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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 2d

In other news, scientists have demonstrated that it takes 5 years for a human spine to disintegrate

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 8d

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles Francesca Albanese's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.

The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @unrwa.org to support their critical work: www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

Book cover and promotional image for A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine by Francesca Albanese, edited by Mandy Turner and Lex Takkenberg. The cover features an illustration of two women in red and black dresses holding a white dove against a red background. Text above reads “READ THE REPORTS FOR YOURSELF.” A yellow circle on the right says “FREE EBOOK – Available on plutobooks.com.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK

Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all

www.theguardian.com

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 4d

From the timeless masterpiece "How to Be an Alien" by George Mikes

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 4d

#brexiting

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 6d

If you're referring to some women's obsession with shoes, I don't think it's the same thing. Collectors never use the things they collect. They remain unopened in their boxes. Women buy shoes to wear them. Some just can't get enough 🤣

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 8d

How to ruin Terry Pratchett forever for everyone:

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Hyphen @hyphenonline.com · 10d

Banned from studying in #Afghanistan, medical students Omulbanin Sultani and Atifa Mohammadi found hope through Linda Norgrove Foundation.

Now thriving at the University of St Andrews, they share their journey so far with @aminiarchives.bsky.social.

hyphenonline.com/2025/10/06/a...

Afghan women medical students on their new lives in Scotland

One year ago, a group of 19 student doctors arrived in Edinburgh from Kabul. Here, they talk about their experiences and hopes for the future

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 9d

Integrity is upholding one's principles when faced with conjuncture, not "reading the room" and squirming your way out. I'm not a fan of this man but hats off.

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 9d

How is this even a question? 6 of the 9 members were appointed by Republican presidents. Trump himself appointed 3 of them. They are not bending the knee. They are in full agreement with their employer.

Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 10d

AHEM!

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The Old Oak (2023) ⭐ 7.1 | Drama

1h 53m

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 10d

Keir Starmer's "Labour" Party!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said. The announcement, made the morning after almost 500 people were arrested in London for expressing support for Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation, could allow police to order regular protests to take place at a different site. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 12d

"...taking police resources away from protecting the rights and freedoms of Jewish people to live their lives and go to synagogue in safety, all to support a proscribed terrorist organisation."

Ignore the rest of the article. This sums up everything about the CST and how they view themselves.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13d

Hundreds of activists have gathered inside Glasgow Central Station to protest against the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla 👇

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 14d

Why the clickbait?

Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 14d

I think this is going to backfire spectacularly considering how racist and misogynistic the English public have become recently. These vile police officers will be heroised for "speaking out".
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Met plunged into crisis amid fresh claims of misogyny and racism

Commissioner Mark Rowley says prejudice has ‘put down deep roots’ within force after BBC Panorama investigation

www.theguardian.com

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 16d

Hoş geldin hocam!

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 20d

White British teenagers purposefully targeting and vandalising shops owned by ethnic minorities. If these teenagers were from a migrant/ethnic minority background, people with "legitimate concerns" would be marching up the streets of Shirley waving flags. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Teenage girls with no fear of police torment shopkeepers on Shirley High Street

Teenagers have been targeting shops in Shirley, Hampshire, with antisocial behaviour - leaving the owners feeling

www.bbc.co.uk

Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 20d

Britain doesn't have an immigration problem. Britain has a racism & ignorance problem.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23d

‘A broken system full of criminality and death’: the podcast lifting the lid on what happens to the UK’s rubbish

Turkey’s recycling centres treat vast amounts of the UK’s waste – and rely on refugees who work in conditions so unsafe that hundreds have died. A new podcast uncovers the sinister side of what happens when Brits throw things away

www.theguardian.com

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 24d

Yeter :)

Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 24d

Ben okuyorum siz yazın :)

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 25d

I thought one of their "legitimate concerns" was protecting our women and children.

Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 25d

Wealth? What wealth? You cannot accumulate wealth. You are either born into it or steal it from the working class.

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 26d

You keep posting the same answer to everyone who emphasise the parents' responsibility in this but you're wrong. There are no "pedos using the images" in this story. It's Instagram's algorithm targeting all middle-aged men by using/curating the original posts by the parents.

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