Oli Mould

Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X about 'sickening' Grok posts The UK government says it is

“Grok has responded to some users on X explaining its actions.”

Once again, the BBC using Grok’s responses as some sort of spokesperson. The journalism is almost as irresponsible as the actual platform itself

The consent isn't going to manufacture itself

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

This is a straight up war crime. Where are the prosecutions?

“Woman: we all have to become that, whether we are male or female." (Deleuze annd Guattari, 1987: 470)

#internationalWomensDay

The BBC News page still on BIG BREAKING NEWS format with the large header I see. You know that once it reverts to normal, the war would have become just another part of the background noise of the current fascist conjuncture

I appreciate that you have to promote your own books in this overcrowded mediascape, but my word, it's such a guilt-inducing process. I very much admire those who seem to have no problem at all beating their own chest with glee.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is *exactly* my TikTok comment coping mechanism

There's an opportunity here for other vedors to set up and to do amazing Fibonacci sequencing

*this is fine dot gif*

Centrism is going to kill us all

This may or may not be the case, but I do think saying this sort of stuff publicly - without hard evidence - particularly when everyone is so crippingly anxious anyway is not a great move....

More evidence that the US is a memeocracy - governed purely by spectacle and necrocapitalism

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

Almost like appeasing Trump's and Netanyahu's bloodlust is a disaster for everyone.

This is of course all sorts of wrong on a myriad of levels, but perhaps the 'flawless victory' at the end might not go down too well with the families of the dead US military people.

In my best Homer Simpson voice, "pfft. Not with THAT attitude"

#TOTCRY is quite an appropriate hashtag tbf

Someone hook up a generator to Expressions Oozing, we could power the entire country for ages #Spurs

Stick in spoke meme

Spursy. Very Spursy

Reform dare to pretend they are an anti-establishment party. But in truth they are the party of crony corporate capitalism and the elites funded by such people to look after their own interests. Latest figures from the Electoral Commission on political party donations.

"VAR is like trying to get hold of your bank at weekends" is a thing of pure brilliance

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Urban life is cosmopolitianism and the celebration of difference at it's most viceral. He clearly attempted to destroy that as a gentrifying, homogenising real estate mogul, but as President with the apparatus of imperial violence at his fingertips, he can target that very essence of 'the city'.

One of the key facets of Trump's facistic violence is urbicide, and not just on a physical level (i.e. destroying cities, infrastructures and lives of those bodies he deems recalcitrant). It is ideological in that 'the city' characterises a vivacity of life he (and his ilk) hate.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Caitlin Jones, Eliza Breder & Tyler McCreary (2026) entitled: 'Alligator Alcatraz and the Production of Environmental Carcerality in the Everglades' with a black banner at the top. In June 2025, the state of Florida opened 'Alligator Alcatraz', a federal immigration detention centre, in the Florida Everglades, weaponising animals and landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear and rationalise multispecies environmental injustice. In this paper, we examine the symbolic and material conditions of Alligator Alcatraz, pulling apart how what appears to be a novel use of landscape and species for immigration enforcement, is in fact, a deeply historical logic that draws on long-standing settler colonial tropes of emptiness, danger and disposability. We illustrate how both the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), and the Everglades itself, are conscripted into carceral geographies that reflect both ecological degradation and racialised state violence. The alligator becomes conscripted as a federal immigration officer, touted by federal and state officials as a mascot of environmental carcerality. Meanwhile, the Everglades is deployed as an empty, deterrent landscape, reviving a settler imaginary that has long justified its destruction and casts Indigenous land, life and knowledge and the more-than-human beings living within it as expendable. Alligator Alcatraz pushes us to consider what carceral geographies of US immigration policy reveal about the disposability of certain bodies—human, ecological and more than human. Ultimately, existing in this spectacle of the racialised past and present are the real human costs of detention development in the Everglades, which is damaging local ecologies and Indigenous and migrant lives.

New in Area - 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬

'Alligator Alcatraz and the production of environmental carcerality in the Everglades' by Caitlin Jones et al.

This paper explores the weaponising of animals & landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear in the U.S.

doi.org/10.1111/area...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Trickledown necropolitics

So "alternative facts" then