Reposted by Mark Nixongamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered. 38980236
Reposted by Mark Nixon🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122122485210
Reposted by Mark NixonJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 5h"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.socialinquirer.comA 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decadesAfter measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system. 22389173
Reposted by Mark NixonAlison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 11h“Civic nationalism is not, nor ever should it be, a matter of blood or filiation, but freedom and affiliation.” A wonderful piece @peterjukes.bsky.social and also expressing tennents of Scottish civic nationalism so threatened now by casual Racism, intimidation balaclava-ed nonsense and violence 1249
Reposted by Mark NixonFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 11h"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"gadgetreview.comTrump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than StonehengeArizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026. 34627
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 12hSide-eye from multiple #LowlandLeague and #HighlandLeague champions. Euer System ist krank, Scotland. #SFA #SPFL www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukGerman football: The leagues where champions aren't promotedGerman football is grappling with a sum that doesn't add up - four promotion spots for five league champions. 000
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 12h"The life you can look forward to after the dozen or so years of destructive grind of school is the 50-year-long destructive grind of making the wealthy wealthier." #schools #work #capitalism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEmployers should teach primary-age children about work, Milburn saysThe author of a major report into youth activity in the UK says children as young as four should be learning about careers. 010
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13hIf you support this government, you support the elimination of the trans community. #DontVoteLabour 020
Reposted by Mark NixonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he dislikedbylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 841504615
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13hThe Labour government's cruel targeting of disabled people has not halted under Burnham. Their hatred knows no bounds. #ableistLabour #DontVoteLabour 01910
Reposted by Mark NixonArchitectural Heritage Society of Scotland @theahss.bsky.social · 13hIf a building could speak, what might it say? Our latest magazine takes us from Mavisbank and the Bernat Klein Studio to Portobello’s George Cinema, exploring the people and partnerships working to protect places that matter. Which story will you turn to first? buff.ly/xuORZEb 144
Reposted by Mark NixonMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/10/2026Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra... #Palestine #Israelmondoweiss.net 11826
Reposted by Mark NixonIssa Amro @issa-amro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Israeli settlers are stealing olive harvests in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, targeting Palestinian farmers and their livelihoods. #hebron #palestine #palestine🇵🇸 #apartheid 077
Reposted by Mark Nixon4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026She deserves justice 👇 388122682661
Reposted by Mark NixonPhiladelphia Gay News @phillygaynews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“I create for Black trans men. That’s why I create my art,” Beverly said. “That’s my targeted audience — and for them, I just hope they can see themselves in these paintings, and I hope they can walk away with a sense of joy and sense of pride.” epgn.com/2026/09/29/p...epgn.comPhiladelphia-based artist Jah Beverly showcases Black trans masculinity at inaugural GLAAD exhibition - Philadelphia Gay NewsThe work of Jah Beverly, a Philadelphia-based contemporary and figurative artist, will be featured in GLAAD’s first-ever visual art exhibition. 053
Reposted by Mark NixonToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 441553528
Reposted by Mark NixonMr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Finland Drained Its Peatlands. Now Tero Mustonen has led a successful effort to restore roughly 80 areas of ecologically critical peatlands across his native Finland & talks about the importance of bringing Indigenous knowledge to rewilding initiatives.. e360.yale.edu/features/ter...e360.yale.eduFinland Drained Its Peatlands. He’s Helping Bring Them BackTero Mustonen has led a successful effort to restore roughly 80 areas of ecologically critical peatlands across his native Finland. In an interview, he talks about the importance of bringing Indigenou... 0133
Reposted by Mark NixonCholula @cholulaconamor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Without the online friends I’ve made over the years, some of whom have become offline friends (even recently!), I would be a much, much lonelier person. Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too. 520252
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 23hIt really does show how hollow centrist-liberal thinking is right now that Burnham appears radical. *shrugs* 120
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 02/10/2026According to Braverman, I (born in Ely to parents born in Birmingham & Solihull) am not English, due to Irish grandparents. My partner (born in Coventry to parents born in Burton & Liverpool) is not English, due to Welsh grandparents. Tbf, our kids (born in Scotland) would hate to be called English. 020
Reposted by Mark NixonApollo @apollo-magazine.com · 02/10/2026‘Writing alt text is not only an exercise in close looking and tackling certain cultural assumptions but also something of an art form in itself.’ Emma Cieslik on how descriptions intended for low-vision users can change the way everyone looks at artbuff.lyHow to describe a work of artAlt text in museums doesn’t benefit only low-vision users – it helps all of us think more deeply about how to understand an artwork 074
Reposted by Mark NixonThe Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026❝ The film shatters ‘respectable’ Israelis’ illusion of moral superiority: The most prestigious, highly educated soldiers are the primary culprits of genocide ❞ — Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown)972mag.comWhy ‘NAZA’ terrifies Israel's liberal eliteThe film shatters ‘respectable’ Israelis’ illusion of moral superiority: The most prestigious, highly educated soldiers are the primary culprits of genocide. 12011
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A classic white liberal take on #culturalrestitution. Unsurprising from Jenkins, of course, archetypal white racist that he is. Europeans should have their stuff back, but not a word about Africa, Asia, the Americas, or Australasia. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comShould we refuse to give the Bayeux tapestry back to France? Of course not! So why are we keeping the Parthenon marbles? | Simon JenkinsIt is simply wrong for the British Museum to hoard what doesn’t belong to Britain. Let the squabbling end and the sculptures be returned to Greece, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins 000
Reposted by Mark NixonSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off. 361282251
Reposted by Mark NixonGarrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Roy Lichtenstein, a talent-free dipshit who did nothing but plagiarize much better artists, adding only his sneering contempt for them 312620
Reposted by Mark NixonIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Lichtenstein wasn't even mid, technically OR conceptually, and I'll die on that hill without hesitation 224837
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The timidity of young Britons - and, yes, my generation was terrible, too - is truly depressing. We are destroying the lives of young people, and they are juat shrugging their shoulders. Not in France, though. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comFires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protestsGovernment struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations 010
Reposted by Mark NixonMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI. 520577
Reposted by Mark NixonJojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CW/YW cornell Fucking facebook Trying to search for relevant posts and 2nd recommendation is fucking MATT FUCKING WALSH get to fuck, god i hate nazi site 122
Reposted by Mark NixonPriyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175varsity.co.ukOrr’s lectures covered by a postgradJames Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge 1216176
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Racists - and, yes, I include Burnham and Starmer, Mahmood and Cooper in that - are going to destroy our #universities, killing off access to higher education for working-class kids and local communities in the process. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUniversity of Sunderland seeking £40m cuts amid visa refusalsStaff are told Sunderland University is planning huge and permanent budget cuts by next year. 110
Reposted by Mark NixonLorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And still crickets from the governmentbbc.co.ukUniversity of Sunderland seeking £40m cuts amid visa refusalsStaff are told Sunderland University is planning huge and permanent budget cuts by next year. 052
Reposted by Mark NixonDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...doi.orgA 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjordEarly in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run... 16256105
Reposted by Mark Nixonflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Remember how that guy said: it’s all about creating a permission structure for cuts? He didn’t mean “get it past you, the public”, he meant “convince Labour MPs to vote for it”. 310833
Reposted by Mark NixonWasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026@intifadabatata.bsky.social spoke with queer Arab writers Tareq Baconi and Saleem Haddad on their latest books – FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION and FLOODLINES – in this interview from our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities. Read the full interview for free throughout October: buff.ly/BKYlzyp 123
Reposted by Mark NixonFree Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Public attitudes to free movement are more nuanced than 2016 suggested. British Future's research finds support grows when it's framed around trade benefits and opportunities for UK citizens. Heather Rolfe explores what that means for future EU relations.freemovement.org.ukFree movement gains support where it brings benefits to trade and opportunities for UK citizens - Free MovementResearch has found almost half of those surveyed (46%) would vote to rejoin the EU, which would mean accepting free movement. 001
Reposted by Mark NixonDisability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The BBC has failed to explain why the host of its flagship current affairs programme Question Time has repeatedly pushed the idea that social security spending must be cut, while ignoring official figures that debunk claims it is “spiralling”. #BBCQT www.disabilitynewsservice.com/bbc-fails-to...disabilitynewsservice.comBBC fails to explain why Question Time host repeatedly fails to debunk the lie of ‘spiralling welfare’The BBC has failed to explain why the host of its flagship current affairs programme Question Time has repeatedly pushed the idea that social security spending must be cut, while ignoring official … 15231
Reposted by Mark NixonJesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.) 14477187
Reposted by Mark NixonJuliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse 11724
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A few days ago, I had someone insisting to me that Burnham isn't a racist. Here is Burnham, being racist. In an interview with GBNews. #racistLabour #AndyBurnham. 021
Reposted by Mark NixonRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Local HERO in Kansas gets arrested for slashing ICE agent's tires. In an effort to deescalate the surrounding crowd, the cop arresting him yelled that the Kansas man is being arrested for slashing tires. The crowd cheered in response to that and basically gave the man a standing ovation. 16636201059
Reposted by Mark NixonScottish Transport & Industrial Collections & Knowledge Network @sticknetwork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Join us on 13 November to celebrate 200 years of Scotland’s railways Booking is live for our autumn conference at the Engine Shed, Sirling. Topics include viaducts, signalling & how the railways created the fish supper! Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/stick-conf...eventbrite.comSTICK Conference: 200 Years of Scotland's RailwaysSTICK's autumn conference will explore Scotland's rich railway heritage. 044
Reposted by Mark NixonProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is what genocide looks like in the early decades of the 21st century www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comNew Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in GazaSatellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire 38845
Reposted by Mark NixonNPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3ptinyurl.comA major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreA major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413 07731
Reposted by Mark NixonJ @iammrj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fun fact: "Leave" still wins in polls as soon as any of the obvious requirements of joining the EU (I.e. full Schengen, Euro, etc) are included and this has been consistent for years. yougov.com/en-gb/articl...yougov.comWhat do Britons think of Brexit, 10 years since the referendum?57% of Britons believe the UK was wrong to vote to leave the EU, and 55% want to rejoin... unless the UK can’t keep it’s previous opt-outs 33215
Reposted by Mark NixonMonica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh look another "terrorist attack" that Zionist butchers will now use to justify expanding their genocide 232
Reposted by Mark NixonDr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“No one goes into academia to drive a Ferrari or live in a mansion. They do it because they love it. They don’t want to be striking. They just want a little bit of job security,” --- Theo Warshaw, Edinburgh University #HigherEd #teaching #student #strike #cuts www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comEdinburgh joins UK universities heading for strikes as cuts spread through entire sectorStudents at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty 23115
Reposted by Mark NixonJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anyone who, in 2026, is already saying “I don’t want to vote for Newsom but I will” is part of the problem. This man is a fucking monster and has betrayed everyone imaginable. He is unacceptable in every possible way. There is no world in which this piece of shit should be trusted with power. 28676186