Huge solidarity. I am so, so sorry.

a black and gray illustration of a eurasian magpie perched on a surface, dipping forward with its tail feathers out, eyeing the viewer.

Student Seraj is his family's sole provider, and right now, he especially needs us to help carry the load while his teen sister fights to survive a bullet wound in her skull...!

Every ounce helps. They rarely get support. Listed goal is by Monday. Hit “weekly/monthly” ! chuffed.org/project/1232...

Exterior of a polling place in Edinburgh (Getty).

We're urging everyone who is eligible to register to vote before the deadline at 11:59pm on Monday 20 April 🗳️

You can also apply to vote by post or proxy instead of going to a polling place📮

Is it surprising that, anecdotally, many kids are given phones and tablets as soon as the family sits down, regardless of type of eating place? Not all kids are able to sit down quietly and colour from the very first time they’re taken to a cafe/restaurant. 2/2

This impacts children’s health and parents’ worries when taking children out as well. If children are accepted throughout even in casual restaurants only by 58% of respondents, can we be that surprised that fast food is the go-to eating out option for many families? 1/2

Saving this for my lunch break! And I still have to catch up on your most recent podcast episodes on Suez on @empirepoduk.bsky.social. Your earlier ones on Mountbatten and Indian Independence & Partition were absolutely superb.

Marking boycott looms at Goldsmiths over £20m of cuts to staff Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London, have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action in a fight to protect jobs, UCU announced today.

🚨 1 in 4 staff at Goldsmiths to be axed.

All while senior management get eye-watering pay rises and £16m is spent on consultants and lawyers.

This is the reality of Higher Education in the UK.

Our members have voted for industrial action, support them.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...

When reality trumps fiction: reading about this poor baby made me think of Sarah Moss’s 2011 Night Waking, which focuses on precisely one such baby, born illegitimately in Victorian Scotland, and catalysing the fragile links between life, death, class, and our hunger for finding meaning in history.

Current Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS — JULY 31, 2026 INDIGENOUS FEMINIST PEDAGOGIES WSQ, FALL 2027   Issue Editors  CINDY TEKOBBE, University of Illinois ChicagoALANNA FROST, University of Alabama in HuntsvilleHEATHER N. ...

🔥 CFP: Indigenous Feminist Pedagogies, Fall 2027 issue of WSQ. Submit by July 31, 2026! feministpress.org/pages/curren...

@feministpress.bsky.social

And by a right-wing government no less. This week in EU news actually gives me hope!

Today, the emperor penguin has moved from Near Threatened to Endangered on the @sscmarine.bsky.social IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

🛰️ Satellite images suggest that the population declined by 10% between 2009 and 2018 alone, equating to more than 20,000 adult penguins.

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GUARDIAN: “Israel has carried out its largest attack on Lebanon since its war with Hezbollah began, killing at least 254 and wounding 837, an assault that prompted Iranian officials to warn Tehran could withdraw from the ceasefire…” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Please help Alaa, she's in a very difficult situation. Her husband is imprisoned and she just gave birth 🙏🥺

Giuffre family urges UK's King Charles to meet Epstein survivors in US Prior to her death, Virginia Giuffre accused Epstein of trafficking her to Charles's brother, the former Prince Andrew.

Prior to her death, Virginia Giuffre accused Epstein of trafficking her to Charles's brother, the former Prince Andrew.

Donate to Crips for eSIMs for Gaza (UK)

Just a few hours left on this drive: sustaining internet for Palestinians. Internet is still out in most places, so eSIMs are a lifeline: to let us know about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

£5 sponsors someone's data for a month. Can you click "monthly" on it? bit.ly/esimsUK

Donate to Crips for eSIMs for Gaza (UK)

Crips for eSIMs for Gaza keeps Palestinian journalists, doctors, students, and more stay connected to the world. This is a key lifeline as internet remains weak.

Help them stay connected. With the team in the red, this connectivity can't be sustained. Make it monthly if you can! bit.ly/esimsUK

The resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of globally endorsed extermination should inspire more people to, at the very least, help them stay alive. That's what the fundraisers are for. Click share, donate. Support has fallen terribly. They're human, they can't do this alone.

From the article: ‘The inventors of the Transformer, the T in ChatGPT, believed, against the grain of research at the time, that language was the key to abstraction.’
I’m innerly screaming in linguistics, theology, and the whole history of human knowledge. I just can’t fathom such lack of thought.

Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak A government that openly embraces violence against Palestinians has now enshrined into law a policy of lethal force, says B’Tselem’s executive director, Yuli Novak

Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

For folks with an EU passport. The new Israeli law introducing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners condemned for terrorism has to be stopped.👇👇

A reminder that are around 10000 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons, most without charge or trial. A % of those are children. This is a carte blanche to execute all of them.

Abhorrent, shameful and cruel.

Nobel Prize Winner for Literature turns to AI to write content

ALL supplies, including food & clean water, are king's ransom expensive b/c they all have to be smuggled through the genocidal blockade. Hard to find. Impossible to afford w/o help. Feed the kids.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026