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Merisesher

@merisesher.bsky.social
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Culture, tennis and perfume loving, autistic, dance stimming through life. Building a museum @museumofcolour bit by bit. There will be typos and whole missed words.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People: Why do women mask so much? Huh, it's a mystery *One (1) very clearly autistic, unapologetic woman is on TV for two episodes* People: Look at this twat, God she's awful, pretending to be quirky for attention, fuck that one broad in particular, Christ, nobody'd better act like that round me
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is good on detail and the difficulty. But there is no language for the Arab African tensions in a Eurocentric world. And those conflicts predate the racialising of the world, making those conversations harder as the Egyptian art/Chinese visit made visible this week. #Sudan
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Icelandic word for psychologist is "sálfræðingur". It literally means "soul expert". For short we call them "sáli" or "soulie".
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Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution @brlsi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌍🌱 Eco Talks at BRLSI: Prof Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir on building a regenerative economy for wellbeing. 📅 Thu 15 Oct, 7:30pm 📍 BRLSI www.brlsi.org/whatson/eco-talks-at-… #EcoTalks
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LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil @leedsbookclub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really vital thread for those of us who believe in a brighter future. And value our educators.
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Editorial standards? 😂
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/09/2026
A challenge for those who decide on graphics to accompany autism articles—maybe AVOID: 1) A bald silhouetted human head in profile 2) A stylized human brain 3) Puzzle pieces 4) Any combination of the above Thank you. (So tiresome.)
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now this I like!
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Remember #Sudan
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/09/2026
Of course reparations for the slave trade is an utterly fanciful idea just so long as you ignore the fact that we paid reparations … to those who *invested* in the trade and not its victims.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What is with these men and orbs? Is it ovary envy. It's totally ovary envy
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The Economist @economist.com · 18/09/2026
“Up” is the weighty ancestor of modern reality TV. It has illuminated Britain wonderfully—just not in the way the film-makers originally expected
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The “Up” series, an epic of ordinary life, comes to an end
A serious ancestor of reality TV
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
These nasty pervy things have been used for porn since first on the market, with men travelling to African countries romancing women and disappearing. Time to remember why Facebook was created. 👓
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
177 years ago today, Harriet Tubman made her first escape from a plantation in Maryland with her two brothers.
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The eye watering hypocrisy of silence on James Orr has floored me. While our civil service class of media/academia/culture want us to look at #Tommy #Racism it’s all about #Power #Money and #Fear
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now we’re talking. 👇🏾
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Report outlines worsening trends in repression of academics in 22 countries and documents 382 attacks on scholars, students, and institutions in 59 countries/territories www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
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Free to Think 2026 | Scholars at Risk
Free to Think 2026 is the 12th installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 382 attacks on higher education communities around the world.
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Lars Andersen @lkjandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Everything turned into ponzi-schemes so fast and no one seems inclined to stop it.
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“ it aims to keep it on track with what humans value.” These words do not inspire confidence. No, greed, selfishness, prejudice or war over here. 😆 #AI #SuperAI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not surprising. A bit like the Police ignoring the warning. Not surprising. #Racism in action at every level.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Georg Flegel, Two Tulips, 1630. Watercolor
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@natechinen.bsky.social: "Wilson was, and I don’t say this cavalierly, a true American great. She was an improvising vocalist gifted with extravagant natural resources, but in every sense a rebel and a risk-taker, incapable of toeing any line." thegig.substack.com/p/cassandra-...
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Cassandra Wilson, The Conjurer
Parting thoughts on a singular voice and incredible artist
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I haven’t found my #Parkrun groove in #Bath so am doing them vicariously as a proud big sis 🙂 Loving my brother’s #volunteering milestone. 👏🏾👏🏾 www.nuhorizons.uk/post/volunte...
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Volunteering, Milestones, Clubs and Good Vibrations. Burgess parkrun #624 - 29/08/26
Volunteering Challenges, Milestones, Clubs, and the joy of volunteering at Burgess parkrun and beyond!
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Zodi Addams 🍁☕️🎃 @zodi777.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
I know that it was “just a show” but Watchmen actually did a good job demonstrating the bone-chilling terror of the Tulsa Massacre. A lot of people learned about it from the show. Pop culture shouldn’t be the only learning tool, but it can open doors for further study.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hoping Disney will save us is a deeply Americana disease
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Can the government launch a campaign on this for non-refugee men as well, please? Because the statistics show it’s badly needed
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I stopped posting on Twitter properly 2 years ago; I’d be lying if I said I didn’t check it, as a lot of what drives the UK news cycle happens on there But the number of people on there that think people, esp journos, left Twitter because they wanted an echo chamber is bizarre - another culture war
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Dr K WILDSCHUT @drkwildschut1984.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I support the call for a public inquiry into the death of Jason #Arday This article paints Cofnas as a sour loser bc he was sacked in 2024 from the University of Cambridge. And FYI Arday’s PhD was confirmed as having been free from plagiarism.
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Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday media 'witchhunt'
Lord Simon Woolley said Arday had been "hounded" by the media and pursued relentlessly.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I’ve had the experience with Chat GPT where it has said, “I’m looking forward to” or “it’s one of my favorites” or “I was thinking about…” When I call it out, it literally makes excuses.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 21/07/2026
No, autism is NOT overdiagnosed. It is *under diagnosed*, especially in autistics who aren't white boys from financially stable families. Anyone who claims we are overdiagnosing autism is either misinformed, or cruel, or both. #autism #neurodiversity
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BBC going hard now after helping to legitimise a private company with Farage as a director until last February. SMH #Reform www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK
Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s heartwarming that Emmett Till is honored in Chicago, but we must acknowledge that the racism in Mississippi which led to his murder thrives, as people there symbolically lynch him on a regular basis by vandalizing a sign marking where his body was recovered We still have so much work to do
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm at the park, reading, and a woman with an accent said to me, "Oh, you're a reading worm". I love that construction. It's so poetic when second-language folks speak. I did not correct her because reading worm is better than bookworm.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/07/2026
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
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One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism One mosque is attacked in Britain every five days, according to new data released by the government’s partner for monitoring anti-Muslim hatred. More than 70 attacks on mosques in the UK have been recorded over the past year, which include acts of intimidation, violence, property damage, harassment, anti-Muslim hate speech, online abuse and vandalism. Continue reading...
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Here is an account of the police shooting in Madison today that does not directly contain any video but does contain eyewitness accounts, if that's something anyone is looking for www.wpr.org/news/man-sho...
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MPD: Man shot, killed by police on Madison's east side after officer was injured with knife
A person was shot by police on Madison's near east side Wednesday.
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Not just Dems #UKGOV take note 👇🏾#journalism
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/07/2026
Politico's owner is giving Peter Thiel an award. Semafor just added more tech billionaires to its Silicon Valley suck-up advisory board. Now comes the Economist's "Insider" interview with Elon Musk, sponsored by Anthropic. The sorry state of business/tech journalism in one stunning image.
screenshot of Economist "Insider" newsletter, an interview with Elon Musk...sponsored by Anthropic
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Good. If you steal you risk prison, when they steal they make money and call you naive for condemning it. #AI
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Museum of Colour @museumofcolour.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
TV moves fast. Careers should last. That's what we explored at Reel Talk last week an open chat about burnout, resilience and building a healthier future for the industry. Thanks to Brenda Emmanus OBE, Annika Allen Gray, Dhruti Shah, Jonathan Badyal, Lucy Miller, and everyone who joined us. 🖤
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 16/07/2026
On this day in 1952, 8-year-old Gladys Knight won the top prize on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour singing Nat King Cole's "Too Young." When it came time to pose with her trophy, the parents of the white contestants refused to let their children help her hold it.
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A reminder when Gary Sobers hit six sixes in an over h/t @jderbyshire.ft.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u7A...
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Sir Garfield Sobers hits 6 Sixes in an over
YouTube video by Kalyan Verma
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Iacovos @iacovos.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The hypocrisy of Starmer's Labour (and much of the West) with regard to their stance on the atrocities of Russia versus those of Israel has been frankly mind-boggling
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Merisesher @merisesher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Anish Gawande, a young and upcoming opposition politician, laments the government’s refusal to listen. “Ministers are…ignoring these voices. In a functioning democracy, a government listens to its people and their aspirations,” he says. #Politics
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Must revisit Stuart hall one day in my free time.
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