Jo Kershaw
@jokershaw.bsky.social
EPSRC funded PhD student at the University of Leeds | Graduate of the Open University in Maths and Physics | #ActuallyAutistic | She/Her |
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Jo Kershaw
@jokershaw.bsky.social
· Nov 22
I have self-verified my Bluesky account by continually inserting typos into my posts.
(No way I’m giving up my @ alixabeth, which originated with, you guessed it, a typo.)
(No way I’m giving up my @ alixabeth, which originated with, you guessed it, a typo.)
I have self-verified my Bluesky account by writing a lot of meandering posts that no impersonator would have the stamina to emulate.
Self-verifying my bluesky account by posting brief awkwardly-worded, over-edited comments on other people's wit after everyone else has moved on.
It's really me folks
It's really me folks
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In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
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How amazing is that... it's taken two days to raise 200,000
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're upping our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How amazing is that... it's taken two days to raise 200,000
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.
Why hasn't Gavin Newsom posted a video of himself taking this test? Why hasn't every Democrat in Congress?
Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Why hasn't Gavin Newsom posted a video of himself taking this test? Why hasn't every Democrat in Congress?
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We need to reclaim what the wealthy have stolen from us!
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
We need to reclaim what the wealthy have stolen from us!
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The Green Party is now the third largest party in the UK with 124 thousand members, more members than the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives.
But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk
But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Green Party is now the third largest party in the UK with 124 thousand members, more members than the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives.
But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk
But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk
'Unaffordability' is a lie causing needless suffering
Many of the most influential policymakers may be unaware of their affliction | David Murray
@chartaist.bsky.social
@chartaist.bsky.social
The fear of BIG numbers
Many of the most influential policymakers may be unaware of their affliction
bylines.scot
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
'Unaffordability' is a lie causing needless suffering
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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How do we fix this mess?
September 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
How do we fix this mess?
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Stop Begging. Start Building
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Twitter. In "The case for staying on Twitter," she admits the site is…
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Twitter. In "The case for staying on Twitter," she admits the site is…
Stop Begging. Start Building
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Twitter. In "The case for staying on Twitter," she admits the site is effectively overrun by neo-Nazis, but she argues that people should remain on Elon Musk's platform to fight for it.
www.techdirt.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Stop Begging. Start Building
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Twitter. In "The case for staying on Twitter," she admits the site is…
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Twitter. In "The case for staying on Twitter," she admits the site is…
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thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
With this thy fair and outward character.
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
With this thy fair and outward character.
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Just in case people don't actually read the ALT text on proportional recounts, here's what it says... 🙂
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just in case people don't actually read the ALT text on proportional recounts, here's what it says... 🙂
I should be writing
August 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I should be writing
Ghoulscrolling is the worst. I can't admit to myself how much I'm hoping
August 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ghoulscrolling is the worst. I can't admit to myself how much I'm hoping
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🎉🎉🎉 All. Demands. Met.
✊🏽 Unions work.
🙌🏼 Organising works.
👏🏼 Huge congratulations to @uvwunion.bsky.social and all the housekeepers!
✊🏽 Unions work.
🙌🏼 Organising works.
👏🏼 Huge congratulations to @uvwunion.bsky.social and all the housekeepers!
In 1979, chambermaids on Park Lane walked out on strike.
36 years later, migrant women - many from Nepal - hotel housekeepers are demanding fair pay and dignity at work at @radissonblu.bsky.social
I'll be standing in solidarity with them and @uvwunion.bsky.social Friday, 5.30pm.
Join us. ✊🏽
36 years later, migrant women - many from Nepal - hotel housekeepers are demanding fair pay and dignity at work at @radissonblu.bsky.social
I'll be standing in solidarity with them and @uvwunion.bsky.social Friday, 5.30pm.
Join us. ✊🏽
August 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🎉🎉🎉 All. Demands. Met.
✊🏽 Unions work.
🙌🏼 Organising works.
👏🏼 Huge congratulations to @uvwunion.bsky.social and all the housekeepers!
✊🏽 Unions work.
🙌🏼 Organising works.
👏🏼 Huge congratulations to @uvwunion.bsky.social and all the housekeepers!
It's official. "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter"
August 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It's official. "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter"
it's all true ;)
August 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
it's all true ;)
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it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous