Reposted by Lucy Sweetmanlucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social · 21hThe "one income family" bullshit is the White Supremacy patriarchal cherry on top of this lie sundae. 0143
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In her book, Into Being, @lilydunn.bsky.social explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” Listen to her interview on Between the Covers here: milkweed.org/between-the-... #booksky #memoirmilkweed.orgLily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform | Milkweed EditionsIn Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion of... 0102
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When mobs of people are burning immigrants out of their homes: legitimate concerns When people vote against you: mob rule 17924
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tens of thousands fewer students is hundreds of millions of pounds of lost export earnings, solely and wholly to appease racists. 316566
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026And so, in the context of financial capitalism and its profit pressures, it can seem to men like this that their time is better spent building a device to replace the care work that women are asking of them, than committing long term to doing more of that work themselves. 2686371
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 211182357
Reposted by Lucy Sweetmanemmessenn 🇿🇼 @emmessenn.com · 04/10/2026Ms Hope Powell revolutionised the national team set up and laid the foundations of the professional era in the women’s game. The players she brought through are the Golden Generation of Lionesses. Ms Powell is Technical Director at Birmingham City. OBE. CBE. #FlowersforLegends #BHM #HopePowell 031
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Dave Brubeck’s 1960’s Connecticut home was as cool as his music. 1292923350
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University. 714273595
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that. 391004416
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanDavid @zero-4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Why are people having to pay for successive governments failure? A sentence Kuenssberg never uttered under a 14 year Tory government, which consisted of 5 Prime Ministers and 3 General Elections #bbclaurak 27017
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I 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 201213209
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33472991087
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanNicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 24/09/2026That Tory proposal to stop people on benefits from spending them how they want sounds a lot like that nanny state they like to moan about so much #r4today 0111
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends. 24948391996
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanMike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂 1231940317
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comWhat the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return RevealsA previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover. 15138541806
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tell me how this isn't the 1930s back again. I'll wait. 12410
Lucy Sweetman @lucysweetman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tickets to see #DrOrna flying off the Bath Forum shelves. Just had a ten-minute shit fight with my fellow citizens to secure some. 000
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanSusanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Heartbreak hotel. Annie Dillard has died. This is one of my favorite craft books. #rip 1224
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Labour Party could be deporting a thousand people a day, and Honest Salt of the Earth Folk [TM] would still be convinced they were days from being placed under Sharia. 0122
Lucy Sweetman @lucysweetman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh, this is incredibly sad. I can’t believe it. I was always interested to hear or read Bonnie Greer’s thoughts on pretty much any topic. What a loss. 010
Lucy Sweetman @lucysweetman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There’s a NEET crisis and a mental health crisis among young people. I speak to dozens of my students every year who tell me their school experience was miserable. There are plenty of academic researchers with a firm critique of PISA and what it actually tells us about learning. Talk to them. 000
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yes this is one of the most urgent needs of the moment. The right can only be effectively opposed on the basis of a positive vision of open borders, substantive democracy in all kind of institutions, individual freedom and collective self-government. 315426
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here. 932081447
Lucy Sweetman @lucysweetman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Self-laundering fuckhead announces that key policy of the government he co-led was a profound political and economic error. God, it’s enraging. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comGeorge Osborne calls for UK to rejoin EU customs union and boost tradeEx-Tory chancellor says economy has ‘fallen off a cliff’ since Brexit but rejoining union could be ‘quite simple’ 010
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanLiberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026LAST DAY TO APPLY 🚨 We're hiring a Director of External Affairs to help deliver our ambitious three-year strategy. - Full time, 35 hours per week - £80,548 - Hybrid, 2 days per week in our Westminster office - Apply by: 9am, Monday 14 September bit.ly/4wIYQwtbit.lyWork with us - LibertyCome and join our team 014
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 6639061330
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanNicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 12/09/2026Billionaire pissing contest over the man of the people... how anti-establishment! 042
Lucy Sweetman @lucysweetman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I wrote this on the tenth anniversary of #911. Thinking of everyone who was harmed that day and in the decades that followed. www.lucysweetmanwriting.co.uk/the-aftermat...lucysweetmanwriting.co.ukThe Aftermath of 9/11 and the Military-Industrial ComplexI'm back in the archives again to find this post, written on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, that begins with U.S. President Eisenhower's coining of the Military-Industrial Complex and ends with questio... 000
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanLouise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...nationaltrust.org.ukAnnual General MeetingYour Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon. 24330254
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose. 1354044792
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/09/2026I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose. 65980371
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 4920911254
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026'Humanities & social sciences research is central to ask questions about how and in whose interests technology is being developed, how it can be adopted, deployed & governed and how to create a world where AI can benefit the many, not the few' My blog for @ukri.org ukri.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...ukri.substack.comWhy AI will fail without the humanities and social sciencesAI can transform society. But only if society has a say in shaping it, writes Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of The British Academy. 59943
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you’re not Jewish you won’t understand how simultaneously hurtful and enraging this is I can only imagine how hard it must be for Ed Miliband, the son of literal Holocaust survivors - whatever you think of him, he does not deserve this 31744165
Lucy Sweetman @lucysweetman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Wow, after seeing your posts about Justin Webb’s questioning of Ed Miliband on #r4today, we are listening back. Ed Miliband calm and clear, as he was in Parliament yesterday. 0101
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026There's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad 711122174
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145151509
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9259921593
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanLiberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY We're hiring a Director of External Affairs to help deliver our ambitious three-year strategy. - Full time, 35 hours per week - £80,548 - Hybrid, 2 days per week in our Westminster office - Apply by: 9am Monday 14 September bit.ly/4wIYQwtbit.lyWork with us - LibertyCome and join our team 025
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/09/2026As the head of a university music dept, we're at the sharp end of this. Gove's EBacc is to blame. Pupils no longer encouraged to take music GCSE -> drop in A Level + drop in teacher recruitment -> drop in university entrance -> fewer teachers trained -> schools not offering A Level or GCSE music 1/2 86825
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were. 242672684
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanLinda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Another dimming of the light that made sisterhood powerfultheguardian.comRobin Morgan, child star who became feminist, poet and editor, dies aged 85Leading second-wave feminist co-founded Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem 042
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanWilliam Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026So if you protest a genocide you are automatically a "terrorist" but hold up a major shipping route while wearing balaclavas and you are a "protester" and the police "engage with you"? www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comDisruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protestImages appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings. 30473202
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...bbc.co.ukPort of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roadsHundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port. 1061845816
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They spontaneously turned up all dressed in black, wearing masks at the same time. 621080277
Reposted by Lucy SweetmanTomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sure, seems totally fine for a bunch of masked men to stop traffic around a port 4834079