West Bengal SIR: At the Twilight of Indian Democracy The BJP government is currently undertaking one of the largest disenfranchisement drives in history.

I examine the issues and implications surrounding SIR and the Supreme Court’s April 13 ruling.

At present, politics is downstream from money.

Current crop of red devils is an antithesis of Sir Alex’s. Obvious gulf in success aside, United sneak unexpected wins against the big teams and then lose to Brentford & Grimsby. ‘Fergie time’ now comes in the first 10’ - United score early then defend for their lives the rest of the game.

The Indian batters are just target practice for the Aussies before the Ashes.

Fellow pedestrian.

#Cat #Cats #UnitedKingdom #blueskyflashes

WAYS OF SEEING: A Reading Journal In January, MTC read John Berger et al. Ways of Seeing (1972). Below is an informal and necessarily incomplete record of our thinking together. Farah Bakaari: In January MTC read John Berger et al.…

In January MTC read John Berger et al. WAYS OF SEEING (1972). Here is our collective reading journal, which in the spirit of the book come in both word and image!
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CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025) The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...

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uninvited to christmas because i spent a full hour at thanksgiving arguing that "sabrina carpenter" is the genderswap version of "bob the builder"

Friends, drop your suggestions for the funniest, most informative and most interesting must-follow bluesky accounts.

Adult films give young people a really unhealthy and unrealistic idea of how quickly a plumber will come to your house.

When I say Bluesky is a bizarre and exciting experiment, this is both /not at all/ and /exactly/ what I mean.

The CEO of an amoral health insurance company has been assassinated, leading to celebrations from an angry populace, moral debates, and a citywide manhunt. Critics are calling it "preachy Oscar bait that wades into heady topics without much to say about them". 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I've built myself a website, which includes a list of journals for animal rights philosophers to submit to (organised by publisher), a couple of syllabi, my essay writing guide for political philosophy students, & articles that philosophers say have changed their minds: stevecooke.org

Elon Musk and Pete Hesgeth are the kind of tough alpha males that America needs, according to their mommies

Molly Lambert @mollylambert I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone

it is strange that nachos are great and shrimp are great but shrimp nachos simply do not work

Dinesh D'Souza admitting his film "2000 Mules" had a "flaw" is like saying the Titanic had a "mild flotational hinderance"

Twitter and YouTube now have more ads than pirated streaming websites.

Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false

"Repeat after me: there was no 'landslide'. There was no 'blowout'. There was no 'sweeping' mandate given to Trump by the electorate. The numbers don’t lie."

My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:

Massive away win for the little fella.

I bluesky, therefore I am.

Early modern London multilingualism!

Reflecting, not for the first time, that Perfect Strangers ran as a mid-list comedy series for 8 YEARS in the 80s and 90s with a main character who was a FACT-CHECKER at a Chicago newspaper.

8 seasons. A world where fully staffed publishing offices that hired full-time fact-checkers were imaginable

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

everyone should learn morse code so we can send each other little messages with our car headlights

In a few hours I will pretend to understand why a certain piece was moved to a certain square anticipating that it would give white an advantage worth 0.9 after 11 moves.

If International law goes down, it better go down fighting.

Hoping that Kohli & Rahul can recreate their Test innings partnership from 19th November 2023.

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.