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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 1h

The lack of consent with AI integration is truly something. My choices are "yes" or "maybe later". Where is the option to launch the AI assistant into the sun? I'll come to AI when I need something done sloppily and feel like spending my time and expertise correcting it instead of doing it myself.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 12h

I need that tattooed to my forehead

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 14h

I want to talk about this story and removing levies from bills. As always I'm going to explain it all in layman's terms so people who are not energy nerds can understand what these debates about how to lower their energy bills actually mean www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...

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Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills

Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers

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Dr Helen Webberley @www.helenwebberley.com · 15h

A handwritten sign, produced in real time, taped to a washroom door while a trans woman stood in front of it. Her band walked out. No statement, no compromise. Read what happened and why it matters.

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Band cancels show after trans member denied washroom access | Dr Helen Webberley

Rougaroux walked out of a Charlottetown venue in real time. Helen Webberley on what that kind of solidarity actually looks like.

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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All those Labour MPs so concerned with the safety of Jewish Greens. Really appreciate it, but if you were really concerned w/Jewish safety, you'd push your gov to be serious about the right wing thugs currently terrorising our streets, as we say here - jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/11/j...

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 18h

Day 8 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh against the job cuts imposed by senior management and their burgeoning salaries. Yesterday, a victory: the Principal announced he is stepping down in 2028. We must, however, change the system that elects Principals ...

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026

Periodic reminder that the Association for Human Mathematics exists. Join us, instead of joining the evil bullshit empire! Make maths, not slop! ❤️ ahmath.org

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vancouver Island’s marmots have clawed back from 22 animals in 2003 to 427 today, the highest count on record. The Marmot Recovery Foundation released 41 captive-bred marmots this year, with 40 more due in 2026, an estimated 120 pups were born in the wild in 2024. buff.ly/UKzvRJ6 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Marmot population on Vancouver Island climbs to 427 as recovery efforts continue

The Vancouver Island marmot population has come a long way, making a remarkable comeback from the brink of extinction.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In global narratives, Africa is absent from stories of excellence, yet everywhere in crisis. Here, I develop 2 concepts: Afro-blivion (forgetting Africa exists) & Afro-tropia (reducing Africa to stereotypes) to explain this simultaneous erasure and misrepresentation. folukeafrica.com/afro-blivion...

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Afro-blivion and Afro-tropia: Africa Is Forgotten When It Excels and Remembered When It Suffers

Forgetting Africa while stereotyping Africa

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But...I don't _want_ to prioritize by co pilot. I don't want my teams to "upgrade" for AI. Why aren't we allowed the right to refuse this tech?

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📚 Preorder your copy today via the links below. US edition: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804175... UK & international edition: www.penguin.co.uk/books/476377... DE signiertes Buch: shop.autorenwelt.de/products/ant...

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Anti-Fascist Economics by Isabella Weber: 9798217154432 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all....

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't accept soft Hindutva is a good thing. So, no, I am not accepting soft Zionism as a good thing. No gradation of ethnonationalism is a good thing particularly when it has its hands on the levers of state.

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those of us who work on contemporary France have long predicted some kind of social protest in advance of the 2027 elections. It could have been a gilets jaunes mk 2 related to high petrol prices, but instead it was school students. Some thoughts... www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

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Un gouvernement fébrile, à la merci d’un embrasement qu’il n’a pas vu venir

La journée de mobilisation de mardi inquiète au sommet de l’Etat, alors que la tension n’a cessé de croître en près de trois semaines d’actions et que l’exécutif semble avoir pour l’instant donné la p...

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RIP Terry. Would that you were here in this moment

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saudi Arabia now says that 3 billion barrels have been wiped from the global supply since March. 1 bn bbl released from strategic reserves, meaning we are down 2 bn bbl. The market cannot absorb that - this means looming pain and privation for everyone www.thetimes.com/business/com...

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Global crude oil stocks ‘scarily thin’, Saudi Aramco boss warns

Amin Nasser says it will take two years to replenish reserves once disruption of shipments from the Iran conflict ends in the Strait of Hormuz

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The cuts and closures at Nottingham are brutal. 3 music programmes undergraduate level and pretty much all the language progeamws.

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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In which Lisa and I argue against a “left case” for AI. Statistical patterning cannot substitute for thinking; the hyperexploitation of resources and labour isn’t worth it; the scientific racism of a singular “intelligence” is fascist; so-called AI is aggregation and surveillance not liberation

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you registered? Why not. Come on!

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Türkiye's government is violently cracking down on LGBTQ+ civil society, targeting trans women especially. Among the groups attacked are Kaos GL, who previously translated and republished some of my work in their journal. I am grateful therefore for this statement of solidarity from @ucu.org.uk.

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UCU condemns Turkish state crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and civil society

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My interview with @poltheoryother.bsky.social on the UK's role in the Saudi bombing of Yemen, and the recent report I co-authored for @caatuk.bsky.social and @transitionsec.bsky.social calling for UK reparations to Yemen. Here or wherever you get you podcasts www.patreon.com/poltheoryoth...

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What the UK owes to Yemen w/ David Wearing | Politics Theory Other

Between 2015 and 2022, a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states waged a devastating military campaign in Yemen, which - David Wearing argues in

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Police alleged to have manhandled and assaulted women protesters and journalists at a demonstration calling for India's chief election commissioner to resign. thewire.in/rights/jantar-mant...

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Jantar Mantar 2.0 Live: Delhi Protesters Push Past Barricades, March Undeterred From India Gate

It is day three of the protests.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The writing is clear in authoritarian regimes across the world: Accept the established order of hierarchy or face extreme violence.

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love there is an Anselm connection

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They are still finding the bodies of children abused by these nuns. This institution was open until the 60’s. Some of the laundries were open as late as the 90’s. Never forget More infant remains uncovered at former mother-and-baby home www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tuam: Remains of 10 more infants uncovered at former mother-and-baby home

Experts who are carrying out the dig at Tuam in County Galway have published their latest regular update.

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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Glasgow 21st November 3-5.30pm The Doublet presents 'Pubs for the People' and an afternoon discussion about how pubs help us understand the nation over a few pints. Meet authors Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh in conversation with Les Back www.eventbrite.com/e/pubs-for-t...

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Pubs for the people

The fight for the pint and the nation By Sivamohan Vall! Book Launch!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why are we even asking whether this project is racist, as we enter *year four* of undisguised genocide, while Israel’s leadership class keep telling journos that Britain is a dark Bolshevo-Muslim nightmare led by Islamocommunist extremists? *Of course* it is extremely racist, undeniably so.

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some days.. Art work by Divya Ravi

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Instead of continuous administrative reorganisation of academic units under size and shape exercises, this is where universities should be focusing time, thought and action. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Students turn to lawyers to fight AI misconduct accusations

Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What Braverman says here is 100% false. Mauritius was a poor, plantation economy when the British took over from France in 1810, and they kept it that way until 1968. The economic miracle that turned it into a diverse, upper-middle income economy came after independence. bsky.app/profile/jord...

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