Serde Atalay

Guys I promise we do not need any more opinion pieces arguing that it’s okay to want to be thin

Two-storey redbrick terraced housing

Three-storey redbrick terraced housing

White rendered housing terrace

White rendered housing terrace

My latest post on Substack tells the story of Plymouth's earliest council housing - some of only 24,000 council homes built before the First World War.
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We have not successfully demonized The Atlantic enough.

Olivia Nuzzi's "American Canto" | If Books Could Kill Get more from If Books Could Kill on Patreon

This month's bonus episode is about Olivia Nuzzi: her rise to the top of political media, her FaceTime sex with RFK Jr., and her awful new book.

never has the dependence of assholes like this dude on the social reproductive labor of a spouse been encapsulated in such a subtle but direct way

‘Absurd’: decent homes standard for England’s private renters will not be enforced until 2035 Campaigners say government is letting landlords ‘drag their feet’ and ‘denying renters the most basic standards’

Delaying decent home standards for private renters until 2035 means denying them the most basic standards.

It will leave millions of people, including families with children, trapped in poor-quality housing with nowhere to turn. We need decent homes now. Read more: shltr.org.uk/wfQ8X

One of the defining features of our political era is straightforward conservatives pretending to be ideologically complex.

Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.

‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove? Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...

“an extraordinary turnaround for an artist who was shunned by much of the art world in her lifetime.”

LOL did she pick this up from celine dumont in season 4 of the morning show?

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

over a certain wealth threshold you should be banned. period.

if I ever send you an email where I dropped the “best” and said only “regards” in the end, know that you just got me really pissed

Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.

In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social

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Elon Musk’s X must be banned Regulators need to stop cowering before the richest man in the world

‘an AI girlfriend was added to the chatbot, allowing users to have sexually explicit conversations and to get her to strip down in the process. … he even posted an AI-generated video of a woman saying, “I will always love you,” showing the extent of his pathetic desperation.’

fucking deranged

"The historical record is very clear that justice movements lose when they let themselves be sidetracked into litigating when forms of state violence are acceptable vs. unacceptable, often in an effort to seem reasonable so as to be palatable to the rich, powerful, and officially respectable. "

When Context Disappears

happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing.

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Made a new playlist

Robert Knox ~ Imperialism, Hypocrisy and the Politics of International Law (2022) 3 TWAIL Review 25-67 ISSN 2563-6693Published under a Creative Commons licence.  International lawyers typically dismiss accusations of ‘hypocrisy’ as rhetoric. By co…

I think this is definitely worth re-upping as well: twailr.com/twail-review...

US media is full of disgusting warmongers too stupid to know they're disgusting warmongers.

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

sorry babe, too busy getting surprised at people getting surprised at macron’s reaction to american imperialism

I think this article is fantastic and everyone should read it.

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that’s what a true marxist mf does

I'm still alive! Is it possible that antivaxxers are deranged?

we now know at least one thing that is not on your 2026 wish list

In this translation, The Dispossessed is called SHEVEK. The cover shows a man in a green long-sleeved top with a sort of sash printed with a landscape of trees and a river. He is holding up four fingers in front of a globe. In the foreground is a woman with dark hair and a black top, who looks off to the side.

A very colorful Swedish edition of The Dispossessed, circa 1976. Cover art by Per Åhlin.

Ryan Ruby, Wikipedia and the Novel, NLR 156, November–December 2025 Derogatory references to wiki-novels abound in contemporary literary criticism, as authors parade their characters’ pseudo-erudition. But might these be signs of an iPhone era ‘regime of perception’? ...

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“is my microwave a virgin” is about the funniest thing I’ve heard this year

Into the void: how Trump killed international law The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away

getting kind of tired of this genre of writing about the “death” and the “killing” of international law. also the article’s engagement with critical scholarship is, shall we say, odd, or even straight up misleading at times.