Black Tudors - Miranda Kaufmann

A new, transformative history – in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free

‘This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth.’ David Olusoga, author of Black and British: A Forgotten History

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England…

#BlackHistory #BritishHistory #History #histodons

https://www.mirandakaufmann.com/black-tudors.html

For those of you abstracting the bombing of Tehran right now, I want you to read this from my beloved friend Elnaz.

I thought about whether to make this public or not. Because it is an intimate communication. But I cannot stand the way the world abstracts the horror of this violence… these murderous bastards in their castles. Damn them all to hell.

…

Here’s the thing: fuck the ayatollah and his mullahs and fuck Hamas (neither of those bastards would hesitate to put a bullet in the head of an atheist apostate like me) but that doesn’t mean you attack the people of Iran (most of whom oppose the regime) or Palestine (who also suffer under the yoke of Hamas – an organisation that, furthermore, was funded and supported by Netanyahu’s regime to sabotage the peace process).

If you cannot separate authoritarian regimes from the people being oppressed by them, and if you condone the indiscriminate slaughter of the latter, then don’t be surprised when the same rules end up applying to you… given the way things are going in the United States, for example.

We have rules of combat and international law for a reason. It’s not because we’re morally superior; far from it. It’s because we don’t want that same shit done to us. That’s a dangerous thing to forget.

A restaurant's homepage exclusively on Facebook?

I will not open an account with Meta to see it.

Your loss.

No, let’s not “teach students good plagiarism machine habits”, for fucksake. The “AI” grift doesn’t need to move the window until we give up and encourage it in to ravage our schools. The “AI” grift needs its bubble popped and to be rooted out like the plague it is.

Fascist American immigration police, in action: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

Someone's gonna commit First Degree Glitter with Intent to Sparkle. via @halfwaypost.bsky.social #USpol #ice #glitter

My last day of work at the World Trade Center was Sept 10, 2001. I worked late, so I was going to go in late the next day. I never made it in (the planes hit in the morning). I was at 5 WTC, a 9 story building between the towers, all my coworkers evacuated

What I remember most were the missing person posters, especially plastered all over Grand Central Terminal

Now we experience it again with #ICE under #Trump

Powered by the same stupid hate and fear that powered 9/11

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-missing-posters-ice

"ICE Officers are courageous heroes," Karoline Leavitt

So take off their masks, and we give them medals then.

SpaceX - it’s not rocket science

“So, Elon, remind us what you’ve been doing to the US Government?”

https://www.theverge.com/news/689901/spacex-starship-explosion-static-fire-test

@autocade you could try reaching out to the archives and archivist at the GM Research Center in Detroit… If I recall correctly they are in Warren, MI

@marisa I'm having flashbacks to Spring, 1970... and Germany, 1934.

@brianb basically, if you don’t have a website, we don’t communicate or do business. Period.

Fabulousness from Rose Ann Prevec. ;)

Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?

We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon “I-play-God” Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.

I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.

We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.

Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest/

“AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today”

https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/

Prepare to bid farewell to The Sandman with S2 trailer
"Everyone loves a good story. But all stories come to an end."
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/06/prepare-to-bid-farewell-to-the-sandman-with-s2-trailer/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Budapest Mayor to Stage Pride Parade Over Orban’s Opposition

Budapest’s mayor said the Hungarian capital would organize this year’s Pride parade under its own auspices to shield it from attempts by national authorities to ban the LGBTQ event.

(https://archive.ph/zPJam)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/budapest-mayor-to-stage-pride-parade-over-orban-s-opposition