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Stalking kills. I am, by every possible measurement, a statistical anomaly because few people survive being stalked for a decade like I was.

Stalking is femicide in slow motion.

Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.
Why Don’t We Take Stalking More Seriously? | The Walrus
The law makes it hard for victims of criminal harassment to prove they’re at risk
thewalrus.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Also apparently it's Disability History Month in the UK so I picked up this from the display, & we got to take it home - FOR FREE. Man, socialist policies are a living hell I tell you
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.

How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose
Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The latest edition of the @thetls.bsky.social podcast features a fabulous, thoughtful interview with @cdrose.bsky.social about his @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social winner We Live Here Now!
Books of the Year | The TLS Podcast
This week, TLS contributors select their favourites from 2025; plus an interview with CD Rose, winner of this year’s Goldsmiths Prize.
shows.acast.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'.

Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
committees.parliament.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”

Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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why can they not just fix it
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Next up: www.maifeminism.com/disorderly-b... Federica Cavazzuti explores Japanese women’s photography arguing that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement. #feminism #photography #academicsky
Disorderly Bodies: Self-portraiture as Emancipation for Japanese Women
Exploring Japanese women's photography, Cavazzuti argues that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement.
www.maifeminism.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”

Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Tip for the Labour Party. If you have to clarify asylum seekers’ wedding rings won’t be seized, your policy is horrific. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Quebec's Douglas Shearer revolutionized sound in film.
During his career, he received 21 Academy Award nominations, winning seven times.
From 1934 to 1945, he was nominated every single year.
This is the story of a film legend.

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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Let's dive in...over this week we'll be sharing articles from our new Issue 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture. What better place to begin than the introduction by guest editors Elizabeth Orcutt and Dawn Woolley. www.maifeminism.com/intersection... #feminism #portrait #academicsky
Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self–portraiture
Introducing the issue, Orcutt and Woolley highlight that feminist self-representation is an inquiry into evolving intersectional experiences.
www.maifeminism.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country

A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Support for the Green Party in Calderdale is surging. We’re working hard to run candidates in three target wards in next year’s Local Authority elections, but we need your help! Please donate to our crowdfunder if you can: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/local-elec...
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Outrageously expensive windows have been installed throughout the house for only about thirty hours, but Clementine is already working her magic on the custom-sized screens.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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It's been a decent week for @cdrose.bsky.social . First, he picked up the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his wonderful novel We Live Here Now, and now he gets to read a passage from my forthcoming novel The Coast of Everything.

Preorder at thecoastofeverything.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Sylvia would like to say thank you to everyone for awarding her the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social.

(And so would I.)
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The new issue of @maifeminism.bsky.social, on feminist self-portraiture, is hot off the virtual presses. Please check it out and share! www.maifeminism.com/issues/focus...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Huge congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social and so emphatically deserved! Read this book.
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉

Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM