the Labour Party will never love its actual voters as much as it loves its imagined ideal voters (who do not, in fact, vote for them)

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say. Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence. Continue reading...

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says

"We lost 13 men"

At least three of these fatalities were women:
♦️Capt. Ariana Savino
♦️Technical Sergeant Ashley Pruitt
♦️Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor

I found this out with about 30 seconds of Googling.
The Commander-in-Chief still doesn't know.

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

This Starmer drama is galling enough without having a smug Patel sitting there audibly tutting - I am old enough to remember 2017 when she was involved in a political scandal involving unauthorised meetings with the Government of Israel and broke the ministerial code and resigned.

Having a nice day of disassociating by listening to Santigold in the sunshine and writing copy and pretending the last 15yrs haven't happened.

The Michael Jackson biopic is a ghoulish, soulless cash grab – review This Jackson family-backed movie depicts the King of Pop as a well-intentioned saint who singlehandedly ends gang violence and cares for sick children

found MICHAEL horrendous. human beings turned into commercial products, with no regard for the consequences

Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver star in Luna Carmoon’s ‘To Make Ends Meat’ as filming wraps EXCLUSIVE: Éanna Hardwicke, Armande Boulanger also star; film secures sales deal, UK-Ireland distribution

Luna Carmoon’s follow-up to HOARD is on the way

www.screendaily.com/news/naomi-a...

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.

I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Katharine Hepburn portrait, one in a series to promote RKO-Radio's hit list of 1937-38. From Motion Picture Herald, 1937.

Voting should be easy - voter fraud is an incredibly small % compared to the effect of putting barriers to voting, which always favours fascistic governments. Boris Johnson made it harder for people to vote, we can't be smug in the UK. We need to fight this kind of legislation every where every day.

The EU’s Court of Justice has just ruled anti-LGBTQ+, including anti-trans, laws are ‘contrary to the very identity of the Union as a common legal order in a society in which pluralism prevails’.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Prince, Bowie, the Referendum and me getting sacked from MOJO. A very tough year.

This is absolutely it. You can't at the one hand go 'tepid bath of managed decline', then clearly signal who you want as ambassador and then be surprised that the process yields that outcome.

AI is the technological heir of mansplaining and getting it wrong

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

This madness has no place in the NHS. The UK government should enact its break clause and get us out of contracts with Palantir.

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Even if you didn't sour on the films like I did, Endgame is an obvious ending, jumping off point, conclusion and epilogue. Tony Stark, the support beam of the MCU, gives his life so the universe may live, thanks Tony and thank you all for watching, drive home safely now.

Man: I’m depressed. Arsenal have bottled it.
Doctor: Treatment is simple. Go watch Keir Starmer get yelled at in the House of Commons. That should lift your spirits.
Man: But doctor… I am-
Doctor: I know who you are.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

I went to a talk about 10yrs ago where cinema owners were warned. The keynote speaker said "you are getting excited about this technology but you had also better start getting excited about Universal Basic Income at the same time otherwise you'll have no-one to sell tickets to."

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026 Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old man from Cuba, died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.

“Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old man from Cuba, died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.”

austinkocher.substack.com/p/aled-damie...

They really are just doing Nazism down to the obsession with building extremely kitsch, gargantuan monuments that rips off much better architecture without understanding anything about what makes the originals artistically interesting

He makes really great, gory underrated horror films. Met him when he came to Chapter as part of the @abertoirfest.bsky.social and he was so lovely and clever.