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Afraid so. Soulless.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
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Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

My Zine is available to buy now! Use the link in my profile. £7 plus postage and I can do a local drop off, just select the option if you’re in Swindon.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
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Colin Gray.
The Parents’, begun in 1980, is a series of photographs about Colin’s relationship with his parents and theirs with each other. The images involve enactments of memory and fantasy woven around events from collective memories or based on absurd and wonderful fantasies.

Can’t help thinking that there’s something wrong with her.

The first meeting with a charity CEO which deals with rural poverty is now being lined up. Getting a national project like this off the ground is incredibly challenging but we’ll see what happens. Rural poverty is widespread but hidden and not on the media radar at all.

A man in a suit looks at the camera

“no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party…so far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin”
Nye Bevan, Manchester, July 1948

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

I haven’t and that would be great. Feedback on Outsiders has been very good so far

All he needs now is a white hood and a burning cross and the transformation will be complete.

Railway tracks into Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Oświęcim, Poland, 2019.
“Father wrote the most beautiful letters to us right until he was transported to Auschwitz in April 1942...”
From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.

Seems unlikely, he’s working to depose Badenoch and become Tory leader.

Veteran statue-hugger and former letter-writer to museums pitching to be the next pound-shop Enoch Powell

every Brummie understands what racist trash this is from the Shadow Lord Chancellor—and if you don’t know our second city here’s your prompt to pay a visit!

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No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

#Handsworth could teach @RobertJenrick how to live in a global society. #BenjaminZephaniah - spirit of #Birmingham - said "Handsworth for me is...where I learnt all my skills, my communication skills, my hustling skills, my poetic skills, everything."

Friends, Roamers, partyfolk,

Join us and very special guests around the fire @kendalmountainfestival for an evening of performance and conviviality. Come ready to sing, listen, laugh, connect and collaborate!

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All he needs now is a white hood and a burning cross and the transformation will be complete.

The first meeting with a charity CEO which deals with rural poverty is now being lined up. Getting a national project like this off the ground is incredibly challenging but we’ll see what happens. Rural poverty is widespread but hidden and not on the media radar at all.

“We have survived”

At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Well they were either blind, dense, or more likely, plain greedy for views and money. It was hardly like Trump was shy about what he wanted to do.

Today I learned the Sámi word ‘oavnjistit’ which means the feeling you get when a wolf is in hunting mode and you feel he is following you but you can’t see him. (1)

Blatant self-promotion alert! Oh please fuck off with that.......

New thing here collating all the blurbs for the book, pre-order etc.

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Seeing as it is #RedSquirrelAwarenessWeek here is one I painted in oils the other year that visits @logwifie.bsky.social in NE Scotland. Do follow and support @uksquirrelaccord.bsky.social organisations doing vital work to help and reintroduce red squirrels throughout the UK.

I guess this simply confirms that my Rebellion! project, exploring and celebrating the importance of peaceful protest as part of our cultural identity, in the face of draconian anti-protest legislation, has never been more timely.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?