Reposted by JulianMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4hUkraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right. 396153146083
Reposted by JulianMoon Blight 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 12h"Protect the Dolls" is offensive to people who want to hurt the dolls, actually. 131343
Reposted by JulianDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8hOver the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error. 431752503
Reposted by JulianDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9hThe EHRC chair either does not understand the principle of rights, or has decided to gaslight trans individuals while stripping those rights. The EHCR code undermines, and, arguably in several ways, outright violates rights for trans individuals, including Articles 8, 11, and 14 of the ECHR. 1/ 825990
Reposted by JulianAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 9hWhen your country can do medical experiments on other countries' babies, you have to ask the question, are you the baddies? 211547
Reposted by JulianNash @radiodeadair.com · 10/10/2026I cannot say definitively that we'll never develop artificial intelligence. I strongly doubt it, based on the limits of technology and our understanding of consciousness. But I can say absolutely that an LLM will never be conscious or feel pain. It's a glorified Magic Eight Ball. That's all. 19415124
Reposted by JulianDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 13hJust saw the very sad news that Chris Wickham has died. A superb historian - and a superb writer of engaging history. 3429
Reposted by JulianPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13hSpeaking to Democracy for Sale, Daniel Charest, a US-based lawyer representing clients in a class action against Delo BitMEX filed in New York in July, said he believed their conduct was “illegal, unethical and immoral”. 18030
Reposted by JulianColin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 13hFortunately we have a surplus of surgeons and no waiting lists. 1103
Reposted by JulianJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC. 141090273
Reposted by JulianThe Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Without prompt, vigorous, costly attention, the 21stC will see the utter devastation of England’s reputation as a world leader in higher education, presided over by Tories, Labour, and Lib Dems, with hardly a word of protest from other parties. 13516
Reposted by JulianKateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The Home Office refused twice as many student visas on the first half of 2026 as they previously, while halving the % of visa rejections universities can have before they're not allowed to ti recruit international students. Are those refusals on good grounds? Oh no, not at all. 21211
Reposted by JulianLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown. 11623274
Reposted by JulianDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing 252015528
Reposted by JulianM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A thread - of racist attacks in Glasgow that received no media attention whatsoever 39260
Reposted by JulianTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women. 11399121
Reposted by JulianBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 10/10/2026Diagnosing these things, ADHD in particular, is the exact opposite of writing people off. If I'd been diagnosed and medicated in my teens, I wouldn't have dropped out of university and wasted a literal twenty years of my life before starting to get myself together in my forties. 624071
Reposted by JulianPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One by one the sensibles reveal themselves to be crackpots of the first water, and yet nobody will ever admit they might have been wrong. 16815
Reposted by JulianMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 11675212513571
Reposted by JulianSebastian Roché @sebastianjroche.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Possible blessure irréversible supplémentaire echo-des-tribunes.com/herault-trib...echo-des-tribunes.com“J’ai peur que ma vue ne se restaure pas” : à 17 ans, elle accuse un policier de l'avoir frappée durant les blocus lycéens de MontpellierEnaelle*, 17 ans, participait vendredi 2 octobre au blocage du lycée Clemenceau, à Montpellier. La jeune femme affirme avoir reçu un coup de matraque au visage porté par un policier. Prise en charge a... 29474
Reposted by JulianNick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.bbc.co.ukBBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and YoursThe corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts. 1821666
Reposted by Julian🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 08/10/2026Look, this is sad, but it's been the playbook with every public good for 40+ years: make it shit via underfunding and putting arseholes in charge, then go "the private sector would do it better" and sell it off to venture capitalists. I love LOVE the (concept of the) BBC, I hope it's saveable 215058
Reposted by JulianNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat... 4358199
Reposted by JulianNicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 08/10/2026Just heard the BBC is going to ditch a number of Radio 4 programmes, including Thinking Allowed. This is supposedly a money-saving measure, but that programme is just one bloke talking to one or two guests. The most basic format. How expensive can that be?! 383
Reposted by JulianSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others 1028185
Reposted by JulianUnfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 08/10/2026*Looks at UK universities* I can answer that, but you're not going to like it. 15225
Reposted by JulianNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 08/10/2026I swear: on present showing, if an actual asteroid is detected on course to wipe out the UK in fifteen years, our governing apparat will spend the entire time blathering on about immigration, then proudly unveil a largely nominal affordable housing scheme at the projected impact site. 39928
Reposted by JulianAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT MY INDUSTRY IS DYING IT'S KIND OF YOURS 1141
Reposted by JulianLinus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It was always clear that David Goodhart's fairy tale of a struggle between rootless cosmopolitans and down-to-earth conservatives ("Anywheres vs Somewheres") was not influential because it was accurate, but because it confirmed the prejudices of right-leaning commentators. Now we have the evidence:onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social ChangeIn his influential book The road to somewhere David Goodhart claims that a split between a majority of people who are rooted in particular places or groups (the “Somewheres”) and a minority of people... 110746
Reposted by JulianCarla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am pleased with this evolution of our energy policy. Renewables remain our top priority. This isn’t about fast-tracking new nuclear, but about recognising that in a climate emergency we should be using all the existing infrastructure we have to move off fossil fuels. 1927649
Reposted by JulianAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Failure to maintain party discipline needed to prevent CDU Sachsen Anhalt MPs from lending votes to the AfD almost guarantees a Linke-led coalition government in Berlin SPD, Green or Linke dealmaking aren't putting German democracy at risk. But the CDU leadership's weakness is 29119
Reposted by JulianSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The problem is, you can't really say "we condemn this thing" and then only explain in the small print that you are using one particular definition of "this thing" and very specifically not any other definitions, even though a lot of other people use those definitions and will react accordingly. 313722
Reposted by JulianJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades. 518073
Reposted by JulianPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Again, whether "Zionism is racism" is or isn't true, it does not strike me as the kind of thing the Green Party of England and Wales needed to take a position on, unlike the actual policies. There is a difference between taking a principled stand and starting a fight to be aggro. 2503
Reposted by JulianPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah man and I don't think this helps with that. You don't have to believe that the press would otherwise have been sympathetic to understand that. Them being pissed off with anything vaguely pro Palestine does not imply absolutely everything that pisses them off is great. 171
Reposted by JulianSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera" 1231459371
Reposted by Julianroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I knew we’d get here eventually, but reading effectively: “the woke moralists won’t let us do a little light terrorism” is still something. Less an Overton Window 🪟 than an Overton Chasm. 27821
Reposted by JulianDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Paying taxes is punishment is it? Some might say it's a contribution to the infrastructure and regulations (like the rule of law) that enables you to build a successful business and, being less transactional, your contribution to society.. 2523567
Reposted by JulianCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion 1471373292
Reposted by JulianRaimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Funeral prayers were held at #Gaza City’s Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church for a Palestinian mother & daughter who were among 5 killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment." www.instagram.com/reels/DeDB0n... #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews 36042
Reposted by JulianCllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I strongly disagree. As does Zack - he supports the amendments passing. www.instagram.com/reel/DdpPmly... 1141
Julian @bronterre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The opposition to Netanyahu is irrelevant because any credible alternative would continue the same, yes genocidal, policies, despite the tiny but brave Israeli left. JF knows this perfectly well. The only solution is external pressure. BTW, I’ll be voting against the resolution this morning. 210
Reposted by JulianAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 03/10/2026Unsurprisingly she’s also an anti communist that makes up things and uses Nazi propaganda to bolster her anti communism 426825
Reposted by JulianLouis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have been seeing braindead takes like "antisemitism isn't systemic" but the way that the Trump admin is bestowing and revoking conditional whiteness onto Jews suggests that antisemitism is very much systemic, and closely connected to other forms of systemic oppression, especially islamophobia. 212837
Reposted by JulianDavid Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Robert Watt, in the Irish Times #spéirgorm 086
Reposted by JulianErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...theatlantic.comTime to Consider Becoming a BricklayerCollege degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming. 162146310
