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Nina Papadomanolaki (Παπαδομανωλάκη) (she/her) @nmpalanox.bsky.social · Jan 1

It's a new year so I figured I should maybe introduce myself. 👋

I'm a 🇬🇷🇳🇱 researcher at Uni Münster. I work on ancient carbon cycling, mainly with numerical models though I don't shy away from real data.

I like: books, (metal) music, hiking and photography.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

An elderly German Jewish man was arrested for comparing Gaza to Auschwitz.

His relatives were killed by the German state in Auschwitz.

Talk to me about how Germany was denazified

www.instagram.com/reel/DPL44U4...

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I hate it when people kill other people and that’s why I’m a firm believer in understanding and confronting the seeds of violence so that people stop planting them

We can only move forward into a better future if we are willing to have an honest confrontation with the past

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 2d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 3d

so now link is suspended with no email

link pointing out that jay now follows jonathan chait and suggesting that it may be for transphobic reasons

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 2d

We have mod tools but it’s not enough.

We can post smut here but it’s not enough.

We started with a better vibe here but it’s not enough.

It’s not enough when Jay and the Bluesky team are openly hostile to the communities they drew here, changing the pH and temp to favor bigots and call it choice

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 3d

It’s been clear since day one that climate denial and vaccine denial are part of the same toxic stew of ideologically-motivated opinions; but I am genuinely confused by number three on this list.

Is the “alien scam” claiming that they do exist? Or that they don’t? 🤔

The most bizarre of the five weird FB comments on my page today, stating that there are 3 pseudosciences pushed by the so called experts: vaccine scam, climate scam and alien scam.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3d

16 hours left: help six families & a camp of fifteen more survive. Nothing less.

The occupation is escalating, so we escalate—and mutual aid is a support front. The families have been devastatingly displaced and need food, tents, blankets.

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3d

Yes. This is also what all the demands to show "gratitude" and this obsession with hierarchy is about.

For a long time they were able to engineer and perpetuate absurd expectations of Black silence and/or obeisance.

A lot of their brains broke when POC on social media simply ... did not do this.

hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 5d

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 4d

12 hours left on today’s drive—please share! Support multiple families’ survival 🚨 We highlight a project in Jabalia supporting displaced families. The situation is catastrophic; their current ask is tents for families in the street.

Give/find their link here. 93/500… chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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NEWS 24/7 @news247gr.bsky.social · 4d

Global Sumud Flotilla: Συγγενείς Ελλήνων απαχθέντων καταγγέλλουν κυβερνητική σιωπή

Σε κοινή δήλωση προχώρησαν οι συγγενείς των απαχθέντων μελών της ελληνικής αποστολής Global Sumud Flotilla, με την οποία ζητούν την άμεση κινητοποίηση της πολιτείας για την απελευθέρωσή τους.

www.news247.gr

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

History repeats.

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Nina Papadomanolaki (Παπαδομανωλάκη) (she/her) @nmpalanox.bsky.social · 4d

Boris Johnson can put a dirty sock in it.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

“Dishcloths”?

Boris Johnson was always an arrant racist.

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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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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

US president has pushed a 20-point plan to 'redevelop' Gaza that critics say fails to support Palestinian sovereignty.

Trump issues Sunday ultimatum for Hamas to accept Gaza plan

US president has pushed a 20-point plan to 'redevelop' Gaza that critics say fails to support Palestinian sovereignty.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 5d

It is nauseatingly unacceptable that Jewish people should be criticised (let alone being attacked) because they are Jewish. Equally, expecting Jewish people to endorse Israel's war crimes because they are Jewish, is a gift to antisemites of all types www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Manchester synagogue terror attack: two killed and suspect shot dead

Police say Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, was behind car and knife attack that left four people seriously injured

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Police shoot suspect after car and knife attack at Manchester synagogue

Police shoot suspect after stabbing at synagogue in Manchester

Four people hurt as witness says car was driven towards members of the public and one man was stabbed

www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

Gaza aid flotilla ships — Capten Nikos under a Greek flag, and Estrella y Manuel and Adara under the Spanish flag — are being forcibly held at Israel’s Ashdod port after being intercepted, Al Jazeera's fact-checking agency Sanad confirms.

🔴LIVE updates: aje.io/qngd86

Lone flotilla vessel sails towards Gaza as Israel seizes aid activists

Global condemnation after Israel illegally detains activist boats headed to starved Gaza to break deadly blockade.

aje.io

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6d

A Labour MP has backed Owen Jones being banned from Labour conference, accusing him of 'haranguing' MPs with 'deranged' questions on Gaza

'Nuts': Labour MP backs Owen Jones conference ban with jibe over Gaza coverage

www.thenational.scot

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 6d

Elon just became worth half a trillion dollars and then suspended the account of the Global Flotilla where 200 citizens from all over the world were kidnapped by Israel

All for trying to bring food and baby formula to starving people and children.

Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $500
Billion

Screenshot of the global sumud flotilla account being suspended

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Nina Papadomanolaki (Παπαδομανωλάκη) (she/her) @nmpalanox.bsky.social · 7d

nos.nl/video/258480...

Egypt can't cope with the large number of ill and injured children coming from Gaza and Israel's genocidal war. Which is why the richest European countries need to do everything they can to help. The blood of these children is already on their hands.

Egypte kan deze ernstig zieke kinderen uit Gaza niet helpen

Duizenden ernstig zieke of gewonde Gazaanse kinderen zijn geëvacueerd naar Egypte, maar daar staat het zorgsysteem onder zware druk en is niet altijd de gespecialiseerde en complexe zorg beschikbaar d...

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