Lucy Prebble

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I actually thought our silly corrupt society might balk at the mistreatment of - gasp - a celebrity, people we bafflingly revere above all others. I’m genuinely chilled that Greta Thunberg’s mistreatment is sliding alongside everything else.
I thought we were better/worse than this.

A good funeral would sort you out

the dread and the sad and the swelling fear, maybe it’s too much news and not enough art

@benmoor.bsky.social it was so nice to see you. I’m sorry about death.

Here we are. Looks like we’re starting again again.

I feel like I’ve left it too late to learn about everything and there’s just more everything all the time

For a live illustration of where pragmatism without vision gets you, I offer the United Kingdom, right this fucking minute, Ezra.

Happy to buck the trend also to say mostly I really appreciate what Klein has been trying to do, just clear that ‘strategic and disciplined’ thought can get you to some pretty bad places too.

Interesting and a tiny bit sad to hear Ezra Klein’s neural networks fry in his latest with Coates. So many experts in the corruption of attention struggling with how they’ve been corrupted by attention.

September is the month of the childhood friend’s birthday

QUaCK!

Printers should be so much better by now and I shouldn’t have to sign up to a lifetime subscription plan or somefuckingsuch

Boycotting doing my Donald Duck impression (to EVERYONE’s relief)

super dark version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Oh my god please do this, please show the world this, please have Vance write the monologue and radicalise every viewer in the world against state intervention and censorship

If you can think of a better way to get merger approval, I’m sure we’d all love to hear it

Just spectacular

Book sales

“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

"The Sikh woman who was target of the hate crime rape in Oldbury (Midlands, UK) this week has issued a statement through community group Sikh Youth UK, who are supporting her and her family through the ordeal.

Media please note, there will be no further comment."

Media@sikhpa.com

Won’t the British press bother with Jeremy Hosking et al rather than swallowing the shit

I wasn’t prepared for a character as broadly drawn as ‘Charlie Kirk’s widow’ this late in the season of ‘America’

I want one of those see-through rain-covers mothers put over kids in their prams but for everything

I’m not totally sure having young people line up to try and ‘beat’ you intellectually is really civility, or even debate. It’s a sort of odd combination of homage-seeking, grift and arm wrestling

way too many outlets reporting "Hey fascist! Catch!" without the "Up arrow, right arrow, 3 down arrows" part

that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2

all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online

Sometimes it really feels like our cultures’s historical turning point was gamergate and that’s so fucking embarrassing

Is she now in a war with thousands of 20-something chronically online Overwatch guys?

yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman

"Notices bulges, OWO whats this?"
- Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political

"hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3"
- From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb