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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think it would necessarily be rejected by all journals, and I’d sure as hell read it

Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 10h

Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson, & all in @teamlabouruk.bsky.social/Tories who voted for their aid cuts from from promised/cross-party 0.7% to 0.5% (BJ)/0.3% (KS) are complicit in these atrocities.

Article reports the least ambitious atrocity prevention plan was chosen specifically because of aid cuts.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10h

Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher

www.theguardian.com

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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 7d

The importance of voting YES in the UCU national ballot.
📢some reasons:
The pay offer this year is a mere 1.4% but inflation is 3.8% which means our pay’s gone down since the recession of 2007-9 by 20-30% in real terms, depending on whether you use CPI or RPI measures.

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UCU University of Greenwich @ucugreenwich.bsky.social · 3d

Good afternoon, folks! Feeling in need of an afternoon pick-me-up? Why not get out and post your ballot! Nothing energizes quite like knowing you're contributing to the best chance we have to change HE!

Celebrate with your choice of snack afterwards! #WeAreTheUniversity

Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 5d

Bought some ice cream from the cornershop & posted my @ucu.org.uk ballot.

As my dept rep said this week, pensions took 5 years to win, we've got to be dogged & stubborn even when we're tired.

There's no way (higher) education will get better without education workers fighting for it
#WeAreTheUni

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 5d

Bought some ice cream from the cornershop & posted my @ucu.org.uk ballot.

As my dept rep said this week, pensions took 5 years to win, we've got to be dogged & stubborn even when we're tired.

There's no way (higher) education will get better without education workers fighting for it
#WeAreTheUni

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 2d

Calling all branch members: multi-union campus meeting 12:30-13:30 TODAY in The Ken Wade Lecture Theatre (Calman 203), to talk about our respective ballots and the ongoing state of affairs at our university.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.

I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 3d

@autismtheology.bsky.social at Aberdeen (& some of their individual researchers)

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 3d

This is parody Keir Starmer but I wish the real Keir Starmer was a proficient enough communicator to say this

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

More nope on #ProfoundAutism: An Autistic person’s ALS was only diagnosed a couple of months before they died, as their symptoms of progressive muscle weakness & associated disability were assumed to be 'challenging behavior' due to being 'severely Autistic.'

thinkingautismguide.com/2023/09/grav...

Grave Concerns About Profound Autism

The label "Profound autism" bungles the support needs of autistic people with complex disabilities, and will endanger autistic lives.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

PSA: If we love your content but you don't provide alt-text, we can't share it unless we do the alt-text ourselves (unlikely), because accessibility. Please provide alt-text for your images—especially the text-heavy ones—if you can. Here are alt-text guidelines:

www.levelaccess.com/blog/alt-tex...

Alt text for Accessibility ✅ Examples, Tips & Best Practices

Learn how effective alt text supports accessibility and explore tips, examples, and best practices to improve your content for all users.

www.levelaccess.com

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 5d

Blog'd this also - trust me to write a big serious rant in response to a silly TV programme!
rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/c...

Combating neurodivergence misinformation via obscure social media debates regarding silly reality TV shows

Single panel comic from webcomic xkcd (Duty Calls). Person sits at computer. From out of frame someone says “Are you coming to bed?” Response from person at computer: “I can&#8217…

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a quick blog about something that shouldn't need to be said but apparently increasingly will be needed to be said if current political trends continue. rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/n...

No, human rights are not best left to nation-states

Photograph of a child behind a placard saying “human rights are not optional.” Photo from

rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6d

#OtD 1 Nov 1936 the Jarrow marchers arrived in London. They had marched all the way from Jarrow in North-East England to protest hunger and unemployment as a result of the closure of the town's shipyard, which was the main employer in the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8136...

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 6d

Spike!

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 7d

I genuinely would love one

Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 8d

Can you see the problem that this is the first ten minute rule bill 99% of the country has ever heard of, and we hear about it in a context that Labour is abstaining on protecting the world’s best international instrument for protecting human rights, and almost let a vote against it pass?

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 8d

You’ve replied to a specific comment but show no signs of having taken on board the point the person made in that comment.

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 8d

My goodness, every single decision the Labour leadership make is strategically the worst possible thing for themselves and the best possible thing for Farage. Glad they relented.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 10d

This is where decades of denial about the systemic nature of racism and only calling it such in its most extreme occurrences take you

This is not (just) Farage being disingenuous, but him using all the journalists, politicians and academics who have euphemised racism to mainstream his politics