April/May/June come through for SMOKE play touring. Directed by me (Stud Life, Low Rider), written & performed by the brilliant Alexis Gregory (Riot Act, Sex Crimes). Exposing those areas of gay men's lives they don't want you to see. With events sponsored by You Are Loved. youareloved.org.uk/tour

Oh there’s a ceasefire! It’s all ok now! No. It isn’t. Israel is still bombing the fuck out of innocent people in Lebanon and Gaza.

Front page splash, 1996, 'Massacre in Sanctuary.' Seen today on a visit to Palestine House in Central London. From a time when collectively we cared about the killing of Brown people.

for those of you keeping score at home, the opening of the Strait of Hormuz lasted 0.045 scaramuccis

OOOOH I know this one!!!! Is it because prices are based on what we can be forced to pay, not how much the thing costs to provide? And capitalists will always jack up their prices if they think we'll be tricked into paying? Is it that?

So much to unpack here, not least is the "Federal Investigation" of people reporting news unfavorable to the regime

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

The media will gleefully interrogate any politician that suggests any policy that’s even remotely progressive with ‘how will you afford this?’ But not ask the same for a war that’s costing a billion a day. Weird complicit bastards

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Good. The death penalty must be abolished. It is always always always wrong. It is demonstrably racist. It kills innocent people. But it would still be evil even if it wasn’t/didnt.

We're seeing a really horrible new trend of wealthy and powerful men using the law to gaslight women. And we're going to the High Court to get an anonymity order against one of them discharged.

We’re living in the world where everyone has brain damage from Covid and the increased proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

"Is sex biological?" I fucking wish. Biology is easier to change than societal attitudes.

Very excited to be participating in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine Conference. What an amazing lineup of speakers they've put together! You can check out the full schedule below. Honored to be among them. sites.google.com/view/scmssp/...

Hazara embroidery from central Afghanistan, on cotton or silk material enlivened by very fine lines of cross or herringbone stitch #WomensArt

My second feature Low Rider screens in BFI Flare 21/22 March. It stars Emma McDonald and Thishiwe Ziqubu. A dual heritage Londoner goes looking for her absent South African father, but a chance encounter forces her to deal with her own demons on the road. whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online...

for the night crowd

"Jo Maugham KC, executive director of the Good Law Project, accused her of 'pitching for the votes of misogynists, homophobes, racists and antisemites, who are the only people who benefit from removing discrimination protections'."

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

My short experimental film (Untitled)2025 screens in the London Short Film Festival. It is an evocative incantation to trans and non-binary ancestors forgotten because of land theft, colonisation and enforced binary genders which damage us all. www.shortfilms.org.uk/programme/pa...

“God damn them all.”

Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.) How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...

Ahhhhhhhh thank you thank you to Ollie @pagesofhackney.bsky.social for choosing BAD LANGUAGE as one of your books of the year 🥰 and alongside the equally witchy WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken. www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/christmas-20...

A thought experiment

It’s here! For @letterboxd.social, I wrote a special starter pack about the rarest of gifts. Here are 16 Black Christmas movies to cheer up your holiday!!

Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.” Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…

"The only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. Anti-trans campaigners have been making legal threats, trying to force trans people out of public life. They thought after the SC decision the whole world would suddenly agree with them. But they've misunderstood the law, as well as human nature"

Good

Yeah isolation is one word for it. Another is "apartheid".

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty

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"Were proud to provide the PIP, so people can be more independent and be more fully included in society." *Person shows any semblance of independence* "NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!"

This is all the more mendacious when there is good evidence that the whole moral panic against trans people (which didn't exist 10 years ago) is spearheaded and funded by US right wing money #r4today

According to Webb, it's scientists who support trans people who "have been captured" by an "ideology", not himself and his mates in the media who are opposing their very existence... if that's not bias #r4today

Every American posting that they’re moving to Ireland when actual refugees are being turned away.

Also never give money to the US Red Cross 👍🏼

Keir Starmer says he had “uncontainable fury” about his niece’s homophobic attack in 2022. Here’s a look at his party’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and policies since 🧵 From op-ed by @jamiewareham.co.uk

Well we could talk about the fact that everyone I’ve met who has recently moved to Walthamstow appear to nearly all be white and from the home counties, and the homeowners are definitely armed with £500k from mum and dad

Bezos literally makes this much money in *minutes* every day of his life. It's like if any of the rest of us donated $5. bezoscalculator.com

It's hard to overstate the impact Taylor had as an AIDS fundraiser. $100 million is an estimate that doesn't include nine-figure bequests to AIDS charities.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

OK, book/list fans, here's the @burleyfisher.bsky.social Books of the Year 2025, inc our Zines of the Year + BF bestseller list. My picks 🧵 burleyfisherbooks.com/blogs/news/b...

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).

....and a million plays on the podcast too! Thanks everyone for the support. Let's keep growing! 💚🙌🏼

Birmingham council tried to slash workers wages &when the workers responded by taking industrial action the council decided to bring in agency staff to try & break the strike. Those agency workers are now striking too #GMB reports from the @unitetheunion.bsky.social picket line this morning