Shabaka - Of The Earth album cover. The artist wearing a hat and black, red and green scarf, glancing skyward.
'Thoughts of exploration are never far from the mind when immersed in this remarkable record. It lives up to its title, sounds apparently sprouting from the seeds of ideas, climbing through the creative consciousness’s soil...'
Shabaka - Of The Earth
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Mutt Not-Sore Goodloser should be rewarded by Reform with the Admiralty of Cornus Cobus Commonwealthia.
Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."
Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.
[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]
Plumber, Plasterer, Parliamentarian! 💚
Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."
If you’re feeling up to it… one if my favourite songs just got more resonant: www.instagram.com/reel/DTjLINz...
36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.
At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera
Two fascist regimes dragging the world into war.
Even that imperial mouthpiece the NYTimes is not having it.
Israel waged a war of annihilation in Gaza. Now it wants everyone but itself to disarm. Trump is acting on Israel's direction in bombing Iran. Israel ignores the sovereignty of neighbouring states & is a danger to humanity. Israel should surrender their WMDs. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
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Somehow the Americans have a more cringe war name (Epic Fury) than the Israelis (Roaring Lion)
Here's a clip of me reading from my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and New Directions, recently longlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com , for Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social :
youtu.be/qSxnBV4aMh4?...
Zack said they’d replace Labour here. Reform (put a flag in it!) started so haha strong…
Glorious in itself, imagine a very different national politics and country!
‘Normally’ bye-election results are discountable. How ‘normal’ do you, does it, does this time feel?
Resist denial.
Yup! Similar in UK where that statement incurs the affected wrath of genocide deniers who will scream that it is anti-Semitic and *even now* get a huge bang for their BS buck.
If only we weren’t so siloed in our budgeting.
The gains for public health budgets from enabling a physically active population are immense.
Safe routes for cycling are an investment in health more than a cost for transport budgets. 👇
The role of the mainstream media over the last 2+ years shown in a 7 second clip
Green London assembly member Zoe Garbett: "We know that most people want to see an end to the genocide in Gaza"
Reporter, voiceover: "Israel denies accusations of genocide in Gaza"
leaves
invertebrates
mycorrhizae
atmosphere
Nearly three years ago, I wrote for @theipaper.com about how Westminster's debilitating caution and irrationality was letting us all down.
Credit to Zack Polanski for trying to start a rational debate.
inews.co.uk/opinion/west...
But what really blew up Michelle’s employment at the mag, former staffers say, was her response to October 7, after she put an effective gag order on commissioning any pieces acknowledging the genocide in Gaza. “Michelle told us variously that she was facing pressure from the board not to say anything anti-Israel, and also that she had, in her words, ‘Jewish people in her life whose feelings would be hurt,’” says another former editor. “It was a workplace issue and treated as such. People were saying, ‘This is sort of unconscionable. Like, what are we doing?” “It’s important to note that in the last year of Boris’s tenure as editor-in-chief, we probably published forty things about the war in Ukraine,” that editor told me. “But Michelle told us we couldn’t even discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.”
At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.
nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...
Fight, fight, fight for your common/s, so few of them left.
It’s always worth it: there would be no Epping Forest, Hainault Forest, Hampstead Heath, Peckham Rye (majority), Kennington Common…
These spaces need *expanding* into the mid-Century especially in cities.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Just love the experiential authority!
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Like lions after slumber, unvanquishable number,
oh yeah.
