Caleb Day
@calebday.bsky.social
Created autistic, kinetic. Made Christian, neurodivergent, depressed, disabled, parent, trade unionist, he/him, among other things. Theological ethics, @ducu.bsky.social, @uniteucu.bsky.social. NZer in England. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-0282
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Caleb Day
@calebday.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I am interested in neurodivergent theologies and found a bunch of people on here to follow. I decided to turn that into a starter pack. Please suggest additions: i'm sure there are plenty of people I don't know about, plus many others like me joining the current Xodus wave.
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Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC
Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
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Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
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“The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
“The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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It's the wokest place in the world.
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It's the wokest place in the world.
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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The very important point that, to make their “case”, transphobes have to lie about what the Supreme Court actually said, and do lie about it, every day, and the government and media colludes in their lying.
Ridiculous, both from the EHRC and the guardian reporting.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The Supreme Court did not rule that "the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex"
The judgement itself makes this clear:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The Supreme Court did not rule that "the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex"
The judgement itself makes this clear:
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The very important point that, to make their “case”, transphobes have to lie about what the Supreme Court actually said, and do lie about it, every day, and the government and media colludes in their lying.
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The policy implications are clear. We need:
✅ Clean Air in schools so kids don't catch #Covid several times a year
✅ To direct JCVI to look again at the costs & benefits of vaccinating kids, including #LongCovid risks
✅ Free vax access
✅ Honest communication of real & serious risks to kids.
✅ Clean Air in schools so kids don't catch #Covid several times a year
✅ To direct JCVI to look again at the costs & benefits of vaccinating kids, including #LongCovid risks
✅ Free vax access
✅ Honest communication of real & serious risks to kids.
New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine
"The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".
www.zmescience.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The policy implications are clear. We need:
✅ Clean Air in schools so kids don't catch #Covid several times a year
✅ To direct JCVI to look again at the costs & benefits of vaccinating kids, including #LongCovid risks
✅ Free vax access
✅ Honest communication of real & serious risks to kids.
✅ Clean Air in schools so kids don't catch #Covid several times a year
✅ To direct JCVI to look again at the costs & benefits of vaccinating kids, including #LongCovid risks
✅ Free vax access
✅ Honest communication of real & serious risks to kids.
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A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine
"The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".
www.zmescience.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
Staff are so overwhelmed at @durham.ac.uk following ill-conceived staff cuts, but @ducu.bsky.social members still organised to beat the 50% turnout threshold in the ballot seeking UK-wide agreements to save jobs, pay, & conditions (cf 34.8% turnout at the @durhamcouncil.bsky.social 2025 election).
Waited until today to say this, to ensure we got in as many ballots as we could, but DUCU can confirm we passed the Tory anti-trade union 50% voting threshold for the current national ballot. Our team did a huge amount of amazing GTVO work, benefitting not just Durham but other branches. Respect.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Staff are so overwhelmed at @durham.ac.uk following ill-conceived staff cuts, but @ducu.bsky.social members still organised to beat the 50% turnout threshold in the ballot seeking UK-wide agreements to save jobs, pay, & conditions (cf 34.8% turnout at the @durhamcouncil.bsky.social 2025 election).
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Waited until today to say this, to ensure we got in as many ballots as we could, but DUCU can confirm we passed the Tory anti-trade union 50% voting threshold for the current national ballot. Our team did a huge amount of amazing GTVO work, benefitting not just Durham but other branches. Respect.
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Waited until today to say this, to ensure we got in as many ballots as we could, but DUCU can confirm we passed the Tory anti-trade union 50% voting threshold for the current national ballot. Our team did a huge amount of amazing GTVO work, benefitting not just Durham but other branches. Respect.
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With a killer #GTVO campaign and a flurry of SO many last minute voters, BOOM! Our records show that we sailed past that 50% anti-union threshold locally at @ducu.bsky.social.
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
With a killer #GTVO campaign and a flurry of SO many last minute voters, BOOM! Our records show that we sailed past that 50% anti-union threshold locally at @ducu.bsky.social.
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
Pssst… #UCU members… last safe day to post your ballots (a cold walk to postbox & a quick email to reps to confirm vote). We need to regain leverage. Employers (& govt) need to know they can’t keep ‘solving’ financial issues by cutting jobs/pay/conditions. Workers are already at/past breaking point.
As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
And here we are! Literally every spine point is paying less in real terms than it was back in 2008. Spine point 5 (now replaced by the real living wage) is down by about 3.4%. By spine point 10, we're down over 10%. By spine point 23, over 20%, ultimately reaching a 22.1% reduction. 3/3
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Pssst… #UCU members… last safe day to post your ballots (a cold walk to postbox & a quick email to reps to confirm vote). We need to regain leverage. Employers (& govt) need to know they can’t keep ‘solving’ financial issues by cutting jobs/pay/conditions. Workers are already at/past breaking point.
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Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
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Props to the first journalist who asks how international students are actually doing while being turned into a political football.
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Props to the first journalist who asks how international students are actually doing while being turned into a political football.
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
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I realise it's almost always foolish for a non-lawyer to start pontificating about legal matters, but if the EHRCs own leaked guidance says there is no form of documentation that can be used to "prove" someone's sex, then *how is anyone to "prove" they are or are not a woman*?
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I realise it's almost always foolish for a non-lawyer to start pontificating about legal matters, but if the EHRCs own leaked guidance says there is no form of documentation that can be used to "prove" someone's sex, then *how is anyone to "prove" they are or are not a woman*?
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Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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The Guardian fails to report how, under Starmer’s Labour, trans people’s human rights have descended to the level of Russia.
It has an article about a minor marital row about a book club though.
It has an article about a minor marital row about a book club though.
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The Guardian fails to report how, under Starmer’s Labour, trans people’s human rights have descended to the level of Russia.
It has an article about a minor marital row about a book club though.
It has an article about a minor marital row about a book club though.
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I've been thinking about this for a little while now and can't quite pin down why it's making me so uncomfortable
Is it the normalisation of fascism as a term or it being discarded once more as an exaggeration "we" can "all" laugh about "together"
Is it the normalisation of fascism as a term or it being discarded once more as an exaggeration "we" can "all" laugh about "together"
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I've been thinking about this for a little while now and can't quite pin down why it's making me so uncomfortable
Is it the normalisation of fascism as a term or it being discarded once more as an exaggeration "we" can "all" laugh about "together"
Is it the normalisation of fascism as a term or it being discarded once more as an exaggeration "we" can "all" laugh about "together"
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If, and please do, you are filling this consultation in I would suggest some things to consider.
✅Where the framing forces you into accept the government's premise that they need to discriminate against one group or another mark "don't know". Don't play to their framing. 8/
✅Where the framing forces you into accept the government's premise that they need to discriminate against one group or another mark "don't know". Don't play to their framing. 8/
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If, and please do, you are filling this consultation in I would suggest some things to consider.
✅Where the framing forces you into accept the government's premise that they need to discriminate against one group or another mark "don't know". Don't play to their framing. 8/
✅Where the framing forces you into accept the government's premise that they need to discriminate against one group or another mark "don't know". Don't play to their framing. 8/
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I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
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Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.