Nii Ayikwei Parkes
@niiayikwei.bsky.social
Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo https://t.co/V3GydO5tbs
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Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the noise. n.pr/47Rs40o
There's a new generation of folk protest singers on TikTok
Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the noise.
n.pr
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the noise. n.pr/47Rs40o
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“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back”
Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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‘That Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back
Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
zeteo.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back”
Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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The absolute devastation of these last lines:
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The absolute devastation of these last lines:
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
21st Century Privilege Riddle: people who keep saying they were/are cancelled but still have 1000x more exposure/media than 1000 people 1000x more productive and talented than they are...
a man in a suit says oh god it 's pathetic ..
ALT: a man in a suit says oh god it 's pathetic ..
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
21st Century Privilege Riddle: people who keep saying they were/are cancelled but still have 1000x more exposure/media than 1000 people 1000x more productive and talented than they are...
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Religion, money, regional divisions, and volatile politics have produced a combustible situation in Nigeria—one that could turn into a roaring fire if the U.S. chooses to intervene, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún writes.
Why Is Trump Suddenly Talking About Invading Nigeria?
A U.S. military intervention would be a disaster in an already divided country.
foreignpolicy.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Religion, money, regional divisions, and volatile politics have produced a combustible situation in Nigeria—one that could turn into a roaring fire if the U.S. chooses to intervene, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún writes.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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In November, states, experts, journalists, climate activists, and representatives will gather in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the 30th annual United Nations climate change conference.
Here are three things to know about Brazil, COP30 host ⤵️
Here are three things to know about Brazil, COP30 host ⤵️
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In November, states, experts, journalists, climate activists, and representatives will gather in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the 30th annual United Nations climate change conference.
Here are three things to know about Brazil, COP30 host ⤵️
Here are three things to know about Brazil, COP30 host ⤵️
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yes- it's not back on the trains, but you can listen on our website poemsontheunderground.org/this-months-...
This Month’s Poems
Days of November 2009 read by Sheenagh Pugh This month we feature our new Autumn Poems on the Underground which will be on London Underground and Overground trains through November. To mark Armisti…
poemsontheunderground.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
yes- it's not back on the trains, but you can listen on our website poemsontheunderground.org/this-months-...
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I've never done this on social media before but...
...my brilliant assistant is moving on to pastures new after three years. I am looking for someone to help me out. They need to be able to *get to North London easily, regularly*, energetic (it's often a dashing-around/carrying stuff job)...
...my brilliant assistant is moving on to pastures new after three years. I am looking for someone to help me out. They need to be able to *get to North London easily, regularly*, energetic (it's often a dashing-around/carrying stuff job)...
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I've never done this on social media before but...
...my brilliant assistant is moving on to pastures new after three years. I am looking for someone to help me out. They need to be able to *get to North London easily, regularly*, energetic (it's often a dashing-around/carrying stuff job)...
...my brilliant assistant is moving on to pastures new after three years. I am looking for someone to help me out. They need to be able to *get to North London easily, regularly*, energetic (it's often a dashing-around/carrying stuff job)...
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The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways. n.pr/47B4pRT
Cars are essential in most of the U.S. They're also increasingly unaffordable
The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways.
n.pr
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways. n.pr/47B4pRT
"people... showing each other their roots"; I see what you did there!!
I've seen so much of this place. I'm like Rutger Hauer at the end of Blade Runner 😂 it is by no means perfect and I have had my own share of horrid experiences. But weirdos want to pretend we're not the majority in this country. Two people on a train, showing each other their roots lol. But we are
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"people... showing each other their roots"; I see what you did there!!
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"Even as the hunger and fear of living under siege and bombardment made him desperate to leave, Douda remained inside El Fasher, constantly working to let the outside world know what was happening to the people there."
He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’
For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are ...
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"Even as the hunger and fear of living under siege and bombardment made him desperate to leave, Douda remained inside El Fasher, constantly working to let the outside world know what was happening to the people there."
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Look out for 'Barter' by Nii Ayikwei Parks from The Makings of You on your November commutes 👀
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/making...
@niiayikwei.bsky.social @poemsonthetube.bsky.social
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/making...
@niiayikwei.bsky.social @poemsonthetube.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Look out for 'Barter' by Nii Ayikwei Parks from The Makings of You on your November commutes 👀
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/making...
@niiayikwei.bsky.social @poemsonthetube.bsky.social
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/making...
@niiayikwei.bsky.social @poemsonthetube.bsky.social
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The spineless way this govt lets Musk get away with his white supremacist lies it's breathtaking. They should be ashamed someone is running around broadcasting this shit to a fan base of fanatical incels and bigots with no consequences at all. Pathetic.
November 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The spineless way this govt lets Musk get away with his white supremacist lies it's breathtaking. They should be ashamed someone is running around broadcasting this shit to a fan base of fanatical incels and bigots with no consequences at all. Pathetic.
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History's Most Epic Fails is @booktrust.org.uk book of the day. Big up non fiction November. Scorpion season fully in session.
Proper stoked
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
Proper stoked
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
November 2025 = @booktrust
See Instagram 'November 2025' highlights from BookTrust (@booktrust)
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November 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
History's Most Epic Fails is @booktrust.org.uk book of the day. Big up non fiction November. Scorpion season fully in session.
Proper stoked
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
Proper stoked
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
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This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
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And when the suspect is white what do we see? Pure empathy and excuses. remember how we were supposed to like that drugged up guy who drove into a crowd because he lived in a semi detached like Hyacinthe Bucket? The press embarrass us all. And betray the victims. It's a travesty
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
And when the suspect is white what do we see? Pure empathy and excuses. remember how we were supposed to like that drugged up guy who drove into a crowd because he lived in a semi detached like Hyacinthe Bucket? The press embarrass us all. And betray the victims. It's a travesty
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Revealing the ethnic background of suspects (when they are not white of course) does not pacify the far right. It's the equivalent of giving a two year old 5 hours of screen time and a diet coke. It sends them completely feral. But they knew that already
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Revealing the ethnic background of suspects (when they are not white of course) does not pacify the far right. It's the equivalent of giving a two year old 5 hours of screen time and a diet coke. It sends them completely feral. But they knew that already
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"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
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Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe on.ft.com/4qKngmk
Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe
EU grant applications hit record in 2025 amid surge in interest from American academics
on.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe on.ft.com/4qKngmk
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Envoy says Sudan will not take part in talks to end the conflict if the UAE is involved in negotiations.
Sudan slams RSF ‘war crimes’ in el-Fasher as survivors recount killings
Envoy says Sudan will not take part in talks to end the conflict if the UAE is involved in negotiations.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Envoy says Sudan will not take part in talks to end the conflict if the UAE is involved in negotiations.
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If you’re looking for a practical way to support survivors of the RSF massacre in El Fasher, Darfur please consider donating to this mutual aid campaign. The humanitarian response in Sudan has been a victim of the massive cuts in international aid over the last 5 years and mutual aid is critical.
This group has been supporting a soup kitchen in El Fasher. Most of their volunteers were killed by the RSF. Survivors are now at a camp for the displaced in Tawila and seeking assistance to restart their soup kitchens.
www.paypal.com/donate/
www.paypal.com/donate/
Donate to Displacement & Health Relief Network
Help support Displacement & Health Relief Network by donating or sharing with your friends.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If you’re looking for a practical way to support survivors of the RSF massacre in El Fasher, Darfur please consider donating to this mutual aid campaign. The humanitarian response in Sudan has been a victim of the massive cuts in international aid over the last 5 years and mutual aid is critical.
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This year has been grim for professional arts criticism. @skornhaber.bsky.social reports on the fans, stans, and influencers who are filling the gap:
The Future of Professional Criticism Looks Something Like This
Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This year has been grim for professional arts criticism. @skornhaber.bsky.social reports on the fans, stans, and influencers who are filling the gap: