🤯 Rachel's article is the most read in the Guardian today.
Thank you so much, everyone who's read it, liked it shared it🙏
It seems people are, rightly, very, very angry about the condition the Lough has been allowed to get into.
Stormont, Westminster, the time to act is now 🫵
[a cargo ship] is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big [a cargo ship] is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to [a cargo ship].
The fastest-rising death toll of Israel's many, many wars on Lebanon. Wiped out families, empty towns, déjà vu. Welcome to Planet Gaza.
I can see lots of advantages to straw building but what about fire safety?
Where do you think they'd enter Iran from? If Turkiye isn't letting them use their airspace then that border seems unlikely? Iraq? Amphibious landing?
This one has been irritating me today. Never mind everyone, I'm skeptical that anyone can like that from "investing", and if they are they're probably doing it wrong.
Zebra. They're preyed on by lions so they must be pretty jumpy. I throw little things at books to knock them off shelves.
This powerful reflection on "remaining alive in the neighbourhood of death" by Iranian philosopher Maryam Nasr Esfahani (trans: @naghmehs.bsky.social) includes a touching #naturewriting observation of birds in the oil-blackened water.
It really is a very weird battle to be picking. Like, I'd obviously prefer the badger to the genocidal colonialist but as things worth expending time, effort and political capital on I'd put the question of pictures on banknotes pretty near the bottom of a very long list.
It's gatekeeping. I hate it. Not just IT, the language in the forms, too, can be an extra barrier to someone trying to articulate their experience in medical terms. It improves GPs' metrics not only by allowing them to lay off admin staff but by deterring/preventing patients from seeking treatment.
Best thing I've read on AMW. I hope you're right that he brings the monarchy down with him.
That's hilarious 😆
Indeed, both Monbiot and the Empire podcast's guest Eric Cline cite the 2021 Suez Canal blockage as a warning, of which the current blocade of the Strait of Hormuz has echoes. @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social
A clear and thorough overview of the vulnerability of the food system and how it can be addressed, by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Particularly chilling to read in the same week as @empirepoduk.bsky.social 's series on the Bronze Age collapse www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...
I love this! Long live the Wikipedia editors, not only for their amazing gift to us all but for disproving all the misanthropic slanders about what humans won't and can't do. www.thedial.world/articles/new... @thedialmag.bsky.social
The worst offender being this fella. Guess what he's selling. Pot noodle. Pot fucking noodle. Get a grip.
(I actually had a pot noodle for lunch because it was the cheapest thing in the shop and I was skint. It was adequate. Did I feel like this? Reader, I did not.)
Is there an inverse relationship between the dour atomisation of actual humans in the city streets and the absurd fake-orgasm outpourings of ecstasy on every other advert? These and more all within a few metres of each other this morning. Get a grip, adverts.
You travel back to 2011. They've lived through such an internet revolution in 15 years. They ask you what miracles await in the next 15. Well, you explain, well, it's sort of robots but they just sort of break the internet.
Almost 10,000 of us have co-authored this book, launched at London book fair today, in protest at copyright theft by tech companies to train AI.
All pages are blank except for our names.
“DON’T STEAL THIS BOOK” also protests government failure to act.
www.dontstealthisbook.com
#DontStealThisBook
This!
It's a night that needs some poems about stone, and these are lovely from @mariapopova.bsky.social
They poisoned a city the size of London, blotted out the sun and made rain that burns skin and lungs. In any just, sane world, the international priority would be massive urgent humanitarian relief to Tehran, followed by war crimes trials for the perpetrators and decommissioning fossil fuel capital.
This is what ecocide looks like.
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
move slow and repair things
Wrote about Thursday's school strike against conscription in Germany. Small glimmer of hope in an otherwise pretty shitty week.
jacobin.com/2026/03/germ...
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Nice
A disturbing analogy: the 18th Brumaire of Iran www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Brilliant!
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