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· Jan 14
‘A man like that is only after one thing’: On the Experiences of Young Women and Girls with J.D.
This two-part blog post discusses the predatory and abusive experiences of many young women and girls in their differing relationships with…
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A two-part piece about the many women and girls variously pursued, groomed, and abused by J.D. Salinger
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English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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I'm uncomfortable with the idea that using data without permission even if shared willingly as part of a discussion, and then not crediting the contribution, isn't a scientific injustice. That's not recognising something as an equal contribution. An equal contribution would be credited.
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm uncomfortable with the idea that using data without permission even if shared willingly as part of a discussion, and then not crediting the contribution, isn't a scientific injustice. That's not recognising something as an equal contribution. An equal contribution would be credited.
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This is a complex story, but frankly it still reveals a great deal of sexism and exclusion. There's a thread here of pompous British men calling other people idiots; I don't see them grappling with why Franklin was excluded from intellectual ownership networks.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is a complex story, but frankly it still reveals a great deal of sexism and exclusion. There's a thread here of pompous British men calling other people idiots; I don't see them grappling with why Franklin was excluded from intellectual ownership networks.
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But what this piece again makes clear is that at first, her results were not acknowledged and that 'her team' should've been included in the Nobel prize. It also does not acknowledge any historical context concerning women's contested participation in scientific discoveries.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
But what this piece again makes clear is that at first, her results were not acknowledged and that 'her team' should've been included in the Nobel prize. It also does not acknowledge any historical context concerning women's contested participation in scientific discoveries.
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“Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed.”
This is the painful part.
This is the painful part.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed.”
This is the painful part.
This is the painful part.
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There are a lot of great things about being married to a lawyer/in-house counsel and one of them is that he insisted that I truly understand that the law is whatever the people in power say it is.
He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT
He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT
Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos
October 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
There are a lot of great things about being married to a lawyer/in-house counsel and one of them is that he insisted that I truly understand that the law is whatever the people in power say it is.
He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT
He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT
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People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.
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"The girl had weighed over 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) when she was born, her mother said. When she died, she weighed less than 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds)."
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born. The body of 5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza on Friday and her family buried her on ...
apnews.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"The girl had weighed over 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) when she was born, her mother said. When she died, she weighed less than 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds)."
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
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“Starvation forces the body to consume its own muscle and organs for energy...
It also destroys communities by turning people against each other in their desperation for food and forcing them to do shameful, humiliating or violent things to survive.”
It also destroys communities by turning people against each other in their desperation for food and forcing them to do shameful, humiliating or violent things to survive.”
Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars
Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“Starvation forces the body to consume its own muscle and organs for energy...
It also destroys communities by turning people against each other in their desperation for food and forcing them to do shameful, humiliating or violent things to survive.”
It also destroys communities by turning people against each other in their desperation for food and forcing them to do shameful, humiliating or violent things to survive.”
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‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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the right-wing culture-warriors are still fighting their increasingly marginal and bizarre battles in the op-ed pages of the certain newspapers of course, but I confess that I didn't see this one coming 😱
April 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
the right-wing culture-warriors are still fighting their increasingly marginal and bizarre battles in the op-ed pages of the certain newspapers of course, but I confess that I didn't see this one coming 😱
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You should read the whole thing, but some of the worst snippets are here. Just clearly someone whose brain has been broken by elite discourse and no longer has a sense of things that don't exist on the front page of The Atlantic.
![You said some nice things about Secretary of State Marco Rubio. What has your reading been of him?
As a senator, he had a very strong track record on fighting antisemitism. I know there are many people, including Democrats in Florida, who appreciated his stance. What’s happening now is, I think, you know, I can’t judge, you know, but let me put it this way: I would hope that he would continue to maintain the strong stance he took while he was a senator.
You can judge him about, say, tweeting happily about people being sent to a horrific prison in El Salvador, right?
Look, there’s no reason . . . Look, when you take someone off the street who’s not supposed to be taken off the street, and you deport them, you make a mistake. I come from a tradition and a personal belief that when you make a mistake, you say, I made a mistake, and we’re gonna fix it. And that’s disturbing.
They may not care that they made a mistake. That’s the issue.
Off the record and not for quotation: [Goes off record.]
Is there a reason you don’t want to say that on the record?
Yeah, I don’t, because I’m still, you know . . . I don’t want to give people the chance. You know, there’s some people I know, including good friends of mine, who suffer from what the Republicans would call, what is it, “Trump Derangement Syndrome”? You know, anything he does is bad. Look, he moved the Embassy to Jerusalem. So I give him credit for that. I do give him credit for that. I’m not gonna say just because it’s the Trump Administration it’s bad.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpc7nm4rtcchhdq5sfxyrujl/bafkreihxrneustfzxgtik2fcy7ckstq76z6qsjxsoelvro2waxxp7er544@jpeg)
April 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
You should read the whole thing, but some of the worst snippets are here. Just clearly someone whose brain has been broken by elite discourse and no longer has a sense of things that don't exist on the front page of The Atlantic.
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"Hrt over the counter, and for free"
April 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"Hrt over the counter, and for free"
A two-part piece about the many women and girls variously pursued, groomed, and abused by J.D. Salinger
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/a-man-like-t...
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/a-man-like-t...
‘A man like that is only after one thing’: On the Experiences of Young Women and Girls with J.D.
This two-part blog post discusses the predatory and abusive experiences of many young women and girls in their differing relationships with…
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A two-part piece about the many women and girls variously pursued, groomed, and abused by J.D. Salinger
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/a-man-like-t...
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/a-man-like-t...
A blog post about one of my favourite fictional characters, Eugenia Tyrold in Frances Burney's 'Camilla'
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/your-own-dup...
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/your-own-dup...
‘Your own duplicity has instructed me to feel’: On Eugenia Tyrold in Frances Burney’s ‘Camilla’
This blog post discusses the brilliant and tragic character of Eugenia Tyrold in Frances Burney’s Camilla, focusing on — through the…
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A blog post about one of my favourite fictional characters, Eugenia Tyrold in Frances Burney's 'Camilla'
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/your-own-dup...
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/your-own-dup...
A little ramble about presentism
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thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/in-which-i-r...
In Which I Ramble About Presentism
This blog post discusses presentism as a form of historical analysis and rambles about some of the deeply problematic views held by those…
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January 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A little ramble about presentism
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/in-which-i-r...
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/in-which-i-r...
On Spain’s ‘Memory Wars’ and Franco’s Peculiar Legacy
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/on-spains-me...
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/on-spains-me...
On Spain’s ‘Memory Wars’ and Franco’s Peculiar Legacy
This blog post discusses the harrowing systematic extermination and repression of otherised groups throughout Spain’s civil war (1936–39)…
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January 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
On Spain’s ‘Memory Wars’ and Franco’s Peculiar Legacy
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/on-spains-me...
thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/on-spains-me...