Reposted by SarahLynn O'K @lynnok.bsky.social · 3hJim O'Callaghan has shown such distain for women as victims of men's violence. He insisted on continuing the right of abusers to access the therapy notes of their victims to use against the victims in court. And now this is the result of his collapsing of the free legal aid and family law system. 0167
Reposted by SarahRunning Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 6hStrikes me that when the hacks all went to Reform conferences and declared it very professional and detoxified, either the UK’s largest grouping of pub uncles somehow maintained best behaviour for a whole weekend, or the UK’s finest political journalists just weren’t very observant 113046
Reposted by SarahDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 6hThis isn’t so much wild if you think about the political situation of higher-ed. When I was doing advocacy as an early scholar, advocacy which proceeded from my scholarship, I was constantly told I needed to choose between being a scholar or an activist. 2317
Reposted by SarahSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7hAbsolutely wild that this is considered a *bad and risky* quality for a human person to possess while holding a job. 0213
Reposted by SarahMetal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 12hThis is an incredible vibe and everybody should remember this. 55510
Reposted by SarahDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12hIt's. A. Piece. Of. Software. It. Was. Designed. To. Trick. You. Into. Thinking. This. 65510
Reposted by SarahJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The only people who think book banning is good publicity are authors who sell so many copies they wouldn't notice. Okay, cool, the ban didn't sink Stephen King's career? Try interviewing a queer author whose book hasn't hit four digits. 1400145
Reposted by SarahKosmicKris @kosmickris.bsky.social · 14hIn this @phillipspobrien.bsky.social makes the excellent point, that Starlink dependency is as much as a threat to the US as it is globally. A malevolent operator, making political donations in the hundreds of millions, could easily use the on/off switch to impact domestic political opponents. 21574204
Reposted by SarahOrla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 16h‘€43bn should have been enough to build 110,000 homes. Only 27,000 were built many [councils] are buying new housing from the market – such purchases totalling 44% of their overall output in 2025 (1,257 dwellings) This is expensive and deals are opaque’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comLorcan Sirr: €43bn should have been enough to build 110,000 homes. Only 27,000 were builtAnother €9.4 billion was allocated to housing last week. There are questions to be asked about the effectiveness of housing budget spending 01711
Reposted by SarahClimate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 17hSocialists understand economics and investment far better than capitalists. 25319
Reposted by SarahKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026Am seeing a large number of these 'ethical use principles' or some variant cropping up, many with reference to UNESCO's principles. Extremely vague, loose, and clearly intended as a post-hoc rationalisation for unlimited use Akin to a 'sustainable private jet use' guideline document 410229
Reposted by SarahSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/10/2026At the same time it has tossed cash at non-labour expenses. (Insert here the Catechism of The Blessed Bike Shed and the Tale of the Tractor Lads) It simply cannot abide the thought of people who earn a salary, as opposed to dividends or rent or share options, getting paid more this year than last. 1319
Reposted by SarahSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The State has, everywhere it purchases labour, sought to simply cut its own costs and expected to continue to receive the same services. This is, as those of us who have, for example, bought a weekly shop recently can testify, not how this works. 24611
Reposted by SarahSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026None of these are particularly useful responses to impending industrial action. But they are the various responses of a group of people who are reacting emotionally to discovering the limits of their power to dictate terms. 1417
Reposted by SarahSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Today saw a really significant strike- the biggest in, really, decades. It happened because the people in the Government (politicians and civil service management alike) had no experience with how to address a strike. It had never happened to them and they were all over the shop in responding. 310841
Reposted by SarahEndless Night @endlessnight.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Horrible news. The annual labor report that he helped make is one of the few and the most important worker inquiries into proletarian conditions in China today. 0197
Reposted by SarahMattTS @mattts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal? 05120
Reposted by SarahKevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Some context for colleagues outside Ireland: over 300,000 people are on strike today. That's over 11 per cent of *all* people working in the state. 27239
Reposted by Sarahegg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I think people assume it’s hyperbole when I say it is critical for national security that we nationalize spacex but it very much is not hyperbole, it is an imperative 4391109
Reposted by Sarahflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026BlueSky is serving a lot of this stuff up to me now and I guess it works, in the sense that it’s a pleasing story for children 1514619
Reposted by SarahGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comPalantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George MonbiotTom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 571597818
Reposted by SarahProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026An answer to the question: ‘What happens when a nation’s ruling class is thirty-somethings who’ve learned about the world from comic book movies, Something Awful, video games & poorly digested cybernetics?’ Answer: It rationalises consuming the spectacle of violent cruelty as liberation. 067
Reposted by Sarahflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Well, this makes more sense if you understand that Watson only start working for all these tech and gambling firms *officially* in the last few years, and that he was always working for them on the understanding there would be a sweet post-politics payoff. 39623
Reposted by SarahPatrick Robey @pat-beauclerc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It is not just the global financial system that's failing developing countries: it is, equally, the decisions of gov'ts (Starmer's for one) to cut int'l aide; and the injustice of a world that allows some individuals to own more than they could conceivably spend in 7 lifetimes whilst others starve 012
Reposted by SarahSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I, a member of the public, do not wish to see my fellow members of the public who teach my children, heal me if I am sick, who administer the state and so on left worse off due to inflation each year. 625291
Reposted by Sarah21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Notice something wrong at your university? Perhaps you witness bullying of a colleague, data fabrication or a randy professor having an affair with an undergraduate student? You do what you're supposed to do You report it, right. Right? nature.com/articles/d41... 064
Reposted by SarahNandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Looks great! We need a history of fighting colonialism without resorting to the ruler’s game of “national sovereignty” Fingers crossed this book contributes to that history. 041
Reposted by SarahLembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 14/10/2026If you can get rich because your AI does stuff you can also go to jail because your AI does stuff. 1438
Reposted by SarahJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” On the recent trove of math proofs released by the evil robotsnytimes.com‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed. 4768117
Reposted by SarahJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 14/10/2026One weird trick to solve all your AI problems: Make the creators of AI legally liable for foreseeable problems their product causes, just like every other damn product in the world. 441143365
Reposted by SarahJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery. 1103760723
Reposted by SarahCarol Mc Sherry (SNAsSpeakOut) @carolmcsherry.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I've put a statue of James Connolly outside in the garden so that we'll have good weather for the picket. ✊🏼 29625
Reposted by SarahMatthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system. 16848416
Reposted by SarahLucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/10/2026One reason Rupert Murdoch wages his long war against public broadcasting is that he & his cohort of media barons make the communal sense that we take as “normal.” This essay gives a very approachable explanation: linguistically.substack.com/p/antonio-gr... #Auspol take note below colonising 📺linguistically.substack.comAntonio Gramsci: How Language Makes Power Feel Like Common SenseWhy political language often works best when it stops sounding political 99245
Reposted by SarahElizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I have logged out of my email, shut my laptop, & closed my books. Solidarity with the teachers, nurses, firefighters, librarians, doctors, special needs assistants, administrators, prison officers, heritage workers, midwives ... We have strength together! ✊️🇮🇪 #Spéirghorm #Speirgorm jrnl.ie/7191256jrnl.ieThe largest strike in 15 years is happening on Wednesday. Here's everything you need to knowWhich services will be impacted, which won’t and why is the action happening in the first place? 19223
Reposted by SarahAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 13/10/2026Sorry but "we want deadly borders and the inhumane treatment of migrants and asylum seekers but we draw the line at shooting them on sight" is not a sensible comment Considering it so plays in the hands of the far right who is consciously using the extreme right as contradistinction 17914
Reposted by SarahAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 13/10/2026Seeing Jacob Rees-Mogg seriously portrayed as the voice of moderation tells you everything you need to know about the stage of mainstreaming of far-right politics we are at and how little mainstream actors understand or care about it 525846
Reposted by SarahClaire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Instead of robust measures, Starmer appointed an interlocutor. The North has experienced three paramilitary takeovers of the province in three years. Pogroms are a flexing of paramilitary muscle, a mobilisation that sees PSNI hide in barracks. The violence was never spontaneous. [8/n]werisetogether.iePogroms, paramilitarism and policing | R.I.S.EThe PSNI are failing in their duties of detecting and investigating crime online from known extremists, even when they lead to intimidation, violence and threats on life. 185
Reposted by SarahClaire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Paramilitarism isn't felt equally - it impacts working class and minority communities disproportionately. If people think that paramilitarism isn't a huge problem - that's privilege. [6/n]irishnews.comAlmost half say paramilitaries still active in their area 28 years after Good Friday AgreementAlmost half of people say there is still paramilitary activity in their area, nearly three decades on from the Good Friday Agreement, according to new figures. 1135
Reposted by SarahMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026'Andy Burnham has been urged to “put his money where his mouth is” and provide more funding for his devolved research agenda, rather than putting further pressure on already stretched UK Research and Innovation budgets.'timeshighereducation.comBurnham’s ‘innovation nation’ plans heaps pressure on UKRI budgetExperts urge basic research funding to be protected as agency tasked with finding £1 billion to pay for regional clusters 021
Reposted by SarahDara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The UK government, governed by the party of which Phillipson is chair, extended immunity for British soldiers engaged in extrajudicial killings in Northern Ireland yesterday. Yesterday. 116177
Reposted by SarahAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/10/2026Everyone is out on bail and no one can say what the plot was and not a single journalist that i have seen has even arched an eyebrow. British journalism is hilarious 26640170
Reposted by SarahAndrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The “a man of his time arguments” are always bullshit because if you were, say, a Taíno, you probably thought Columbus was terrible regardless of what people in Spain thought. But yeah, plenty of people in Spain thought he was too brutal too. 322352
Reposted by SarahPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Literally the same things my place has done. One consultancy is just changing the date on its letter and charging a fortune. 34821
Reposted by SarahJoshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 08/10/2026My university released a statement that no materials used in the tenure and promotion process can be evaluated using an LLM, which is good, because I keep hearing about people using AI in peer review and what garbage that all is but haven’t seen much about banning its use in this domain 34511
Reposted by SarahM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I do think “Russians did Brexit” kind of simplifies and downplays the decades of “EU wants straight bananas” stories while ignoring any EU funded projects or consumer protection laws and platforming Farage in a “help him fake it till he makes it” way and also, the unchallenged xenophobia and racism 2531447