Watched Louis Theroux’s manosphere. Probably says a lot about my exposure to online misogyny/inceldom that I found it relatively tame. The ‘influencers’ were so ridiculously threatened by women that they needed to control/exploit them. As Greta Thunberg famously put it, lotta “small dick energy…”

It all plays back into Putin’s hands. Trump is little more than his puppet; whether directly or indirectly. Putin’s outmanoeuvred the US at every step. Whatever you think of the man and his regime. They’ve got it all sewn up. Acts of a clever, power hungry, ruthless tyrant: Heinous not genius.

Wonderful to read about Balthazar. Thanks for sharing some good news to punctuate the doom scrolling!

I don’t want to think this could be true. But it checks out given every other egregious harm inflicted on innocent, vulnerable children. They’re being attacked home and abroad. Why home you ask? Well, they can’t vote right, so why not eh? As long as they can be prevented from getting vaccinated?

Capitalism needs wars. It really doesn’t need to feed or care for the vulnerable. The sooner people voting for any shade of zealot realise this: the better. Violence is never the answer.

Thank goodness we sided with Spain on this one. Would do many of the Trump sycophants good to see how quickly he unleashes his rage when he doesn’t get what he wants: and then insists he can do it anyway.

Making reflexivity central to my teaching practice has enriched my experience, and I hope, that if my students. With this paper, I can now explain to them more succinctly why it matters for their education.

When you cut off their heads, another one grows instead. Violence is never the answer.

In happier news, it’s St David’s Day - famously a vegetarian - here’s some of what we’ve been eating lately in celebration 🌱 Tabbouleh soup and fresh veg with flatbreads Bean chilli with pico de gallo Creamy tahini dressed salad with crispy pitta fingers Mexican nourish bowl with avocado crema

It’s a special sort of evil person that bets on bombs falling. And a special sort of evil administration which permits profiteering from acts of War. Let’s face it; that administration is probably where the bets originated… Stop the World, I want to get off.

“The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health, or science, while he remains at the helm.” The Lancet telling it like it is since an anti-science, anti-vaxxer was appointed. #RFK #Trump www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Pulling a Trump “they stole the election” really isn’t a good look. Reform’s policies attack their working class base. All it took was a dedicated local campaign pointing that out to the voters and signalling that the Greens were in fact a better fit for those voters. Well done to Hannah Spencer.

I have a plan for the UK going forward: let’s just not give jobs to people purely on account of the family into which they were born. Sound reasonable?

Let’s also remember that, by mass, only 2% of all land mammals are wild. Change is inevitable. And it is critical for the survival of wildlife. Them’s the facts folks. We are not currently adequately feeding the global population, partly because we’re feeding unnecessary livestock. #govegan

Are you, or do you know an autistic adult who might be able to help us by completing this survey? It’s the final study for my lovely PhD student Sarah. Many thanks in advance

This the same lot that also claim scrapping the Equalities Act will benefit working class white boys who are being disenfranchised and denied opportunities? Reform with policies that literally contradict themselves. Poundshop Trump and his MAGA-lite wannabes really are the lowest of the low.

It beggars (pun intended) belief that in 2026, there persists any sort of ‘Royal’ immunity to wrongdoing. Being born into aristocracy should not still be conveying privilege. We’ve surely moved beyond swearing feudal fealty. #epstein #epsteinfiles www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

One more time, if ‘we’ want to apportion blame for lack of opportunities or the squeeze on public services; we can look directly to tax avoiding billionaires. When they protect their own wealth while telling ‘us’ whom to scapegoat - they’re using the classic tactic of keeping ‘us’ divided.

Louder for those at the back…

More hypocritical and tone deaf comms from Homeland Security desperately trying to convince ‘everyone’ that the ‘real’ and present threat to women and children is immigrants, not the so-called elite friends of their President. www.dhs.gov/news/2026/02...

More scapegoating tactics by elites to divert attention from their egregious behaviours. Similarly promoting the idea that male immigrant/asylum seekers pose the largest threat to women, when, in fact, the Epstein Files so far point to privileged white men being the most predatory and dangerous.

Indeed we do. And it’s psychologically threatening to realise that none of us are safe.

Uh-oh. It’s almost like he doesn’t understand public health at all.

Yup. Pasteurisation was developed for a very good reason, just like childhood immunisations, hand hygiene, and cooking legumes. Without them, people can, and do, die, it’s really not up for debate. And then when the ideologies are inflicted on kids? Ofc RFK won’t take a stand on this. Coward.

Riots, or collective crowd action, are almost never as reported by the media at the time. The reality of the 2024 ‘race’ riots is complex, nuanced, and, as this analysis reveals, comprised of layers of protest, resistance, and significant quantities of racism both organised and opportunistic.

Interesting and initially believable: Except Qanon posited Trump as the saviour, assisting him to power. It’s a hell of a risk if the goal was to expose him and his links to Epstein as the actual global paedophilic cabal. Is there any evidence, I wonder, that it was ‘leftists’ and not the SVR?

Specifically, why has Mandelson not been arrested?

Seems about right…

I can’t help but reflect that QAnon convinced the American public that their country was being run by a sophisticated network of elite paedophiles. Ironically, they also convinced much of America to vote for the only man who could ‘save’ the USA from such depravity: Trump. It is all staggering.

Enjoying the Australian Open but why oh why is Rafa Nadal morphing into Edward Windsor? #australianopen

Given everything has got a LOT worse post-Brexit - just as ‘we’ predicted, it seems a harder, ie ‘proper’ Brexit would indeed be catastrophic. But hey, they appear to relish the chaos what with their disaster capitalist pals and all. It’s almost like they plan it…

Watching the Take That documentary, not because I’m a fan - dear me no - but because I’m fascinated by the dynamic. Hearing Gary didn’t leave his house for 13 months, Robbie for 8. Jeez - who’d be famous? That aside, it’s refreshingly humble, honest, and well, heart warming. #takethat

In a World of Ed Sheeran’s be a Billy Bragg.

What Trump is doing IS similar to Hitler. The startling difference is, of course, the scale. I’m no historian but the psychology is comparable: scapegoating, out-group derogation, and utilising his slavish followership into underscoring difference and supporting persecution. Fascism, in short.

The BBC taking time to focus their reporting on the lies being told, instead of repeating them without clarifying context, is a welcome development. Factual, evidence based detail is critical to undermine the wave of post-truth narratives flooding our media, those narratives are how ‘we’ got here.

It’s classic relative deprivation theory enacted. Ensure a population feels deprived relative to another, then tell them who is to blame for their perceived disadvantage. Ensure the real culprits are always obscured and protected: The controlling parties, the burgeoning billionaire elites. Simple.

The BBC is doing themselves no favours lately. You don’t get into bed with fascism and expect us not to notice.

Meanwhile, in Davos Trump was posturing as the self-appointed head of his UN ‘replacement’ ‘peace board’, half of whose invitees are currently banned from entering the US and which has a ‘golden ticket’ option for countries willing to invest a billion…

Indeed. Also imagine believing the models would have accountability, or reliability to an academic standard in the first place 🤦🏻‍♀️

Nothing consolidates an in-group identity quite like a detested other. People who were neutral, but also witnessing the effects of the occupation, start to shift their identity away from the occupiers and towards the persecuted. This is particularly so when actions perpetrated are illegitimate.

I didn’t get the Nobel peace prize so now I’m going to ‘take’ Greenland out of spite because I’m a vengeful, bitter, and belligerent old man.

And this is the tip of the unregulated, unethical, guardrail-free iceberg that is AI currently. Anyone who thinks the average tech bro cares is fooling themselves, Musk, for example, just wants you to pay for the ‘privilege’ instead of having it for free with his subscriber only deal. Despicable.

Born as food not friend.

@guyvenables.bsky.social By Guy Venables.

I can’t help but think the fear, the chaos, and the intimidation ICE and the border patrol force are inflicting are entirely intentional and designed to encourage those at risk to flee and seek asylum elsewhere.

"When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior." ~ Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, PhD Associate Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada

This is a worthwhile listen @skepchick.org carefully picks apart why @robinince.bsky.social was forced to resign from the BBC for off air trans advocacy and doesn’t shy away from pointing out his co-host Prof. Brian Cox’s wife, Gia, is actively anti-trans and involved in the infamous ‘sex matters’.

In other words, icentivising ‘people’ to harm women by reducing them to sexual objects. Irrevocable damage is being done to the likelihood of healthy, respectful relationships while our digital worlds are flooded with pornography, nudification, and the ability to fake sex tapes: Available to kids.

For an alarming minority of men, women must be reduced to objects. Minimised, sexualised, objectified. This is what happens when children in primary schools can easily, and regularly, access pornography.

It’s all front and centre. And it’s being allowed, by the governing party, the opposition, even our own international law expert PM is non-committal on blatant violations of rule based international order. It’s egregiously cowardly. Meanwhile, Putin rubs his hands with glee, Europe in his sights.