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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 1h
Oskar Schindler war ein deutscher Industrieller, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg an die 1200 in seinen Fabriken angestellte jüdische Zwangsarbeiter vor der Ermordung im Konzentrationslager rettete. 28. April 1908 - 9. Oktober 1974 Guten Morgen 
Ein Foto von ihm. Man sieht einen Mann mit einem breiteren Gesicht, der konzentriert in die Ferne schaut. Er trägt einen hellen Anzug,Hemd und Krawatte
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Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 08/10/2026
RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Highland landscape with pylon; the sun is catching the glass insulators
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
The Subway with approaching train
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
My sister had that hat!
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
A red plaque installed by the Tower Hamlets Environmental Trust, reading The Battle of Cable Street The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS"
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welcome to the new and returning students, nice to have you
Gibbs Building and Kings College Chapel at night
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
British authorities arrested scores of elderly protestors for peacefully holding signs that expressed solidarity with Palestine Action and opposing genocide. One of them was 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen. She is now being referred to as "the oldest terrorist in Britain."
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Our Iso/De Tomaso/Jensen club weekend in the Netherlands ended with us ignominiously broken down beside the M25. A slightly bodgy year-old fuel pump repair chose to fail in a place that isn't conducive to roadside fixing. Our insurance includes get-you-home recovery, but that was a lengthy process.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is there an article on Russian on the landing page of the BBC News website?
A screenshot of the headline, in Russian, and a photo of Donald Trump exiting an Air China plane, accompanying an article in Russian
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026
I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
These anti-refugee villagers saying 'we're protecting 𝘰𝘶𝘳 women'.
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Buzz (Ear)#WhiskersWednesday
A long-haired tabby-and-white cat, with the sun highlighting his ear-tufts
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sad news. His books illuminated my work hugely 🙏🏾
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To Rannoch Moor
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 27/06/2024
biblically accurate Aslan
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 18/09/2026
It is with profound sadness we share that Professor Robert E. Dickinson, one of the most influential Earth system scientists of our time, passed away on 11 September 2026. AGU extends heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. Read AGU's full remembrance: spklr.io/63320ETmA4
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Where the hell is the Prime Minister? What the hell is our government doing about terrorists closing down life saving volunteer based resources like this?
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Griff @griffos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington, the antithesis of Paddington 🐻.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 16/09/2026
That is sad news. Bonnie attended several proEU rallies. She was a great supporter of grassroot organisiations, including ours and was always willing to engage. She was a wonderfully warm and kind person.
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On the history of Cambridge Railway Station 1845 to the present day. Tony Kirby formerly of @angliaruskin.bsky.social will be giving this talk on 01 Oct 2026 at St Giles. www.churchatcastle.org/events/the-r...
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026
Excellent letter in The Times. "Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors."
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
A dark blue Iso Grifo and a very smart Ferrari - I'm not good at identifying those - at the 96 Club today
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Ooh - I love Nicky Spence's jacket. #LastNight
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
September 9, 1958, the description of Charnia masoni (here with the author Trevor Ford) published. Charnia is significant because it was the first British Precambrian fossil to be recognized as such ...
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Sarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
After learning the facts, “within five minutes they were gone.” If only all Reform supporters made a habit of responding like this to the truth whenever it contradicts their assumptions.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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SeaYou #FBPE 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🇩🇪Germany September 6, 2026.
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#OTD in 1940, Duxford airfield. Sergeant Bohumil Furst from Czechoslovakian 310 Squadron. He survived the war. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
NOOZE: “What other political parties?” Asks BBC’s Chris Mason www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There could be no clearer signal that Reform propose to be a fascist government The purpose of a state of emergency is to suspend constitutional requirements Politicians and journalists who are committed to democracy should understand and act accordingly www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farge set to declare 'national emergency' in huge Reform speech
Nigel Farage will make his keynote speech at Reform UK's conference - follow live
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is making it very plain that if Reform wins power they will permit no change or scrutiny to their plans from parliament, the judiciary or officials, under a state of emergency. Anyone who objects will be replaced.
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Anne Robbins @hincmariana.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An ancient listing, flagged in an old cutting from the Guardian, for a job at Southeast Missouri State University, to teach philosophy and religious studies. Startlingly frank.
An old newspaper clipping, apparently from the Guardian:

ENCLOSED is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly... We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted PhD's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St Louis.
Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy, but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time... We also offer a rellgious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda.
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SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual - somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting— and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playful-ness, or independence of moral and political thought.
Job advertisement written by the chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the Southeast Missouri State University
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer's parting gift to his successor: a tricky first by-election defence in a Labour seat where the Greens will fancy their chances...
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Estelle Wolfers 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🫶🦈 @firetower.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Blue Öyster Cult Elvis Costello Hawkwind Jethro Tull Mournful Congregation Sparks The Stranglers Trivium Voivod
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#CeilingsOnSunday Tate Britain #aofoto
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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Aerial footage made by Chinese authorities of the Gyirong border crossing, 15-20 kilometers downstream, there is nothing left
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Island is having one of his tantrums again, the wind asides, the joke being the volcano is long extinct, until it isn't." - Fahad Al-Amoudi
Cinnabar Island
From 'when the flies come'
By Fahad al-amoudi

Who says no man is an island is himself
an archipelago, whose waters are so green
they hide within themselves, like a thief,
or disgraced god, the secret of fire.
Here, the volcano curdles a burlap sack
of hearts. Here, the dead and resurrected
crowd underneath terracotta roofs
like soldiers beneath helmets.

An abandoned house erupts
from the hill by the western shore, stones
scavenge what moss they can. A sign,
English broken as the windows, says
'No Stealers'. How much more is there
to mine from a thing as ordinary as disaster?
Devotion is its own kind of vanity. I see
the ocean has broken into

laughter. Island is having one of his tantrums
again, the wind asides, the joke being
the volcano is long extinct, until it isn't.
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