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Cristy Clark

@cristyclark.bsky.social

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Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (June 2025). Australian living in UK. She/her

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · Jun 17

My new book arrived! I even posted a deeply cringy‘unboxing’ video on LinkedIn.

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

A women with long brown hair holding a copy of a book, ‘Legal Geographies of Water’. She is smiling and wearing a white striped shirt.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003273219/legal-geographies-water-cristy-clark

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 2h

Best

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 2h

I have no idea why I persisted for so long!

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 2h

Oh me too. I’m drowning in them

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks. Some users’ names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord’s customer service agents may also have been taken. The attacker has been trying to extort a ransom from the company. No full credit card details or passwords were seized. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 3h

I genuinely don’t understand why some people find it so confronting that some kids learn outside institutions.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

I never thought I'd say this, but I now understand the appeal of home schooling | Emma Brockes

More and more parents in England are opting their kids out of the education system. I could never do it, but ‘wellbeing days’ do sound nice, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

www.theguardian.com

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 3h

Motion sickness, expensive and time consuming. I loved it for a few years and then just dropped it.

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 3h

Fair

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 3h

Any tips? I’ve muted so many words.

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 3h

Gold

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really clear yet meaty interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social about the actual tactics and history of antifa movements. Will be sharing with students! www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

What exactly is Antifa? | CBC Radio

In late September, Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Today, we’re tracking the meaning and history of antifascist protest — from 1930’s Europe, to today — and asking: how ...

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 6h

Onigiri is the perfect travel food.

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Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ @coyoteden.bsky.social · 18h

Discord didn’t leak those IDs, neither did the service they used (KWS).

What happened was if you were flagged as a minor, you could appeal and a support contractor would handle that. They stored your ID so a human could verify it. They got popped.

And that goes back well before age verification.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 18h

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 9h

Almost every English place name fits this bill - not that I’m from here. The pronunciation of Bicester makes no sense to me, for example.

At home: Manuka, Canberra, Ngunnawal… but not Bruce. Everyone gets that 😂

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 9h

Also, how does this fix long term illness? ‘The work cure’.

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 9h

And here I was thinking my vegan food contained animal flesh. Devastated to learn otherwise.

Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 9h

Fun fact, the EPP thinks you're an idiot.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Screenshot from the article reading: "Marketing plant-based products using meat labels "is misleading for the consumer", the member of the conservative EPP group in the EP said."

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 1d

It would breach Art 13(3) of the ICESCR but the UK has not signed or ratified the optional protocol.

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Where does ‘random found object’ fit?

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 1d

Book Alignment Chart
Lawful Good Neutral Good. Chaotic Good
Book ribbon. Sentence pointer. Scrap paper/receipt

Lawful Neutral. True Neutral Chaotic Neutral
Ebook. Proper bookmark. Leaf

Lawful Evil. Neutral Evil. Chaotic Evil
Memorising Book face-down. Dog Ear.
Page Numbers

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 2d

“As the first comprehensive international human rights instrument dedicated to the protection of persons with variations of sex characteristics, the Recommendation marks a historic and much-needed milestone.”

This is a very encouraging move in Europe to better protect intersex people.

Council of Europe Adopts Landmark Intersex Rights Recommendation

The Council of Europe adopts a landmark Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons, setting a new gold standard for intersex human rights across Europe.

www.ilga-europe.org

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

Commercial law, human rights law, EU law

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Just quietly, this is why we always go beyond studying what the law currently says.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry about that, lawyers. All that stuff you learned in law school doesn't matter anymore.

Unlike doctors. All the stuff we learned in med school and thought we'd never have to actually know about is now becoming very critical again (measles, diphtheria, pertussis)

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

Just putting this out into the world. Come March next year I’ll be looking for #PostDoc research assistant work in Sydney (or remote). Please keep me in mind and send any ideas my way. Looking for projects in one or any of #EnergyTransitions #Decarbonisation #EnvironmentalPlanning #HumanGeography

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 1d

I love this meditation on the human-ness of teaching. It’s all about relationships, and people connecting and feeling seen.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 3d

Happening now: live broadcast of oral submissions on the advisory opinion request from the ILO on the right to strike under ILO Convention No 87 on Freedom of Association.

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Right to Strike – International Labour Office; International Trade Union Confederation; In...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion concerning the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 6 October 2025.

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