Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!

Did I miss a meeting where all the people who spent the first year of this murderous slaughter screaming at us to shut up about genocide got together, and decided “everyone” had been silent for too long

This - by an EHRC Commissioner - is a *defence* of the impact of the Supreme Court judgement. The impact is obviously, and quite deliberately, to exclude trans people from public spaces, and to claim that it's fine, legally, politically and morally. Absolutely shameful.

The violent rage against trans people because they won't roll over and die is quite something isn't it

Here is Graham Linehan calling for people to physically attack trans women who dare to continue using public facilities You know "Gender Critical" people are never going to stop getting more and more hateful and extreme I'm not going to stop even if he threatens to kill or rape me

Katy is right about this, as usual, and further, what this ruling does it basically make it unsafe to be a non-feminine woman, or one who doesn't meet the beauty standard generally, in public. It's a movement to push women back into the domestic sphere.

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Jon Cruddas is a weird character in all of this www.politicshome.com/news/article...

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

It's really pathetic how much of fascism is just Daddy Issues

Find this piece more useful as a guide to how elite liberals are going to accommodate themselves thepointmag.com/politics/las...

More planning nonsense from the government. - people have a democratic right to a say about land use change - this will lead to worse outcomes environmentally & ecologically - endless economic growth is a dubious goal in a world where we are hitting limits www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Great analysis of what comes after the square chuangcn.org/2025/01/unha...

Passing through my home town and I'm sad to report that a lot of the houses with union jacks out the front also have big Christmas light displays

something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens

Once again here to say that just “bulldozing the planning system” won’t solve the housing crisis. It’ll funnel yet more profit into developers pockets & we will be left with unaffordable & inaccessible homes

Waiting for a train in a station bar full of people who don't know how to drink. Christmas is coming

Pathetic. I'd cheer once he's gone if it wasn't for Farage or someone equally vile taking over after him

As I hope we made quite clear: rent controls are vulnerable even once instituted. There are a legion of hawkish lobbyists trying to water down Scotland's Housing Bill before it even gets out the gates: it should go without saying, if you're not already a member, JOIN @living-rent.bsky.social !

Enjoying Malm's geography takes in Fossil Capital

Good morning

Enjoying listening to Shirin Rai talk about her new book Depletion

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

oh you're hanging out with friends again?? ok well.. enjoy your echo chamber. i will be out with my enemies having a productive and intellectually enriching night of angrily stating and restating our standpoints on today's most important issues

Too many posts here calling him the orange emperor

Please don't be shit, I'd like this to last longer than mastodon

Hey @aaron.bsky.team, I’m a Palestinian elected official and have been working to get my colleagues over here. Really like this place but structural discrimination against Palestinians is a deal breaker. Please fix this👇

Insta's bad for chatting so I'm here as well