Agree re Kate Ireland. Fab set.

Joshua Idehen on stage at Bristol concert

Backing singer at gig

Bristol concert Joshua and backing singers dancing as if is an 80s style workout!

Went to see @joshuaidehen.bsky.social last night in Bristol. What can I say? It was exhilarating! 💃🏾💃🏾 💃🏾A much needed tonic in these world on fire times. #ShimmyItOut #DanceAsTherapy

Booked ages ago and looking forward to it.

🎙️ Living in a Hobbesian world with John Gray- philosopher, #StrawDogs author & #bbcradio4's Point of View contributor. Explore Hobbes, human conflict & the search for order. #JohnGray #Philosophy
📅 Tue 5 May
⏰ 7:30–9:00 pm
🎟 www.brlsi.org/whatson/living-in-a-hobb...

CAUCUS OF DOOFUSES!

BREAKING: We just won our antitrust trial against LiveNation and Ticketmaster.

Live Nation has raked in billions in profits from an illegal monopoly that coerces venues, restricts artists, and exploits fans.

This is a massive win in the fight for fairness for local venues, artists, and fans.

You can relate to certain traits without claiming the label. Empathy doesn’t require equivalence. Saying “everyone is a little autistic” isn’t inclusive it’s dismissive af

I agree with this in principle but refusal is also for legal cover in an Americanised world of litigation. Hence the abstentions on landmark UN enslavement ruling by main enslavers of Europe. The societal moral vacuum is wide and widening.

"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?"

"Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?"

"Oh wow. I have, actually!"

"Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."

The Unsettled Mind: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Anxiety YouTube video by Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

We’re launching a new BRLSI talk series: The Unsettled Mind: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Anxiety.

Hear from leading thinkers on grief, sexuality, Freud & more.

🎥 Intro video: youtu.be/dwWqsCudgdo

#Psychoanalysis #MentalHealth #Anxiety #Freud #Psychology #Wellbeing #Talks #Bath #Lacan #BRLSI

Apr. 09, 1939 | Banned From Indoor Venues, Marian Anderson Performs at Lincoln Memorial Learn more about this history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1939, world-renowned Black opera singer Marian Anderson was denied the use of indoor halls due to her race and instead performed outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Oh flipping hell I thought this lot were better. They’re just all BS Merchants. Why are we all falling for it? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Smartphone Photography Workshop 📱✨
A hands on session led by Benedict Brain
Discover how to take more intentional, creative photos with the camera you always have with you
Sat 25 April

All you need is your fully charged smartphone!
www.brlsi.org/whatson/smartphone-photo...

WTH?! Is there any responsible #political #leadership happening this decade or are we just writing it off?

A black & white photo of maya angelou she’s wearing a head scarf & holding a copy of her book I know why the caged bird sings

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Happy Birthday to Dr Maya Angelou (born April 4, 1928)

Hi, I'm looking for a journalist based in Nigeria for help on a radio story. If you happen to know anyone who knows anyone I would appreciate it! Thanks!

Screenshot from the article showing a question and an answer Wardah: In The Atlantic's September cover story, "The Most Nibilistic Conflict on Earth," author Anne Applebaum claims that "Sudan is a good place to fight," arguing that Western disengagement has resulted in increased competition among the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others over Sudan's natural resources. Does this framing rely on a flawed assumption that Western involvement was ever a stabilizing force in Sudan, rather than a contributing factor to its instability? Yassmin: It is curious that Applebaum starts thinking about Western intervention only in this millennium and not in the last. If she took a longer view, a 200-year-long view rather than a 20-year-long one, she and observers like her, might begin to understand that Western intervention created Sudan as it is known today, and thus created the conditions for much of the intractable structural malaise since. Selective memory indeed.

Curious indeed. Reminds me of how short a memory is present in reporting on other conflicts, such as the ongoing disaster in Iran.

And fills me with dread over how much even an aggressively punitive Democratic majority is likely to chafe at consequences for our actions abroad in the coming years.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

This nails the patronising way that people’s legitimate concerns are dealt with by big tech, governments and industries adopting it. The wholesale disempowerment of folk in the West is real. Maybe more alliance with the continually #colonised is needed. #AI

One of the greatest problems we face is the way that critique of technology is easily presented as simply a fear of technology, as anti-progress. It is a way of demonizing someone as irrational, and therefore, whose concerns should not be taken seriously. What this insult of “techno-phobia” crucially overlooks is not only the many emotions that fuel contemporary refusals of technology, it also fails to recognize the often deeply rational reasons why one might decide to leave behind, or actively resist, the most harmful dimensions of contemporary technological life. Within the refusal of tech, we can find alternative imaginations of the future. Not anti-progress, only refusing a particular, narrow idea of what “progress” should look like.

Contemporary resistance in Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere is inseparable both from the ongoing colonial logics of contemporary tech industries and from the original anti-colonial resistance that was a part of attempts at colonization. The populations outside of the West are still often simply treated as either cheap labor or as valuable data. At the same time, these populations’ natural environments are extracted for the building-out of essential AI infrastructures. Contemporary resistance to AI and to data centers needs to be understood as a refusal of these afterlives of colonialism.

Another crucial driver of AI refusal is AI’s reshaping of what it means to be human. Not only is AI altering how we work, how we think, or how we create, it is reconfiguring what it means to live a meaningful life. The kind of life deemed meaningful, within the AI narrative, is one that is efficient, fast, and intelligent. This is simply unconvincing to many. For them, AI promises not emancipation or new powers — such as that of superintelligence — but a further diminishing of their ability to be in tune with what actually matters to them: community, care, growth. Fueling this bad feeling further is what the philosopher of technology, Günther Anders, called “Promethean shame,” whereby we feel the shame of being insufficient and vulnerable in the face of a perfect, efficient machine. The AI promoters are already telling us that without fully embracing AI, we’re second-class citizens. The contemporary refusal of AI is a struggle against this promise of a particular kind of human life secondary to that of machine intelligence

Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul:
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.
restofworld.org/2026/techno-...

Please do not let anyone dismiss autistic shutdowns, meltdowns, or other signs of distress as "just autistic behaviors."

Instead, please do your best to determine the legitimate sensory, environmental, social, communication, or medical issue behind the distress.

#autism #neurodiversity #autistic

Wakehurst parkrun: Nature History and Restoration The charm of Wakehurst parkrun with its stunning landscapes and historic backdrop. The way to supercharge your year.

Sharing my brother’s #Parkrun blog because we all need niceness. www.nuhorizons.uk/post/wake-up...

A viral video series is breathing life into one of the country’s oldest Black history museums Staff at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History are spoofing what it is like to work at the legendary institution from a distinctly Black perspective.

I wrote about a museum that is near and dear to my heart, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI Tracy Chevalier announces registration scheme at the London Book Fair as AI works flood market The Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books. The scheme is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association, and allows authors to register their books and download a “Human Authored” logo to display on their back cover. Continue reading...

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

I don’t ever want to read 300 people dead and not feel anything. #War

That is correct. It hurt. The blatant lack of care or accountability is a reminder to us of how little we matter - like we need another reminder.

#BBC and #BAFTA you had choice and time and we have seen what you chose - to pit #Ableism against #Racism You could have done by right by all 3 men. You insulted 2 of the best actors and left the man with Tourettes to take the fall. A sad day. Sad because it wasn’t shocking.

We used to say "never again" but as long as we are humans, good will have to fight evil. #ICE #WESEEYOU

Pure feel good.

The politics of AI are anti-human. This comparison is disgusting.