And I say this from a position of believing there should be trials! And jail sentences! And they should be exemplary!

I think for democratic politics to survive this century we will have to maintain a strong distinction between justice and revenge, and especially that the pursuit of justice cannot be reduced to the desire of political opponents to screw their enemies.

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2/2 It is being blocked through every tactic imaginable by a right wing faction within the church with allies in politics & the press. Please disseminate this to counter their historical propaganda: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

1/2 The Church of England was complicit in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in history. As an institution with a moral mission it has acknowledged this and is seeking to atone through a forward-looking investment programme, Project Spire. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Read here @alanlester.bsky.social's systematic dismantling of the "arguments" against the Church of England's reparative Project Spire. What is it, I wonder, that drive's someone to seek to minimise at every turn involvement in chattel slavery? Where are the psychic returns on that? It's weird.

Whilst managing to remain hostile itself (thank you other bishops)

Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community

we are now in a place where the Church is (correctly) calling the Labour Party out for being hostile to queer folk, so, that’s something else

I have decided that this Spring seminar on Memory I am going to ask students to write and perform a eulogy for a loss they grieve — I’m not sure if this is a final project or a weekly thing tho

Much of the same stuff that Welsh Labour was asking for prior to the 2026 election, but which Starmer/UK Labour refused of course.

Just a reminder that the BNP’s policy on repatriation was actually a lot more liberal than what’s being proposed here lmao

Also might be a good time to ask Michael Gove whether his views towards the Good Friday Agreement are closer to his opinions set in 2000 or the more moderate tone he struck in 2021

And on that radicalisation of the British Right, hatred of migrants can become intertwined with escalating hatreds towards supposed internal ethnic and linguistic threats towards supposed national purity. Worth keeping in mind when reading the Spectator on Wales or Scotland bsky.app/profile/josi...

Michael Gove has always been central to the escalating radicalisation of the British Right

And to think they try to claim that English isn't a tonal language.

Learning to say 'this/that thing' & 'these/those things' using hwn/hon/hyn can be tricky as you need to know the noun's gender. Flip it on its head and we can use hwn/hon/hyn to learn noun gender & number (which isn't easy for English speakers!). Let Ymestyn show you the way: payhip.com/ymestyn

NEW: Ireland’s top Catholic archbishop used the evening of America’s 250th birthday to condemn “sinister forces who foster hate and division” against immigrants. He called hostility toward immigrants that claims to defend Christianity “blasphemous.”

What I really like about this is how it's focused on the act of roleplaying itself, rather than releases or products.

Long, long time ago, I cautioned my gender critical feminist friends that using biology as a backstop would misfire, and engender all kinds of reactionary absolutism… And lo and behold

in general i think the xenophobes have only gotten as far as they have by just outright constantly lying about the reality of asylum and how one claims it

Reform's operation in Scotland is now trying to backtrack and claim it was only meant to apply in England and Wales. Strange then, that the amendment sets out specific penalties for "in Scotland or Northern Ireland".

Ted Heath went into the 1970 election promising to end automatic settlement for work permit holders. He delivered on that and introduced the Immigration Act 1971. It isn’t automatic and hasn’t been since 1971.

And here. A very explicit endorsement of a "remigration"/deportation agenda from Badenoch.

Gearing up for another fabulous issue of Small Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine! While you wait (August 31), check out Issue #1: www.sfintranslation.com/wp-content/u...

It's me, again, your internet friend who keeps showing you impossibly specific job listings. Please have a Welsh language shark conservation community management role: careers.zsl.org/vaca... Please share with your Welsh-speaking shark-loving community manager friends?

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Nearly 11 years ago, I’d had a great night out with friends and got back to my flat in a state you’d call ‘rather tipsy’ You know when it’s late and you should go to bed but you’re not tired, you’re wired? That It was nearly getting late but I wasn’t ready to sleep 1/

I am so terribly sorry for coining the phrase “Yoon Cave” two weeks ago

in honor of Sam Neill, here is one of my favorite movies he ever made

“There is a faint mineral aftertaste to this ‘fine’ that lingers for a lifetime.” - brilliantly well observed @mcsweeneys.net piece on what we mean when we say “it was fine”.

The French Nazis that Loyalists brought over to Sandy Row last night have spray painted a message of support for Gisèle Pelicot's rapist husband just in case you thought the "protect our women" brigade are anything other than human tumours

Really sweet tribute to Sam Neill from @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Obviously the actual targets here are immigrant languages, but I find "it didn't occur to these English MPs that there are other indigenous languages apart from English and Welsh" and "they are deliberately targeting Irish, Gaelic and Cornish" to be equally believable explanations for this

One of the great underrated sword and sorcery writers, who proved that fantasy doesn't have to be eurocentric in the 1970s.

It’s astonishing the lengths to which the right wing, anti-reparative justice lobby will go to stop the church acknowledging & atoning for its enormous complicity in one of the gravest crimes against humanity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The White People (Arthur Machen) Midnight Sun (Ramsey Campbell) The Red Tree (Caitlin R Kiernan) The Croning (Laird Barron) Black Easter (James Blish) The Hellbound Heart (Clive Barker) The Naked Lunch (William Burroughs) Declare (Tim Powers) Dark Seeker (KW Jeter) Tokyo Occupied City (David Peace)

In memoriam Sam Neill, 1947–2026. "My brother, Michael… is an academic and has devoted his life to scholarship; my life seems trivial by comparison. Bastard."

let us remember the Tang dynasty gang boss who had "Alive, I do not fear the governor" tattooed on one arm and "Dead, I do not fear the king of hell" on the other

“She was still in her bluey pajamas”

New bill. New threats to refugees' ability to rebuild their lives. Same old, failed hostile ideas. But it's not too late. The bill has its second reading in Parliament today, but key Parliamentary stages of debate and amendment will come in the autumn. We must fight these anti-refugee laws.

So sad to see that Sam Neill died. I sat next to him on a plane from NZ to Sydney. He was so kind, let me hang in the airport lounge w him (!), told me about his animals, and gave recs on what to do in Sydney and drew me a little map of how to get to Bondi. And was so gracious to fans who said hi.

There's a very funny part of Arthur Machen's THE SECRET GLORY where he talks about the English public schools' classics curriculum as being a sort of Freemason ritual; preserved by rote and mechanically reenacted each year without understanding or purpose by people who can no longer remember why.

An underrated bit in The Handmaid’s Tale is that the Christofascist regime is extremely anti-Catholic and has demolished Catholic Churches and murdered loads of priests and nuns

clicking "next" a few times and selecting the time zone you want your computer's clock to display is incomprehensible to the average person on the internet. big tech turned everyone into 75 year old grandmas who get mad at you when you tell them the purple gorilla is malware and needs to be deleted

If it wasn’t for the Welsh Language Acts you can be sure they’d have not ‘exempted’ Welsh from this awful and bigoted amendment.

Well done +Nick Chamberlain (Bishop of Grantham) for raising the point that the UK is becoming increasingly hostile to LGBTQ people and that we are backsliding badly. We need to move beyond polarisation, stop hiding behind process, and show compassion and solidarity. #GeneralSynod

I see my days of being unable to vote Labour are coming to a middle.

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