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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyway, as much as we may mock, this is the wholly forseeable end-point of a system where universities are (a) deliberately starved of resources; (b) deliberately bereft of public mission and vocation; (c) deliberately placed in the hands of an intellecually/morally bankrupt management class.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a powerful way to extend the logic of your child being your property that is so popular in this country (why do you think they're so freaked out about trans kids). This makes kids legally about the same level as dogs. Very British but not exactly ideal for a society humans have to live in.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So scanning this, it looks like a proposal to roll out what they did in York, and I'm sure elsewhere, to everywhere. So no treatment unless you're suicidal or extremely complex needs, just signposting to existing inadequate and generic local MH services.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wow wikipedia sure has some interesting articles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bossnap...

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Bossnapping - Wikipedia

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They genuinely can't see capitalism as an ideological position & that they're ideologues. For them capitalism is a given feature of the world, a natural facet like gravity & only other people with different 'unnatural' political preferences are ideologues, shirking the order of the universe

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ideology is never more present or forcefully present, than when it is or seems to be invisible

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No. (ITIL 4 Foundation) @kingtubby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Leeds mutuals - please re-post and come along if you can. Fundraiser for the newly resurfaced Beckett Park skatepark. Concrete so smooth you can actually skate on it. www.instagram.com/p/DcyA3_xjdH...

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Imagine, just imagine, all the capital, all the labour, all the raw material, all the land, that was going into this was at the disposal of the community and was being used to improve our infrastructure, our homes, our communities, imagine using it reduce rather than produce carbon emissions

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My cousin got me a ticket to the Wigan Roller Rink send-off tonight & I'm gonna cry seeing it go. It's been a couple of years now since I was able to get over there thanks to my back being so messed up and I wish now I'd just pushed through the pain. Feel so bad for the locals.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I did work experience aged 15 in a solicitors office I picked out of the phone book. They had no idea what to do with me and dumped me in the post room to fuck up their photocopying and do mail runs for 2 weeks. Boring and depressing but they got minimal actual labour out of me.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/08/2026

You cannot cordially debate someone whose agenda is to remove the rights of various marginalised communities and then pretend you actually care about said communities The humanity of some should never be debatable. That should be a red line and the fact it needs to be said tells us a lot... 4/

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/08/2026

The way reactionaries have been welcomed in mainstream circles including on the left even as they hardly hid their agenda should give us pause for thought Beyond the mainstreaming of reaction, it has also led to the delegitimisation of anti-racist and anti-fascist politics seen as "polarising" 3/

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sounds like someone should go cry to Claude about it

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Kathleen Stocks of the world's have truly been giving the game away recycling their miserable anti-trans screeds, with the barest effort to switch the focus to neurodivergence, ethnicity, class etc. "These people's feeble nature is self-evident, particularly when they try to asset their rights."

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ADHD conspiracy and the gender critical movement and the Prof Arday story and the crackdown on disability support are all the same story. There is a default ideal human: a cishet non-disabled white male. The further you deviate from that ideal, the more suspect you become.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The VC of Greater Manchester uni embezzled £1 million. Did you see *a single story about that*?

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Universities are riddled with old white guys who have sexually assaulted their students, but still get a paycheck while not teaching. You won't hear about that.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
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We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
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4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
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Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

FFS, You don’t even have to look *outside Cambridge* for examples of white professors who have behaved far, far worse and not only kept their jobs, but have been protected and celebrated by both their institution and the media.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Did a Bluesky search yesterday to see what was up with the Cobra stuff and found an 'AI' 'news' 'aggregator' account confidently declaring that Prime Minister Keir Starmer had, on Weds 12 August 2026, called a Cobra meeting to address extreme heat issue.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The first and second paragraphs here are intensely connected. Like the previous deckchair arrangement, the Burnham ministry is devoted to full-throated disaster capitalism. They will ignore climate change as long as possible, and then they'll wield total state brutality as the country burns.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thank u @porcopalude.bsky.social for teaching me how to use my phone camera and capture the eclipse. Very sweet to see so many families out with their glasses and colanders and cardboard contraptions.

Almost-total eclipse at like 90% totality, a thin sliver of red-orange sun visible

Solar eclipse post-totality, the sun looks like a red crescent moon

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Shout out to the doilem blasting Dancing in the Moonlight in the park. There's no moonlight tonight ya dingus

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hoooooly moly the eclipse is cool 😭

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Praying the moon just Stays There for a bit, 24 hour eclipse pls

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Losing my mind slightly in the heat but my weather app tell me that it should actually be slightly cooler by this time tomorrow, and the evening cool-off should be faster, despite it peaking 4° hotter?

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here are two questions: why, in the public discourse, are politicians deserving of safety while the people they threaten with state violence are not? Why is the focus redirected away from politicians threatening state violence against millions of of us and towards their safety?

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the vibes-based politics will continue until we're all dead I guess

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Taking medication you don't need has unpleasant effects? You'd think a qualified medic would have known this already. So either he's not actually qualified and his involvement with this is fraudulent, or he is, and is knowingly spreading dangerous misinformation, so this is genuine malpractice

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

31 & 33 degrees forecast for the next couple of days, which I finally managed to acclimatise to back in July because we were in Malta & had the pool & sea & aircon buses & could take things slow. Home is going to be no bueno & I'm struggling not to panic. Sleeping in the kitchen again I guess.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Someone sounds too addled to be driving

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

it is more desirable to them that rod liddle beat his pregnant partner than if he had not. they like him more for it, because it reinforces their hierarchies more. men over women, adults over children, etc. it is comforting for them to see their hierarchy play out true

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What more fitting way to remember Rod Liddle’s life and work than by making nasty jokes about someone who can’t answer back

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Haven't followed his career in a long while but wasn't there a whole bit in his book about the importance of presenting evidence transparently, not cherry picking your data to support a particular view or outcome? Sounds like a fine principle to apply to the legacy of a dead public figure tbh

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Imagine living your life as Rod Liddle did, in such a way that leads to such intense celebration when you die. Contorting yourself weekly to conjure up more bile for pay. I'm sure we'll get the usual about not speaking ill of the dead but it sure looks like he went to quite the lengths to invite it.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

God I hate this phrase 'can it wash its own face', in relation to public infrastructure that the state now only values if it can be made to turn a profit Where is it from? Public infrastructure isn't an infant child that needs to grow up faster, it's a public good that needs to be publicly funded!

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The real photos of real information professionals peppered throughout the site really highlight the hot slop garbage that dominates. The website itself appears to be horribly vibecoded too, especially apparent on mobile. I'm sure members will be delighted.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

NATIONALISE THE BUSES, ELIMINATE FARES, TRIPLE SERVICE FREQUENCY & COVERAGE, BEEF UP ACCESSIBILITY, HEAVY TAXATION OF PRIVATE CAR OWNERSHIP TO FUND IT

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Au revoir to Leeds' most tiresome wannabe celebrity food pedlar

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

How does one apply to be a member of the Ghost Train Orchestra

David Byrne and the Ghost Train Orchestra performing in Halifax in their orange suits

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

David Byrne at the Piece Hall tonight ❤️

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Leeds Other Paper closed down the year after we moved up north but it makes me happy that we had a popular radical paper here for a while. And my workplace maintains a complete archive - would be wonderful to see it fully catalogued or even digitised some day: tinyurl.com/mrksnddm

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Leeds Other Paper and alternative voices in local journalism

Lane Osborne, LAW Collections Assistant, writes: Leeds Other Paper, later known as Northern Star in 1991, was a local alternative newspaper that ran from 1974-1994. It was formed by a group of anar…

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

With #LeedsPride coming up this weekend, here's a reminder that Leeds Other Paper was doing this stuff long before many of today's revellers were born. As well as relevant news and features, LOP launched its 'Out in the North' column back in 1987. Long gone, never forgotten.

LOP 497 (18 Sept 1987) front page piece announcing: 'Out in Leeds: new section starts this week - your guide to lesbian and gay activities and entertainments in the city'

LOP 497 (18 Sept 1987) 'Out in the North' listings

LOP 404 (22 Nov 1985) front page headline: Taking the lid off AIDS

LOP/Northern Star 794 (8 July 1993) front page headline: Heterosexuality - can it be cured? what causes it?

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Gutted at the news that Sam Neill has left us, but glad to read that he passed cancer-free and with his loved ones close by. And in all likelihood with an awareness of how widely beloved and admired he was, for his work and his character. Just one of those 'god what a lovely guy' people.

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Got to Malta airport, read that Ann Widdecombe had died. Stepped off plane at home, b̶f̶ husband shows me Grauniad website saying she's been murdered. What da hell has been going on here?

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

English flag shaggers have nothing on this place, the town is lit up like Christmas, fireworks going off for St George, the lot. They sure love their saints.

A neon lit sign in a hull overlooking Victoria, Gozo, at sunset: VIVA SAN GORG

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