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Mark Boylan

@markboylan.bsky.social
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Professor, maths ed, professional learning, evaluation, implementation, social change, waiting for the ranters, diggers and levellers to come back him/he/his

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 5h
There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h
My feed is full of Labour MPs expressing anger tonight. Yet when the daughter of a Holocaust survivor was arrested outside their own party conference for a non-violent protest, silence. Principles mean little if outrage only appears when it is politically convenient.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 6h
Absolutely nails it.👍 www.normalisland.co.uk/p/as-a-corpo...
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As a corporate journalist I’m angrier about the “Zionism is racism” motion than I am about genocide. Here’s why...
The Green Party of the UK committed one of the gravest crimes in living memory today when it passed a motion declaring that “Zionism is racism”.
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Sunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 12h
Zionism is racism. The United Nations voted to declare it as such in 1975, half a century ago. This isn’t new, and this isn’t controversial.
A group marching down a street holding a banner that reads zionism is racism
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 6h
Bitvof an assumption that those who left all voted for the motion.
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 15h
The Green "Zionism is racism" motion is far too divisive. There are many ways to do land theft and mass murder. I personally support the form where you use polite language and pretend the ultimate goal of genocide is a two-state solution 👍
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 7h
The green party today adopted the position the UN had from 1975 to when George Bush pressured enough countries to change it.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 11h
Sort of weird how we never talk about the EHRC as a political battering ram that's brought out *specifically* when a party threatens white people's pet settler colony or centrist's jobs.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h
If there’s something weird, it’s that public figures face no negative career consequences for speaking in favour of an actual genocide. That’s crazy stuff! Imagine if most of parliament and the press had been right behind Slobodan Milosevic, because they think Bosnians are more like orcs than humans
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the UAE is really threatening billions over Manchester City, that’s exactly the kind of political influence that demands scrutiny. When wealth and power get special access, ordinary people deserve accountability.
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 21h
The cherry picked examples are not LLMs and do not need large data centres. Calling them AI is misleading.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extracts available here www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/u...
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can’t really believe this is happening in our country. And it makes me very angry people aren’t doing more to stop it. An entire group have had their civil rights gutted, and are having their lives made unliveable (especially children who are most vulnerable). And what’s anyone doing about it?
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The data exists to do the analysis you want. A regression model could identify if software mattered. There are analysts in the DoH who could do it. Needs political will though.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh it looks like the national increase in 28 day cancer treatment is higher than in the trusts using the software..https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cancer-plan-for-england/the-national-cancer-plan-for-england-delivering-world-class-cancer-care-accessible-version
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And trusts not using the software have recorded.....
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Hugo Gye @hugogye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ridiculous behaviour from the Tories. Dealing with unfriendly journalists is a basic requirement for a political party!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Journalists / lobby colleagues unite and call this out?! @hugorifkind.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @natashadevon.bsky.social @paulbrand.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social
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Alexi Dimond @alexidimond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The time is now for community energy! Last Saturday me and Cllr Ruth Abbey attended the Places of Worship Energy Resource (Sheffield POWER) launch event, hosted by Sheffield Community Energy. It was fantastic to be part of such a positive event!
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Antisemitism is very real and must be stopped. But Zionists are unfortunately muddying the waters of addressing it by claiming everything critical of their genocidal ethnostate as "antisemtic" and have ballooned the number of reported incidents as a result. 1/
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And our political prisoners released.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely wild that people cannot see "yes we agree that the fascists are correct to want less black and brown people in the Whites Only country, but they should let us do it by official channels" is not, actually, a condemnation at all.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More hot air! These politicians are simply out of touch and have absolutely no idea how people really feel. They do the bare minimum, so as not to piss off their donors, and just enough for them to look like they are doing something effective. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Professionals ironists at The Guardian demonstrating the art of knowing no national shame. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over 3500 people have been arrested in the UK for voicing support for Palestine Action. Anti-terrorism legislation was used for these arrests. The result is that one of the largest demographics of terrorist in the UK is now elderly middle class white people.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 27/09/2026
This photograph of a football match in Gaza by Palestinian photographer Jehad Alshrafi was removed from the Deauville Sport Images Festival in France last month following a pressure campaign from the Israeli government:
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A message for Andy Burnham from Rob Del Naja (Massive Attack), Huda Ammori (Co-Founder, Palestine Action), and Michael Mansfield KC. Deproscribe Palestine Action. www.wedonotcomply.org
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Weird how we can instantly arrest the peaceful protesters on the most extreme of charges but it takes days to arrest the violent racists on the most minimal & penalty free of charges huh
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People talk about how transphobic, ableist, sexist and racist British media is, and don't get me wrong, they're right to do so, but not enough people understand WHY. It's because it is an incestuous hive of cronyism and nepotism shot through with abject corruption.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A thread on the calamitous incestuous nature of British media. Incredible
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/09/2026
The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice 👀 goodlawproject.org/the-new-high-cou…
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The new High Court judges: 90% male, 100% white | Good Law Project
The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate self-checkouts 🥵
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Says it all. @jvp.bsky.social
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.
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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Data centre industry is going to crash. We need to start campaigning now for nationalisation of parts of the industry that are essential infrastructure rather than having another round of public bailouts.
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