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Polly Pallister-Wilkins

@pollypw.bsky.social

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Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 17h

incredible investigation by @972mag.com
– and an indictment of western media outlets who have disseminated fictionalized visualizations created by the Israeli army in order to justify the destruction of civilian infrastructure

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 18h

Because of Israel’s siege of Gaza imposed in 2006 where Dov Weissglas talked about putting Palestinians on a diet.

Yes some of us have been following this a long time, some of us (me) have even worked there, so nice try with your appeal to authority there.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 18h

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it…

For the money.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 18h

How is providing information to refute your claims trolling?

Or is being confronted with information you don’t like trolling?

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 18h

Is this, is this Iraniansplaining?

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

You are really bad at this

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Reader, she did support genocide

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

And you

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

the tallest stone was indeed throwing trans people under the bus

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Schrödinger’s voter strikes again!

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Trust me bro

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Human rights are universal you fucking wanker

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck you using Jews to peddle this racist filth.

And erasing centuries of British antisemitism to boot.

Seriously fuck you.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

No words

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

These AI techbro evangelists have either rocks for brains or are mendacious charlatans or maybe both.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Are you taking posting tips from the owners of this platform?

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Defending LGBTQ+ folks and having a homelessness policy that is more than destroying unhoused people’s tents on television.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Keep digging, you’re doing great sweetie.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

That it isn’t mandatory. It is, for anyone working, as the government themselves confirm. bsky.app/profile/read...

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 1d

Could you clarify what your understanding of "mandatory" is?

Because this is a press release from Keir starmer saying exactly what you said hasn't been said.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK

A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks ...

www.gov.uk

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

I know, there was that nice chap from the Netherlands…

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

When those fact checkers are wrong they are not in fact fact checkers but the peddlers of falsehoods that enable fascism.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Or a golden visa and a direct line to the prime minister

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

But Hend there’ll be some clueless white dude along any second to explain why you’re wrong based on their life experience.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure the self-appointed vanquishers of antisemitism will be along any minute to call it out…

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