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Academia is not a woke space. Beyond superficial claims, it's very much governed by the same old structures of oppression present in wider society (racism, misogyny, ableism, queerphobia, classism etc) further entrenched by neoliberal logics

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It seems the Tories and the Telegraph are teaming up to try and rid Britain of disability by taking away people’s safety net, whilst blaming them for all Britains problems. It’s cruelty personified. It is the very worst of humanity and they should be ashamed of themselves.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Like many others, I had unfortunately called the government's delirious "let it rot" policy - we'll see further collapse before we see any improvement. And unless @ucu.org.uk takes back its role and calls a national, open-ended #strike blocking all Unis in solidarity, nothing will improve.

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Courtney Lovecraft 🐙 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 11/10/2026

What has the BBC ever done for… transphobia?

Romesh Ranganathan in the Queen Victoria in that awful “what has the BBC ever done for me?” PR campaign

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Come on now Burnham, you said you wanted to end neoliberalism, so do it. Start by ending the outsourcing of our services to the profiteers.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today is World Mental Health Day. And given the dismal state of our world, the only thing I can think of is that one scene in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, when the troops arrive in Britain. - Old Man: "Well done, lads. Well done." - Alex: "All we did is survive." - Old Man: "That's enough."

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Sylvie62 @sylvie-62.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sighs in trans… how often has the trans community pointed out that every approach to attacking us can be reused / repurposed against other minorities and folk were like, “Ah but trans folk icky” and so here we are… see also today’s misreporting about ADHD

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Really glad all the media guys have put their heads together and decided that neurodivergent people are the next group to go after. Fair enough, we've had it far too easy for far too long.

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Courtney Lovecraft 🐙 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 09/10/2026

the report, from professionals in the relevant fields, says that ADHD and autism is under-diagnosed and people affected by that are not given enough support in an appropriate and timely manner. but that’s not the result the government wants, so that means the spin apparatus has chosen this form.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Many people - politicians, doctors, parents - see the neurodiversity movement & feel the threat it poses to their worldview. If some minds are different, if some of us are fucked by the school system as it stands - totally shamed & brutalised by its inadequacy - that requires radical change.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wes Streeting is the plastic reason why Burnham can try no matter what pantomime, but we will still hate this Labour party. Here he is feeding the new far right culture war front. The goal is justifying cuts to support and set artificial limits to diagnoses to hit some arbitrary targets of saving.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Telling 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.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Macron has consistently shown contempt for democracy, refusing even to appoint a left-leaning gov after 2024 elex. Today, kids demanding investment in better futures are schooling adults in democratic agency. His gov responds with manipulation, intimidation & violence - a lesson in abuse of power.

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8 graphiques pour comprendre la colère des lycéens

Etat des bâtiments, taille des classes, heures non assurées, dépenses par élève… la situation de l'enseignement secondaire en France est disparate. Mais la mul…

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mainstream media have been equally pathetic, demanding that left-leaning interviewees “condemn violence” - a familiar gatekeeping ritual, echoing the “Do you condemn Hamas?” routine that shifts attention from political demands to compulsory disavowals. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Mobilisation des lycéens : les éditocrates veulent rétablir l’ordre

YouTube video by Acrimed Vidéos

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The government’s response to students’ demands has been pathetic: it first blamed LFI, delegitimising the movement and focusing on “urban violence”. It then offered dialogue and an online “grievance book” to collect complaints, with no clear funding commitments.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Protests have now spread to universities and education workers. On the 6th of October, Union étudiante reported over 57 university sites blocked. Organisers counted 450,000 demonstrators nationwide, including 100,000 in Paris, supporting students’ demands and opposing police repression.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On the 5th of October 2026, riot police entered Sorbonne Nouvelle’s Nation campus following a student assembly and blockade. The intervention recalls the police evacuation of the historic Sorbonne on the 3rd of May 1968, which helped ignite the uprising.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Two-state solution" is an empty slogan itself, designed to protect the colonial arrangements.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The equation between one of the most armed states in the world and tiny tribal polities with limited access to water and energy is absolutely untenable.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hegemony stresses the need to undermine the political assumptions of liberal modernity, in a gradualist culturalist way. The battle we're seeing is their strategy becoming mainstream, and how the far right is becoming mainstream (and, slowly, hegemonic). //end

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The article misses a key process: the meta political engagement of the right-wing Gramscians of the Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne (De Benoist's Nouvelle Droite) since the 70s that inspired the global right since at least the 90s. Their (wrong) reading of ->

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Identity instead of class and has become individualised. I'd argue this is false, but in any case the left emerging from the long neoliberal phase is evidently much more aware of individual rights and freedoms (and their role in coalition- and subject- construction). I would also argue that ->

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very good read, except for the ridiculous "illiberal forces from both the left and the right", which introduces a false equivalence in a phase in which all emerging illiberal forces are from the more or less fascist right. Even more absurd given the raging debate on how the left has focused on ->

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 05/10/2026

🇫🇷 Blocage des lycées: la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme a dénoncé lundi une "dérive globale par rapport à l'État de droit" et "le non-respect du cadre légal" lors des interventions des forces de l'ordre face aux lycéens mobilisés depuis plusieurs jours ⤵️

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Ultimes scories @panettonepazzo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Emmanuel Macron « Président des jeunes »

Capture d’écran d’un article web de France 3 avec ce texte :

« Blocage des lycées : « Ce qui est inédit c’est l’ampleur de la répression » estime un sociologue spécialiste des mouvements sociaux de jeunesse »

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think part of the liberal outrage is that it doesn't put non-Palestinian voices, specifically the other side, front and centre on the question of Palestine. From British empire one, it's been considered the right of the coloniser to decide the terms of decolonisation.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 06/10/2026

“We are ready to talk.” UCU members at Nottingham are taking sustained strike action against devastating job and course cuts. The action is having an impact. It’s in management’s interest to get around the table and resolve this dispute. Support the strike: educationitsours.org

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At a certain point you see stuff like this and think "just do it already" because it's been the logical endpoint of all the hysteria around any left-of-Labour or pro-Gaza candidate after the last election. They want to make voting for anyone left of Labour illegal. Do it already and let's dance.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Raid on Birzeit University by the IDF last night. It's the same university attended by Palestine footballer Natalie Abudayyeh - who was taken at gunpoint in June, along with other students. She is still in prison. Still no charge put to her.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today I'm testing the BlueSky philosophy, "Block and move on", against the tens of delusional Zionists who are unaware to be complicit with genocide if they condemn "Bibi" and defend the apartheid state towards a "Two State Solution", which legitimise the Nakhba. www.plutobooks.com/product/one-...

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One State - Pluto Press

A radical case for a one-state solution from the renowned Palestinian writer and Nakba survivor

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A reading pile for those interested in the history of anti-fascism in Britain

A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League - Geoff Brown
Physical Resistance - Dave Hann
Our Flag Stays Red - Phil Piratin
London Jews and British Communism 1933-1945 Henry Felix Srbernik
When We Touched the Sky - David Renton
Black Star - Anandi Ramamurthy
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider - Satnam Virdee
British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1945-79 - Joshua Cohen
Never Again - David Renton
Say it Loud - edited by Brian Richardson
Beating the Fascists - Sean Birchall
No Platform - Evan Smith
The 43 Group - Morris Beckman
No Free Speech for Fascists - David Renton
Remembering Cable Street - edited by Tony Kushner & Nadia Valman
We Fight Fascists - Daniel Sonabend
Anti-Fascism in Britain - Nigel Copsey

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

L'extrême-droite de plus en plus sur BSKY. Pour éviter de faire les mêmes erreurs que sur X est-ce qu'on peut appliquer un politique de l'ignorance stratégique? Pas d'engagement et on bloque direct.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.

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arnie @arnie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

andy burnham was an op used to prevent increasing support for a left wing alternative among predominantly 'normie libs' who had even begun to realise how shit starmer, who was also an op, was

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our government thinks you're a terrorist if you protest this.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not holding my breath, not least because the author of the worst of these polices, Yvette Cooper, is still in government, and her successor in the Home Office, Shabana Mahmood, has defended and extended her draconian anti-protest measures. And yes, these measures really are mad and bad.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not as if Burnham and Miliband are radicals. It's not as if the UK has stopped providing weapons, surveillance and logistical support to a government pursuing genocide. But at least we begin to see some acknowledgement that it's not mad and bad to care about the lives of Palestinians.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spot on on the cancel culture framing

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Plot twist: Britain was an Imperial power because of the 'tism. Much better story if you ask me.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You might ask yourself “whose side are they on?”. You might not like the answer, but it becomes hard to deny. So why? Why, when we know that appeasing the far right empowers and builds it, do they keep doing it, alienating their base and helping to deliver the country to Reform or Restore?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So the favourite obsession of the far right, being weaponised by US billionaires to push us towards their technofascist dystopia, is repeatedly legitimised by a Labour government. Other concerns, including the longstanding concerns of the left, are vilified and delegitimised.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“…would be offered help according to a “holistic” assessment of their needs” Can’t think where I’ve heard that before…🤔 Oh wait… And we know where that leads.

The Health Department's minister of state for secondary care, Karin Smyth, said during a Tuesday (13 January) Commons debate, the Government has supported plans to move away from the "medical intervention model" when providing care for trans and non-binary young people.
Instead, it planned on moving towards a "holistic approach" to treatment based on evidence provided by the Cass Review - a controversial independent analysis into health care for trans youngsters in the UK.

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