Death has died in Gaza What you call the end, we are already enduring.

Death has died in Gaza. What you call the end, we are already enduring. communispress.com/death-has-di...

BC138 - Five Mixes: Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twitch, 2004-23 R.I.P. Keith McIvor, a.k.a. Twitch

Five Mixes by Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twich--it's really ten, but who deserves it more? R.I.P. to one of the greatest selectors ever.
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I think there has been a war of the imagination over the last several years. I was thinking a lot about what there might be to be optimistic about and I came to the conclusion that this feeling of hopelessness that everybody has is a manufactured product, and that’s what Neo-Liberalism is really about. Neo-Liberalism isn’t just an economic program, it’s a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives." David Graeber

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism

The Quietus is 17! We're Celebrating With New Playlists for our Subscribers | The Quietus It’s now five years since we launched our subscription platform with Steady in a last-ditch attempt to save The Quietus during the desperate Covid crisis. Thankfully, we raised enough to temporally keep the wolves from the door, and the website is still here to celebrate its seventeenth birthday. SEVENTEEN! We can barely believe that we’ve […]

They only like you when you're... SEVENTEEN!

Happy birthday to The Quietus!

Please, please, please consider taking out a sub. We've introduced a new playlist perk. Sign up today and get 45 this month! Pls share & ask sugar mummies & daddies to dig deep.

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Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Back to the Rectory It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker,...

‘My father could no longer hear confessions. Could no longer stand as the god of the room, holding forth, certain that everyone was listening. That bullet still just whistling, hanging suspended in the air.’

@tricialockwood.bsky.social goes home: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Heads up for Bunnyhausen's 50th anniversary party w/ Xylitol, Kemper Norton and DJs on September 27 wegottickets.com/event/673567

"What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?"

One of the best things ever to come out of Canada. Saw them 30 years ago and they blew my child mind.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Is there any European leader at this point who shouldn’t be ashamed and f* off for reasons including but not limited to genocide? I really can’t recall a time of such generalised political psychosis and institutional collapse

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

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Gaza Soup Kitchen work to feed the people currently being starved by the Israeli govt. If you’d like to join me in donating, here’s their website: gazasoupkitchen.com

David Renton · Short Cuts: What is the meaning of support? With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...

‘The only definite limit to the meaning of “support” is stated in Section 10 of the Terrorism Act, which gives protesters immunity from prosecution for anything done in relation to an application to have a group’s proscription lifted.’

David Renton: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo Protesters simultaneously unveiled signs with the same message

Arresting Quakers, former Guantanamo inmates, blind disabled activists... This is the largest political mass arrest since the Poll Tax Riots 35 years ago.

A government for nobody, hated by everyone, cowering behind a thin blue line. Pathetic.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green Party Internal Elections Voting Advice This information is intended to help Green Party members decide who to vote for in the internal elections. It does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or a ‘slate’. The advic...

Judy Maciejowska (GPEx Chair) & Nicole Haydock (Local Party Support Co-Ordinator) are both Founding signatories of the Gender Critical group ‘Green Women’s Declaration’.

This doc gives some guidance on LGBTIQA responses.
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Jeremy Harding · At the Musée Carnavalet: ‘Le Paris d’Agnès Varda’

‘For Agnès Varda, there was the compelling possibility that images in sequence were comparable to sentences in a passage of good prose.’

Jeremy Harding on the director: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them | Jeremy Corbyn More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice.

Not anymore.

My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk

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Funny how "legitimate concerns" are always those of a far-right minority

The concerns of the communities at the sharp end or that of the many more opposing the far right are just incoherent noise

As always, the mainstreaming of far-right politics is a top-down, mainstream-driven affair

We scored Ellie & Adrian 0 points for their answer. You don’t get to pick and choose when people can be allowed their rights.

to Jews, on the Gaza famine an open letter: we have been commanded

I just sent this out.

The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.

It is a choice not to heed them.

Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.

Sign up at yourparty.uk.

A super thing here to help a guy who has brought so much joy to so many over such a long period of time.

On the relationship between trans politics and disability In the aftermath of the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers  USCK 16, many disabled people sought to give practical

On the relationship between trans politics and disability criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/16/o...

Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PLEASE sign & RT this like crazy.

The right to make decisions about your own body is such a fundamental one most of us take it for granted. Trans rights really are human rights.

For the record:

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

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Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

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Stealing Sex Some remarks on some stories told by “gender critical” feminists

To be honest I have many other topics I would love to write about. I’m keen to get back to my new book on common sense. But I feel it is politically urgent to use our resources to keep contesting “gender critical” feminism. Here’s another, “Stealing Sex”. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/stealing-sex