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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Kirk (Antifa Social Secretary™️) Murphy 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❌👑 @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

“In a devastating blow to the Jewish community, Nazi Germany revokes the passports of all Jewish citizens, effectively stripping them of their citizenship and freedom to travel. This..is a calculated attempt to isolate & persecute Jews, making it impossible for them to escape..”
- October 5th, 1938

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 6h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Celery

The Prestige

Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh

Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 6h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Mushrooms

Dancer in the Dark

Anything by Simply Red

Matt Flip Flop.. @mattflipflop.bsky.social · 7h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Meat

Aliens

Anything by Phil Collins

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 11h

I guess, but not what it looks like.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 11h

“You're Invited: 3rd Global Summit on Lasers, Optics & Photonics Aug 24–25, Paris“

Oh, just fuck off, will you!?

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 11h

Dates are not right.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 14h

How about a version of the cool shot of you in a suit?

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 14h

No wonder people have distanced themselves from him. Piece of shit.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 15h

As some might have realised, the 400mm f5.6 is getting a run out at the moment. What a fantastic lens. Dead chuffed.

Model yacht race, with three yachts heading away from the camera.

John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 15h

I find it amusing when people diss #Bluesky. My experience is that it is what you make it. What people call its self-righteousness is, for me, the result of blocking X-types trying to import their issues. If I use block lists & block others, it is a nice place to hang out, with some great people.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 17h

The university I work at it is literally encircled by England flags targeted sometimes implicitly and sometimes very explicitly at students of colour. I wonder why that isn’t part of the discussion about “keeping universities free from hate”? (I don’t actually wonder this).

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h

That’s the line and by Christ, they are sticking to it come hell or high water. Let’s see whether it’ll work as well on e.g. Italian police arresting them at a holiday villa outside Rimini in 2033.

Bridget Phillipson * @bphillipso... 3h g
Hate has no place in our universities or our country.
Antisemitism must be rooted out of our society.
Our education system must play its part in keeping us free from fear and free from hate.
My piece in today's Sunday Express

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 17h

The willing embrace of it by people within universities who know that it has nothing to do with teaching but everything to do with three metrics—dropout rates, NSS, & employment stats—that it can control (or try to control in terms of NSS), without lying, tells you all you need to know about TEF.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 18h

Except TEF isn‘t about teaching at all. It is a weak-assed set of measurements coopted by people too lacking in energy & talent to create something that bears some relation to teaching. Did I mention I was present at a uni open day talk where it was falsely claimed that TEF inspected facilities?

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 18h

Except it is not the same party and hasn’t been at least since Johnson discarded the old guard in 2019.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 18h

Shit, don’t we have enough real fascism to go around, we have to tolerate poppy fascism too.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 18h

In your anonymous questionnaire…

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 20h

Damn, she has six claws!

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 20h

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book

"Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law."

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 20h

Totally agree. Just worried about how realistic it is to believe that this is in any way sustainable. Would people still want these jobs a few years down the line?

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 20h

“Starmer, for example, pretended to be “the heir to Corbynism”, with his leadership campaign’s “10 Pledges” in 2020. But these had almost entirely vanished before the 2024 election, as had his commitment to party unity, democratic MP selections and an end to factionalism.”

Not “pretended”, lied.

Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 20h

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book

"Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law."

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 20h

So glad to not be involved in universities any more. A sector surrounded and led by largely bad faith actors, ugh…

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 20h

Except the student has to pay and be in debt for forty years. What a waste.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 21h

Take a ferry for at least six months?