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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mystery box your way out of this one.

A Helpful Guide to Star Wars versus Star Trek
Star Wars:
Don't start with the 'first' movie, let me tell you where to start. Looks like rusted farm equipment in space. In summary: the past was horrible. J. J. Abrams Ruined It.

Star Trek: Don't start with the first season, let me tell you where to start. Looks like a cruise ship in space. In summary: the future is incredible. J. J. Abrams ruined it.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

'Dad, why did print media die'? 'Well [son/daughter/nonbinary] it's because as scientific denialism and fascism raged it stuck to covering just the dumbest things and having the worst takes'.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seen a lot of people responding to this with “I’m just going to pirate the show,” and I want to gently remind everyone that the central idea in this piece is that there’s no way to engage with the Potter franchise in any capacity that doesn’t benefit Rowling and her bigotry

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

'Reasonable consumers know how anti-consumer we are' sure is a hell of a stance to take, but here we are. Join me in the Linux and anti-DRM world my friends.

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Starmer's last act in British politics is to remind everyone how petty, useless, corrupt, and self-centred he really has been all along.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what all those 'Data Centers' are being used for. To track your every movement and everything you do and say. And if they don't like you, they will cancel you, shutdown your bank accounts, imprison you. Or just kill you.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Update

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Britain doesn't handle our new climate-change induced heatwaves well. And it's killing people.

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Why British summers are uniquely bad

YouTube video by Simon Clark

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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Racism 101 White people always get the benifit of the doubt 👻 👻 👻 Meanwhile Black and Brown people only get...

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L.A. Noire Doubt Meme

Alt: L.A. Noire Doubt Meme

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Terror campaigns also act as a social deterrent, in that they are designed to cause enough fear in institutions and allies: If you support Black people, we will come for you, anywhere you are, 24/7."

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish folks made an effort to look out for and protect Black academics before we enter the news cycle. So many of us are struggling quietly. It's literally killing us.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 14/08/2026

A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You don’t want to miss this! Ashanti and I have been doing a lot of work and this launch is a big deal for the Black radical tradition. Join us if you can!

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What do Amazon and the East India Company have in common? They didn't bring much benefit to the average Briton. Oh, and the crimes against humanity. Read more here:

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

in every context ive seen AI used the number one overwhelming result has been the users becoming loudly and confidently wrong about whatever theyre using AI for at some point you just have to consider that its the purpose of the technology to create people like this

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Almost called today's entry 'Karl Marx and the Chocolate Factory'. Better judgement prevailed. I move up a step on the ol' supply chain and examine manufacturing.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you are a Black academic, you are not accountable for Jason Arday's decisions. The entertainment that this implication is credible is fuckery. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

BBC executives have admitted the broadcaster was wrong to interview a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel without informing audiences of his links to either the country or weapons manufacturers

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BBC admits breaching impartiality rules in peer's Palestine Action interview

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Ria Lina @rialina.com · 31/07/2026

Paid partnership with @campaignshq.bsky.social 📯 IT’S PROFIT SEASON! 📯 💸 The big energy companies are all publishing their massive profits this week - how do your profits measure up?

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Tom Perry @tom-perry.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The visible part of the iceberg? #Farage #Reform

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29/07/2026

Rupert Lowe claims to detest far-right ethnonationalism and neo-Nazism. Yet a string of extremists have been out campaigning for Restore candidate Marlon West ahead of Thursday’s Greater Manchester mayoral election.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It is genuinely incredible how certain people will know absolutely nothing about a subject yet pronounce on it confidently, projecting their own views as though timeless and ironclad

Skeet insisting Lupita’s looks are “very different from what was considered ideal at the time”

An excerpt from Frank Snowden Jr’s Blacks in Antiquity which notes there was no inherent beauty value assigned to skin color in classical literature

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just an absolute shout out to everyone out there who helped manufacture doubt around the question of this guy being a Nazi, particularly after the Nazi salute.

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Boute-en-Train @cookiebitz5.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026

we gotta embrace the inconvenience that otherwise makes monopolies a thing.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 25/07/2026

All those 300,000 black women who lost their jobs wore professional attire to work So, y'all better come up with something else, because the Respectability Politics is NOT WORKING PIVOT 😂

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/07/2026

There are a lot of people who will tell you, always speak out, always speak up, never let it slide, call out fascism whenever you see it, and then get SUPER pissy when you say you won't read substack because it's a nazi platform. pick a lane

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kyulen742 @kyulen742.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

A meme with two images. The top image is a picture of a public bench with an armrest in the middle, making it difficult for a homeless person to sleep on it, labeled "Anti-homeless architecture under capitalism" .
The bottom image is a picture of some ugly-looking apartment buildings, labeled "Anti-homeless architecture under socialism".

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Might seem weird for a specialist on digital automation and the gig economy to write about farming, but there's a shocking amount of overlap. (Hint: it's predatory monopolistic capitalism).

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thinking about the display Chicago used to put on for St Patrick's day. (Might still do, it's been a decade since I lived there).

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Irishness Is Not A Brand

Exported Irish culture is enjoying a renaissance. But who benefits?

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Presented at the SOAS workshop on measuring in work poverty for women on the economic realities of influencer labour done by Nigerian women. Other horrifying aspects of surveillance capitalism and the present realities of computing were also covered.

Awkward white British-Irish man stood in front of projected slide outlining criteria for what constitutes a 'gig job': Your line manager is an algorithm, if you lose algorithmic exposure you lose money, you get shadow banned rather than formally fired, you aren't an employee but a contractor/user, you're paid by task rather than by time.

Slide also has three book recommendations: Uberland by Alex Rosenblatt, Sad by Design by Geert Lovink, and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic.

The awkward man's shirt is likely green, and his wife has told him this, however he is colourblind and so cannot independently verify this.

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Today I talk about the late, great Walter Rodney, and why you can't really understand European (and broader Western) development without understanding African under-development.

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Okay, who lied to Keir Starmer? He's done the most damage to the labour movement (both lowercase and capital L) since Tony Blair. But ultimately, this bland coat rack of a human being will be utterly forgettable, like most 19th and 20th century Liberal and Conservative leaders.

Text saying, 'Keir Starmer was told he would be remembered as a "giant of the Labour movement" at final cabinet meeting'.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 15/07/2026

"Whether it’s the cartoon super-villainy of Alex Karp, the lies of Sam Altman, or the Hitler worship of Elon Musk, the mask is off and the psychotic personalities behind these companies have been revealed for all to see." Great new guest post from Ryan Ward open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

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What you hate about AI is the capitalism

AI pulls the curtain back on the extractive logic that orders our lives

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Imagine being such an openly corrupt leader of FIFA that you make Bladder seem like a pillar of integrity.

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This week's book review, The World Bank by Eric Toussaint, I discuss debt and question what the hell is economic development anyway? I also proverbially dance on Greenspan's grave.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/06/2026

The Economist is already criticising Burnham for not opening up new markets and he hasn't even started yet :(

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