Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

@thatdocphoenix.com

11K followers 3.2K following 7.5K posts

That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · Nov 13

Hello new followers! I am trans and autistic but wrote a book that is about neither of those things so neither of those communities tend to know about it. It’s called I Heart Politics and it’s a good read, I promise

12 34 240

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 10m

Love our Dolly www.instagram.com/reel/DPjkor7...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

www.instagram.com

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1h

I’ve had epic brain fog today so didn’t get as much work done as I wanted. However, I satisfied the productivity urge by using my rounded corner punch on a bunch of cards I made

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1h

Me sowing (scoring a disabled affordable access ticket for Marina Abramović)

Me reaping (having to miss the last half hour of a 4 hour durational show to actually get home)

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 4h

If some VCs don't resign over this, I don't know when they will.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

4 11 36

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 5h

Jumpers for goalposts, school shirts for kit

Keir Starmer on a football field wearing a white dress shirt in slightly too thin fabric that has school uniform vibes. He is not wearing a tie and has unbuttoned the top buttons, and this just adds to the effect

1 7

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 18h

I can’t lose Dolly

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19h

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

2 1 18

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

This week has been unedifying so far and it’s only Tuesday

2 1

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

Yep. Too much about optics rather than decency

1 2

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

It’s been dead and unrefurbished for, well, as long as the dreadful JJ has had it

1 1

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

Died with the ability to feel shame and indeed ever use indoor voices in public

1 2

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

I just feel like he was there for a lot and also high a lot, but at least he cleaned up

1 1

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

Rage baiting

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 22h

Solidarity with Mark Bray

For anyone who still doubted, reactionaries never believed in free speech, they always believed in forcing their ideas into the mainstream and mainstream institutions were too ready to welcome them

And these are the consequences

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

3 16 52

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

Why I couldn’t face watching

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 20h

I feel like Leto and Reznor have more in common in their personal behaviour than many are willing to admit. But at least Trent has talent

1 1

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 1d

"The public are open to it"

Are they, aye?

Screenshot from the UK government petitions website: Petition
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

More details
Sign this petition
2,833,565 signatures

2 81 160

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 21h

Did you know the voice of Disney's Prince Charming was gay? Neither did I, but according to this biography of actor Charles Laughton, Laughton and the actor Bill Phipps were having a not-apparently-secret affair during the making of Cinderella. Good for them!

Text from a book:
Brecht and Laughton also seem to have done the casting them-
selves: a few emigré actors, like Hugo Haas, as the Pope, quite a
number of serious young Hollywood actors, acquaintances of
Laughton (Frances Heflin, sister of Van, for example), but for the
most part, in James Lyon's phrase, 'both Laughton and Brecht
wanted unspoiled, teachable, younger people.' Many of these they
found in the recently defunct Actors' Lab, including one, Bill Phipps,
who, as it happens, became Laughton's lover, a troubled but none the
less sustaining relationship. He played Andrea, though Eric Bentley,
for one, reckons he was overparted. In general, the company they
assembled was young, eager and talented.

a photo of bill phipps in a suit, and a screengrab of prince charming at the ball

2 30 160

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 20h

But, again, it's why defending bureaucracy is so important. Good relationships with developers is anti-democratic, it's informal and very personal decision making. It's why we're headed for worse because the people who are meant to defend these institutions are drunk on the free hospitality.

1 1 4

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 21h

Are you even alive if you don’t do the “physically fit” bit every time the Audi I Like To Move It advert comes on?

2 14

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

You might not be surprised to learn that “the left” in this is ostensibly represented by Brianna Wu, who is not on the left, and that it also includes the sage political knowledge of this man

Star Trek writers take
Starship Enterprise where it's never gone before -woke politics
Even our entertainment is awash in bitter partisanship
By David Marcus • Fox News
Published May 14, 2022 7:00am EDT

21 70 650

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 22h

Exactly this. The *reason* Bluesky took off and Mastodon didn't is that for anyone who wants to use social media to talk to their friends, to follow their favourite minor celebrity, or publicise their work, and who doesn't want to be brigaded, decentralisation is a bug, not a feature.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 22h

note that almost all user complaints about how mastodon sucks are symptoms of decentralisation. if a user knows about the decentralisation it's cos it's causing problems.

(the other user complaints are local rogue mods and linux bros)

1 22 86

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 23h

Yes, people do want hope and joy and people who stand for something

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 23h

I wrote about about this and Zack just skeeted it out (see my pinned post)

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

1 16

Reposted by Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 23h

Vandals and crooks

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

1 9 30

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1d

Been waiting over 5 years and it’s still at least 18 months away, depending if they stay at the same speed or slow down