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polanski wasn't even present for the vote but as usual it goes to show that israel's status as a safe haven for global jewry is entirely conditional on one's support for whichever israeli government happens to be in power at the time

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 8h

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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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 8h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 21h

Again, let's just stop & remember that age-based legal restrictions on access to social media/online services are a bad idea & infringe the rights of young people to speak, access information and arts & culture, find community and play. Then look at the madness involved in trying to make them work.

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

All ethnonationalism is racism. Sorry to burst bubble. You can't run around criticising boat stabbers for their 'English patriotism' and then say 'oh but all ethnic groups deserve their own homeland' like @owenjones.bsky.social What, anyway, is an 'ethnic group' if not race by another other name?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What's going on here is the same as always: middle class bigots want to have their bigotries coddled and think that being just house trained enough to not use slurs makes their behaviour acceptable in mixed company.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again I am pointing out that no matter how good a proxy for "has money" you think age is, it isn't actually especially accurate.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are older people more likely to be asset rich? Sure. But, again, that's a proxy measure and not an especially good one.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/10/2026

Entire generation of tech nerds never realized that talking to the computer on star trek was a narrative device and it is very rare that anyone wants to so this except necessary hands free situations

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David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By chance and for the first time ever, this year's modules are arranged in number order on my online dashboard. Thank god. It's not as good as the system just letting me rearrange them but it will do for one year.

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David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll never be convinced a government is taking the country's issues seriously unless they announce truly massive increases to local authority budgets alongside whatever other improvements they suggest.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really fucking gullible or playing the game so they can return to cosy two party politics. Why not both

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A key point people are missing about the link to earning in the triple lock

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But I was assured that if you said what we had was the Thatcherite settlement, this was deranged far left lunacy and conspiracism. Has this view been updated now?

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s a lot of saying but not much evidence of doing Ian

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the definition of a PR stunt. Mahmood's "safe routes" are so restrictive and limited to be effectively worthless. Considering Labour has closed more safe routes than previous government, this is a purely media driven move over providing genuine protection. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians

Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There were no words of empathy or support for Britain’s 10 million Black and Asian people many of whom are scared just a pledge to ensure there’s fewer of us which is what the racists want.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you're from any kind of queer community it's increasingly being shown that "don't talk to journalists" needs to be just as ironclad a rule as "don't talk to cops."

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rees-Mogg is the modern Theresa May: someone whose racial politics were so extreme that they laid the foundation for someone else even worse, and then whose dismay at what they had created was intepreted as moderation. But he's still extreme and always will be.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No mention of racists running riot in BBC six o’clock news… just discussion about the tactics of people smugglers

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yimbyism has been shown on several occasions to be three people saying “more deregulation of the building sector” in a trench coat

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I continue to strongly insist that being against *this shit specifically* isn't Nimbyism and that we deserve better housing than this overpriced garbage.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes, it does, but at least 75% of the whole political/media class don’t appear to give a shit, and one of the UK’s truly world-leading economic sectors will have gone down the pan before they deign to notice.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no point building houses to ease the crisis when they then put them on sale for £400,000

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But we’ve all sat in front of dickhead gatekeeping GPs this is no surprise. Some of them feel it’s their job to hold us to account before they send us home with paracetamol for Leukaemia symptoms* *happened to my nephew, he’s fine now

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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The entire element of prose from which the humanities draws its power is that the word choices and sentence constructions on the page are not just inert symbols, but a text with which the reader is in active, dynamic conversation

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Rue - I Have Guns in my House (for murder) 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 @rueshine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People in cities are ignored, by and large, by the government and the media, and yet the line is that we are pandered to and catered. We want better, cheaper housing and better rent controls and tenant's rights. We want cheaper/free public transport and the cost of living lowered. All ignored.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is just "we want conscription" but without wanting to actually make the political case that it's good or necessary because it would mean explaining the precise nature of the threat that they think is facing the UK and that'll get very embarrassing, very quickly.

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David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The new Resident Evil was really enjoyable but gosh what a relentless 90 minutes. I'm exhausted!

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They literally tell us they’re carrying out genocide every few days. It’s not complicated.

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David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't think it is a good idea to idolise the pension systems of countries like Germany. The UK state pension needs to be higher but the figures one sees from places like Germany are averages. Many people's pensions are a lot lower because the system is designed to preserve class distinction.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd add that there is a significant number of humanities academics, especially in admin, who don't believe that what we're doing has much value beyond job training, especially in comparison to STEM as they imagine it to be. years of froth about generative AI have flushed this out like a contrast dye

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you don't think humanistic learning has value in its own right, no amount of instrumentalization is going to save it that epochal decline coincided with the hegemony of the "employable skills" pitch, including earnings data and all the trimmings, ought to have taught us that

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s worth considering the confused role academia plays in radical centrism as a movement. It is, first, a muddled target: a bastion of wokeness, brainwashing, ideological compulsion but also irrelevance, elitism, weakness. But it’s also a magic well of authority for heroes like Pinker and Peterson.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But the actual problem is not who gets the golden ticket this year, but rather why a socially vital sector (do we not think knowledge, about society and about nature, is valuable?) has been eviscerated to the point where a steady job teaching and doing research is a golden ticket in the first place.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Couple of young people I spoke to this week said they’re on £30k, which is what I earned at my third job in London in 2000

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 18/09/2026

people will still try and tell you, with a straight face, that Isreal is not an apartheid state

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NINETY programmes, fucking hell

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 17/09/2026

It did not 'misbehave'. It cannot think. It is not sentient. It has no power of cognition. Get a grip! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

n the blog, OpenAI detailed examples of its AI models misbehaving so they could achieve a task or succeed in a test. The incidents included the models generating instructions to get around restrictions imposed on them, hiding mistakes and fabricating information.

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Spyro the Antifascist Dragon @antifaspyro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People refusing to understand what "toxic masculinity" and "black lives matter" means is: 1) An example of anti-intellectualism - a refusal to believe an adult can learn new terms and concepts. 2) An attempt to control language to make resistance to hierarchy harder. Use jargon! It helps us!

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The emboldening of these fucking dickheads including Labour government ministers saying it is right to protest against people seeking asylum (but not against genocide of course) has led to this absolute shitshow

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hang on, can male staff change boy babies’ nappies? Or no nappies at all? Can men change their own babies’ nappies?

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Mara Flint @mara.carminerebellion.uk · 16/09/2026

So 285 villagers vote in a silly poll and the government hears the “roar”. 1000 people attend a mass lobby for trans equality at Westminster, and nothing. Changes that affect your community can be distressing, Lisa. Like segregation, healthcare bans, new education policy, new prison policy…

From the BBC News article “Village votes to leave UK over asylum housing plan”

Responding to the village saying it had
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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told
BBC Breakfast: "I think they have - we have heard it, we are listening.
"I do really understand that when changes are made that affect your community it can be very distressing.”

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Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026

i would like to have a lot fewer high-breathlessness low-details confessional letters/essays/tweets/resignations from big ai and a lot more specificity & transparency

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Because it's not economics that's truly made the UK a doom loop basket case. It's politicians, aided & abetted by the media. We've had consistently shit political decision making for 20 years now. The big calls consistently called wrong. And no-one is to blame. Apart from kids in dinghies.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What you have to understand here is that dogwhistling racism has now become COMPLETELY NORMAL, for the Labour Party. The Labour Party...

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