Polly Pallister-Wilkins
@pollypw.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Ummmm, this could go either way to be honest...
Ummmm, this could go either way to be honest...
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Ummmm, this could go either way to be honest...
Ummmm, this could go either way to be honest...
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(tries to pretend to be surprised, fails) Dutch companies are financing illegal settlements in the West Bank.
‘Nederlandse bedrijven financieren illegale nederzettingen Westelijke Jordaanoever’
‘Nederlandse bedrijven financieren illegale nederzettingen Westelijke Jordaanoever’
Veertien bedrijven, financiële instellingen en pensioenfondsen dragen nog altijd direct of indirect bij aan de illegale Israëlische bezetting van de Westelijke Jordaanoever, door…
www.nrc.nl
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
(tries to pretend to be surprised, fails) Dutch companies are financing illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Vergeet je straks niet uit te checken, ook met jouw betaalpas.
Please remember to check out, also with your bankcard.
Please remember to check out, also with your bankcard.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Vergeet je straks niet uit te checken, ook met jouw betaalpas.
Please remember to check out, also with your bankcard.
Please remember to check out, also with your bankcard.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
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There's a whole industry based around imprisoning people to do this work in Myanmar www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There's a whole industry based around imprisoning people to do this work in Myanmar www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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academics at a demo va academics at the faculty meeting
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
academics at a demo va academics at the faculty meeting
Harriet Harman used to be my MP and she once helped me with a problem I had with my bin collection… well she can get in the bin, racist pos
Harman explaining that actually, horrible migrant crackdowns are left wing politics and if you - a white person - don’t like it, then you are actively harming people from ethnic minorities. An outrageous insult to the public’s intelligence IMO, offhandedly dropping a dog turd onto your dinner plate.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Harriet Harman used to be my MP and she once helped me with a problem I had with my bin collection… well she can get in the bin, racist pos
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In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
Just one more data centre bro...
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just one more data centre bro...
Great, the cat has clearly been asleep all day and not been out to socialise, meaning now I’m home he’s decided it’s silly time and now I have to try and retrieve a piece of the tofu I was preparing in a sticky marinade from the inside of the sofa.
a black and white cat with a pink nose is laying on a bed
Alt: a tabby and white cat with a pink nose looking evil and smug
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Great, the cat has clearly been asleep all day and not been out to socialise, meaning now I’m home he’s decided it’s silly time and now I have to try and retrieve a piece of the tofu I was preparing in a sticky marinade from the inside of the sofa.
And there it is...
Labour is the party of the rich.
Labour is the party of the rich.
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival on.ft.com/44n8xnA
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival
Home secretary says ‘brightest and best’ will be fast-tracked while others will have to wait up to 30 years
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
And there it is...
Labour is the party of the rich.
Labour is the party of the rich.
This is not the most egregious thing in all this but who in the UK uses the word minimart?
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is not the most egregious thing in all this but who in the UK uses the word minimart?
🚨Publication Alert🚨
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility
Abstract. This article revisits the scholarly debates and activist actions around what have become known as ‘humanitarian borders’. The article shows how h
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🚨Publication Alert🚨
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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I regret to inform you that generative AI is now good. Please update your records.
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Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I regret to inform you that generative AI is now good. Please update your records.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Well yes, the lesson I took from The Holocaust is not that I am some special little unicorn but that it fucking sucked and we should stop it happening ever again to anyone.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Well yes, the lesson I took from The Holocaust is not that I am some special little unicorn but that it fucking sucked and we should stop it happening ever again to anyone.
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Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
Yeah so about that…
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Yeah so about that…
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Israel just hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain al Hilweh, with missiles.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Israel just hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain al Hilweh, with missiles.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
My students have an assignment due tomorrow, if cloudflare could stay down for another 24 hours that would be great, thanks.
Still, spare a thought and or prayer for all the ChatGPT users currently unable to chat.
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My students have an assignment due tomorrow, if cloudflare could stay down for another 24 hours that would be great, thanks.
Never thought I'd inw day be joining the fight for models to keep their jobs but here we are...
I guess I already knew beauty ads were fakey but now they’re fakey-fakey at scale.
www.wsj.com/articles/lor...
www.wsj.com/articles/lor...
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Never thought I'd inw day be joining the fight for models to keep their jobs but here we are...
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Sure seems like this should be a bigger story than it is.
Hundreds of Palestinians found themselves in South Africa. "Al-Majd", the org that flew them, pretends to be dedicated to helping Muslims when in fact it is a shadowy firm run by an Israeli named Tomer Janar Lind
archive.is/7n4IQ
Hundreds of Palestinians found themselves in South Africa. "Al-Majd", the org that flew them, pretends to be dedicated to helping Muslims when in fact it is a shadowy firm run by an Israeli named Tomer Janar Lind
archive.is/7n4IQ
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Sure seems like this should be a bigger story than it is.
Hundreds of Palestinians found themselves in South Africa. "Al-Majd", the org that flew them, pretends to be dedicated to helping Muslims when in fact it is a shadowy firm run by an Israeli named Tomer Janar Lind
archive.is/7n4IQ
Hundreds of Palestinians found themselves in South Africa. "Al-Majd", the org that flew them, pretends to be dedicated to helping Muslims when in fact it is a shadowy firm run by an Israeli named Tomer Janar Lind
archive.is/7n4IQ
Ahhhh AI generated image descriptions… so accurate, so helpful
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Ahhhh AI generated image descriptions… so accurate, so helpful
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Is it a teapot?
This clever device offers a 20-minute ritual to help you reset from everyday stress
This clever device offers a 20-minute ritual to help you reset from everyday stress
This clever device offers a 20-minute ritual to help you reset from everyday stress
www.independent.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Is it a teapot?
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Someone tag the Labour party: ““This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.””
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Someone tag the Labour party: ““This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.””
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Dress them up as a smart phone
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Dress them up as a smart phone