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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

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 Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 1d

If you are determined to be that thick then let’s blame the KKK and the Nazis on all Christians. You are a bonafide idiot. Now please jog on

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 1d

So you weren’t being bigoted? Cool. You just need to work on your sentence structure

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 1d

Either that’s incredibly clumsily put or you are a bigot. I hope it’s the former

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 1d

If we're going with: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance being the 'British' values; I would have thought sending arms to a genocidal state that has broken almost every international law and is ethnically cleansing illegally occupied land is 'un-British'!

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 2d

Taking august and December off. Lazy git!!!

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 2d

“Is he your pal”?

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 2d

That is not the opposition or the party leading in the polls in Scotland

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 2d

“Losers medal” 😂

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 2d

a shocking - and actually quite terrifying - open dereliction of this government's responsibility to its own citizens

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 2d

I reckon a David Peace novel on Russell Martin’s 123 day reign at Rangers would be an absolute barn stormer 📕🇬🇧

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Re-Spectre Dish 📡 🇵🇸 @eccentricks.bsky.social · 2d

JK Rowling quoting serial sexual harasser Nick Cohen is how you know she's a sincere defender of women's rights

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.

JK Rowling:

"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 2d

[Labour Party looking at polls that show a far-right government incoming at the next election] Let's introduce entirely unprecedented and extreme restrictions on the right to protests. There will be no bad or regretable consequences to this.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 4d

I kind of think these folk making it all “a big joke” kind of ushered in fascism tbh 🤷

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

“Resistance” comedy had struggled to find its mojo in President Trump’s second term.

Then came Stephen Colbert’s show cancellation, the “South Park” satire and the uproar over Jimmy Kimmel being yanked off air.

Has Trump’s government made political comedy feel important again?

“Resistance” comedy had struggled to find its mojo in Trump’s second term. Then came Colbert’s cancellation, “South Park” satire and the Kimmel uproar.

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Elisabeth Elektra @elisabethelektra.bsky.social · 5d

Since deleting Twitter I’ve noticed a big drop in my Bandcamp sales. If you’re a music fan, please repost this so people can find me here! I make weirdo alt pop, I hate nazis and love Etsy witches 🖤✨

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Elisabeth Elektra

Euphoric Art-Pop from Glasgow, Scotland elisabethelektra.com ‘Mercurial’ LP out now: “Giddy electronic pop” ☆☆☆☆ MOJO “A haunting, odd gem” ☆☆☆☆ RECORD COLLECTOR "Stark, dramatic, crystalline" - ME...

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 5d

I think he’s perfectly aware

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 6d

I’m really starting to go off him

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 6d

That sweet, sweet bone saw cash is just too alluring I suppose.

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 6d

The Manchester terror attack is horrendous and tragic beyond belief. Netanyahu blaming the UK PM in an attempt to deflect blame for his war crimes is wild though. Cynical and tawdry. He cares for himself and himself only.

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 6d

Makes ye hink but, no?

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 7d

The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted?

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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’

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 7d

My mum is the best

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 8d

It's exactly five years since Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite (@plasmatron.bsky.social) gave his mum a scare by quoting his favourite Public Enemy lyric on Twitter

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