Yes We Cantona
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Maths Tutor/Science Communicator. MUFC W206 🏟️ TRA member. Book reader. Nowt else.
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
Billionaire Tax dodgers like Jim Ratcliffe who 'lives in Monaco'. Are THE problem
I feel like we’ve all let Jim Ratcliffe down and I hope we are all ashamed of ourselves.
My football club is run by a billionaire racist right wing enabler and owned by Zionists IDF funding genocide supporters.
Say it again for those at the back: There's no such thing as "apolitical". Apathy is support for the oppressor.
The most unpalatable part about that decision yesterday was that the on-field decision was correct VAR inserted itself into a correct decision & managed to over turn it (no need for the ref to go to the monitor, take our word for it son 😉 😉) This isn’t incompetence This isn’t an honest mistake
BBC News: Mass trespass staged in PM Andy Burnham's constituency "They walked on to the Winstanley Hall estate in Wigan as part of their calls for a change in the law to bring in a Scottish-style right of responsible access to land and water that is privately owned." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mass trespass staged in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency
Protestors walked on to a private estate in Wigan as part of their calls for the right to roam.
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A gentle reminder that more than 30x the number killed on 9/11 have been massacred in just the last 3 years in Palestine... By US weapons, support and funding. Most were women and children and were incinerated by US bombs.
Jane Setter talks to @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social on women's voices. Fascinating discussion. In contrast there are certain male voices that make me check when the next demonstration is... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Word of Mouth - Bias against women's voices - BBC Sounds
Michael Rosen talks to phonetician Jane Setter about women's voices.
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Channeling my anger into something constructive, I've just donated to the RNLI and would encourage you to do likewise if you can. Link here: rnli.org/support-us/g...
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Had several spam emails now urging me to sign up to a horoscope service because it's, quote, "crazily accurate" I mean, if it genuinely was that accurate, they could just look at the predictions it makes about me and see that I'm definitely not going to be engaging with all that bollocks
🚨USA & Canada Kindle readers! The Killing Maradona ebook is currently on a flash sale on the ‘Zon for a ridiculous $1.99 - go, go, go! Snap up the #1 Best Seller in Soccer Biographies - a book that the latest reader review calls “definitive” and “masterful”.
Chuffed to reach 10,000 followers on here. Bluesky has been absolutely transformative for me in terms of finding new readers for my poetry, establishing connections and dialogues that make the genre come alive, reaching far beyond the typical poetry bubble. Long may that continue!
Make a little list of your 5 biggest problems. Then work out whether United signing a LB today ranks in there. If not you can possibly get through today without bursting a blood vessel.
The priority 3 tasks that I get done when avoiding priority 1 tasks are what’s keeping me off the streets.
Claire Harley@claireharley.bsky.social · 4w agoWow having a big piece of work that is due very soon sure makes me do other things.
Downgrade a movie: Draws with Wolves
Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last mo.Downgrade a movie: RoboCup
Just finished reading @lucyworsley.bsky.social biography on Jane Austen. It’s been my little companion for a week or so and I’ve really enjoyed being in that world.
Oooh the CL theme! Hits different when you’re in it 🏆
We're expanding here at @wearetrackradio.bsky.social and we're looking for assistant producers... www.linkedin.com/posts/track-...
🚨🚨We're looking for Assistant Producers🚨🚨 We are on the hunt for brilliant assistant producers for both regular and casual shifts at Track Radio. The successful applicant must be: RCS… | Track ...
🚨🚨We're looking for Assistant Producers🚨🚨 We are on the hunt for brilliant assistant producers for both regular and casual shifts at Track Radio. The successful applicant must be: RCS Zetta-fluent....
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Can this be arranged at Old Trafford? 🙏🏼
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last mo.honestly I think literally all gigs should do this, sincerely don't understand what people believe they're achieving by not meaningfully watching a gig and instead filming a video they will obviously never watch again, hateful behaviour, get rid
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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William Wilberforce was born on this day 1759. From a family of wealthy merchants in Hull, he was an evangelical Anglican who led the 20-year parliamentary campaign to abolish Britain’s slave trade, with eventual success.
Mark Ruffalo fires back at Paramount Skydance after it accuses him of using ‘antisemitic tropes’
Mark Ruffalo fires back at Paramount Skydance after it accuses him of using ‘antisemitic tropes’
Actor says highlighting role of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in media company’s merger with Warner Bros Discovery has been ‘dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel’ Mark Ruffalo has fired back at Paramount Skydance after the media company accused him of invoking “antisemitic tropes” in his criticism of its $111bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). The actor, who has long been outspoken against Israel’s military conduct in Gaza and for the rights of Palestinians, shared a statement on social media on Friday in which he highlighted the links between Paramount Skydance, run by CEO David Ellison, and Oracle, the technology company run by Ellison’s father, Larry. Continue reading...
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If people are posting less, or fewer are posting, try following more people to fill your timeline up. It's highly unlikely that you already followed all the people you will like. Repost more. Recommend people to others more. Also over follow as this helps others find their people.
The truth is that most people are kind… ’Man tracks down siblings who sent him Christmas present as he fled war 33 years ago’
Croatian refugee tracks down Mold siblings who sent him a gift 33 years ago
Dalibor Sentic was 10 when in the early 1990s his family fled Croatia for Sweden.
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