David Frew
@drvon2.bsky.social
Are you really thinking of following me? Check my LIKES tab first, You probably won't like it. I am a yoga enthusiast, project manager & cynic. Formerly London based, I 'moved' to Amsterdam to avoid UK age restrictions (giving my personal dets to EPIC.)
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
New event! UK Time 📆17th - 24th Sept (Exhibition) 📆17th Sept 🕡6:30pm (Launch event) 📆19th Sept 🕖7pm (Feast for senses) 20th 🕒3pm (Art workshop) Prospect Burma hold "Myanmar Alive: Art for Opportunity" exhibition & events! at Arponnar Restaurant London Details www.prospectburma.org/publications...
James Cleverly has pledged to run a “classically Conservative” campaign to become the mayor of London, avoiding Kemi Badenoch's emphasis on culture war issues. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cleverly avoids culture war issues in pitch to be next London mayor
Conservative hopeful says Sadiq Khan has ‘lost passion for the job’ and Andy Burnham is ‘very anti-London’
theguardian.com
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
Just imagine if a President of the United States was an asset for Russia. Now imagine that President bankrupts and steals from the country to give to oligarch’s. And at the same time, completely depletes the military. This is “just if” of course.
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
A short thread of interesting covers, but I have to add my own favourite. Paramore (covering Talking Heads) - Burning Down the House [Covers is one of my special interests: I do have 886 tracks on my "covers & versions" playlist, but I'm too lazy to post any more of them here.]
Paramore - Burning Down The House
YouTube video by Lauragreat
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Catbus@catbus.phd · 3d agothis is a thread of my favorite covers
Nice to get out shoutout for my favourite data centre from @edzitron.com I still remember every app and critical business flow that went through there. Technically is was only one of a high resilience pair in UK (with 4 more pairs around the world.)
Milo Yiannopoulos getting detained by ICE after Laura Loomer reports him sure is some news, anyway:
Dolly Parton was they type of Christian that Christian Nationalists only *pretend* to be. Unlike Christian Nationalists, she didn't browbeat us with how CHRISTIAN she was. She just lived her life doing things that Jesus asked her to do, like heal the sick, help the children, and care for the poor.
It’s quite something seeing the (long) list of people who claim to work on social justice issues in archaeology who are prepared to go to EAA in Athens this year, sometimes sharing sessions with people involved in illegal excavations in the West Bank. bdsmovement.net/news/europea...
European Association of Archaeologists Is Welcoming Scholars Knowingly Participating in a War Crime
The EAA is welcoming scholars from Hebrew University, which is partially built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to its annual meeting, Sept 2-6.
bdsmovement.net
This is a marvelous book. I can't really categorise it, but I loved reading it, kept wanting more & to find out what happened next. I also want to head off to SW England so all the walks described in the book (maybe even some in Wales)
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last wk.Thread (pls read it all) FUCK IT. I'm giving away another 5 signed copies of my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You. To enter, simply repost this & pop a reply below. You might like it if you like any of these things: Community Knitting Folklore The sea Dorset Silliness Old records CONTD...
So in the UK the Sky TV and broadband services are in a mess. So when you phone them, they tell you "we are experiencing exceptional call volumes, why don't you use our online services" Because they don't work!
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy.
The Telegraph has deleted, without fanfare, the word ‘living’ from the headline of Stephen Daisley's article on Professor Arday. Today, it just reads “Jason Arday is proof that you reap what you sow.”
I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me? goodlaw.social/625453
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlaw.social
A fine idea. I'll mention mine too. I wrote Aether Torrent. It's a YA fantasy adventure about labor and treasure with queer protagonists on the cover and it's very good. Mention complete. 💙📚 #booksky #aethertorrent books2read.com/aethertorrent
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Aether Torrent by Jack Duffe
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Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w agoA Bluesky user has written to me to ask me to stop mentioning my books on here. I wonder... Should I continue trying my best to make a living in a tough world via the writing I've spent decades putting my heart & soul into? Or should I obey them? Nah. I'm going to continue mentioning my books.