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cait.bsky.social
!!!! you encounter this creature. what do you do
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and his adopted home was Sri Lanka. If I recall, he lived there until his death.
literarypearls.bsky.social
Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · Dec 21
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

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jstmeinmo.bsky.social
I felt this…besides…it’s Saturday…
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THIS makes me think
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It's the Winter Solstice.

After today, in the North, the days will slowly lengthen. Spring will come.

It's a time when our ancestors marked the defeat of darkness with celebrations; so important they created a magnificent device to pinpoint the day.

The light will return. Happy Solstice all! ❤️
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ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social
It's not just Gaza where the US, UK, France and others have turned hypocrisy into war crimes

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Children executed and women raped in front of their families as M23 militia unleashes fresh terror on DRC
First-hand accounts from victims of unthinkable violence paint a gruesome picture of the brutality sweeping the central African country. How long is the West prepared to look away?
www.theguardian.com
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econgeo.bsky.social
I swear...this talk was given BEFORE the Musk takeover of DOGE/valley takeover of the White House.
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literarypearls.bsky.social
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke
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by Naomi Hossain — Reposted by: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

soasdevelopment.bsky.social
📌 Join us on January 7th at @soasuni.bsky.social for a talk by Professor Sari Hanafi, chaired by Gilbert Achcar.

📍SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre & Zoom
📅 January 7th at 5pm GMT

Info and registration➡️: shorturl.at/BVKaa
@naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social
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yorkshirevicmeld.bsky.social
A Happy Winter Solstice to you all. Time to celebrate It’s the shortest day of the year and from tomorrow the days get longer, enjoy your extra minute of daylight
a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree
ALT: a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree
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postalpathsguy.bsky.social
As it's Christmas... a welcome friend awaits on the postbox at Boot, Eskdale in Cumbria. #PostboxSaturday
A robin sits atop a postbox
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robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere.

The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.

Fiat lux!

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Good morning-let’s hope for more days like this ….taken on the banks of Loch Lomond
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0hbetave.bsky.social
Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
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dlgenealogist.bsky.social
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
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by David Murakami Wood — Reposted by: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

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US billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany the country's savior reut.rs/3P9k5TD
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration as an outside adviser, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
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alexneve.bsky.social
She looked us all in the face.
Gisèle Pelicot has allowed us all to shout out loud: she did it, and we can do it. Gisèle Pelicot is us | Judith Godrèche
The denial of Gisèle’s humanity by her rapists is the denial of violence done to every woman. At her side, we can now look the world in the eye, says actor Judith Godrèche
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

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I stand with the thousands of Teamsters workers across the country who are striking over Amazon's refusal to bargain.

Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.
Teamsters Union Launches 'Largest Strike Against Amazon in US History' | Common Dreams
The Teamsters launched "the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce giant's unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers and warehouse…
www.commondreams.org
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Had the chance to teach the Banker Ladies film earlier this semester. Students loved thinking about mutualist and grassroots forms of community finance. Thrilled there is now this wonderful book! Congrats @carolinehossein.bsky.social #solidarityeconomy #communityfinance
Caroline Shenaz H. on LinkedIn: #solidarity #feminist #utpress
My new book 2024 The Banker Ladies is on the #Solidarity Economy and its out. Historian and Prof Afua Cooper, PhD wrote the Foreword - so grounded and…
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
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afterdinnerconversation.com
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
—Sylvia Plath—
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econgeo.bsky.social
Learning Disobedience in African Studies...Excellent talk by Keynote by Patricia Daley. You may also wanna check out the rich archive of the Cluster "AfricaMultiple" on youtube (www.youtube.com/@africamulti...). #geosky #geo #geography #socialtheory #afripolsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mR...
Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Patricia Daley
YouTube video by Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
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by Daniela Gabor — Reposted by: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

danielagabor.bsky.social
when your plan is to get BlackRock to rebuild Britain, even the FT is to your left.
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drbethkitson.bsky.social
In awe of Gisèle Pelicot.

Thinking of her and all survivors today.
court sketches of Gisèle Pelicot, pictured as she listened to the verdicts and sentences being read out this morning. court sketches of Gisèle Pelicot, pictured as she listened to the verdicts and sentences being read out this morning.
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afterdinnerconversation.com
"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

~Kurt Vonnegut
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ednewtonrex.bsky.social
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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by Jamie Peck — Reposted by: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

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A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space

blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
Ideational geographies workshop
blogs.ubc.ca
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xinyang6699.bsky.social
Latest study on evaluating the multifactorial BOADICEA model, implemented in CanRisk (www.canrisk.org), for predicting 10-year breast cancer risks in the prospective #UKBiobank cohort, from our @antonis02.bsky.social group, published in JNCI
doi.org/10.1093/jnci...
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Evaluating the performance of the BOADICEA model in predicting 10-year breast cancer risks in UK Biobank
AbstractBackground. The BOADICEA model predicts breast cancer risk using cancer family history, epidemiological and genetic data. We evaluated its validity
doi.org
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rvermapuri.bsky.social
Congratulations Oxfam GB for the new discussion paper on regional feminist perspectives on moving beyond GDP, with inputs from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. So important to have these perspectives from the Global South!
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#GlobalSouth
Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives - Oxfam Policy & Practice
In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic ...
policy-practice.oxfam.org
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by Mariana Mazzucato — Reposted by: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

mazzucatom.bsky.social
My recent work on Economics of the #CommonGood offers a reframing of economics to focus as much on the ‘how’ as the ‘what’.

I recently organised an event at the Vatican to discuss this approach with PM Mia Mottley & @pontifexeng.bsky.social

Watch the full film here: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtF
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