Reposted by MarinaHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 11128823554
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If only there were international NGOs that could have campaigned for justice for millions of Uyghurs in literal concentration camps instead of being obsessed with one countryhrw.orgChina: Decade of Impunity for Crimes Against UyghursThe Chinese government’s decade-long severe repression against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims amounting to crimes against humanity, deserves a stronger response from the international community. 021
Reposted by MarinaSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The 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. 581617520
Reposted by MarinaDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Apart from whether or not they should do it, I find it fairly ironic that the government is now saying imposing sanctions on Israel could help Netanyahu's re-election bid, something which 2 weeks ago they were furiously briefing was utterly ludicrous to suggest. www.jewishnews.co.uk/uk-and-allie... 063
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Vegans, Oxford graduates and Yorkshire people: don't worry, they'll tell you. 140
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Get thee to a fucking nunnery" seems the obvious choice 040
Reposted by MarinaEuan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026By cutting off Oleshky and turning it into a zone of slow attrition, the occupying forces are thus deliberately tapping into generational trauma. It is a calculated message of total subjugation: submit entirely, or face absolute erasure and, pointedly, starvation. 1252
Reposted by MarinaEuan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People in the international community, if they know about Oleshky at all, might wonder why fascist Russia indulges in such obvious evil against a seemingly random Ukrainian town under occupation by its army. 58741
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Went to a riverside bar & fell asleep in a hammock slung over the burbling water. Woken up at 4am by a waiter telling me my friends couldn't find me & had left without me. Walked the 5 kilometres back to my digs in Kiryat Shemona in the dark, on an unlit road that tracks the Israel/Lebanon border. 231
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I've mostly allowed myself the luxury of not reading in too much detail about the absolutely unspeakable atrocities Ethiopia has been perpetrating in Tigray, which was easy because literally nobody in the West seems to have been giving a shit. 044
Reposted by MarinaZecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Next, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said that the UN had learned that on Tuesday alone, Ethiopian warplanes & drones struck a total of five schools in Tigray. In the Amhara region town of Kobo near the front, an Ethiopian army mortar strike killed an unspecified number of civilians.ohchr.orgEthiopia: Türk alarmed by civilian impact of hostilities, urges de-escalationGENEVA – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday expressed alarm at the widening impact of the escalating fighting in Ethiopia on civilians.Airstrikes by the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF... 2109
Reposted by MarinaZecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In Tigray, from 2020-2022, six million ppl were cut off from the outside world, which enabled an Ethiopian state campaign of genocide that killed 100s of thousands. Comms outages trigger fear & trauma as a result. For background context on the two year outage, my @reuters.com reporting from 2022.reuters.comSix million silenced: A two-year internet outage in EthiopiaShe had just been crowned world champion, but Ethiopian marathon runner Gotytom Gebreslase broke down in tears when asked if her family was celebrating her win back home in war-torn Tigray. 01712
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Been to see The Misanthrope. Enjoyed the new text & the callbacks to Molière. Not sure how I feel about the subtle digs at Israel. Sandra Oh was impressive, but I liked Stephan and Eileen more. 000
Reposted by MarinaJack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"..well there are really two opinions on this. Some say it is offside and some say it is not offside. It just depends on the custom of any given referee at the time, that's the minhag" 152
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What do you call those bendy graphs that show flows of voters between parties? (And where can I get my hands on some?) 100
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Love the fact that the world's cutest animal is also a tiny chaos agent 020
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was like the 50th most blocked person on here before I even joined 🫠 150
Reposted by MarinaSteve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on 4397271234
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This was a dumb as rocks way of putting it, but I think I understand the drift: the question isn't whether any particular invention eliminated the drudgery olit was designed to eliminate, but whether progress has eliminated drudgery altogether. And there's something in that, because we don't half 262
Reposted by MarinaSam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026By contrast, I blame the antisemite with the gun. Because it turns out that even antisemites have agency. 219624
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"‘No continuing threat’ to public: Officials" (Toronto is known as the 'friendly city, btw)torontosun.comKINSELLA: 'Devastating' Yom Kippur synagogue shooting rocks BellevilleShots rang out at Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville on Sunday night as a police officer was hit and later rushed to a hospital. Read on. 031
Reposted by MarinaCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 21/09/2026Motherfuckers. torontosun.com/opinion/colu...torontosun.comKINSELLA: 'Devastating' Yom Kippur synagogue shooting rocks BellevilleShots rang out at Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville on Sunday night as a police officer was hit and later rushed to a hospital. Read on. 27370131
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026One day I will write a proper description of the type of person I have in mind when I talk about "clammies", which will help explain why everything about these people - from their drug use to their sex orgies to their apocalypse - feels so drearily *mid*. 230
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The implication being "& that's why British people should give a shit", of course, but, um a minor historical note: Bibi has had Israeli politics in a stranglehold for longer than Putin has ruled Russia. He was first elected as PM in 1996, on a wave of nativist violence & contempt for pluralism. 141
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Go on, tell me how this is about women's bodies being "complicated"theguardian.comWomen with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds 0245
Reposted by MarinaYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The answer is Regulation 119, Defense (Emergency) Regulations (1945) “Forfeiture and demolition of property, etc.”, enacted by the Government of Palestine, Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw on behalf of the High Commissioner of Palestine. Main target: Jewish insurgency groups (Irgun, Stern Gang etc). 24919
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's a mystery why Polanski won't support this motion. The Greens don't have a Jewish vote, & even if they did, there's like 250K of us left, concentrated in about 3 seats. So it's not political. Polanski is all about popularity, & this will keep his base happy, so it's not personal. Why then?theguardian.comGreens urge Zack Polanski to take stance on proposed policy declaring ‘Zionism is racism’The Green leader has not spoken publicly about the motion, which is likely to be debated at the party’s conference in October 360
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026TIL that take tan can go off & turn into a terrible green sludge that you have to furiously scrub off your leg before it sets. 020
Reposted by MarinaUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. 07224
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think every person who will now suffer pain, humiliation, & the denial of bodily autonomy before an inevitable death should write to those 286 MPs & tell them exactly what they're going through. 4143
Reposted by MarinaNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm feeling very dejected. Andrew is right. Nobody won anything. 510315
Reposted by MarinaJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Congrats to all those MP's who have voted to subject terminally ill people to months more pain and suffering when they could have a choice to end their pain in a manner of their choosing. Well done. Top work. I'm sure you'll all be devoting yourselves to improving pallative care now. Oh. 2026655
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Can't help but feel that there is a precedent for this kind of thinking. 020
Reposted by MarinaAnnalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with. 361219455
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's a quarter of a century since I stood outside Curry's in Oxford & watched the Twin Towers burning on the TVs in their window, like some sort of midcentury disaster movie. 130
Reposted by Marinaingeniousname.bsky.social @ingeniousname.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Everyone knows what a woman is when it comes to surrogacy, strip clubs, brothels, pornography. Basically anything where the female body is exploited. 1348
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026static.klipy.comSelf Five High FiveALT: Self Five High Five 020
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is wonderful news. Sagal is one of the most impressive people I met in the Labour party. She's going to be a fantastic MP. 0111
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Discourse about Ed's Jewishness, I see, is already in full flow. As inevitable as it is repugnant. 020
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The pointless gestures will continue until morale improves 🙄 110
Reposted by MarinaMrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Re: the cohabiting being treated like marriage thing, a lot of people I come across do think that “common law marriage” is a real thing and it’s not and that can catch them out… 241
