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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Kemi here saying the quiet part out loud: the business of parliament is ensuring that the great looting and death machine rampages on, unimpeded by the views of silly people who don’t matter and must be ignored.

Asked if MPs should get a vote on UK military action, Badenoch says that given the number of left wing MPs with "silly views" she thinks it's best if not.
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Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thanks so much for highlighting the stark gender inequity across politics and culture in Scotland - we've just blogged our reflections on this: bit.ly/4l4mE8p

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Blog | Scotland’s Cultural Future: Reflections on our culture hustings for the next parliament

Reflecting on our recent hustings event, Scotland's Cultural Future

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Andrew Learmonth @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

EXC: Arts groups based in a landmark Glasgow cultural centre have been told to get out by the end of the March after City Property terminated their leases. Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Glasgow Print Studio and Project Ability are among those affected. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589875...

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Arts organisations at landmark Merchant City venue told to leave by March 27

Ten independent arts organisations at Trongate 103 in Glasgow’s Merchant City have been told to vacate within four weeks after leases were…

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 22/02/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s Cultural Future is up for debate, and we think the public should be part of it. Register now for a cross-party hustings: 🗓️ Thursday 26 February 🕖 7:00 PM–8:30 PM 🖥️ Livestreamed 💜 Free and open to all 🔗 Register here: www.campaignforthearts.org/events/scott...

7 headshots on purple background with Scottish Parliament building inlay. Headshots: Angus Robertson, Scottish National Party (white man with silvery-blonde short hair and facial hair); Euan Davidson, Scottish Liberal Democrats (white man with short dark hair and glasses by the sea); Malcolm Offord, Reform UK Scotland (white man with glasses and slicked white hair, in a blue suit); Murdo Fraser, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (white man with short dark hair with a backdrop of hills); Neil Bibby, Scottish Labour (white man with short dark hair with a city backdrop); Q Manivannan, Scottish Green Party (Tamil person with long dark hair and a purple collarless shirt); in centre, Halla Mohiedeen, Chair (Lebanese-Scottish woman with medium-length dark hair pictured in a television studio).

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones. Growth or retreat: Those are the two options before us. And by growth, I’m not talking only about material gain, but also our spiritual development." Pedro Sánchez, Spanish PM

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Dr Georgia Grainger @sniphist.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I lived very close to Kincora (after it closed) growing up, walked past it most days, and have been thinking a lot over the past few days about the men who tried to speak up about the abuse running out of there. The UK Gov and Establishment has been suppressing victims over and over again.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/01/2026

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

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Dr Georgia Grainger @sniphist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My granny used to play this on piano and sing it to me when I was wee 🥰

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Dr Georgia Grainger @sniphist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year, especially whoever did the gay lighting at Edinburgh Hogmanay ✨️🌈

A photo of fireworks over Edinburgh Castle. The lights coming out of the castle are rainbow coloured.

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Dr Georgia Grainger @sniphist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Finished up my 2025 by reading Empire of Normality by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social I've been tentatively pulling together ideas of what antieugenicism looks like as an active ideological practice (like antifascism, antiracism, anticapitalism), and this book sparked so so many thoughts and notes.

A hand holding the book 'Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism' by Robert Chapman.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 01/10/2025

Sinn Féin has lost contact with senator Chris Andrews, who was aboard the Spectre as part of the Sumud Flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, some of vessels of which have seemingly been boarded by Israel tonight. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

It’s easy to scoff at this, but Oxford generating artificial intelligence is how the British Empire was run

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

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M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 01/09/2025

Did you know that in the 70s, the British Army created Satanic Panic stories in Northern Ireland. They used blood from the mess hall, set up altars etc and then contacted the media

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.

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Gregor/Fisher @grogipher.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Or the SNP, or Plaid, or any of the NI Parties, or...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I think this is all true, but I also think about the number of people who have assumed my PhD (in history) took a long time because it takes that long to memorize all those facts. They eschew skill building, of course, but also confuse knowledge accumulation/regurgitation with knowledge production.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

‘I’m a lesbian and feminist. I’ve been harmed by men. So I wouldn’t fight for trans people if it hurt women’s rights. Yet I’m called a groomer and a misogynist’ Rebecca Don Kennedy, head of the Equality Network, on how dark it’s got for trans people in Britain www.heraldscotland.com/news/2541309...

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It’s so f*****g tedious and soul-destroying as it’s so unjust'

Rebecca Don Kennedy runs the Equality Network. She talks candidly to our Writer at Large about the attacks, abuse and hate she’s suffered…

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there. Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this. www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...

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Warning from historians over government's treatment of trans people

Over 350 historians and academics have urged the government to turn back on its growing attacks on trans rights in the UK.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sorry why is “economics” deemed “career related” in comparison to history?? Both of these topics have direct careers that follow from their study, and both send students into a wide range of future jobs (how many economics graduates become economists, exactly?)

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 07/08/2025

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

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OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So, just to reiterate: PLEASE REGULATE THE USE OF EXTERNAL CONSULTANCIES, Government. We all had a good laugh today, but it wasn't worth the millions this will have cost in tuition fee money going to some consultancy that is about to do exactly the same two towns over.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

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Kirsten the (ex) Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I strongly recommend Lesley Hall’s website and blog for really thorough rooting out of zombie factoids (especially on the history of sex) www.lesleyahall.net/factoids.htm

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Victorian sex factoids

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Yep!! PhD students are often extremely good at catching these zombie factoids because they are tenacious, buried in footnotes and have *time* to root stuff out. But at some point stuff just gets footnoted to the most prominent historian who repeated the claim, and nobody bothers to look it up.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/07/2025

NHS Fife’s lawyer Jane Russell KC says Ms Peggie is not paying for her own case and she asks who is paying for it. Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham objects to this and says it is “of no relevance and it’s privileged”. Employment Judge Sandy Kemp agrees and the question is withdrawn.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

“We’re committed to diversity and inclusion. But for our entry level, part-time job on a fixed term contract, we won’t consider shortlisting anyone who hasn’t done this exact job before.”

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If u ask me what’s the situation in gaza :

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

What's the betting this study has been written by people who think "History" just means "synthesizing the information in printed sources"

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 22/07/2025

Stop Trump Scotland protest details – 26 July Aberdeen Noon, Saturday 26th July Union Terrace Gardens Edinburgh Noon, Saturday 26th July at the US Consulate, 3 Regent Terrace, EH7 5BW stoptrump.org.uk/stop-trump-s...

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Stop Trump Scotland protest details – 26 July

Stop Trump Coalition

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

ICYMI in the Warwick Uni rebrand hilarity: apparently this is the brain behind the branding. Trying to read this interview is like trying to sip from a firehose of bullshit. I assume these are written (generated?) answers, because surely no actual human being talks like this bsky.app/profile/mich...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A tipping point has been reached. Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world. Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months. You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.

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Gaza health ministry says 33 people dead from malnutrition in last 48 hours

New figures from the Hamas-run ministry include 12 children who have died, as the UN says Israel must allow aid into Gaza.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/07/2025

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Building wrap of Jabaliya camp in Gaza opposite Labour Party HQ reads "Protesting this isn't terrorism"

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Scottish Trades Union Congress @scottishtuc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Whichever party seeks to lead the Scottish Parliament, it needs to get serious. Pandering to the far-right and ignoring the demands of the left is not the pathway to deliver the change working people so clearly want. @rozfoyer.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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If Labour and SNP won’t push for change, populists will

Farage’s promises on re-opening pits and nationalising steelworks are striking a chord.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/07/2025

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

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Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I recently found out I didn't have the MMR as a child, due to issues with allergies. I contacted my GP and arranged to have it done. It's not too late to get it done.

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Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

And similar with open plan offices, hot desking and loading admin work via webforms and meetings into the kind of jobs autistic people used to be able to do And the valuing of managementspeak and targets over expertise and deep interest and knowledge that suited autistic special interests...

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As a historian of public health, this paragraph in particular started off a little tic under my left eyebrow, because what the actual fuck is this ahistorical/selective history BS?

he pioneers of public health focused on threats that were genuinely public: epidemics that spread through the water and the air. Halting the spread of cholera and smallpox required collective action, and the government had clear scientific justification to provide clean water, build sewer systems, and sponsor vaccination campaigns. In addressing diseases caused by unhealthy personal behavior, leaders mostly urged public education, not governmental coercion. The surgeon general’s landmark 1964 report on smoking cataloged the evidence of its harm but avoided policy prescriptions. In a congressional hearing that year, the president of the American Cancer Society rejected the notion of banning smoking: “We believe in the freedom of the individual in the matter of cigarette smoking.”

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“I expect that Starmer and Streeting will decide to partner heavily with the private sector to realise their plans, and I expect they’ll try very hard to sell these ideas to the public.” 🚨 My quote for The Big Issue about the NHS 10 year plan: www.bigissue.com/life/health/...

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The NHS is facing an existential crisis. Can Labour's 10-year plan really save it?

Labour's long-awaited 10-year health plan will deliver a “fighting fit” NHS, says health secretary Wes Streeting. Is he right?

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