Thousands of families fleeing from the north to the south in search of safety now find their children sleeping on the bare ground, with only the sky above them. At 3 AM, entire families lay scattered in the streets,while children push carts for kilometers after being forced from their homes." #Gaza

Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨

Morning Bluesky. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is going full-on in tackling Musk. "He [Musk] is actually, I think, committing crimes," he told Laura Kuenssberg.

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

30 years later... "Public urination is so strongly coded as a male behaviour that when women do it, even in relatively permissive contexts like Glastonbury Festival, which is where the idea first came to me, it feels unsettling and provocative..."

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

They redoubled their Promethean labours Crafting Robota To build machines  …that built machines  ……that built machines  And so on ad infinitum Some said a diabolical Matryoshka

1/3 The new US Ambassador to the UN saying "The Russian threat is sometimes a little overstated" should drive home the new reality to every EU leader that the US will not be at our side in case the Russians invade another EU country. Just like President Obama chose to abandon Georgia and Ukraine

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

Game on

"Break some bread, The night's been blessed, With a neverendingness, But none the less, End come too soon Sweet concubine, The night's divine, In a never ending line of lovers, End come too soon" open.spotify.com/track/4h8lZ2...

"We live together in a photograph of time I look into your eyes And the seas open up to me I tell you I love you And I always will And I know you can't tell me I know that you can't tell me"

"Swim, the tide is coming We spent too long watching Bullet holes are rushing in No use bailing Bullet proof, they never loved you You let too many bullets through"

"My life is like a wound I scratch so I can bleed Regurgitate my words, I write so I can feed And Death grows like a tree that's planted in my chest Its roots are at my feet, I walk so it won't rest Oh, Baby I am Lost"

"This is a waltz thinking about our bodies What they mean for our salvation The little clothes that we stand up in Just the ground on which we stand Is the darkness ours to take? Bathed in lightness, bathed in heat All is well, as long as we keep spinning"

"I've often given too much, they all laugh in my face. When I call them ungrateful, they say they didn't call me. Yet, I'm just passionate, to the point of losing sleep over it. If I love you and things aren't going well, without asking, I'll give you my wing."

"Let the spirit move you Let the spirit soothe you Let the spirit know you" open.spotify.com/track/0DBwwD...

Powerful PJ Harvey: "The West’s asleep. Let England shake, weighted down with silent dead. I fear our blood won’t rise again. England’s dancing days are done. Another day, Bobby, for you to come home and tell me indifference won."

Which living people would you most like to have dinner with and then a thoughtful conversational beer/wine with afterwards? Demis Hassabis Carlo Rovelli Adrian Tchaikovsky Javier Bardem Ursula von der Leyen Omar El Akkad Asaf Avidan Gideon Levy Noam Chomsky Nick Cave

Det er helt vildt, hvad Fox slipper af sted med. Først Kilmeade, der ville dræbe alle hjemløse - så Ingraham, der kalder volden mod @katmabu.bsky.social for “good work” og demonstranterne “lunatics”. Julius Streicher ville være dybt misundelig ..

Paul Bergen: Sinead O'Connor, Amsterdam 1988.

Zelensky: 🇺🇦 troops had reclaimed 160 sq km of land nr the eastern coalmining town of Dobropillia, where 🇷🇺 pierced Ukraine’s defences in August. Ukrainian forces had “cleared” Russian troops from an additional 170 sq km of land but had not yet formally taken the territory apple.news/Ag5vR8XPKSRu...

Real interesting report from @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social "Making Myanmar Humanitarianism amid revolutionary state-building". Looking at pluralistic aspects of governance (Split between many actors with competing & overlapping goals) how aid orgs could interact & more media.odi.org/documents/HP...

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sound on if you need a smile! 🥹 These are clouded leopard cubs at the Nashville Zoo named Quinn and Joker. They are perfect. 🥹🥰😻🐆

This is amazing.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Elbow - "But there isn't words yet for the comfort I get From the gentle lunette at the top of the nape of the neck that I wake to And where are the words for the leap in my chest When mischief appears either side of the scar on your nose Made by a rose thorn, so you claim By a rose thorn"

Poets, the time is NOW ... and through till Sept 27th, when the window for auditions (submissions) for (to) @iambapoet.com closes. I'm looking to fill a whole eight waves worth of the journal across 2026/27 – so don't be shy! Go to the Audition page, and give me your best. iambapoet.com/audition

What really happened on October 7th, 2023? Why did Israel support Hamas? Why does Netanyahu refuse a State inquiry? Why do Western Governments ignore this when framing the 'war' in Gaza? open.spotify.com/episode/6FGU...