This is good by Abdaljawad Omar in Equator but really, in Britain, I think the bleak truth is that important people *do not want* to see what’s been done, because recognising it raises questions about what the fuck they themselves have been playing at, all these years www.equator.org/articles/mor...

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

equator.org

Does anybody remember back in the late 2010s there was a some rich bastard club that did a men-only event that hired hostesses which then all got groped and harassed? You’ll never guess who they got to present that

something striking me about this is how adolescent archives become paper trails detailling abuse and control. Ticket stubs, diary pages, postcards -- private collections where girls curate their sense of self turn into proof of harm being done www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘It wasn’t long until he asked me if I’d ever had sex before’: David Walliams accused of preying on young women for sex

Comedian and former Britain’s Got Talent judge alleged to have groomed fans he met when they were as young as 15 and harassed women in the workplace over a number of years. He denies the allegations

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Me: The irony of Frasier is although he’s a psychiatrist, he can’t heal himself. It’s not a sitcom, it’s a family drama about loneliness. My Chinese spy girlfriend: [so bored] That’s cool. What do you know about Parliamentary select committees? Me: Some criticise Daphne’s Mancunian accent. However

How do I even sum up a day 2 of Damnation festival that started with Swamp Coffin and ended with Wolves In The Throne Room, via Hippotraktor, Mastiff, Benediction, Final Dose, Groza, Triptykon, Worm, and Satyricon? I cannot. I am more ache than person. But I had an unforgettable time. 🖤

Day one of Damnation festival done and I am exhausted! Hundred Year Old Man, Holy Fawn, The Moth Gatherer, Dödsrit, Carcass, MØL, Cult of Luna, Krallice, HEALTH, good golly that's a LOT of live music! And I get to do it all over again tomorrow! 😱

Just a note to folks in general: I don't share skeets that link to Substack posts (and when I've realized that I have, accidentally, I delete the shares). I do not support that platform. Thanks.

and so the vampire castle successfully consumes another man

Crowdfunder to provide essential support for students from Gaza arriving at Glasgow uni: www.gofundme.com/f/help-gaza-...

Donate to Help Gaza Students Being Evacuated to Glasgow, organized by Ibrahim Alghorane

Hi, it’s me Ibrahim Alghorane, a 20-year-old Software Engineering stu… Ibrahim Alghorane needs your support for Help Gaza Students Being Evacuated to Glasgow

gofundme.com

Fantastic to get some new tunes from the excellent Dimscûa lads at last. Dust Eater was a masterpiece and this is equally strong. Brilliant stuff. dimscua.bandcamp.com/album/grief-...

Grief & Silence - EP, by Dimscûa

3 track album

dimscua.bandcamp.com

Most effort I've put into a costume for ages - it was fun! But ouch my head this morning 😅

do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

BOURDAIN: Once you’ve had acorn salad and damson cordial at Redwall Abbey you’ll never stop wanting to crush Cluny the Scourge with a bell.

The government won't tell you the *real* reason we are meant to stockpile food (Plumbert will grow hungry over the winter, and you can stop him from peeling off your flesh by providing him with a couple of tins of sweetcorn instead)

@mofette.bsky.social morning ducks, I dreamed we were both at a little music festival and you organised a full reenactment of the classic Cyber-Goth-Treffen video on an outside stage :) it was great! 😅

Tonight was the best sunset I think I have ever seen!

waking up to find myself transformed into a bug and immediately utilizing my proboscis to get a drink of water without having to sit up in bed

inside your throne room there are two wolves

@asterionhex.monster Frank says hi and hopes you'll come to one of the Fen shows on the East Coast!

Wasn’t able to secure any review code for HELLRAISER unfortunately. But I found this amazing FB clip of Doug Bradley doing a Scouse Pinhead and now I’m crying from laughter. He’s amazing. (Source: YMH Podcast.)

We're on a train and two old boys behind me are having the world's most boring conversation about engines and types of petrol and land speed records But because they both have strong Cornish accents I'm completely obsessed and engrossed

There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BBC Host: "Zacks talked a lot about Gaza. Thats not a local issue is it. Thats not going to improve peoples lives there" Saying that genocide is bad & we shouldn't be funding, arming or supporting the regime doing it. What a terrible person! How dare he, right?

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

Shit is going HARD burnermetal.bandcamp.com/album/no-one...

No One Is Coming to Save Us, by Burner

11 track album

burnermetal.bandcamp.com

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Andy Kelly@ultrabrilliant.xyz · 2mo ago

Seeing a five quid powercard in a Silent Hill game is mangling my mind more than any of the faceless shambling horrors.

c.org/C9j9HbBHph?s... Please consider signing this to stop them ruining a beautiful part of Wales. Anl company plan to build a major 333,440sqm data centre campus on the former Ferodo factory site in Caernarfon AND it's surrounding areas. Right on the shore of the beautiful Menai Strait.

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Two kids persuaded the head teacher that they’d “written a song” and he let them perform it in assembly. The song was a keyboard ‘funk’ preset with them repeating the words “electro chicken” in vocoder voices for five minutes.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”