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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday voted in favour of progressing with a bill that would ban conversion practices, with no religious exemption. A long way to go before this is law, but NI is now further ahead on delivering this key protection for LGBT people than Scotland, England or Wales.

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Victory! Northern Ireland Conversion Practices Ban Bill passes key vote

The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted to pass the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill at Second Stage. MLAs voted 46 in favour and 29 against, with 15 abstentions. Northern Ireland Humanists...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Racist organisation set up by a racist to appeal to racists is somehow being taken over by racists.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I pull the last wash out of the machine, I am heartened that all over the country, many, many people are doing the same; all looking at their laundry and wondering how and if it will dry by tomorrow.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I remain confused by 35 Orange men wanting to march down Garvaghy Road *in silence* (after 30 years). From listening to some of the comments, it would seem that this is their ‘culture’. We used to have a culture of slavery, but then we realised that intimidating and owning communities was horrific.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sheer bloody guess. 👇 No puzzling and writing lists of different words required. But fun. 😊 Wordle 1,925 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had plums that were near going over. Made some plum pickle (fridge pickle). Plums, balsamic vinegar (2tbs), maple syrup (2tsp), cinnamon, nutmeg, (pinch), salt(pinch), soy sauce (bit) water (2tbs), 25 minutes on the hob. Tastes good. Lasts 7-9 days in fridge.

Kilner jar about three quarters full of magenta plum pickle.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Who is the absolutely hideous American on #Radio4AQ. Is she a female orange tyrd?

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sure Mr Ambani has delivered all thsoe activities required for a Professorial appointment e.g., sustained international excellence, academic leadership, high-impact papers, external grant capture and proven student supervision. It surely can't be his money🤔 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just upgraded my phone. Tense 😬

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only good thing about all these horrific, obtuse, and dangerously banal racists outing themselves is that it gives a map of places to be avoided. Listening in to #R4AA to start a geographical listing.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bring worse news. That poor woman who lives in Piddington & who @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interviewed after that ridiculous election has had her address leaked to Tommy Robinson & the Pink Ladies & she’s been doxxed by both of them. Wtaf is going on. These people all need to be proscribed now.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This man really is a complete fucking idiot. It would be laughable if he wasn’t holding sensible and appropriate health policy hostage.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just been looking up how much 1,000 litres of oil costs; a total of £1,067. Last time I bought a 1,000 litres in January 2026 (just before the orange tyrd's unnecessary attacks) it was £564. It has almost doubled. I'm lucky, I can afford this hit. What of those not working or retired?

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#R4AQ Andrew Fisher - “If people are raising mobs just because some brown people went into a hotel, we’re in a very dangerous state”. Quite.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Trump is a bully and a braggart, a self-confessed sexual predator and a purveyor of racial slurs... Most people would not welcome such a man into their home, and the majority of Irish people will not welcome this visit.” Irish Times editorial on Trump in Ireland.

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The Irish Times view on Trump’s visit: a less than welcome guest

Most people would not welcome such a man into their home but political leaders must make a different calculation

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The world would be healthier, more economically prosperous and more united without the orange tyrd and his henchman.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵Yesterday hundreds of trans people, family and friends queued for *hours* to exercise their democratic rights -lobbying their MPs to stand up for trans people's right to live as free and equal members of society. This is me and my wonderful friend Alex after a day of running (another) mass lobby 👇

Two women smiling broadly with their arms around each other holding up small signs. One says "Mass Lobby for Trans Equality" the other says "Trans people deserve real equality". The woman on the left has short grey hair, and is wearing a short sleeved light blue shirt. The woman on the right has long black wavy hair, and is wearing a red t shirt and a high vis.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The rather terrible syncronicity of my timeline.

Two posts one after the other. The first shows the balaclava wearing racist, facist thugs on a train returning from their protest at either Plymouth or Dover, with a woman stating 'lovely lads' and appending two kisses. The next is from the Auschwitz Memorial that memorialises Jerzy Gunkiewicz who was deported to Auzchwitz in 1940, murdered in 1942.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"[o]nly idiots or traitors can rejoice at the triumph of the AfD in Germany". Emmanuel Macron

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just want to point out if people had been beaten up at the Green or SNP party conference and their leader had cheered it on. It wouldn't just have been on TV, it would have been on TV non-stop until the election. But for Reform, it barely got mentioned.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Someone should inform the BBC that for every one Reform MP there's nine Lib Dem MPs, fifteen Tory MPs and fifty Labour MPs.

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Mark Mucci @mlmucci.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

" 'Juden Raus' was a children’s board game ... The game’s visual features relied on antisemitic stereotypes and caricatures to depict Jews. ... The winner of the game was the one whose Jews 'scurried off' to Palestine." germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germ...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In the UK, blackshirts can get away with almost anything while elderly nuns get arrested for opposing the Gaza genocide

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I used to really enjoy Marina Hyde’s commentary. Then, she selects for her fantasy PM a bully, an individual always hitting downward on individuals or organisations who simply want to improve themselves and the world (Amnesty UK anyone?). I found it shocking.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

These are the men that say they’re against immigration as they’re protecting women and children. 👇

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good. These individuals are neither researchers nor polling experts. The push-me, pull-you shit they peddle should not overshadow appropriate research practice. 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Investigations launched into polling firm at centre of Reform UK allegations

British Polling Council and Market Research Society announce inquiries into JL Partners, which has been accused of breaking transparency rules

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026

Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So, the vile Farage responds to the #Channel4 expose of illegal donations, "If you listen to what I said, I said, is this all above board? Is this all legal?". Two things that I never heard him say in the documentary. What I did hear him say was 'Thank you'. Farage lies when his lips move.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 04/09/2026

The general secretary is spot on here. Our own poll exposed Reform’s data and now this report has exposed the dodgy money that paid for it.

A tweet by the general secretary Dr Jo Grady

The poll commissioned by Reform was paid for by dodgy money.

This poll said union members were backing reform.

UCU commissioned our own poll and overwhelming members rejected that lie.

Get Farage and his fake working class act out of politics.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Following the #Channel4 documentary (Farage and illegal donors) I’m concerned with the ethics of JL Partners, the polling agency that seemingly structured questions to give the answers wanted and then passed these to MSM without saying who funded the poll. Simply piss poor practice.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Tories f**cked Britain with austerity and Brexit then made it a whole lot worse by putting Truss in power to test out the batshit ideas of Tufton Street think tanks... They are not only a spent force but proven architects of decline who are in no position to lecture Burnham on anything ...

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

See Steven Wild is being prosecuted for sexual assault. That makes three (that we know off as most disciplinary matters are kept internal) Presidents of Conference that @methodist.org.uk have suspended for safeguarding issues (4% of all Presidents since 1980). And they’re the ones we know about.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

See that the orange tyrd is still bringing shame to the USA. Lake America 🤣🤣🤣🤣. But then the rest of the world will still be calling it Lake Ontario. What a complete stupid cnut is the orange tyrd.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just got back from sea swimming. Just wonderful, birds flying over me. While it was raining, if I waited for good weather in #Derry, I probably wouldn’t swim outside much. #BenoneBeach

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#BBC4Today being the Reform mouthpiece again. Just simply horrific 🤢 That this damaging party that peddles hate of the other (with so few MPs) gets such preferential (and free) non-critical coverage is hugely concerning.

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The BBC Reform propaganda story is rightly taking some flack. Don’t forget who is embedded in ‘our’ national broadcaster. What has the BBC done for me….its become a biased, uncritical Reform platform

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There is a GoFundMe. 🙏 This guy leaves a partner and two little kids.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 14/08/2026

What a grubby little media morality play this has all been. My thoughts to his family.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Delighted that Laurence Fox lost his deposit (again) in Clacton. In addition, it was lovely to see that he came behind the candidate arguing to rejoin the EU.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fascinating that #BBCR4Today are saying that Garage took two-thirds of the vote, without saying the turnout was well under 50% (44%) and that Count Binface took over a quarter of the vote. Not quite the huge success that the Today Programme or the fascists are claiming. A tad if a manipulation?

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Discussion on #BBCR4Today on how we can best view the perseids meteor shower tonight and tomorrow. Has no one read 'The Triffids'

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just the damaging, destructive idiocy. So very dangerous. Yet, when the child mortality rises (as it will), no doubt it will be anyone’s fault but this apology for a person.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I suppose it's too much to hope for that the (what looks like an awfully thin policy document) refers to Garage and Ysless and their likely end?

Picture of Farage and Yusef holding a 'policy' that says 'Keeping Criminals behind bars'. I'm hoping that it refers to their likely end.

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Karen Windle @profwindle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#BBC4Today, please remember that Kathleen Stock is not a Professor. Please stop affording her that title in the vague hope of scaffolding her somewhat confused arguments.

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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is brilliant.

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