Dr Jess Brough

Speculative psycholinguist.
Generative AI Killjoy 😤

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

All week, I've had students tell me they need to leave class intermittently to throw up. These kids are trying to kill me.

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

How can anyone who chooses to seek a life elsewhere ever feel genuinely settled?

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

My disgust of Shabana Mahmood is so palpable it's driven me to tweet for the first time in months. Claiming that international students exploit the UK's borders, driving immigrants with indefinite leave to remain to endless sleepless nights, and cosplaying as a Reform MP. WHY

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

The sole purpose of immigration reforms is to constantly remind immigrants that, regardless of their settled status, they are never truly welcome in their new country. Never safe. Labour's intended reforms are a fuck-you to every immigrant and every descendent of an immigrant.

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

Dream news. Something is changing

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

"I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician, I'm a plumber"

Hannah Spencer celebrates her win in Gorton and Denton as the Green Party claim their first ever Westminster by-election

Follow live reaction: https://t.co/rGW6BrqVCD

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

Sudden spike in traffic on the Fringe of Colour website - 100% bounce rates and under a minute duration on a page, unspecific USA and China locations, i.e., almost certainly AI scraping. How can website owners (especialy those in charge of writers' work!) protect their output??

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

Looking forward to chairing this event for @PTBOpoetry today (2pm GMT) - an online double bill with Arundhathi Subramaniam and Vidyan Ravinthiran. Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can
https://t.co/NIuk7ZYXwo

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

It is so hard to do anything independent and creative in the UK outside of the confines of capitalism. Maybe even impossible?

[Fringe of Colour @FringeofColour]

If you're struggling to decide what to see at this year's @edfringe have a look at the 285 shows (and counting) now listed on this year's Fringe of Colour Database - a comprehensive list of all the shows & events that centre Artists of Colour👇🏽
https://t.co/71sR7APcCo

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

The Slumflower blowing up again in 2025? Sure this can't go on

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

Israel & the US call themselves liberators but they are world destroyers

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead.

We must defend the right to protest.

Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

“In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now? I can only say that I admire and support Palestine Action wholeheartedly – and I will continue to, whether that becomes a terrorist offence or not.”
— Sally Rooney https://t.co/vj7bLlC2Qv

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

A huge shame

[African Stream @african_stream]

AFRICAN STREAM IS CLOSING DOWN

This is, sadly, a farewell to you, our loyal followers and supporters. Under relentless attack, we’ve made the painful decision to shut down African Stream—a platform that many of you’ve come to trust and love. This decision was not made lightly.

The smear by then–US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on September 13, 2024, labelling African Stream “Kremlin propagandists”—triggered a wave of censorship. Within days, YouTube, Meta, Google, and TikTok removed our accounts, and we were demonetised on X. These actions shattered our ability to survive financially. Personal accounts were restricted. What followed was a daily uphill battle. Now, we’re left with only one path: closure.

We are deeply grateful for your unwavering support. Your comments, your messages, your shares—you made us stronger, sharper, and more determined.

We are deeply proud of the work we’ve done since 2022: bringing attention to the most underreported and misrepresented continent. The imperalists want to perpetuate the dominant narrative that Africa is underdeveloped due to corruption and the mismanagement of resources. They want to remove colonialism, neo-colonialism and imperialism from the picture. We refused to play by those rules. For that, we paid the price. But it’s a price we would pay again and again.

Refusing to play by their rules led to NBC saying we spread ‘disinformation’ without providing a single example of what ‘disinformation’ we shared. Voice of America condemned us for reporting a fact: since the George W. Bush administration, every US president has authorised drone strikes on Somalia. As we responded to every smear piece, we just grew bigger and stronger until, finally, those in positions of power realised the smears weren’t working, and the rest is history.

We will cease posting as of July 1, 2025, except for a few remaining documentaries from Liberia and Mali.

With your support, we managed to ruffle many feathers. Please continue the fight and keep the Pan-African flag flying. Thank you for helping us build African Stream. As we always say: #WeAreAllAfricanStream.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq.

Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.

Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.

The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

[Matthew Black @NoirMJ]

Ah, the target is an Islamic centre, so it's not a bomb, its a *checks notes* - "viable device" 🤔

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

@franciscarockey put the movable plants in shady/dappled shaded spots and water them every morning before the sun hits or every evening after the sun goes down. Give plenty of water but make sure they have good drainage

[dom 💐🇮🇹🇦🇺 @rossivision]

ai could never recreate this

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

A weekend spent listening to the wonderful words and voices of Alexia Arthurs, Danez Smith, Kei Miller and Thabile Makue has made me so glad to be alive and writing. Thank you Calabash, what a blessing. Black queer writing always always

[Dr Jess Brough @Jessica_Brough]

Unsurprised that this wotless man wasn't satisfied with plunging my generation and younger into irreconcilable debt. Once you get a taste of being a bastard the flavour sticks, you must carry on destroying lives and everything worth living for! He can rot

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.