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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11h

How to ymprove higher ed
And win all the pryzes:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 8h

"Universities reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups & social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails."

And we thought that universities couldn't possibly become more venal...

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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 12h

Credit to the Guardian for publishing this most heart-breaking inventory of brutally erased, innocent young lives.

#FreePalestine

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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

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 13h

'[The report] has been suppressed because the Gvmt was unwilling to face the issues raised. Overseas aid, which could stabilise countries most at risk from climate crisis & avoid some of the impacts warned about, has been slashed.'

Congratulations, Trump Labour.
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National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 1d

With grateful thanks for the life of the Nobel scientist, Sir John Gurdon: a man of immeasurable kindness & humility as well as a visionary biologist.

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 1d

www.communicatingpalestine.org

Communicating Palestine | Narrate for Liberation, Engage with Dignity

Explore Communicating Palestine, a go-to guide offering tools to unlearn and relearn narratives, visuals, and practices rooted in Palestinian agency.

www.communicatingpalestine.org

New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 2d

"With sustainability comes empathy and compassion. These are all traits that you get when you decide to take care of the place that gives you life."

Long live Hector Bellerin!

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'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award

Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 2d

“We are freeing up our forests so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money,” Trump has said. “We have massive forests. We just aren’t allowed to use them because of the environmental lunatics who stopped us.”

Cretin.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC's contribution to a civic climate of rage, despair and hatred is sizeable. It's constant amplification of extremist right-wing positions is utterly reprehensible.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 2d

5th October. Rutting red dear use antlers in the competition for hinds.

New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 3d

Great. One more addition to this golden age of sanity & love.

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beingcompiled @beingcompiled.bsky.social · Apr 9

View of Toronto skyline from the perspective of a cormorant's nest.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · Jun 18

Written by Saleh, a 17-year-old poet from Gaza, ‘When the Sea became a Wall’ is the first in a series of letterpress prints facilitated by writers Alice Oswald, Zaffar Kunial, Max Porter & @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social‬ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/when...

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 3d

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of the BBC Arena film essay: the most innovative, adventurous & influential TV arts & culture strand in the English-speaking world, with 700 incomparable works.

learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/a...

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 3d

What's going on? How do we find out?

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 4d

Early October: field mushrooms in fairy rings appear upon lawns and by scrub.

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 4d

The resistance of Cable Street took place 89 years ago today. The fascists did not pass.

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 4d

'Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist & flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag & paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief & anger by those who witnessed it.'

What Israel has become.

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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 5d

An enthralling Anthropocene seminar today led by Dr Mark Nelson of the Institute of Ecotechnics on Biosphere 2: a spectacular & innovative experiment in closed-system dynamics; an exercise in humility; & an applied lesson in consciousness, care & beauty.

We were dazzled. Thank you, dear Mark!

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 6d

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Copper Canyon Anthology Spotlights Poets in Palestine

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publis...

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 6d

With grateful thanks for Jane Goodall's unique & selfless work in the field of interspecies solidarity.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Dame Jane Goodall obituary

Pioneering scientist whose breakthrough studies of chimpanzees changed how the animals were perceived and led to greater protection

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 6d

Blockade still ongoing: Since yesterday, 2 pm, more than 50 Greenpeace Belgium activists have been blocking the LNG terminal in Zeebrugge. They're sending a strong message against fossil gas from Russia, the US or anywhere else. #StopFossilGas
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 6d

+70 activists from 17 countries together with Greenpeace Belgium are blocking the LNG terminal in Zeebrugge. Russian and US gas that arrives here is…
❌ funding Putin's war against Ukraine
❌ fracked in Trump’s US
❌ accelerating the climate crisis

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