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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2h

And so it begins... Client telling me that my (and counsel's) advice is wrong and that I need to consider various cited cases that support their view. Which cases don't exist. Client admits used an LLM AI, but comes back to me with further detailed argument, citing other cases which.. don't exist.

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 4d

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 4h

'..the wealthiest 10% of Britons generate more emissions from aviation alone than do the poorest 20% from all their activities combined' #flightfree

Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

I know nobody wants to hear this. But we cant meet climate goals (aka survive the century) without policies to reduce demand for flights

Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix

This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it exp...

www.tandfonline.com

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 3h

in tomorrow's philosophy of psychiatry reading group, we'll be pulling apart the university guidance on coping with change. as you may know, mass redundancies are planned at Lancaster University. hence, management have published guidance on coping with change based on the Kübler-Ross model ... (1/2)

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 2h

📢 Universities monitoring students for arms firms? Unacceptable.

Peaceful protest is a right not a threat.
As UCU GS Jo Grady says: “Students should be supported by their universities, not surveilled by them.”

Read the full story:

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 4h

“N/A - I never use a desktop/laptop computer - 6%” lol sob

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 6h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

A dangerous drug trend called “bluetoothing,” in which people inject themselves with the blood of other drug users to get a cheap high, is contributing to spikes in HIV rates in infection hot spots around the world.

‘Bluetoothing’: Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Alarming Global H.I.V. Surge

The practice, in which users inject the blood of already intoxicated individuals, has fueled one of the fastest-growing H.I.V. epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa.

nyti.ms

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 6h

Also, with departmental admin jobs, for which, remember, you are actually paid — don't be an arsehole, don't whinge, and don't practice strategic incompetence. That just pushes burdens onto other, usually more junior or precarious, people.

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 6h

The Chinese are coming! US think tanks and the Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa, by Neil Ketchley, Morten S. Andersen & Ole Jacob Sending

The Chinese are coming! US think tanks and the Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa

It is now common for US government officials and policy analysts to cite China as the most significant current threat to US foreign policy interests. This article examines how the US foreign policy...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 11h

"Theorising ‘global labour migration chains" - today, 1:30pm! If you registered to attend online, please use this link to join us: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81684372233 Sorry for the Zoom snafu!

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Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 12d

If you happen to be in Birmingham on 8 Oct (1:30-3pm), Dr Seb Rumsby will be speaking about his work, "Theorising ‘global labour migration chains". All welcome - for more details and to register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Talk: Theorising ‘global labour migration chains’ . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Speaker: Seb Rumsby, Leverhulme ECR, UoB's Institute of Research into International Migration and Superdiversity (IRiS). Abstract: Although migration is as old as humanity itself, in the 21st century ...

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us

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ECPR Parliaments Standing Group @sgparliaments.bsky.social · 12h

📝 Call for Papers: the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social is hosting its annual conference in Oxford, UK, this year and the call for papers is officially open - submit your abstracts here: psa26.exordo.com/login 🦉

PSA 76th Annual International Conference | Ex Ordo

psa26.exordo.com

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 12h

Sounds like what people who want to enable harassment say about dating.

Same issue, too: consent.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 13h

Gaza’s dead children. “As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names of whom 18,457 were under 18. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims.”

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 13h

Universities are the Right's explanation for why so many young don't believe in their conspiracies about globalists and Cultural Marxists, fantasies about Empire and the natural order of things, and reject Christian nationalism and ecocidal capitalism.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 17h

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social · 2d

🌊Call for Proposals🌊

south/south festival of ideas: anti-colonial & anti-imperial currents in s.e.a. & oceania

We’re seeking workshops, reading circles, public lectures & film screenings.

May 2026 • free • online+hybrid • decentralised • self-organised

www.southsouthmovement.org/anticolonial...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli forces have opened fire on a young Palestinian man near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/72upo8

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 5d

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 1d

Cause of Death: Severe burn.

Ben Shapiro @benshapiro 1d If you're at a dinner and somebody introduces himself as "Dr. Smith," you'd be rather upset to learn that he had a doctorate in musicology if you were to suffer a stroke at the table.

Evan Williams @evanwilliams... 36s

If you were at a dinner party and someone introduced themselves as "Ben Shapiro," you'd be rather upset to be at that dinner party.

-Dr. Evan Williams, DMA Music Composition

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