Wolf Blitzer: Why is Israel, another country, your red line right now, this is what your critics are saying, rather than a domestic issue that impacts Americans' everyday lives? John Fetterman, visibly confused throughout the entire interview: Yeah, absolutely.

This sadly was a Covid movie, so didn't get enough promotion on release but it is SO GREAT. Please seek it out.

Wyeth Leslie@wyethwashere.bsky.social · 4d ago

New essay. Noir is often about men accepting a life lived alongside the darkness of the world. The Kid Detective is about one such case that has resulted in a deeply broken leading man. It also happens to be a very funny film. www.patreon.com/WyethLeslie/...

Transphobia. Homophobia. Misogyny. They're all the same thing. The same bigotry rooted in hatred of anyone who steps beyond the narrow gender parameters established for them. The fight is the same fight. You cannot fight one without fighting them all.

THREAD 🧵🧵🧵🧵 Two of the main lies in the Cass Review used to justify the puberty-blocker ban; 1. The lie that puberty-blockers have a long-term negative effect on bone density. 2. The lie that puberty-blockers have a negative effect on cognitive ability. Both have been shown to be false; 1/4

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival

Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books

gofundme.com

This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning

Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

They recently suffered a historically terrible earthquake. Also we're sucking hundreds of billions of dollars out of their economy.

I had absolutely forgotten this existed. They need to play this on a loop whenever people talk about how amazing Britpop was. A nadir.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 18h ago

30

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

This is truly jaw dropping and I just keep thinking would this sort of candidate have been allowed to stand ten years ago - probably not - so what does that say about our politics?

I stopped subscribing due the transphobia but this is a very good ad and describes exactly what journalists are meant to do at every broadcaster and outlet, rather than the PR journalism and clickbait so many of them have become.

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d ago

To get the bigger picture, remember IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! Experience the Eye as it’s meant to be seen… in print! New edition with subscribers from Wednesday - or you can make the epic voyage to your local shop.

We noticed this last night at a dosa place - there were AI pics outside which we didn't notice till afterwards and the idli looked weirdly spherical and not nice. AI just makes things unpleasantly utopian-but-wrong-looking.

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

⭐️🌌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Bydd y ffilm eiconig Star Wars: A New Hope yn cael ei dybio i'r Gymraeg Fe fydd Star Wars: Gobaith Newydd yn cael ei darlledu ar S4C ac ar draws ei llwyfannau digidol o ddydd Nadolig ymlaen A fyddwch chi'n gwylio...?

Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

This makes me feel immensely happy — and proud! Now to manifest chatting to Lynwen Brennan about how this came together!

Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · yesterday

Star Wars is officially getting a Welsh-language dub this Christmas, with Matthew Rhys, Rhys Ifans, and more lending their voices to a galaxy far, far away. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

Technologically, we’re at a time when we could have access to a vast majority of media electronically in seconds but late stage capitalistically, most of it is paywalled, fractured and an absolute clusterfuck when it comes to access. Well fucking done.

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Innit, Nancy.

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER@nancycomics.bsky.social · yesterday

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 04,1945

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

Mastodon again, is it? Why do they keep trying to make each space safe for fascists?

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · yesterday

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

saying this not as a dig to Paul but as a general point, but it does worry me that we've ended up in a world where the two options are seemingly "leftist bubble" or "oh hey the nazis are here" - surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc?

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · yesterday

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

[Post-2008 financial crisis] there was no space for risk-taking. If you were lucky enough to secure a job amid the mass cuts and redundancies, you clung to it. Failure wasn’t an option; in this unforgiving climate, mistakes were feared, rather than embraced as “learning opportunities"

Charli xcx’s album is hiding a vital message about failure for millennials like me

The British artist has reinvented her sound on ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ – but beneath the genre change lies a much more important challenge to a generation that’s terrified of embarrassment, writes Hele...

independent.co.uk

Many journalists and commentators revealing their biggest fear is to die and then be absolutely rinsed on social media for being cunts

Donald Glover's 'Good' Reaction

ALT: Donald Glover's 'Good' Reaction

static.klipy.com

it's a big club and you ain't in it

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · yesterday

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Nothing wrong big upping Abromovic but a decade before her piece there was Yoko www.moma.org/audio/playli...

Yoko Ono. Cut Piece. 1964 | MoMA

Audio from Yoko Ono: One Woman Show: 1960–1971.

moma.org

American post – but it applies pretty well here.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · yesterday

Also it is your fucking responsibility to make room for the next generation(s) of leaders! This is the same problem as wealth/housing hoarding

public libraries ftw