"Even if he was, these things are so much cultural babble. If they want anything, the dead want a rest from all that."
this took a while. everyone at the household waste recycling centre was very supportive.
A necessary new radical history of the Brixton riots of 1981, Uprising by Matt Clement, is coming in November. I edited it for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, preorders welcome: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/uprising
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
I haven't seen nearly enough discussion of this incredible, very in-depth piece of reporting on Palantir. We tend to talk about the company as if they're some all-powerful panopticon, but the reality is they're a sub-par data integration middleware company with better branding and lobbying.
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3w ago🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
This is your 24-hr last call!! Send me ur hella queer & super trans poems, essays & hybrids for Catflap #6 by MIDDAY TMRW MON 13 JULY All the info 👇🏻 outburstarts.com/events-proje...
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very excited about both of these series!
Rico Charges@nochorus.bsky.social · 4w agobsky.app/profile/noch... Me Here To Do The Thinking is one of two series that will take up the rest of this year on the public side of SFULTRA. The other is the usual solo format. I'm going to read everything written by Joanna Russ in chronological order. For the rest of 2026: RUSS NEVER SLEEPS
Phew! A new Multi-block linoprint. I was worried that as I hadn't made one since March I'd have forgotten how, but all was well. Inspired by the view across the rooftops of the Market Square in my home town, Faversham, Kent. Every year, there are Swifts screaming throughout the town. haggytea.com
New Lucy story just dropped! Imagine if Adrienne Barbeau from The Fog was a deranged transsexual shock jock with a Morning Zoo Radio soundboard and a major axe to grind expatpress.com/blind-item-l...
Blind Item – Lucretia Indrid - ExPat Press
[The song begins to turn in its final movements, the melody faltering out of time with a rhythm that forgets itself, and the dissonance reveals an understrata of static whose presence now exposed swel...
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ready to buy a good pair of walking shoes/boots. i'm a big heavy sweaty guy. any personal recs?
Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...
America’s Greatest Work of Art Is Trash
Alternative title: FEAR NOT
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Once again tips for dealing with the heat. These tips don't guarantee that you will enjoy the heat but they will make it easier than not doing them.
𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖐-𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖊 ☭@upthetwerx.blacksky.app · last yr.It's starting to get warm out so as a person from South Texas whose dealt with heat, dry and humid, my whole life here are tips to get you through it especially those that live in areas where climate change has made your summers hotter.
the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/
Starmer Out
Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.
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🎵 Biffy Clyro - Mountains🎵 (Image taken as we drove through Glencoe today) #Mountains #Scotland #Photography #BlackAndWhite
Happy Midsummer and Juneteenth, throw old white racists off cliffs to celebrate both.
✨JUNETEENTH MUTUAL AID THREAD ✨ Here’s a thread with Black folks you can support in celebration of #Juneteenth. Do some good - even if you’re sending $3 to a Black person to treat themselves to a dessert or a coffee! Circulate & give to at least one person in the thread if you have the means 💜
A fundamental principle is that we *never* cede ground to the far right. If they steal our terms and concepts - which they do all the time - we seize them back and explain the reality behind them. In fact we can leverage their misuse of our terms, to refocus attention on what they really mean.