Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”.
Máiréad Enright
@maireadenright.bsky.social
Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
From mass graves to mass funerals, the international community’s statements or silence are completely void of humanity. It is estimated that at least 8000 bodies are still beneath the rubble www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260806-gaz...
Gaza is exploited either way, through silence or stale statements
While Gaza mourns, the international community continues to turn a blind eye. On Tuesday this week, 112 members from the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families were put to rest in a mass funeral in the…
middleeastmonitor.com
A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”
The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion
jessica.substack.com
Making an ETA travel application for my f-i-l. It is the jankiest thing on earth. Of *course* it rejected the photo he sent of his passport. There is an option to put in his details manually fine. It has been granted. Just one issue. Part of his name (Thaddeus) has come back as *Thadfus*.
Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!
Our holiday let came with a *slightly* outdated Ireland guide which had previously belonged to some library in Nottinghamshire… Anyway Nottinghamshire no offence taken.
Today in the same conversation I was told I had “the poshest Kerry accent I ever heard” and referred to Birmingham as “at home”. So I’ll be taking Existential Crisis Leave for all of August.
There's lots that's batshit about UK academia of course, but this thing where every year a selection of everyone's publications get anonymously scored by their senior colleagues is by far the craziest aspect.
Somebody give me a grant to explore the origins of palm trees in West of Ireland gardens.
People talking about 1976: "we weren't dramatic like these days, we just got on with it" Also, 1976: "we have appointed a Minister for Drought and are forcing him to dance for rain"
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 2w agooh my god
The Féile declaring a position against transphobia and successfully defending that position against the usual strategic litigation is admittedly such a thoroughly pleasant surprise It's a good day, fair play to all involved (with obvious exceptions).
📣CFPs - deadline 31 July📣 Symposium: Global Childhood(s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine 📆16-18 November 2026 🏛️The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds (UK) In-person with online presentation option #histmed #histSTM
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The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.
For non-academic people, this how much UK universities pay publishers to publish their researchers’ articles. The publishers don't pay the researchers, and don't pay the peer reviewers. They also frequently cock up your paper at the typesetting stage. Academic publishing is the worst grift.
Caroline Ball@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 2w agoOverall data for the UK, by institutional spend. Eye-opening!
How about we make education about the fundamentals of being able to navigate the world and democratic citizenship, and leave workplace training until the actual workplace. Local business needs aren't one thing, and they change quickly (and even more quickly). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs
PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market
theguardian.com
"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs
England water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites since May. All water companies have criminal convictions, violated terms of their licence. All defended by govts, allowed to trade, inflict harms.
Water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May
WATER firms discharged more than 100,000 of hours-worth of sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May.Sewage overflow pipes released a total of 117,001 hours between mid-May and July 21,...
morningstaronline.co.uk
"‘The Green and Red of Mayo’ rings out around Croke Park and if you don’t have chills you’d have to either be from Kerry or dead." www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
Mayo end 75-year All-Ireland drought with dramatic win over Kerry
Mayo look to overcome reigning champions to end 75-year Sam Maguire wait
irishtimes.com
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Angela Rayner rules out rent controls in England. Millions can't afford to buy a home. Rents swallow 41% of take-home pay. Social housing sold off by successive govts and is scarce. 1.5m waiting list. Can't deal with the cost of living crisis without ending profiteering.
Angela Rayner rules out rent controls in England
The housing secretary tells the BBC that the Renters Rights' Act is already having a significant impact on the market.
bbc.co.uk
“Every single person who marched today is proof that we are not going anywhere, that our joy is louder than their hate, and that London Trans+ Pride will keep fighting, keep loving and keep growing until every trans person is safe, seen, and free.” Solidarity with all marching for trans justice. 🏳️⚧️
150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say
Protesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.
thenational.scot
This summer has made it abundantly clear that we need rewetting across all landscapes, varied habitats, firebreaks and a recalibration of what we use water for, and in ireland, a massive growth and restoration of our degraded ecosystems like bog and wet woodlands that are naturally fire resistant
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Minister outraged at people applying laws his government is bound to respect.
Chambers claims climate law has been 'weaponised' by NGOs to halt infrastructure projects
Friends of the Earth have said disapplying climate laws sets ‘an alarming precedent’.
thejournal.ie
