Elinor Fairfax
@elinorfairfax.bsky.social
Works for a national human rights institution. A Janeite and period drama enthusiast.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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WATCH: Colbert’s first monologue since the cancelation. “For the next ten months the gloves are off. I can say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now.” youtu.be/VIZegLAvK8o?...
The Gloves Are Off | "I Absolutely Love That Colbert Got Fired" | Trump & Epstein's Wonderful Secret
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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July 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
WATCH: Colbert’s first monologue since the cancelation. “For the next ten months the gloves are off. I can say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now.” youtu.be/VIZegLAvK8o?...
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New: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry.
The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold.
👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry
The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold.
👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry
July 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
New: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry.
The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold.
👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry
The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold.
👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry
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Ten years after the Paris Agreement, nations are still falling short of their commitments to reduce emissions and mitigate climate change.
More than that, they haven’t shown enough follow-through on the goals they set. Instead, it’s been cities and local governments that have taken the lead.
More than that, they haven’t shown enough follow-through on the goals they set. Instead, it’s been cities and local governments that have taken the lead.
As the nations lag on climate action, cities across the world step up
A new report documents how local communities are becoming more livable and sustainable.
www.motherjones.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, nations are still falling short of their commitments to reduce emissions and mitigate climate change.
More than that, they haven’t shown enough follow-through on the goals they set. Instead, it’s been cities and local governments that have taken the lead.
More than that, they haven’t shown enough follow-through on the goals they set. Instead, it’s been cities and local governments that have taken the lead.
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) of Palestine urgently draws your immediate attention to the catastrophic and rapidly worsening humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
www.ichr.ps/en/statement...
www.ichr.ps/en/statement...
Urgent Appeal to NHRIs Worldwide
Urgent Appeal to NHRIs Worldwide The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) urgently draws your immediate attention to the catastrophic and rapidly worsening humanitarian disaster unfolding in...
www.ichr.ps
May 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) of Palestine urgently draws your immediate attention to the catastrophic and rapidly worsening humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
www.ichr.ps/en/statement...
www.ichr.ps/en/statement...
We still don’t talk about the post pandemic loss and grief: open.spotify.com/episode/74ss...
We Need to Talk About COVID
To The Best Of Our Knowledge · Episode
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April 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We still don’t talk about the post pandemic loss and grief: open.spotify.com/episode/74ss...
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In partnership with Glastonbury we’ve teamed up to offer pairs of tickets for you and a friend to attend the biggest music event of the summer. Hurry, this weekend is your last chance to enter
Nominate a friend to go to Glastonbury festival 2025
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
In partnership with Glastonbury we’ve teamed up to offer pairs of tickets for you and a friend to attend the biggest music event of the summer. Hurry, this weekend is your last chance to enter
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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
April 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
Going through digital files and photos and wondering what I was doing during Covid-19 lockdown in 2020-2021 (after reading reports on 5th anniversary of pandemic), I was reminded I sponsored a roof tile!
March 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Going through digital files and photos and wondering what I was doing during Covid-19 lockdown in 2020-2021 (after reading reports on 5th anniversary of pandemic), I was reminded I sponsored a roof tile!
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"The sudden, chaotic withdrawal of support, principally by the government of the United States, is already having a crushing impact,” Tom Andrews at 58th UNHRC session
March 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"The sudden, chaotic withdrawal of support, principally by the government of the United States, is already having a crushing impact,” Tom Andrews at 58th UNHRC session
In my long list of films to watch!
tiff.net/events/jane-...
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
In Laura Piani’s charming and witty debut, an aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from ...
tiff.net
March 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In my long list of films to watch!
tiff.net/events/jane-...
tiff.net/events/jane-...
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I have so many matters to write about that my paper will hardly hold it all. Little matters they are, to be sure, but highly important.
#JaneAusten #Letters1808
#JaneAusten #Letters1808
March 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I have so many matters to write about that my paper will hardly hold it all. Little matters they are, to be sure, but highly important.
#JaneAusten #Letters1808
#JaneAusten #Letters1808
L'administration Trump devrait démissionner!
En direct : Le vice-président américain se dit certain que Zelensky finira par discuter de la paix
En direct : Le vice-président américain se dit certain que Zelensky finira par discuter de la paix
Trois jours après l'altercation entre Donald Trump et Volodymyr Zelensky, les tensions ne retombent pas. Donald Trump a décidé de mettre en pause l'aide militaire américaine à l'Ukraine, quand son vice-président JD Vance se dit convaincu que dirigeant…
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March 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
L'administration Trump devrait démissionner!
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Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.
February 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.
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L'ONU sonne l'alarme face à «l'asphyxie» des droits de l'homme et du droit international
L'ONU sonne l'alarme face à «l'asphyxie» des droits de l'homme et du droit international
Le Conseil des droits de l'homme de l'ONU est réuni à Genève depuis le 24 février pour six semaines. Cette 58ᵉ session du HRC est l'occasion pour le chef des Nations unies, Antonio Guterres, de mettre en garde contre un recul généralisé des droits…
rfi.my
February 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
L'ONU sonne l'alarme face à «l'asphyxie» des droits de l'homme et du droit international
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The fight at the heart of the German election is simmering everywhere | Zoe Williams
The fight at the heart of the German election is simmering everywhere | Zoe Williams
In all similar democracies, left and right are having versions of the same argument: does ‘electable’ mean centrist or radical? writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The fight at the heart of the German election is simmering everywhere | Zoe Williams
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📣Today the CSO Working Group on Independent #NHRI & Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions urge Asia Pacific Forum on National Human Rights Institutions #APF to immediately remove membership of the junta-controlled #MNHRC from its network. ✊
See the letter: bit.ly/4bccpdq
See the letter: bit.ly/4bccpdq
February 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
📣Today the CSO Working Group on Independent #NHRI & Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions urge Asia Pacific Forum on National Human Rights Institutions #APF to immediately remove membership of the junta-controlled #MNHRC from its network. ✊
See the letter: bit.ly/4bccpdq
See the letter: bit.ly/4bccpdq
