Can’t watch #Olympic2024 #Gymnastics without being reminded of this bit of genius.

New Trumpton fire brigade just dropped.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time * August 2, 1924

We need BBC News (UK), Sky News and ITV News to stop calling violent, organised, extremist rioters 'protestors'. Stop legitimising hate crime. RT if you agree.

Word of the day is to ‘constult’ (17th century): to act stupidly together.

Victoria Park, London, 1978. 100,000 Skins, Punks, Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Mixed , English, Irish, Hindus, Sikhs, Scots, Welsh, Working Class, Middle Class, trade unionists, unified against racists and fascists. Gen Z, it's your turn.

Was absolutely thinking this today. We did it then and we can do it again

What we're seeing on our streets is fascism, and naming it is the first step to defeating it. These are not protests but white supremacist riots. They are attacking communities, targeting muslim citizens and asylum seekers and, like all fascists, holding the law in contempt. 1/

"What we are witnessing on our streets is fascist violence fuelled by racism and Islamophobia. Only by naming it and understanding clearly what it is can we work to defeat it." Sian Berry on the ongoing violent disorder at the hands of the far-right.

A statement from Tara Theatre

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers." They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech

Anyone wanna have a go at justifying how participating in a race riot gets you two months but *planning* a *peaceful* climate protest gets you five years? Anyone at all?

I used to think I was rational. Then I read Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning work on human decision-making. He routinely asks 8 questions to expose cognitive traps you fall into daily. Test yourself with these questions (it's the ultimate BS detector for your brain):

Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin. [Polite comments only, please.]

We are shlapping nachas!!! A DOUBLE mitzvah! A ★★★★ review from The Scotsman, and we made it onto Popcorn Writer’s Award shortlist. It’s all in a day’s work The Scotsman Popcorn Group #EdFringe24 #UnleashYourFringe

"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!" Love this woman - interviewed by Novara Media in Barnsley today ❤️

Sposed to be plugging & selling #Remythed Assembly Festival & not something that starts 15 mins after we finish so maybe I shouldn't...but REVENGE: After The Levoyah nick cassenbaum Summerhall is brilliant. Everything I wanted it to be & more. Go or be condemned as a fakakte shmuck forever

Wonderful first Press Night as a Board member last night. Suffolk folk, I’d urge you to go down to this extraordinary jewel of a Georgian Theatre. This lovely family show is a great introduction if you’ve never been. If you have been, you know what a special place it is.

How we're feeling about the first week of Dorothy, Back In Oz! 🤩 Pictured: Saf🪐 playing Billina 🐣 in this beautiful costume designed by Morgan Brind and created by Rebecca Rawlinson. 16-31 Aug: bit.ly/3IV5bNG Dorothy, Back In Oz is supported by Bury St Edmunds Town Council.