Liz McFall

Thinking dandelion has the right attitude to the world 🫣

Can Sadiq Khan stop Asif Aziz's mass evictions? We went to the billionaire's home to get answers, as a leading homelessness charity cut ties with the landlord and tenants begged the mayor to save their homes.

Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

🥁 We have had a lot of changes in our editorial line-up in the last few months - check out the new host of AEs www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjc... including @taschn.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Janet Roitman @kathrithm.bsky.social Horacio Ortiz and Lena Pelladini-Simanyi 🥳

This, via @lanalanalana.bsky.social is basically my current research project (if you add a bit of institutional investment) #BIGSHEDS. The kind of money, financial instruments and endpoint consumption that funds these things = world

It's not that the proposed #Netflix takeover of #WarnerBrothers was a good thing, but the Ellison-owned #Paramount takeover creates a massive #Trump-allied virtual state media empire. Fascism in action.

Lab puppy on doorstep

Oh the wee paw prints

Hi puffin, I slept fine not sure about the humans

Black lab pup playing with a toy

But hello dandelion

4 8 week old Black lab pups from the same litter getting ready for new homes

I defy you to pick one of these guys

And the kicker imho ‘banks are now looking to sell these loans to private credit firms and insurance companies.’

One factor currently putting private credit’s value at risk is the future of software With the ascent of AI .. about 20 percent of loans in private credit funds are to tech companies. Oracle has borrowed at least $56 billion from banks for its expansion of data centers to be leased by OpenAI. 💯

Finance in the Dark | Lenore Palladino | Finance in the Dark An opaque sector is reshaping the US. Only ambitious regulatory reform can check its power.

The $16.6 trillion in net assets held by private funds in 2025 were ultimately managed by just four thousand registered advisors.

New from Lenore Palladino, on the unregulated finance at the heart of the American economy. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...

Pardon

How tech turned against women [FREE TO READ] As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

Agree with all this except honestly I'm less optimistic that anything will ever be done to prevent more harm. People in power simply don't care. It's only girls, whatever.

Big tech is deeply hostile to women and, ofc, #banthepervertglasses

- as.ft.com/r/da4838c6-4...

In Edinburgh new town you’d no get past the pink door

Why other than extensive bombing there is such fabulously modernist public toilets 🤷

The phone box is white because of Kingston Communications a Hull specific historical exception from telecoms nationalisation which made local calls free

Once a year I am obligated to QPR away game but I get to see extraordinary peripheral cities like Hull with their very particular infrastructure

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

‘Silicon Valley pronatalism is generally understood as eugenic ..Musk and his ilk are steeped in the pseudoscience of transhumanism – less concerned with the elimination of error than the exaltation of exceptional deviance.’ Melinda Cooper shockingly on the money www.equator.org/articles/eps...

If you publish with us and you want us to feature your article or special issue there we’re taking pitches again…

Our slightly exhausted blog has woken up and is now updating www.journalofculturaleconomy.org

Also featuring Justin Leifso @leifso.bsky.social on how the carbon-tax backlash in Alberta uncovers the emotional undercurrents of neoliberalism, resentment, and anti-elitism.

You can listen on all the usual podcast channels and watch on YouTube youtu.be/56hI-_Drx3k?... @stistien.bsky.social @leifso.bsky.social

🔥new episode out this very morning! ‘When the planet hits the balance sheet’ feat. Kristin Asdal & @stistien.bsky.social Stine Engen - hosted as ever by @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4WqW...

This is very good. It's easier to blame universities for a poor economy than it is to blame, well, everything else. But you certainly won't *fix* the economy by just forcing people into trades apprenticeships.

Well there's a graph for you.

I encourage everyone to read Virginia Giuffre's memoir, Nobody’s Girl, published posthumously in October 2025, and to share it with others.

The best way to honour her legacy is to believe & support sexual abuse survivors, and amplify their voices above the power & wealth that seeks to silence them.

this passenger moved into my brain early and persists in the face of experience. Unembarrassable optimist

Peak 2026 so far in England - small child in cafe exclaims with delight and urges everyone to stop what they’re doing and look as the sun comes out. Applause ensues! ☔️☔️☀️