Reposted by Max DunbarKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ Russia is attacking us again. 1227594
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026‘One customer was baffled that the Amazon dossier asserted that they liked ‘brunettes with muscles.’ It also claimed someone kept a ‘seasonal rotation of decorative goose outfits’’ share.google/B0kzQ4yIUe51...share.google"Has No Friends": Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright InsultingCustomers are discovering the dossiers that Amazon is building on their shopping habits, and what they find is downright insulting. 000
Reposted by Max DunbarKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Thank you all for your support. This situation is heartbreaking for Ukrainians because every cent russia makes on diesel funds this war. Over here, that money isn't just an abstract concept, it causes devastating damage: more destroyed towns, a harder winter, and very real loss of life. 651149322
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026‘The West needs to offer something better: a system built on values, not just transactions. The authoritarian axis offers money and weapons with no questions asked; the West’s advantage is offering partnerships that actually improve governance and people’s lives.’ www.thenextmove.org/p/october-7-...thenextmove.orgOctober 7 Exposed an Authoritarian AxisBefore the Hamas attacks on Israel, Western policymakers refused to acknowledge a problem that ran from Gaza to Yemen through Iran, Russia, and China. 010
Reposted by Max DunbarAngelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 10/10/2026🤬🤬russian diesel is reportedly already on its way to the United States. OSINT analysts say a tanker carrying nearly 230,000 barrels left St. Petersburg on September 22. That means the deal may have been arranged weeks before Trump announced it publicly. 4221582
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Compare Howard Jacobson’s essay to this one, which I also read today. The ironic and the literal mind never so well illustrated bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/g...bylinetimes.comGaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide DenialMartin Shaw, who argued that Israel was beginning to commit genocide in October 2023, examines the tensions between recognition and denial as the Burnham Government tries to reset its Palestine policy... 000
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026‘’Genocide is the icing on the cake,’ an actor friend of mine told me recently. He had family members who had cheered on the Oct 7 massacre. They welcomed, at whatever cost to Palestinian life, what they knew would come next.’ www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...tabletmag.comThe Big Lie - Tablet MagazineHas there ever been a people more frequently or more preposterously lied about than the Jews? 110
Reposted by Max Dunbar🏳️⚧️ Siobhan @siobhansarelle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“Hello new people! Welcome to The Green Party! Come in, sit down in this lovely safe space for you all!” *opens big doors to the room and lets the SWP and various hardened nutters into the room* 211
Reposted by Max DunbarGill Tate @gillyhx.bsky.social · 12/10/2026After many years, I cancelled my membership of the Green Party a couple of months ago. I didn't vote for Zack, not because I disagreed with him, but because I feared that this would be the outcome of electing a populist leader. These entryists are destroying years of work by the Greens 😪 1123
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026‘You’ve got Gen Z Corbynistas, who joined the Labour party under Corbyn as idealistic leftwingers and have now moved to the Greens. But alongside them you’ve got the more hardcore Trotskyites, Marxists of all different varieties who generally are much older and whiter.’ share.google/l5mGe7JpFCbG...share.googleGreens face ‘existential threat’ as membership plummets a...Polls reveal support for the party has plunged after it was accused of endorsing an antisemitic policy and leader Zack Polanski lost the key Holborn and St Pancras byelection 430
Reposted by Max DunbarJack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hard to explain what the last three years have been like. The friends who celebrated atrocities (and were then outraged not to be invited to your wedding). The isolation and lack of empathy. The sudden acceptance that, you know, maybe Jews don't need to go to city centres on weekends? 19916
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Loving ADULTS, which is like the show Ava wanted to write at the end of Hacks (in a cool way) 000
Reposted by Max DunbarDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs 3548472
Reposted by Max DunbarJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted. 563914735
Reposted by Max Dunbarwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt 92382395
Reposted by Max DunbarKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A supermarket in the Kyiv region after a Russian attack today. Yes, a supermarket. Everything is a target for unhinged war criminals. 18522211
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026‘The racist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is a Zionist, but so are many of the Jewish and Israeli anti-occupation activists who volunteer to act as a ‘protective presence,’ putting their own bodies between settler extremists and Palestinian villagers in the West Bank.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan FreedlandThe resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland 000
Reposted by Max DunbarKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is Yelyzaveta Devdyuk. She was 26 years old. She had her best years ahead, but russia killed her in an overnight strike on a residential apartment building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district. 🕯💔 48830261
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A brilliant essay about history, memory, and accusation: www.elysiumsdaughter.com/p/six-drafts...elysiumsdaughter.comSix DraftsWriting About Ourselves After October 7 000
Reposted by Max DunbarIryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is what remains of someone’s home in Kharkiv after it was hit by one of three aerial bombs russia dropped on a residential area of the city. Two people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview 56840
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also if someone signs or handwrites something I like to say 'Beautiful penmanship. A lost art!' (Better Call Saul) 000
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also if I see quiche lorraine my goto is to shout: 'I barely knew her!' (Got this from the classic Frasier episode 'Roz and the Schnoz') 100
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Again it's referencing. One time at work I had to help a lorry driver move a long, unwieldy table through a building and into his lorry. I kept shouting 'PIVOT'. Reader, he did not laugh 100
Reposted by Max DunbarKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Debris from a Russian missile damaged a maternity hospital and a neighboring diagnostic center in Kyiv's Podilskyi district. No casualties occurred inside the hospital, but one person was killed in the parking lot outside. Across the capital, 2 people have been killed and 3 injured. 9305119
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Episode 4 of the current BLUE LIGHTS season is one of the best flashback episodes ever made. Rivals Better Call Saul's 'Five-O' 000
Reposted by Max DunbarAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An urn containing human ashes is displayed in Block 8 of the new main exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial. It is surrounded by empty frames that symbolize the victims of the camp whose faces we do not know, and whose identities may never be recovered. - Photo: www.instagram.com/inkeddem._ 232082
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is excellent from Diamond Dave. (I've been having the conversations he mentions on and off since 2004) theviewfromdiamondtowers.substack.com/p/on-small-b...theviewfromdiamondtowers.substack.comON SMALL BOAT DERANGEMENT SYNDROMEHow the right-wing ragebait economy erodes common human decency. 001
Reposted by Max DunbarWill Lawless @willlawless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Small Gods is a profound philosophical treatise masquerading as a right rollicking barrel of laughs. 011
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The extraordinary story of Kirill Nguyen, Belarussian protestor and Lady Gaga superfan pitchfork.com/story/how-th...pitchfork.comHow the Founder of Lady Gaga’s Biggest Fan Site Ended Up in PrisonGaga Daily’s Kirill Nguyen is free—and streaming Mayhem—after being detained for protesting the Belarusian government 000
Reposted by Max DunbarAngelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🤬 THIS IS HELL The Amstor shopping center in Zaporizhzhia is on fire after a russian attack, according to the regional authorities. 23811
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Vorbis got his in the afterlife, however. ‘Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? ‘Yes. Yes, of course.’ Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.’ 070
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For such an apparently light novelist Terry Pratchett gave us some horrors. Worst of all was Deacon Vorbis in Small Gods, who killed thousands to advance his own ambitions 2122
Reposted by Max DunbarIryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026After spending some time outside Ukraine,my parents found a disturbing way to describe what life back home feels like. It’s like being sentenced to death without knowing when—or whether—the sentence will be carried out. And somehow,you’re expected to build a life inside that uncertainty. #Ukraine 23514
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've added my two cents about AI here: maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/f...maxdunbar.wordpress.comFun with Generative AIThe New York Times has dropped a freelance critic, author Alex Preston, for using AI in a book review. It came after a New York Times reader flagged similarities between the paper’s January review … 000
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Also Stephen Pinker on AI doomerism is well worth reading (as is Enlightenment Now, Pinker's book from 2018) quillette.com/2026/09/26/a...quillette.comAn Open Letter to Scott AlexanderThe dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive. 100
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026'The appeal of this mindset to British politicians is obvious: if the world is ending, nobody needs to explain why Britain can't build a railway, house its young or raise wages; nobody needs to bother with the dull thankless drudgery of fixing it.' martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...martinrobbins.substack.comThe AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring NowElites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems. 100
Reposted by Max DunbarKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ Russian drones again. 1018662
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yesterday bluesky was saying Breaking Bad was glorified trash TV that could never match Wire/Sopranos. Now BB is elitist again 000
Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Almost like people have realised the state is not your friend and has too much power over us 000
Reposted by Max DunbarThe Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 20/09/2026🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: I do not know of a case in which terrorizing the civilian population produced the desired political effect. Usually, the effect is the opposite. Please note that because of Russia’s various acts of sabotage, we now have public support for a high defense budget. 15847246
Reposted by Max Dunbarwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026US photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) returned to the United States in 1929 after a time in Europe, and began a series on cityscapes which she called “the spirit of the metropolis" #Womensart 040069
Reposted by Max DunbarThe Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 19/09/2026🤬 Russian war criminals struck a crowded shopping mall in Dnipro with a drone in broad daylight on a weekend. 1015664
Reposted by Max DunbarAngelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Odesa💔 13510
