It’s been over three months since a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, but Israel’s destruction of the strip still continues. Since the beginning of the ceasefire, Israel has demolished more than 2,500 buildings in Gaza, per a report from @nytimes.com.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

I found this to be a very useful conversation as I continue to figure out how to navigate the 2026 season. Enjoy!

For the FINAL Eurowhat? (of 2025): let's chat about what happens when the object of your fandom gets problematic. @zoecharlottejay.bsky.social reached out to us IMMEDIATELY after all the recent kerblooey at the EBU and she was ABSOLUTELY the person I wanted to chat with about all of this. Tune in!

always a pleasure to chat with the @eurowhat.bsky.social guys, even if the topic is a tough one like this. i hope the episode is useful for anyone thinking about what to do next as their relationships to eurovision change

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

ICYMI: With the passage of the EBU's new Eurovision rules, Israel will be in Vienna while the Netherlands, Spain, Slovenia, Ireland, and Iceland have withdrawn from the Contest. We’ll be discussing the fallout from the decision and figuring out how we’ll be navigating 2026... www.eurowhat.com/285

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

this focus on “fixing” the rules only legitimises israel further. if your rules clamp down on cheating but not genocide they are bad rules! the fundamental issue is, and has always been, that countries committing genocide should not get to participate in international society.

🇵🇹 #Portugal: Seventeen Musicians in Festival da Canção 2026 Will Not Compete in #Eurovision Should They Win eurovoix.com/2025/12/10/p...

tule mukaan vaatimaan Yleä boikotoimaan Euroviisuja, jos israel osallistu! huomenna Helsingissä #euroviisut #eurovision #boycotteurovision

tule mukaan vaatimaan Yleä boikotoimaan Euroviisuja, jos israel osallistu! huomenna Helsingissä #euroviisut #eurovision #boycotteurovision

www.thenation.com/article/soci... Co-wrote with @julesboykoff.bsky.social about today's nonsense

🇳🇱 TV general director: ‘Culture unites, but not at any price.’ 🇪🇸, 🇮🇪, 🇸🇮 also out of #Eurovision 2026, as they said before last delegations’ meeting (🇸🇮 taking that stand first). 🇧🇪, 🇮🇸 to decide in coming days.

i hate the academic long sentence police so much! sometimes sentences need to be long! sometimes they cannot simply broken up or shortened! it’s not my fault you can’t keep track of more than two lines at a time!

🌟uusi julkaisu!🌟 opiskelijaani ja minä esittelemme yhteisiä reflektoita kokemuksistamma ihmisoikeus-kurssin ossallistavasta suunnittelusta. artikkeli on englanniksi, mutta abstrakti on saatavissa suomeksi ja ranskaksi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the article my students & i wrote together about collaborative course design is *finally* here! it’s a collaborative reflection between students & teacher on power, solidarity, & who produces what forms of knowledge in the world politics classroom - please read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This Winter in Gaza will be worst than the last. It is the third winter season suffered under a genocide. Last year over 80% of residential buildings were destroyed, and this year that percentage increased to over 93% of residential structures razed to the ground" #TheSameerProject #Gaza

make no mistake, the ebu’s voting procedure changes are a distraction. they want everyone to forget that israel is committing genocide. the boycott continues until israel is excluded. www.ebu.ch/news/2025/11...

New paper! Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

francesca albanese has cited eurovision, along with the olympics, fifa, fiba and other sporting and cultural events, as sheltering israel from accountability by not removing it from their competitions. if that is not a damning indictment of eurovision’s complicity in genocide i don’t know what is.

if i won the lottery i wouldn’t tell anyone but there would be signs

bill nighy said if it sucks hit da bricks

our petition to Yle already has 6000 signatures but we need even more to really put the pressure on the finnish broadcaster ahead of the ebu vote about israel’s eurovision participation. Yle cannot be allowed to avoid responsibility, please sign and share it!! www.sumud.fi/en/vetoomus-...

our petition to Yle already has 6000 signatures but we need even more to really put the pressure on the finnish broadcaster ahead of the ebu vote about israel’s eurovision participation. Yle cannot be allowed to avoid responsibility, please sign and share it!! www.sumud.fi/en/vetoomus-...

My article “’Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!’: Performing Afro-Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest” has just been published in the September 2025 issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

The momentum created by broadcasters in Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries is an opportunity to pressure Yle join the right side of history Sign and share this petition! www.petitions.com/boycott_isra...

Irlannin, Espanjan, Alankomaiden ja muiden maiden lähetystoiminnan harjoittajien luoma momentum on tilaisuus painostaa Yleä liittymään historian oikealle puolelle. Allekirjoittaa vetoomus täällä: www.adressit.com/israel_boiko... #eurovision #euroviisut #boycottisrael

🚨 ALL EYES on the Sumud Flotilla 🚨⁣ ⁣ As the Sumud Flotilla nears Israel’s illegally designated and enforced yellow zone demarking a maritime siege of Gaza, we repeat our call upon the international community to ensure the safety and success of the peaceful people’s aid mission.⁣

My latest @theguardian.com: "Fifa banned Russia from international football. Now it must do the same for Israel." As Israel inflicts untold misery on Palestinians, it is time for soccer’s governing bodies to stand by the principles they claim to uphold www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Suomen asukkat, allekirjoitahän tämä vetoomus Ylelle! vetoomus vatii: 1. EBU sulkemaan israelin ulos Viisuista, ja 2. Suomi boikotoi kisoja, mikäli EBU sallii israelin osallistumisen #eurovision #euroviisut #israelulosviisuista www.sumud.fi/vetoomus-isr...

Suomen asukkat, allekirjoitahän tämä vetoomus Ylelle! vetoomus vatii: 1. EBU sulkemaan israelin ulos Viisuista, ja 2. Suomi boikotoi kisoja, mikäli EBU sallii israelin osallistumisen #eurovision #euroviisut #israelulosviisuista www.sumud.fi/vetoomus-isr...

the countries that pushed for russia’s exclusion in 2022 are particularly good pressure targets, appeal to their former conscience: 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇱🇻 also good to pressure countries that haven’t made a decision yet (poss open to persuasion), eg: 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇧🇪🇫🇷🇵🇹🇭🇷🇦🇱🇵🇱

This summer was the fourth hottest in European history, and its effects on the continent’s population have been widely reported. New research estimates that climate change caused 16,469 deaths in European cities this summer.

wild statement from the international cyclist union about la vuelta here. we’re all used to cultural and sporting institutions claiming they are “non-political” and care about “unity” to avoid responsibility by now, but outright attacking a country’s ability to host events is a new low. shameful.

the countries that pushed for russia’s exclusion in 2022 are particularly good pressure targets, appeal to their former conscience: 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇱🇻 also good to pressure countries that haven’t made a decision yet (poss open to persuasion), eg: 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇧🇪🇫🇷🇵🇹🇭🇷🇦🇱🇵🇱

i am going to repost this every day until people do it!! template in the second post if you need some help getting started.

the momentum started by RTVSLO, RTÉ, AVROTROS and others is a huge opportunity right now to pressure the EBU to get israel out of #eurovision but we need to tell other national broadcasters that we want them to do the same! write to them today! 1/2

the time to contact your national broadcasters is now. with rté, rtvslo and others there is momentum here, but still-on-the-fence broadcasters need to know their audiences demand action. write every single week until december, get all your friends and family to do it too.

object visibly drops from directly above, caught on camera, to a boat sailing under the portuguese flag and in tunisian waters, an obvious and egregious act of terrorism by israel and the us, but states and media are calling it a fucking cigarette!!

the finnish government has ceased recognising passports issued by the Palestinian Authority (and other refugee and stateless travel documents), despite having previously recognised them. if you live in Finland, sign this petition. www.sumud.fi/en/petition/...

this is how it feels to have intermediate finnish

Unlike Marina “actually-it’s-cringe-to-do-anything” Hyde, I prefer to remember the words of Rasha Abdulhadi, a Palestinian: "Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it's a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can."

This is such a good statement, and ending it 'We regret that, sadly, unanimity is not possible on this issue and kinder ground eludes us' is definitely language I want to use in the future.

If you work at University of Helsinki and belong to the HYT/HUART union please take part in the upcoming vote on the academic boycott of Israel. It takes place on September 2nd at 5pm!

"Ismail Halas, a 4-month-old baby, suffers from a hole in his stomach due to inhaling toxic gases in Gaza. He weighs only 1.7 kg and needs milk, gauze, and special bags for his surgery." ( Azar Bsisah) #TranslatingFalasteen #Babies #Genocide