Continuing in the trend of "AI bros simply don't know how to be a human being"...

👉NEW -- British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war by @iainoverton.bsky.social Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported. www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...

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The company says it’s heartbreaking, they promise improvements, new guardrails. Anything but shutting it down. Suicide is just a metric in their ongoing beta test. Sam Altman and everyone like him should be in fucking jail.

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Welp — @davidhogg.bsky.social to Scott Jennings: "People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country. That’s why Zohran is resonating."

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glamour uk have made trans women their ‘women of the year’. this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:

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This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. -toni morrison

The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-colonial-lie-at-the-heart-of-africas-homophobic-culture-war/

This is why we say don't buy any new HP-related stuff. I have no problem with people still liking the books and the enjoying the content they already own, but stop funding this. Stop funding hate – it has real-world consequences.

Please sign this! #xl8 🌐

Ayoub Khan is spot on, we've banned Russia and Russian teams from international competitions, and we should do the same with Israel and Israeli teams. There was a sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa. and there should be a sporting boycott of apartheid Israel too.

If you haven’t yet voted in the Society of Authors elections, don’t forget to post your vote this week!!!

A reminder that Israel has used the dead bodies of Palestinians as bargaining chips for decades. Last year Mustafa Barghouti explained that Israel is holding over 500 bodies.

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I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

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I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

It's always those opposing genocide that are labeled as 'un-British'. This is simply Far Right discourse. People can be in denial of that as much as they want, the effect is the same: a further descent into authoritarianism.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Ongi etorri #22 Euskara! #hungrycaterpillar #basque #regionallanguages

I do agree that discomfort is an essential part of discourse. But I don't think human rights is something to have 'discourse' over. If you believe that Palestinians deserve to be at the receiving end of a genocide, you should be uncomfortable because that is an objectively bad opinion to have.

Apart from being vile and wholly unacceptable, how much is this going to cost the taxpayer?

This is the language we need: unacceptable. Not "impossible" or "unworkable" and definitely not "unlikely". Unacceptable.

I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

I was born and raised in London. My grandma found our family has been continuously here for at least the last 300 years. I still live here now. Our diversity is, and ALWAYS has been, our strength Fascists represent NOTHING about this city. Their marches are the only time I have felt unsafe here.

A few people have been dusting off Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance. Simply, tolerating the intolerant is a mistake. And we're in the middle of that right now as a free country. Time to stop tolerating the nazi types, the bigots, the fascists, the hateful that seem to be everywhere.

The right getting mad about Trump’s AG saying she’ll arrest people for hate speech but not getting mad about Trump’s Deputy AG saying he’ll arrest people for heckling Trump at a restaurant tells you everything you need to know about the right.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

Say. Her. Name. Qisma Ali Omar. Say. Her. Name. I have felt so much shame in my life. But the shame I feel because of the pure evil of Man is a raging storm…The violence inflicted by a man on a young woman, unafraid to show his actions to record Her torture and to show his face… Say. Her. Name.

Isaac Herzog is named directly in the UN report which states clearly that Israel is committing genocide - he is named as one of the figures inciting genocide. Last week Keir Starmer felt it was fit to roll our the red carpet for Herzog on in a visit to Britain.

5 countries will now boycott Eurovision if Israel takes part - Spain, Iceland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Ireland.

“we’re not racist” (a few seconds later) *says virulently racist things including ethnic cleansing*

A report by the United Nations concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has responded by accusing the authors of being antisemitic and Hamas proxies. Chris Sidoti, one of the authors of the report, gives his view on Israels response

On #GMB this morning Caroline Flint declared that Israel is a democracy. Here's the IDF, an occupying army, rounding up civilians forced to live under Israeli occupation & marching them away.

The firm backed by US & ISRAEL guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found. This is beginning to look like Muslim persecution. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Eddie Dempsey yesterday. Bang on the money.

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.