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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20h

After the anticipated and hoped for prisoners/hostage exchange, there will remain in Israeli prisons thousands more Palestinians than there had been there on 6th October 2023.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 22h

Not only smaller humanities departments but even Oxford itself, whose secret is that it runs on the labour of poorly paid precariously employed academics (66% are employed on a fixed-term contract and this doesn’t even include college work).

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 23h

This number alone is distressing. Now also imagine the staggering number of young lives irrevocably traumatised. 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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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Contrasting headlines

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 1d

Edward Krasiński, Intervention with a Phone, 1972
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137644

Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 2d

In 2025, do we really still have to do the whole cyrillic thing…

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should force this horrible man to watch Handsworth Songs.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

A work of art

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 2d

Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 6d

💥🔎 On X/Twitter, Visegrád24 became famous for its anti-Muslim and anti-migration stance as well as waves of disinformation. A recent report brings to light people, funding and political actors tied to their Central Europe-based but international network. @vsquare.bsky.social

Unmasking Visegrád24: Tracing the People, Money, and Political Connections - VSquare.org

Visegrád24 became famous for its anti-Muslim and anti-migration stance as well as waves of disinformation. A recent report by the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) brings to light a p...

vsquare.org

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3d

The whole “it’s un-British” thing reminds me of the current situation in Germany, where antisemitism is being represented solely as a phenomenon imported by immigrants and nothing to do with Germany as such.

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3d

This is why “unis can’t afford it” is a terrible argument against UCU strikes over pay; if 1.4%, effectively yet another big pay cut, is already unaffordable then the system is completely broken and we need to start over.

Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3d

The rise is 1.4%. ONE POINT FOUR PERCENT.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3d

The rise is 1.4%. ONE POINT FOUR PERCENT.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3d

Ngl, I would kill for that folding tote bag

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

These cases of extreme, far-right racist violence targeting Muslims and people seeking asylum are being blithely ignored by most media and politicians because they see no political capital in addressing them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers' hotel

The blaze is being treated as a hate crime by officers investigating.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 3d

Really just amazing that not only did this get published, it is being promoted at the very top of the website.

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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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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 4d

This must be one of the dumbest non-arguments I’ve ever seen in the Guardian.

Some people have a choice about whether or not to vote Labour. I wish I did too
Polly Hudson
I’m disillusioned with Keir Starmer’s government. But my late father’s passion for his political career makes it difficult to imagine putting my cross in another box

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 4d

This must be one of the dumbest non-arguments I’ve ever seen in the Guardian.

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CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 6d

I am not religious, but when people's places of worship are attacked, as when their homes, schools, libraries, etc are attacked it is an attempt to destroy the connections between us. That is what antisemitic violence aims to do.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6d

You’ll recall that the selling point for organising our societies like this is that this is the best, fairest and most efficient way to determine value and allocate resources

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Musk becomes world's first half-trillionaire

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