Wayne Myers

About 20% of Israeli citizens are Palestinians. In many ways they play an outsized role in Israeli society, but they also face daily discrimination that is de facto, de jure -- and, for the past four years, increasing. This is the subject of my latest article. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/yo...

Opposition leaders have said they won’t ally with an Arab party, though polls show this is their only sure path to victory over Netanyahu. Mansour Abbas thinks he can change their minds. Excellent analysis by @aburass.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

Wow. That's not hyperbole, just an accurate description. More about the allbum and about Adele Sebastian here: activelistening.substack.com/p/adele-seba... But first, listen. (Thanks to @gavinyamey.bsky.social / @joemuggs.bsky.social for sharing links to this)

One of the most beautiful recordings in history "I strongly believe in, contribute to and support the preservation and education of the black arts," she said. "For these are my people and our contributions are priceless." A life cut so short. nimbuswest.bandcamp.com/album/desert...

Perhaps. I doubt it. My scenario is that it discredits the Greens as a credible challenge to Labour, and hence removes pressure from Labour to move left on Palestine. The only upside is that Miliband seems to be invested in sanctions on settlements regardless of political manoeuvring.

It is easy to be wise after the fact. In this case it is easy to be wise before after and during the fact because of the big flashing warning signs attached to it.

"Zionism is not a Jewish belief" is a position, yes, but a) the mental gymnastics you need to get there are really quite spectacular, and b) I don't think I'd have got very far arguing this when I studied Jewish History. bsky.app/profile/anns...

An excellent essay on the Stalinist origins of the 'Zionism is racism' slogan and the damage to the Green party caused by it last week: leftfootforward.org/2026/10/the-...

Triple-A Minesweeper — Mike Lacher's action-packed AAA reboot of the Windows 3.11 classic

by @self.agency, brilliantly structured, essential, applying what Jews ourselves defined about genocide denial to much of our community's attitudes towards Gaza these last years.

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I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

My latest is about the films NAZA and Yes!, and the meaning of the cacophony of angry reactions. newlinesmag.com/review/two-f...

If the main thing you want to do right now is to read a long, rambling, angry response by a non-Zionist Jewish now ex-Green Party Of England And Wales member to the not-so-hilarious antics of yesterday, then have I got the post for you: wayne.conniptions.org/2026/10/05/w... (It may not be, tbf)

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i will shed no tears at this amazing news

The Green Party deserves thanks on two fronts. Firstly, for helping to bring down Kier Starmer's government. And secondly, for reminding us how toxic and useless some parts of the British left are.

Blocked angrily by an ex colleague for daring to suggest that AI hallucination has in fact not been solved and their example of an "indistinguishable from real" AI-generated photo was in fact clearly slop. It's sad. This person was once very bright and empathic. If this is AI psychosis it sucks.

My beloved does make awesome candles. #ProofOfCat #ProofOfCandle

HEY! Wanna read the short story I wrote that won a contest? Inspired by the art of @innavjuzhanina.bsky.social OF COURSE YOU DO. It's about bad people getting the fate they deserve, so it is, of course, a work of fiction.

The problem with home-made burgers is that once you nail it, by and large you can never go out for a burger again without disappointment.

Yuval Avraham, co-director of "No other land" and "Naza" in an interview on how he started learning Arabic. With English subtitles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LTQ...

AI isn't going to kill humanity. It isn't going to become superintelligent. AI just puts shit together in probabilistic patterns, and our brains use the same mechanisms that help us see pictures in clouds & faces in toast & gods and monsters in the dark to imply there's something behind it all.

If your revolutionary new tech won't work unless you buy up the entire global supply of computer hardware and then some, that may just be an indication that your new tech is not, after all, so revolutionary, just stupidly expensive and massively inefficent.

Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>

AI in the NHS - doesn't work, but they're forcing it on us anyway: pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/u...

Henry is surprisingly short for his 45 years. A little rounder in the face than you might expect, a little heavier than you might expect, and he is extremely, extremely eager.

Not getting drawn into banjo discourse which will only end badly for everyone concerned.

Meta is a creep who will _never_ take no for an answer, and never stop trying to ignore their lack of consent. Every media & regulatory organization in the world seems determined to ignore this reality; I genuinely don't understand why. Today's settlement is so that Meta can keep violating consent.

This is utter trash. Conspiracist racist nonsense. The Canary has been bad for a while but I didn’t realise it had got so low that David Miller himself wrote for it www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

In both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, appalling abuses of human rights and civil liberties were done entirely legally, through capture of the political and judicial systems, and through reliance on the cowardice of those who, in theory, could have reined in Nazi and Soviet leaders.

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

This is one of the cutest and cleverest things I've seen in a while: interloperunit.org Bravo! #puzzles #metal

Leftover penne arrabiata with some random salad and a splodge of mayonnaise stirred into it has absolutely no right to be as good as that but here we all are.

Tonight I found out about a probably ancient but utterly delightful bit-twiddling trick that is no doubt old hat to those of you who have already written a chess engine, but may be interesting if you are into both coding and chess: lichess.org/@/conniption... #chess #coding

11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

Jason Arday has been found dead after being subjected to an endless media campaign fueled by racism and far right bigotry that drove him from his job. Might as well state what happened out loud.