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you haven't experienced football until you listen to the beautiful madness that is Arab commentary watching Australia-Egypt now and the commentators are about to have a heart attack while yelling poetry

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive. africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...

Quick hit on why Orban’s electoral defeat dealt a blow to the global anti gender movement www.opendemocracy.net/en/orban-hun...

This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that.

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Kate Macintosh designed Dawson’s Heights for Southwark Council in 1964 aged just 28. (She's alive and well and still fighting for high quality social housing.) English Heritage described it as ‘an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscape’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Parliament has an exciting opportunity for teachers to attend the Teacher Ambassador Programme between the 2nd-4th February 2026 to help build confidence in teaching about the UK Parliament. For more information on this opportunity and how to apply visit: buff.ly/1toYdwN

In all my life, I have NEVER seen a news story where a women murders a man and his entire family, just because he split up with her. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

It’s such a tell when men agree with you on how there’s impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence- until it’s some dude they like and then it’s all “he was never convicted” or “well the police dropped the investigation”. It’s always “other men” isn’t it.

Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky

Jason Stearns is always worth reading on DRC. www.ebuteli.org/publications...

why does this sentence lead with the effect on men when the effect on women is actually worse?

Also: 'Meta now permits content that argues for “gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs"' www.wired.com/story/meta-i...