Truly. If only twitter at its peak had given us such a blessing.
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Truly. If only twitter at its peak had given us such a blessing.
Good grief
The sad thing is, this is the most scrutiny he'll ever face The British press will keep grovelling
The key takeaway is Netflix’s bragged about algorithm that spies on every click you make gives them more data about audiences than ever existed in cinema history. But it has not led to their biggest hits. K-pop DH was made fully separate from Netflix & has crushed their $320 million Electric State.
Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
The government's net approval rating has fallen to -59, Labour's lowest score to date Approve: 11% (-2 from 23-25 August) Disapprove: 70% (+3) Net: -59 (-5) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that!
(To explain: I was working in press and media communications when the Labour Party had leaders you could actually call left-wing, and one frustration I had was that they never built enough of a presence in international media. That allowed the English media to distort their messaging far too much.)
The Green Party, positioned consistently and with high visibility as one leader of an international coalition of progressive parties, could be a lightning rod for hope. If that sounds implausible, well: that's exactly what Reform is doing for their camp. No reason why Greens can't do the same.
The UK's Green Party has much more leverage than many people realise - the political positions of its leader set it apart. It can shape and shift narrative in surprising ways. It can also embolden those Labour MPs who are horrified by the government's direction to agitate for change.
Something important I think: for the Green Party to (continue to) build its profile in international media by getting coverage and op-eds in European and American outlets. I say this because those pieces of press can help to shape discourse back in the UK. It also stops them from being marginalised.
Agreed. Only addition - should also have used a photo that he disliked.
The top five most frequent non-politicians on BBC Question Time all write for a single rightwing paper And this was from last year
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
The 1990s are back. In England, and in Germany.
So utterly sick of politicians saying the most unfathomably cruel things because they want to be treated like a celebrity with controversial opinions and not a public servant, which is what they are elected to be.
The easiest way for the most clapped bigot you ever saw to become a media darling is to join politics and trash vulnerable minorities. How else would a man as ugly and hateful as Nigel Farage end up everywhere in the press all the time.
History is not purely cyclical, but there does seem to be a pattern of societies periodically forgetting that the jettisoning a sometimes frustrating rules based order in exchange for the unfettered “will of the people” also has unpleasant consequences.
The trial of Jair Bolsonaro and his allied generals began today for their plot to stage a coup d'état in January 2023 after losing the election to Lula da Silva. In the following thread, we share an English version of an analysis of the situation from our Brazilian anarchist comrades. 🧵⬇️
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Rateba’s sons barely escaped death in a massacre today. Mohammed sustained some injuries and she messaged me asking me to pray for him. I asked if she would also like me to share her link and she said yes- so if you’re inclined to offer prayers or help please do gofund.me/2790a0f8
I would be all over this in a heartbeat.
The moment fascists started using woke as an insult, we should have launched a festival called The Woke Festival and curated a lineup from the gods. One way to kill a persistent joke against you is to own it.
Hello, friends. It's FORWARD PROGRESS DAY. "A cinematic celebration of college football’s exploding influence and a rigorous look at how and why the sport may look totally new once again," according to whoever wrote the summary blurb on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Forward-Prog...
Utterly grim. 🥺
Volkswagen Brazil was found guilty of subjecting workers to conditions “analogous” to slavery between 1974 and 1986 in the Amazon and ordered to publicly acknowledge the abuses and pay more than $30 million in damages.
I have the same self consciousness. And also - "I have very little to offer" well that makes two of us! See you soon!
The moment fascists started using woke as an insult, we should have launched a festival called The Woke Festival and curated a lineup from the gods. One way to kill a persistent joke against you is to own it.
Maybe but God, the mansplaining would be horrific.
Truly.
He would love hanging out with them. Birds of a feather.
Me too Ros, me too. But the older I get, the more I find that the worst thing is leaving my projects unfinished. I figure "if I write these books, at least I have given myself a chance". X
This is so helpful. 🙏
Really makes you think.
Tony Blair appears to be deeply complicit in this monstrous plan of ethnic cleansing. That's the consequence of not holding him to account for his war cromes.
Not that any of this matters but I just want to remind everyone that the St George of ‘the flag of’ fame is the patron saint of levantine Christians and looks more like some of the asylum seekers than he does white ppl. He looks like a cousin of mine
The scholars group, founded in 1994, has previously held that China's treatment of the minority Muslim Uyghurs and Myanmar's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims meet the threshold for genocide.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars has made a decision according to which Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal criteria for genocide. 86% of the body voted for it
Please help me! The situation has worsened to an unimaginable degree, as we wander from displacement to displacement. 💔💔💔
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician
Mind-blowing stats from Oxfam on the impacts from clothes that are bought and rarely, if ever, worn. www.businessgreen.com/news/4518290...
I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...
Barcelona are absolutely determined to have a chaotic season and there’s not a thing anyone can do about it.
Thank you for posting this (and for a Guardian article of yours with a similar theme that I read this weekend). Hope has never been so important.
from the essay: The Cajun Navy has always served as a beautiful example for me of active hope. No one went there knowing for sure that they could save people, some must have worried about the reported chaos, but they went.
Much love Rima. X
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Loved learning about Union Berlin and their incredible support for their women’s team. They are preparing for a debut season in the Frauen-Bundesliga having gone pro 2 years ago. They have the 4th highest average attendance in Europe. ✍🏻 👇🏻 🇩🇪 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
There needs to be some patience with Nick Woltemade. Great guy, really good player potentially, but he was still on a learning curve in the Bundesliga. He’ll have influential games for Newcastle this season, but he’ll have difficult ones too, in which he’s knocked about and forced onto the periphery
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
According to reports, one of the three has since been charged with assault.
Thanks maestro. 🙏
🧵 In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
Seems like the police knew what they were doing.
Thanks my man. All good, I was careful. 🙏
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There were just so many that I had to ask.
As a result, the fascist presence is substantial. They are wearing a mixture of subtle symbols (almost all have New Balance trainers along with their BFC shirts) and blatant ones (clothing covered in full Viking runes). All quite quiet there, I should add. (I have now left the area.)
Just saw one of the biggest gatherings of police I have ever seen in Berlin. At least 20 police vans. I asked an officer why. “A football match”, he said. “BFC Dynamo vs Babelsberg”. The former are noted for a large fascist support base, the latter for their antifa. “Oh, I said. “Yup”, he said.
My short tribute to Chadwick Boseman explores the links between anti-racist work, ableism and rest. 'We who believe in freedom cannot rest.' What do the life and death of Chadwick Boseman tell us about the structure of a world in which we are unable to really rest? folukeafrica.com/we-who-belie...
The person has now been charged with assaulting the police officer who punched them in the face just before his colleague broke their arm. That routinely happens to victims of police violence in Germany to scare them off taking any action. Where is the international media???
Thank you so much!
On this point, I may as well try manifesting good things by @'ing @stadio.football. One of my favourite examples of community-building within the 'mainstream football' space (which is not to say that these feeds are mainstream-only)
Who could possibly have foreseen this
The government's "take the fight to Farage but never in any way criticising any of his stances" thing is going swimmingly, I see.
Thanks so much Graham! So glad you’re enjoying it!
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Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work" Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
😂 this is too accurate
I am very excited to see it just because he will have plenty of defensive protection in midfield, and has real pace around him. Could be a lot of fun.
Love this signing for both club and player. Love it.
Right now across the West we are seeing the center right radicalize against human rights as an illegitimate tool of majorities against the majority, while at the same time the far right is increasingly adopting the language of rights to promote ethno-nationalist majoritarianism.
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
I know that gun control in the US is much more logistically and politically complex than elsewhere, but sometimes I see US progressives talking about how difficult it is and mocking gun control advocates who aren’t abreast of the technical details and just think…
There Is No Centre Right update:
100% this.
Wir klagen um Habil Kılıç, der heute vor 24 Jahre, am 29. August 2001, in #München vom NSU ermordet wurde. Seine Frau sagt: „Die erste Zeit war so brutal, dass ich sie kaum beschreiben mag. Ich musste das Blut meines Mannes vom Boden des Geschäftes & von den Wänden abwischen. 1/2
Can we please fight this weird American far right propaganda about European cities? I say this as someone through my work/daily life, more qualified to comment on both than the execrable Vance or any of his online robots As we say in Scotland, their nose is too close to their own a—-
Love this signing for both club and player. Love it.
More gold www.instagram.com/stories/wern...
Here it is! Your Thursday Stadio episode, where @okwonga.bsky.social and @ryanhunn.bsky.social heap praise on Grimsby, after their win on penalties against Man Utd, discuss the issues for Amorim and much, much more! Full episode available to Stadio members on Patreon!
They convinced themselves of that because the only thing that affects people who are that materially comfortable is bad manners. It’s *their* defining problem, the only thing they are still terrified of: that someone will be sharply rude to them at the fancy dinner or in the private members’ club.
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
No, with respect, the buck stops with him. He's the leader. Not McSweeney, not the comms guy. He sets the strategy, tone and values. He is responsible. Either Starmer and his whole crew are ousted and are replaced by something very different or its Vichy Labour from here until doomsday.
Starmer echoing his inner Enoch Powell again. Labour is making it more dangerous for all racialised ppl in the UK
A political-media class capable of colluding in genocide has *already proven* itself capable of the dehumanisation of Others that can sustain fascism at home. Aimé Césaire wasn't kidding about the imperial boomerang.
NEW Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
This whole thing is so, so depressingly basic. If Farage’s clear and persistent bigotry had ever been taken seriously we would never have heard of him, but now we have to sit and wait for millions of voters - including his own - to realise that his bigotry will be a disaster for them too.
And the response of @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government to Farage’s hateful rhetoric… Labour sympathisers can justify this all they like but it is patently enabling hate speech and demonstrates Starmer et al’s lack of moral courage.
A legend! 🤲
We love to see it!
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps. "Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps" archive.ph/78dcP
www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/...
The parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine have sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT contributed to their son’s suicide, including by advising him on methods and offering to write the first draft of his suicide note.
Emily ✨ 