Tom Shakespeare

Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Report: Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, was given access to bank accounts containing billions of dollars by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, including one account in the Israeli Central Bank, a new book claims. www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

*Even their financial infrastructure is a strange ouroboros, a self-inflating ring of I-loan-to-you and you-loan-to-me *It's like Enron with Nvidia chips instead of natural-gas

Beautiful and wise www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

This is Mariana Tokarchuk, she was only 21, Russian terrorists killed her on October 19 in Kyiv 🕯💔

🚨Students from the #BRIT school came to watch the show, a car drove past them&shouted ‘blackies’.A boy on a bike called other visitors the ‘n word’.A group of friends[who]came to see the show were followed to their hotel by a group of men&women chanting ‘dirty’ at them🚨 @tomshakespeare.bsky.social

Remembering all those killed in the Aberfan disaster, and their families. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tj3D...

I think I may have just uploaded my last ever student feedback.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I was once a NESTA Fellow. But was doing the A not the S or T. Not possible now.

And if you enjoy the show don't forget that you can donate to the Crowdfunder to help the museum buy its building here www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema...

These are the men and women who betrayed Ukraine “For the first time, the United States of America entered the battlefield on Russia’s side. That is not hyperbole. It is simply the objective and uncontested assessment of events.” Not even to GET useful diesel iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...

Funkiest man who ever lived? Few are worthy of the title, but Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì made a strong case in his 58 years on this earth. Born October 15, 1938, died August 2, 1997. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZah...

Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making graphic threats of extreme violence, expressing racist and misogynistic views. Bromley councillor calling for King Charles to be killed. That's the kind of people Reform attracts. It has normalized hatred. What would a Reform govt unleash?

🔥🔥🔥Our YouTube community did something extraordinary: 8,585 donors helped to raise over €1M, allowing Sergej (@sumlenny.bsky.social) & I to deliver 2,000 lifesaving drones, trucks, & other aid to frontline units. 👉 Thank you for helping Ukraine's defenders win & come home alive!!

For those who think @cjayanetti.bsky.social is being hyperbolic. These are the current three "top stories" on the Times app. How this is taken as anything other than a targeted attack on disabled individuals, especially neurodivergent ones, is beyond me.

This is incredibly sad. I once interviewed RJ Mitte on the Southbank and he was very friendly and joyful on a sunny day by the river. He leaves a legacy of disability representation on the screen; something that is far from easy to achieve and still too rare. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Ukraine's new campaign of destroying Russia's data centers will prove devastating for Putin's economy and war machine if the White House is unable to prevent it. The chaos we're already seeing across Russia is only four days into the campaign and 3 facilities targeted.

There's a traditional Guardian misprint here. Headline should read "US needs a new leader after diesel deal with Russia". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

"The United States are not the champions of freedom they pretend to be, but rather the main culprits of the oppression and misery of the world's peoples." - Che Guevara, UN, 1964.

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

If we want Public Sector Broadcasting, we have to pay for it. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

General funding applications are now open! 🎉 We support the work of professional composers, including providing grants towards performances. Find out more about what is available here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/funding/how-...

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A sneak peak at my next big fat ambitious feminist book project katemanne.substack.com/p/the-author...

U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did.

If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) were to shut down, the continent would plunge into “ice age” winters with year-round long droughts, and agriculture would become close to impossible. www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

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Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

It’s brilliant to see two key government reviews will likely seek to end the pointless reassessment of many disabled people. I’ve written for years it’s a waste of resources and has a huge strain on disabled people forced into regularly proving their condition. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

At last, a safe space for men who think empathy lowers testosterone.

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Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!

But they were fucked up in their turn, By bros in jeans and sleeveless coats, Who half the time were soppy stern, And half at one another's throats Bot hands down blatant goof to bot, It deepens like a coastal shelf, Block all the clankers you can spot, And don’t post any prompts yourself.

They fuck you up, these AI bots, They may not mean to, but they do. They pass on all the lies online And add some extra, just for you.

I was trying to find a line from a Philip Larkin poem, and instead Gemini made up swathes of lines that aren't in the poem