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Polly Pallister-Wilkins

@pollypw.bsky.social
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Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 23h
Finally a sensible approach to this nonsense
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
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What We Do In The Shadows: Oh, Multipack!
Alt: What We Do In The Shadows: Oh, Multipack!
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“An Iranian link to the bizarre events in the Gloucestershire countryside over the weekend is seen as increasingly likely” because we want it to be. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Suspect in RAF Fairford case called police to report incident
Man dialled 999 before he and four others were arrested near military base in Gloucestershire, it has emerged
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What? One of the Fairford Five Fuel Feeves called plod themselves? Was Farmer Karen coming on a bit strong because she thought they were dogging and she wanted to join in?
Suspect foiled RAF Fairford ‘bomb plot’ by ringing police himself
As counterterrorism officers focus on whether the five men from London were proxies for Iran, they are also investigating the motives of the one who called 999
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once had a reviewer comment “this article was clearly not written by a native English speaker” which was certainly news to me.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has anyone checked on the Scransit Van lads?
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’d do a Palestine Action thing and try them for diesel theft and then slap terrorism on them at sentencing.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know five guys from London who could help with a diesel shortage.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Message just now from my mother: “It’s a shame Trump wasn’t president and on top of UK rural crime when someone stole my Land Rover” 😂
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone still pushing the “explosives at RAF Fairford” story are either: 1. Incredibly slow on the uptake 2. Pushing an agenda based on disinformation
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He should have taken up a healthier hobby like dogging next to RAF bases.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it’s fuel theft and not dogging unless Marco Rubio is in the Fairford Dogging Club Signal chat and so knows otherwise. news.sky.com/story/raf-fa...
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RAF Fairford latest: Intercepted vans had no improvised explosives, police say, but 'quantity of petrol' recovered
British counter terror police are giving an update on the major incident at RAF Fairford over the weekend. It comes amid growing questions about the incident, with various claims from senior US figure...
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio says I should treat myself to a nice glass of wine this evening.
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arnie @arnie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just made some breakfast, or as the uk media would put it, planned on blowing up the moon on russia's behalf
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop trying to make fetch happen
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How can you have a bomb plot with no bomb? No explosives found. Suspects released on bail. Can the media stop pretending this was terrorism because they’re embarrassed they immediately jumped to conclusions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is just to say I have released the blokes that were in the transits and which you were probably thinking were terrorists Forgive me they were stealing some diesel and some copper
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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are people not aware that there are perfectly functional roads between Iraq and Syria? And that the rest of the border is impassible to vehicles? Imagining the middle east as an unbroken stretch of flat desert with none of the infrastructure of civilization is orientalism.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 27/09/2026
"Maciek Hamela: Filmmaker and radio producer. Director of 'In the Rearview' - Oscar shortlist for Best Feature Documentary Film" Well how to get yourself discredited by sharing AI slop. FFS
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is making the rounds but be aware: it's A.I. slop! First: having those big trucks with tanks full of fuel going that fast off-terrain seems highly unrealistic. But there's also a SUV and a guy appearing all of sudden and walking in the middle of it at the 17 second :P So yeah, don't fall for it
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah because they have six lane one way unsealed highways in Iraq…? Engage your brain and think* for one second whether this looks ridiculous and unrealistic because yes it is. It’s obviously AI. *you think this is real because you’re racist and think the Middle East doesn’t have sealed roads.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maam, I live in the bubble called Europe.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Skeets you can hear
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do they not have subtitles in the US because why are these all English language shows and why is Forbrydelsen season 1 not on this list?
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you think Andy Burnham could start realising that politics exists beyond Manchester and pay attention to the fascism all over the south of England?
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What? Petrol are different prices whether you pay with cash or card? What?
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Danny Tommo has had to spend the night in the bushes outside Basingstoke train station after his release from police custody.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So should I see if the folks at the Last Ditch Bar want a homemade chilli or nah?
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
what else is there to say other than, jfc
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What an absolutely brilliant scorching indictment of Sheeran, the BBC, and all the assholes both-siding a genocide www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...
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Gijs Brekelmans @gys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta removed a video by a satirist wearing Meta glasses asking unrecognizable Meta personnel about Meta glasses. Meta's ground for doing so - and please appreciate the irony here - is... harassment.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are lots of issues regarding LLMs to discuss, but this is the fundamental one that should have stopped all else in its tracks: they are an unprecedented breach of intellectual property rights, and society cannot be ordered around pretending that LLMs are a special case worthy of exemption
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta wil niet dat je deze video ziet. Ik herhaal: Meta wil níet dat je deze video ziet.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the non Dutch speakers Roel Maalderink made an excellent satirical video about Meta’s pervert glasses and Meta has removed the film from Instagram (film in following skeet) www.ad.nl/tech/meta-ha...
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Meta haalt satirische video offline waarin Roel Maalderink kritiek uit op de videobrillen van het techbedrijf
Meta heeft een video offline gehaald van Roel Maalderink en Bits of Freedom, waarin zij op satirische wijze kritiek uiten op de videobrillen van Meta. Maalderink filmt erin Meta-personeel met een vide...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seeing as we're all enjoying the saga of getting stranded in Reykjavík and I've got 10 minutes to kill and don't want to look at my inbox here's the really uneventful story of when I got stranded in Singapore as a counterpoint.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first problem here was flying British Airways. Absolutely dogshit airline.
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Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not doing normal enforcement against obvious criminality is bad enough. Doing extreme enforcement against relatively peaceful protesters while simultaneously not doing any against life threateningly violent people on viewpoint is wildly corrosive.
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A lot of fascist stuff like this happened in the Aegean over the last decade or so, but it took serious investigative work to uncover it because it was clandestine, meanwhile this is just happening right there in front of the press, the authorities, all without shame, and demanding attention.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some things are so evil and foul that they defy language. This is one of them.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If I said what I want to say my account would get nuked.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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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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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The cat is definitely in his middle-aged phase, going outside is now less about fighting with the much bigger cats and more about just pottering about the garden and checking on the plants.
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