You have to love responses like this to a post by Staffordshire Police about their use of drones and planes to catch illegal off road bikes.
Dr Sarah Irving
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Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
This seems to make it very likely that God is a cat.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 2d agoVance: I’ve had moments where I felt the presence of God. A friend and I were talking about Christianity and there was this moment where a glass fell off the wall. I think an atheist would dismiss that, but it felt like God was trying to send me a message. #cdnpoli
What an excellent advertisement for bicycles and public transport
852dude@852dude.bsky.social · 7d agoThis sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.
Gary Clark Volunteers feeding sweet potatoes to the resident manatees at the Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida
the jewish state which is clearly intrinsic to jewish belief and identity going back 2,000 years sure loves to violate core halakha
Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 2d agoIsraeli planes dropped incendiary materials and set fire to forests from Kfar Hounah in Jezzine to Niha and Ain al-Tineh in the Western Bekaa on Saturday evening. Firefighting crews are still battling to contain the fire in the difficult terrain.
The Academy hopes to commission 20 discussion papers. The fee paid to authors for each is £2,500. The deadline is 16 September. Authors can be based anywhere in the world, but must be humans with demonstrable expertise.
The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 3d agoWe are commissioning discussion papers for our new international policy programme, ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’, inviting creative thinking on interconnected challenges relating to climate change, biodiversity loss, sustainability, development and wellbeing. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hH2qlA
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
Two Orkney-led PhDs available as part of North Sea Heritage project
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
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Language matters in reporting. From “legitimate concerns” to “angry, frustrated locals”, our press is downplaying racism and violence ✏️ @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
The media calls the Thetford mob ‘protestors’. That’s letting rioters off the hook
Language matters in reporting. From “legitimate concerns” to “angry, frustrated locals”, our press is downplaying racism and violence
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I was a bit disgruntled when this #cartoon didn't find a publisher, but that disappointment soon turned to delight when someone whose work I deeply respect commissioned this dip-pen and ink #redraw. Happy days. #internationalcatday #originalart
It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d agoA must-read by @daisychristo.bsky.social:
My new paper is out in @thegj.bsky.social: and asks how to build affirmative, (non)reproductive futures. What would it mean to affirm climate-related reproductive anxieties? What does climate adaptation mean for family & caring relationships? 1/3 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen a steady rise in narratives of pronatalism and demographic anxiety, while younger people are increasingly expressing reluctance to have children for reasons related to climate ...
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Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt’s at risk of being drowned out by other news, but great to see the CCC’s latest warning on climate adaptation on the front page of the Guardian. An issue that needs far more attention. Great to see @samalvis.bsky.social quoted on the case for more air con too…
the contempt for the dead, the living, the land, our history (spectacular and horrific) upon it. Just a gut punch. @refusing2forget.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Trump’s Border-Wall Construction Is Set to Bulldoze the Porvenir Massacre Site
It is considered sacred ground for the descendants of those killed in a mass execution. The border wall threatens to erase it from history.
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Water companies panic as drought worsens in UK From the new Private Eye, out now.
Another day, another Manel. And all the more disappointing as I know several of those involved all of whom should know better and frequently profess that they do. If you're asked to be on a panel, check who'll be with you and push for a diverse line up. It's not difficult.
So, the state is keen to shut down the SpyCops inquiry. Funny that. Please sign this letter, and share the link. ucpi.eaction.org.uk/consultation
Let the Home Office know your views on the spycops inquiry consultation
ucpi.eaction.org.uk
newbooksnetwork.com/survival-at-... It was such a pleasure speaking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social about his incredible work on Treblinka. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️
Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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If the NewBooksNetwork interview is anything to go by, this book is important both for its own topic and for thinking about issues such as gender and representation in other genocides, including Armenia and Palestine. And the OA version is actual in useable formats:
Chad Gibbs@chadgibbs101.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy book is the first from University of Wisconsin Press to appear with open access provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. So proud to have my work supported in this way!
Despite overwhelming backlash including by the local council, Labour has approved a £500 million ‘redevelopment’ that will include a data centre in East London. It will only have 11 ‘affordable’ homes. This is how cities get killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
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Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
A Russian drone operator deliberately hunted down a civilian market vendor in Ukraine’s Kherson.
Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance. n.pr/4wAvLmw
Lebanese who fled the Israeli invasion visit to see what's left
Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance.
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If you've signed the Exeter petition and not this one, you need to think about whether you are part of the problem:
Joanna Bourke@joannabourke.bsky.social · 3mo agoShocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
@cornellupress.bsky.social hello - do you know if this is likely to come out in paperback? 2021. Thank you! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dest...
Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe
In this unique "history from below," Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked with caring for them after the Second World...
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If you're arriving at uni this autumn, or maybe dropping your kids, remember that there could be a ghostly phalanx of absent redundant staff, lost modules and degraded degrees making it a very unhappy place. It may *look* the same, but it won't *be* the same. www.ft.com/content/e5b0...
Several UK universities nearly ran out of cash last year, says report
Almost a quarter of higher education institutions were left with less than 70 days of cash to cover costs
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