This is urgent. We partnered with a dozen families & two displacement camps to responsively help them meet emergency needs, based on monthly contributions of as low as a dollar. Dignity & reliability as global attention vanishes. 51/75 monthly pledges. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: Emergency Fund

From the volunteers behind the Hope Giving Circle: As support dwindles for our friends in Gaza, their needs are only increasing, and it's time to answer. To continue our duty to Palestinian life, we…

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Unlike us, Gertrude Bell didn't have to worry about Microsoft Outlook to keep in touch with family and keeping track of her diary. See what Gertrude was doing, and who she was writing to on this day in history on the Gertrude Bell website: gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk/on-this-day/...

🚨 BREAKING: Oil spill closes 18 beaches in Kent We don't yet know where the oil washing up on the Kent coast is coming from, but we do know the catastrophic impact that oil pollution can have on our marine wildlife and ocean habitats 🔽 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beaches in Thanet, Kent, closed by oil spill

The source of the oil, which has closed beaches in Ramsgate and Margate, has not been identified.

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From the Leeds Library

🚨🚨NO donations for 3days. Why did you walk away when Ibrahim needed you most?Look at his frozen barefoot standing on a tattered tent while rain floods us. We are drowning in cold and fear. How can you watch him suffer and stay silent?Please,don't let us suffer alone.Donate now!🙏🏻😔💔 tinyurl.com/baraab

Aberystwyth University UCU is devastated and angry at the announcement that over 150 jobs are to be lost at Aberystwyth University. We estimate a quarter to a third of our academic staff will not be employed at the university by this time next year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aberystwyth University's £16m savings will lead to 150 job losses, says union

The university says it has to make "difficult" decisions to save £16m by the end of 2027-28.

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Aber will have lost 15% of its staff in a region that desperately needs the jobs, investment and innovation. And yet no-one is in charge, no-one has a plan, no-one will step up. No strategy, no vision, no direction, no ideas, just... nothing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aberystwyth University's £16m savings will lead to 150 job losses, says union

The university says it has to make "difficult" decisions to save £16m by the end of 2027-28.

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Little Jamal, who's diabetic, has asthma, & was injured, depends on donations to stay alive under Israel's genocidal siege, which keeps essential medicine like insulin scarce & exorbitantly costly. You can help him stay alive by sharing widely & donating (they need $200 urgently):

Every dollar counts: The Al-Hatal's Desperate Plea from Gaza

You clicked. Thank you. That simple act means the world to the Al-Hatal family, who are facing a reality most of us can barely imagine in Gaza.

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Thank you for this column, Rhiannon Cosslett. The particular version of millennial rape culture I experienced as a girl and young woman in Berlusconi’s Italy saw an even more explicit conflation of the media with politics, where silenced, beautiful young women were as present on TV as in parliament.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Why did it take so long to unmask Brand and Walliams? Because noughties culture told girls like me abuse was normal | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, director Khamal Adwan hospital in Gaza, has been held in Israeli detention since December 2024. He was tortured physically and psychologically, and his health is deteriorating. No charges have been brought against him.

Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 2y ago

How rape culture, misogyny and white patriarchy dismiss violence against women and girls, especially when committed by wealthy and influential white men (or those with the potential to become so, eg Cornell rapists) is absolutely sickening.

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 5d ago

He didn't know any better, he was a child of merely (checks notes) thirty four

Feedback to the BL survey. I haven’t even had a pass for a number of years now (babies, pandemic, lack of time to go down to London…), but I quite simply wouldn’t have been able to write my PhD without the quiet atmosphere of Humanities 1. Only last month the BL acquired AS Byatt’s archive!

Palestinians already without shelter are being hit with immense rain and cold weather, on top of increasing famine manufactured by the occupation. Please keep this in mind and donate if you can to any of the fundraisers being shared here.

Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out)@divyampersaud.com · 7d ago

Gaza municipality: “The amount of rainfall that has fallen on the city since last night until now has reached approximately 60 mm, equivalent to about 15% of the annual average.”

My soul dies as the last glimmer of light leaves my baby's eye. Gaza took his first eye, and now perpetual darkness is stealing his soul's last window.We are starving,penniless,and bleeding inside.On my knees, I scream to the world: save my boy! Verified by : molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611

university education was an amazing export industry for Britain. what a *beautiful* industry to have: trustworthy, good quality education for the world. an amazingly ethical thing to sell. and great for the country to have these extraordinary institutions successive governments have fucked it.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last wk.

As concise as it is devastating: FT editorial sets out the recent policy pressures on university finances. Still striking how little understood all of this is outside the sector www.ft.com/content/ec63...

An excellent account of the damage that has been done - and is still being done - to universities in England. (And not just England.) medium.com/@DrJRLClarke...

The UK’s University Crisis: Built on a Funding System That Works for No One

England now has the most expensive undergraduate degrees in the developed world, yet its universities are edging towards bankruptcy. This…

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This is the key point: “British universities make a more than £2,500 a year loss on every home undergraduate.”Successive governments have created a system that is far too expensive for students, while leaving universities struggling financially. It is the worst of all possible worlds.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last wk.

As concise as it is devastating: FT editorial sets out the recent policy pressures on university finances. Still striking how little understood all of this is outside the sector www.ft.com/content/ec63...

*this, *plans, this is what comes of trying to post whilst cooking dinner and putting two small children to bed

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · last wk.

please sign these petition, started by British Library workers, demanding that the okans to privatise reading rooms and outsource security services are halted. (I for one had not realised the plan included the latter: the security staff at the BL are lovely and it would be awful to see them lost)

chuffed.org/project/plea... My children and I are facing a slow death I have lost my family, my home, and everything I own.The only thing I have left in this world is my children, who are collapsing before my eyes from hunger malnutrition, and disease Please, out of humanity, help my children

Absolute cinema 🤣….the internet always delivers!

Sergey Brin is worth $284 billion. After the proposed one-time 5% wealth tax, he would have roughly $270 billion. If, after that loss, he spent $1 million every single day and never earned another cent, he would run out of money in the year 2766. Billionaires are an obscenity.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

California’s proposed billionaire tax was polling at 52% approval back in May. Tech oligarchs have spent at least $148 million to fight it. Now it polls at 42%.

Impact of Labour's anti-immigration reforms is already pretty well known. More people forced into becoming undocumented. More people made homeless. More harm to community cohesion. More potential violations of international law. They should be publishing the impact statement before implementation

So Mahmood is planning on an element of retroactivity for settlement routes. There is nothing fair about changing the rules after people have already arrived and started their visa routes.

Removal hubs, including advocating for them to be set up in Rwanda, go in practice further than previous government's implemented policies by trapping people, without any ability to seek asylum, in third countries, including ones with acknowledged human rights abuses.

And the framing, as predictable as it was, of "softening" is misleading in itself. Yes, she has scrapped some hideous bits, but the whole thing still goes further than the previous government for hostile anti-immigration policies and rhetoric. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Shabana Mahmood softens immigration plans in face of cabinet backlash

Exception for care workers will allow up to 300,000 people to apply for indefinite leave to remain after five years

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🚨 My child is in urgent danger—please don’t ignore this. My daughter is in severe pain with serious heart and breathing problems She urgently needs €180 for treatment which I cannot afford. 😭🙏 Any help or share could save her life. Please help us now. 🥺🕊️ Molly Shah ✅ chuffed.org/project/2038...

🚨 Please don’t scroll past my daughter’s pain. She is sick and needs help, but I cannot afford what she needs in Gaza. My husband is a prisoner, and I’m fighting alone for my children. Every donation, even €5, could help bring my little girl relief. 💔🫂🙏 chuffed.org/project/2045...

Hammam is a volunteer humanitarian nurse treating Gaza’s wounded since the war began. Today, his family is starving, homeless, and desperate for food. His brother has a disability and suffers from severe seizures. Please help them provide food & urgently needed medication chuffed.org/project/1844...

My brother Yazan was injured while playing and had to go to the hospital.He urgently needs medical supplies to prevent infection, but I cannot afford them alone. Please help us raise $150 for his care. Every donation, no matter how small, can protect him and ease our fears.😭 chuffed.org/project/kha