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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 4h

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Origins of international war lie in scholastic theology (las Casas/Sepúlveda debate and Salamana school)

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 18h

Rev Dr Kelly Douglas Brown is a discipline-defining Womanist theologian - and you can listen to her speak! Insanely excited about this.

There's still time to sign up londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/eigp7...

A flyer for the London Jesuit Centre's Black History Month lecture featuring Rev Dr Kelly Douglas Brown - 28th October, 7 pm, online.

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Dr Sonia @soniaahhh.bsky.social · 20h

Do I know anyone who reads Persian well enough to help resolve a machine translation of a health research article from Persian to English and would be willing to have a look? The researchers have no funding but we could do some kind of skills barter perhaps.

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 1d

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Apr 12

Yeah we're going to Bruenig Man, why do you ask

Those freaky child abusing nerds with stupid glasses that everyone would scissor kick if they saw them out in public

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 3d

Claire's Accessories closing down, but you will NOT predict the reason given.

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 3d

Stupid and evil on its own terms, but also giving the next Farage government more tools to suppress protests of its far-right agenda. Another Labour masterclass.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

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Karen O’Donnell @karenod.bsky.social · 4d

The #SST26 call for papers is live! Deadline 14th Dec. Theme: “Theology: A Discipline of Failure”
Bursary applications also open

www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 5d

Call for papers for the SST annual conference is out now! Come join us in April to talk about theology and failure (generous bursaries available, especially if you're a grad student): www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/

Image of a poster, a mountain peak with a bright light at the top, expanding outwards in stained glass window rays. Text reads: SST Conference 2026. Theology: A Discipline of Failure? Keynote Speakers: Robert Beckford, The Queens Foundation, UK. Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University, USA. Marika Rose, Dublin City University, Ireland. 13-15 April, The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick. theologysociety.org.uk

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus christ!

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 5d

ah i didn't do history at a level

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 5d

Being mad about what version of the BCP is used is my favourite Christian tradition.

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 5d

England/Ireland/Scotland!

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 5d

Further evidence of the limits of my theological training: I’m only just now learning about Jenny Geddes, stool riot legend

Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book. The act is reputed to have sparked the riot that led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which included the English Civil War.

when James Hannay, Dean of Edinburgh, began to read the Collects, part of the prescribed service, and Geddes, a market-woman or street-seller, threw her stool straight at the minister's head. Some sources describe it as a "fald stool" or a "creepie-stool", while others claim that it was a larger, three-legged cuttie-stool. As she hurled the stool she is reported to have yelled: "De'il gie you colic, the wame o' ye, fause thief; daur ye say Mass in my lug?" meaning "The Devil give you colic! The hide of you! (lit. "the belly of you") False thief! You dare say the Mass in my ear?"
This was the start of a general tumult with much of the congregation shouting abuse and throwing Bibles, stools, sticks and stones. John Prebble reports the phrase "Daur ye say Mass in my lug?" as being addressed to a gentleman in the congregation who murmured a dutiful response to the liturgy, getting thumped with a Bible for his pains

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 6d

The settlement website for the class action is now live and can be found here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. It includes comprehensive information about the case and settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement and a claim form. The website also lists multiple avenues for you to get any questions answered by the Settlement Administrator or Class Counsel (the plaintiffs’ lawyers). If you need assistance or any more information, please reach out to them through those channels.

If your works are included in this list, you will receive an official notice from the Settlement Administrator. However, you don’t need to wait for this notice to submit your claims form. The deadline to claim is 23 March 2026.

Which authors will be eligible for payment?

Authors based outside of the US are also eligible for payment. However, to be eligible for payment their works must:

Have been downloaded from LibGen and/or PiLiMi
Have been registered with the US Copyright Office within 3 months of publication or before it was downloaded by Anthropic and within 5 years of publication
Have a valid ISBN or ASIN
Because of the strict eligibility criteria, only approximately 500,000 titles out of the 7 million copies of books that Anthropic reportedly downloaded meet the definition required to be included in the works list. Rightholders will receive approximately $3,000 per eligible title, with an optional split of 50/50 between author and publisher for most books, and a tailored approach for education works.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7d

Tradcaths re-inventing sola scriptura from scratch is always amusing.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7d

Alleged tradcath completely unaware of the catholic church’s position on capital punishment

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d

UPDATE: Live feeds from several Global Sumud Flotilla ships are now *dropping* as several sources indicate Israeli ships are approaching the flotilla

The flotilla is carrying 500 volunteers from 45+ countries trying to break Israel's siege of Gaza & aid starving Palestinians

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 7d

<3 hope the recovery is fast and easy!

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 7d

insurance theodicy had a good run, but its time is nearing

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 7d

“If we continue, however, with the policies that we have out there, we are clearly on a pathway now of 2.7 degrees or 3 degrees where adaptation is simply not doable anymore. This is just what it is. We cannot protect Amsterdam from sea level rise of 3m. This is just not doable,” Thallinger said.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

www.cnbc.com

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