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Caleb Day

@calebday.bsky.social
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Created autistic, kinetic. Made neurodivergent, he/him, Christian, depressed, disabled, parent, trade unionist, theological ethicist, NZer in North Shields, among other things. @ducu.bsky.social, @uniteucu.bsky.social, orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-0282

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And he wants to drill for more fossil fuels
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥 BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social just announced that the Government will launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform 📰 Press release: www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk/news/burnham... 🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab26
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This. This includes the tactic of being so inflexible with meeting dates that your caseworker can't attend (which we've seen reported elsewhere). Your legal rights trump their busy calendar and refusal to treat your own schedule with respect.
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Artificial" isn't the word that needs changing in the name. (Also, "phenomena" is plural) (Also, X relative to X, huh?) (Also, "American Intelligence" was right there, & would be both truer & less dystopian than any of the provided options) At least this post is better than 99% of things he does
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Centre for Autism and Theology @autismtheology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📢 Call for Papers! We're excited to collaborate with the Practical Theology Hub to present a series of short articles exploring the intersections of neurodiversity, theology, and lived experience. Do you have something to share? Click through to find out more!
to present a series of short articles (approx. 1500–2000
words) exploring these intersections of neurodiversity, theology, and lived experience.Possible themes:

Neurodivergent experience as a theological and methodological resource

Church belonging, exclusion, and hospitality

Liturgical access, ritual participation, and worship

Neurodivergent spiritual practice, prayer, and contemplative life

Pastoral care, supervision, and ministry formation

Hermeneutics shaped by autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, or other neurodivergent ways of knowing

Theological anthropology and theologies of personhood

Intersectional experiences of race, gender, disability, and neurodiversity

Embodied and sensory theologies

Ethics of care, communication, and communityProcess

Develop a 200‑word abstract for your proposed submission. Creative or alternative formats, for example short video or audio submissions are also
welcomed.

Submit your abstract to the Planning Collective using the form in the QR code by 10th October 2026

Selected papers will be confirmed by 24th October 2026

Final papers due 5 December 2026

Peer review will be conducted via the Practical Theology Hub prior to publication

Please follow the Practical Theology Hub’s submission and formatting guidelines closely.

QR Code link goes to: https://abdn.site/UtJkV
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧵 1/13 🔦 What the Government won't tell you on climate. 🔒 It buried its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 📈 Now it won't tell us how it sets carbon budgets that let emissions roll on ⚖️ So we are taking it to Court 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Joseph Henderson @josephenderson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Was recently rereading some Wendell Berry (RIP) on this and, well:
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
James Orr is a Christian philosopher & theologian, converted through Alpha at Holy Trinity Brompton, who worked for Nigel Biggar's McDonald Centre for Christian ethics (in much better hands now). Orr & Biggar work for empire; I hope we can all become more like Jesus, executed for subverting empire.
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
DUCU statement paying tribute to Professor Jason Arday, focusing on starting the pro:NE programme supporting early career academics of colour through financial, interpersonal, mental health, and training support and addressing institutional racism in admissions, at all the North East's universities.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ah yes, the good ol' "You've got things wrong, but we're not going to tell you which things, or why we think they're wrong, so you're just going to have to stop talking about what's going on entirely" approach. A classic.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members are VOTING NOW to protect pay and conditions - here's a little, daft, poetic reminder in case any have forgotten to do so yet. Pls share! Last chance to request replacement ballot is 2/9; last safe date to post is 8/9; ballot ends 11/9. You know what to do!
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For many, this will bring a real sense of relief, alongside understandable sadness. Hundreds of staff have already left or been affected by cuts, leaving an already depleted workforce facing the start of teaching in just a few weeks.
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.
NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES photo of Nicole Kidman looking incredibly joyful and free after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalised
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A lot of bands’ story: 1984-89, classic lineup, big drama, much lore, 3 albums (1: finding their sound, 2: masterpiece, 3: good but one member too dominant, others leave soon after) 89-97, new lineup, 4 albums (average- good), ends 97 2005, orig lineup re-forms, 6 albs so far (haven’t listened)
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nathan Cofnas, in his most-cited blog overtly defending white supremacy, mentions "barriers set up between races in order for each one to express its own unique genius." This word "genius" is the same word Pope John Paul II used for essentialist women's inferior roles. www.vatican.va/content/john...
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Mulieris Dignitatem (August 15, 1988)
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
People in the profession really do not see any difference between members of the public mocking you on Twitter dot com for drunkenly climbing sailors, and the world’s most feral press camped on your doorstep, badgering your colleagues and going through your bins, making you a notorious global celeb.
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The Herald
@heraldscotland • 4h
'The Labour MP, Joani Reid endured an appalling and vindictive campaign of extreme misogyny and sex-shaming in the wake of her husband's arrest on suspicion of spying for China.'
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.
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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two thirds of articles about the wildfires didn't mention climate change. Once again parts of our media are failing at the most basic part of their job - reporting the truth. uk.themedialeader.com/two-thirds-o...
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Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This Reform press release is currently the lead story on the BBC News website
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This template can be used to facilitate complaints regarding media abuse of Jason Arday (RIP) with particular attention to the escalating pile-on even after he resigned, stating he had reached 'the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure'. newscord.org/action/jason...
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The Mail printed a psychiatrist's guess at Jason Arday's mind. Hours later he was found dead.
A diagnosis-shaped headline at 1:01am on the day he died. His childhood disability interrogated one minute before the ambulance call. A mockery column deleted without a word. File five IPSO complaints...
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Sign the petition: demand an inquiry into the culture of the press after Jason Arday's death!
Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
To be frank he lied but so have countless other academics who didn’t get wall to wall media coverage because they were white and it remained an HR issue. And then they made it about “DEI” and called into question Black academics and supporters
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
Bruno Brown, Reporter


Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Many more people in universities will lose their jobs if nothing changes in the way HE is (under) funded. Even more prospective students will not be able to go to university, especially here in the Norheast. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @markfergusonmp.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social
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HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WE HAD A DEAL! Watt happened? HWUCU back on strike today because our employer has signalled they won't keep their side of a deal made in June to protect jobs. No Compulsory Redundancy. @ucu.org.uk @joshpizpom.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @theferret.scot @ucuscotland.bsky.social
WE HAD A DEAL banner being hammered by 'worker bee'.
Two people in UCU hats hold a large banner, while a picketer in a bee costume hits the word deal with a mallet.Picketers in front of the Heriot-Watt sign protesting employer double cross.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Generally good reporting but I’m sick of media saying “unions” support fossil fuel drilling (/sand-headed-self-destruction) and not, to take the example of my union @unitetheunion.bsky.social, “the current general secretary who may be voted out, largely for this very reason, in the current election”
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BossSaru @bosssaru.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Centrists dealing with the huge escalating crises of the 21st Century.
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Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
ALT: Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The stranglehold the rightwing and far right have on our politics is absurd. Not a single policy or idea that benefits the country. A wild aversion to tax, immigration, NetZero, the EU.. trapping us in a dismal dead-end, unable to make progress for fear of the DailyMail demographic losing its shit.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life. When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit.
Andy Burnham to make it harder for people to claim benefits as he vows to get serious about cutting welfare bill
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Worrth remembering that Andy Burnham has a long record of being anti-immigration. He's kept Shabana Mahmood in place because he agrees with her
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We don't bring back hope again by burning the planet and giving in to the fossil fuel industry. Hope and a plan is bringing in wealth taxes, rent controls and investing in renewables. That's how we make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So Andy Burnham has repeatedly committed to sticking to Labour's 2024 manifesto, yet we're now told that his first major announcement will be breaking its commitment not to drill for new oil and gas in the North Sea.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Is it possible to generate power from a total lack of surprise? If so I have an idea as to how the HE sector can slash its energy bills.
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Flawed disciplinary cases at work cost UK economy £28.5bn a year, doctors say
Poorly handled investigations should be treated as threat to public health and damage not just staff involved, report says
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Busy but rewarding day of branch discussion and planning today. Always good to be in a room with members, talking about where we've been, where we are, and where we're going.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It begins! #MinersGala
Four UCU banners, including the Northern Region, Durham.Branch and Northumbria Branch banners, marching along North Road.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Your regular reminder that Ireland has had gender self-ID for 11 years and civilization here seems to have carried on just fine. The only place this is "an issue" is the opinion columns. Unlike in the UK where they are obsessed with this, while their economy sadly craters around them... 👇
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
✊QM UCU supports branches currently on strike!✊ All over the country, the sector is facing mass redundancies, mergers, and deteriorating working conditions. But they don't take on an isolated group of workers! We stand together and support each other across branches! (1/2)
"Solidarity Across Campuses, QM UCU Stands with Edinburgh, Nottingham, and Goldsmiths. We sent 3x £500 pounds to their fighting funds. 
Logo of UCU QM Branch and a picture of people at a picket holding up a banner which has 'Solidarity' written on it. What you can do next: Check the UCU dispute list, Send a solidarity message and donations, visit a picket near you, bring a solidarity motion to your next branch meeting
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 06/07/2026
Finley Rice, seven, said: “My parents have been working tirelessly to build me a brand as ‘child who has meltdowns’. It’s something I never would have thought to do myself, being seven.”
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Autistic child’s career prospects “greatly improved” by parents posting meltdowns online
An autistic child has issued a statement thanking his parents for increasing his future employment prospects by constantly posting videos of his most vulnerable and private moments on the Internet.…
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