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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The future of the British university, sure to be coming soon to an institution near you.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Alright time for the ritual. Time to post our favorite part

You mentioned this becoming a much bigger moment. And then you laid out this positive vision of the region. Do you think there's any tension between that and saying what you did earlier, that you wanted this to be a very limited, very small operation that you didn't want to call a war?
There could be. Yeah, there could be.
Yeah. There could be.
That's what I was thinking.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Archduke Franz Ferdinand has entered the chat

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

very disappointing. There is a code of conduct for Royal Society fellows - it's not a value judgement to say that Musk has contravened it! see relevant bits of code and the Royal Society stated values below.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Just like climate change , there are two sides to this but one side is lying and we can just report the truth.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Nothing to add here that hasn’t already been said, but if the guy isn’t arrested and put on trial in Minnesota then ICE is going to do this every day.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Calling ICE agents "Nazis" is not a rhetorical slur, it's an accurate description. These people took this job in order to do ethnic cleansing, to engage in cruelty and domination toward nonwhite people. The fascist militia types have been signing up in droves, and they are eager to kill people.

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Who said "Trump is almost the first person since Genghis Khan to say: `I'm just going to help myself to territory'" That's Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics podcast. Rich from a Brit who was himself part of the occupation administration in Iraq. Liberals cannot see what their own imperialism...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/09/2025

Currently reading this harrowing and important memoir by Gazan physics student Wasim Said which comes out in under two weeks and I hope you’ll preorder, read, and take action #BookSky 1804books.com/products/wit...

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PRE-ORDER: Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide

I didn’t write this to make you cry.Not for you to tell me: “Poor you.”I write this so I can hang these words around your neck—to make you bear the responsibility of my perspective,the responsibility ...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Even as the stakes are raised ever higher there's still a fair number of people who still fundamentally see being on the left as a cool counter culture whose value is partially constituted by exclusivity.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

On the whole I still think this (from here: sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...) is true. But the people who haven't changed up, who are still orientating their lives around Are Woke College Students The Red Guard? in the year of our Lord 2025, are genuinely embarrassing to behold right now.

More recently, I thought Trump's return would simply reignite 2019 style political fights on wokeness, but it has thus far actually not done so. As far as I can tell this is because the more aggressively authoritarian style of politics he has embodied this time around has i) rendered ridiculous some of the anti-woke talking points, and in any case ii) forced the chattering classes into a broad alliance against him. On (i) we shall say more below. On (ii) - and again borrowing from my previous work - the debates around wokeness were to a very significant extent a fight among the professional middle classes. They were tied up with debates about how exactly to structure a fairly elite segment of the workforce and on the American left tied into a war of position between the Sanders and Clinton wing of the eternal 2016 primary. The thing is, as Trump has started to act more overtly like the Mercantalist strongman that he so clearly wants to be it's fairly united these groups against him, as they all just hate him so much.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Concentration camps with no privacy, guarded by the military, in terrible climate, on indigenous lands. This happened to Japanese Americans. And of course indigenous peoples were “removed” to reservations, that is to say, camps. This is who we always have been as a country.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

What's astonishing about this is that "violence against a military force currently shelling civilians at food distribution points in the occupied territory they have been starving out" becomes equivalent to "calling for a genocide". It's just an insane moral reversal of the actual situation.

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The lens to understand the ramping up wars isn't "regime change", it is "country destruction." We are in a new/old story, where the powerful prefers to utterly destroy the enemy rather than having to e.g. occupy it. Genocidal supremacy on the rise, as we see e.g. within Russia, Israel, and the US...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We don't talk enough about how an influential part of the American Right wants to hasten the end of the world through war and environmental destruction.

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Militarism is the main tool of a fading, senseless wold order. It is also most likely to end us all. I’ll never understand the boys and their fascination with their toys.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

But the weird thing is my enemies are bringing it down *cos they mistook the nonsense machismo stuff for real strength*. I guess I have not taken fully seriously the role of sheer inept stupidity, raw childish thoughtless emotional indulgence, in world history.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱

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One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed

Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 13/06/2025

I'm being called immature for my "war is bad" stance, so let me be absolutely clear on this: If being an adult requires accepting brutally murdering, maiming, and destroying human beings en masse rather than sitting down at a table and talking, I'm perfectly fine not being one.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My opinion on the political psychology of many of the Trump true believer devotees is that the aesthetics of army men marching out against the forces of Disorder, being foreign and Urban (ahem) as they are especially, is an incredibly potent high for them. They will seek this out again and again.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan: "If you're seeing this video now, it's because we've been stopped by the Israeli army or their complicit allies. We count on your mobilization to put pressure on the French government to demand our release."

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

There are going to be people out there who will mourn burned Waymo cars more than they will burned Palestinians.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/06/2025

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Rule of thumb of UKHE is that every new procedure to "streamline" a process will make it more cumbersome for the academic end users. I am reminded of this as I discover in horror the new forms to request IT hardware. It's as if they didn't want us to do research, but why?

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

American science’s demise under the current regime will affect us all…

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Can anyone explain to me why the EU can’t or won’t expel Hungary? Aren’t we supposed to be some sort of union of democratic countries?

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'm a big believer in having more Israel hasbara clowns on radio and TV: their callous nonsense is so blatant that it does the work of dismantling Zionist ideology for us. Listening to UK radio journalists getting frustrated with them while they so wish they could defend Israel is something...(1/2)

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Bless the students. Also, as a nearly middle aged person, I’ve come to hate how we tell the younger generation that they’ll have to fix the mess we and our parents created. We have more power then the students. Let’s use that power. Rock the boat that these stupid ghouls are steering to the abyss.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The audacity of this woman, claiming that there is a ‘strong tradition of free speech’ in Columbia. The unmitigated gall.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

“Socialism or Barbarism!” Sometimes when I scrunch up my eyes it looks like there are other alternatives, other times not so much.

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The tax-cut-for-the-rich GOP bill proposal in the US Congress is called "The One Big Beautiful Bill". Yep. I know this silly name is nothing compared to everything else, but it gives credence to my suspicion we live in the Matrix and it is run by the Onion. waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u...

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Philipp Strasberg @philipp-strasberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Shit! Did you also get the email that #SciPost is about to shut down? 😱😭 And only a few weeks ago I got an email from CSIC (my parent institute) where they celebrated another extension of their contracts with Elsevier, Springer & Co. It's simply disgusting...

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/05/2025

The number of Zionists who think international humanitarian law is just a fourth grade recess where everything is fine as long as you say "he started it" enough times is making my head spin

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

UK research is so fucked. More made-up metric is just what we need. (sarcasm)

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

That Europe is silent is our eternal shame. Full boycott of the genocidal Israeli regime, now.

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Cyril Closset @spinozainlove.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

You know, when centrists take on the anti-foreigner mantle like they often do these days, the real reason might not be the excuses they give or the focus-grouped trite they sheepishly regurgitate. It might just be that they, too, are bigots.

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