Alice

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

Meet Halal Beats — the producer making tracks aligned with his faith Umar Valu makes beats for Muslim content creators as an alternative to music that doesn't match their religious values

Umar Valu is the founder of Halal Beats — a global music platform streamed in more than 210 countries.

He spoke to @anitamureithi.bsky.social about how to make tracks that align with his faith.

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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

I’m old enough to remember when bathroom bills were pushed by the most deranged republican governors of deep red states, and if you’re about to sit your GCSEs then so are you

Genocide scholars raise alarm about the genocide in Gaza. We don’t preserve the memory of past genocide victims by ignoring this genocide.

Austrian hotel owners drop 'Nazi grandpa' court case against guest Man had submitted critical online review after visiting Ferienhof Gerlos hotel

Reminds me of this story www.theguardian.com/world/2019/d...

what a pair

the malcom tucker cosplayer

A couple more film pics from my little hike.

📷 : Nikon AF600
🎞️ : Fuji 400
📍 : Rhinog Fawr, Cymru

I both do and don’t want to know what happened in the bar to result in this sign being put up

Brilliant book

I just saw an IG video of a woman who was banned from ASOS for returning too many clothes, it’s ableism..

Decimal Day was in 1971, to remember this in use you’d have to be in your 60s..

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

This article, from yesterday, is now already out of date. Absolute mind-altering horror

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

magic karen powers

wrote a thing for @jacobinmag.bsky.social trying to contextualise generative AI's deployment within capitalism's recent history — and what it means for labour

And now the GenZs want to dress like that too, apparently 😭

Found the NYLON Book of Street Style at a friend’s place recently and it took me hurtling back

Those numbers are juiced for sure

Hearing rumours that Zohran Mamdani focused mainly on the text's plot in a high school English essay and almost entirely neglected its form

The real 500 Miles: how a smash hit was spun from lies, deceit and desperation Craig and Charlie Reid found fame and fortune with the story of their 1,000 mile walk. We can reveal that the truth behind it is very different.

Another day, another revelation…

Berliner CDU fordert Luftabwehrsystem für die Hauptstadt

Huge cuts to public services atm but the Berlin CDU wants an air missile defence system above the city modelled on Israel’s Iron Dome…

www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...

Book cover showing The Bed and Breakfast Star by Jaqueline Wilson

PhD idea: class consciousness in British millennial women and the books of Jaqueline Wilson

It’s just a shame it wasn’t a podcast series with a cliff hanger after each ep, would’ve lapped that up..

A very clumsy framing that probably reflects the circles he has moved in for so long now. But odd as he seems pretty switched on otherwise, I was in London last week for the first time in a while and the deprivation was palpable.

oh christ

I think this is the key point, the UK Greens are great atm but the ideological project is fundamentally different. And we’ve seen the limitations/dark side of that with the Greens here in Germany

and introduced dynamic pricing ffs

AI generated image that looks weirdly distorted and fake of bathers lining up in front of all a swimming pool

Not only have Berlin public pools doubled the entrance fee this summer, they’ve accompanied the announcement with this awful AI image

Devastated at the news about JD Twitch. Keith has been a constant in our lives and all those who love music. Sending love to his family and Jonnie❤️ @optimo-espacio.bsky.social