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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 1h

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 1d

THIS 👇

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 1d

They think the sole purpose of human life is to create "shareholder value"

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

It's always those opposing genocide that are labeled as 'un-British'. This is simply Far Right discourse. People can be in denial of that as much as they want, the effect is the same: a further descent into authoritarianism.

Israel marks 7 October attacks anniversary as Starmer tells students to avoid 'un-British' protests

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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 · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 3d

I can imagine!!

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 5d

Ongi etorri #22 Euskara!

#hungrycaterpillar #basque #regionallanguages

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 5d

I do agree that discomfort is an essential part of discourse.

But I don't think human rights is something to have 'discourse' over.

If you believe that Palestinians deserve to be at the receiving end of a genocide, you should be uncomfortable because that is an objectively bad opinion to have.

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 16d

Ah! Cannot WAIT to see you what you've done with this one, was one of my absolute favourite reads last year. Actually, one of my favourites of the last few years :)

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 16d

And I would argue naturalness peaked with that thing...what's it called...nature and natural beings... So about this whole "unprecedented" thing...

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 21d

Meme in two parts. First: picture of Geordi LaForge from Star Trek looking straight ahead, left arm extended and palm down. Text reads do not comply in advance. Bossy, already a cliché, implies permission to comply later. Second picture is Geordi LaForge looking to his left, eyes are glowing red. Text reads fuck you, make me. Leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 17d

Apart from being vile and wholly unacceptable, how much is this going to cost the taxpayer?

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17d

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 17d

This is the language we need: unacceptable.

Not "impossible" or "unworkable" and definitely not "unlikely".

Unacceptable.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17d

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 17d

I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 21d

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 22d

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 22d

My rage knows no bounds

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 22d

I was born and raised in London. My grandma found our family has been continuously here for at least the last 300 years. I still live here now. Our diversity is, and ALWAYS has been, our strength

Fascists represent NOTHING about this city. Their marches are the only time I have felt unsafe here.

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22d

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 22d

The key fact that the racist right really hates: multiculturalism works

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22d

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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MasterThief Press @masterthiefpress.bsky.social · 22d

A few people have been dusting off Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance. Simply, tolerating the intolerant is a mistake. And we're in the middle of that right now as a free country. Time to stop tolerating the nazi types, the bigots, the fascists, the hateful that seem to be everywhere.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d

The right getting mad about Trump’s AG saying she’ll arrest people for hate speech but not getting mad about Trump’s Deputy AG saying he’ll arrest people for heckling Trump at a restaurant tells you everything you need to know about the right.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record.

archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

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danaiolos.bsky.social @danaiolos.bsky.social · 23d

Say. Her. Name.

Qisma Ali Omar.

Say. Her. Name.

I have felt so much shame in my life. But the shame I feel because of the pure evil of Man is a raging storm…The violence inflicted by a man on a young woman, unafraid to show his actions to record Her torture and to show his face…

Say. Her. Name.

Luerikerin @weltverbesserle.bsky.social · 24d

Her name was Qisma Ali Omar. She was 22 years old and had a whole life ahead of her.

May she rest in everlasting peace.

Luerikerin @weltverbesserle.bsky.social · 24d

CN femicide, torture

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 23d

Isaac Herzog is named directly in the UN report which states clearly that Israel is committing genocide - he is named as one of the figures inciting genocide. Last week Keir Starmer felt it was fit to roll our the red carpet for Herzog on in a visit to Britain.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23d

5 countries will now boycott Eurovision if Israel takes part - Spain, Iceland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Ireland.

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