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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos

@masaonav.bsky.social
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Teacher of #Spanish @MMU_Languages. #LLSNS Researcher. #PhD #Linguistics & #Education. #LGBT+. 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧

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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#Britain's future relationship with #Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. #Rejoin #EU Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Esta mañana en Lovaina, en la @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social en #ASELE2026. @asele-ele.bsky.social #Busuu, #Tandem, #Wespeke. @manmetuni.bsky.social 📱💻🗣️🔍🧐🤓😍🤩🥳
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#ASELE2026 #LauraEscribano de la #EOIGijon hablando sobre "Crear #Comunidades en el #AulaVirtual. #Lovaina #Leuven. 💻🔍🤓😍🤩🥳
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#ASELE2026 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #Taller #Workshop *Adaptar materiales con #IA." by #MarianCruz & #HansLeRoy #AI #ELE #Spanish #MFL
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#ASELE2026 en preparación de la presentación institucional "Walls, #words, and #rights: Navigating #multilingualiam in #Europe's #prisons" by #TomDaens & #HeidiSalaets & #ElleLeon @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#JorgeRosello de la #UniversidaddeValencia hablando sobre #PaisajeLinguistico en #ASELE2026 #UniversidaddeLovaina. #Leuven @leuvenup.bsky.social @asele-ele.bsky.social 🤓🤩🥳
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
El #acento inventado de Blancanieves: pasado y futuro del #españolNeutro. #acentismo #medios #cine #tv #ele #sfl. 🌐🔍🇪🇸 elpais.com/cultura/cine...
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El acento inventado de Blancanieves: pasado y futuro del español neutro
El habla artificial nacida en Hollywood para el doblaje de las películas en el mercado hispanohablante convive hoy con la diversidad regional y el avance de la inteligencia artificial
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#Languages are always evolving! #Technology 💻📲🔍🧐🗣️ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape
There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Eleven days ago, Jason Arday resigned, saying he'd reached his limit. The press wrote 188 more articles. Nine days later, Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had in his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Sign the petition: demand an inquiry into the culture of the press after Jason Arday's death!
Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Santiago Ávila, escritor: “Es la primera vez que vemos a tantos titulados superiores que son analfabetos funcionales”. 📚💻📲🔍🧐🤯 elpais.com/economia/for...
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Santiago Ávila, escritor: “Es la primera vez que vemos a tantos titulados superiores que son analfabetos funcionales”
El economista, profesor universitario y autor de ‘Tontocracia. En busca de la sensatez perdida’ advierte de que la sociedad ha dejado de premiar el conocimiento y reclama una educación que forme ciuda...
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Find #time for things that matter! #TimeAudit 🕔📴📵🤔😍🥳 www.npr.org/2026/08/12/n...
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
10 #Medieval #English #words you use every day. #etimology.📝🔍🤓 www.mentalfloss.com/language/wor...
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10 Medieval Words You Use Every Day
You probably say these words every day without realizing they were born in the Middle Ages.
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Contra la cretinización tecnológica elpais.com/opinion/2026...
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Contra la cretinización tecnológica
Los móviles y ciertas aplicaciones digitales son un arma de destrucción masiva de las capacidades cognitivas y relacionales, de la salud mental y democrática
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Amazing marketing 👏🏼 #BookSky
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
¡A ver cuántas personas tienen (¿tenemos?) la valentía de usar menos el móvil, al menos durante el verano! 📵🧐🤔🥳 Contra la cretinización tecnológica elpais.com/opinion/2026...
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Contra la cretinización tecnológica
Los móviles y ciertas aplicaciones digitales son un arma de destrucción masiva de las capacidades cognitivas y relacionales, de la salud mental y democrática
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@theguardian.com #Dating A test. It's always good to learn new terms! 🤓 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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From shrekking to cookie-jarring: how well do you know the latest dating terms?
In an app-based era, new dating tactics emerge rapidly and while you may have deployed one or been subject to one, how many of the following are real?
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
How #EFL vocabulary learning has changed. 📚📝🎧🗣️📲 pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...
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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed
Differences between “essential vocabulary” lists, 1953 vs. 2023
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
¿Por qué somos (casi todos) diestros? Dos millones de años de misterio evolutivo. #cerebro #lenguaje #lateralidad #gestos #evolución. 🧠🔍🤓 elpais.com/ideas/2026-0...
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¿Por qué somos (casi todos) diestros? Dos millones de años de misterio evolutivo
No hay una sola causa, sino varias de ellas, entrelazadas. La hipótesis con más fuerza apunta al desarrollo de nuestro cerebro y al origen del lenguaje: los gestos
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Buffalo Bills Fan 2 U 💙🩵✨🌟🌊🌎☮️ 💪🦅 @crose2u.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Check out this article from USA TODAY: Bruce Springsteen honored alongside Colin Kaepernick by ACLU www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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Bruce Springsteen honored alongside Colin Kaepernick by ACLU
Bruce Springsteen accepted an ACLU award and reflected on activism. See what he told the crowd.
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@theguardian.com #Thinkers Which one are you? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...?
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Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?
Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
An injury to one is an injury to all. Tens of thousands of Sudanese workers face mass dismissal as part of an attack on democratic and trade union rights. We must stand in solidarity and oppose this assault on workers. #Sudan 🇸🇩 🔍 ✊🏿 Sign and share: actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-t...
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Stop the Attack on Sudanese Workers – Oppose Mass Dismissals
We condemn Ministerial Decision No. (22) of 2026 issued by Sudan’s de facto Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare, establishing a committee to “audit” federal government employees and prepare...
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Cutting language courses puts #SocialMobility at risk, say #UK experts. #HE, #MFL, #languages, #HigherEducation. 📚📝🎧🗣️🔍📉☹️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts
Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say. #Languages, #MFL, #Learning, #ageing. 📚📝🎧🗣️ 🧠 🔍🤓 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say
Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
How AI is changing language. 📝📚 🔍 🧐 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson ref...
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
¡Gracias, #LolaPonsRodríguez, una vez más, por tan excelente artículo! #español "Quienes hablamos en público sin esconder el acento no estamos forzosamente enarbolando nada, aunque naturalizarlo haya ayudado a dignificarlo." 🇪🇸🗣️🔍💪🏾😍🤩🥳 Cómo se pronuncia #Andalucía elpais.com/opinion/2026...
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Cómo se pronuncia Andalucía
Todas las posibles variaciones están dentro de la diversidad interna de la pronunciación del español: vea usted a qué grupo pertenece
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
En marcha, Observatorio del Español en América Latina y el Caribe. 🤓 😍 🤩 👏 🥳 www.gaceta.unam.mx/la-unam-y-el...
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En marcha, Observatorio del Español en América Latina y el Caribe - Gaceta UNAM
El uso del idioma está ligado a condiciones de reconocimiento, pertenencia y ejercicio de derechos: Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
From the year 2000 to 1000, how far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change. 🤓 🤩 🥳 www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Trump’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba has triggered a humanitarian crisis. This is but the latest attempt by the U.S. to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. For more on that history, consider these titles.
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HANDS OFF CUBA | Reading List
The United States, emboldened by its kidnapping of Venezuela’s sitting President, Nicolás Maduro, openly declared in January that it aims to destroy the Communist Party of Cuba by the end of the year....
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
@europeanmovement.co.uk Urge Your MP to attend the #Brexit Referendum Anniversary Debate! On 24-02-26, MPs will gather in Westminster Hall to debate the impact of the 2016 EU membership referendum. Write to your MP today to ensure your area is represented! www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-e...
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Urge Your MP to Attend the Debate on the EU Referendum Anniversary
Nearly a decade after the 2016 referendum, the effects of Brexit are no longer theoretical. They are visible in the economy, in pressures on public finances, and in the UK’s changing role internationa...
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Is Higher Education prepared for AI? 🤖🔍🤯 fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...
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Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided | Fortune
It’s not like a light switch... more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Have a look at the reasons and effects of the Unison strike at MMU. #Solidarity 🏳️🔍✊🏾 @unisonmmu.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @unisonmedia.bsky.social @uniteucu.bsky.social @manmetucu.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqn...
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“Universities Are On Fire”: Staff Strike at MMU Over Pay
YouTube video by The Northern Rose
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Norah 🤗 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I love Green Day so much and I’m so very happy they performed‘American Idiot’ because, well…you know… 😁
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
@vickyblake.bsky.social Certification Officer Hearing: #Blake & #McGaughey v @ucu.org.uk. They will discuss @drjogrady.bsky.social 2024 election, and the @uniteucu.bsky.social #dispute as evidence. @manmetucu.bsky.social #Democracy, #Transparency, #Fairness! 🏳️🔍✊🏾 vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/02/09/c...
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Certification Officer Hearing: Blake & McGaughey v UCU
This is about trust and proper process: an explainer ahead of the 10 February Certification Officer hearing in Blake & McGaughey v UCU, concerning alleged non-compliance with UCU’s election rul…
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UCU @ MMU @manmetucu.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Marie is our Regional Support Officer & is fantastic. Trade union victimisation is indefensible & abhorrent. To see it done by a union employer undermines the work of all trade unionists. We have written to the GS to call for a stop to the victimisation and to settle the dispute. #HandsOffMarie
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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📣 Hands off Marie! Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep. ✍️ jgrady@ucu.org.uk #HandsOffMarie #UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social
Photo of Marie, Unite UCU's health and safety rep, who is being victimised by her trade union employer
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The most recent global scientific study on transgender and gender-diverse adults' violence. I think it may be of interest to some of our members. 🏳️‍⚧️🔍✊🏾 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Violence Against Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults
This systematic review and meta-analysis estimates the prevalence of overall, physical, sexual, and psychological violence against transgender and gender-diverse adults globally.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Debt is old. It’s older than writing. The first writing system, Sumerian cuneiform, evolved out of marks used for accounting. From the beginning, writing was used to track who had what, and, crucially, who owed what to whom." 🤑💰🔍🧐 www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-debt-s...
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How debt shaped the way we speak
And what it shows about how language works
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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🇮🇹Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Prime Minister Meloni's budget. Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense. #Wrldpoli🌐 www.dw.com/en/italy-tho...
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Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Meloni's budget – DW – 12/13/2025
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
Print featuring two deers and a bird in silhouette by a frozen river in a snowy landscape with hills and pine trees
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 22/11/2025
La justicia tumba los argumentos del Gobierno de Ayuso para no entregar las actas de inspección de las residencias en lo peor de la pandemia social.elpais.com/67kdt4
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La justicia tumba los argumentos del Gobierno de Ayuso para no entregar las actas de inspección de las residencias en lo peor de la pandemia
El TSJM rechaza un recurso de Madrid de 2023 contra un dictamen del Consejo de Transparencia, y el ejecutivo asegura que viene aceptando las peticiones de acceso desde que anonimizó los documentos
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a sunrise or sunset with a white gold low sun creating long shadows from the tree trunks, in silhouette, in a forest, on a frosty purple and white forest floor
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Donald Trump doesn't want to release the Epstein files because he's in the files. Trump is in the files because he was "best friends" with Epstein for years. He was "best friends" with Epstein for years because they were abusing women and girls together. His attacks won't change any of that.
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‘Democrats are going to come to regret this’: After Epstein vote, Trump ready to attack
The White House is frustrated about being backed into a corner on the Epstein vote. They plan to punish Democrats for it.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Yuko Hosaka, contemporary Japanese illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt
Print of f a large flying birds tobthe left with a small figure of a woman in red under it's body
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#THE: The latest threat to #UK modern #languages is yet another faux pas. Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists. #HigherEducation. 📚🗣️📝🎧🔍📉😯☹️ www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
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The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
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Dr Miguel Saona-Vallejos @masaonav.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Turn up the volume, and listen to this carefully! All unions' members related to Higher Education must vote YES in the consultive ballot! 📚👨🏽‍🎓👩🏽‍🏫🔍💪🏽✊🏾 @ucu.org.uk, @uniteucu.bsky.social, @unison.org.uk, @manmetucu.bsky.social, @unisonmmu.bsky.social
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𝕵𝖊𝖉í 𝕽𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓𝖔🔻🔴🟡🟣 @jedirepublicano.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ayuso defiende la migración para "limpiar casas, recoger cosechas y poner ladrillos" www.elplural.com/autonomias/m...
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Ayuso defiende la migración para "limpiar casas, recoger cosechas y poner ladrillos"
Ayuso defiende la migración para "limpiar casas, recoger cosechas y poner ladrillos"
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