@ilisidi.bsky.social
Quite old for a student, likes modern history, learning Welsh badly, located in the middle edge of Southern England.
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Listening to Amol Rajan talking to Tom Holland on his Radical podcast - and quite surprised to hear this history of Christianity as a history of ideas - completely separate from economics and politics.
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Listening to Amol Rajan talking to Tom Holland on his Radical podcast - and quite surprised to hear this history of Christianity as a history of ideas - completely separate from economics and politics.
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Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
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On Monday, Trump ran roughshod over intl law - the UK took no action.
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
On Monday, Trump ran roughshod over intl law - the UK took no action.
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
December 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
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Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
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Lib Dems getting cut through at PMQs - mainstream media starting to take notice
#StarmerShouldStandUpToTrump
#StarmerShouldStandUpToTrump
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Lib Dems getting cut through at PMQs - mainstream media starting to take notice
#StarmerShouldStandUpToTrump
#StarmerShouldStandUpToTrump
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That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
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Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc
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Those with power and platforms who believe in human rights and social progress - if you don’t start speaking up now then you have welcomed in fascism
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Those with power and platforms who believe in human rights and social progress - if you don’t start speaking up now then you have welcomed in fascism
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This is impressive - solidarity with those women who performed the citizens arrest
www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...
www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...
BREAKING NEWS: Citizens arrest of Anglian Water CEO, Mark Thurston, made in London for Public Nuisance - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network
www.citizensarrestnetwork.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is impressive - solidarity with those women who performed the citizens arrest
www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...
www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...
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The Preservation Alliance has a weird thing about food and medical care and other things humans need to survive being free and available anywhere.
October 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Preservation Alliance has a weird thing about food and medical care and other things humans need to survive being free and available anywhere.
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It's very funny that Zack is just willling to say 'You're talking shit and you know you are' and nobody in politics or the media really knows how to cope with it.
I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It's very funny that Zack is just willling to say 'You're talking shit and you know you are' and nobody in politics or the media really knows how to cope with it.
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This is what the billionaire class thinks of us. Stop getting distracted by immigrants.
Brexit: the unforgivably selfish arseholery of those who lied about what it really meant for the country while dodging the cost, hassle and restrictions they inflicted on everyone else.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Sir James Dyson says Brexit was worth it – even if it’s made people poorer
Britain’s fourth-wealthiest man has argued it is better to be ‘independent’ than tied to the EU
www.independent.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is what the billionaire class thinks of us. Stop getting distracted by immigrants.
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Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!
As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!
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Common sense that I have no doubt will be ignored.
"Step one is to stop making ludicrous political decisions that are systematically alienating section after section of our core support" like oh my god that this has to be said.
"Step one is to stop making ludicrous political decisions that are systematically alienating section after section of our core support" like oh my god that this has to be said.
Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery | John McDonnell
After so many avoidable mistakes, of course people are angry. But with the far right looming, we need action not despair, says MP and former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Common sense that I have no doubt will be ignored.
"Step one is to stop making ludicrous political decisions that are systematically alienating section after section of our core support" like oh my god that this has to be said.
"Step one is to stop making ludicrous political decisions that are systematically alienating section after section of our core support" like oh my god that this has to be said.
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The Supreme Court made possible the administration's threats to send Mr Abrego Garcia to Uganda -- because the Court blocked the lower court decisions that had restricted the gov'ts ability to send noncitizens to far-flung places they've never been & where they could face violence, torture, & death.
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a new federal lawsuit in Maryland.
Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
August 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Supreme Court made possible the administration's threats to send Mr Abrego Garcia to Uganda -- because the Court blocked the lower court decisions that had restricted the gov'ts ability to send noncitizens to far-flung places they've never been & where they could face violence, torture, & death.
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Also--
Writers, unite! You do not need to be SFWA to be eligible for a lawsuit under the LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class - but you do need to act soon!
Deadline: September 1, 2025.
Read more about it here, and spread the word widely: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Writers, unite! You do not need to be SFWA to be eligible for a lawsuit under the LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class - but you do need to act soon!
Deadline: September 1, 2025.
Read more about it here, and spread the word widely: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
August 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Also--
Writers, unite! You do not need to be SFWA to be eligible for a lawsuit under the LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class - but you do need to act soon!
Deadline: September 1, 2025.
Read more about it here, and spread the word widely: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Writers, unite! You do not need to be SFWA to be eligible for a lawsuit under the LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class - but you do need to act soon!
Deadline: September 1, 2025.
Read more about it here, and spread the word widely: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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Gladly made my annual gift to @archive.org, a service that costs nothing to use, runs no ads, and yet I depend on daily. (E.g., digitized texts are an essential source for library.typographica.org/specimen-boo... and @fontsinuse.com.)
Donate now to keep it free and open to all: archive.org/donate
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August 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Gladly made my annual gift to @archive.org, a service that costs nothing to use, runs no ads, and yet I depend on daily. (E.g., digitized texts are an essential source for library.typographica.org/specimen-boo... and @fontsinuse.com.)
Donate now to keep it free and open to all: archive.org/donate
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Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
August 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
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I am at Parliament Square in London, where I am watching peaceful protesters arrested for holding signs. History will remember all of these brave people as heroes.
August 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I am at Parliament Square in London, where I am watching peaceful protesters arrested for holding signs. History will remember all of these brave people as heroes.
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BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
August 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
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