🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d ago

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

I think people get nervous and scared when they see liberation in process, because it pushes them toward thinking about their own suffering AND their own complicity in or silence about the suffering of others.

The mythology of the changeling where a fairy replaces a baby with an identical but intangibly "wrong" copy is easily read as queer bc the phenomena of parents feeling like their child failing to live up to their idealized image is a murder/replacement is a tale as old as time!

AI detection software, made out of genAI by the same dipshits making genAI, is being targeted at Black writers so that an Arday can happen but with no human able to be held accountable.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2w ago

France’s most prestigious literary prize has pulled a book from the longlist they think may have been written by AI. This is the start of what is going to become an authenticity nightmare for all concerned: authors, publishers, awards, readers www.ft.com/content/b002...

AI detection software allows the race science twerp to get baked right into the system, in a way that no human can be found to be made accountable.

Acid rules. Ten bucks to ride the spiral to the heart of all creation and look out across an infinite field of potential universes? The people's drug.

Sorry, you guys are getting job interviews to discourse about??

ok sry 2 get rly mean for a second, man, for a fandom that prides itself on being au fait w medieval history & accuracy re. the text, it sure is RUBBISH at picking up on the v clear actual 18th/19th century preoccupations of the text & it drives me fucking nuts. as an amateur student of those eras.

TobermorianSass@tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 3w ago

do people know how much of the nineteenth century is contingent on the preoccupations of the long 18th century!!!! do they know how much contemporary nonsense today can be traced back directly to the long 18th century from IP law to bioessentialist models of gender!!!

i'm sorry i tried all day to be nice, but i have to be mean over here. if you believe in sexy duelling scars what you're thinking of is the GEORGIANS. you are thinking of the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. not the nineteenth and not the victorians.

OK, if this is going to blow up my notifications this much I'm going to fess up and say that I have, in fact, written the book about these guys, and it's even a pretty good book if I may say so myself. www.amazon.com/Neoreaction-...

Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right

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The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4w ago

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Transphobia and the oppression of children are linked to the point that trans adults are often treated like de facto children. One way we see this is how we’re told continually that we don’t understand grown-up politics, as if our political concerns are childish and immature.

silmarillion fans handshake the rabbis of old and at the middle it says “who tf was this character’s wife though? we have to make up something about her”

Still scarcely any mainstream coverage of this massive story, despite the new and separate scandal involving James Orr. This is not just double standards. I'm struggling to detect any standards at all.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?

re last repost: I stand by my assertion that if someone is being "deported" to somewhere they didn't come from, the correct term is simply "transportation" as in the Victorian practise of shipping convicts off to colonies, this is barbaric 19th century shit and "deportation" is a euphemism here

One of the interesting aspects of all this footage is it reveals that parties/strategists firmly believe that opinion polls can be used for significant political advantage.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · last mo.

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

The number of trans survivors of Catholic Church bigotry sharing this piece and noting what it means to them to see it laid out and honestly confronted means a lot to us. Why we do what we do, y'all. SJ Klapecki is a really good writer, and she did an incredible job with this one.

Trans News Network@transnews.network · last mo.

Underneath the "progressive" papacy of Pope Leo remains a deeply reactionary institution, one of the biggest enemies of trans rights worldwide. @sjklapecki.itch.io, who survived the Catholic Church's bigotry firsthand, goes in-depth on why it's time to see through the propaganda and face reality.

www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2026/08/thro... hey, here's an article about children's media. a *big* article about children's media. I tried to come up with a better way of promoting this, but the fact is, if I could sum up 7000 words in 1 tweet, I'd've written that. instead, here's how it begins:

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

Cwiar Cymru@cwiar.org · last mo.

The Welsh Gender Service has now released a statement regarding the cancellation of all surgeries: 'We have been asked to immediately pause referrals from the WGS for gender affirming surgery and existing scheduled surgeries while further independent clinical review work is carried out.'

Sometimes you realise that rly speaking the only problem people have with monarchy and conservatism is that it isn't woke about women and queers and that is truly one of the most dismal things to realise

Fiction has undergone a huge demographic transformation over the last 50 years. Men lost ground, which women gained. But the way some have written about it, you’d think men are, as a NYT headline suggested, disappearing. Hardly! Women have just caught up. sinykin.substack.com/p/where-have...

Where Have All the Literary Men Gone?

Not too far....

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much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

I'm sorry, but if you think Nathan Cofnas being suspended for being a racist is an 'academic freedom' issue you are the dumbest fucking mark alive.

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

Red Wing's Town and Country, cis gay man that has marched in support of trans rights every year since 1974

Kaj Franck's Kilta, leather daddy, has hooked up with trans men many times no problem

Glidden Pottery's Wing Punch Bowl and Cups, wishes it had never been born, anti-humanist in all ways