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You and me are moulded by things well beyond our acknowledgment. He/him / Over 50yo / South Wales https://www.last.fm/user/a_transfer

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Jack Liu@teflonslinky.bsky.social · 8h ago

If they actually do this I will give them the minimal credit they deserve. A feather weighed against the mass of lead that represents their actions to support the genocide so far.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 11h ago

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to announce tomorrow a comprehensive ban on UK trade with the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise in illegally-occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. It's reportedly to include a ban on trading services, including British investment in settlements.

Michael Whelan@michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 14h ago

BUFFO (1982)
 Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" X 22" 

Reading a novel by M. John Harrison always leaves me with the feeling that I've experienced some vivid, chaotic dream full of important but indecipherable symbols and images. 1/3

A man wearing the skull of a horse with antlers clasps the long tube of a telescope tightly to him. One sleeve of his tattered white garments is rolled up past the elbow. Ridges of veins are raised in the tense grips of his hands. Red orbs fill the sockets of the skull while green ribbon twists around the bone until loosely draping over antlers. Filaments sprout, oddly feathery, from the curling rack. On the dingy shelves behind, a small assortment of hardbound books lean with more stacked haphazardly on the long shelf below. Charts tacked to the wall curl with age. Points of light, more like street lamps than stars, gleam in the cracked glass of a many-paned window.
Critical Nostalgia@highway62.bsky.social · 11h ago

"Women say that they don't like it when men do this thing that manosphere influencers tell them to do." Guess what? These dudes are more interested in being in the cohort of manosphere influencers than they are in being in a relationship with a woman. Sucks to suck.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins@pollypw.bsky.social · 19h ago

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 19h ago

Important to recognise that "legitimate concerns" is performative, not descriptive. People are not saying "you are justified in being concerned about this real problem." They are saying "these are the things we are prepared to treat as legitimate."

Polly Pallister-Wilkins@pollypw.bsky.social · 19h ago

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 19h ago

“It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender” Today is exactly 5 years since @theguardian.com censored the words of non-binary academic, Judith Butler. These are the censored words. Still valid now.

It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves. The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people. The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.
Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 21h ago

The UK government agrees with the aims and ideologies of the fascists who are attacking racialised minorities. Their disagreement is that they think the state should be trusted to attack racialised minorities using the proper legal channels.

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · 21h ago

This is where Labour Together's strategy of repeatedly telling the far-right that they have "legitimate concerns" leads. Can we end the facile pretence that the people in Dover have anything meaningful to contribute to political life and call them what they are: violent racists.

Ned Raggett@nedraggett.bsky.social · yesterday

Rob Sheffield in @rollingstone.com and: correct. Chase down all the limited edition overpriced vinyl reissues you want, I’m chilling at the CD dollar bins and buying native digital via Bandcamp et al and thriving and then some. Paywalled but you get the gist.

CDs Are Back, and We Think We Know Why

Young audiences are listening to more CDs these days. That's because those shiny, Nineties-coded discs are the best invention ever for deep listening

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Tim Maughan@timmaughan.bsky.social · yesterday

rejecting AI isn’t a failure to prepare children for an “inevitable” future, it’s a vital statement of belief in our agency to chose a future for them, rather than letting it be dictated to us by a small group of the richest men, who are increasingly - I wish this was just hyperbole - openly fascist

Chris Moran@chrismoranuk.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am so pleased we have Daniel Susskind writing for us today about LLMs, parenting and learning (and not just because he mentions my little project PlotLines). It’s essential we have informed, balanced dialogues about GenAI’s strengths and weaknesses www.theguardian.com/technology/2...