i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Iranian cleric honestly a little let down to discover the United States is actually an Indecisive and Middling at Best Satan.

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on recording community histories through the Bengali Photo Archive and the extraordinary work of Lloyd Gee.

Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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Oh no they put her in a can.

Roberto Baldwin@strngwys.bsky.social · 3d ago

Important crossover event

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Latest podcast - on two new books on the Vietnam War & politics in Australia. #auspol #history thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/l...

Living The Dream with the Quiet Protest of the Cold War Kid

In this episode Dave and Jon discuss two new books about the 1960s, the Vietnam War and political struggle. They are Quiet Protest by Effie Karageorgos and Cold War Kid by Rowan Cahill.There is a B…

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"Anti-Data, Pro-Earth" Poster spotted in Brisbane

Finally a summer I can enjoy.

Watching Ben lee perform to approx 200 wine mums. Vibe.

I am forever mistaking Alex Antic and Peter Matic.

Happy publication day to Tony Ballantyne and his major new history, Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire, which is out in bookshops across Aotearoa New Zealand now.

The kit is meant to break up their shape against the background, making it difficult for opposing teams to ascertain their speed and direction.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Nigerian cycling kit appreciation post (Commonwealth Games edition)

'A vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy!'

the problem is that once i grew used to the hat it was taken away and i liked the show a whole lot less from then on

Gore Vidal Sassoon@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is my 4th time trying to get into the Expanse and I just can’t get past this goddamn hat. You’re in space bro why do you look like a ska band bass player

jesus. www.dw.com/en/germanys-...

Germany's heat death toll nears 10,000

Germany's heat-related death toll for 2026 has already surpassed every full-year total since 2016 — and is expected to climb as another spell of extreme temperatures takes hold.

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Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

*Call for papers!* The 2027 InASA conference, "The Cringing Continent", will be held at Flinders University from 9-12 February. See you all in Adelaide! More info here: inasa.org/blog/call-fo...

Call for Papers: ‘The Cringing Continent’, InASA Conference for 2027

The Cringing Continent 2027 InASA Conference Tuesday 9—Friday 12 February Flinders University, Adelaide In February 2027, we invite you to join us on Kaurna Country to reconsider one of the foundat…

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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

𝒯𝒽ℯ ℋ𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓎 𝒯𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓎 in Sydney's Kings Cross in April 1940 🗃️ (photo by Sam Hood, State Library of NSW)

An excellent review of Rowan Cahill’s memoir of resistance against the Vietnam War by Solidarity member Tom Orsag.

Cold War rebel: how the government created its anti-war activists - Overland literary journal

“The only lottery I’ve ever won” quips Rowan Cahill about turning twenty — the date of his birthday being his number in the “lottery of death” or “blood lottery” run by the Australian government for c...

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Conservatives don't hate the humanities. They just think that only a select few (themselves) can be trusted with them.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

A lot going on here

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

In fairness, the dead are a key liberal constituency.

Leaked Liberal document shows dead, ex-members tapped as preselectors

A leaked Liberal Party spreadsheet has revealed that one dead person and two ex-members were registered as preselectors for a vote in a key seat for the upcoming Victorian election.

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“Filling in those papers with all those patients together and then hearing the message about how this wasn’t their individual problem, that every person in the community had the same problem” — says Joye — made them “want to act.”

“Medics for the People” Turns Health Care Into Organizing

The Medics for the People initiative promoted by the Workers’ Party of Belgium provides free primary care. It offers direct aid to the population, not out of charity but as a basis for organizing work...

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"Revisiting" the time I talked about Mexico in my kitchen, kicking off a chain of events in which Prego leaked the data to Palantir who sold it to the government and then my house got raided by ICE. Thank you spaghetti

Australia should probably compete as individual states and territories in the comm games to make it fair.

7-11 is selling a sausage roll that's the size of a small car.