everything I know about the American political system, I learned against my will and I gotta say the government shutdown might be even stupider than the electoral college

Email sent to my MP

deliverables, but pronounced like Les Misérables

movie idea: comedy about fake space race between Kubrick and Tarkovsky both trying to finish filming their fake moon landing first with their own innovative filming techniques

with today's release of Uranium Project, the final DLC for Mr. Prepper, I'm wrapping up my work as the script writer for the game. my main goal was to make the characters, quests and the game world itself lively, funny and likeable. hope it worked! store.steampowered.com/app/3864310/...

just deleted my academia dot edu account because seriously if you ever need my papers (most of them published under my previous name), just hit me up or use the usual free outlets

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

If you want to reduce the burden of chronic disease (including cancer), then making the vaccines for HPV & Hep B widely available and accessible with as few barriers as possible helps achieve that goal.

A day in the life of a Ukrainian university as Russia gains new confidence that there will be no consequences from the international community for anything they do. Kharkiv.

Fascists do not believe in free speech as a universal principle. Free speech is a tool they'll happily use, but they don't think everyone should have it. They don't believe in universal moral principles at all. Rights and privileges are for the in-group, obligations are for everyone else.

I think we should start using the term "long gamergate"

I'm at the Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference since yesterday; did a presentation on the Molly House historical board game as a reflection on queer joy and persecution. kicking off the second day now! #CEEGS25 #gamingthepast

you know it’s very strange, everybody is calling me and saying “sir, Godot hasn’t shown up, we’re all waiting,” and I say “I’ve got Godot right here, he’s always shown up for me, he's very punctual"

Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles: www.spiegel.de/internationa...

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

“I would define Blueskyism as-” You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 218 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

😢The youngest person killed in the Russian strike on Kyiv was not even three years old, she died in the house with her mother. In the photo 24-year-old Nadiya and her two-year-old daughter Angelina. She was born under Russian shelling in October 2022 and died from Russian shelling in August 2025.

‘As both the AfD and the Christian Democrats have learned, so long as you condemn Muslim antisemitism, you can continue to attack the “ills” of immigration, as if xenophobia and racism had no connection to the German past.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

seems bad

does he want to get money for shooting "Midnight in Moscow" or some crap like this? just imagine being such a loser.

The Russian strike on a residential building in #Kharkiv was deliberate -5 drones approached it from different directions,targeting people who were sleeping at five in the morning. The number of people killed in Kharkiv has risen to 7, including two children. 📹: Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov

God forbid an oppressed minority dares utter terrible and contemptible incitements of violence along the lines of “I don’t particularly like the person bankrolling a fight against us and I do not wish them well, quite the opposite in fact”. Safety of the platform users has been violated you see

Death toll from famine and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip rises to 235, including 106 children, as the humanitarian crisis reaches catastrophic levels

6/6 Why This Matters Now If Alaska gives Putin even a partial win, without forcing him to return occupied land, it rewards invasion, legitimises an ICC-wanted war criminal, and proves that military failure can still be spun into political success. THAT’S THE REAL DANGER.

this thread gives me life

Neonazis greifen am Bahnhof Ostkreuz An­ti­fa­schis­t:in­nen an, die zuvor am CSD in Bautzen teilgenommen haben. Bereits im Zug gab es Bedrohungen.

🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 🤡 "The Baltics are a geopolitical misunderstanding. Who wants to burn in a nuclear Armageddon for the Baltics? Well, who?" Russian propagandists have begun to talk about "Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn in three days".

🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪🇺🇦 The leaders of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have warned that their countries could become Putin's next target, and have strongly condemned any attempts to pressure Ukraine to cede territory, — FT

Jeden z powodów dla których tak często krytykuję ostatnio Razem

Pretty much every common understanding of the rise of the Nazis is essentially milksop liberal pleas for everyone to be a bit more nice, and ignores the material conditions of their rise or the sheer virulence of their message.

it’s almost as if—as some have long maintained—substack has a nazi problem.

Here's the thing that I hate honestly the most about anti-migrant politics: it is, to me, a direct attack on the holy principle of hospitality, of being a good host in your home, that has underpinned human societies since we learned how to build a house in the first place. Just a total moral crime.

Drones swarming around the Ukrainian capital. Follow-up ballistic missile attack likely.

2) "Why should I spend money to fly halfway around the world just to give a 15 minute powerpont talk?" If that is all you're doing at a conference, you are not taking advantage of conferences, and therefore I am less interested in your opinion of how to best improve conferences.

Anyway, the real thing that would break Americans' minds is that in Eastern Europe ethnicity questionnaires don't make reference to race at all, just cultural identity. So Lithuania has /never/ asked me if I'm white, it just asks me if I'm Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Belarusian, Azerbaijani, etc

can we do pride month again i was busy

Did you know that you can fit ~40 standard sized playing cards, five dice, and a rules sheet printed on the back of a J-card inside a cassette case without posts? Do something with this knowledge.

"The three trans women I got to know worry they’ve been totally forgotten and erased, and that there’s no hope out of this genocide to even begin to think about their identities outside of being Palestinian and resisting death and starvation at the moment."

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

so I think this British author either has a particularly inflexible speech apparatus or is just being casually racist

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

Whenever people talk about non-violent resistance to a fascist government I think about how Ghandi's advice to German Jews was and I quote "The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

I think it's one of the moments where some fragments of Central & Eastern Europe history could be instructive to people in the US

it seems that Charli XCX just symbolically ended the brat era at Primavera, one year after kicking it off at Primavera

time bandits!

Ten years ago nobody in their right mind gave a single crap where trans people went to the toilet and the only reason anyone does now is because they were radicalised by Facebook and a handful of insane newspaper columnists and that’s just embarrassing all round