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Rocky Pipit

@rockypipit.bsky.social
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Retired academic, feminist, cyclist.

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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Woman shivering in winter gear, feeling freezing cold
ALT: Woman shivering in winter gear, feeling freezing cold
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I got claustrophobia just watching the video
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My kind of viewer. I’ve given up on so many ‘brilliant’ series. I sometimes force myself to finish something just to be up on the cultural references
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Canada’s doing it, so can we! Write to your MP today
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Love it
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The nurse at my GP practice told me that staff absences are down in the hot summer. Everyone prefers being at work because there is air con!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
How it started / how it’s going
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 16/06/2026
London leads by example, matching ambition with action on air pollution, public transport investment & supporting young people. We’ve been recognised with the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2026. This award belongs to the communities, businesses & organisations building a better London for everyone.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“Women in later stages of their lives”. Facepalm…
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
How wonderful
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Amazing
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Seems like she took a liveable conversion and turned it into a museum that no one wants to live in (took out 2 bedrooms and a bathroom). Enormous room to heat, planning nightmares (listed -agh) for future owners who might want to make changes.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Ooh, Matron! I think you have to be a certain age to get this one..
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/04/2026
Ahead of St George’s Day I was joined by interfaith leaders from across London. We came together to celebrate all that unites us and affirm the flag of St George as a symbol that belongs to us all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
A group of people holding St George’s flags stand together with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in front of a large stone lion statue in Trafalgar Square on a sunny day.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
😲
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Greggs has gone woke!
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Nothing now surprises me.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I keep on being astonished at things like this, then there’s another one that’s even worse.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“Contribute less”? This reflects an attitude not only towards these workers, but those to whom they deliver care- the old, sick, disabled.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/02/2026
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Nadiia from Odesa has taken in ten birds that were affected by an oil spill caused by a Russian attack. She responded to an appeal from the Odesa Zoo, where the birds had been receiving treatment. On December 24, sunflower oil spilled into the sea near Odesa following the Russian attack.
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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 09/12/2025
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
left platforms Ischenko (and fine, he deserves to be heard) while ignoring the leftists who disagree with the STW line. Don't ignore them. This isn't about me pushing my article, but about ensuring Ukrainian left wing voices are listened to, not spoken over. www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
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How trade unions are fighting for Ukraine's future
On the bombed roof of a college in Kharkiv, we saw how trade unions support their members in times of war
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derrington.bsky.social @derrington.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Speed-readable Grant Application by David Karlin is the best book this decade on how to write a research grant application. You can read it in a couple of hours. And when you have read it, you will refer to it for the rest of your research career.
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Best book this decade on how to write a research grant application.
The Speed-readable Grant Application by David Karlin is the best book this decade on how to write a research grant application. It is available from the author's website either as an ebook or as a paperback. You can read it in a couple of hours. And when you have read it, you will refer to it for the rest of your research career.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Guess we’ll all now be carrying our used coffee cups from Richmond into Ealing. I think you have to pass through Hounslow though-what’s their take on this issue?
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
History is so last Century
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Puzzling as to how the US Veep can feel safe bringing his family to a riot torn hellhole country without any freedom of speech. Obviously he has security, but could it be just possibly that those claims are on closer inspection almost complete nonsense.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I must have read different comments from you. But it’s telling that you don’t want to engage with people who disagree with you. I find your analysis shallow and disappointing, you completely miss the concerns that feminists have over many aspects of gender ideology. You should try to engage more.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
She shouldn’t be anywhere near children. I don’t know why parents fall for it and send their kids to her boot camp school. Sure, the world evolves, and we have to find new ways to deal with it.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This made me laugh and provided a new angle. "Certain Silicon Valley visionaries hate the laws of thermodynamics."
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
They had to do this in Cuba due to the embargo. Lots of romantic old bangers cruising around. Terrible pollution, associated health risks. Need to factor in a lot of things. Costs of improving public transport as well.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Today’s @MattCartoonist
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Another critical battleground is the role of social media in spreading misinformation. Digital platforms amplify conspiracy theories, undermining decades of scientific progress. 22/31 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media
Contemporary commentators describe the current period as “an era of fake news” in which misinformation, generated intentionally or unintentionally, sp…
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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 15/03/2025
Tariff-free joy flows from Canada to the world—receive this heartfelt and positive export from the land of resilience and love. 🍁🧡 (and forward the positive vibes)
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Gaslighting 101. Heaven forbid we try to have a serious discussion about this topic. It’s only women’s sport after all.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Donald, what, you had to bring a guy from the Russian state media in to watch you try and beat up Zelenskyy—and you thought that would make you look good? It made you look like the crook you are. Zelenskyy is a man that you will never be; he’s a genuine hero.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 02/03/2025
Was it a social 'crisis' when it was gripping young women? 🧐
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/02/2025
Works as advertised
“Gulf of Weasel-dicked Fascist Chuds”
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Where there’s money to be made there will always be someone powerful exploiting those less powerful. Like when Russia and the GDR gave life-ruining drugs to young athletes. There’s already enough pressure on athletes to push their bodies beyond endurance. It won’t be a bunch of dudes having fun.
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Rocky Pipit @rockypipit.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A somewhat cheering analysis amongst the gloom
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Dexter Crisp @dextercrisp.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"The new Austin Brexit. Take back control"
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 28/01/2025
Outrage over Elon Musk’s call for Germany to “move past” its Nazi history could start impacting his financial interests after Polish Tourism Minister Sławomir Nitras called for a Tesla boycott.
politico.eu
Poland urges Tesla boycott after Musk’s call to ‘move past’ Nazi guilt
“There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas,” says minister Sławomir Nitras.
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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 26/01/2025
Mexico has launched an app for Mexican nationals in the U.S. (legally or no) that has an emergency button you can tap to alert the closest consulate if something happens or you feel in danger from immigration. Please share.
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ConsulApp Contigo: Mexico’s New App to Help Nationals Navigate U.S. Immigration
ConsulApp Contigo is Mexico’s digital lifeline for nationals navigating U.S. immigration threats.
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Selzero @selzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/01/2025
Multiple cities reporting that ICE raids have begun. I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate. No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
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Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
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