I thought this meant it was lit, but still some months to go!

Jean-Pierre Aguerre - Les Hommes et les chevaux à Lyon (1880-1939) À paraître en janvier aux PUR

Freight rail stopped for 24 hours. In Bologna tens of thousands marched from Piazza Maggiore onto the ring road and the A14 motorway, blocking both directions before being attacked with water cannon and tear gas. In Milan clashes broke out at Stazione Centrale. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/09/22/i...

10,000 college support staff are on strike and we’re with them all the way! Show Ford that students and workers deserve better. Find a picket line near you and stand up with @opseusefpo.bsky.social and college workers: opseu.org/saveourcolle...

I wrote a thing.

You really wouldn't think this is real, it is so absurd.

The answer is no, because doing so would require substance, courage, and humane vision.

This is appalling. Truly cowardly and senseless behaviour from our government.

Vaclav Havel wrote about the importance of pointing out the law in a totalitarian society - it may not help in a situation where the government makes and enacts laws willy-nilly, but calling it out keeps the insanity of it all in the open for all to see.

Drove through a decent chunk of Stockport and south Manchester last night. There were flags everywhere, at all major junctions and on several bridges. It honestly feels like someone is sitting on my chest.

So much yelling on the internet and it’s wonderful to be reminded that people are also, like, doing things. Really important things.

This event should get more attention than Can-Con Kirk cosplay. Hundred+ organizations serving thousands of women, kids and LGBTQ+ communities fleeing violence and navigating family court system are experiencing radio silence on their funding from the federal government ...

CFP for a fantastic workshop on histories of African economic thought at University of Manchester networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

this is pretty amazing. my Nonna (b. 1921) remembered being told about the 1848 uprisings by an elderly woman who'd walked past the barricades in the streets of Milan as a girl

Will happily take the excuse to watch Barefoot in the Park again.

Les 2 et 3 octobre 2025, l'université Paris Nanterre accueillera le colloque international : Écritures du travail (1875-1975). Pour une approche comparatiste. 📍 Université Paris Nanterre – Bâtiment Weber ➡️ L’affiche est prête, le programme complet arrive bientôt ! @textes-et-cultures.bsky.social

Sometimes good things still happen in the 3$ bin at the Salvation Army. (Sadly libretto *not* enclosed.)

“This is a bottom-up, multiracial, working-class movement that’s directly countering the catastrophe of the U.S. housing system and the power of landlords with the collective power of tenants.” We need an abundance of tenant unions, rent control, and social housing.

Honestly don’t know if I can handle a more chaotic Patricia Lockwood but I am excited to find out.

Why did the authorities allow the London rally of fascists, racists, and violent thugs to go ahead?

The police have stopped maybe 1000? Anti immigrant etc counter protest on bloor in Korea town. Incredible. The hate march continues east on bloor shouting their message.

It will never cease to amaze me how so many espousing far-right views are ashamed to be called out for it If you don't want to be called far right, don't do things that are far right by definition. No one is forcing to have horrible politics which you too agree are horrible It's really simple

Can a knock-on effect of this be that we can stop hearing about the abundance agenda? (Tbf that had happened by itself)

Just another humanities hub forced into lockdown because of legitimate fears of radical right wing violence.

"Because it is the soil they are fighting for and they will not make the mistake of losing sight of the horizon. So neither can we." My latest -- standing on the precipice of the next big culture war. noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-ultima...

The European Parliament voted no to a request to pay a minute of silence for Charlie Kirk.

Both could spend more time looking at (rather than trying to look LIKE) Andrew Scheer and his horrific vilification of left-leaning Canadian journalists.

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

Congratulations to Professor Sadiah Qureshi on receiving the @royalsociety.org's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for her groundbreaking work on science, race, empire and extinction. A proud moment for us and a powerful reminder of how history shapes our future. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/h...

It's like two democratic state representatives in Minnesota weren't even assassinated *this summer*.

Senior Lecturer immediately fired, Department Head and Dean removed, full Wrongthink Audit of all courses ordered. I’m sure the NYT has dispatched Anemona Hartocollis, perhaps accompanied by the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf, to have a genial dinner party at the home of the person fired.

regardez ces images! nous devrions toutes et tous être scandalisés par cet usage totalement disproportionné de la force CE N'EST PAS ACCEPTABLE DANS UNE DÉMOCRATIE

Blocage de la BNF Richelieu ce matin, avec toute la culture ! On est là pour défendre nos services publics ! #greve10septembre @solidaires.org @solidairesparis.bsky.social @solidairesfp.solidaires.org

A thread of Inuit art that you didn't know you needed, starting with one of my favourites 🧵

Yeah, this framing that the entire country is backtracking is bullshit. Canadians haven't gotten complacent, the government we explicitly elected to deal with the massive problem to the south has spent their entire time in office breaking their election promises and pretending there's no problem.

Billions in funding cut. Billions evaporated from local and prov economies. International students pushed to a suicide wave. It will get worse. 10 000 jobs gone or about to be. It’s front page news if an auto plant loses 200. Conservative uni policy + idiotic admin = a nightmare.

... and on 9/16 @ 10:30am, "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker" In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I want to note, because the initial article doesn't make this clear, that the professor being taped in the video is calm, clear, and patient with the student. Furthermore, the professor appears to be teaching absolutely basic medically accepted science & history of gender expression.

Conciliation bet the @dalhousieu.bsky.social and the DFA starts today 9 am. One month ago today the Board walked away from conciliation. Let's hope they return to engage in meaningful bargaining, reach agreement, get students and faculty back to class! #KeepDalStrong @cautdefencefund.bsky.social

We just had relatives visit from the US Midwest and they were amazed at how many people were on the sidewalks everywhere across the city. We don't realize how special and remarkable that is in North America.

Check out my second reported column for @thetyee.ca!

"There are always ways to find savings, but governments must remember that economic strength also depends on strong public services." And that has to include strong public colleges and universities! canadianlabour.ca/statement-by...

Everyone: we have a cover. I repeat--the cover has landed, and it is glorious!

...and to remake and fortify our research and development by funding universities, our national culture by funding the arts and media.

It can be true that landlordism is a plague AND that renting provides services people value (when properly regulated to favour tenants) and that hectoring people to own or they're worthless is also a pathology. Also historically the rich often rent in cities, and own in the country.

For communities along Eglinton, there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel. After more than a decade of LRT construction, residents and businesses were looking forward to improved access to safe and protected cycling infrastructure. 1/