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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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New Scot. Opinionated & sweary af. Rural sociology and health with a side order of coproduction and weird recipes. Living with Long Covid. Racists, TERFs, misogynists, and fascists blocked.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This student-hating discourse is actually really alarming. I'm aghast at the number of professors piling on like this who seem to hate their students. They shouldn't be educators and should follow TAH's lead out the door.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unless they are rapists in Cornell obvs
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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Boat sunk by an area the size of whales.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well thank bloody fuck for that
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Comparison table that the media seems keen to avoid publishing…
Luxembourg: £2436
Switzerland: £2400
Norway: £2164
Denmark: £1822
Holland: £1403
Italy: Men £1437, Women £1056
Belgium: £1401
Malta: £1400 - £1600
Spain: £1341
France: £1296
Germany: £1281
Sweden: £1226
Austria: £1121 (min)
Ireland: £1115 (min)
UK: £1045
Portugal £815
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social seems to think that Andy Burnham cutting the second-lowest state pension in W Europe was “magic”.
Flipping public opinion on the triple lock was Burnham magic - he'll need more of it to see his social care plans through
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am very much against assisted dying but I was horrified to hear Esther Rantzen’s daughter sharing that she was being attacked for her campaign to introduce it. How fucked are we as a society that people would do that to a dying old person?
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quit calling them the Cornell 7 like they’re a cool boy band or something. Call them the Cornell rapists. That’s what they are. Post Anything Here: InteractInk.com
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remind you that half of your political/media class frantically urged you to vote for this pig-ignorant, disastrously incompetent crook, and the other half frantically urged you not to vote for the only viable opposition, and then put two and two together about why they did that.
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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.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Guardian had a lot of letters about Gabby Hinsliff’s article advocating a lower state pension. None had a comparison with the rest of Western Europe, which the rest of mainstream media also omitted. A media consensus of this kind is an abuse of power. This is the letter they didn’t publish.
Gaby Hinsliff's piece advocating cutting the UK state pension (ie abandoning the Triple Lock), avoided comparing the UK with our neighbours, a problematic contextualisation to leave out.
Below I provide a rough list of current state pensions in Western Europe, in pounds sterling;
Luxembourg: £2436
Switzerland: £2400
Norway: £2164
Denmark: £1822
Holland: £1403
The only country I could find with a lower state pension is Portugal at £815
As you can see the UK has the lowest state pension in Western Europe bar one, considerably undermining any arguments for abandoning the Triple Lock. In my opinion this information needs to be included in every article about this subject.

Italy: Men £1437, Women £1056
Belgium: £1401


Malta: £1400 - £1600
Spain: £1341

France: £1296


Germany: £1281
Sweden: £1226


Austria: £1121 (min)

Ireland: £1115 (min)
UK: £1045
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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All of this. The building should have been chosen to be accessible and that been core to the event. The problem I often find is diversity events want the kudos without the WORK and disability often requires Actual Physical Work/Consideration first. Altho most issues were attitudinal too.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Future: neurodivergent population drastically reduces. Also future: unexplained rise in suicide rates and general mental illness.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
happy bare minimum Friday to all who celebrate
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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just read @lucywebster.bsky.social's article about the National Diversity Awards lucywebster.substack.com/p/too-disabl... It is unlawful to try and charge for a PA and I'd expect a SWANKY diversity event to pay for a PA's food, have decent accessibility access and train staff properly. FFS.
lucywebster.substack.com
Too disabled for the National Diversity Awards?
Hello, Last Friday I went to the National Diversity Awards.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This photo is absolute art.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Daniel Thomas is clearly committing offences. Why has he not been arrested?
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Depressing that ultra far right parties are the majority.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can’t help thinking that it would be better to invent something that causes the heads of those spiking drinks to explode.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cameron remains the worst PM ever, but Watson is an equally awful and corrupt shite bag
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dog’s reaction when he realizes his sister was adopted into the same home. Original post
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Does everyone want to hear the latest twist in my compulsory half-sacking that is simultaneously a 'new post' and a 'variation of contract' that doesn't attract any compensation for my income being halved in two weeks time, and for which I got a congratulations letter?
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dear God. What a cruel, self-absorbed man he is
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My brain fog is now at the point I’m apparently hallucinating the weirdest shit
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s just horrific. BDS now.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lmao zionists on Threads leaving their ChatGPT response headers in their slop revealing they asked it to make them sound like Andrew Tate, scum attracts scum
nimayamini
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I can make it more swagger-heavy, cutting, and confrontational without copying Tate's exact voice.
Ed Sheeran didn't build a $400 million career by hijacking somebody else's stage.
He is the headliner.
His tour.
His audience.
His crew.
His production.
His risk.
Macklemore was invited into a machine Ed spent years building.
That invitation was not ownership.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Since at least Bell v Tavi it has been obvious that trans rights were used as the low hanging fruit to attack all women’s and girls’ bodily autonomy. This is why cis women who are against trans rights cannot be feminists
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh no! She was so intelligent and interesting. Huge loss.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this woman
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The absolute correct response Sheerhan should have had.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rule 34 or something
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Steph Paton @stephpaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's only an 'impossible situation' if you think racist billionaires should be free to censor artists who oppose genocide...
Lisa Nandy says Ed Sheeran was in an impossible situation over Macklemore
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fine, that’ll be £135 for a visit visa each time you want to go to sodding Waitrose
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fuck long Covid and the horse it rode in on. Mental capacity currently plummeting
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Low Battery Indicator
Alt: Low Battery Indicator
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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Do YoU wAnT mE To bE tHe CaT"
George Galloway in a leotard that doesn't fit, tiny bulge on display, doing some kind of robot dance. Cards on the table, if this isn't "wearing cross-sex clothing" I don't know what is.George Galloway hugging Jimmy Saville - what fine friends!
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Decided to ignore the horrors for an hour - 30km in rain and on terrible roads and I didn’t think about work once. Sadly you can’t stay out on your bike forever…
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@adam_franks shares 2 good Samaritans rescuing a stuck eagle: #AGoodPlace
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As an older white cis woman I hide what I look like online because of threats by people who say they want to protect me. No way would I put my face up on social media. I feel that in the current climate it would be prudent for trans, nb, gn-c and other queer people to do the same.
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Daniel Lismore @daniellismore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients. petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... Please sign and share
petitions.senedd.wales
Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who ha...
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I know all university leaders hate trades unions but at Brighton they’re about to find out what happens when their workforce doesn’t have a structure and negotiating team to represent them and to head off trouble. It won’t be pretty. Employees won’t submit - they’ll resist in unpredictable ways.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tell me your university is about to go bust without etc.
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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is completely unhinged decision by senior managers at the University of Brighton but says everything about the collapse of our sector. I hope everyone at #TUC26 steps up and turns out at 1.15 today
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 14/09/2026
The government’s university funding policy is forcing women out of the academy. The example below is a pattern. This is one of the many ways the whole mess is unjust.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fuck me are there no limits to how low they will stoop?
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The inside story of the ordinary men and women fighting the far right on the streets of Scotland While rightwing extremists dominate the news we never hear from the folk who are facing down fascism despite threats and violence To even the scales I tell their stories In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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'It beggars belief': The inside story of Scots fighting the far-right on the streets
With right-wing extremists dominating the news, our Writer at Large talks to the ordinary men and women standing up to racists and defending their…
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Remembering how UK philosophers both publicly and privately defended Nina Power both before and after the SLAPP lawsuit she brought to silence a critic, which revealed she was, in fact, a Nazi; one prominent public philosopher promised to condemn her if the allegations were true. He never did
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