Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

Bon Iver says he is wearing a whistle at the Grammys to honour the peaceful observers in Minneapolis

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

oh shit boi research leave @whiterxbbit.bsky.social too! time to ponder some orbs and orbit some ponds

I've just read this paper and it is very much worth half hour of your time if you are at all interested in data and the impacts on our trans siblings.

the sluts WILL save us.

You're telling me the previous decade of escalating conservative rhetoric and anti-trans sentiment was never going to stop at transphobia? I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.

AN UPRISING OF CHILDREN IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP

I am so looking forward to this! 18th Feb, cabaret from our @lawsadrag.bsky.social artists (also ft. myself and @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social in our dragademic personas too...!) Share, like, and of course, book (free tickets) to come join!

Using gen. A.I. to make slop imagery to go with any anti-fascist statement isn't any sort of flex as it was developed and promoted by the billionaires pushing fascism. Just fucking stop using it.

shout about all our victories, because our oppressors want us hopeless. we are going to win over and over again

Me, increasingly wild-eyed, to my students:

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🎶 I heard that you were talking shit You didn't think I'd hear it But you don't really care for music, do ya? Few times I've been around that track It's not just gonna happen like that Because, guess what, I ain't no hollaback girl Hollaback Girl, Hollaback Girl

I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.

FIVE HUNDRED AID WORKERS

Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Put community repair shops on every high street. Our work shows people love it, increases community interaction & helps people keep essential goods going for longer giving them more money to spend on food & utility bills It reduces waste and so reduces local authority costs. It is a win, win, win.

A reminder: as happy as I am to see adverts for jobs; no role is 'permanent' in UK HE and hasn't been for some time. 'Open-ended' is what we call it: it's important to remember we are actually all precarious to some extent, especially at the moment.

Yeah the thing that immediately pissed me off about this is how IT basics are taught in libraries and are essential to modern living and have huge - like years long - queues but where’s the funding for that?

Oops.

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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You have to love how many of the people whose opinions are taken seriously on matters of politics and culture seem to be ignorant of their own ignorance.

This is a key consultation and there is only a week left. If you haven't read the excellent work by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on how abuse of data standards is used to exclude us from public life, it's at doi.org/10.1080/0958... Please respond if you're able and get others to do so if you can.

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Their gormless open-mouthed faces when they realise they are expendable, despite all they have done.

I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.

Stop using the tools of the enemy. Please, please, please use my protest animals as icons, headers, banners whatever you want to show your solidarity. I have thrown these pieces out there for people to use, partly to give them something to use from an actual human artist. I give you permission.

We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way

If he‘s replaced with someone worse, which, good luck—the takeaway is that that person, too, can be driven out and into disgrace

not emotionally strong enough to watch this without weeping

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Rob Schenck is an interesting figure, because in the middle of his religious right career, he decided to get a graduate degree and write his dissertation on the German church during Nazism, and ended up realizing that he and the rest of the religious right were the baddies, and walked away.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

ICE in the USA is currently using this to scan literally every protestor they can into their database.

Law's a Drag would certainly be up for making a patch!

Babe, wake up, they've unlocked a new level of internalised white supremacy

This is an absolutely wonderful project, and I am so delighted that we are doing it. It is vital that we invest in love, solidarity, and creativity. Moments like these are such an important part of how we fight back.

The Shit of Theseus

Someone on minimum wage is over the masters threshold. Mine costs me £1300 a year. It's fucking disgusting. You wanna look at why young people are poor? Student loans cost me £2600 a year. I can only dream of what I'd do with that money. Imagine if landlords were expected to pay £2.5k more in tax.

And if they were perceived to be unorganised then the critique becomes that protesters don’t know what they want and can’t be trusted as a result of that. There can’t be justified grievances unless it’s their side on the streets, in which case the entire universe must stop to validate them

The reason we suddenly stopped hearing about the revolution in Iran is because the regime has enforced a blackout, cutting the country off from the rest of the world. The reality is that innocent Persians are being massacred by the thousands right now and nobody knows it. 😔