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pseudonymous but safe: cats, trans*, history, anti-fascism, and other passions. She/they.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
BREAKING Professor Peter Hallward has just been arrested on the National March for Palestine for holding a banner with a factually accurate legal statement on it. “In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action” Help end the absurdity: www.wedonotcomply.org
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suzie always empties a few pockets with her cover of Muskrat Love.
sidewalk chalk drawing of a muskrat with coins at her feet playing a cigar box banjo. She is singing, and may or may not be jinging the jango.
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Melissa NicWitch of Clan Witch @microdoodles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#SpookyNature The Grackle of Grim.
Grim grackle, head down, staring up into the camea with one steely eye.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 30/09/2026
Youtube trying to subtitle an episode of Speaking our Language (a Gaelic language learning show from the 1990s for listeners outwith Scotland) has inevitably spectacularly wrong but also amusing results.
Caption "hello Liana give it her chef ah kobata love connacher fien cleaver" instead of "halo Catriona, ciamar a tha sibh? Tha gu math tapadh leat. Ciamar a tha sibh thein? Gle mhath"caption "market Danielle had this shot Kirsty in unicum" instead of "seo a mac Neil agus seo Kirsty a nighean agam"Caption "I guess showing the yeah console this Chuck Fionna and you nothing" instead of "Agus seo agam Domhnall, agus seo Catriona tha nighean agam"Caption "it's mission more a collage hello all right come on a high shelf" instead of "Is mise Morag Nicleoid, Halo Morag, ciamar a tha sibh?"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
For those who need a reminder: the term “gender ideology” was coined by conservative religious and political groups to condemn abortion, same-sex relationships, trans existence, sex education, etc. Authoritarian regimes embrace it. We will only defeat these politics by refusing anti-gender rhetoric.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why ben thei so numerous The songes about rainbowes And what ys on the othir syde? "Rainbowes are visiounes Yet onlye illusiounes, And rainbowes have no thynge to hyde."
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So sad to see this happening again. Here is their crowdfunder for shutters and window repairs. Let’s give them some support 🫶 www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 20/09/2026
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 16/09/2026
More than 2 million Indigenous people likely lived in Australia in 1788, over seven times the figure used for a century, and numbers fell by over 90 percent by 1861. #Archaeology #IndigenousAustralia #PopulationGenetics www.anthropology.net/p/australia-...
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Australia Was Home to 2.2 Million Indigenous People in 1788
DNA, radiocarbon dates and climate models put 1788 Aboriginal Australia at over seven times the old estimate, with excess deaths near 2 million by 1861.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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PZ Spiders @pzmyers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called? A: The heart? Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Hideously bad AI illustration
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 11/09/2026
“My God! Vikings! And they mean business!”
“My God! Vikings! And they mean business!”
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In 2021, local residents successfully prevented a Home Office raid on Kenmure Street in Glasgow. How will These Are Our Neighbours - a new play by Katharine Williams - tell that story with just three actors? Maddy Costa finds out
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Staging a protest
In 2021, local residents prevented a Home Office raid on Kenmure Street in Glasgow. But how will These Are Our Neighbours tell that story with just three actors?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The creepy weird billionaire dork who funds a worldwide white supremacist movement, runs a CSAM website and destroyed our government thinks that there must be some kind of grand (((Jewish-funded))) conspiracy to make people hate him. Sure, man. Sure.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The man who beat two female protesters with his cane at the Reform conference has been identified as Stephen Cooling - it’s actually there on his conference tag - former UKIP candidate for Erdington and now member of Reform’s Sutton Coldfield branch. Presumably West Mids Police have enough info now
Snarling man with cane in Reform shirt, showing conference badge
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/09/2026
"The administrators deciding on these closures and cuts often say that they rely upon 'data points' and metrics, although they choose which metrics… Such supposedly data-driven decisionmaking often leaves aside the fact that Humanities departments tend to be revenue positive."
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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good
The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/09/2026
So is Cambridge Professor James Orr going to get the same level of scrutiny as Cambridge Professor Arday was given? It seems only fair that the @nytimes.com and @theatlantic.com would now publish 10 million pieces a day about this.
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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Orr might be linked to Ardeys harassment. .Bylines story bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Time for a little cuteness! 🦊 Bat-eared fox #CincinnatiZoo
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/08/2026
> From day one, everything pointed to the fact that Jason Arday, the Black neurodivergent Cambridge professor who died in August 2026, was being subjected to racist and ableist harassment — exactly the kind of targeting he himself had described. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/n
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The Hunt for Jason Arday
Translation of Mediapart Le Club blog post in French, by Stephanie Lamy, 24th August 2026. How an Elite Network Hunted Jason Arday Race science is a pseudoscience that feeds far-right propaganda, inc...
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.
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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday
Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/08/2026
Stand with Cambridge students demanding accountability for the death of Professor Jason Arday. We're supporting them in their call for Professor Deborah Prentice to resign -- the first step towards justice for Professor Arday. Add your signature👇 goodlaw.social/lu0u
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/08/2026
Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When first pulled from the vat, the yarn appears yellowish, but rapidly oxidizes and turns vibrant blue upon contact with the air. The dye bath uses natural fermented indigo leaves mixed with Iye, water, and other organic materials. IG: @rongtianye Hirose-machi, Japan
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ar…
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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jason Arday completes 30 marathons in 35 days for Shelter | www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/8350040...
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College lecturer completes marathon challenge
Jason Arday completes 30 marathons in 35 days for Shelter and the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice.
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chris daly @chris-daly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A fine piece making novel points about the Jason Arday case: wonkhe.com/blogs/when-t...
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When the academic must become the evidence
Rina Arya argues Jason Arday's death raises a wider question about the autobiographical burden placed on academics of colour who write about race
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wait, you're telling me the autistic guy got a bit fixated on something weird?
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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.
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ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
courage and grief newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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