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I remember years ago being really shocked by an ableist comment about her students that stock posted on social media, amid the transphobia. Well anyway now she’s publishing her negative views on disability in newspapers. Yet another “gender critical” unapologetically attacking women. #feminism

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Solidarity with all trans and non-binary people today as the UK government brings into force the discriminatory and dangerous EHRC Code of Practice. The code, and the interpretation of the Equality Act that underpins gives license to segregation, harassment and violence. We must keep fighting.

Springer nature are a disaster. Strongly suggest boycotting their journals. They also publish racist analyses in their journals and refuse to do anything about it. This is even worse if it’s supposed to be open access. Bet the authors don’t get a share of any ad revenue

Anita Williams@catanita.bsky.social · last mo.

What is this new capitalistic hellscape the #academicpublishing industry is now enforcing?! To be able to read a paper that authors have paid to be published, and needs a subscription to be read, I have to either consent to trackers or pay for my privacy?! #academicchatter #research #MedSky #IDEpi

Dang they really got a category for everything

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

There may be some clues here, who knows? “Fiona Cottrell’s son… had offered money-laundering services on the dark web and subsequently wrote a book called How to Launder Money” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Police investigate £500,000 Reform donations from mother of fraudster who backed Farage

George Cottrell’s mother, Fiona, at centre of criminal inquiry over potential evasion of restrictions on donations

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Joke candidate farage up against binface. And even getting bad press from the telegraph??

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

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Andy Burnham has so far ✅said he supports the vile and hateful Mahmood reforms and briefed he may keep her as Home Sec ✅ said he want to use more migration detention centres ✅refused to describe what happened in Gaza as a genocide ✅ supported the EHRC’s segregation charter

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The thing about this is I don’t really care about who we listen to per se, it can be from any region. Just please drop the social conservatism and stop trying to slash welfare. If it’s going to circle back to that stuff I don’t want to hear it, I’ve heard enough

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Sorry, hang on, the former Ofcom chair Michael Grade stated ‘the white majority’s voice must be protected’?!

So the UK government didn’t leave X when it produced a deluge of abuse images including CSAM and now Starmer is lecturing us on child safety? What about holding social media companies to account?

As long as the government remains on the fascist enabling X nobody can take anything they say seriously with regards to social media and safety

The British government should stop policing young people’s social media and start holding social media platforms accountable for how they foster harm against various groups.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads

In the broadest sense, the multi-faceted attack on trans lives is being litigated by a very small number of people who can’t accept the reality that trans people exist, have always existed, will always exist, and need some medical support and social acceptance in order to thrive.

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

The decision to conduct this review is based on politics and ideology, not science. Decades of gold-standard scientific evidence have overwhelmingly demonstrated the safety of mifepristone, including when it is provided using telehealth.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3mo ago

Exclusive: The FDA has launched a safety study of the abortion pill, also known as mifepristone, a step that could pave the way for the Trump administration to restrict how it is distributed and used.

Buy your Anti fascist, pro abortion T-shirt and raise funds for the abortion support network! I’ll link the site in the next post inews.co.uk/news/farage-...

Farage paid £83k from events linked to US anti-abortion supporters

Reform says it has no plans to change abortion laws but payments raise concerns about American anti-abortion groups’ access to a party with rising influence over British politics

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@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social - you were at Oxford Pride yesterday but you haven't yet signed the motion against the trabsphobic EHRC "guidance" Why not? You can't have your cake and eat it. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @laylamoran.bsky.social thank you for attending AND signing @tacc.org.uk

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oxford Pride may have had a soggy start today, but the weather gods saw fit to bring out the sunshine for the parade. Our photographer, Roger Close, was there to take some gorgeous pictures. oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-pride...

This 👇 Never understood the idea that you are somehow a better person if you don’t immediately block fools on sight

Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid@feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

I block people who annoy me because i do not have to be annoyed on a voluntary app. Idc if you think that is weak. I do not think of you, at all.

Once again noting that the self declared “feminist” protectors of women (aka transphobes) say little to nothing about abortion rights and pal around with anti abortionists 🤔

It’s almost like all surveillance, no matter the purported use, eventually becomes an extension of the carceral state.

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This company wants to turn every school bus into a mobile license plate reader www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.

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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

Pleased we have a green incumbent in my constituency who is excellent, makes it very easy to decide how to vote. (Though I have to go home to get ID for the polling station which will add pointless friction to my day…)

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.