Katherine Mendelsohn

Alan Cumming: Bafta host apologises after 'trauma-triggering' show A Tourette's campaigner involuntarily shouted a racial slur while two black actors were on stage.

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Trump has no plan. Welcome to World War III, the improv show from Hell.

Sir Michael Moritz wants German citizenship over 'hostility' to Jews The billionaire says

Posted with no comment except a point of fact not mentioned in this article that this is the current funder of the Booker Prize (Anglophone). Book people, do with that information what you will.

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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters

The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at UIowa Petition here c.org/ZVhdNSckD8

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

H/t @wmarybeard.bsky.social

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Text on an academic article about "Moving Things: Moving Cartloads of Treasures from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400" pasted into Grammarly in a Browser. It offers to invoke the digital ghosts of David Abulafia, Barry Flood and Chris Wickham to give me "expert feedback".

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?

As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.

It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???

What?

I just can't get over what a bullshit thievery based scam all this is and there are still actual academics doing tra la la think pieces about how we need to embrace it or be left behind, I mean, look at the state of it. Look at it. It is bad, wrong, offensive, stupid and scuzzy.

Watching Trump joke around in his usual narcissistic way, it's clear he has absolutely no appreciation for the graveness of what he's just unleashed on the world.

And joking about giving himself the Medal of Honor when he's put thousands of US service members in harm's way is especially abhorrent.

Thank you for this blog.

Blog | Scotland’s Cultural Future: Reflections on our culture hustings for the next parliament Reflecting on our recent hustings event, Scotland's Cultural Future

Thanks so much for highlighting the stark gender inequity across politics and culture in Scotland - we've just blogged our reflections on this: bit.ly/4l4mE8p

A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’…

A Feminist Future Begins By Banning Killer Robots Banning autonomous weapons systems AKA “killer robots” is needed to strengthen global peace, advance human security and ensure a feminist future.

I was once on a panel about cyborgs in film with the frankly amazing Professor Noel Sharkey, who has been arguing against battlefield and policing applications (weaponisations) of autonomous/AI robots and programmes for decades. This is from 5 years ago, but holds even more.

Auto-nomos: making one's own laws

The term "autonomy" also insidiously notes that such weapons are designedly outside international law (fwiw): totalitarian, unilateral & unaccountable.

In the US, corporations are people (but people aren't) & bombs have autonomy (but marginalised people don't).

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

So much bad news but just saw this guy & his lady are married. Needed this to end our day ..
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Kazumasa Nagai, the pioneering graphic designer whose work helped define postwar visual culture in Japan, has passed away.

This is an astonishing and extremely poor decision that ought to be reversed.

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The announcement of the 2026 Tinniswood Award winner at the #BBCAudioDramaAwards this evening was a special one

It saw the late Oliver Emanuel honoured for ‘One Hundred and Fifty Days’, an "extraordinary and generous gift of a play"

Read more here 🔽

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Also- after spending a bit of this morning on Reddit- You absolutely CAN share information and discuss your wages with fellow employees. That isn't breaking GDPR.

Don't let the bastards screw you.

Also, we need better understanding on what GDPR is.

US-Israel war on Iran Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

Intoletable. How anyone's response to this can be anything other than abject rage and disgust is beyond me.

RACHMAN: “.. Trump is now committed to a process for which there is no real precedent: regime change brought about by air power alone.”

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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Etc etc etc…

There were def people in Washington who advised Trump not to do this, basically saying, "hes 90, hes had cancer twice, hes going to die soon anyway. Dont make him a martyr for the cause". He didnt listen.

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

148 children & civilians killed.

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Yardworks Festival announces 10th anniversary edition Scotland’s leading festival of graffiti and urban art expands

Yardworks Festival will return to SWG3 on Saturday 2 May and Sunday 3 May 2026, marking its 10th anniversary with its most ambitious edition to date.

#Glasgow #supportlocalvenues #LiveEvents

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“One of [Jennie Lee]’s most radical ideas, and one which many of us uphold today, was that the pursuit of artistic excellence does not need to come at the expense of enabling greater access to the arts…

we must bring the best to the most.”