Stephen Heller-Murphy 🍉

Raisin' Hell by Run DMC was arguably the first hiphop album to properly tackle grape intolerance

I have an undergraduate degree in social anthropology (from a very long time ago).

Everything that the "gender critical" movement (and their centrist apologists) insist as inviolable truth – all of it – was debunked in the very first term of the first year.

GCs are fanatical fantasists.

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

I’m so tired of the wrong answers. So, so tired. It’s the Yeats poem, except the best don’t lack conviction at all, they just get ignored. On climate, on rights, on peace, on AI.

The neoliberal austerity guy who fucked us an economic force by impoverishing a generation and further enriching transnational corporate elites, precipitating a neo-fascist backlash led by techno-feudal oligarchs is the good guy. Right. Got you.

“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”
― Bertolt Brecht

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books:

Irvine Welch
Iain (M) Banks
Mick Herron
Ursula K LeQuin
Robert Anton Wilson
RA MacAvoy
CJ Cherryh
PN Elrod
Anne Rice
Tony Hillerman

I once blanked Princess Anne, thought she was talking to the person next to me.

This is a sponsored ad on Instagram.

In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to customers due to their deceptive privacy practices. It shared customer data including personal health questions for targeted advertising on social media.

White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims Shifting ethnic dynamic of the UK driven by immigration predicted to cause dramatic changes

As the mixed-race son of a technically "black" British mother, whose children would identify as "white", this report is laughable at best. It's the comments underneath that terrify me.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

White Brits will be a minority in the UK in 40 years, report claims A study into birth rates and migration levels has predicted that white British people will make up only 33.7 per cent of the UK population by the end of the century.

Honestly, this is the most comforting news I’ve read in a long time. “By the year 2100, the report expects 60 per cent of people living in the UK to have at least one immigrant parent.”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

if you're on the other side of history from the Quakers, you kinda might wanna think about what side of history you're on

The client’s emotional impact on the therapist is arguably the most neglected area in therapist training.
- Karen Maroda

I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map

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Punched myself in the eye putting a fitted sheet on my mattress.

It will never not astound me that as we watch the rise of Nazism in real time a century later, appeasement is again the gameplay, despite a century of understanding how and why that doesn’t work.

I think now Tony Gilroy should be encouraged to do another Star Wars show just called Bothan.

The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear In 2013, Penguin released in the UK a series of new covers for five works by George Orwell, including a particularly bold cover design for Orwell's best-known work, 1984.

The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released from ICE facility in NJ NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey Friday, officials said. The politician said he …

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released from ICE facility in NJ
He was clearly arrested while on the public side of the fence. Heads must roll.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Your articles are unreadable due to pop up ads. And you’ve disabled reader features. So long.

A clinician’s working conditions are not incidental to the care they provide.
What is imposed on the therapist is imposed on the patient.

"Get me a picture of Australians voting."

"No that's too Australian".

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

1/ A young Russian soldier who has fled to France has spoken of life as a stormtrooper. He says that supplies are routinely stolen, almost everyone on combat missions ends up wounded or dead, and those who return uninjured are shot by their own side as suspected deserters. ⬇️

British Medical Association sticking up for trans, non-binary and intersex folx.

Absolutely loving 'scientifically illiterate'!