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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 10d

In memoriam...

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 15d

Fortunately there's only 3 more years of rapidly escalating fascism before there's a peaceful exchange of power

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Metal Fear Sinisterity 👻 @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 17d

Why does the BritCard have a burning eye logo with the word "panopticon" written underneath it? That's just the company that makes them. That's absolutely fine. Don't worry about that.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 26d

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 26d

My rage knows no bounds

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 26d

No words.

The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.

PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings.
Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media

Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.

In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27d

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · Sep 4

That the European Archaeology Association overturned their decision to exclude Israeli institutions from participating in their annual conference, meaning organisations intertwined with Israel's genocide of Palestinians will still be represented at EAA 2025, is appalling.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 1

I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW: Keir Starmer has said he hangs the English flag in his home and 'always sits front of a Union Jack'

He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 26

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Aug 5

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED

TAG 2025 have extended their call for papers for all sessions until August 18th. This includes our session on Queer Archaeology! We are looking for any papers which engage with the legacy of Queer Archaeology 25 years after it was first proposed! More details below!

Poster showing a TAG session call for papers with the extended deadline of August 18th.

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Dr Jonny Graham @jonnyflint997.bsky.social · Aug 2

Been a while! Becoming a commercial archaeologist has tired me out over the last few months but finally finished ‘The Dispossessed’. What a book! A really fascinating exploration of how an anarchist society could work that is definitely the best Le Guin I’ve read to date

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Dr Jonny Graham @jonnyflint997.bsky.social · Aug 2

Matched. Consider doing the same. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · Jul 29

It's pay day. I donated £30 to the UN World Food Programme who last week delivered 350 truckloads of food to Gaza under extremely dangerous conditions. But it’s not enough. They want to rush in as much food as they can.

Who will match my £30 donation and pass it on?

donate.wfp.org/1244/donatio...

Donate Now | United Nations World Food Programme

Saving lives, changing lives

donate.wfp.org

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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · Jul 29

Bluesky deleted op campaign again and so we will continue to amplify as this is an urgent matter and no time to waste trying to regain access while family is starving in Gaza!

chuffed.org/project/help...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 29

who thought laying out a policy that effectively says “we will only realize a palestinian state if they keep getting slaughtered by israel” was a good idea?

U.K. will recognize Palestinian state unless Israel agrees to ceasefire, British PM says | CBC News

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday the U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September — unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps toward long-term peace.

www.cbc.ca

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onion person @junlper.beer · Jul 28

this is a perfect example of how so much activity is artificial online today. fake accounts intentionally posting content they scrapped from the internet to fill in social media to get a crumb of ad revenue from

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Dr Jonny Graham @jonnyflint997.bsky.social · Jul 29

There’s still time to submit to our TAG session if you have any ideas about hauntology, the past in the past, or spectres haunting archaeology! Don’t let your paper be a lost future…

Sam Scott-Moncrieff @samscomo.bsky.social · Jun 6

Very excited to be a part of TAG again, this time with a spectral session alongside @jonnyflint997.bsky.social. Details on our session ("THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT":
CONJURING A HAUNTOLOGICAL
ARCHAEOLOGY) can be found here! Any questions, please reach out 🙌

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Call for Papers - TAG 2025

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

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Brodhie Molloy @bromolloy.bsky.social · Jul 28

Psst…👉there’s still time to submit for our @tag2025york.bsky.social session:
✨In theory, it was a great idea💡!✨
Me and my dear friend @tmcasimiro.bsky.social hope you’ll join the convo around the untold challenges of public-facing, community-engaging and real life archaeology projects! Cya there😎

Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 Conference in York, 17th - 19th December. Submit your abstract for “In theory, it was a great idea”: The Challenges of Practical Archaeological Action in the Real World by 1st August 2025 to Brodhie Molloy at bmim2@leicester.ac.uk or Tânia Casimiro at tania.casimiro@stir.ac.uk .

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Dr Jonny Graham @jonnyflint997.bsky.social · Jul 26

Malak, her sister Maali, and their family have been forced from their home in Gaza and are living in a tent without even basic necessities. They really need help, esp. Maali who requires constant medical care. I’ve been donating what I can so please donate if you are able to or share their posts

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Dr Jonny Graham @jonnyflint997.bsky.social · Jun 6

Really looking forward to this session with Sam in December. Think you can answer these questions archaeologically? Send us an abstract before Friday 1st August!

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 25

These pictures will be remembered for centuries.

Future generations will ask:

"Who did what, and when?

Who made this abomination possible?

Who spoke out - and who remained silent?"

Make sure you have good answers.

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · Jul 22

Reminder: Labour started their rollback of trans rights pretty much on day 1 of gaining power, that was MONTHS before the US election. Starmer isn't doing this for trade deals, he's doing this because he wants to.

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RL Stine Action @anothersmd.bsky.social · Jul 22

this takes me back to that frankly hideous speech that hilary benn made over syria, the labour right more than any political faction are completely obsessed with the optics of statesmanship. they love when war and conflict happen because they can put on their sad, grave voice. they'll never stop it.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 22

Kit Malthouse to Lammy "can he not see his inaction & cowardice is making this country irrelevant? Can he also not see the personal risk to him, given our intl obligations, that he may end up at the Hague because of his inaction?"

Lammy tells Malthouse his language is unbecoming

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Jul 22

Again

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · Jul 22

Israel bombed a Kindergarten today.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 21

Every day, Israel deliberately massacres unarmed civilians it has deliberately starved.

How is this possible?

Because instead of framing Israel’s atrocities as obscene outrages demanding urgent action, the Western media has normalised Israel’s atrocities.

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