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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 4h
Remembering Gwyneth Bebb today. She passed Oxford law finals with first class marks in 1913, but was refused a degree. The CA rejected her claim to become a solicitor, saying only men were "persons" within the legislation. In 1920 she finally became a Bar student. But died in childbirth in 1921.
Screenshot of a Facebook post recording the fact that on this day in 1920, women were awarded Oxford degrees for the first time. Image of graduating women.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A new scholarship for Afghan women has been funded at the University of Oxford. Shabana Basij-Rasikh has given a $2.5m donation to endow the scholarship in perpetuity. It will support women of first- or second-generation Afghan descent taking a master’s course. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-10...
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New scholarship to support Afghan women to study at Oxford
Outside the Schwarzman Centre at Oxford with the Blavatnik School of Government in the background.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Israeli chip is it?
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The 18 series uses the Israeli chip?
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Is it anything to do with fluffy pancakes?
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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Next, Abdus Salam, the first physics Nobel laureate from what is now Pakistan, though he hasn't received nearly as much honour in his homeland as he has in the other places he lived: physicsworld.com/a/abdus-sala... 🧪⚛️
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Abdus Salam: Pakistan's first (and so far only) physics Nobel prize-winner – Physics World
Matin Durrani looks at the work of Abdus Salam, who was born a century ago this year
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder, the iPhone 18 is made in Israel and it is full of unremovable hardware spyware. It is made to track everything its user does. You shouldn't use one even if you get it free. Definitely don't pay for your own surveillance.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Book festivals, please, PLEASE don’t use AI to write author bios and book descriptions. Currently, I am being advertised as attending a festival next month for a talk about a book that doesn’t exist…
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Went to the Ashmolean today and saw a Colonial View of India exhibition- a room of photos by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey. The museum descriptions were fair enough I guess, but I suspect some people really don’t see why the images are off.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m so glad that Starmer has gone, but yes, there are still several turds bobbing about
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating project by Ian Howorth photographing the last working men’s clubs in Britain. The loss of shared social spaces like these has had profound consequences when it comes to belonging and social cohesion. amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo...
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Last Orders: these photos from Britain's last remaining working men's clubs are somehow wonderfully serene | Amateur Photographer
Ian Howorth is fascinated by the peculiar visual grammar of Britain: social clubs, old-school hotels and the small rituals of communal life.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And some unis really do have a reputation for being home to privately educated Oxbridge rejects who take snobbery to weird levels. Horrible. None of this is what uni is supposed to be, surel? and yet here we are, looking for ways to build in class(?) distinctions where we can. Urgh.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Learning now that private school kids are often taking their weird initiation rituals with them to certain universities. Hockey and rugby especiallly. Why? Awful, sick and essentially bullying.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Duncan Poundcake @duncanpoundcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Burnhim Meet the latest terrorist. 94 year old human rights lawyer and OBE. Nicked at Burnham's conference... morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
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94-year-old human rights lawyer among hundreds of protestors arrested in test of Burnham’s mettle
ANDY BURNHAM faced growing calls to deproscribe Palestine Action today as hundreds of protesters as old as 94 were arrested for supporting the banned group during his first Labour Party conference as ...
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great piece of spin from Miliband’s office, but the question the spinner didn’t address is critical: will the Burnham Government rescind the ban on Palestine Action and drop the charges against those who support it? Will it cut the ‘terrorism related’ sentences? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Coalition? Unity? even basic respect? Not if Luke the Nuke, Zionist in chief, can help it. A divisive, toxic little shite bag.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love the Starmer slamming that’s going on A BIT LATE IN THE DAY.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well, while I agree no one is owed an inheritance and holidays are nice let’s hope that the state will fund their social care and their kids aren’t so busy working that they can’t help with advocacy and/ or care of the old codgers.
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Meet the pensioners spending the kids' inheritance
The phenomenon sees retirees spend all their money on enjoying life to the full.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/09/2026
Al Jazeera Media Network categorically rejects the remarks made by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where he described Al Jazeera as a "toxic" media outlet.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. The Trump regime has refused to arrest him and corporate media continues to ignore his war crimes. I break down the 9 most egregious lies told by war criminal Netanyahu at the UN, and I bring all the receipts. www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
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Debunking The 9 Biggest Lies from War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN Speech
On September 24, the Israeli Prime Minister delivered a speech devoid of any facts or truth
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
🤔 ICYMI: Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his medical license over a fraudulent, now-retracted study that falsely claimed a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
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RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
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David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Publication day! Thank you to everybody who has bought a copy and, to those who haven't, there now follows an embarrassing scene in which I'll beg you on my bleeding knees whilst clawing at your legs, spluttering about the hardships for creators in these AI-driven times.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Well, these sad f’ers are best avoided then, but there will undoubtedly be some Oxford smarty pants who’ll want a debate - may well ‘win’, but won’t get the airtime. @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social do you grant permission for these stands?
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BBC News, in case the cropping bamboozled you.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
’Activists’ and ‘Campaigners’ don’t you know 🙄
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Activists? Activists?
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Watching Pakistan - England cricket. Jeez 🙄
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daily Mail reports on the balaclava-led vigilante army visiting their offices to protest the newspaper's coverage of Daniel Thomas's background as a middle-class privately educated man jailed for armed kidnapping [the wrong person, over allegations of drug money being nicked]
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/09/2026
Seven-year-old Wafaa Aqila and her father killed by Israeli strike while returning home with school supplies.
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Israeli attacks on Gaza kill five Palestinians, including two children
Seven-year-old Wafaa Aqila and her father killed by Israeli strike while returning home with school supplies.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As a small kid I *knew* he had Indian heritage. Whether it was the facial hair, teeth, white outfits….there was something ‘Uncle‘ about him 😂 He was utterly beguiling in Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/09/2026
Nearly 9,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023 aje.news/7nhfyx
Nearly 9,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Black is more figure flattering at least, and I’d rather not see their faces. Nice that this is allowed but not Palestine Action.
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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 05/09/2026
What have PG Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, Bob Monkhouse and Nigel Farage got in common? They all went to this fancy school, Dulwich College. On this day in 1913, the school was subject to an outrageous arson attack 🔥…
A stock photo of one of the UK’s most expensive boarding schools. It’s in South London. If it looks familiar, it’s a filming location for both Legally Blonde and Lara Croft Tomb Raider - nice to see strong women disrupting a boys school hehe
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A series of signs beside the road to the Kilpatrick Hills on the outskirts of Glasgow. Whatever else you might say about us Scots, we do tend to get straight to the point! #glasgow #scotland #signs #keepscotlandtidy #keepglasgowweird
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is an anonymous poster with very few followers. Not making any educated argument, just a nasty attention seeking Plop. Best just ignored maybe?
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Despite years of calls from MPs across the House to ban all trade with illegal Israeli settlements, the last govt failed to take genuine action in the face of war crimes and human rights abuses. The new Foreign Sec cannot repeat the mistakes of the old; we must act to end Britain's complicity now.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, I’ve done it once for DD1, doing it again now for DD2 and I’m not finding it any easier. Maybe it’s even worse 😢
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wait until she goes to uni - no stationery needed as ‘everything is online’…maybe one pukka pad, that’d it. instead you’ll be buying bedding, laundry bags and baking trays. And sobbing inside.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Seeing how she expresses that oppresive bullying in her paintings is painful but also fascinating
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh, ok 🙄
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hugo, I think you are playing with me, aren’t you?
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Blimey, alright shut the interesting, independent shop that’s very close to the city centre, and other retail in Jericho and change to a flat that a nice couple from London can purchase and commute to London from a couple of days a week. Crisis solved.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What we probably don’t need is the letting agent two doors down.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s not a pointless shop - it’s actually a really nice place and fits well in Jericho. Second hand vinyl shops, and there are hardly any left in the city, are just not the same as the awful HP etc shops on Cornmaren’t etc
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