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Congratulations on the book! It looks gorgeous

Tonight’s insomniac read was on Arthur Miller and the Down-syndrome son he never publicly acknowledged archive.is/QWERX

Some relevant context absent from this article might be Libya’s torture centres or the deliberate attacks on migrant boats by its EU-funded ‘coastguard’

Death Row Literature: Pannir's book launch Reflections from Pannir Selvam Pranthaman's book launch.

The publication of Pannir’s poetry from death row was truly a labour of love - poems written on the floor with a flimsy biro refill or recited to his sister during visits. The book was launched shortly before Singapore killed him www.wethecitizens.net/death-row-li...

I’ve already liked a couple of their songs on the Hype Machine!

Goodbye, Pannir Singapore wanted the world to see Pannir as nothing more than a drug trafficker. But Pannir showed us all that he was so, so much more.

All the way to Pannir’s execution, Singapore chose callous and inhumane bureaucracy. @kirstenhan.com writes of a remarkable young man with so much potential and love, and a family who loved him fiercely in return. Wishing them all the strength in the world now www.wethecitizens.net/goodbye-pann...

Of course, there’s reasonable and then there’s reasonable. One morning after a heavy night of vodkaing, we woke up to discover that our friend Fred (who drew a cartoon about a walrus pirate captain) had changed every single word in every single discussion thread to “gunrock”. These aren’t the sorts of challenges every website owner faces, but they were ours.

This is a really lovely reminiscence by @werd.io of what it was like to run a popular website in the early 2000s. Also, having met Fred, I can’t overstate how on-brand this snippet is. words.werd.io/we-are-the-m...

I think it was 20 years ago this month that I last smoked a cigarette, so well done me

Between July and September 2025 at Garabtaag: ⚫ Multiple refugees reached out due to fear about immigration raids in their neighbourhoods. Many of them are still waiting for UNHCR registration… | Gar... Between July and September 2025 at Garabtaag: ⚫ Multiple refugees reached out due to fear about immigration raids in their neighbourhoods. Many of them are still waiting for UNHCR registration, which...

I haven’t posted for ages on here about my work with refugees in Malaysia. I’m actually doing this every day, while still chasing money to live on. (Note that money raised through our appeals goes 100% to refugees.) Here’s some of what we’ve done in recent months: www.linkedin.com/posts/garabt...

knuckle tattoo Listen to knuckle tattoo by girlhouse #np on #SoundCloud

Absolutely obsessed with this song lately soundcloud.com/girlhouseban...

Join the DeGoogle Movement | degoogle.tech

Love this. I've degoogled to a considerable extent, but I'm only about halfway out of its clutches. Signed up to see if this initiative can help extricate me from the rest. degoogle.tech

A fascinating and enraging scandal. What the article neglects to mention is that it’s normally very difficult to obtain Malaysian citizenship - even for people with Malaysian mothers. But here ‘discretion’ was gleefully used, while the government pretends that the system is fair and reasonable

Mm-hmm and then we have a reference to "Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry", to encourage some doubt over whether Israel is starving people to death

"Because you rejected cookies, lower-quality ads may be displayed" oh my god what?? I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't realise what I was doing

The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag.

A great read from @edgeofsports.bsky.social on right-wing US attempts to infiltrate Ireland through sport www.thenation.com/article/soci...

That would be the fault of the murderous state that frames people’s attempts to stay alive as “frivolous” and has people like you pushing its propaganda. Don’t pretend you give a damn about his or his family’s suffering, you’re not convincing.

No more. Not in my name. There was no reason for Datch to die, except that powerful people decided it would be so.

Datch died, and people loved him. @kirstenhan.com describes the final wait, the final cruelty, and his mother finally being able to touch her son again, after so many years, after Singapore killed him.

www.wethecitizens.net/no-more-not-...

Truly nothing like it. I loved Tyres so much for his authentic NI representation

I had a friend in Melbourne who had a huge pigeon tattoo on his chest. It was beautiful

This book looks like a delight. Al got into birdwatching lately so I have been pushing pro-pigeon propaganda

Delhi police have arrested 30+ African refugees, mostly from Somalia and Sudan. Accounts of racial targeting, refusal to accept UNHCR cards, detention in inhumane conditions m.thewire.in/article/righ...

Many in the media are “unprepared […] in dealing with the terminally online”, while doing the journalistic equivalent of scrambling to yell “FIRST!!11!” under a celebrity’s brand-new Instagram post.

Sri Lanka: NEXT shuts down its only unionised garment factory - by WhatsApp Please support this LabourStart urgent action campaign and spread the word.

Extremely poor show: NEXT reports record profits, approves multimillion-pound executive bonuses, and fires its only unionised garment workers in Sri Lanka. There's a protest message you can click to send here: www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

Migration and Activism on the Maltese Archipelago

This is a great look at why people in the island nation of Malta feel largely disconnected from the migrant deaths that take place in surrounding waters blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

A beautiful start to my day thank you

Oh I have to check out this album! First time I went to see them I didn’t get in because it was a small Belfast venue and I was underage. I solved that the next year by landing myself on the guest list so I could review the gig.

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.

This one, right? www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

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