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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 16h

These images are separated by one day

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 15h

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/omar-yaghi-palestinian-refugee-wins-nobel-prize-chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry

The scientist was born and raised in a single room he shared with his family and cattle in a refugee camp in Amman

www.middleeasteye.net

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 16h

This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 15h

trolley problem meme

on one track is one person tied down: britain

on the other track is a group of ppl tied down: the world

a man stands at a track changing switch: zack

the trolley: putin-style communism

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James FBSI 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Extremist) @toplandscaper.bsky.social · 15h

Don't forget the real reason for this.

#ReleaseThePedoFiles

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him.

(…because he literally incited an insurrection)

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 15h

I really want you guys to watch this speech from Russell T Davies, the guy who brought Doctor Who back, and did Queer as Folk and loads of other iconic shows at the Welsh BAFTAs recently about censorship and TV and the rise of the far right. It is amazing. www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPl...

From the GreenAndPleasant community on Reddit: Russell T. Davies at the BAFTA Cymru Awards

Explore this post and more from the GreenAndPleasant community

www.reddit.com

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 15h

Standing Together responds to Trump’s Gaza peace plan
US unveils Gaza peace plan proposing an end to the Israel-Hamas war, hostage releases, and a new path to lasting coexistence

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

Standing Together responds to Trump’s Gaza peace plan

US unveils Gaza peace plan proposing an end to the Israel-Hamas war, hostage releases, and a new path to lasting coexistence

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Helen LP @helenlp.bsky.social · 16h

Check out “Steve” on Netflix- fabulous movie.

Helen LP @helenlp.bsky.social · 16h

Today’s face is Morto drawingfaces.home.blog/2025/10/08/m... #ArtSky

Morto

Morto drawn on an iPad Pro using the Procreate app.

drawingfaces.home.blog

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 18h

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 19h

Our latest edition is out, with @omerbartov.bsky.social's magisterial essay on the history of genocide denial and how Israeli denialism over atrocities in Gaza has roots in the country's own history
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 20h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22h

Barely a squeak from the usual suspects on the free-speech right, of course, but this amounts to the most serious assault on free speech in living memory. We cannot accept a situation where hundreds of non-violent demonstrators are being arrested every weekend.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22h

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 22h

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social · 22h

Not to mention that in terms of things like performing arts and other creative industries the UK punches well above its weight as well. We are good at these things, they can create jobs, we should be supporting them not belittling them.

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Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social · 22h

I mean I know this will never happen, because she's a crank and she's not getting anywhere near power, but this is still a profoundly depressing world view. What are we without the arts, without creativity, without imagination?

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Louca-Mai Brady @louca-mai.bsky.social · 1d

#PublicInvolvement & #YouthVoice people - any recommendations on papers, blog posts etc on different perspectives on co-authoring with public contributors/people with lived experience/young people? It's for something I'm (ahem) co-authoring
TIA 🙂
#PPI

two south park characters are standing next to each other with the words we need to work together above them

Alt: Two south park characters (Cartman and Kenny) standing next to each other with the words 'we need to work together above them'

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 22h

"The very people who pledged that Brexit would result in surging levels of non-white immigration, now froth with rage that their promise came true." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Has Farage forgotten his own immigration promises?

We have the receipts, Nigel...

open.substack.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23h

#Climate breakdown already having a massive impact on crop yields

By 2050, the world is projected to need 50% more food, at a time yields of key crops could be down 30%

More than a halving of calories per head

Just think about that for a moment

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23h

We all work within a system predicated on greed, short-term profit, exploitation and environmental destruction, designed to make a tiny minority richer than Croesus

Capitalism is an obscenity that will be terminated by the climate catastrophe it has caused

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 23h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 22h

Exactly

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 22h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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