Frontex confirme que les garde-côtes tunisiens chassent les boat-people jusque dans les eaux libyennes pour les brutaliser. L'agence européenne paraît désapprouver ces violences, alors qu'elle en est la principale bénéficiaire : les garde-côtes🇹🇳 sont des supplétifs de l'UE financés par l'UE.

Relying on LLMs to get your diploma and is similar to forging PhD research for boosting your political career in Germany You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything. And one day, you are exposed.

Toddler : “do Witches exist?” Husband, a law professor: “of course not” Me, someone in religious studies: “well, actually…” *proceeds to listing all the Pagan and Wiccan practitioners I’ve met in my life

Erik Nielsen with another good example of why bureaucracy isn’t really Germanys main woe. The US wastes 3x the resources on healthcare admin 👀

Le scuole non sono un talk show dove viene imposto un pluralismo d'accatto perché se parla uno deve parlare anche un altro. Dov'è finita l'autonomia scolastica? Perché docenti e dirigenti non si ribellano ai diktat di un ministro reazionario?

✊ From the late 19th century, socialist movements adopted the raised fist as a symbol of unity and strength. One of the first depictions was by Hungarian artist Mihály Biró in 1912. His image of a fist emerging from factories toward parliament in Budapest visualised the power of collective action.

Gabriele Nunziati, cronista a Bruxelles, ha perso il lavoro per una domanda su Israele. La portavoce della Commissione l’aveva definita «interessante». L’agenzia Nova l’ha giudicata «sbagliata» e ha interrotto la collaborazione. Fare domande oggi è rischio.

New awareness campaign

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Gaza and Academia: repression, IHRA definition of antisemitism, educide - Seminar online now (3/11, 10:00 CET) tinyurl.com/RUPTwitch With: Aya Ashour; Collettivo Academics for Justice; Donatella Della Porta; Nicola Perugini; Federica Stagni

Happy #Halloween! This Roman miniature skeleton with flexible joints, jumps and dances when shaken. The Romans called these skeletons larva convivalis, meaning banquet ghost, and were handed out to guests at dinner parties to remind them to have fun while they were alive.

2/ In this video, meanwhile, fascist chants and shouts in praise of the Duce can be heard coming from the Meloni party’s headquarters in Parma, also used by the Brothers of Italy youth wing. The video has been recorded on October 28, the anniversary of the March on Rome.

Still way too much US news on here

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Italy, Denmark & Netherlands host meeting in Brussels on "innovative" solutions to migration issues. For "innovative" read paying Libyan militias even more to imprison & torture migrants and increased funding for the Tunisian régime to round up migrants and dump them in the desert to die.

I loved working& living in the Netherlands, but my department in Rotterdam only wanted me for teaching and did not want me to apply to grants. So I got a big and prestigious research grant but in another university and told them I was leaving and they would get 0 of my money 🤷🏻‍♀️

“Quand les mots changent, la politique change : comment le centre fait le jeu de l’extrême droite”

Would you hug Jesus? Apparently, a recent trend is using AI for posts and videos of Jesus hugging people.

The ICJ found against the United States in a contentious case against Nicaragua in 1986, proceedings which lead to the US withdrawing from the Court's compulsory jurisdiction. Here was the reported reaction of the US administration at the time:

France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

The woman who "invented" the Erasmus exchange programme, Sofia Corrado, formerly Professor of Adult Education at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, has died aged 91. She was affectionately known as "Mamma Erasmus."

If that was the case, teachers would have been made obsolete by the invention of "books"

Mainstream media in almost every Western democracy have become a big problem. Which is what happens when democratic states allow communication infrastructure to be captured by elites and billionaires.

this clip is apparently from February but evidently there may be a lesson here for who romanticizes prizes

As always. This is one of the problems of academic debate. We should ask more often “yes but WHY do you want to write something on this clear violation of the law?” My edgy opinion: the agenda and motives of academics are as important as the arguments.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Italian authorities continue to send NGO rescue ships to ports in northern Italy prolonging the agony of the injured. In this case, people suffering from severe burns were forced to spend 5 extra days at sea before being allowed ashore for hospital treatment. Pure performative cruelty.

"The [Italian] Minister of Equality of Opportunity in Meloni's government criticised school trips to Auschwitz which, according to her, unjustly associate antisemitism with the far-right".

Today officials from both Tripoli & Benghazi are visiting Frontex in Warsaw and then tomorrow the European Commission in Brussels. These people are funded by the EU to imprison and torture migrants, extort money from them and then shoot at them and throw them into the sea when they attempt to cross.

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Opponents of the Italian government - from activists to bankers - are being targeted by spyware. I wonder who may be behind this.

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Neofascisti hanno picchiato del manifestanti dopo il corteo. Guarda un po’, questo al Tg1 non lo hanno detto, i giornali di destra non ne hanno scritto e Meloni non ha condannato… che strano!

It is a deliberate policy: for two years now, Berlin’s mayor has chosen not de-escalation units but riot police – officers known for routinely unleashing extreme levels of violence against anti-genocide protesters; week after week, day after day.

A demonstration with a view.

Twice, workers in Italy went on strike against the genocide. Twice, our department suspended its lectures. Not because professors joined the strike — most didn’t — but because the administrative staff did. A reminder: neither power nor morality are the prerogative of the elites. Quite the contrary.

@giuliaevolvi.bsky.social and myself presented our paper on populism and social media in G.Meloni's election campaign at the symposium on populism here in Thessaloniki. We are happy to share this work with a different and welcoming audience.

Roma ti amo! #Gaza #GazaBus

In my experience, these are still not well-known: 1- Netanyahu’s intelligence ministry openly declared Israel’s intention to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians a few days after Oct 7.

Italian town of Santarcangelo revokes honorary citizenship granted to Mussolini 101 years ago. In 1924, 12 councillors deserted the meeting in an act of courage to defy the régime. In 2025, Fratelli d'Italia councillors deserted the meeting in an act of cowardice to show their true colours.

“Il diritto conta fino a un certo punto”. Lo ha detto il ministro Tajani e lo mette in pratica il governo israeliano: negata l’assistenza legale ai fermati della Flotilla.

"Quello che dice il diritto è importante, ma fino a un certo punto". L'avevamo intuito, ma grazie per la chiarezza. www.repubblica.it/politica/202...

El ataque de Israel contra la Flotilla Global Sumud es un crimen contra el derecho internacional. Exijimos a Israel la liberación inmediata de cualquier detenido. La UE debe romper relaciones con Israel ya.

Flotilla rossa - la mia vignetta per la prima pagina de Il Fatto Quotidiano oggi in edicola #flotilla #gaza #israele #vignetta #fumetto #umorismo #satira #ilfattoquotidiano #natangelo

26 settembre Giornata europea delle lingue. Come commentare il dettaglio che la pagina istituzionale del sito della Commissione europea sulla giornata sia in inglese e per tutte le altre lingue sia disponibile solo la traduzione automatica? translation.ec.europa.eu/get-involved...