Jackie Kirkham

Taking a brief Bluesky break after bereavement.

ITV News: BBC to air Would I Lie To You Boxing Day episode featuring David Walliams

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Shame on them. I feel so sad for you, and angry. I hope you are even a little encouraged by the massive support you have from those of us oiks who aren't part of the Establishment.

Heartbreaking news, Robin Ince is the best of us, and while the transphobes and neurodiversity-is-a-fad brigade rejoice and will consider this another victory, Robin is on the right side not only of history but also of the here and now.

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Abandoned NHS IT system has cost £10bn so far Bill for abortive plan, described as 'the biggest IT failure ever seen', was originally estimated to be £6.4bn

They tried that (a friend of mine worked on it) and it went so over budget that it was ditched. www.theguardian.com/society/2013...

I'd be much less likely to skim them, that's for sure.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Heart’s Home - Orion Magazine A conversation about borders, belonging, and keeping the Kushners out

Deeply grateful to @orionmagazine.bsky.social for giving @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and myself the opportunity to have a conversation about borders, belonging, writing, rivers, grief and resistance, as well as our shared love for the more-than-human world.
orionmagazine.org/article/hear...

Boring Fund | Christina Poulton Applications now open! £200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.

This might be of interest to a few people

The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc

Apply by 30 November

www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund

That is pretty much my fashion mantra.

A week before my wedding, I woke up with facial paralysis ‘Apart from having to drink my pints through a straw, occasionally needing to wear an eyepatch and the classical guitarist nobody could hear, I wouldn’t have changed a thing about the big day.’ - Nial...

This was so witty and human. What an absolute hero. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

Yes, I heard an interview with the author just after I'd finished SL, so interesting timing. I felt so sorry for his son.

I had a number of reasons for not staying in academia, but it was seeing colleagues go through this process again and again that really soured it for me. There must surely be a better system than this.

I read SL recently. Loved the travel narrative (with some reservations), but didn't especially warm to him.

I've not lived in Lewisham for 20 years but was glad to hear the roundabout is still on form.

I love my kobo! Definitely recommend.

I don't think they've tried to be comprehensive and inclusive at all, they've just been shoddy and not checked what they're actually asking the students to do.

Going through dog's breakfast of homework instructions with 11yo. We're both close to meltdown. There will be Feedback. (I don't want to be that parent, but I am that parent)

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

That was pretty much my first thought. I'm amazed they didn't hear my eyes rolling.

I don't have a problem with that (eg nut-free, that sort of thing). But the always phoning mum thing is so pervasive.

Glasgow nursery: pls can you pick up 1yo, she's not well.
Me: no, I'm at work in Edinburgh.
Them: oh.
Me: try phoning her dad, who brings her in and picks her up every day because he works in the office next door to you.

True story (2014).

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Today is the official pub day for VOICES OF RESISTANCE, a collection of diaries from four Gazans, offering a rare, deeply personal window into daily life under genocide. It's an essential record of lives lived amidst terror—and their resilience in the face of it.
www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Glad to hear it, I hope you like them! 📖

Thank you so much! I'll get them sent out tomorrow once I'm back from work x