amazing article

Damn. RIP Jason Arday.

We must first drive the hate group underground before any other human rights reform is possible. An underground hate group by definition can’t threaten to sue Amnesty International. Our friends lobbying parliamentarians really need to get the priorities right, but not many seem to grasp this.

Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · 3mo ago

1/🧵 I am proud to be a steadfast human rights lawyer who will always speak the truth. Meanwhile, check out this comprehensive list of anti-trans hate groups and collaborators. I’ve just updated it. Hate groups are not powerful, and we can eliminate them together.

'Several disciplines including Arab & Islamic Studies, drama, education, modern languages, English, history, film, politics, philosophy, religion and theology could all see teaching staff reduced by up to a quarter. Anthropology teaching provision could halve.'

Exeter UCU declares trade dispute over University of Exeter job cuts plan - Exeter Observer

Union threatens strike action if university does not abandon scheme to make 150 academic staff redundant while putting more than 500 staff at risk and jeopardising 85% of humanities, arts and social s...

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A depressingly long list of universities who are implementing cuts and redundancies, as well as the petitions and actions against them (via @onslies.bsky.social) qmucu.org/qmul-transfo.... This is a national emergency that should be responded to with national policy.

UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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So the U.K. is now at ‘those whom the gods would destroy, they will first drive mad through boredom and isolation’. BTW hating teenagers is possibly the most persistent item of ‘British culture’ throughout my nearly 6 decades here. We just hate them. Now ‘no talking to your friends’ is everywhere.

U.K. trains subreddit is the most British place in the entire world (click to see whole image)

Autism defined by Autistic people:

7 percent of people who left the "Labour" party said it was because of their treatment of trans people. Fuck around, find out, fascists.

Adam Ramsay@adamramsay.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a shelf that is a perfect place to put the hammer down then forget where he left it.

Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RIP Mike Thompson, creator of the superb Rubbish Theory.

I didn't realise I was a vindictive gloating kind of person until not-a-prince Andrew and Mandelson got arrested.

What’s the word for when you can take something off your to-do list that was never on it in the first place because a total of zero people worldwide even thought of asking you to do it?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

For anyone interested:

Cigarette🚬@smokecigarettes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Since there seems to be files getting deleted from the Epstein release, I've made all four dataset zip files available for download. These are the files as they were originally released. (Downloaded within minutes of them being made public) ~3GB in size drive.proton.me/urls/P0XVG30...

I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

I’ve run the redacted Epstein files through AI and asked for a quick summary, and it just said ‘your mum’. www.reddit.com/r/BBCNEWS/s/...

From the BBCNEWS community on Reddit: Live: Thousands of long-awaited Epstein files released by US justice department

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An MIT lab director was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts Monday night, the school confirmed. No one is in custody, Brookline police deputy superintendent said.

MIT professor Nuno Loureiro killed in shooting at his Brookline, Massachusetts home

MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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DON, YOU LOST LAURENCE FOX????

Diana@neverheardofher.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My God. I don’t know how I feel about agreeing with Laurence Fox 😱

This year is beginning to seem endless.

Trump supporters now torn between loving Spinal Tap as teenagers and what the Orange said... 'So what finally turned you against Trump? Was it the violent deportations?' <erm> (embarrassed squirming for 0.7 seconds> 'I had just been saying how much I loved Spinal Tap to a friend, when...'

Snitches

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“

Kids now have ‘6 7’. But we had ‘eleven’.

Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@hagenilda.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The thing about Spinal Tap is it *just gets funnier and sillier with every watch*. It's a masterpiece.

Why the wind doesn’t need to blow all the time – breakthrough in new technology to blow all Scottish Labour arguments for nuclear ‘out of the water’ talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/15/w...

Why the wind doesn’t need to blow all the time – breakthrough in new technology to blow all Scottish Labour arguments for nuclear ‘out of the water’

EBARGOED UNTIL 15 Dec 2025 00:01 Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Scotland, three days ago: In East Lothian, council leader Norman Hampshire has asked UK ministers to draw up a “characte…

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"Co-operatives empower people — and students need to know about them"

Co-operatives empower people — and students need to know about them

Universities need to move away from competing over rankings, and instead focus on building a collaborative educational system that puts collective well-being first.

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Since the current Labour Govt aren't going to stand by the truth about the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), here are some if the facts: Since 1980, the ECHR has been prevented deportation in only 13 cases. Of these 13, just 4 were around the issue of 'right to family life'. ...

Light over darkness. Hope over despair. Wishing Jewish communities in London and around the world a joyful and blessed Chanukah. Chanukah Sameach!

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be aware there is a an absolutely massive disinfo campaign going around trying to say that the dude who disarmed this sicko was not named Ahmed al Ahmed but "Edward Crabtree" the site, article, & all articles it links to appear to be all created/registered today & AI generated archive.is/K5eSI

Chuncheng Liu@cliu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Encountering a misinformation campaign in real time. The bystander who tackled the gunman at Bondi was identified as Ahmed el Ahmed (link below). But in almost every tweet I saw, there are people claiming the real person is "Edward Crabtree," referencing a website called "The Daily."