Not been on bluesky for a while but I'm currently locked out alongside other @sheffielducu.bsky.social members for refusing to undermine our strike action last semester. Any letters of solidarity welcome and you can find a donations link to support us here www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton

I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!

Did I miss a meeting where all the people who spent the first year of this murderous slaughter screaming at us to shut up about genocide got together, and decided “everyone” had been silent for too long

This - by an EHRC Commissioner - is a *defence* of the impact of the Supreme Court judgement. The impact is obviously, and quite deliberately, to exclude trans people from public spaces, and to claim that it's fine, legally, politically and morally. Absolutely shameful.

Cathy Devine@womensportfeminism.bsky.social · last yr.

'Single-sex arrangements are not mandatory in competitive sports or services open to the public, such as gym changing rooms or refuges for victims of domestic violence [but] it is likely to be discrimination against women not to provide them where ... appropriate'. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The violent rage against trans people because they won't roll over and die is quite something isn't it

Here is Graham Linehan calling for people to physically attack trans women who dare to continue using public facilities You know "Gender Critical" people are never going to stop getting more and more hateful and extreme I'm not going to stop even if he threatens to kill or rape me

Katy is right about this, as usual, and further, what this ruling does it basically make it unsafe to be a non-feminine woman, or one who doesn't meet the beauty standard generally, in public. It's a movement to push women back into the domestic sphere.

Katy Montgomerie 🦗@katymontgomerie.com · last yr.

Here is Graham Linehan calling for people to physically attack trans women who dare to continue using public facilities You know "Gender Critical" people are never going to stop getting more and more hateful and extreme I'm not going to stop even if he threatens to kill or rape me

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

really cool opportunity if you’re interesting in housing, organising and just transition. apply here: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (Link at the end)

Jon Cruddas is a weird character in all of this www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Blue Labour v Reform: The Pro-Worker, Anti-Woke Plan To Beat Farage

With Reform riding high in the polls, many new Labour MPs are deeply anxious about the threat posed by Nigel Farage. To fight him off, Keir Starmer...

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leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

Cody@codyjohnston.bsky.social · 2y ago

I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.

It's really pathetic how much of fascism is just Daddy Issues

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off

Find this piece more useful as a guide to how elite liberals are going to accommodate themselves thepointmag.com/politics/las...

Last Boys at the Beginning of History | The Point Magazine

I expected to find something of a political sideshow at NatCon; instead, I found a movement, perhaps the only one I’d encountered during my time in D.C.

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More planning nonsense from the government. - people have a democratic right to a say about land use change - this will lead to worse outcomes environmentally & ecologically - endless economic growth is a dubious goal in a world where we are hitting limits www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Legal challenges to UK infrastructure projects to be blocked in push for growth

Keir Starmer hopes his plan to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ will send a message to business to build more

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Great analysis of what comes after the square chuangcn.org/2025/01/unha...

Unhappy is the land that needs heroes

Myanmar’s insurrection condenses the sequence of revolts elsewhere in this century. […] As Myanmar’s insurrectionary rupture climbed hills to ignite a rural armed struggle, however, a new set of co…

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Passing through my home town and I'm sad to report that a lot of the houses with union jacks out the front also have big Christmas light displays

something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens

Veles@menkvi.bsky.social · 2y ago

South Korean soldiers attempting to enter the National Assembly repelled by a fire extinguisher and camera flashes.

Once again here to say that just “bulldozing the planning system” won’t solve the housing crisis. It’ll funnel yet more profit into developers pockets & we will be left with unaffordable & inaccessible homes

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

Radical planning reform needed to hit 1.5m housebuilding target in England, Labour warned

Waiting for a train in a station bar full of people who don't know how to drink. Christmas is coming

Pathetic. I'd cheer once he's gone if it wasn't for Farage or someone equally vile taking over after him

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING: “Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration. Brexit was used for that purpose, to turn Britain into a one nation experiment in open borders” Keir Starmer

As I hope we made quite clear: rent controls are vulnerable even once instituted. There are a legion of hawkish lobbyists trying to water down Scotland's Housing Bill before it even gets out the gates: it should go without saying, if you're not already a member, JOIN @living-rent.bsky.social !

Jennie Gustafsson@jiegson.bsky.social · 2y ago

This conversation with @hamishkallin.bsky.social, Neil Gray and others in Radical Housing Journal sets light on different forms of rent control/regulation, with me, Maria Persdotter & Maria Wallstam contributing about the Swedish experience radicalhousingjournal.org/2024/rent-co...

Enjoying Malm's geography takes in Fossil Capital

Good morning

Enjoying listening to Shirin Rai talk about her new book Depletion

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one