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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Won the famous Prince George pub quiz for the first time in ages, with @bat020.bsky.social and others
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
hullo hullo, looks like one of JLM's senior cadre has just politically evaporated overnight in very mysterious circumstances. barnetpost.co.uk/2025/04/02/t...
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Tories slam Labour after Barnet councillor resigns "under a cloud of darkness"
Liron Velleman quit as a councillor this morning having left the Labour group yesterday reports David Floyd
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Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tesla is hanging by a thread. With collapse in resale market they are toast.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
coming soon: 'Starmerism without Starmer'
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
some of the details in this BBC investigation of Reeves at HBOS are jaw dropping. this is a regulated retail finance company. every employee has to take a compliance test once a year that covers exactly why this sort of behaviour is a big fat nope. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
quick thread on how Trump's manner is gonna intensify the crises within the US's Western allies. all imho and who the f am I ofc.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
went to see The Man Who Fell To Earth on the big screen last night and while the shots of New Mexico are amazing and Bowie is a treat, I'd kinda forgotten that pretty much nothing happens in the final third of the film.
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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby") (@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)
a young lady in a green jumper and green and white flowered pinafore dress (she is prgnant tho yuou cant quite tell from this short) ginerely holds an ugly brown bony something that looks just-dug-up (earth adheres to its crevices and crannies). in the background is an old-looking british farm (with modernised elements but also a wooden cartwheel) and two men looking at her from a doorway
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
thumbs up for Nosferatu, an atmospheric and original take on classic material. tips over into the hammy at times but hey it is a vampire movie. ending worked well I thought.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
seeing as the body of an enemy is floating by – here's a snap of the Anti Nazi League website in April 2003, hand coded by me in HTML using Windows Notepad. wayback machine link: web.archive.org/web/20030601...
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
PSA: commutative diagrams in category theory are MUCH easier to read when drawn from right to left.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
if you want something GOOD and FREE to do in London for an hour or so do check out the Peter Kennard exhibition Archive of Dissent which is on at the Whitechapel Gallery until 19 Jan.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
TIL >> Quine's "From A Logical Point Of View" was named after a Harry Belafonte calypso track he heard in Greenwich Village on a nite out
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tash @tashldn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
These are hard times for lots of people - sometimes too hard. Just heard my mum’s oldest friend has lost her son to suicide. I remember him from when we were kids. It feels so wrong that I’m here but he is not. Please, if you’re feeling very down, ring Samaritans first: 116 123 www.samaritans.org
Samaritans website - screenshot.

Text reads: We're waiting for your call. Whatever you're going through, a Samaritan will face it with you. We're here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Call 116 123 for free.
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Colin Wilson @colinwlondon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Excellent interview with Syrian-Swiss writer/activist Joseph Daher. Detail of events on the ground - for example regarding the rebellion and the politics of HTS - with sharp analysis about international politics and how the British and American left should respond. tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...
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Understanding the rebellion in Syria
Tempest asks Swiss-Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
v detailed account of what has happened in Syria in the last few days drawn from multiple sources. theirantiimperialismandours.com/2024/12/07/t...
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The Syrian revolution returns with a bang: Extraordinary collapse of the genocidal regime
Regions of control as of December 6, 2024: red – Assad regime; yellow – Kurdish/SDF-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria; light green in north – Turkish-backed SNA-led Syrian Inter…
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
archive of today's Bloomberg article on Labour shitting it at Starmer's political incompetence. it's a hoot. one thing to note: everyone quoted burbles on about "messaging", "boldness", "imagination": questions of political ~direction~ are still off limits. archive.is/80bIO
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
absolutely glorious reading all these news reports about how the motive is Unknown and everyone is Baffled by how it could have happened, do keep it up chaps.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Agence France-Press, the French news agency, reports that Assad's troops have left Homs. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory confirms it. I think that's it. If true, and I think it's true, it's all over for Assad
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
late nite spitballing here: senior cadre of today's British r/c were university students in the late 80s/90s (my generation), ie *after* the critical class battles of the period had been fought and won by the ascendent neoliberal order. >>
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
must-read piece on Syria from David Hearst here: detailed, well informed and clear eyed. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...
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How the Syria crisis could reshape the Middle East
As Israel attempts to impose its will on the region, the lightning assault by rebels on Aleppo could have far-reaching implications
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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Found a translation of Le Petit Prince into Piemontese dialect, assumed that with a mix of French and Italian I'd be able to make most of it, proved to be badly wrong
The front cover of a translation of Le Petit Prince into Piemontese dialect, entitled Ël Cit Prinsi, with the caption "Con ij dissegn ëd l'Autor"The first page of the story as it appears in the translation
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
sorry to be a cynic but circa 80% of the Oxford students voting to condemn Israel tonight will ditch and bury their "principles" within five years, ie the moment it becomes inconvenient to their precious careers.,
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Alexis Wear @alexiswear.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Lessons from militant organising in tenants’ unions
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"With public anger in Saudi Arabia at fever pitch over Israel's actions in Gaza, Mohammed bin Salman has again made recognition of Israel conditional on it taking concrete steps to create a Palestinian state, two Saudi and three Western sources said." www.reuters.com/world/saudi-...
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Saudi Arabia abandons pursuit of US defence treaty over Israel stalemate
Saudi Arabia has abandoned its pursuit of an ambitious defence treaty with Washington in return for normalising relations with Israel and is now pushing for a more modest military cooperation agreement, two Saudi and four Western officials told Reuters.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"it is unusual for the military chief to travel abroad during wartime." — so the IDF's chief of staff travelled to Britain on Monday for a face-to-face with his military allies. why would that be I wonder. perhaps the weather here is clement. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Halevi flew to UK yesterday for meeting with military chiefs
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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
At COP29 wealthy nations have forced vulnerable countries into conceding hollow agreements through coercion. The poor world has to accept crumbs for fear of collapsing the entire Cop process while the rich dodge their moral and historical obligations. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial
Editorial: A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justice
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
it's really important that this issue is forced into the mainstream. Britain's support for the genocide is not confined to arms sales. www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
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British MP says UK spy planes over Gaza must stop after ICC issues arrest warrants
Ayoub Khan tells MEE that Britain should 'stop all activity with the Israeli government' and Starmer's genocide denial is untenable
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A long read by me on Euripides, Women and Slavery: Gender Transgression in Ancient Greece. Classicists seem to like it. annebonnypirate.org/2022/01/20/e....
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EURIPIDES, WOMEN AND SLAVERY: GENDER TRANSGRESSION IN ANCIENT GREECE
The Trojan Women at the Flea Theatre, New York, in 2016 Jonathan Neale writes: We start with a theatre, and two moments of astonishing gender transgression. One happened in a theatre on a hillside …
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
chanced across Amnesty's 2024 xmas bumf catalogue and credit where it's due
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
getting very into Euclid of late my droogs. was always vaguely aware of this stuff but reading it carefully is a revelation. so many subtleties where I can now see he prefigures mathematical breakthroughs that took place centuries later. we are still insufficiently Euclidean.
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Sad to hear that John Prescott has died. I would very much liked to have talked to him about the Blair years. Here are two recent finds from my new archive research on science/environment policy under Blair, that show that Prescott was a much more interesting figure than his caricatures suggest …
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
was dimly aware of Prescott growing up but by the late 1990s he was a pathetic and clownish figure; the left derided him for selling out to New Labour (Steve Bell depicted him as Blair's grumpy pet bulldog), while the right could scarcely conceal its snobbish contempt. >>
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
did another TikTok for @rs21.bsky.social , two minutes on what happened today and next steps. vm.tiktok.com/ZGe1S31ev/
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rs21 on TikTok
Almost a million people marched in London today in the biggest Palestine march in British history. @bat020 explains the two key things we need to do going forward: get Suella Braverman out and escalat...
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
[copypaste of thread I did on the other place – am lurking here mostly for now] >> re From The River To The Sea and the rise of what you might call a one state vision >>
tilted Palestine flag with text From The River To Sea, Palestine Will Be Free. rs21 has stickers. design by the mighty Arjun Mahadevan.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
recorded this 3 min TikTok last night for @rs21.bsky.social on Gaza and what we can do in Britain to stop the unfolding genocide. vm.tiktok.com/ZGJKXYQJf/
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rs21 on TikTok
The protests are making a difference. But this is a genocide - everyone needs to be on the streets. Every person, every protest and every day counts because we are counting in lives. @bat020tiktok giv...
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
my TikTok debut (gulp) >> a 3 minute summary of the emerging new global solidarity movement with Palestine and how the demos today are part of that // thx @rs21.bsky.social vm.tiktok.com/ZGJwMKLXV/
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rs21 on TikTok
🇵🇸 EVERYONE OUT FOR PALESTINE TOMORROW 🇵🇸 bat020 gives an update on the global movement for Palestine solidarity unfolding around the world, which we can all be a part of. Join the demons...
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 20/10/2023
For Gaza Day of Action we stand with comrades to demand that the Labour Party calls for a ceasefire and an end to the occupation. #GazaDayOfAction #StopArmingIsrael #EndLabourComplicity
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 19/10/2023
Thanks to @bat020.bsky.social for talking to us about the shifting landscape of Palestinian solidarity campaigning during the siege of Gaza, and how the mass movement is affecting the geopolitical strategies of western imperialism and the Arab states: www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
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End the Siege of Gaza: building solidarity with Palestine
Anindya Bhattacharyya talks about the shifting landscape of Palestinian solidarity campaigning during the siege of Gaza, and how the mass movement is affecti...
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
thanks to rs21 for asking me to do the lead-off at a Palestine solidarity organising meeting last night in Whitechapel. here's what I said – it's like a ten-minute capsule analysis of what I think is going on, mboi to people more generally. youtu.be/_a22RChugoI?...
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End the Siege of Gaza: building solidarity with Palestine
Anindya Bhattacharyya talks about the shifting landscape of Palestinian solidarity campaigning during the siege of Gaza, and how the mass movement is affecti...
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
[quick thread on Bat's First Prom Experience copied & pasted over from the place, sorry not sorry if that's some massive breach of etiquette or something]
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
bought a new wall clock that starts at 0 like all clocks should do.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
macabre roadside scene.
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 15/07/2023
this life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.
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