Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Crafting my protest in prep for tomorrow's pocket line at Sheffield University. #NoRedundancies @sheffielducu.bsky.social

www.channel4.com/programmes/n... don't miss watching this very important and beautiful Oscar winning documentary @jvp.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social #peaceinpalestine #stopgazagenocide

“What begins as frontier violence – physically invading and then shooting one’s way forward – is reprised as military training and then as leisure: shooting and speeding over the land are still central forms of recreation out here.” Rebecca Solnit on American manifest destiny [and football]

Zero point to being an academic unless we are resisting the current state of HE every single day.

Pride comes before a fall, yet a fool fails the lesson, bragging lightheartedly about the depth of the plummet! Justin Welby boasting about the frenetic nature of his all-important timetable & the size of his "head" isn't the flex he thinks it is. www.channel4.com/news/absolut...

“States that continue to transfer arms to Israel at this time must know they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and are at risk of becoming complicit in genocide." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The Anerican Presbyterians are at it again.

The techno fascists have built a belief structure where they are the naturally superior beings and anyone who is not them are subhuman. Yarvin and others within the dark enlightenment have for years illuminated their belief that they are gods amongst mere mortals. Literal ubermensh.

I care about assisted dying but maybe we should be talking about all the forced dying as a matter of priority. #FreePalestine

Imagine your life, everything dear to you. Maybe a spouse, maybe kids, your family & friends, all the special things/places u share. Hold onto this world in your mind.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes committed in Gaza. As a result, the two will be unable to travel to at least 124 countries. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-has-final…

An excellent and very personal article on the weaponisation of antisemitism within academia and the chilling of pro-Palestinian voices that comes with it.

Francesca Albarese: "international law is on a knife's edge." www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/un...

Major red flag that following the publication of the Makin report, the @churchofengland.bsky.social has not called for an institution-wide period of mourning, reflection and repentance.

Don’t stop talking about Palestine. Don’t stop organizing. Don’t stop fighting.

What a crucial time to be in an HE trade union. Eternally grateful for @sheffielducu.bsky.social and especially my School of English friends. In times like these, you truly find out what stuff people are made of.

How to describe neo-liberalism in one headline? Stop this incessant profiteering. Nationalise water. Regulate housing. Build efficient and sustainable affordable and council homes.

Keep it going. Let’s see how much reach this place has.

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Israel has just committed a horrific massacre in northern Gaza, bombing a building in Beit Lahia where more than 70 people were sheltering, killing 50 of them, with the read injured or missing.

Redundancies loom at University of Sheffield over £50m funding gap as staff pass vote of 'no confidence' www.thestar.co.uk/education/re...

"We should never expect forgiveness for what we have allowed to happen in Palestine."

I can't stop thinking about Palestinian children. Nor can I stop thinking about the relationship between Israel's American-assisted massacre of children & the degrees of callousness towards human suffering that we accumulate every single time we hit or otherwise humiliate a child.

After issuing threats on provision of aid, US decides there will be no consequences for Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/after-issuing-threats-provision-aid-us-decides-no-consequences-israel

DON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE 🇵🇸

America's wilful ignorance protects its myth of innocence. www.instagram.com/reel/DCUYSLx...

"So, this is the part in my speech where I am expected to equivocate to protect myself, my ‘neutrality’, my intellectual standing .. to lapse into moral equivalence ..Ah well. Everybody is terrible, what can one do? Let’s go shopping instead…" www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Linguist: quantities are described with regard to a reference state; thus we can efficiently convey whether the cup was more recently full or empty

Any academics out there who've attended a covid safe conference this year? I used to be a regular conference goer but can't risk the increased exposure. #LongCovid

Maybe I’m weird but I would think this would be an opportunity for Biden to make the difference between the two of them explicit and condemn the genocide in Gaza.

"The longer a woman works at Apple, the larger the gap in compensation she receives compared to similarly situated men," the proposed class action alleged. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

My latest book on Christofascism is now available as an audiobook on Youtube - Trailers also available here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk...

The audio-version of my latest book, No Love in War, is nearing 2,500 plays. For those interested in learning something about life in American Christo-fascism, but esp for survivors trying to make sense of what happened to you, this book is for you. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nol...

"To be let go is not the same as leaving." Part 1 of the Epilogue of my latest book, No Love in War, is out today in audio form. This episode and tomorrow's feature the brand new haunting single "Aida," by the very talented Bomethius. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nol...

Prompted by a lawsuit filed against a man & a church denomination connected to my childhood, I've begun looking in more detail into the very disturbing world of international "adoption."

The story of Christofascism begins today in earnest. Featuring quotes from "God vs. Caesar: Taking Steps to Protect Church Schools," by John W. Whitehead (1981), founder of the Rutherford Institute. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nol...

The first episode is out Monday! Later episodes in the book's first section to be released daily. This podcast will be of interest to all interested in #Christofascism and the euphemisms it hides within: #ChristianNationalism #ChristianReconstruction #ChristianDominionism

I've tested positive for covid again, for the 8th time. The toll this continues to take is immeasurable.

Announcing! The audiobook version of No Love in War (MayflyBooks) will soon be released in #OpenAccess form through Spotify. Featuring the new, haunting single, 'Borrowed Time,' by Bomethius. You can listen to the trailer here: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nol...

"at the same time the Palestinian prisoners were being released, Israel was detaining people at its highest rate in years. In the wks since 7 October, the number of people in administrative detention - already at a 30-year high of 1,300 - has shot up to more than 2,800" www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-m...

What wonderful students we have at Sheffield. Their activism and integrity and curiosity is wonderful to witness

Aggressive pie recipe.

1. Stop bombing children. 2. Don’t kill journalists. 3. Don’t bomb hospitals. 6. Don’t bomb ambulances. 7. Don’t do ethnic cleansing. 10. Don’t cut off people’s water. 13. Don’t bomb UN staff. 14. Don’t do apartheid. 15. Stop lying constantly. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/fifteen-th...

🎵 Take a look, it's my right hook 🎵

"the American phenomenon dubbed 'Christian nationalism' is only the local species of a global genus ... Some may view the umbrella term “Christofascism” to be too extreme. However, without radical labels, the true nature of the phenomenon will continue to languish in euphemisms"

Our next online research seminar is on 13 November at 2pm UK time, featuring Dr Valerie Hobbs (Sheffield). Please email Dr Meredith J C Warren for the link to join.

Reminded last night that post-Covid headache is very real and very terrible. americanmigrainefoundation.org/resource-lib...