Ok. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social , thank you, but how do we stop it happening? Seriously meant question

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

After nearly 1,500 years, the see of Canterbury has its first female archbishop.

Congratulations to Sarah Mullally! And good luck - she's going to need it!

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. (Hannah Arendt)

Bench in Ljubljana

Am 25.09. ist Assata Shakur im Exil auf Cuba gestorben. Sie war Schwarze Aktivistin, Antirassistin, Feministin. Die in den USA geborene Shakur war Mitglied der Black Panther Party, sowie der Black Liberation Army. Ein Nachruf... #Antirassismus #Feminismus rdl.de/beitrag/assa...

It is official! My book, Birth Politics, has been released @JHUPress. Hopeful that it makes an impactful contribution to conversations around improving maternal health care in Nigeria. Happy to honor invited talks to discuss the book and my research. #maternalhealth #reproductivehealth #Nigeria

The summary from the Summer School on "Schreibweisen der Gegenwart" which took place at @unigreifswald.bsky.social earlier this summer is available to read now!

Written by Leonie Sroka (Bern), Hannah Willcox (Greifswald) and me – German version here:
germanistik.uni-greifswald.de/institut/arb...

The full summer school summary is now also available to read in English:

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

@leoniesroka.bsky.social

Great, important piece by Mark Chadbourn.

Our flag does not belong to one creed or to one race. It belongs to one people, the British people.

We will not let our flag be used to intimidate.

Und so beginnt sie die Unterwerfung einer traditionellen Institution Europas durch US Tech Oligarchen. Ich bin nicht gegen die Nutzung von LLM. Universitäten sollten ihre eigenen Open Weight oder Open Source Modelle bauen, um nicht ihre Autonomie aufzugeben und sich an Firmen wie OpenAI auszuliefern

No surprise here. It’s grim but it’s no surprise. The political temperature has been at a dangerous level for a while now.

“Far-right AfD’s vote triples in elections in German bellwether state”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Wishing, threatening, or doing harm to people who are doling no harm to anyone except making them uncomfortable by their mere existence.

Attitudes like this are always with us, unfortunately. The difference today is that those holding them are being encouraged to express, even act on, these views.

"Rather than prioritise investment in staff, the beating heart of the university, management has spent an average of over £40m a year on capital expenditure and splashes out £1.5m a year on external consultants." (UCU branch chair Joseph Choonara)

#UKHE

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

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So Berichterstattung ist halt nicht wirklich etwas anderes als hetze

When do you think was the last time Michael Gove spoke to a member of the public?

Great, important piece by Mark Chadbourn.

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

A major anti-abortion march taking place in London this weekend is being heavily influenced by US Christian right group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), raising concerns about the import of anti-gender fundamentalism to the UK:
https://goodlaw.social/gdxk

Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles:

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Das internationale Handzeichen für häusliche Gewalt ist einfach auszuführen:

Die Handfläche offen mit ausgestreckten Fingern zeigen. Den Daumen in die Mitte der Handfläche legen. Die übrigen Finger über den Daumen schließen und eine Faust bilden. Dies kann auch hinter dem Rücken gezeigt werden.