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John Jennings

@athrocoll.bsky.social
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High school teacher and Higher Ed Learning Designer; trade unionist; intersectional feminist; queer; soyboy ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🗣️ en/cy/nl/af 🏠 Cape Town 🇿🇦 <-> Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most those who support "Zionism is Racism" agenda have primarily the Palestinian condition in mind. While most diaspora Jews who oppose to it have the Jewish diasporic in mind. It's two separate conversations, talking past each other and that's not understood sufficiently.
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Starmer's strategy seems to be that Labour is fighting a single opposition party called "Reform and the Greens", who sound like they did one of the musical segments in The Young Ones.
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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Well this is... an odd take. The Greens, famously pro-war?! He's resisting moving to the left by pretending that Greens are actually dreadful hawkish right-wingers?
Starmer says neither Nigel Farage nor Zack Polanski offer "the serious progressive leadership that these times demand".

He says Labour has made mistakes.

But other parties would have dragged the UK into war with Iran, he says.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The UK being governed by and for cisheteropatriarchal ableist white nationalists continues!
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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Stop focusing on masculinity & start focusing on human rights www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/blog/adolesc...
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Adolescence and the Lost Truths: Why save masculinity when you could save men? — Dr Finn Mackay
We are barely out of International Women’s History Month and everyone is talking about the crisis of masculinity, yet again. It seems there has never been a time that masculinity has not been in crisi...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 27/02/2025
The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 06/01/2025
“They aim to create suspicion and fear and to convince the people that liberal democracy, with its respect for individual human rights, is a less attractive political option than majoritarianism and authoritarian rule” theferret.scot/orban-conservative-t…
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How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
MCC Brussels, a think tank funded by Hungary's populist government, is working with academics and campaigners with influence in Scotland.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
When Kemi Badenoch defends racism, or Wes Streeting defends transphobia, we are reminded that while it is *necessary* for oppressed minorities to see themselves represented in politics, it is not *sufficient*. We have let representation become camouflage for oppression, rather than challenge to it.
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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
This is the best legacy I could hope for to honour my mum’s name. Exciting new areas of dementia research like this give so much hope for the future.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Oh no it’s “disparaging comments about a screenshot of the Grindr grid in your hometown” season for the gays. Comes round quicker every year!
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Using the Cass report as justification for banning puberty blockers is simply dishonest. Cass's actual findings, documented in the appendices, found PBs have been used safely for trans kids since 1988 with not a single case of harm documented in thousands of records. Cass did *not* recommend a ban.
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jacky @jackwmf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
On this day lets remember the wise words of the late, great Dawn Foster
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
(For the most part) People who fought for gay rights in the 1980s/90s fight for trans rights now. Gay men who distanced themselves from gay rights activists in the 80s/90s (they told us we were too camp/too political etc.) oppose trans rights. If you fought for gay rights you see the connections. 💜
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Dr Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Petition: We call on UWTSD and the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the long-term future of Lampeter campus petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
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Petition: We call on UWTSD and the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the long-term future of Lampeter campus
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has announced a plan to end all undergraduate teaching at its Lampeter campus by September 2025, a decision that would sever nearly 200 years of Lam...
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Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A great letter from colleagues at Nottingham in support of the programmes in #Lampeter. Wonderful to see the reference to the value of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre.
Letter page 1Letter page 2Signatories
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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
So proud of this beautiful film. The director really got to know our family and cared about how our story was presented, and it shows. Such a deserving win for her and the whole team 🍾 #griersonawards
Grierson Winner 2024 Best Science Documentary: The Jennings vs Alzheimer's. Expectation Entertainment - BBC
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John Jennings @athrocoll.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Please consider signing this petition to save undergraduate education at Lampeter, Wales’s oldest university. Lampeter plays a vital role in the town’s economy and cultural life—closing it would be an act of cultural vandalism #uwtsd #lampeter www.change.org/p/save-under...
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Save Undergraduate Education at Wales’s Historic Lampeter Campus
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