M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comMemorial for pupils given blood contaminated with HIV at Treloar'sDuring the 1970s and 1980s pupils received medical treatments using contaminated blood products. 000
Reposted by M.B. DrapierNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Forgot one: -Woke Hukou on Public Transit 19910
Reposted by M.B. DrapierCC Hogan @cchogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.theguardian.com/education/20... www.thetimes.com/uk/education... www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... www.dailymail.com/news/article... Just a few of the articles that are barely peeping...bbc.co.ukUniversity facing 'worst crisis since WW2' as staff begin five-week strikeUCU members at the University of Dundee will not take part in lectures, seminars or tutorials until the end of October. 142
Reposted by M.B. DrapierSophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm a Meta-Effective Altruist™️ I believe that Effective Altruism needs to be redistributed from where it is least effective (Silicon Valley sex cultists) to where it would be most effective (British pensioners who leave their life savings to the Donkey Sanctuary). 952767
Reposted by M.B. DrapierNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The biggest influencers of 2026: -Seven Hour YouTube Reviews of Theme Park Rides -NOT Antisemitic Per Se (Wink Wink) -Squid Games But Real and For Kids -Wholesome Lessons From The Bible and Camp of Saints -Gamer Bronze Age Pervert -Become Handsome By Slamming Your Face With Bricks 331949
Reposted by M.B. DrapierJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Frank McCourt taught at the Bennington July Program when I attended in 1984, and he was reading the stories that made up Angela's Ashes at the coffeehouse open mic every weekend. So yes, they were indeed highly polished by the time they were published. 072
Reposted by M.B. DrapierNick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Actually sad what AI has done to the world of souvenir fridge magnets, postcards, etc. It's kind of microcosmic of the whole issue: the people in charge of fridge magnets don't seem to care that fridge magnets actually matter to people who collect fridge magnets. 15607116
Reposted by M.B. DrapierGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is Higher Education. It is in disarray. Nothing is being done. 1237
Reposted by M.B. DrapierTom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Early signs are not encouraging about whether Burnham is willing/able to improve on the most odious failure of the Starmer government: responding to racist violence by condemning the violence but being silent, or even placatory, about the motives behind it. 921266
Reposted by M.B. DrapierLeft Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Important: the data source for schools is just an 1868 report. People do read these things eventually! Wonks and civil servants take note, please keep producing reports and storing them in accessible, resilient, multimedia ways, and open your archives. 2399
Reposted by M.B. DrapierDave Bath @davebath.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"We traded our privacy for no reason..." you say. "They obtained permanent access to our private details by deception", I say. It was never about giving protection to kids, but taking protections away from all of us, and those drafting the legislation the way they did knew it. 426255
Reposted by M.B. DrapierBen Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...theconversation.comMore than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report findsThe report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan. 431754967
Reposted by M.B. DrapierJake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/? 852853986
Reposted by M.B. DrapierBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.ft.comLabour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head saysLSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance 9671278
Reposted by M.B. DrapierMichael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 26/07/2026NEW: UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised in newsrooms. The abuse now means some journalists are changing what they write about… Grim findings: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...theguardian.comUK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’ 25419237
Reposted by M.B. DrapierTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Why is a large, out of control cyclospora outbreak in the USA trending as 'Entertainment'? 10304
Reposted by M.B. DrapierAndrew Clews @crackedwindscreen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Superb thread, by Robin. He’s totally spot on. He’s very eloquent and uses far less swear words than I want to use 🤣 Read it, repost it and understand it. This is our liberties being removed by the myth of sAvE tHe ChIlDrEN 032
Reposted by M.B. DrapierRobin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026If a policymaker denies that that's the intended outcome - or even a by-product of it - the test is simple: ask them to show what, in the law and its implementation, prevents this from creating a surveillance state. 7/7 052
Reposted by M.B. DrapierEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 26/06/2026🥵Why are so many Europeans/Britons unnecessarily sweating through a heatwave without cooling? Why are portable AC units so crap? The answers are both interesting and maddening. My latest on air conditioning👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-missin...edconway.substack.comThe Missing PipeA short history of how Britain chose the wrong heating system a century ago, and why we are unnecessarily sweating our way through a heatwave in 2026 1916071
Reposted by M.B. DrapierDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This is... insane. The EU spent untold hours of human labor and political effort to create the DSA's intricate system of rules for platforms. And the CJEU is just smashing it, like a toddler. 620070
M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026There’s no Schaltung like Gleichschaltung, like no Schaltung I know … 🎶 010
Reposted by M.B. DrapierTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 253133989736
Reposted by M.B. DrapierFuzzWolf 🏳️🌈 @fuzzwolf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer. 4786022954
Reposted by M.B. DrapierRen @52656e6565.bsky.social · 24/02/2026A fool and their data are soon parted 1142
Reposted by M.B. DrapierM.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Centre-left and LW people who are reacting in horror to this, Millennials and older in particular: what did you think The Science™ meant, guys? Vibes? Papers? Essays?youtube.comCarl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)YouTube video by melodysheep 111
Reposted by M.B. DrapierStephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026It wasn’t just the child tax credit. And it’s not just the Republicans. 0326
Reposted by M.B. DrapierStephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026This chart doesn’t account for number of hours worked (which have declined), non-wage income, or how CPI is based on the spending habits of higher income people. 1134
Reposted by M.B. DrapierBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 11/02/2026A big share of future historians will conclude that the difference btw US und EU in the 2020s was not in the scale or violence of their respective deportation enforcement regimes but in the scale and ferocity of public opposition to it. On average, Europeans cared far less. 212042
Reposted by M.B. DrapierBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 11/02/2026On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.nytimes.comInside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration 2195112
Reposted by M.B. DrapierDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US. 15582954385
Reposted by M.B. DrapierJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Irishman living legally in the United States for >20 years incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Report @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...irishtimes.com‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since SeptemberSeamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record 12421
Reposted by M.B. DrapierJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Irish Times: US aircraft carrying out secretive deportations to Africa and the Middle East have landed in Shannon Airport on 10 occasions in the last year. Deportees are kept in chains on the aircraft. Our Govt does not want to know. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.socialirishtimes.comShannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past yearThe controversial agency chartered small private aircraft for the removal operations 8122102
Reposted by M.B. DrapierBooboo's Mom 🐈⬛ @denwig.bsky.social · 07/02/2026www.thedailybeast.com/xerias-troll...thedailybeast.comTroll Who Created Trump’s Racist Obama Video Was Behind Another Viral OutrageThe same content creator made the Obama video and the bizarre clip of President Trump poop-bombing ‘No Kings’ protesters. 0103
Reposted by M.B. DrapierPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Trump's assistance to the Russian attack on Ukrainian power and heating last night was so egregious that I put together this short, free piece on it. He helped Putin kill Ukrainians. If the USA does not do something soon, the US should be seen as a Putin ally. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...open.substack.comTrump Helps Putin Kill Ukrainians: A Case StudyHi All, 31439212
Reposted by M.B. Drapierolive consumer @machete.gay · 06/09/2023everything 👏 is 👏monocausal 👏 and 👏 specifically 👏 results 👏 from 👏 whatever 👏 shit 👏 I'm 👏 on 👏 about 👏 at 👏 any 👏 given 👏 time 1121939
M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 29/01/2026(RTing as I can’t reply:) Not an expert, but: after the companies do go bankrupt he’s going to use that $1tn US of personal wealth to lead a management buyout, right? AFAICS that’s nearly the only reason he’d even need that kind of cash, & he doesn’t seem to want to build Coleridge’s Xanadu. 061
Reposted by M.B. DrapierGenel Jumalon 🍉 Fan X Salt Lake @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized. 5999794817
Reposted by M.B. DrapierZachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Buy paper. Fund lousy, money losing entertainment. Bezos next needs to lose a governor’s race and mourn the pure, simply days of youth with his sled on fresh snow. 2211
Reposted by M.B. DrapierM.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Even if nothing else happens, as long as things remain febrile the odds of some accidental or semi-accidental domestic flashpoint incident, something like a Matteotti or a Sumner-Brooks affair, will continue to approach 1. 141
M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 28/01/2026(RTing as I can't reply:) Right, this is why I think US Trump opponents need to be very nervous about the example of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteot.... Unless Trump's power suffers real, significant curtailment NOW, before the shock dissipates & partisan lines of division reassert themselves …en.wikipedia.orgMatteotti Crisis - Wikipedia 230
Reposted by M.B. DrapierCathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Shimmering gates in the Oxford Oratory; Pevsner describes the furnishings here as "a rich haul"! The Historic England listing says that the marble altar rails form an arcade of Caernarfon with foliate capitals; the gates are iron with brass plates cut with the ‘IHS’ monogram and with fleur-de-lys. 19210
Reposted by M.B. DrapierEloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Splendid Fairywren Couple. The splendid fairywren is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. The splendid fairywren is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales & southwestern Queensland 📸: @darrenstephens_photography 0545
Reposted by M.B. DrapierKraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Sudan is the most upsetting to me. It's a racist ethnic cleansing bordering on a genocide, in which black people are being mass murdered for being black. The worst war currently being waged. And virtually only black people seem to care. 311427
Reposted by M.B. DrapierQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 16/01/2026four basic types of cop shows: 1. you won’t BELIEVE what kinds of crimes we solve 2. you won’t BELIEVE how we solve crimes 3. you won’t BELIEVE where we solve crimes 4. you won’t BELIEVE who we’re letting solve crimes 1222732
Reposted by M.B. Drapieryedois @yedois.bsky.social · 15/01/2026since that post, they've apparently updated their profile picture and bio because of grok: 224219
Reposted by M.B. DrapierHoward Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026For those of you who believe the game is lost, this shows it isn't. In Turkey, the guy would be arrested (and probably beaten). In Russia, he'd probably "fall out a window" Trump has authoritarian ambitions. He hasn't won the game. Not by a longshot. 17442108
Reposted by M.B. DrapierTrapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Anyone who agrees with everything a politician or party does is a danger to democracy 351061136
