rob witts

It Happened To Me: referred to a vi⁷ chord in class and completely lost the room for like the next five minutes

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

Many things have made me feel like I’m taking crazy pills lately, and this is one of them.

Like, we all read about the story. We know what happened. What the hell is all this about? It’s SO weird.

the involvement of Jodrell Bank is a particularly wtf detail

Photos of the Feds with weapons out taken by @chicagotribune.com photographers yesterday @briancassella.bsky.social @mandophotos.bsky.social

the point is that this would obviously never happen, while the reverse is actually occurring, and maybe we need to ask why that might be? please, a crumb of analysis i beg you

i got a really distressing email from my cousin in chicago this morning - i'm hoping they give permission to share some of the text. bad people are doing very bad things there

pepper spraying a one-year-old, i cannot

ICE violently arrested a protester and pointed assault rifles at unarmed community members filming today in Little Village, Chicago.

'world's first trillionaire' and 'hellish economic crisis' will pair nicely for historians at least. so we've got that to look forward to

Can anyone help Pete? Worthy cause.

wishing you the very best of luck

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

the true Butlerian Jihad is forcing people — by violence if necessary — to accept that “perfomative” doesn’t just mean doing something self-consciously

Who’d have guessed it? The main BBC board member resisting a simple apology and reinforcing the right wing attack on the BBC from within, was a Tory government appointee and founder of GB TV. If you want impartiality, Gibb has to go. Nick Robinson on X:

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

So many stories, verified, like this coming out of US about ICE detention right now. Let's just be totally clear, it is not hyperbole to call ICE "Trump's Gestapo", or their detention sites concentration camps. They meet all of the criteria. Anywhere else this would be receiving global condemnation.

An option piece from the times newspaper. Originally it said "did women ruin the workplace". Now it says "did having to work ruin the workplace"

I fixed the title

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.

well done to her, what a ridiculous system

what the actual, i'm so sorry that happened to you

At the other place, being lectured by roasters explaining that seventy grand is not a big wage Actually, as if it was still 2018 and we have endless time and space for that kind of self-indulgent dickhead behaviour.

Mamdani has of course been famously inconsistent in his message

At my parents and I found this fan and was like, "Ooh, I wonder what beautiful image will unfold?"

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

There is no ceasefire. It's a lie. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government since Trump claimed a ceasefire was achieved. The Israeli government never even stopped bombing Lebanon. They are still committing war crimes.

I feel like people on Bluesky who have convinced themselves that the institutional Left in the United States is pro Trump and falling over backwards to credit Trump should have to reckon with the fact that the only Palestinian in Congress, and a DSA member, says (rightly) that the ceasefire is fake.