this is so ghoulish and disgusting
I doubt we’ll even have much time to really notice how radically the world has changed for the worse in just the last few years. It won’t be long until it’s always been this way.
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.
Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran https://aje.news/oe589h
Reminder that the IOF used LLMs to generate infinite pseudo-legitimate targets in Gaza with the guidance of the Biden admin
"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."
massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social
paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...
shame is back on the menu boys
The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!
For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
@crasshlive.bsky.social
Please find it (and the audio element!) here journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/op...
My first article is out (!!!) it’s a collaborative piece I wrote last year with @sophiemng.bsky.social about moments of recorded excess, laughter, fuck-ups and longing gazes. It’s a short epistolary article and I’d love for you all to read it. I’m so excited to have it out in the world!
Two of these trucks just had body bags.
This morning I woke up to an email from my college in Cambridge (King’s) saying they will divest from companies involved in occupation, weapons companies and companies that produce key or dedicated parts of such weapons. It is possible.
This is not war btwn two states, or just about Modi.
India is occupying Kashmir. There is no evidence that Pakistan was behind Pahalgam, but Indian imperial expansionism and Islamophobia drives this jingoism. Most impacted regions are lands of struggle - partioned Panjab & esp Kashmir. Free Kashmir
A victory for Rümeysa Öztürk! She will be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont while her case is heard—including a hearing for potential release on bail this Friday.
FULL OPINION: ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
We need some Glaswegians to turn up to this on Friday morning…
Credit to @sophiemng.bsky.social for saying this this morning
“Hollywood is the Bollywood of America”
"They looked suddenly like they’d just been served ortolan, like they needed to hide from God their ghoulish glee at disappearing a college student who, it was later reported, was walking to break Ramadan fast with her friends."
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
We condemn the University of Cambridge's attempt to place legal restrictions on all pro-Palestine protests.
Alongside @pscupdates.bsky.social and @libertyhq.bsky.social we call out this application to the High Court for an injunction what it is: a shameful attack on basic democratic rights.
my beautiful subscribers I have written something for you about Shinichi Sawada, a Japanese ceramicist I love, and about the contentious genre of "outsider art" holapapi.substack.com/p/shinichi-s...