Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025yearly 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 10096533044
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026BREAKING 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 14229119
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence 5456971754
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at 11211307
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialDavid Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Suzie always empties a few pockets with her cover of Muskrat Love. 11990143
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialMelissa NicWitch of Clan Witch @microdoodles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#SpookyNature The Grackle of Grim. 415025
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 30/09/2026Youtube 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. 44415
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 157165175566
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/03/2025For 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. 2323108
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On 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. 6453642147
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialAndy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Every 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).- 42681256
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Why 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." 632871
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So 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...gofundme.comDonate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is BooksFor 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! 5137122
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026Five 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 12552591585
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If 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. 573327940
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialHouston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 20/09/2026An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.bit.lyICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials sayAn ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials. 18565289
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef… 66129162820
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 181141056479
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialAnthropology.net @anthropology.net · 16/09/2026More 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-...anthropology.netAustralia Was Home to 2.2 Million Indigenous People in 1788DNA, radiocarbon dates and climate models put 1788 Aboriginal Australia at over seven times the old estimate, with excess deaths near 2 million by 1861. 22611
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In 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...himalmag.comMary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritageA 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 6211113
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialPZ Spiders @pzmyers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Q: 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... 2461007202
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialTHE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 11/09/2026“My God! Vikings! And they mean business!” 3862165
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialExeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In 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 outexeuntmagazine.substack.comStaging a protestIn 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? 042
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The 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. 921442327
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The 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 931632622
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialLiberal 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."liberalcurrents.comReligion, Humanities, and the Public GoodThe 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. 19130
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.forever-wars.comThe Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBPRape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026 9243442033
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026UW-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.captimes.comUW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professorDietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one. 281104370
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/09/2026So 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. 0344
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialJane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Orr might be linked to Ardeys harassment. .Bylines story 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 0116
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026It’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. 161811634
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Just 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 9437961404
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This 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 222207690
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This 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. 4839771484
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialRobin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Time for a little cuteness! 🦊 Bat-eared fox #CincinnatiZoo 1193830433
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialOlivia 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/ndocs.google.comThe Hunt for Jason ArdayTranslation 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... 2226113
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I'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.blogs.mediapart.frComment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason ArdayLe 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 … 3321122
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/08/2026Stand 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/lu0ugoodlaw.socialJasonArday Student Statement | Good Law ProjectWe use cookies where necessary to allow us to understand how people interact with our website and content, so that we can continue to improve our service. 58641
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/08/2026Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. 103111372427
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialMr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10 345119712989
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 22/08/2026When 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 741640278
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialMiddle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ar…middleeasteye.netJason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his deathClaims 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 19903387
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialRachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Jason Arday completes 30 marathons in 35 days for Shelter | www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/8350040...richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.ukCollege lecturer completes marathon challengeJason Arday completes 30 marathons in 35 days for Shelter and the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice. 22014
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialchris daly @chris-daly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A fine piece making novel points about the Jason Arday case: wonkhe.com/blogs/when-t...wonkhe.comWhen the academic must become the evidenceRina Arya argues Jason Arday's death raises a wider question about the autobiographical burden placed on academics of colour who write about race 152
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.social👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Wait, you're telling me the autistic guy got a bit fixated on something weird?middleeasteye.netJason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his deathClaims 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 218029
ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 000
Reposted by @ionastone.bsky.socialShecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Kevin 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. 6616081935
ionastone.bsky.social @ionastone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026courage and grief newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 000