NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

What is anyone's voice worth if they won't speak out against genocide? There is nothing in culture that is untouched by the genocide and mass starvation being perpetrated against the Palestinians by the Israeli state. There is no inappropriate position from which to condemn it.

Wonderful event on Lived Experience Writing and the Medical Humanities at Birkbeck UoL - great to hear from Rosie Dastgir, Daisy Lafarge and Kirstie Millar and to run a workshop on ‘Writing the Body Through Art’! #medhums #academicsky

Very pleased to be chairing this panel at Birkbeck, London, with the wonderful Daisy Lafarge & ‪‪Kirstie Millar,‬ organised by Rosie Dastgir & followed by a creative workshop.
Tuesday 17th June, 2-5:30, free and open to all, book here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
#ukpoets #medhums #academicsky

thinking about transitioning careers from administrative work to some kind of fog or mist that hangs over the fens

you should be eating root vegetables you can’t really comprehend

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

Great news for people who hate books.

Who else is looking forward to the next season of our discontent coming out

My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?

Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord

“I loved those poems that seemed so small on the page but that swelled in the mind.” RIP Louise Glück. When she won the Nobel Prize back in 2020 I was lucky enough to write about her poetry for @theindependent.bsky.social. Her words will live on.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/louis...

Everyone likes post apocalyptic fiction because you don’t have to go to work anymore

Awake at 3am Googling “at what age do kittens start to behave”