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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have many political, ideological and ethical disagreements with him, but he did make the Empire tremble. Happy birthday to an OG empire-toppler #Gandhi #GandhiJayanti youtu.be/ghxEKhCQerQ?...

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Vande Mataram - Lage Raho Munna Bhai - feat, Sanjay Dutt

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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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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 01/10/2026

Teaching people to dream is a threat to those who wish to hold our dreams in chains. But the important thing for us Morlocks to remember is that we are always looking upwards... Teachers matter.

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Short 🧵 After a bookish fundraiser yesterday, a lovely young Palestinian poet from Gaza asked an unexpected question: “why do you teach?” My answer: “to build the future.” To build a different, better, just future from what the Empire allows us.

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brilliant mentoring scheme for minoritised science writers is open for application: www.sciencewrite.co.uk Apply and share please www.sciencewrite.co.uk

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ScienceWrite

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 24/09/2026

So excited once again to be supporting the Jhalak Poetry Prize. Start submitting those pamphlets, collections and anthologies (or nudge your publishers to do so!) Thank you for the opportunity @profsunnysingh.bsky.social and the Jhalak team!

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy birthday Refaat, poet, scholar, and stone thrower of the First Intifada. Miss your acuity, courage, generosity and wit every day The video? #iykyk youtu.be/QzOIXlmpgBQ?...

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Rote Hue Aate Hai Sab | 4K Video | Muqaddar Ka Sikandar | Amitabh Bachchan , Vinod K | Kishore Kumar

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm speaking at #ConsciousWritingMonth! A series of workshops, talks, and therapist-led sessions exploring how to build a more conscious creative writing life. Plus entry to the TLC Pen Factor with £2k of prizes. Hosted by @TLCUK. We kick off Oct 19th literaryconsultancy.co.uk/event/consci...

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Conscious Writing Month 2026 - The Literary Consultancy

A five-week series of workshops, readings, and talks for writers wanting to lead more conscious lives. Hosted by The Literary Consultancy. Supported by Counselling Directory. Join The Literary Consult...

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Tawseef Khan @tawseefkhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm very honoured to be judging the Jhalak Prose Prize 2027 - get your submissions in so I can get reading!

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Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What an honour to be a judge on the 2027 Jhalak Prose Prize, alongside Katie Goh and Tawseef Khan. Submissions are open until Friday 11th December!

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sunny Singh: “Jhalak Prize 'is more necessary than ever before. Explicit racism is on the rise again while quiet but clear exclusions of racially minoritised writers and publishing professionals has again been normalised.”

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Prize director Sunny Singh said: “We are grateful to our judges who exemplify literary excellence and generosity. We hope that the industry will support our efforts with more numerous, stronger and varied submissions.”

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our Powerful Cohort of Judges: Children’s & YA: Fidan Meikle, Jasbinder Bilan & Claire Linney Poetry Prize: Maggie Harris, Sunnah Khan & Nick Makoha Prose Prize: Katie Goh, Tawseef Khan & Jini Reddy

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

jhalak Prize starts the second decade and opens submissions today for three awards: Children’s & Young Adult Prize, Poetry Prize and Prose Prize. 1/n

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Opens this Wednesday! And absolutely unmissable! By the brilliant Ahmed Masoud. The Shroudmaker is the story of Palestine wrapped in a woman's account of survival. A stunning work of theatre that is poignant, life affirming and darkly funny www.pleasance.co.uk/event/shroud...

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The Shroudmaker | Pleasance Theatre Trust

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Most of the public just wants us to keep going and keep going.” He’s talking about genocide. Just to be completely clear

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ben-Gvir: “If we get the Palestinians out of Gaza, that means more lives for us. “And then Gaza can become a real-estate arena. It can become a beautiful coastal gem. “Settlements need to be built there. A lot of things need to be done there.”

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

All my work on TESCREAL & instead of Black women warning you, you amplify the people we've been warning about. I'm done with all of you. See how long I've had to do this shit in my upcoming book you can preorder. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U... Fucking bullshit doing this over & over.

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Deep Unlearning

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026

What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coming up tomorrow and next Tuesday, my two lectures in Brazil. There will be a livestream and time for discussion. Looking forward to meeting colleagues and students

Events promotion image for lectures titled: The Future of Human Rights in Times of Genocide on 10 September 2026 and Imagining Anti-Colonial Justice in the Wreckage of the Empire on 15 September 2026, with my photo on right and event information on the left

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Belo Horizonte, Brasil: coming up Thursday, 10 September. First of my two public lectures this month in Brazil

Event promotion image for lecture titled: The Future of Human Rights in Times of Genocide with my photo on right and event information on the left

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Belo Horizonte, Brasil: coming up Thursday, 10 September. First of my two public lectures this month in Brazil

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is a very funny insult 😁

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Sonya 🕊️ @sonya.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Creative! Avoids ablest connotations. Values humans and their labor. Uses my favorite way to insult something that is believed to be powerful by pointing and laughing. 20/10 stars!

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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There's a review of THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF in the latest issue of Wasafiri wasafiri.org/shop/issues/... (I haven't made it past the paywall yet but I will!)

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Wasafiri 127: Solidarities

What shapes do solidarities take in these strange times we are living in?

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Cost of Borders is finally under contract! Thank you to my incredible agent @sarahburnes.bsky.social to @naomischneid.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social for believing in this project & to all the people from Palestine to Haiti to Cameroon to Iran who shared their stories with me!

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THE COST OF BORDERS By Heba Gowayed
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August 31, 2026
Carnegie Fellow and CUNY sociologist Heba Gowayed's THE COST OF BORDERS, revealing the nature of global frontiers through the stories of people who journey across them, challenging lay and legal conceptions of borders, showing them as for-profit enterprises of state and private industry, whose costs are borne by everyone, not just in smugglers' fees and tax dollars, but also in lives, freedoms, and the very safety they are alleged to protect, to Naomi Schneider at University of California Press, at auction, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company (world).

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026

Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just learned that The Niece’s primary school buddies have a new insult to replace ‘stupid’. They point, shout ‘Artificial Intelligence’ & fall about laughing. I have NO idea where they got the idea. And I doubt they understand Large Learning Models (I refuse to call it AI)

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Hazel Katherine Larkin @hazelklarkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@profsunnysingh.bsky.social I just saw this, and thought it might be of interest to you. (I hope you're well and thriving.) Full article: Between Lipstick and Widow’s White: Female desire and gendered ageism in contemporary Bollywood www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6SJTU...

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Between Lipstick and Widow’s White: Female desire and gendered ageism in contemporary Bollywood

Aging women in Bollywood have long been confined within a narrow repertoire of archetypes, among them the suffering widow, the stern matriarch, and the self-effacing grandmother, figures defined no...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As several commentators point out: Nepal hardly contributes towards global warming. A glacier collapse is serious. The Hillary step is gone as well. All Everest scalers from the west who destroy everything and claim possession of naming, where art thou? Show your passion for Nepal, perhaps?

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.

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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday

Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/08/2026

> Although the media had ample evidence with which to challenge the frame imposed on them by the eugenicists, they adopted it, running with the pack and, in doing so, legitimising both the aims and the epistemic authority of those leading the hunt. 3/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/08/2026

> Arday had been marked as quarry long before the media campaign that drove him to his death. A [...] well-funded international network gave the hunt the capacity to unleash the pack[, b]ut [...] its extremist ideology had to be laundered into a story about scientific and journalistic integrity. 2/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/08/2026

> From day one, everything pointed to the fact that Jason Arday, the Black neurodivergent Cambridge professor who died in August 2026, was being subjected to racist and ableist harassment — exactly the kind of targeting he himself had described. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/n

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The Hunt for Jason Arday

Translation of Mediapart Le Club blog post in French, by Stephanie Lamy, 24th August 2026. How an Elite Network Hunted Jason Arday Race science is a pseudoscience that feeds far-right propaganda, inc...

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dire reporting from BBC which frames people seeking asylum as de facto criminals, along with a pretty patronising and derogatory booklet from the Home Office. This fairly obviously, as Reform's comments show, plays into a narrative people seeking safety are a "threat". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet

The nine-page booklet covers issues including respect in public, sex and consent, and gender equality.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

The UK on the other hand has GCs within Labour, top medical institutions, EHRC, medical journals such as the BMJ, and of course the British press. At every level GC's have done complete institutional capture of key influential positions to erase trans rights.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

Yes, the Trump admin controls HHS, FTC, and DOJ and is using that to pursue anti-trans policies but that is tied to a single administration. Broader institutions have for the most part held on protecting trans folks. Event the ones that folded mostly did so because of threats by the Trump admin.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

This is just social media. This does not include all of the money Rowling spends enforcing her views on the rest of the UK by threat of SLAPP suits. One of the reasons I remain hopeful in the US is how partisan anti-trans views remain here along with the relative lack of institutional capture.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

Rowling's median engagement exploded after Elon took over. Her posts were regularly getting tens of thousands of engagements. Her anti-trans tweets became an increasing part of her presence on the site and it now makes up nearly half of all her posts (with conservative methodology).

A line graph titled "Engagement rose for everyone after the takeover — trans-focused accounts no more than the rest; Rowling far more." The x-axis tracks time from 2020 to mid-2026. The y-axis measures the ratio of "median likes per original tweet ÷ own pre-takeover-year median," ranging from 0 to over 25. Vertical dashed lines mark the "Musk takeover" on October 27, 2022, and a "Blue-check ranking boost" in April 2023. A dark blue line (representing a comparison roster of 148 accounts) and a teal line (representing 30 trans-focused accounts) both show a minimal, gradual increase in engagement, reaching roughly 3 to 4 on the y-axis by 2026. Conversely, an orange line representing @jk_rowling spikes dramatically after the late 2022 takeover, soaring to a peak above 25 in early 2026 before dropping to roughly 11.

A line graph on a dark background titled "1 · The Descent." A caption explains the chart tracks the "Share of her tweets each year that are about trans people or gender identity." The x-axis spans the years 2009 to 2026, and the y-axis displays percentages from 0% to 50%. A red line with points for each year shows that the share of these tweets remained at a flat 0% from 2009 through 2018. The line begins to rise slightly in 2019 and 2020, then climbs sharply upward. The share surpasses 12% in 2021, crosses 25% by 2023, and peaks at approximately 40% to 45% (described in the text as "about two-in-five") in 2024 and 2025, followed by a slight decrease in 2026. The area underneath the rising line is shaded in a muted red.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.

A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

What's stuck out to me is just how central UK GC Twitter is to the broader anti-trans ecosystem. While the US right drives a lot of the engagement, they're not as singularly focused and influential within the broader anti-trans network. The UK GC crowd drives the narratives that the US right adopts.

A data table titled "Rankings" on a dark background, listing accounts sorted in descending order by their "in-degree" score. J.K. Rowling is ranked first with an in-degree of 153. The subsequent top accounts include Helen Joyce, TransgenderTrend, Maya Forstater, and Sex Matters. The table displays additional columns for each account's role, community, country, and various network analysis metrics like out-degree, betweenness, and PageRank.

A screenshot of a data table on a dark background displaying a list of accounts filtered by the role "Academic," showing 11 of 216 total accounts. The table is sorted in descending order by the "IN-DEG" (in-degree) column. The top accounts listed include Kathleen Stock, Emma Hilton, Colin Wright, Professor Alice Sullivan, Jon Pike, Leor Sapir, Prof Jo Phoenix, and Richard Dawkins. Other visible columns display network and social metrics such as Community, Country, Out-Degree, Betweenness, Constraint, Reciprocity, PageRank, Authority, K-Core, and Follower counts.

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