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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Mike Oldfield - To France
YouTube video by MikeOldfieldVEVO
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
My book exposes Peter Thiel because he's a radical extremist with scary beliefs who has attained stunning political power. He created JD Vance...and is now roaming the Earth, preaching about the "Antichrist." Here is Thiel saying evil is "good"...while receiving an award from Politico's owner.
cover of Nerd REich book by gil duran
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtu.be/0c9iYZdsZMM
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Iron Maiden - Afraid To Shoot Strangers (Official Video)
YouTube video by Iron Maiden
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 23/09/2026
Crise migratoire à Ceuta : Pedro Sanchez estime que le contrôle des frontières par le Maroc a « échoué »
lemonde.fr
Crise migratoire à Ceuta : Pedro Sanchez estime que le contrôle des frontières par le Maroc a « échoué »
Le premier ministre espagnol annonce avoir demandé « des réponses » à Rabat après l’afflux de plus de 70 000 migrants, à la fin de juillet, dans l’enclave espagnole située en Afrique du Nord.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The ups and downs of UK immigration policy over the last decade: my attempt to synthesise the economics, politics and contemporary history. Free to read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Control without credibility: immigration to the UK since the Brexit referendum
Immigration was central both to the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign and to the political narratives that followed it. Yet the trajectory of migration to the UK since the referendum bears little res...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/09/2026
Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
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Historical Context: The Climate Crisis
A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hashtag early modern pokémon
drawing of the Pokémon Flygon, a big, green insectoid dragon with red eyes
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Know who’s NOT causing this problem? Immigrants.
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Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows
Wirral mother among renters turning to food banks as gap between a two-bed and housing benefit hits £158 a month – rising to as much as £324 in London
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s time for a zero tolerance crack down on far right thugs. They’re costing the taxpayer, soaking up police resources, intimidating peaceful communities & delaying the measures that are reducing the asylum backlog & its cost. Enough is enough. End the menace. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I so much want to love the BBC, but then they do this kind thing. The headline here should be ‘anti-migrant protestor attacks RNLI boat’, but they don’t even mention that, in a report. He merely “shared a livestream”. (And it was updated an hour ago, so this isn’t an issue of confirmation.)
bbc.co.uk
Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
weareider.bandcamp.com/track/encore
weareider.bandcamp.com
Encore, by IDER
from the album Late to the World
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Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
CALL FOR PAPERS  📣   Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800   We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Petition signable by UK citizens or residents, asking "the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail..." 💙📚 🗃 #academicsky 1/ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
soundcloud.com/labi-siffre/...
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Crying Laughing Loving Lying (From
Listen to Crying Laughing Loving Lying (From
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Nicolas Brisset @nbrisset.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
ICYMI: From my newsletter blending #earlymodern and #neuroscience of present-day writing in books: "the practice of reading, note-taking, thinking, drawing, and writing can generate unexpected solutions to mysteries that are (for the reader) too difficult to test empirically." More on #writing: 1/n
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Walter Ralegh's headless monsters and annotation as thinking
On writing and picturing as forms of thinking and knowledge-making, with examples of Renaissance mapmakers and publishers demonstrating exactly this in the...
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
points are made
Flyer (white paper, black type)
Faculty
Your Students are under attack
Your TAs are under attack
Your job is under attack
Academia is under attack
..
your silence will not save you
Undergrads say... Strike Now!
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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Ezginin Günlüğü - Bahçedeki Sandal #adamüzik
YouTube video by Ada Müzik
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 25/08/2025
En direct, Gaza : les dernières informations
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En direct, Gaza : les dernières informations
Au moins 42 personnes sont mortes dans l’enclave dimanche, rapporte la défense civile. Mahmoud Bassal, le porte-parole des secouristes, a notamment fait état de plusieurs frappes aériennes sur la ville de Gaza ainsi que dans plusieurs zones du territoire, au centre, au nord et au sud.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
There's a side effect that you're expected to translate within a narrow bandwidth and as if you're competing against a machine per capita output. In a way, machine translation does to publishing what autotune does to music industry: suppression of personality, standardized output.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
ayyuka.bandcamp.com/track/s-mest...
ayyuka.bandcamp.com
Sömestr (feat Orlando Julius), by Ayyuka
from the album Sömestr
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 10/07/2025
Incendies : tous les massifs des Bouches-du-Rhône fermés pour risque « très sévère » de feux de forêt
lemonde.fr
Incendies : tous les massifs des Bouches-du-Rhône fermés pour risque « très sévère » de feux de forêt
Quelque 120 pompiers restent mobilisés dans le secteur des Pennes-Mirabeau, d’où est parti mardi le feu qui a parcouru 750 hectares pour arriver jusqu’aux quartiers nord de Marseille.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 10/07/2025
Gaza : au moins 23 morts dans des bombardements et des tirs israéliens jeudi
lemonde.fr
Gaza : au moins 23 morts dans des bombardements et des tirs israéliens jeudi
Douze personnes, dont huit enfants, ont été tuées par des bombardements devant un centre médical dans la ville de Deir Al-Balah, dans le centre de l’enclave palestinienne, selon la défense civile.
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Marketing only marketing what is already popular, and reducing programme choices to simple immediate access to specific well-paid careers not helpful here at all. Great piece asking why history is declining at university while it is thriving everywhere else — often invisibly reliant on said unis…
At a time when degree courses are increasingly being assessed on their economic worth rather than intrinsic value, historians also need to mount a stouter defence of the kind of graduates they are moulding. “History teaches communication skills, research skills, synthesised thinking, how to evaluate when you’re reading real information and not stuff produced by bots,” says Anna Clark. “I don’t know many historians who do not have good jobs. It’s hard to persuade them of that at the beginning. It’s not a tangible pathway. But they’re really transportable skills.”
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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David A. McKay @davidamckay.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Seen a #TippingPoints story recently about the SMOC (the AMOC's southern sibling) abruptly reversing? Thankfully, it's not true (seems a press release got overenthusiastic). Want to know what the paper behind it really said? Read this from the lead author instead: theconversation.com/completely-u...
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‘Completely unexpected’: Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline due to rising Southern Ocean salinity
Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
soundcloud.com/cemkaracaoff...
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Dadaloğlu
Listen to Dadaloğlu by Cem Karaca #np on #SoundCloud
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/07/2025
"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes:
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The Most Overlooked Value of Political Protest
Small acts of staying quiet may seem merely polite or indifferent, but they can easily spiral.
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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals! #CfP #bookhistory #skystorians
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
So much betrayal of the generations that invested in inclusive and world-changing Higher Education going on right now. IU's shrinking of horizons is heartbreaking. So is Cardiff, which was BUILT WITH THE MONEY OF WORKERS FOR WORKERS and is now turned into some corporate shill.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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'Hawa Hawai" Full Video Song | Mr. India | Sridevi,Anil Kapoor | Kavita Krishnamurthy | Javed Akhtar
YouTube video by T-Series Bollywood Classics
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
£16 billion straight down the toilet. Yes, £16 BILLION. Think of what else we could do with the astonishing costs of the Lower Thames Crossing, which will simply worsen congestion and ruin people's quality of life. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them? | George Monbiot
The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/06/2025
This is the freight train almost no one has noticed coming down the tracks. Wage stagnation, expensive housing, smaller private pensions are going to be a terrible combination.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome
Fox News screen showing Mamdani’s platform, next to a photo of him
HOUSING
AFFORDABILITY
• FREEZE THE RENT
• BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING
CREATING CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORES
• FARE FREE BUSES
LGBTQIA + PROTECTIONS
LABOR
• EXPANDING AND PROTECTING
GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE CITYWIDE
• MAKING NYC AN LGBTGIA+
SANCTUARY CITY
RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $30 BY 2030
TRUMP-PROOFING NYC
END ICE
COOPERATION
ZOHRAN FOR NEW YORK CITY
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Someone else online just called all this AI crap "digital asbestos". We're in the OMG it's so useful phase now. The Oh fuck it's deadly and it's going to take us decades to get rid of it phase comes later.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 13/06/2025
Israël lance une attaque fulgurante et massive contre l’Iran
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Israël lance une attaque fulgurante et massive contre l’Iran
Deux cents avions de chasse israéliens ont frappé, vendredi, des sites nucléaires et militaires disséminés sur tout le territoire iranien. L’offensive, baptisée « Rising Lion » (« le lion qui se lève »), a été jugée « très réussie » par le premier ministre israélien Benyamin Nétanyahou.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Madımak
YouTube video by Seha Okuş - Topic
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Eighteen million people live in greater LA. This is not a crisis, this is off-Broadway security theatre.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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İksir - Süüpeermeeen
YouTube video by Ada Müzik
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Here's the Open Statement on sludge spreading launched by us at Fighting Dirty, and signed by many leading figures. The water companies are using farmland as a dump for hazardous chemicals. They mislead farmers, poison the land and threaten our health. It must stop. fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...
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Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland | Fighting Dirty
In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals po...
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Bulutsuzluk Özlemi - Acil Demokrasi
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write.
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Özgürlük (Live)
Listen to Özgürlük (Live) by Zülfü Livaneli #np on #SoundCloud
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The ruined stone towns of medieval Somaliland and the empire of Adal (ca. 1415–1577) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-ruined...
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The ruined stone towns of medieval Somaliland and the empire of Adal (ca. 1415–1577)
At the end of the Middle Ages, a flourishing network of urban sites and stone settlements was integrated into the empire of Adal which covered large parts of western and central Somaliland.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I cycled out to the fen to sit beneath my favourite oak tree but it seems like someone else has beaten me to it.
Cows lounge beneath my favourite oak tree
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aykut @icould.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Nouvelle Vague - Oublions l'Amérique
YouTube video by Kwaidanrecords
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