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Julian Yaqub

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Reading for a zero-carbon heterotopia all watched over by neurodiverse machines of genderfluid grace. Him/He julianyaqub.net

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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/12/2025
Calibri: is this really the world’s wokest font?
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Calibri: is this really the world’s wokest font?
It was the Windows typeface for 17 years – and adopted by the Biden administration for its readability for those with visual impairments. But Marco Rubio has ruled that Calibri lacks ‘decorum’
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This is so exciting. New discovery pushes the origin of fire-making back by more than 350,000 years on earlier estimates. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
#flagshaggers
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Israeli military’s own data suggests 83 percent of Gaza killings are of civilians - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-…
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Israeli military’s own data suggests 83 percent of Gaza killings are of civilians
Joint investigation finds that classified Israeli intelligence listed 8,900 deaths in May this year as active fighters, at a time when total death toll was at least 53,000
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I know there are many compelling news stories and issues dominating both legacy and social media, but just in case you'd forgotten, climate change + mass extinction are actually posing an existential threat to humankind. #ClimateChange #MassExtinction #SaveOurPlanet #ActNow
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Brazil to join South Africa's case against Israel at ICJ  - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Brazil to join South Africa's case against Israel at ICJ 
<article data-history-node-id="426214" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/brazil-join-south-africas-case-against-israel-icj" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/brazil-join-south-africas-case-against-israel-icj" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Brazil to join South Africa's case against Israel at ICJ&nbsp;</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Brazil is finalising its submission to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel's actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, news agency Reuters has reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>In its statement issued on Wednesday, foreign ministry of the Brazilian government&nbsp;accused Israel of violations of international law "such as the annexation of territories by force," and it expressed "deep indignation" at violence suffered by the civilian population.<br> <br> Spain, Turkey and Colombia have also sought to join the case against Israel among other countries.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Epping protests are about, and only about, fascists whipping up racist hatred and grubby little politicians joining in because they think it's in their interest to do so.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Musk says X hit by 'cyber-attack' as thousands report outages www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Elon Musk says X hit by 'cyber-attack' as thousands report outage
Platform outage monitor Downdetector said it had seen more than 350,000 reports of issues from US users on Monday.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Tesla sales are nosediving and now X is repeatedly crashing - things are going badly for Chainsaw Musk www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Twitter down as Elon Musk's X suffers major outage to users' fury
Thousands of users have reported X, previously known as Twitter, went down this morning as Elon Musk's social media app and the website suffered a major outage
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I just want to acknowledge my brilliant colleague, Zeteo political correspondent @premthakker.bsky.social, who broke the story of the arrest and detention of permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil by ICE today. Support independent journalism. Subscribe to Zeteo, as a paid subscriber:
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Problems with X formerly Twitter.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Musk told the Polish FM, a long-standing conservative ally of the US, "be quiet small man". What I find so fascinating about Trump, Vance and Musk's verbal abuse of Ukrainians & Polish officials etc, is: can you imagine them speaking like this to a Russian or Chinese official?
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
RIP Gene Hackman. youtu.be/iFgiWboUFnw?...
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THE CONVERSATION - Official Trailer - Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Gene Hackman
YouTube video by StudiocanalUK
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Are @theyesmen.bsky.social responsible for the Trump Gaza video?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
this was definitely a new low for Kemi Badenoch at PMQs yesterday - via Tom Peck in Times
With her final flourish,
Badenoch brought up the case of John Tuckett, the government's preferred candidate for a new role of chief inspector of borders, but who, she said, "lives in Finland and wants to work from home. This is not serious."
Starmer rose again. Human
rights lawyers aren't a natural fit for acts of wanton cruelty, but what choice did he have? "The individual in question was appointed in 2019 by the last government to a senior position," he said. "He then worked for five years from Finland. We've changed that and he will now be working from the UK full time." Badenoch sunk further into her seat. In boxing, this would have been stopped in round one. At least in politics you don't have to wait long for a rematch.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The @wsj.com should take this down from its website. Please. The headline is not just historically illiterate, but deeply and inexcusably offensive to those who suffered during the partition of India and Pakistan, and blind to the generational resentment it stoked between communities and nations.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
1/7 Why Trump & Musk are More Like Rhodes & Verwoerd Than Hitler & Mussolini: It’s only natural to cast back into history for extremist figures who prefigured Musk & Trump. Hitler & Mussolini are the obvious ones.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Paddystinians unite.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Are you looking forward to the Christmas turkey genocide?
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
If you are a member of the Church of England and you intend to go to church this Sunday and you have children, my advice is sit at the back.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
With words they try to jail us: US universities are not citadels of freedom | Today, the American university – just like the American nation-state – is once again at peak repression. | Donald Earl Collins aje.io/zf0trn
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With words they try to jail us: US universities are not citadels of freedom
Today, the American university – just like the American nation-state – is once again at peak repression.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Britain capitulates to bully Trump (part 1) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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US to pressure UK to import high-quality American meat in Trump trade deal
US industry ready to drop demand to export chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef in move set to anger British farmers
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
An estimated 89 million Americans, or about 36% of the country’s voting-eligible population, did not vote in the 2024 US presidential election. But since when has voting for the lesser of 2 evils constituted genuine democracy?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/12/2024
"The idea that the US university is a place of critical thinking, social justice, liberal arts, and making the world a better place is as false as the day is long." — #AJOpinion by @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social ⤵️
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With words they try to jail us: US universities are not citadels of freedom
Today, the American university – just like the American nation-state – is once again at peak repression.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Send Prince Andrew to the Tower.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My adult autistic son loves the outdoors - problem is, if a dog touches him, he has a panic attack. One owner suggested we keep him away from places used by dogs. But where is that? So now I carry an ultrasonic dog trainer when I'm out with him. #dogs www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Dog owners require a reality check – and a lead | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an article on who has priority in public spaces
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Extraordinary twist.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Was the Story of Cortés Plagiarized from Arabic? flip.it/BtrAxU
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Was the Story of Cortés Plagiarized from Arabic? - JSTOR Daily
The mythic stories of the Spanish conquest of Mexico seem to have been largely taken from earlier tales of the Muslim conquest of southern Spain.
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This week, we were BACK IN COURT The current Government are continuing to appeal our legal challenge of anti-protest powers brought in by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman. We now await judgment for the case, and will keep doing what it takes to #DefendDemocracy
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My top #Spotify songs of 2024.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I can see exactly where this is going. Right-wing think-tanks will be gunning for what they perceive as costly sacred cows, such as the high staff-resident ratio in LD/autism care compared to e.g. dementia care. Expect this to end badly for vulnerable adults and stupendously well for the Treasury.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:
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BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
On Radio 4 this morning Jeremy Bowen reported on the comments by Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust history at the Hebrew university in Jerusalem.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Pheasants bred in industrial farms, dumped into National Parks, then massacred for money. This is the shooting industry. It’s cruel, destructive, and morally indefensible. Time to shut it down.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If Michel Foucault were still alive, he would have won Masterchef and persuaded Greg Wallace to participate in a three-in-a-bed romp with a South Korean rent boy and Elon Musk's penniless clone.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
'Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same … Let us leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order.' Michel Foucault
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"Shifting to a plant rich diet especially in high-income nations is the biggest opportunity we have for meeting climate targets" Then a major bonus is the land it'd free up for carbon drawdown and wildlife. Lecture by @paulbehrens.bsky.social at Oxford Martin School www.youtube.com/live/jRMzGXu...
Shifting to a plant-rich diet would save the most emissions

Critically important in high-income nations

Diagram on cumulative food system GHG emissions clearly showing Plant-rich diets save the most Gt CO2-we 2020-2100 vs business as usual and other dietary shift scenarios.

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Clark, Michael A, Nina GG Domingo, Kimberly Colgan, Sumil K Thakrar, David Tilman, John Lynch, Ines L Azevedo, and Jason D Hill et al 2020
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today we honor and remember all the Natives who were slaughtered after helping white invaders from Europe from starving to death.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Holding up a mirror...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 27/11/2024
"Ceasefires, it seems, can work even for Lebanon, but Palestinians in Gaza are damned to mere hopes."
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There’s a Ceasefire in Lebanon, but Israel Keeps Gaslighting Palestinians About Ending the Assault on Gaza
A ceasefire was declared in Lebanon, but Israeli and officials gaslight Palestinians in Gaza, giving them a false hope.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What did Helen spike the wine with when Telemachus came to Sparta to see Menelaus in book 4 of The Odyssey? Opium?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
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Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
After the US agree to unconditionally back Rome, Starmer instructs Londoners to hand their city over to the Italians or suffer ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/11/2024
"The ICC’s intervention serves a critical purpose: to uphold the universal principles of humanity enshrined in international law. Accountability is essential to deterring future violations and ensuring justice for victims." — #AJOpinion by Refik Hodzic ⤵️
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Israel and its supporters cannot gaslight the law
Arguments that the ICC is ‘criminalising’ self-defence by issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are absurd.
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