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Christa @christaelena.bsky.social · 3h

Perjantai, eli viikon viimeinen puristus, viimeiset tärkeät kohtaamiset, eli keskusteluja lasten tukemisesta.

14/20 #blueskyartchallenge on Ellen Thesleffin omakuva:

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Lt. 👻 Ripley @emilias.bsky.social · 3h

Just get the Norwegian kindergartens craft a paper mache statue and tell him it's a very Noble prize for very special people.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10h

24h into the ‘ceasefire’, Israel bombed a residential building in Gaza.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 10h

Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22h

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity.
They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 13h

Just in time. 🥾Eyeballs are now in need of some TLC. 😵‍💫

The sky is filled with vivid orange at sunset.

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 19h

controversial view: structures of bigotry that systematically exclude women and people of color from positions of power

create a predatory playing field that discourages gentleness and kindness (seeing both as weakness)

in favor of the sharpest and most strategic elbows

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Katie Porter tears into a staffer in a newly released video, telling them: "Get out of my f--king shot."

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

Porter in the July 2021 video call exclusively obtained by POLITICO also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 15h

Without my crystal ball to hand who knows, but my guess should the domestic warlord be denounced as the charlatan that he is, then he will further unleash his fury on all manner of assumed enemies.

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🎃👻 SCAREd Smith 👻🎃 @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece by @awaisaftab.bsky.social and Mohammed Rashed on this topic:

“Mental disorder and social deviance” in International Review of Psychiatry, 2021

www.awaisaftab.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 18h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18h

I am deeply sceptical of their methodology. But I also think they should rebrand as FuckAboutAndFindOutNow.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 18h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 18h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Do we really have to go through the charade and name all the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get within fifty ft of the Nobel Peace Prize unless they are handing them out like smarties to all sex offenders with a penchant for inflicting global hunger and suffering.

Can Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize – and who nominated him?

The U.S. president claims he has ended ‘seven wars’ - even though many of the conflicts are still taking place. Experts tell Maira Butt that while Trump is unlikely to win he should not be ruled out c...

www.independent.co.uk

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 22h

GENOCIDE leaves a long tail of consequences in it's wake - not least, decades of trauma, both physical and mental

The direct fighting may stop but how much of this is going to be history repeated, of Amerika imposing a "peace" in a region it does not understand?

Real peace has not been established

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

#WATCH | Kids in Gaza celebrate ceasefire announcements

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Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 1d

All of those impacted by this conflict will recall the terrible loss and cascading crisis that they have endured for two years ( decades). Let this mark a meaningful chapter . The children 🥰

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 1d

What is one thing our colleagues lost, miss and cannot escape in #Gaza? Hear our staff reflect on living and working through the genocide.

Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 1d

It's taken over 24 hours to get this uploaded with passable captions, but here's my talk from last night @cumbriauni.bsky.social with @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social on #TheCompanyOfOwls and #DorothyWordsworth. Including some terrible slights on robins, and blackbird impressions. youtu.be/goiC3hhlsx4

Companions of Nature: from sickbed consolations to mimic hootings

YouTube video by Polly Atkin

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 1d

St Catherine's Hill iron age fort, with the Saxon city of Winchester behind.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Cannot. Case for books, as the antidote to everything that makes Kemi Badenoch Kemi Badenoch, made here:

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Chevy Chase takes Goldie Hawn for a ride for the August 1978 issue of Us magazine

#BicycleBirthday Chevy Chase
October 8, 1943

Photo from a magazine of a man and a woman on a banana seat bicycle.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 3d

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

A Gen AI argument I hate:

‘We disadvantage our students if we don’t teach them to use it “responsibly”’

For fuck’s sake, no.

1: it can’t be used responsibly
2: it’s antithetical to what makes humanities work worthwhile: critical thinking, deep research, self expression, self reflection, etc.

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Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 1d

Chuckle. 🤭