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Joanne Limburg

@jlimburg.bsky.social
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Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h
It would be better for everyone if resolutions saying “Zionism is racism” also said, for example, “Hindutva is racism” and “Sinhala Buddhist nationalism is racism.” It might make Jews feel less singled out, but it would also force pro-Israel people to defend their ideology on its own terms.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 6h
This is depressing. If you are against antisemitism, I am afraid it is now impossible to vote Green. What is happening in Gaza is genocide and in the West Bank ethnic cleansing, at minimum. That does NOT mean that Zionism is racism, or — ffs — that attending a Zionist synagogue makes you a racist*
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 6h
Explanation - one of the main concerns was that any Jewish member, or even any synagogue, supporting a two state solution, would be considered racist (because one of those states would be Israel). That's most left wing UK Jews. The amendment to address that concern was voted down.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 6h
It is now official Green Party policy that international law counts to nothing. A bold proposition
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Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social · 7h
That Green Party motion is not going to help anybody.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7h
You can easily oppose the barbaric war crimes of the current Israeli government without backing this racist motion, which also takes away agency and the right of self-determination from everyone in the region, regardless of faith and background.
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 03/10/2026
YES THANK YOU
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Time has moved on and so should our solutions to contentious marches
Four Orangemen on the treadmill at PureGym wearing VR goggles.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:
A ripe Conner/horse chestnut/buckeye in my hand yesterday, ready to peel
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've stayed out of these affairs but straightforwardly insofar as I can tell this is what the "Zionism is racism" motion is really about, and it is really quite dispiriting that some cannot see it.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Esther Rantzen was an Old Girl at my school. She came to speak and we all had to stand up when she came into the room. She looked surprised. RIP
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences
Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the feral amnesia Dionne Brand, XV, thirsty
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All the hope gone hard. That is a city.
The blind houses, the cramped dirt, the broken air, the sweet ugliness, the blissful and tortured flowers, the misguided clothing, the bricked lies the steel lies, all the lies seeping from flesh falling in rain and snow, the weeping buses, the plastic throats, the perfumed garbage, the needled sky, the smogged oxygen, the deathly clerical gentlemen cleaning their fingernails at the stock exchange, the dingy hearts in the newsrooms, that is a city, the feral amnesia of us all
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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 29/09/2026
It's amazing what Burnham is setting out re: a universal care service. BUT we need to ensure that it's for working age disabled people (like me) as well as older people -- or we'll have missed a generational opportunity to stop "paying for failure" with respect to disability/benefits costs.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every single person in this photo knows full well that only one of them is proud to be where they are & certain that they are doing the right thing. Shame on Labour for having a 94 year old Jewish woman arrested & physically removed using counter terrorism powers. (Photography by Terry Neill)
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Lawrence Shenkin is a mensch and a believer in peace who is being directly, unconscionably, and illegally screwed over by the Israeli government because his menschlichkeit is offensive to those in power, and everyone should know his name
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Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brown pylon with red vascular underpinning
An imposing small ink drawing of a pylon behind a roof, with red wax pastel underneath and loose wiring
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Swamp Thing You make my heart sing You make everything Mossy Swamp Thing I think I love you
Swampy creature
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Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And now: NotSteps. #totp
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Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
…and now: NOT Britney. #totp
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sad to see Daft Punk having to make ends meet like this.
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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights @truahrabbis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HAPPENING NOW: American Jews and Israeli Americans are gathered outside the UN to protest Netanyahu and his government of terror! We refuse to stand idly by!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if more people with money cared about saving lives
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 23/09/2026
lads, is it bad when bookstores are getting their windows smashed in?
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One day a massive computer will use up all the power, all the water, say ‘42’ and that’ll be that.
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Jethro Remington @remingtonwy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hope enough people see this. Many people accuse me of being anti-Semitic when in truth I am anti-Zionism. Anti-Netanyahu. Pro-Palestine.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿
Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I like to smuggle a tiny piece of luggage onto the carousel at Yo! Sushi.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 21/09/2026
Pippa Durham, 39, who holds a first-class degree in Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic, had intended to become an academic, yet abandoned this plan on discovering that she would be required to do more than just fondling old books.
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Autistic woman boldly embarks on 59th career change
An autistic woman has baffled her friends and relatives by switching career every few days, with each job more strange and confusing than the last, sources have claimed.  Pippa Durham, 39, who holds…
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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sunny Singh: “Jhalak Prize 'is more necessary than ever before. Explicit racism is on the rise again while quiet but clear exclusions of racially minoritised writers and publishing professionals has again been normalised.”
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They always sound so excited, too. “It’s a political earthquake! It’s a shockwave!“ Well yes, that’s the rumble of approaching jackboots. Why are you so hyped?
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Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Found this first class piece of kitsch in a charity shop.
A4 hardback ‘ATV Television Star Book’ with head shot of Frank Ifield in colour on a red background. Black letters bottom left say: With star portraits in colour.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If I find out that I am secretly Ai I am going to be SO PISSED. Every night I count my fingers.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Are you fasting tomorrow? This is your starting gun for water drinking. We are going to do 3L of water over the next 6 hours, OK? It's completely doable. Go and drink 500ml of water right now. Go. We go again in 45 minutes.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is exhausting to see people talking as if "listening to Jews" means endorsing Israel's actions or supporting a Jewish ethnostate. Many Jews do not think ethnostates are a good idea, for pretty obvious reasons.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jewish antizionism came into existence at pretty much the exact same moment as zionism.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep seeing articles about men worrying they won't pass on their genes, and I don't understand why the media won't tell the plain truth: as a man hoping to sire children, the most important thing to do is artfully assemble a bower and surround it with a collection of startlingly blue objects.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As regular readers will know I am a seasoned Norwood-hater and think nobody should give it free PR but this is hilariously shit
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every time I scroll past this in my misc folder I bust out laughing. Every damn time lmao 😂 😂
Kate Bush wants in your house. If you're cold she's cold. Let her in your window
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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