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Grandfather. Jack Russell Terrier survivor. Senior lecturer in the [REDACTED] at the University of [REDACTED].

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If you love Palestine and Gaza, please sign here – we’d truly appreciate it! ❤️🇵🇸✍️

25.05.2025 04:23 👍 37 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0

Fetterman is no worse and no better on the #Gazagenocide than thousands of other western politicians and media leaders. If only they could all undergo the same long, humiliating decline as him.

03.05.2025 10:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is like a Cindy Sherman joint

02.05.2025 22:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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They’re both 100% behind an ongoing genocide

02.05.2025 21:56 👍 59 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
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It's interesting that Reform's councillor gains almost exactly equal Tory losses, and LibDem and Green gains almost exactly equal Labour losses.

02.05.2025 17:58 👍 389 🔁 132 💬 27 📌 9

UPDATE from the attacked Gaza aid ship:
They're trying to enter Maltese territory because of damage to the ship, and fears of a possible second attack.

The Maltese Coast Guard is allegedly blocking them.

"I am just following orders from higher authorities," an officer is heard over the radio.

02.05.2025 18:31 👍 589 🔁 378 💬 14 📌 34

@laboursatvir.bsky.social Here's another example of the hatred and distress being unleashed against trans people. Please act with compassion and get your government to change direction urgently before it does more harm.

02.05.2025 13:56 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Private social media message reading: "So far this week, one day my child got harassed and humiliated in school changing rooms. Another day her English lesson covered the debate over trans rights where she listened to ignorant class mates outline how trans women can make women uncomfortable, and came home asking whether they have a point and whether her existence actually is a big problem (she hadn't heard that transphobic argument before). She didn't feel able to speak at all in that debate lesson. She came home in tears both days. What a spectacularly shit country we have."

Private social media message reading: "So far this week, one day my child got harassed and humiliated in school changing rooms. Another day her English lesson covered the debate over trans rights where she listened to ignorant class mates outline how trans women can make women uncomfortable, and came home asking whether they have a point and whether her existence actually is a big problem (she hadn't heard that transphobic argument before). She didn't feel able to speak at all in that debate lesson. She came home in tears both days. What a spectacularly shit country we have."

Message in my inbox on trying to be a good and loving parent in this hostile world @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social have created.

02.05.2025 13:14 👍 885 🔁 192 💬 30 📌 32
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The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.

Cisness brutalizes us all. The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation, and we fight them best by refusing to debate the fairness, let alone the accuracy, of their borders in the first place. thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-trans-ruling-analysis-uk/

23.04.2025 14:16 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

12.04.2025 08:52 👍 378 🔁 488 💬 2 📌 10
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Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life | Good Law Project Too many professors are pursuing their students and causing untold harm, says Anna Bull.

See Anna Bull's blog post for the Good Law Project. Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life.

goodlawproject.org/sexual-misco...

24.03.2025 17:24 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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03.04.2025 16:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m off to announce wide-ranging tariffs. Anybody want anything?

02.04.2025 18:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thought for the day.
Fascism Arrives as Your Friend - Michael Rosen.

27.03.2025 12:42 👍 43 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Accounts from
Gaza
Bluesky Information
(This information is from the Bluesky community, not Bluesky the company)
ALT
حسابات من غزة
معلومات بلوسكاي لا
(هذه المعلومات مقدمة من مجتمع بلوسكاي، وليس من شركة بلوسكاي)
ALT
This guide is helpful
I watched it and followed the instructions. I will try as much as possible to reduce the comments. It seems that there is a fierce campaign against Palestinian accounts.
Yes unfortunately there is
I will be very careful in the coming days. I will develop a plan to keep my account safe without being closed.
That is a good idea friend
Now

Accounts from Gaza Bluesky Information (This information is from the Bluesky community, not Bluesky the company) ALT حسابات من غزة معلومات بلوسكاي لا (هذه المعلومات مقدمة من مجتمع بلوسكاي، وليس من شركة بلوسكاي) ALT This guide is helpful I watched it and followed the instructions. I will try as much as possible to reduce the comments. It seems that there is a fierce campaign against Palestinian accounts. Yes unfortunately there is I will be very careful in the coming days. I will develop a plan to keep my account safe without being closed. That is a good idea friend Now

Okay this sort of infuriates me- I am an individual person and I paid to have a guide translated into Arabic so that Gazans can navigate this site better which as you can see they WANT TO DO. But there’s no Arabic information anywhere on this website which is run by a company.

27.03.2025 20:40 👍 85 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0

This is a good read on why AI generated art is so beloved by fascists

newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

27.03.2025 20:37 👍 686 🔁 258 💬 10 📌 9

A reminder that if you’re hoping for a big family, it’s not too late to name the kids from the NATO phonetic alphabet. Charlie, Delta, Echo, India, Juliet, Lima, Mike, Oscar, Papa, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Victor, X-ray, Zulu.

27.03.2025 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘The Big Short’ investor who predicted the 2008 crash warns the market is 'underestimating’ the economic impact of DOGE’s mass firings The cost-cutting spree isn’t limited to government—billions in private-business contracts are affected, Danny Moses told Fortune.

Turns out that consumer economies implode when people lose their jobs on a mass scale and can't spend money. Who knew?

22.03.2025 19:32 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve tried watching #Severance but it’s too depressing watching a show about work. Change my mind

22.03.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Palestinian films

Professor Kawar, thank you for putting this amazing list together. I hope you don’t mind, but I have put all your posts together and put it online. If you would prefer me to take it down, of course I will. Otherwise I hope you don’t mind if I share it widely. http://simp.ly/publish/bk8c4P

21.03.2025 18:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In light of the current events in Israel-Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films available online for free. (see thread below)

20.03.2025 00:50 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 9 📌 0
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look at the date on this. as Tracey Emin said, we are stuck! stuck! stuck! our attention economy is absolutely stagnant, it's a bad open mic night, dominated by a crew of morons who will not leave the stage and cannot get new material.

20.03.2025 20:09 👍 41 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Global EV market faces major shakeup as Tesla recedes, BYD ascends

Global EV market faces major shakeup as Tesla recedes, BYD ascends

A chart labeled "BYD and Tesla stock price performance, year-to-date" shows BYD rising 57% and Tesla dropping -39%

A chart labeled "BYD and Tesla stock price performance, year-to-date" shows BYD rising 57% and Tesla dropping -39%

Chinese EV company BYD’s recent announcement of new fast charging tech catapulted its market value to more than $160 billion — far above that of established Western automakers.

US EV darling Tesla, by contrast, has seen its shares fall precipitously since December.
www.semafor.com/article/03/2...

20.03.2025 20:12 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality Dear Jo Grady, We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the community, urge you to do everything in your power to resolve the dispute with UCU Unite as soon as possible. UCU proudly signed up ...

Please support ending UCU's dispute with UCU Unite and uphold the union's commitment to equality. We need Jo Grady, UCU General Secretary to end the dispute and act on the union's commitment to equality, especially to Black staff and members tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...

20.03.2025 19:35 👍 13 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

I need an Ennui Coordinator

19.03.2025 20:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, so close! Adolf Hitler

17.03.2025 21:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know who else tried to be LOACTKS?

17.03.2025 20:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Lord Shinkwin” tho?

17.03.2025 20:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in some Ace Ventura film

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in some Ace Ventura film

Walton Goggins as Rick Hatchett in THE WHITE LOTUS S3

Walton Goggins as Rick Hatchett in THE WHITE LOTUS S3

How it started etc

17.03.2025 20:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the "Houthis" will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there. Iran has played "the innocent victim" of rogue terrorists from which they've lost control, but they haven't lost control. They're dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, "Intelligence." Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!

Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the "Houthis" will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there. Iran has played "the innocent victim" of rogue terrorists from which they've lost control, but they haven't lost control. They're dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, "Intelligence." Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!

Who said it: Paul Mason or Donald Trump?

17.03.2025 20:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0