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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 22m

Manifesto for when I rule the world: All humans must take CPD-like courses all through life called Continuing Human Development.
Courses include:
how to human properly
we all matter
racism is bad
greed is bad
destroying the planet also bad

Other suggestions on what the curriculum should include?

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 31m

Octopus in Yoruba is apparently "Ayéfófo" or more recently "ẹja ẹlẹsẹ mẹjọ." The latter literally means the eight-legged fish. When consumed as meat, it's called "fọ́ntọ́nfọ́ntọ́n", which I personally translate as "eww! yuck! Squishy!"

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 1h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 47m

This essay on the movie "Detroit" [2017] asks if it is possible to tell stories of racism that do more than retraumatise the already brutalised. Can this wretched earth, suffused as it is in an atmosphere of violence [Fanon], learn freedom again? What do you think?
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The Movie ‘Detroit’: Telling Tales of a Wretched Night

Fanon and Depicting the Wretched

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Jun 2

So what/who does the Labour Party stand for? And why should we vote for them?

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 2h

When you agree more with an old Tory than 90% of the Labour Party 🤦🏽‍♀️

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 18h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2h

It’s revealing how thrown the interviewer is by an answer that is evidently an honest expression of genuinely held political principles, as opposed to the sound bites and weasel words that dominate political interviews in the present.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 18h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 6h

I miss the days when higher education was seen as a social good, a national treasure. When the social, cultural and intellectual contribution of higher education was valued as highly as economic contribution. When students from poorer backgrounds had proper financial support. When the humanities 1/

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15h

"My friend" and "sorry o", are two phrases in Nigerian English that often express the exact opposite of the words contained therein.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 23h

This is a reflection on the power of words and stories. This is a world made from stories, true ones, false ones, hopeful ones. Stories of law, stories told about law, stories the law tells.

"It is the story that owns and directs us." Chinua Achebe (1987)

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We Dream, We Write, We Change the World

For the world cannot afford our silence…

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 20h

To the undergrad who walked up to 3 people, 2 of whom were partners at a law firm,

Proceeded to introduce herself,

Describe her academic interests,

cold pitch us on an internship.

Let me say this:

Train your friends. That was bold and awesome. I’m hand carrying your ask to the Houston office.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 21d

Anyway, a random reminder that for most 'postcolonials' roughly around my age, our parents were born British [or other colonial power.]

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 23h

This is a reflection on the power of words and stories. This is a world made from stories, true ones, false ones, hopeful ones. Stories of law, stories told about law, stories the law tells.

"It is the story that owns and directs us." Chinua Achebe (1987)

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We Dream, We Write, We Change the World

For the world cannot afford our silence…

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

Natasha from America's Next Top Model telling someone offscreen "I just wanna tell you that some people have war in their countries"

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

As part of Epigram’s (University of Bristol's student newspaper) 2018 campaign to raise awareness about microaggressions, I submitted the following poem. Everything I have included is informed by talking with students & colleagues and from personal experience. Sadly.
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Acceptable Traumas or How We Measure (A) Violence

A poetic contribution to Epigram’s Anti-MicroAgressions campaign

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

If you think an area is 'less integrated' when the Black British, Asian British and Mixed British population combined reaches 50.01% of the local population, you must stop me and my son from moving into areas that are 'merely' 50% White

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 3d

One thing that annoys and depresses me is how utterly unimaginative, uncreative, trite, predictable, uninspiring, unproductive, self destructive, unclever, uninsightful, unoriginal, stagnated, pedestrian, antediluvian and uncivilized racism and racists are.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

Completely unrelated. I just saw a merman cross the street.

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the Daily Mail really did publish a whole article today complaining about black people appearing in adverts...

Today's Daily Mail advertisers include Lloyds Bank, Lidl, Imagine Cruising and ROL Cruises

Screenshot of a Daily Mail article with the headline "Why are so many adverts now more interested in diversity than in the reality of British life?". At the top of the article are two images of black people featuring in advertisements.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention that Handsworth has people from Indian, Pakistani, Caribbean, African — as well as mixed race people — living alongside each other. That *is* integration, as all those (imperial!) communities have come together as part of a British national identity.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

Why might minorities might want to live together, why might they want to cluster for safety to avoid, say, a view that thinks they are inherently other from & a threat to you & everyone like you, such that you commend their deportation & exclusion

I wonder why they might take your words to heart

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

Why might minorities might want to live together, why might they want to cluster for safety to avoid, say, a view that thinks they are inherently other from & a threat to you & everyone like you, such that you commend their deportation & exclusion

I wonder why they might take your words to heart

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 1d

This term our migration students are writing manifestos for migratory futures, so we're reading Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World for inspiration

Cover of the book Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World, edited by Christina Sharpe

A slide with a quote from Christina Sharpe's intro to Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: "gathering, speaking, dreaming, and writing are each powerful actions in the face of structural violence, genocide, and repression"

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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