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Evil Jim O’Donnell

@eatyourgreens.org.uk

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Research software engineer. Comics lover. Accessibility enthusiast. https://mastodon.social/@eatyourgreens Oxford RSE: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 24d

UK folks, it’s worth contacting your MP about this. By default, the draft code will pass into law without scrutiny in about 30 days.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.

Here are three ways to fight back.

Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

Three ways to fight back

Email my MP
Call my MP
Meet my MP

Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 16h

Damn. When I was at the Maritime Museum, we made a big push to use CC licences, including adding the museum to Flickr Commons.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 1d

We've created a tool called the "Screen reader support look up tables" designed to help people quickly check how screen readers interpret HTML elements and attributes across multiple combinations of browser and screen reader.

HTML/SR Support lookup

tetralogical.github.io

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Jack Whitehall night in Riyadh - everyone will be there - oh, except Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a teacher that criticised the government that is paying Jack and so is in prison for 20 years

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail.

In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist.

Revisit our 2021 story w/ @wpln.bsky.social:

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem t...

www.propublica.org

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · Oct 25

I don't think I've shared this core truth with bluesky yet. The police are a gang.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Oct 25

A Mississippi mother who spent 7 months searching for her son discovered that an off-duty officer ran him over less than an hour after he left the house.

Authorities then buried him without notifying his family

A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months.

Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 2d

Daily bunny no.3100 is just a branch away

A bunny sits on the branch of a tree at night, sipping tea and looking at the full moon. On the moon, another small bunny is visible, also drinking tea while looking back at the bunny on the tree branch

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

this photo of the guy in the na nach kippa with a machine gun over his shoulder would make rebbe nachman, who was staunchly anti-war, vomit

The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 1d

As Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, it has escalated its brutal violence in the Palestinian West Bank, launching nearly 7,500 raids since the start of 2025.

Israel’s campaign of military and settler violence in the West Bank is ethnic cleansing.

What’s happened in the West Bank since October 2023?

Amid the genocide in Gaza, conditions have also been desperate for the region’s largest population of Palestinians

ow.ly

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · Oct 7

when israel mass murders palestinian civilians it’s collateral damage. when palestinians mass murder israelis, it’s terrorism. only one side’s civilians are civilians in our discourse. palestinians are all militants or would-be militants and off-duty israeli reservists are civilians.

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · Oct 7

Saw Israel bomb a residential building called Palestine Tower in Gaza City live on Al-Jazeera over the shoulder of their on-air correspondent.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

I added some thoughts on the Peacehaven mosque attack here www.hauntologies.net/p/going-to-t...

Going to the Peacehaven Mosque

Some reflections following the 4 October terrorist attack

www.hauntologies.net

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

It's always those opposing genocide that are labeled as 'un-British'. This is simply Far Right discourse. People can be in denial of that as much as they want, the effect is the same: a further descent into authoritarianism.

Israel marks 7 October attacks anniversary as Starmer tells students to avoid 'un-British' protests

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 2d

One in ten current Tory MPs are from minorities, you have to wonder what they're making of all this.

Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 2d

During the last parliament all of the great offices of state were at one point or another held by Tory MPs from ethnic minorities. Including the PRIME MINISTER.

Jenrick is trashing his own party’s record. He belongs in Reform.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 2d

What would Dan Brown do?

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Learned that Chris Philip is currently speaking at the Conservative conference because @maccymacx came in, saying, “Some racist man is talking bullshit on the TV.”

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Ben Seeder @benseeder.bsky.social · 2d

"We don't need a warrant... fuck off".

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

This just happened:

Waukegan mayor intervenes after Border Patrol arrest of woman turns physical outside Waukegan City Hall

The Waukegan mayor intervened after U.S. Border Patrol agents forcefully arrested a woman, who is reportedly an American citizen, outside of the Waukegan City Hall Monday afternoon.

www.lakemchenryscanner.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 2d

ICE are liars.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 2d

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 2d

Don’t even bother with “Your Party”

Don’t bother with “saving Labour”

Get behind this. All of it.

South Devon Green Party @southdevongreens.bsky.social · 2d

Bringing back hope.

Leader Zack Polanski makes a powerful case for taxing wealth not work in the Green Party's new party political broadcast.

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 2d

Two things have made me think it’s not a bubble - Sora, which I think is absolutely repulsive in concept and ethics, but which is producing short videos that are often indistinguishable from real video (suggesting a future of ever longer content production)…

Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers shows that OAI believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble. The deal also gives OpenAI the option to acquire a 10 percent stake in AMD www.wired.com/story/openai... from @willknight.bsky.social and me

OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI

OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers in the US shows it believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble.

www.wired.com

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 3d

Among all the issues here, the thing I feel I must point out is that the King already has an army, and it’s called The Army.

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

Have to say, this is quite weird

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 4d

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 4d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4d

Uk government reached the “harassing lawyers who win cases against us” stage of opression.

“Fahad is a senior solicitor specialising in cases involving national security and has a strong track record of holding the British government to account”

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Please sign this by 4PM.
Fahad is coming under increasing harassment from the British authorities and we are circulating this Statement of Solidarity after he was stopped by Welsh police on 6th August with his family coming back to the UK after a holiday in Ireland.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1srI...

Statement of Solidarity with Fahad Ansari

DEADLINE FOR SIGNATURE: SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2025, 4:00 PM We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, condemn the escalating campaign of harassment by the British authorities against Irish Musli...

docs.google.com

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 4d

Opening up William Dalrymple's "The Anarchy", about the rise of the East India Company, and he leads with this magnificent quote.

“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned,
they therefore do as they like.”
Edward, First Baron Thurlow (1731-1806), the Lord Chancellor during
the impeachment of Warren Hastings

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