alim kheraj
@alimkheraj.bsky.social
a friend of britney’s at the lgbtq community.
Freelance Writer
Spearsologist
📖: QUEER LONDON out now.
🎤: Queer Spaces: Behind the Scene
he/him
Freelance Writer
Spearsologist
📖: QUEER LONDON out now.
🎤: Queer Spaces: Behind the Scene
he/him
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Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
This is v astute on the Swift and The Life of a Showgirl: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Taylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict | Laura Snapes
Sixteen months after Charli used Brat to air her anxieties about Swift, the US star’s graceless response is a missed opportunity for growth – and betrays her vengeful side
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is v astute on the Swift and The Life of a Showgirl: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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Sex Matters are trying to force the ponds to operate on a trans-exclusive basis, despite users of the ponds having voted against such an approach.
If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation.
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sex Matters are trying to force the ponds to operate on a trans-exclusive basis, despite users of the ponds having voted against such an approach.
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Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
Yuval Abraham reports.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
Yuval Abraham reports.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
www.972mag.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
Yuval Abraham reports.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
Yuval Abraham reports.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...
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Well done to all the workers who protested this. This is huge.
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Well done to all the workers who protested this. This is huge.
Wrote about 10 of the late Diane Martel's best – and most controversial – music videos for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
From Blurred Lines to Genie in a Bottle: the late director Diane Martel’s best music videos
Last week, the celebrated US music video director died of breast cancer aged 63. We chart her best – and most controversial – music videos
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Wrote about 10 of the late Diane Martel's best – and most controversial – music videos for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
something to live for? www.madonna.com/blogs/news/m...
MADONNA RETURNS TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
(September 18, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) Today, it was announced Madonna, the best-selling female artist of all time, has signed with Warner Records for her highly anticipated, upcoming new dance album....
www.madonna.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
something to live for? www.madonna.com/blogs/news/m...
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But arresting pensioners for protesting against a genocide is still fine
September 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
But arresting pensioners for protesting against a genocide is still fine
I read The Two Roberts while away on holiday and it was marvellous. A novel that felt alive!
"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot
Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?
tinyurl.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I read The Two Roberts while away on holiday and it was marvellous. A novel that felt alive!
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"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot
Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?
tinyurl.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
V interesting piece on eroticism and surveillance lux-magazine.com/article/priv...
Bringing Sexy Back
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
lux-magazine.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
V interesting piece on eroticism and surveillance lux-magazine.com/article/priv...
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Allowing ‘no Blacks’ and ‘no trans’ while banning ‘no zionists’ is insane
![Several users received an error message that says "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists," when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday.
I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, nd received the same error message. I was able to add "Zionist" to my profile (without "no"), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: "no Arabs," "no Blacks," "no Palestinians," "no Muslims," "no Christians," "no Jews," "no trans," "no Republicans," "no Democrats," and so on. "No Zionist[s]" was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreifxa65y63tbp3ywd2ptw7coae66emjr3tibqj7qkbpr5abyfaz66m@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Allowing ‘no Blacks’ and ‘no trans’ while banning ‘no zionists’ is insane
When does a flop era go on for so long that it starts becoming a flop life?
July 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
When does a flop era go on for so long that it starts becoming a flop life?
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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The entire trans moral panic in the UK is based on absurd hypotheticals, which provably don’t play out in reality
Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened.
youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...
youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...
The Gender Recognition Bill Becomes Law in Ireland
YouTube video by TransgenderEquality
youtu.be
July 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The entire trans moral panic in the UK is based on absurd hypotheticals, which provably don’t play out in reality
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Smaug dies though
Peter Thiel is founding yet another company named after something from Middle Earth.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
Peter Thiel joins tech billionaires backing new lender Erebor to rival Silicon Valley Bank
Start-up named after the dragon’s mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’
www.ft.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Smaug dies though
Interviewed Jeremy Atherton Lin about his new, brilliant book DEEP HOUSE (out in the US and UK tomorrow) for The Face. theface.com/culture/this...
This is the gayest love story ever told
In his new book, Deep House, Jeremy Atherton Lin chronicles the beauty and difficulty of his own long-term relationship against a backdrop of extensive,…
theface.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Interviewed Jeremy Atherton Lin about his new, brilliant book DEEP HOUSE (out in the US and UK tomorrow) for The Face. theface.com/culture/this...
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“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
This album is so so so special!
Potential album of the year dropped this morning: Jacob Alon’s beautiful, dreamy In Limerence.
We had a chat about it back in April… Here’s what happened.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We had a chat about it back in April… Here’s what happened.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jacob Alon: Free-spirited folk singer is one to watch
The singer's music has been called delicate and otherworldly. Get to know them before everyone else.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This album is so so so special!
to quote @cmatbaby.bsky.social: "I've been having a horrible time."
May 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
to quote @cmatbaby.bsky.social: "I've been having a horrible time."
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In the week that The Podcast Academy gave Steven Bartlett the International Governor’s Award for Diary of a CEO (citing how he “elevated podcasting as a medium for insight, vulnerability, and meaningful dialogue”) he released this episode about “reversing” stage 4 cancer through dietary change.
May 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
In the week that The Podcast Academy gave Steven Bartlett the International Governor’s Award for Diary of a CEO (citing how he “elevated podcasting as a medium for insight, vulnerability, and meaningful dialogue”) he released this episode about “reversing” stage 4 cancer through dietary change.
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Friends! There’s just ONE MONTH to go until my novel Determination comes out in paperback. I’d be ever so grateful if you supported it by pre-ordering and also spreading the word. It’s a Jhalak Prize-nominated novel, don’t you know!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dete...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dete...
Determination: Longlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize a book by Tawseef Khan.
'A compassionate, beautifully told portrait' Guy Gunaratne 'Absorbing, witty, eloquent fiction, as well as a trenchant political critique' Tom Benn'A hymn to empathy, alive with care and love' Rebecca...
uk.bookshop.org
May 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Friends! There’s just ONE MONTH to go until my novel Determination comes out in paperback. I’d be ever so grateful if you supported it by pre-ordering and also spreading the word. It’s a Jhalak Prize-nominated novel, don’t you know!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dete...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dete...
Earlier this year I became obsessed with fake designer bags and very soon it took over my life and my social media feeds. I’ve written about that for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...
Opinion | How I Got Duped by Designer Dupes
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Earlier this year I became obsessed with fake designer bags and very soon it took over my life and my social media feeds. I’ve written about that for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...
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For @lwlies.com I did something a little different and wrote a video essay about the wigs (and hairstyles) of Nicole Kidman across her very long career www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_D...
The wigs of Nicole Kidman
YouTube video by Little White Lies
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For @lwlies.com I did something a little different and wrote a video essay about the wigs (and hairstyles) of Nicole Kidman across her very long career www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_D...