Reposted by Richard HallPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Invitation to discuss my half-sacking (or ‘variation of contract’) with HR and the dean. I wonder what it could mean… 9562
Reposted by Richard HallPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics. 211637
Reposted by Richard HallIreland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Once again the children suffer thanks to loyalists. They clearly haven't learnt anything from their behaviour at the Holy Cross School in north Belfast in 2001. 27228
Reposted by Richard HallNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nationalise everything he owns and ban him from Britain. He’s a threat to national securitybbc.co.ukSir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas pricesIneos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US. 1016348
Reposted by Richard HallMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 08/09/2026If you would ever like a distraction, I wrote a cathartic self-indulgent blog post last night that explains all my health problems clearly, where they come from and why I seem to have so many of them. It also explains what's happening at the moment with my current treatment. eve.gd/2026/09/07/a...eve.gdA further health update... 5252
Reposted by Richard Hall👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep 251821533
Reposted by Richard HallDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect. 7872081140
Reposted by Richard HallChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music 244129872238
Reposted by Richard HallBex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Ed Sheeran to represent Piddington at Eurovision 201155278
Reposted by Richard HallUCU Hallam @ucuhallam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We stand in solidarity with the Translation & Interpreting staff at the Uni of Birmingham in the fight against compulsory redundancies. Please share & sign their petition✊️ Petition: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...change.orgFirma la petizioneStop redundancies at the University of Birmingham 001
Reposted by Richard HallLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026University HR departments really forget what *H* in their name stands for, don't they? This gaming of the rules may be legally correct it definitely isn't morally. Much love to Wolverhampton colleagues and @plashingvole.bsky.social in particular. 0369
Reposted by Richard HallProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026⚠️ 🌍 ⚠️ We stand with humanity: A scientist statement to confront climate destruction⚠️ 🌍 ⚠️ ✒️ 🙏 If you are an academic or healthcare professional, please consider signing. 🙏✒️ framaforms.org/we-stand-wit...framaforms.orgWe stand with humanity: A scientist statement to confront climate destruction | Framaforms.org 79369
Reposted by Richard Halldominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The fruit of my postdoc academic labor (!) + that of my co-editors and 38 brilliant contributing authors... The Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and Ideas, published today by @mitpress.bsky.social open access 💕 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205417...mitpress.mit.eduThe Aesthetics of Machine VisionThe Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, researchers, and artists who explore machine vision from various academic and nonacademic perspect... 34410
Reposted by Richard HallDarren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026ALL ISRAELI SOLDIERS ARE WAR CRIMINALS 1346
Reposted by Richard HallHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 31/08/2026Movements to abolish police will have to transform the social, economic, and political conditions of capitalist relations, of which police are a linchpin. Socialists must be abolitionists, and abolitionists must be anti-capitalist.againstthecurrent.orgEnds and Beginnings: An Abolitionist ManifestoTheir End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition By brian bean Haymarket Books, 2025, 280 pages, $19.95 paper. IN MAY 2006 in Oaxaca, Mexico, teachers and their families assembled for a … 02711
Reposted by Richard HallParis Marx @parismarx.com · 30/08/2026Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets. I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap. Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly. 30620206
Reposted by Richard HallWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc). This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...state.govDesignation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of StateToday, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati... 6665390
Reposted by Richard HallJoshua Sharp @joshuasharp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026John, this article is a mess. You refer to Confas as a professor multiple times. He is not a professor, he's a postdoc. This is a not a nitpick, it's a real distinction with real differences in duties and privileges. 357552
Reposted by Richard HallOsaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 26/08/2026remember: its not a data center its a surveillance data processing complex 14165282087
Reposted by Richard HallOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/08/2026Please stop taking at face value what Cofnas says about anything including his own situation. He's not fired. He's not been suspended for being a whistleblower. He's suspended, yes, but for other important things, like bringing the university into disrepute. 413032
Reposted by Richard HallTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent 172691470
Reposted by Richard HallThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon has reiterated that the West Bank is not Palestinian land occupied by Israel but rather land based on historical and biblical rights of Jewish people. It’s for this reason that he thought calling Jewish communities “settlers” in their “own land” was a disgrace. 145
Reposted by Richard HallPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Absolutely the situation here. The 3 out of 12 people who survive (we find out next week, probably) will be faced with teaching departing colleagues’ modules or finding and supporting underpaid hourly staff to do so in 3 weeks’ time. It can’t go well for anyone at all. 36329
Reposted by Richard Hallamulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this. 10999314
Reposted by Richard HallTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...bylinetimes.comThe Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason ArdayThe media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network 3127241193
Reposted by Richard HallDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026My favourite post today 18814
Reposted by Richard Hallflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A great example of what always happens when the lads are asked to consider their own deep, immediately obvious guilt: like the Iraq War or austerity or Brexit, it turns out it was everybody’s fault. And if it’s everybody’s fault, nobody is really to blame www.thetimes.com/article/aadd...thetimes.comJason Arday was failed by the system — and by meThe academic my sister knew was ‘kind, wise, warm and fun’, if also deeply flawed. The system that overpromoted him should have been the target, not him 1418050
Reposted by Richard HallLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/08/2026‘The opacity around finances is astonishing given the sums involved: according to the 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, the US has collected $13 billion of Venezuela’s oil revenue, yet no one seems able to say where those billions are.’ Tony Wood on US imperialism in the Americas. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukTony Wood · Maximum Pressure: Cuba on the BrinkIf every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as... 11510
Reposted by Richard Hallpublicporpoise.bsky.social @publicporpoise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If there’s one thing @moneyontheleft.bsky.social is really great at, it’s not “paywalling” the revolution. First class in that shit. 084
Reposted by Richard HallClapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 12/08/202647' GOAL!!! From the resulting corner, Junia Charlton heads in the equaliser Sporting Bengal 1 Clapton CFC 1 0123
Reposted by Richard HallYanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026And so the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank accelerates against the backdrop of the never-ending genocide in Gaza 12157122
Reposted by Richard Hallflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Looks like some folk have got the idea that it’s time to hound Them out of the profession. “Them” simply being people with e.g. problematic Twitter likes or out of context quotes, of course, nothing more sinister than that. Just as it always is, when the lads really fire up the hate machine. 1012425
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026On the witch hunt (academic lynching?) of Jason Arday: "The demand is not for a corrected record; it is for a person to be unmade." www.linkedin.com/pulse/jason-... 200
Reposted by Richard HallFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Vice-Chancellor of University of Bristol (salary £312,251): “I take a really personal view on this. My oldest daughter is the only child in my family who really is making a very significant amount of money.” 35735
Reposted by Richard HallRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"The only AI I support is Abolish ICE" Sticker spotted in NYC 0428118
Reposted by Richard HallHayley Draws Churches @hayleyfern.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The Church of the Martyrs, Westcotes Drive, Leicester Number 111 of 310 Leicester Diocese churches 0132
Reposted by Richard HallDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Dumping Big Tech isn't just a matter of personal politics or even of tech sovereignty (which is a con anway) it's a matter of survival. Big Tech is the latest flag bearer for civilisation-ending extractivism and all the delusions about progress that keep us addicted to it. 517563
Reposted by Richard HallCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/08/2026"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated [act of civic duty]." Blinding the cyclops, wrecking the panopticon. crimethinc.com/blindingthec...valleynewslive.comAll of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolenLost cameras valued at about $24,000 14428170
Reposted by Richard HallDoug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Good Israelis don't tolerate the IDF. 094
Reposted by Richard HallIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 03/08/2026Palestinian trade unionists have long called on workers worldwide to refuse arms shipments to Israel. Dockworkers answered—from Belgium and Sweden to Italy. Now unions in six countries are organizing for October 30.inthesetimes.comDockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and GenocideUnions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30. 113959
Reposted by Richard HallPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A months-long thread of things people put on their dating profiles because - presumably - they think it will attract the right person, when actually it explains why exactly they’re alone. Some are jaw-dropping. Sympathies and hat-tip to Sarah. 5186
Reposted by Richard HallLeft Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards. 15931196
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026... each is victim to the ‘catastrophic convergence’, in Christian Parenti’s provocative turn of phrase, of capitalist underdevelopment and capital’s destabilisation of earth systems. 000
Reposted by Richard HallBDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for forming broad intersectional coalitions to lead contract exclusion campaigns, peaceful disruptions, and other creative forms of pressure on institutions contracting Palantir around the world. 012764
Reposted by Richard HallSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Abolition feminism addresses issues of the carceral state in a wider conversation around its industrial scale. The critical discussions emanating from abolition feminism require larger dissemination. It’s not a niche concept-topic; it’s a critical reimagination of the social fabric instead. 05716
Reposted by Richard HallOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material" 363540996
Reposted by Richard HallWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/07/2026#OtD 29 Jul 1996 four women anti-war activists were acquitted in Liverpool, UK of all charges related to extensively damaging a fighter jet. They were found not guilty on the basis of preventing a greater crime: the genocidal occupation of East Timor stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1010... 111653
Reposted by Richard HallLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/07/2026‘Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.’ @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social reviews Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my... 2214