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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I read this to say that 2 police officers had been arrested...

Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm all for freedom of speech and academic freedom, but I always come back to Karl Popper. We shouldn't tolerate intolerance. And racists/TERFs are simply intolerant surely? Their views should not be up for debate, just as I'm not going to debate whether women are 'too emotional' for leadership.

But we should claim the right to suppress them [intolerant ideologies] if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Aside from just how ridiculous this is in racial terms - I'm pretty sure that White working class girls are now falling behind because we've been pumping money/effort into tackling this issue for past few years (rightly so). So he's a few years too late to start acting concerned.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Couldn't resist sponsoring the far right walk tomorrow!

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hang on a minute. I thought this was the 'Peace President'? Didn't he actually CAMPAIGN on the fact that he was NOT going to enter wars? That he would specifically be AGAINST war? And yet you can't help feel like he's actually rather a fan of war? When do you chuck him out for his false campaign?

Picture of President Trump. Text states: When asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump says "I guess... like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die".

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I know who we should be attacking for using racist language - and it's not Davidson.

2 posts - one after other. First is discussing the racist term used by Tourette's suffered John Davidson, the second is about Restore Britain's racist language.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Kitchen ripped out and found some lovely looking tiles under my oven! Wonder how old they are? (House built 1918). Feels awful ripping them out... may cover them up and someone else in decades can also find them!

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is currently my back garden. The urge to buy an inflatable crocodile and put it out there to greet the builders on Monday is requiring ALL my willpower to resist!

a building site of a garden with a huge trench around the outside.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The "before" shot... these sheds getting knocked down and replaced with an extended kitchen!

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hundreds of university staff in the rain demonstrating against cuts across multiple universities.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yesterday, House of Lords in the sunshine (and over 2 hours giving evidence to committee!). Today? A rainy picket line because my employer is closing vital depts and cutting staff from our university.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

(if you've forgotten your Lewis Carroll - explained in the Alt Text!)

Picture of Humpty Dumpty from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass' who had exchange with Alice: “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I watched this as a comedy/drama as it's labelled, turns out it really was just reality TV.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Learning loads (again) at our @leicesterucu.bsky.social teach out... strike week 2. Keeping strike strong and getting management to the table...

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Is not "fun" spending mornings on picket line and so was delighted to come home to my BFF newest book! That's my afternoon sorted!!!

New book by amazing children's author Lisa Thompson, called The Skeleton Puzzle.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

One of the things I worry about most - probably a 'first gen/ imposter syndrome' thing - is that I'll slip into using inappropriate language. I know I am too 'informal' or blunt at times (and yes, I swear). But I should stop worrying if this is what the VP is allowed to say...