'“The Malay–took the Pearl–” is ... about being mistreated & stigmatized ... about having your humanity and your love ignored & denigrated. ... [Dickinson] responded ... by blaming Black people for her troubles. That’s how white supremacy works': www.everythingishorrible.net/p/emily-dick...

Excellent news. Someone I voted for actually got elected. By a convincing (60:40) margin.

I freely confess that I’d never even heard of C18th century poet Angharad James until this episode of @yrheniaith.bsky.social but her work is remarkable Read this lovely overview by @jerryhunter.bsky.social then please search your attic for the lost ‘llyfr coch’! nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...

Big fan of Sean Borodale. The bio Poetry Ireland provides here ignores his first book, 'Notes for an Atlas', which I enthuse about here: www.bulldozia.com/2011/11/27/s...

If you are addicted to heroin you can have your blood tested to help you manage the health risks. But if you are a child trying to access healthcare, in line with international norms, Wes Streeting's position is that you "must" be treated worse.

What a loathsome headline.

Preseli skies, an hour before sunset.

Interesting use of street-level graphics to transform a cross-walk into a data visualization in the Tuzla Municipality of Istanbul, to depict the stark and devastating figures of the number of people killed and injured (20,000) over the last 10 years at cross-walks across the country.

Choose your shibboleth carefully. A lesson from the Gordon Riots. In 1780 the Protestant Association recommended its supporters wear blue cockades as they marched on Parliament to protest the Catholic Relief Act. 1/3 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...

the joy of not being sold anything. billboard by Banksy

To those of us following human rights in #Tibet, the #Uyghur regions & illegal rare earth mining in #Laos or #Myanmar the fact that #China derailed the inclusion of mining & critical minerals in the #COP30 #JustTransition program is no surprise for @codastory.com www.codastory.com/climate-cris...

Flaubert proved the same - and with more humour - in 'Bouvard and Pecuchet', though 'Googling and reading about it' was shown to be not much better.

Two middle-aged blokes talking about music of yesteryear (a bit too laid back and smooth for me), but the chat about the ambient underground scene in South London in the early 1990s is very interesting. Strictly Kev talks us through the Telepathic Fish compilation: www.mixcloud.com/do_you_radio...

Trains cancelled.

HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️

A wee wander round the Green today + spotted this banner someone has put at the front of the People's Palace - Elseth King RIP 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Just came across this podcast from @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence. No indication of when it was made, but their discussion of the political nuances of the summer of love & the momentous influence of David Mancuso was excellent: www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/series1/welc...

What a great Pick of the Week from @scouttzofiya.bsky.social with cod-slam poetry, the word 'cistension', the sound of agoraphobia, Walt Whitman, Johnny Cash, an introduction to musique concrète and a closing snippet of strangeness from LINTD: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Handbill advertising a debate hosted by Robert Wedderburn in London in August 1819, a week before Peterloo. 1/2

What's the linguistically correct term for Santa's little helpers? Subordinate clauses 👍

Without even consulting members, UNISON backs Bridget Phillipson as Deputy Labour Leader. Its time to put UNISON members first.

'The BBC will only survive if the people who fund it are actively and directly involved in running it. An institution that began life as a private company and became a chartered corporation must now become a public service cooperative': substack.com/inbox/post/....

"We loan books from the local library, or we loan books through it from a library far away. But we also lend ourselves to the library — enlarging the commons and participating in the political project of making an informed society." @shannonmattern.bsky.social placesjournal.org/article/extr...

Or to put it another way, both Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski will have reasons to celebrate if Labour introduce an ultra-hardline asylum policy modelled on an unpopular Danish government which is allied with the centre-right. Polanski will get more Lab recruits, and that increases Farage's lead.

Autumn colours, Cambuslang.

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

In the midst of horrific mass killings and violence, British-made military equipment has been found in Sudan. It's clear our arms export licensing system is not fit for purpose; we need a full review, alongside an embargo on all arms exports to the UAE now.

'“The mood board was definitely New York iconography: taxicab yellow, MetroCard primary colors, bodega awnings, stuff people are familiar with in the New York street.”' www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025 clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

“It’s almost impossible to transition away from fossil fuels without nickel from Indonesia,” one research analyst said. Fueling that transition are migrant workers from China, laboring in deadly conditions. Read @wufeiyu.bsky.social’s new feature, produced Grist and republished by Rest of World:

If you live in a major city, your mayor is almost certainly aware of @annehidalgo.bsky.social's record. If they're deciding not to follow her lead, that decision is a deliberate one.

The use of “risk” here is so fucking terrible. Like having an autistic kid is a bad thing. A risk you want to avoid. Like autistic people are something to get rid of. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Sigmund Freud, in Totem and Taboo, might have been talking about large language models. archive.org/details/stan...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting at West-End Chapel in Hawick www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/5

This hasn't got nearly enough attention as it should: www.commonweal.scot/policies/a-p...

'Joseph, born into enslavement in Saint-Domingue, became a world-renowned model in Paris thanks to Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa.' www.europeana.eu/en/stories/j...

I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history. This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things". yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...

'Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler.' manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

RIP Peter Watkins, whose film about the 1871 Paris Commune treats it as if it were a current news event, with participants talking to reporters. It runs to nearly six hours & was shot in less than a fortnight in an abandoned factory www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDTT...

Constellations of sheep

Creative types are in cities like London for the same reason Cornish miners were in Argentina.

'“I see myself as a Knight Templar. I am protecting the women and kids round here. I’m doing God’s work. And I think that’s what the Knights Templar used to do.”' www.bigissue.com/news/activis...

The old slate quarry.

People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!

The overthrow of Madagascan president Andry Rajoelina marks a further decline of French influence in Africa and the Indian Ocean, but India and China circle the vacuum popularresistance.org/madagascar-e...