On Israel's routine use of sexual violence against Palestinians Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Every woman on earth who has ever visited a doctor nodding along here in furious recognition.

Solar is the most liberating technology in human history. A vast force for energy independence and autonomy. We’re just getting started.

A little #MondayMorningMystery! 🔎 We've been contacted by someone hoping for help to identify the church in this happy wedding picture. Produced by early 20thC Edinburgh photographers the Thomson Bros, the brick-built church is most likely in Edinburgh or the Lothians. Does anyone recognise it?

🧵Spotted on Mother's Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: Three tall and gangly teens (13 to 17?) are sniffing scented candles in a hardware store with an air of impatient seriousness. Comparing notes on what Mum'd like, randomly emitting HUGE honking sneezes that sound like geese backfiring. (1)

Pulling up the bins at 6.45 this morning. Happy new week everyone.

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund drastically increased its investments in arms, tech and banking companies contributing to the Gaza genocide in 2025, risking “serious breaches of international law” according to pro-Palestine advocacy groups. www.deepcutnews.com/p/future-fun...

Computers living permanently in one room of the house instead of us carrying them around in our pocket all day.

Is there a good source on queer Japanese cultures in the 80s and 90s?

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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

The Immeasurable Endurance of the Women of Gaza. Women here have become both the primary caretakers and providers, sustaining their families in the absence of husbands, fathers, and sons. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

This election signals a crisis of the British state. By me: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

It will never not boil my piss the way Labour talks as though Greens have ‘stolen’ the votes they believe they are entitled to, rather than acknowledging they have lost those votes to the Greens (and others) through their own appalling policies and decision making.

I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.

What a team 💚

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The account to follow today for your hopeful glimmers 💚

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What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Is there an agreed upon hashtag for UK election results?

Was walking the dog and saw a locksmith van turn into the driveway of an aged care facility at 8.30am and it feels like there might be a story there 😂

We got told about a data breach yesterday morning (in Tasmania) but it was still functioning at that point; looks like it has escalated overnight.

Wish I had the chance to vote for Kate or one of the other fabulous candidates from the Scottish Greens and GPEW today! Go you good things ✊🏻💚

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Over 2 years ago Channel 4 News did a story about 2 Gazan kids - Rafeef & - Rafiq stuck under siege in Al Shifa. Rafiq was evacuated out shortly after for medical care. Rafeef has only just got out this week & has yet to make it to Cairo where her family are. gofund.me/b54b63b9a

Over 2 years ago Channel 4 News did a story about 2 Gazan kids - Rafeef & - Rafiq stuck under siege in Al Shifa. Rafiq was evacuated out shortly after for medical care. Rafeef has only just got out this week & has yet to make it to Cairo where her family are. gofund.me/b54b63b9a

I’ve genuinely lost track of how many that is now, but I’ve just had my annual Covid booster. Thank you science 💪🏻💉

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Isn't it funny how British journalists can do this kind of analysis of what time of day Zack Polanski likes tweets, but totally missed Peter Mandelson defrauding the public for years until the Americans accidentally dropped him in it.

There's no debate which is improved by the intervention of Tony Blair. This is ableism. It frames anxiety, depression and ADHD as things people just need to get on with, with no acknowledgement of how damaging that attitude is, or how hard it can be to be recognised and diagnosed in the first place.

"No one is price gouging! Profit margins are really tight! It's a conspiracy theory!" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

Can anyone in VA tell me if your Supreme Court leans one way or another (left or right)?

It's time once again for Bluesky's favorite game, Try Not To Have A Visit From the FBI Tomorrow!

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If only there were some alternative, cheaper technology that didn't burn the Earth or depend on an increasingly unreliable fuel source...

My ridiculous doggo met the automated white line painting machine on the uni oval today and once she’d realised it wasn’t a threat she was very confused about why it didn’t want to be friends with her 💀

And COVID. Any discussion/research project on generational health repercussions is not a serious one if it doesn’t mention COVID and Long COVID

Kiddo and I went to get our flu shots this morning and when we checked in at the counter, the lovely pharmacist said “I’ll just let the vaccinator know you’re here.” And then not 30 seconds later that same person stepped out from the counter and called us in because HE WAS THE VACCINATOR.

Last day of term tomorrow and my kid is very excited because he and his friendship group are heading into the city for lunch at Liverpool Kebabs, and he’s going to experience his first ever halal snack pack 😂❤️

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Another absolutely wild #politas story 😭

"Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide."

Had a coffee at the waterfront this morning. How lucky are we to live in this spectacular city? ❤️🙏🏻

If Orban is ousted, Hungary also becomes a test case for what policies work to undo authoritarian entrenchment in state institutions. Provides many lessons for us here if/when Trump's faction loses control.