josie sparrow

dormant. mostly done with social media - but any new stuff will likely be shared on bluesky, possibly on insta.

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@karimfranceschi i don't disagree—which is why i wanted to highlight unite's contradictory approach regarding ukraine.

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

NEW WRITING.
it's been a long time since i published anything, bc these words what can they do, but here is a thing that demanded to be written. it is not beautiful; it is angry. but here it is. 🇵🇸🍉🍉🍉

https://t.co/vOTqEWgTSm

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@nanayasleeps @NewSocialistNS thank you so much! (this was also my state throughout writing it... and, you know, for the last 13 fuckin months)

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@fieldinghope solidarity pal, these are truly rancid people (do not under any circs check out the rest of Professor Ian's timeline, unless you want to see some of the most stinking opinions in the world)

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@fieldinghope OTO pure rusing the proles by painting mismatched furniture on a wall like wile e coyote

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Arbeit_Fish me at kings x today with the olympics people handing out tiny little butchers' aprons for people to wave

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Tom_Gann i struggle to understand how people can't get their heads around this when they're clearly capable of getting their heads around the contradictory nature of freedom under capital re. employment. same fuckin process, but these dudes (always dudes) love 2 naturalise caring work.

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Tom_Gann "love & families" well that's a slippage.

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Tom_Gann i know i'm not one of the bulging wizard brains of the NLR like, but imagine being this pickled in pol sci that you've become completely sneeringly nihilistic about the possibility of politics as practice, activity, relation—something that takes place in a fucking shared world.

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Tom_Gann interesting the way that the actual demands of palestinians in gaza (which we can access in abundance via. their broadcasts on instagram, & which repeat over & again the desire to be remembered & centred in imperial core politics) completely disappear. people as rhetorical tool.

[Last year's thing @humbleetc]

I can't think of a better encapsulation of the incoming government that they aren't planning to undo this cynical piece of vote suppression, but to add armed forces cards to the list of IDs you can use.

[jude @frogcultguy]

the SWP's #marxism24 is starting tomorrow at UCL. as always, they'll be using it as a 4-day opportunity to lie to and recruit young activists.

i've redesigned their posters to debunk some of those lies - please feel free to share or distribute anywhere it could be relevant. 1/7

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Tom_Gann "looks photoshopped" - someone who definitely knows how the adobe suite works. also imagine thinking that a party headed up by people who want to constrain reproductive freedom is "an option".

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

fuckin THIS. we might also want to look at who they're publishing, and ask ourselves some questions about who's thought to possess the capacity for artistic production, and how that effects the reproduction of ruling class dominance in the lit world.

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Tom_Gann honestly do these wankers not remember the feeling of being a kid and constantly being patronised to by adults who can't imagine children having interior lives

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

anyway hope we're all ready to draw a massive palestine flag on the ballot paper on thursday*

* certain constituencies (e.g. islington north (vote JC), poplar & limehouse (vote apsana)) excepted

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

still alive btw, just got approx 0 words in the face of 9 months of intensifying horror & it was all pissing me off a bit. also apparently have been off here so long that (according to a pop-up) "X dot com" wants to "confirm that i am human" before "showing my posts to others".

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@TarnishedBane plot twist starmer pissed in the lift

[Tom Gann @Tom_Gann]

Various images of Gaza that I will never get out of my head. Or rather these will be what I remember when I don’t vote.

[josie sparrow @ofthesparrows]

@Tom_Gann brb rebranding the logo