Instead of a Marking boycott, staff at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social are being forced to not work because management are issuing a 100% pay deduction to those participating in ASOS. This is absolutely shameful. I support @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social in their fight to keep the soul of this institution.

Starmer was elected on promises of improving a country in shambles, and what he has proceeded to do is ignore the most pressing concerns to instead fixate on a petty, cruel, and fundamentally inhuman agenda of scapegoating immigrants, policing bathrooms, and tearing away support from the vulnerable.

CW sexual violence and drugs in link Baby’s first time being cited! 😱 I feel like a Proper Academic™️ now And what an excellent article to be cited in, too — in fact, I look forward to drawing upon it in my own work in the future! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#MutualAid call out! My friend Ethan is a disabled trans man living in the States whose welfare is getting fucked around so he has *no* income. He’s also diabetic so it’s crucial he can eat nutritious meals. I donated $25 today (name removed as it’s a deadname), can anyone (partially) match?

Not wanting to call any one person out, this is a loving call in - Gender Recognition Certificates are not just for trans people. Intersex people wrongly assigned a gender at birth that does not match their lived reality also use GRCs to alter their birth certificates.

CW sexual violence in thread This case, as Finn demonstrates, shows the great disparity between how crimes are treated, with sexual violence being treated as essentially an “honest mistake” in comparison to other crimes. The so-called criminal justice system does not protect victim-survivors.

DWP manipulates its own benefit fraud and error data — and the public's perception of the issue — when the vital figures have hardly changed By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

IF anyone wanted to get me something for my birthday, would you consider any size donation to my good good pals’ GFM? multiple health emergencies (human and animal), car breakdown, flooding 😵‍💫 all on top of life just being so expensive for us disabled folk shares also so appreciated! #MutualAid

Reading older ethnography methods books has me arguing with the author in the margins (they had the cheek to say anthropology “contributed very little directly to colonial domination” 🙃)

"...liberalism is the conception of freedom within the State just as anarchism is its conception beyond it..." Albert Meltzer, Black Flag (1974)

Life update for Elle: On a lovely holiday to Athens (which I can barely afford, especially as I didn’t account for immense inflation of certain things due to the CoL crisis), so of course I’m having a 2-day fibro flare that’s stopped me doing things 🙃

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Had a really good supervision the other day! I’ve finally settled on what method I’m doing, and it’s all basically come together nicely while being a way for me to crip scholarship by doing something accessible to me: digital ethnography! Really excited to get into it from next academic year!

I have family events coming up soon So there’ll be the inevitable questions about what I study after me saying I’m a PhD student And when I say “cultural studies” it’s never enough of a description for folks So I get to see in real time the light die in their eyes when I say “sexual violence” 🙃

CW sexual violence This is exactly why any work to end sexual violence needs to be anti-carceral. The prison is a site of mass sexual violence, implicitly backed by an industrial complex that does not care what happens within those buildings so long as it makes money and their image is protected.

2026 basically

I had been feeling disconnected from my PhD as a process recently, so it made research difficult, but I’ve just chewed my mum’s ear off for an hour about my dreams and my thoughts on methods and what they might reveal, and now I’m feeling totally reinvigorated! Finishing 2 chapters let’s goooo

she was queer. she was married to a woman. they were raising a child together. her wife was literally right there, she witnessed it.

CW csam

The murder of Renee Nicole Good also demonstrates another obvious and terrible truth that the Movement for Black Lives have tried to tell America about state violence: there's never been a such thing as a perfect victim

An important thread on how Greenland is an Inuit country currently occupied by Denmark and thus seen as a site of conquest by Trump

it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus

The U.S. has an extensive and bloody history of forcing regime change in Latin America, which is what makes this a continuation rather than an exception. But the lack of obfuscation involved is pretty stunning. They’re trying to equate this to acting on a warrant internal to the U.S.

We're alive to love things, learn things, and make things. That's it. That's our whole task in our short bright flash of life. Love, learn, and create. The more love, learning, and making stuff you put in the world - the love, harmony, beauty, justice, compassion and mercy of existence - the better.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Angelina Jolie in front of the Rafah crossing in the Gaza Strip

CW graphic descriptions of sexual violence Colonialism is rapacious. People often use the language of rape to frame what is done to the land, but there is very literal sexual violence perpetrated during colonialist war, oppression, and expansion in a systematic manner. This is just one example.

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CW genocidal transphobia As the UK (and elsewhere) descends further and further into outright fascism, we will see even more of these mask-off takes. These people do not have any legitimate concern for women’s rights or safety. They are simply genocidal.

Yeah this is a good point - it's very small numbers of people as a portion of the country which is great, except for some reason our media and political class have decided that they are objectively the most important segment of the electorate and must be appeased at all costs.

Between the pedo president and an economy built entirely atop the teen-suicide robot we're really being shown how structurally central oppression of children is to the whole system

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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Merry Christmas! I promise I’m not quite as miserable as I appear here Featuring my new gay shirt* (I received 2 but this was the gayest) You also can’t see how glittery my face is in the photo but I can assure you the new sparkling powder I received is extremely OTT when used as a highlighter

I beat the shit out of the ghost of christmas past the second he threw back the curtains of my canopy bed. not tonight, you ghastly motherfuckers

If i may humbly suggest a couple 6. Dont forget to use alt text its helpful and makes bsky accessible. 7. Theres a setting you can change that makes you need to do alt text for all picutres and gifs before posting so turn that on. 8. Put hash tags in your alt text that shows up in search

Military history devoid of social, cultural, diplomatic, literary etc forms of history is essentially meaningless. Knowing what soldiers and armies did in battle without understanding why they did them, the cultures that produced them, or the industries that supported them is pointless.

Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed. The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message. We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.

Btw the DWP decided not to pay my UC 2 days ago, because they’re reviewing my finances and I dared ask for an extension due to waiting for things to arrive and because it’s badly triggered my anxiety. This is after them saying I “have nothing to be distressed over”. Merry Christmas, state style.

If I’m not listening to this rendition at Christmas, I have it stuck in my head on loop Honestly if you’ve never heard it before so have a listen. Best Christmas song ever, who doesn’t want to be haunted by the lullaby voice of a fae prince? youtu.be/u2cGdgK8Hgk?...

When I was a lot younger and blonde, a guy said something to the effect of “blue eyes and blonde hair? Hitler would’ve thought you were perfect!” Apparently that was a compliment?? He didn’t understand why I wasn’t enthralled and dropping my knickers for him. White cishet men are a bizarre breed

Greta Thunberg knows how to wield her celebrity well and I’ve got a lot of respect for that. There was barely any, if any at all, mainstream media coverage of the hunger strikers til today. C4 news, for example, covered her arrest on the 7pm news — and thus had to include the reason for her protest.

“I don’t think about the past when a cat hops in my lap. I don’t think of what I should or could have done. I don’t think about courts or life sentences or parole boards. What comes to mind is peace, and a sense that everything is going to be OK.”

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

notice how she wasn't even supporting palestine action. she was supporting the hunger strikers.

Palestine Action hunger strikers launch legal action against UK government https://aje.io/iisss1