🚨COUNTER PROTEST: Defend Refugees! Stop the far-right! 📍 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle 🕦 11:30am 🗓️ Saturday 6th September Join the counter protest and help to stop the anti-migrant racism whipped up by the far right. #StopTheFarRight #NoPasaran

Two fingers to #WesStreeting. Victory to #BMAResident Doctors.

Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it. This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record. This is not how a democracy behaves. We will not be silenced.

A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.

The government’s disability cuts could breach equality law due to their “devastating” impact on women’s dignity, experts warn.  The new rules won’t take into account menstruation or some women’s extra toilet needs.  My story in tomorrow’s paper: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee. Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us. Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.

Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained. They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N

Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds. This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg. Seabird peer-pressure can be intense. (📷: Robert F. Bukaty)

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Today is the 500th anniversary of the execution, following extensive torture, of Thomas Müntzer, a radical theologian and leading revolutionary figure in the German Peasants' War.

Thousands to mobilise for Friday's megapicket as Birmingham strike enters eighth week morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thou... #Birmingham #Megapicket #StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike

On the 04 May 1978 racists murdered 25-year-old clothing machinist #AltabAli in Tower Hamlets. Racism is a murderous ideology. Unity is the key to fighting racism. #NeverAgain. #RIP.

This week's podcast features Ian Rintoul looking at how the Labor-style SPD has paved the way for the rise of the far right in Germany and drawing lessons for the federal election in Australia.

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Looking forward to facilitating this collective discussion of how women could design cities - Friday next week at 6.30pm @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/authorsbookmarks-dr-may-east-what-if-women-designed-the-city-tickets-1301081843819

In need of a good Shag today? We are here to help. This is the Heard Island Shag, an endemic bird only found in Heard and McDonald Island. We have about 1000 breeding pairs, depending on weather and food conditions. May the rest of your week be full of gregarious Shags!

New Dundee University plan scales back job cuts www.bbc.com/news/article... @ducuuo.bsky.social says it’s due to UCU pressure

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

Crows nest made of coat hangers elzo-meridianos.blogspot.com/2014/05/nido...

NEWS: West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley, who is suffering from the early stages of black lung disease, is suing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the admin’s misguided and harmful gutting of the NIOSH facility in Morgantown, WV westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/23/j...

Toxic masculinity isn’t a concern here, and we don’t view empathy as toxic. For centuries, adult males have huddled together, protecting the colony’s most vulnerable, giving their future a chance amidst the raging storms that threaten them.

“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Tributes to Colm Bryce socialistworker.co.uk/obituaries/t...

📣 May Day Rally 📣 We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London. All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace. #ThriveNotSurvive

@alexcallinicos.bsky.social in @socialistworker.bsky.social: Why the far right exploits #transphobia: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Need this every time

Trans women are women, resist the Supreme Court ruling 👇The Supreme Court ruling will only embolden the right wingers who want to attack trans+ and women’s rights socialistworker.co.uk/lgbt/trans-w...

🚨 STOP REFORM UK IN THE NORTH TYNESIDE MAYORAL ELECTION! On the 1st May North Tyneside will elect its next mayor, make sure you don't vote for Reform UK's candidate: John Falkenstein. Reform are dangerous and divisive! Don't vote for them!

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

Three good Marxist reads about the Trump tariff shock. First chronologically (he adds modestly), my piece written before the announcement, which stands up pretty well ... 1/ socialistworker.co.uk/comment/alex...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

I'm out this morning in Manchester with @unitetheunion.bsky.social members on their picket line at Capita. Capita is a multimillion-pound company that can fully afford to make workers a fair pay offer but has chosen not to in order to boost their profits. This is about greed not need. 😡

Well done to former colleagues and comrades at Durham

BREAKING: Mass protests form in Nuuk Greenland to Protest Against US Attempts to Take Over.

The #WeAreThe632 campaign shares the stories from staff who are already being affected by the proposed job cuts. Murray Simpson @murraysimpson.bsky.social has worked and studied at the University of Dundee for almost 40 years! You can listen to more stories from staff here youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee. Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee. Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632 youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Here are some nice mushrooms

BREAKING: We're outside BP's HQ because they've just announced they will be ditching their green pledges and our lives, in favour of short term profits from expanding for even more OIL and GAS. Big Oil is killing us!! BP's greed is literally setting fire to our only home.

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

update on the cyber truck in my area that keeps getting vandalized: the owner has covered it in these stickers which are hilarious but also categorically untrue

Today's Shrove Tuesday (pancake day to us heathens). Remember the German peasants, who 500 years ago in 1525, under the guise of distributing Shrovetide cakes, organised to overthrow their lords in the German Peasants' War. 📕Keep an eye out for my forthcoming book on #bauernkrieg #bauernkrieg1525

Come and have a chat with us on our friendly picket line today at the front of the Tower Building from 8-11am. Fresh pizza from around 10:45 courtesy of @dejanstjepanovic.bsky.social and his pizza oven. #SaveHE #NoJobCuts

"We won't fight another rich man's war" says the banner of these Vietnam veterans protesting US imperialism's involvement in Vietnam.

Schrödinger's university finances

A reminder for these times.

there is no clearer universal across academic institutions than the dysfunction of a university website — not a day goes by that I don't think of this xkcd