Reposted by Susan BruceTeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb… 371325405
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“From the early stages of the war, we noticed that the universities were deliberately targeted. The university has a certain symbolic significance. It brings together all the future talent and potential, whether among students or the teaching staff.”theguardian.com‘First there’s the gruelling task of trying to charge my laptop’: a day in the life of a university lecturer in GazaAs the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives. Each tells the story of their day, revealing the terrible toll of the confl... 000
Reposted by Susan BruceColleen @wildplumbay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@support.bsky.team Please force a label watermark on all AI posted on Bluesky. AI should be required to label itself. 11319
Reposted by Susan BruceMagsmanston @magsmanston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yep. One of our biggest outputs and a real strategic strength of the country in terms of money, soft power, etc. See also unis - 5,000 redundancies announced this year. ~13,000 the year before, about 30,000 since 2022. They just need to cope and change. 1585
Reposted by Susan BruceMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026🚨 WRITE TO YOUR MP! On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, Rejoin polling at 61%, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign & share everywhere please. 👇europeanmovement.co.ukAsk your MP to stand up for our future in EuropeOn 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate? 17329185
Reposted by Susan BruceTony Kitson @tonykitson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026‘Outwith’ is an excellent word that should be adopted throughout the Anglo sphere. 6258
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.”theguardian.comGloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wars 010
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 03/09/2026‘The impacts will spread globally, from greater fire risk in Australia to more intense floods in South America. The World Food Programme said in August that the El Niño was likely to push about 50 million people into acute hunger.’theguardian.com‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approachingEvent is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis 000
Reposted by Susan Brucedonokonji.bsky.social @donokonji.bsky.social · 23/08/2026He wasn't suspended for a simple disagreement in ideas. What on earth are you on about in all your replies?? bsky.app/profile/rote... 0291
Reposted by Susan BruceCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi. 33687342865
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1goodlawproject.orgJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The graphics! The graphics!theguardian.comClacton votes in byelection where Nigel Farage faces slew of fringe candidatesLongest ballot in UK voting history features likes of Count Binface and Howling Laud Hope alongside Reform leader 020
Reposted by Susan BruceCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Okay Clacton. Let’s go. 16569411261
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Compare the headline of this article against the last sentence of it, do the maths, and then revisit the headline.1/2bbc.co.ukBristol artist Banksy's works cost taxpayers nearly £150kFOI requests reveal Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers almost £150,000, with costs still rising. 100
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“I have had to go to the checkout in a chemist's with about eight tubes of KY Jelly and three tubs of Vaseline and explain what's happening when I get strange looks."bbc.co.ukRare turtle Rhossi to be flown 5,000 miles home to Gulf of MexicoA rare turtle is being flown home to the Caribbean Sea after being found washed up in Wales. 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 06/08/2026OMG is @countbinface.bsky.social in the Odyssey? 010
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I hope @countbinface.bsky.social writes a letter of complaint. 010
Reposted by Susan BruceAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/08/20264 August 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Marguerite Sznajderman, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 1,229 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. She was 6 months old. 19466133
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Why do they *always* think he is joking about these things?theguardian.comTrump’s rambling gala address included insults, potshots and quip about a third presidential termPresident mocks political opponents and journalists in mostly light-hearted, hour-long speech at White House correspondents’ dinner 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 24/07/2026‘For the first time … half of the cabinet is female, a huge change from the situation less than 50 years ago. When Margaret Thatcher came to power … she did not appoint a single other woman to the cabinet. Under … John Major, there was even a period when there were no women in any of the top jobs.’theguardian.comThe demographic makeup of Andy Burnham’s first cabinet – in chartsWomen have half the seats at the top table for the first time, but Oxbridge maintains its grip 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Andy Burnham’s government should be singing from this hymn sheet. 000
Reposted by Susan BruceNeil @evroadtrip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I hope the Greens decline to stand also. Hopefully will be the case @zackpolanski.bsky.social ? Farage needs to be properly held to account. 2131
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 07/07/2026‘Since 2020, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,175 Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, at least a quarter of whom were children, UN data shows. No one has been charged over any of these deaths.’theguardian.comIsraeli officer shown throwing stun grenade into car during West Bank raidBorder police officer under investigation after CCTV footage shows him shouting at car’s occupants and throwing device 010
Reposted by Susan BruceMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026'Slideshows that compared student loan repayments with the cost of a mobile phone contract, and YouTube videos that did not mention the fact that loan terms could change amounted to mis-selling by the government, MPs have said.'theguardian.comStudent loan promotion in England and Wales amounted to mis-selling, MPs sayTreasury select committee also says ministers have moral obligation to reverse last year’s repayment threshold freeze 0114
Reposted by Susan BruceMegaphone News @megaphone.news · 05/07/2026Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) and Nasser Odeh, the lawyer representing Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, warned that his life is “in imminent danger” after visiting him in Ramla Prison. 4196136
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 05/07/2026"Quite a few people applied for the job and it got down to six of us and I was the only male and the head was female and I told her I think it needed a male role. "… I just said a lot of them might not have a male role model. … luckily she agreed and that's why I got the job.” I really hope not …bbc.co.ukFormer Sheffield United star swaps the dressing room for the classroomJake Wright, who played for Sheffield United for four years, is head of Year 8 at Newfield School. 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Last two days of my spell on a bestseller list! Time to slink back into anonymity. 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 30/06/2026London was so beautiful on Saturday night as we came out of The Globe 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Three cheers for Alf Dubs. “This is Labour’s reset moment when we can consign to the past some of the appalling language used by politicians to describe refugees: ‘invaders’, ‘an island of strangers’, ‘tearing our country apart’.”theguardian.comMahmood outlines safe immigration routes plan to win over Labour leftHome secretary speeds up major part of bill governing asylum and refugees as new prime minister set to take over 011
Reposted by Susan BruceHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243405590
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 17/06/2026An HE sector on its knees, and the DfE spokesperson decides it’s time to pronounce on “cracking down on poor-quality courses so that students can be confident they’re getting value for money from university degrees”. Lamentable.theguardian.comStudents could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loansExclusive: Ministers consider national threshold in England that could in effect bar thousands from studying 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 02/06/2026“Yale University’s master’s programs in visual arts and music would fail. Harvard University’s master’s degree in museum studies would fail. The Juilliard School’s undergraduate and graduate programs in music would fail.”nytimes.comNew Federal Guidelines Threaten Almost Half of Graduate Arts Programs 000
Reposted by Susan BruceTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 253133959735
Reposted by Susan BrucePatrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Gita Gopinath writes “A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.” 39160
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 09/05/2026A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 000
Reposted by Susan BruceBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun. 48667902648
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 05/05/2026@artsandhums.bsky.social @cdbu.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @historyuk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @eicathomefinn.bsky.social 210
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 03/05/2026“In Gaza more than 600,000 school-age children are approaching the end of a third year without formal in-person education. [Across occupied Palestine] Israeli attacks … have killed at least 792 teachers and 18,639 students … and damaged or destroyed 9 out of 10 school buildings.”theguardian.com‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacksEducation is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence 000
Reposted by Susan BrucePam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for 705204746262
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 12/04/2026‘The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.’theguardian.com‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in LebanonRights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again 000
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Hey @bsky.app why do you let people post fake AI-generated misinformation? 000
Reposted by Susan BruceCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period. 391748468
Reposted by Susan Bruce🥑🗽🏗 Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com · 05/04/2026had I been born ~50 hours later, I’d be looking at another 9% higher marginal rate of taxation on my income for another decade or two 💸 7522
Reposted by Susan BruceBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/03/2026Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶 11037571266
Susan Bruce @susanbruce409.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“There are as many as 400 water desalination plants across the Gulf, and if they come to be viewed as legitimate targets, a drinking water crisis of unimaginable proportions could face the region within days.”theguardian.comOffer from Iran’s president to not attack neighbours provokes internal backlashAs Masoud Pezeshkian tries to de-escalate conflict, hardliners urge installation of new supreme leader to marginalise the president 000