🌊Call for Proposals🌊 south/south festival of ideas: anti-colonial & anti-imperial currents in s.e.a. & oceania We’re seeking workshops, reading circles, public lectures & film screenings. May 2026 • free • online+hybrid • decentralised • self-organised www.southsouthmovement.org/anticolonial...

BREAKING: Israeli forces have opened fire on a young Palestinian man near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/72upo8

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship. History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Cause of Death: Severe burn.

The new Aussie critique of the Cass Review does not pull its punches about its failures, & makes the point that "gender-critical beliefs" should be declared. Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them. archive.is/AqUGz#select...

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe. I'm horrified. I'm angry. A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

foreigners, coming over here, taking our jobs

Research shows that bilingualism confers cognitive benefits so these children generally do better at school on average. Incidentally, this is also why children in Britain should spend more time on learning other languages

Yet another Australian Commonwealth Government fiasco: The @Deloitte scandal discredits both this high (taxpayer) paid consultant and AI (artificial intelligence). Before it was cut and paste. Now AI has been exposed making stuff up. False/fraudulent. Elizabeth Knight/SMH 👇

Proof whatever the author's intentions, a reader can miss them.

Great thread. Over-correction has been likely, as many of us have been warning.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity in the first half of this year - driven largely by China and other poorer countries www.bbc.com/news/article...

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

In other news, residents of Handsworth complained of seeing a complete and utter twat.

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be. Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

🇳🇱 At noon today in Rotterdam, the city’s air raid sirens sounded their monthly test: 1 min. and 26 seconds echoing across the Netherlands. Hundreds of demonstrators dressed in red timed their march across the Erasmus Bridge and back with the warning test, forming a living red line against Israel...

People often shit on Birmingham (as they do many cities) for a list of reasons that starts with classism and ends with racism.

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

I went to a literature festival event today and was very aware of being the only non-white face in a large tent not normally an issue, but very aware of it now, each time someone seemed to look at me, thanks to this kind of language becoming 'legitimate concerns'

The international refugee protection system is effectively on its last legs. Ukrainians will get their status extended in most European countries, but beyond that we’re looking at the end of asylum as we know it.

Good morning ☀️

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

📌𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘁! 📌 How do career patterns in multi-level political systems work? 📰 Take a look at our latest 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 “𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/frfs20/3... #poltics #career #pakistan #argentina #russia #spain #nigeria

Like many scholars, Trump (2025) argues that the dynamics in Palestine are one of a violent settler-colonial project, and rejects the idea of a symmetrical "conflict"

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Citizens preventing masked thugs from kidnapping people on the street. This is what it's come to.

EXCLUSIVE: At least 20 incidents linked to anti-migrant protests, racism and the far right in the last two months have exposed rising political tensions across Scotland They include attacks on mosques, hotels, alleged assaults – and the jailing of a neo-Nazi for slashing a student with a knife

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Uk government reached the “harassing lawyers who win cases against us” stage of opression. “Fahad is a senior solicitor specialising in cases involving national security and has a strong track record of holding the British government to account”

Heavy rains continue to disrupt rescue operations in Himalayan nation as authorities struggle to respond to the crisis.

Police told women removing flags they were “causing trouble” – while ignoring the mob surrounding them. Story and video here ⤵️. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/

There was an arson attack at Peacehaven Mosque last night. The hatred & division in our communities has to stop. Once again, thanks to our emergency services.

stark images of global heating

"Swans on Lake Annecy" - 1890 Designer - Albert Besnard Master glassmaker - Henri Carot From the vestibule of the mansion of Henry Lerolle (painter), 20 avenue Duquesne, Paris. Now @museeorsay.bsky.social #Paris #StainedGlassSunday

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Was curious about JFK’s health so I asked google. TIL he was pregnant in 1960 but only put on 15-20lbs

There is no need to compare ICE to a foreign group when the Klan—a home grown group of masked men who terrorized communities of color—is right there for comparison.

Sounds a brilliant idea to import this policy to the UK...

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.