something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Joy for All is today! We can't wait to welcome you to Norton Park Conference Centre, 11-4pm, for our market and community space. You can shop stalls from local artists and community organisations, do some crafting and find out more about new ways to start making change in your community. 💪

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Anecdotal agreement from me - attendance is back up to pre-Covid levels this year so far.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

Oh it’s world mental health day again

Stop telling us to ‘talk’. It’s not a simple solution to anything.

Lots of therapy is actually inadequate or inappropriate for the issue at hand

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It's one thing for a >35% Labour party to be howling that *its own preferred voting system* means smaller parties simply need to give up and get behind them, it's another thing sitting on around 20% and furiously denouncing parties on like 15% and 10% as splitters. Everyone's a splitter now babes!

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

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God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Just been on a great date with a woman who works at the Zoo. Think she might be a keeper.

Franz kafka ruined waking up as a giant bug. now if you wake up as a bug it's automatically "kafkaesque"

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

Reminder that the best defence against authoritarianism is ALWAYS absurdism. It doesn’t matter how natty your jackboots are, nobody looks scary when oppressing Creatures.

"Sod it, I'm not painting all this lace right now. Bring me opium, tuna, and catnip. Oh, and the toy on the string with the feathers."

It is, broadly speaking, hard for me to believe Israel's commitment to this deal given you already have their politicians saying to domestic audiences that they intend to resume the war. Unlike the last ceasefire, our exhortation to not break it has to be underpinned by a strong economic "or else"

I regret to inform you that ‘Young Tories, what a bunch of weirdos hahaha’ has escalated quickly

There’s more to be done to put them in relation to artisan culture, I think - it’s formative for them all and cuts across customary ways of configuring a high/low division (art/craft, intellectual/manual, spiritual/physical &c). Trying to rethink Jonson on this basis and editing Dekker was v useful!

I’ve got a bit in my SH intro about the range and variety of his dramatic writing, which does I think have a distinct profile.

This is not about you, my American friend.

We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital

Remembering when, in the wake of a conversation in which I questionably proposed ideological overlap between Aphra Behn and Jilly Cooper, I produced this mashup: