Thanks to Pluto, I’ve been working on an essay about these for the last month and I’m hoping it’ll be ready next week…

“I poisoned your community but I think we should chat about how asthma is actually pretty cool.”

When Radford closed, it inspired another round of pieces about the death of Hollywood.

Happy Birthday to John Waters.

Calls for change to rules after stretch of Thames fails to gain bathing water status Campaigners in Henley say insufficient number of bathers to qualify for status is result of poor water quality

Strange as it may seem, people taking part in organised swimming events, rowing, kayaking, paddleboarding or sailing are not 'river users' according to Defra.

These rules appear to have been written for the benefit of those who want to pump shit into our rivers.
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Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control Residents waking to find line has moved overnight and they are now in free-fire zone as army takes more territory

Palestine is being erased while, in the west, we turn a blind eye. The imperial Greater Israel project has already expanded its borders into Lebanon, Syria and across Palestine. Genocide denied is genocide enabled. For shame!
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

““A celebration conducted in secret, or at least in silence, is not really a celebration. It is a favor done for a diminishing constituency that the issuer would prefer the broader public not notice,” he wrote.”

To stay or to go? No good options for Lebanon’s displaced Residents of southern Lebanon face a stark choice: stay home and risk being killed, or flee and risk deepening poverty.

I wrote about Israel’s forced evacuation, what happens to those who leave and those who stay behind

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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges by Alabama grand jury Justice department’s inquiry focused on the civil rights organization’s prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, the CEO said

The Trump regime doesn’t like the Southern Poverty Law Center labeling hate groups as hate groups, so it’s weaponizing the Justice Department to try to destroy the SPLC. This is DOJ taking the side of the Klan.

Bring Thames Water into Public Ownership NOW 😡 Thames Water wants to be allowed to dump sewage and not pay a PENNY. Right now, they're trying to force a deal so they can dodge fines until 2030, while customers foot the bill. This isn’t right. Jo...

Please sign if you can.

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Still remarkable to me that half the world is doing 'unrestricted social media usage is bad for kids' and 'we need to put chatbots that tell you to kill your family in every classroom and every toy' at the same time

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (Hardcover, NEW) Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films presents an intimate look at the Chinese American role and influence in Hollywood, from some of the earliest films set in America’s Chinatowns ...

2 signed copies left of this brilliant book about Chinese Americans in the US film industry :

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Mariam AlSaad on Global Warming and Youth-Led Climate Action in Kuwait As the country faces record-breaking temperatures, young people are driving the climate conversation.

Check out my interview with Mariam AlSaad on global warming and youth-led climate action in Kuwait. AlSaad founded one of Kuwait's first environmental advocacy organizations in her early twenties.

To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked! Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

I love that The Guardian has done this - it is the ultimate middle class intellectual shitpost

www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-int...

A pro-Palestinian UMass lecturer was a finalist for a professorship. Then suddenly, he wasn’t. - The Boston Globe Mohammad Ataie alleges in court that the university took him out of the running for a promotion because of his advocacy and academic focus on the modern Middle East.

A pro-Palestinian UMass lecturer was a finalist for a professorship. Then suddenly, he wasn’t.
Mohammad Ataie alleges in court that the university took him out of the running for a promotion for his advocacy/academic focus on the modern Middle East
By Diti Kohli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/b...

Black children in England and Wales almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers – report Demographic also overrepresented when police officers use force such as handcuffs, firearms or Tasers, says children’s commissioner

Remarkably, despite how bad this story is, the trend seems to be towards worse not better. And neither of the cited responses to these findings, from Shabana Mahmood's department or the National Police Chiefs’ Council, even pretends to address the issue of racism.

Spain launches €7bn housing plan to tackle rent crisis Spain's government on Tuesday approved a sweeping plan to alleviate the country's housing problem, one of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's main political vulnerabilities ahead of next year's elections.

Well done Spain.
"The new plan, worth €7 billion, triples government investment in public housing over the next four years. It ensures that subsidised housing cannot be reclassified after a few years. It also includes help for young renters and home buyers"
www.euronews.com/business/202...

Insane misogyny and Islamophobia

Man admits rape and religiously aggravated abuse of Sikh woman John Ashby, 32, initially denies the attack but changes his plea one day after the trial begins.

We need to appeal to all the proud white Britons who want to protect women and children from brutal, primitive men, to keep their Union Jack-draped demos lawful as they protest this rape: yet another of the 74,000 at least committed by a white British man each year:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Literal cartel

Whatever consequences Amazon should face I hope they go & it’s swift!

I’m done since the Troutdale OR incident. Fuck Amazon!

Another reason to stop buying from Amazon.

The famous Hitchcock example of the Kuleshov effect.

One unconventional piece of comics writing advice: study film editing. Look at it broadly but also study the "Kuleshov effect".

Readers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential panels than from a single panel in isolation.

#palantir #ai #ice #nhs #keirstarmer #government #military #donaldtrump #siliconvalley YouTube video by mrcodydahler

YouTube link if you don’t have insta

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Questions about Palantir and have fucking poisonous they are? This is a great explainer

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Alex Karp, Palantir CEO and the world's most punchable nerd

a society which allows dorks like this to Sephiroth post on main without dunking their head in a toilet and stuffing them in a trash can has stumbled dangerously close to a fatal precipice

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Revealed: How Big Oil is pushing Labour to drill the North Sea Oil and gas lobbyists have met ministers 96 times since July 2024 as industry pushes to overturn Labour's North Sea drilling ban and scrap energy windfall tax.

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea

Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office

MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵

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