Anthony Adler

Nadhim Zahawi, 2015: I would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel Farage

Nadhim Zahawi, 2026: Britain needs Nigel Farage as prime minister…

Oh hey. It's that guy from one road over who does acid and steals everyone's wheelie bins.

An excellent thread of historical cases of dangerous info-slop, and how it contaminates through generations. I made similar points in my Gist piece from 2024, below.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree

Why Christmas is a Christian Holiday

A thread for Nittel Nacht ♟️

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

If access to bank activity for suspected fraud is a legitimate exercise of state power so is access to bank activity for suspected tax evasion.

It would be so, so easy for Labour to draw a line in the sand at “non-white MPs are fifth columnists who should be deported”, surely. If only from a point of respecting their colleagues if not actual principles (but then, Starmer refused to defend Sadiq against Trump, so…)

The photo here is from our home, where our family received death threats every night of Chanukah in 2022. In Canada.

11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews.

As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more.

This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

This is absolutely smashing & an beautiful memorial.

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

Sock Ons - Keep Baby Socks On | #1 Baby Sock Holder UK

I don’t know whether you’re looking for advice here, but we found sockons very effective when ours were smaller! sockons.co.uk

"House of Commons Jerk Seasoning" is 1) an extremely funny concept and more importantly 2) a sign of a complete and total victory for cultural pluralism in a way that is kind of difficult to concieve

Doing the little hobbies, activities & side quests you love is so hard & so important, because they're *not* little, they're how you choose to delight in being alive, but Capitalism & its flunkeys continually tell us that Work is the only true & moral thing, & revokes food & shelter if we shirk it.

cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

My shul’s rabbi has very much normalised babywearing at community events this year, but alas! neither he nor the synagogue are currently on BlueSky

(I’m not a rabbi, to be clear - just a member of the synagogue!)

Oh the very idea just gave me the full body horrors

Heavy, precious, an honour & privilege to hold, and absolutely not something one can drop; all these are true of both. But neither of my babies have ever been surmounted by intricate & noisy silverwork.

I once found myself holding a Torah in its full regalia in a service & having to really concentrate in order to refrain from gently bouncing it like a baby.

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

My first full time job involved doing PR for an "internet fridge" in the early 2000s. At the time I quietly thought it was a silly fad that would pass. God I wish I'd been right.

Holy shit, and there we have why the humanities are vital for those in STEM, that's absolutely magical