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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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lucindasoon @lucindasoon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Socio-legal academics, postgraduate researchers, early career researchers: the Society of Legal Scholars and @lawatleeds.bsky.social invite abstract submissions for a one-day workshop focused on developing research on the legal profession. All disciplines welcome. Deadline 18 Nov. Pls share. Thanks!

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you don't want the RNLI to save refugees who would otherwise drown, I don't want you being saved by any emergency or medical service & I reserve the right to laugh in your sobbing face as you pass away in fear & agony. If we're doing theatre of cruelty, let's not fuck about, let's do it properly.

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

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beaubodor.bsky.social @beaubodor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Spontaneous departure of spontaneous protestors from Dover Priory Train Station, marching to catch a spontaneous train arrival. Kent Online www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/l...

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stabilo @stabiloffc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

M&S profits so far this year are around £650m. Tesco profits last year were £3.15bn. So they can fuck off.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few years ago I went to a pig sanctuary and most of the pigs were stoned from eating green acorns. This one, Wilbur, couldn’t stand up and was too big to lift, so the staff had to leave him in this bush and wait for him to sober up.

Wilbur, a stoned pig lying in the dirt and unable to stand at Pigs in the Wood sanctuary, Huddersfield. I later adopted him.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Student visa slump ‘raises serious questions’ on university funding. Number of student visas granted falls by more than 40 per cent in three years. China, India, Pakistan and Nigeria all down year-on-year. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Student visa slump ‘raises serious questions’ on university funding - Research Professional News

Number of student visas granted falls by more than 40 per cent in three years

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Ste @sterushton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We once lost away at West Ham 1-0 under Walter Smith and neither side had a shot at goal. We find a way.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23/08/2026

theory: the only people left in provincial nightclubs are England cricket players and people trying to start fights with England cricket players

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

2 minutes 59 seconds of the new season on the clock. 'He (Tarky) has to be getting dropped' Never change, Everton.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/08/2026

once again I will say that the only person I've ever met who's been even worse in person than online was Toby Young

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If the PM is going to achieve this, then he needs to have some serious words with the Home Office. Kicking refugees out of Home Office accommodation with only a few weeks' notice and no support leaves thousands facing homelessness after a positive asylum decision www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise | Andy Burnham

Today we begin our drive to get everyone in for Christmas. And it will be for local communities up and down the land to decide how best to do it, says prime minister Andy Burnham

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 19/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who has had a look at my website and placed an order. I’m definitely feeling more positive tonight. I can do this!

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Struggling this Monday? Here is a schadenfreude dose to help you make it through the day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas specials cancelled after star breaks jaw

The sitcom's creator says he requires "immediate" surgery but hopes the show will return in 2027.

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

9 shows in to my Edinburgh run and I’m still pleasantly surprised, and extremely grateful, that so many people are getting up for a show about the Kennedy assassination at 9:45 am

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school?

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Giulia Bould @giuliabould.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And it was also fun to spin one last You Make Me Feel, Dwight McNeil! 😂 Looking forward to chatting to you all again on Friday on Total Sport

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/08/2026

This is one aspect of the problem. Litigants in person use AI to generate often excessively lengthy pleadings and submissions that can seem superficially plausible but which require to be sifted through minutely to identify what is real. It’s common for LiPs not fully to understand what they submit.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 04/08/2026

Re: pervert glasses. Should it occur to anyone that they might use them to film court or tribunal proceedings, don’t do that. It’s a criminal offence.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The best way to honour a writer who proudly wrote what they believed is to quote word for word exactly what they believed. Like this. ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/media/2010/j...

'Monkeymfc' speaks
Rod Liddle has been attacked for comments he posted on a Millwall supporters website under the moniker Monkeymfc. This is what he is quoted as saying and his response:

What "Monkeymfc" wrote about black people: "On average a little under 10 per cent thicker than whites; 15 per cent thicker than east Asians. I thought everyone knew, too." What Liddle says: "Someone's hacked in [using Liddle's password].

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

So many people have no idea the full-on battles with the so-called 'welfare state' they are going to face when their parents get old. Loads of people are going to have to take early retirement just to look after their loved ones at this rate.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/07/2026

I endorse this message

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Once upon a time, I bought a carpet I imagined I would see

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I just can’t fathom an editor of any paper looking at that and going ‘so you haven’t put these extremely defamatory allegations to him? No worries, let’s get it printed’

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Z H Challah esq., Cavalier of the 8th @challahchic.butchsky.social · 23/07/2026

Remember, libraries have to buy copies of books. The more times you check out and read a book the more likely the library will purchase more copies!

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/07/2026

I’m sure, if they were still alive, the people who died as a result would be very sympathetic.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

KEEP GOING!! www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins... "Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals now fully open."

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Cambridge reaches milestone as 75 percent of journal articles become open access

Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals...

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

An exceptional piece of writing from @leanderalphabet.bsky.social that sums the whole World Cup up defector.com/fifa-got-wha...

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Peter Sloman @pjsloman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fair play to John Healey, who managed to time his 5.5-week break from government to coincide exactly with the World Cup

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 20/07/2026

Brilliant. A friend of ours took her four year old shopping for school uniform - trousers, jumper, shirt, tie on a bit of elastic etc. They got back home, he tried it all on, looked in the mirror and said “mummy, why do I look like an old man”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I mean, Mahmood is literally the last person I'd have kept in their role

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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ed Miliband: “My parents came here as Jewish refugees fleeing from the Nazis, and for them, Britain provided sanctuary and a beacon of hope in the fight against fascism”, adding that he would "carry that spirit, their spirit, into my work as foreign secretary". Have a word with Ms Mahmood, please

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The recent low point was having a beautifully-constructed introductory module abolished without our consent, followed by school managers presenting us with a ChatGPT-generated list of topics we could teach instead. Then they got angry that we weren’t impressed.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney speaking for the entire world on the half time show. "I thought it was crap."

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If they have to play a game that doesn’t matter, then “gloriously bonkers with ten goals” is EXACTLY the way to do it.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"When I grow up, I just want my siblings to luv me just as much." 🦌💖🐕 Rescued deer Benny lounging w/ his Golden Retriever siblings in a Missouri home. The deer & dogs frequently hike and explore the outdoors together. Benny loves relaxing on their dog bed. (Fr the "Brown Hiking Trails' account)

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