I was complaining to my friend about how awful things feel and how hard it all is at the minute, and he said 'it's a period of deep moral injury for anyone with a thinking mind and a working heart,' and if that doesn't just hit the nail on the head I don't know what does.

the reaction to the pro-palestine protests on this website seem to be a pretty clear indication they're working and that people should be energized by that and kick it up a gear

This is wrong on every conceivable level, for every genre of music. For example, the bulk of rap music is about pain and grief. I even wrote a whole essay about it.

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Whenever a major human rights institution is cancelled this way, you know exactly why without knowing anything about the author or the article. It’s Palestine.

'A reader might well do as Angell did himself: come for the delicious ghost stories but stay for a complete takedown of the British Museum project.'

Oh man, I'm having too much fun 😂

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Was great to share the stage with Sarah Sparkes and Roger Luckhurst, Luckhurst's research on the 'Mummy curse' and Victorian popular Egyptology more generally informed a couple of chapters in my book. Also, he's hilarious! Big ups to LondonForteanSociety and Conway Hall

RIP Mister Cee. This might be the greatest mixtape of all time youtube.com/watch?v=KQjKSB…

1/The Fog of War: Beheaded Babies.
Six months ago today, a series of reputable news outlets published reports that Hamas militants had beheaded babies at the Kfar Aza kibbutz on Oct. 7 in southern Israel. The The Wall Street Journal was not one of them.

Oddly, I remember a piece, published by Jezebel, in 2015, that skillfully mapped the dynamics of backlash/offense/clickbait and women’s online writing—and the many paradoxes thereof. Didn’t answer any massive questions, but asked the right ones, well. It’s by Jia Tolentino lol

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Final word on this event!
Haunted London: Ghosts of the British Museum & Senate House. Tomorrow 10 April 2024 6.30 pm doors

Conway Hall w Noah Angell Roger Luckhurst & Sarah Sparkes

Feel free to compare this to white South African discourse in the 1980s

How do these people think liberalism was born lmao

Cobalt is mainly mined in Katanga. There is no cobalt mined in North or South Kivu, nor in Ituri, where most of the conflicts are. Coltan, yes. Gold yes. But even then, it's not only minerals which can explain the decades of conflicts.

This is hilarious because all colonial English speakers use these words every day. 😂 You people need to attend an NGO meeting in Africa. This is all the language 😂😭😭

This supremacist colonial attitude from an influential figure does not serve Israel well. Ultimately no country is an island and one cannot survive forever treating all ones neighbors as untermensch — this is partly the reason so much hostility is engendered in the first place.