a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
“Just stop oil”‘ doesn’t sound so mental now eh
This issue here is that you’d read these headlines and think he’d said something vaguely off colour. The vitriol and hate implicit in what he actually said means he has no place in public life - @scotnational.bsky.social 100% correct to publish.
Not really a “joke” though is it.
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.
Seems to be a vast silence everywhere about the likely reality that we are in the early weeks of a global conflict. Maybe it was ever thus, but all I hear is avoidance and acceptance; maybe because this empire’s terminal phase was always likely to take everything down with it.
Here is a lukewarm take on the Louis Theroux doc : the core of the “manosphere” isn’t really misogyny, it’s ego. Every interviewee on this documentary thinks entirely about themselves, and operates in a system where that is constantly rewarded
I’ll save you a click it’s public speaking
It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".
I did a 360 turn after taking this and saw the vacant former Herald building. The clearing of central Glasgow through neglect, apathy, and greed continues.
Added shade of grim to an already bleak Glasgow day was seeing kids take selfies and a guy live-streaming it harvesting comments.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Radical change and investment needs to follow or Glasgow as we know it will die
We’re reaping the harvest of a 40 year revolution which has elevated the most vain, selfish, and cruel among us into positions of previously unthinkable power. They rooted out socialism, and barbarism is all that remains. The political question that remains is who and what we protect from collapse.
The question any sane media system would be posing rn is what can be done to restrain the US & Israel.
Reflecting today on the Green Party’s remarkable electoral innovation of selecting a candidate who is broadly likeable and is capable of making statements that sound vaguely human.
That's the way to do it. So good to see progressive politicians pushing back hard on Reform's messaging. Highly effective and so refreshing and Labour could learn a lot from Polanski in this regard. Take the attack to the Faragists - don't let them get away with it.
Me standing in front of the film poster pointing to the credit “the people of Glasgow”
Me standing in front of a red carpet wearing my best suit and a golden shirt. I look extremely excited
Everybody to Kenmure Street! What an experience to see it for the first time with the people of Glasgow. So proud!
You can see more images of that day in Kenmure Street, May 2021, here, in a new publication: www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/photography-... #KenmureStreet #Glasgow
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Full review of Everybody Kenmure Street for Scottish Left Review here. It’s a poignant, funny and politically vital film. It’s also about the street I was raised on and a day of infectious, unforgettable, freedom. So quite an emotional piece to write ❤️✊
scottishleftreview.scot/buying-time-...
Review of Everybody to Kenmure Street incoming.
Consultation events on "early options" for a "permanent" replacement for the Woodside Viaduct of the M8.
Probably a once in a generation opportunity to replace that section of the M8 - or lock us into the status quo
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2586589...
🚨We're hiring!🚨
The Bell is hiring another full-time staff reporter to join our team. We're looking for someone ambitious & tenacious, who is willing to knock lots of doors. Our journalism is in-person & on-the-ground.
Click the link below for more details.
Just sat next to a nightmarish millennial domestic which ended with one party saying “I think my fundamental issue is with me being the tenant and you being the landlord” 😫
If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄
Imagine if we just left Dr Beth Upton alone to live her life.