One of the most brilliant essays we’ve published. Magdi El-Gizouli’s singular and utterly unique analysis of the war in Sudan, blending revolutionary theory, sociology and frontline reporting. This is the first part of two: www.equator.org/articles/kha...

Khartoum After the Storm • EQUATOR

How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war

equator.org

This level of spending actually makes me deeply angry. Let's never do this again in a primary ok

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 18h ago

Unfathomable

Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary for Senate, NBC projects

Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.

aljazeera.com

“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

bbc.co.uk

This is the literal definition of terrorism.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Historic Environment Scotland are running a public consultation on football sites, to record places that are important in the history and development of football. There are two weeks left to have your say, it closes on 20 August: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/tel...

This is already affecting US students studying in the UK.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I'm hiring an Associate Director for the Center for Qualitative & Multi-Method Inquiry: www.sujobopps.com/postings/114... Run IQMR, work on QDR, help run events around methods @maxwellsu.bsky.social - great for recent MA or PhD interested in alt-ac 1/2

Associate Director, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI)

Work collaboratively with the Director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI). Lead the planning and logistics for the annual Institute for Qualitative and Multi-method Research...

sujobopps.com

I’d only just trained myself NOT to hit CTRL-S obsessively.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 2d ago

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

It is the single worst deliberate change I have ever seen made to a product, and might be what stops me using Microsoft Office after…25+ years? Imbecilic product decision, but just one among *many*.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 2d ago

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Not an immigrant

Anti-Fascism and Far Right@ffrafaction.bsky.social · 2d ago

Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/far-rig...

More than 30 years after apartheid, land ownership in South Africa remains deeply unequal. New research explains why. theconversation.com/how-white-fa... #Politics

How white farmers still dominate land ownership in South Africa in spite of land reform – new research

Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.

theconversation.com

Very true!

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d ago

The thing about writing up a year-long research project is that the act of writing - of making sense of something on the page so that someone else can pick it up and use it - is completely transformational for both your own understanding of it and the quality of analysis.

In an interview I did with him, Michael (author) discusses how a desire to teach his son Yoruba led to the creation of a language-learning book, and why preserving heritage languages matters for diaspora communities everywhere. folukeafrica.com/a-guide-to-l...

Passing on More Than Words: Teaching Yoruba Across Generations

Raising Diaspora Children Who Can Speak to Their Grandparents

folukeafrica.com

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think I make enough noise about the fact that one of my brothers wrote a children's book "Yoruba Phonics". It's currently 51 in Children's Early Learning Books on Language on Amazon and has 5 stars! Proud sis here! www.amazon.co.uk/Yoruba-Phoni...

So that’s both the leader and deputy leader of Reform UK being probed by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK’s Richard Tice

Party’s deputy leader accused of a possible failure to declare an interest, commissioner says ⁠on ​its website

theguardian.com

As of this Sunday, users of generative AI will be legally obliged to add the "AI-generated" mention on their products throughout the European Union. More restrictions (metadata, production of "adult" content) will be introduced on 2 December.

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 4d ago

Intelligence artificielle : la mention « généré par IA » devient obligatoire dans l’UE

Whatever the good intentions Andy has for the kids he cares about many of us think this is precisely what will happen.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 5d ago

New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

“Iain Whyte needs more policies than evidenceless posturing and griping” — edi.bike #Whyteaboutery https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/transport-needs-more-answers-than-walking-and-cycling-iain-whyte-8830666

Transport needs more answers than walking and cycling - Iain Whyte

With the Princes Street closure set to be in place for at least the next three to four weeks it still seems to be all that people are talking about. No wonder when it is causing daily bus chaos and th...

edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Rails to Trails: the thread about how North Edinburgh got its cycle paths threadinburgh.scot/2026/06/01/r...

Rails to Trails: the thread about how North Edinburgh got its cycle paths

On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn’t been …

threadinburgh.scot

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

ft.com

So pleased Awang won gold at his final commonwealth games! (We’re watching pn a bit of a delay). What a career!

New visitor experience just dropped - get soaked by a passing bus while reaching for Bobby’s nose Cannot believe they’ve put tarmac over 2 drains, and left water to pond on the carriageway (Also: don’t touch the nose! - it’s not a thing)

Dave McCraw@davemccraw.bsky.social · 6d ago

while the kerb in the cycle lane is a big edge, at least there’s no kerb to bump up on the left, if you have a bus or bin-lorry related emergency.

✍️ A rivalry for the ages: Italy vs France. Can competition lead to a better European offer towards its African partners? Read the latest commentary by Maddalena Procopio and Suzanne Tisserand to discover how the EU can turn separate Africa strategies into a coherent system

Two of a kind: How France and Italy can show the way for Europe’s Africa policy – European Council on Foreign Relations

Rome and Paris have each overhauled their economic strategies towards Africa in the past few years, competing openly for influence on the continent. Here is how

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Updated story with more detail on what happened in Ceuta.

About 49,000 migrants enter Spanish enclave of Ceuta, officials say

This comes after thousands of migrants were reported to have illegally crossed into the territory on Thursday and Friday.

bbc.co.uk

My "You have to get an 80 on the map quiz to pass the course because you will not embarrass yourself & me in the workplace" policy is proven right once again.

Steve Saideman@smsaideman.bsky.social · 6d ago

I remember @texasinafrica.bsky.social having map quizzes for her classes...I am betting none of her former students are in this administration.

Inside the collapse of Baby Shah’s bid to be installed on Iran’s throne www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Regime change? Inside Reza Pahlavi’s faltering bid to lead Iran

As the U.S. and Israel went to war on Iran this year, a transformative moment seemed to have arrived for Reza Pahlavi, son of the autocratic shah who was overthrown in 1979.

reuters.com

Had Bridget Phillipson wanted to know more about the hurt of losing a job you developed expertise for for your entire career, she could have bothered to read this excellent report on the harm done by her neglect of #UKHE:

Becca Harrison@beccaeharrison.bsky.social · last yr.

Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew

Royal Mail rolls out its first e-cargo bikes in the UK, expanding its mix of zero-emission delivery vehicles for urban routes. Read more: zagdaily.com/micromobilit...

Royal Mail launches first cargo bikes for UK delivery

Royal Mail has begun rolling out its first electric cargo cycles across the UK as it expands its mix of zero-emission delivery vehicles for urban routes.

zagdaily.com