Nicol Wistreich

Simple idea:

Platforms with algorithmic timelines -a new category of legal entity perhaps- whose algorithms amplify rather than minimise misogynistic (and other hate) content should lose the right to operate in the UK until they fix it.

It’s technically feasible, and legally and morally necessary. Why should the education system, not to mention these women teachers’ and kids’ future chance of happy relationships and lives be seen as a legitimate externality of these companies’ business models?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/04/masculinity-crisis-brewing-uk-schools-teachers-union

If anyone's struggling with the video embeds on the WordPress site (I am on my phone), there's direct links for both the videos on #PeerTube. If that goes down (and I’ve no reason to think it should) I have got Vimeo links - but 🤞

• Mike Little, Part 1: co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar): https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz
• Mike Little, Part 2: his life in code: https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf

What the actual? Turns out #Farage didn't want to stand for election as MP in 2024, and changed his mind after being given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Which he didn't disclose..https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024

This is a terrible idea that would likely backfire more than Palestine Action proscription.

Yes the silence from people who are normally vocal about anti-racism over recent attacks on Jews in the UK is deafening. Yes this only helps the far right and Kahanists in Israel to claim ‘look no-where is safe for you, no-one cares, come here and fight for a safe home’. But banning marches against the actions of a country that’s killing journalists, rescue worker and medics, starving kids, flattening homes and literally punching nuns will only make things much worse.

At the same time it would be good to see those march organisers redouble efforts to say antisemitism isn’t welcome, which a phrase like ‘globalise the intifada’ kinda invites. These should be marches all UK Jews feel safe to attend, and no not the Neturei Karta who only oppose Israel because the Messiah isn’t here yet and it’s too liberal (tbh plenty of UK diaspora do attend them, but many feel scared).

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/keir-starmer-calls-for-ban-on-some-pro-palestian-protests-british-jews

RE: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

“people who see a severe degradation in the quality of the services they rely on switch their political affiliation to one of Britain's fascist parties – UKIP, the Brexit Party, or Reform – parties that have called for ethnic cleansing in Britain.

“This is what has me scared. We can see the looming economic crises in our near future. If it's not the AI crash that triggers the next wave of austerity, it'll be the oil crisis created by Trump's bungling in the Strait of Epstein. And of course, we could always get a twofer, because the Gulf States that were pouring hundreds of billions into AI data-centers now need every cent to rebuild the LNG shipping terminals and oil refineries…”

Eran Hahn –who runs a helpline for male sexual abuse survivors– on one of the last taboos:

“One of every three women and one of every five men undergo sexual abuse during their lifetime. That's a lot.
—“We know that up to age 12, boys and girls are affected at equal rates.”
“That's correct. Sexual abuse of men is very widespread, but the subject isn't talked about. It's silenced…

“The fight or flight, or freeze, response is not gender-dependent. It happens to everyone – men and women. But for us, as men, it's intolerable to think that we couldn't rely on ourselves, because all our lives we're told that we can be relied on…

“Studies show that most men harbor the secret of sexual abuse for around 20 years…”

“We can talk about toxic masculinity, about Jeffrey Epstein, about all the places in which in which men exploit their strength and their status. But a social discourse about vulnerability? That's a no. Never mind sexual trauma.”

https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/2026-03-18/ty-article-magazine/how-freed-hostages-sex-assault-accounts-led-other-male-survivors-to-speak-out/0000019c-fcda-df92-a9df-fddad1160000

“Everyone I met was part of one huge group: people working themselves to the bone who were getting screwed by billionaires and corporations—regardless of party or state or race or ethnicity. Regardless, even, of whether they are workers or the owners of farms or small businesses.
Populism is not an indictment, but an opportunity.”
Compelling long read via: @j12t@j12t.social
@j12t@j12t.social

"Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old schoolboy, have been killed in the occupied West Bank after Israeli settlers opened fire near a school amid mounting assaults on education in the territory…

"The head of the local council told Reuters that Israeli settlers had entered the village and opened fire near a school – first at students, and later at others who arrived at the scene…

"Footage from the scene seen by the Guardian shows a settler in military fatigues, whom activists identified as someone known for previous attacks on the village."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/palestinian-boy-14-among-two-killed-in-settler-attack-west-bank-school