Israel closes crossings into Gaza Strip, including for humanitarian aid workers, Israeli government agency says
28.02.2026 23:37 β π 38 π 27 π¬ 1 π 0Israel closes crossings into Gaza Strip, including for humanitarian aid workers, Israeli government agency says
28.02.2026 23:37 β π 38 π 27 π¬ 1 π 0Honestly... It's fair to say that norms are shifting but buying into this liberal mythology can't be excused.
28.02.2026 15:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An era of historic peace for some, mostly white, people in some, mostly rich, countries. The rest of the world has been target-practice for decades.
28.02.2026 15:32 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Orientalism at every turn.
28.02.2026 13:53 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Iran must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon". There are some countries which can simply never be part of the special club because of something essential and unchangeable about them. And there are some countries who get to decide what is and is not allowed on the world stage.
28.02.2026 13:51 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0In answer to some queries: this is not a joke, Melania Trump actually is presiding over a UN Security Council meeting Monday, and apparently they scheduled that knowing they were going to launch an illegal war on Saturday morning
28.02.2026 09:27 β π 958 π 319 π¬ 25 π 63Which heading does the school fall under?
28.02.2026 12:08 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Jumping straight in with "some of our own must gloriously die for the greater good" is a crazy way to announce some airstrikes.
28.02.2026 11:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Love that the journalists are deciding actually, no, I don't want to be made to look like a clown by taking this one seriously, thank you very much.
28.02.2026 10:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nothing captures the contemporary moment of global politics better than the perfunctory and dismissive tone with which Bowen says "This also appears to be against international law though I don't think that that is a big issue for either Trump or Netanyahu".
28.02.2026 10:21 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0God this juxtaposition is just π
27.02.2026 22:06 β π 35 π 9 π¬ 2 π 2itβs, no joke, the Labour Partyβs birthday today
27.02.2026 08:46 β π 269 π 47 π¬ 9 π 26One really good thing about the AI/data analytics boosters is that they're fucking stupid and don't appreciate the Humanities enough to care about the bits of theory that cover the limitations of data analysis.
27.02.2026 12:35 β π 32 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Heartening in a way because Goodwin's petulant tantrums this morning are the kind of things you might say to consolidate a fringe extremist base when what Reform clearly wanted from this by-election was to complete its transition to being a mainstream party for normal people.
27.02.2026 12:34 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Like Trump and other populist reactionaries, Reform is turning electoral defeat into an opportunity to recruit and incubate a small but hardened core of wilfully gullible supporters united around the conspiratorial myth of their own persecution. They say their loss is *why* you should support them.
27.02.2026 12:32 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0The problem with adopting the terminology "late stage capitalism" is that it becomes progressively more and more funny to cite your work as time goes by, like "as has been shown, late stage capitalism is hurtling us towards rapid collapse (Smith, 1974)".
27.02.2026 08:58 β π 345 π 37 π¬ 34 π 3Crucial insight into the right wing mind here that he thinks "inclusivity" means a single homogeneous culture that everyone has to participate in, rather than there being lots of different ways to engage.
27.02.2026 11:27 β π 24 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0So funny for Labour to go from "Reform must be defeated at all costs" to giving press statements this morning saying "Reform losing is the worst possible result".
27.02.2026 11:09 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The people of Gorton and Denton have voted overwhelmingly to give heroin to Sir Keir Starmerβs son, and I hope the prime minister will now do the decent thing.
27.02.2026 05:08 β π 489 π 104 π¬ 4 π 1family voting is like the red wall, it might be a thing psephs talk about but as far as an actual object in consensus reality it's basically being brute forced into existence.
27.02.2026 10:25 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Yep. "Family voting" (as opposed to the more general and well established language of voter coercion etc) seems calculated to play into certain tropes.
27.02.2026 00:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You know, I don't think I've ever seen human extinction plotted on a GDP chart before but I guess it's fitting.
26.02.2026 10:43 β π 21 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0It's actually a mistake to interpret this as cops being scared of snowballs. It's more correct to interpret this as cops wanting to shoot teenagers. Every aspect of the "I feared for my life" playbook is establishing plausibility for drawing and shooting.
25.02.2026 23:31 β π 16 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1Dream big.
25.02.2026 23:34 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Shit, might have to have a conversation with your child about how to make good choices instead of just hoping the threat of prison will do the job for you.
25.02.2026 18:45 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0To be clear, this is extremely evil and wrong-headed in concept, but also I'm telling you now that it'll never fucking happen for straightforward operational reasons, namely that you'll never get all those systems and databases to talk to each other.
25.02.2026 13:12 β π 146 π 51 π¬ 10 π 8Man, truly an integral component of my teenage years.
25.02.2026 13:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Public health is not pursued as an end in itself but only as a means to maintain a workforce available for profitable exploitation.
25.02.2026 12:32 β π 39 π 15 π¬ 2 π 0