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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 3h

I’m in my 40s and went to secondary school with a Verity who claimed she’d never farted.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 3h

He also travels through the desert between Acre and Jerusalem, and um no.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14h

I liked Triangle of Sadness but from your live blogging of this I really don’t think I’ll like Digger…

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15h

There it is. Cold-blooded murder.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21h

111 years ago today, nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for smuggling Allied soldiers out of occupied Belgium. #histSTM [archive link for those trying to avoid clicking on the G] web.archive.org/web/20260109...

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Edith Cavell: nurse, martyr, and spy? | Vanessa Heggie

100 years ago today Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for smuggling Allied soldiers out of occupied Belgium. Vanessa Heggie explains how a nurse became a spy

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh dear god I can see the avatar with the smile and the hair

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm using it more and more these days

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That Andrew Jackson is Mark Zuckerberg’s favourite US president says everything

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“I’m so bored I’m going to poison myself” is pure toddler behaviour. Cats are toddlers.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s been raining all day, and the cat is so bored he has “helped” with all the chores and has now been helping himself to the cheese and tomato in a sandwich that was briefly left unattended… He has IBS, this could get interesting.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s also full of tedious mansplainers, contrarians, and AI worshippers.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If that’s the case then you start with the moral objection to all executions in totality, not with an objection to the vibes being off with public executions.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I hate it. I belatedly joined last year because I thought I must be missing out and it’s just Facebook for people who take themselves too seriously.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If your only problem with this execution is that it’s public… well, then your problem is not with state violence, your problem is with the aesthetics and your politics is based on vibes not ethics.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It would be much easier to prevent fascists using state executions for their fascist purposes if you didn’t have state executions in the first place.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yeah I saw that, and I get that fascism is vibes, but I just can’t get behind this sudden oh no this is execution is awful when the US has been executing people my entire life without this outrage.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We must keep executions private and as sanitised as possible so that we can pretend we don’t have a bloodlust.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Maybe I’m just too European but the public aspect of an execution is not really the main problem with it.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Six weeks into term and I’m waiting for the virus I feel like I’ve been fighting for weeks now to either properly kick-in or kindly fuck off. Bored now.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you’re all enjoying your weekends.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Exactly. They *think* everyone who works at a university is a lanyard wearer but that’s because they have a) a narrow view of who works at universities who in reality employ every type of worker and b) don’t realise nearly everyone wears a lanyard at work regardless of their job.

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I mean Columbia U loves to promote the anti-apartheid occupations so… yep.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have some questions about how horse riders are supposed to know how fast they’re going…

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 08/10/2026

For decades now, many have closed their eyes on the mainstream authoritarian turn in the name of security and antiterrorism because they felt they wouldn't be targets Well, as was always obvious and well researched, violence first unleashed on minoritised folk devils has come home to roost

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Of course he’s a migrant himself and AI adjacent. Of course!

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ha ha can you imaginea And next up in the Grand Prix Musical Freestyle we have Charlotte Dujardin riding Ermintrude with music from The Magic Roundabout.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ah but they’re lanyard jobs you see…

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fantastic! I’m now imagining that cow and that girl entering a rodeo and people being utterly baffled when it just calmly trots out of the stall and pootles around the ring with her sitting safely on its back until the bell rings.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Do you think they tried with other animals like cows?

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To act in the public interest here would mean having to forego the commitment to ‘balance’.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You can also use ground cinnamon if you don’t have a stick. I’m using ground today.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sorry for the typos *suçuk but not butter. Also it’s sliced suçuk, you can make the pieces as chunky or thin as you like depending what you fancy. It’s also good with just good old rookworst.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Only from my homemade cookbook… This one is without the suçuk butter I pre-fry that on the pan, remove it and then start on the beans recipe, returning the suçuk to the mix once the beans and tomatoes have reduced but before I add the lemon juice and whatnot.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You mean Temu doesn’t do teachers?

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve already started on my beans, tomato, cinnamon and suçuk stew for dinner but now I want some spuds.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not a nice evening in Den Haag for Step Vaessen and other correspondents to be outside the ICC filing their reports on US sanctions.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

God Marco Rubio has such a punchable face. Meanwhile the world really needs an alternative banking system that is not reliant on the US. Let's freeze *them* out over these threats to the ICC.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay winning the Nobel Peace Prize sends quite a message

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm thinking he's been stealing valour from Jamie Peck.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Adam’s Tickell he’s an important scholar in understanding the neoliberalisatiom of space and yes he is *that* Adam Tickell our dear vice chancellor who seems to think it means turning the university into a dairy farm and you students into the cows.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wonder if colleagues at Birmingham teach Tickell and if so how they approach doing so…

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There was me thinking his work on neoliberalism was a critique when in fact it was a manifesto.

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