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So, I um, appear to have been quoted in the Lady Gaga interview in the latest issue of Vogue... 🤯

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

@video_essay I've sent you and email.

@LesserFeat That'd be greatly appreciated, thank you! Currently working on things where the video's ideas might come into good use.

A trailer for a 1.5 hour video essay I've worked on for 3+ years with James Zborowski, coming soon in InTransition. Making this video has been one of the most challenging & exciting things I’ve done in my career. It reflects on the challenges of doing videographic criticism.

Thanks for the interest @leorobsonwriter - I'd gladly send you a link to view it in advance if you'd like?

@video_essay Thanks, David! Will gladly send you an advance viewing link if you'd like.

@LesserFeat Looks intruiging, looking forward to the publication (and all surrounding texts)! Good things take time (to produce and watch and engage with).

@ContraPoints Have long adored your work, so it genuinely pains me how much your evaluation of left politics as a whole now seems determined almost entirely by how a host of particularly online leftists conduct themselves on twitter. I can understand how it happened, but it remains saddening.

trying to find that passage in Marx where he says centrists having a mental health crisis are the class with the most revolutionary potential

At what point does researching for a project become procrastinating starting it? Four years...? Five? Asking for a friend.

Really bugs me how I see people worried that being nice will compromise their judgment (no “sugarcoating”) but never worried that the pleasure of being brutal motivates or warps their judgment. I’m just supposed to assume it’s a disincentive to be mean when they seem to love it.

@OfSymbols Average LFI behaviour.

Labour councillor moment.

As a parent what would you do if you couldn’t feed your children? Watching them starve, crying for food, as your own empty stomach gnaws at you. HELP: chuffed.org/project/113222…. Children in Gaza are still malnourished, still starving, a famine still underway. Aid trucks are still just trickling in, no where near as many as necessary to feed a besieged population. The Sameer Project team visited Preparatory School C in Deir al-Balah area to deliver meals to the entire school that was transformed into a family shelter. We distributed 500 spiced rice meals with vegetables, each one costing a little less than $6. The entire sheltered distribution on September 21 cost $3,199. Every donation, any amount, has an impact. For just $6 you can help a parent feed their children, fending off starvation for another day. Donate to the South Campaign to give food. Other ways to donate include: paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid") account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")

@malonebarry Has the protester been named/interviewed yet? Because the whole episode seemed canned almost to the point of rehearsed. Not saying it was staged, but I feel like it wouldn't have looked much different had it been.

The cheering and clapping after a such an arrogant dismissal of someone protesting a genocide is absolutely unconscionable.

I like how he says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has somehow become an obvious fact, without anyone having been wrong about it at any point

I am shocked - shocked! - to discover the entire “exodus” story was nothing more than lobbying on behalf of the mega-rich. Wealth tax now!

@Michael_J_Glass @rivkahbrown I guess "commonplace" is ambiguous - and doesn't suggest all such communities. But I do respect your perspective. Only jumped in because I wanted to vouch for Rivkah as a journalist I'd never suspect of lying about something like this.

At my Jewish primary school & cheder, we were taught not only that Arab lives were worth less than Jewish ones, but that "Palestinians" didn't exist. Anyone who denies this is commonplace within Jewish communities is lying. Watch the film 'Israelism'.

@LeftieStats @Moreincommon_ I'm being dumb: how is the 'unsure' bigger in the overall average than in any of the individual categories of voters?

📊 Which side do you sympathise with more? 🇵🇸 Palestine – 26% 🇮🇱 Israel – 16% 52% of Green voters side with Palestine (vs 3% Israel), making them the most pro-Palestinian voting bloc. (Source: @Moreincommon_, 14 Mar - 4 Apr)

if you're a bookshop/university/festival/whatever & would like to invite me to speak/read/be on a panel about my book, please get in touch...