John Weeks

Starmer has to survive 38 days to have had a longer tenure than Rishi Sunak.

If a successor were to be in place by 13th July, we'd have had 7 PMs in a decade, which, by my reckoning, is the most since the 8 of 1827-37.

@laurenshof.online

I'm an Academic Sociologist and Demographer huh

@skywatch.blue Hi, was labeled Platform Abuse & Manipulation/ Suspected Inauthentic Behavior yesterday.

Posted a query yesterday about why I’m getting so many Gaza fundraising follows (including their dodgy hashtag), may have tripped things off?

Just one guy posting, no schemes, I promise

Film screening Q&A with Davy Chou at Meta House.

American guest raises hand for first question:
'I looked up the film in ChatGPT and...'

<facepalm>

Actually I tell a lie: seeing Steven Fry (as King, go off King) say 'HommoSEXuuuuuWEL' was another highlight

@greatdismal.bsky.social 'science had started popping'

2022: Dear god Instagram, stop forcing reels on me

2026: Instagram Reels are 50% anti-ICE

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo

they intend to converge camps and disease

ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.

The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"

The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

Home Office @ukhomeoffice Follow Illegal migrants living in hotels have been banned from using taxpayer-funded taxis for medical appointments. Under new rules, taxi use for medical journeys will be restricted to individuals with physical disabilities and serious or chronic illnesses. ... TP + ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BANNED FROM USING TAXIS FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS

Home Offi... @ukhomeoffi... • Feb 6 The largest number of illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported off British soil in a decade. - NEARLY - 60000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CRIMINALS REMOVED OR DEPORTED

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

@laurenshof.online

Interior scene from 'Red, White and Royal Blue" set in a modern, softly lit room with neutral-toned walls and a sleek dark wooden cabinet in the background. On the left, a woman with long, voluminous dark brown curls wears a sparkly gray knit sweater with black trim on the cuffs and carries a large black leather handbag slung over her shoulder; she extends her right hand forward, holding a smartphone toward a man on the right. Behind her, a shirtless man with short, dark wavy hair stands with a neutral expression, his bare chest visible. The man on the right, with short, neatly styled light brown hair, wears a crisp white button-up shirt with arms crossed over his chest, gazing diffidently at the woman with a serious expression. A black subtitle bar at the bottom of the image displays white text: “I will Brexit your head from your body.” A patterned wallpaper with leaf motifs is on the right wall and soft overhead lighting casts gentle shadows across the scene.

Saw all I needed from the TV advert, that was just enough

@jesseorndorff.bsky.social I'm not sure I NEED Obsidian, but kind of want to set it up for my textfiles now.

@k4media.bsky.social Mastodon / Fediverse has some blogs like this too but I appreciate Bluesky giving it their own go.

@k4media.bsky.social

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Always have time for StelarcPosting

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Cops and Klan, hand in hand

In full support

Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

o rly

it’s absolutely insane to me that the new “trump accounts” are intentionally designed so that billionaires are able to legally get around the estate tax entirely and no ones really talking about that