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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 4d

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 4d

ADF started on this a long time ago by ramping up anti-trans panic. Bell v Tavi was an explicit attack on Gillick competency.

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams

ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 6d

Not my field of expertise but haven’t they shown that green hydrogen is bollocks?

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 6d

So all the accounts of people living in Gaza that I follow have been deleted.

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 9d

Thiel is clearly just trying to draw attention away from the fact that he and not Thunberg or anyone else, is in fact the antichrist.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 17d

Made the mistake of going on the UK politics stream and between the fascists spouting racist bullshit and the leftists also spouting racist bullshit with a massive dose of misogyny, I’m thoroughly depressed.

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Suzanne she/her @drsuzanne.bsky.social · Feb 3

We are looking for college instructors or academic administrators who are interested in taking a survey about how institutions of higher education are implementing trauma-informed practices. The survey should take about 15 minutes. DMs are open and sharing is appreciated! 2/4

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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 18d

I'll just leave this here. Wouldn't want to upset Farage by bringing it to his attention.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 21d

Please support Anas if you can.

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 21d

Schoolboy error. You need to somehow combine with something acidic. Like wine.

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 21d

Beauty!

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26d

It's hard to overstate how much the online far right HATES women.

Ever seen a realistic photoshop of your own head, severed, dangling from a meat hook?

I have!

Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 26d

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade

what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

404 Media @404media.co · 26d

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 26d

this is the funniest thing I've seen this week

tweet by Colin Wright: "convincing my leftwing former close friends on Facebook that Charlie Kirk wasn't a nazi or a fascist is completely futile because I can't even convince them that I'm not a nazi or a fascist, and many have known me since early grade school"

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · 28d

Love a good tart tatin

Ishan Kolhatkar @ishankolhatkar.com · 28d

Man sees figs.
Man buys figs.
Man tartin’s figs.

A tale as old as time itself #CookWithIsh

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · Sep 18

Really important research study exploring the impact of genocide in Gaza on lives of disabled children.

#AcademicSky

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shattered lives: the impact of genocide on Gaza’s disabled children and their families

This research examines the effects of the recent Israeli assaults on disabled children in Gaza and their families, highlighting the difficulties, coping strategies, and mental health outcomes. Usin...

www.tandfonline.com

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · Sep 18

I particularly enjoyed the bits where the head of a far-right propaganda machine decried 'polarisation' and wasn't challenged when he said that his channel was oppressed for its demonstrably untrue election lies, which led to a multimillion-$ legal settlement.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Sep 18

Bit strange to hear the Today programme interviewing the CEO of Newsmax like he's a public intellectual, then interviewing a Labour minister like he's a war criminal

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · Sep 18

I really don’t get why the unions are not on the case with this. @ucu.org.uk ?

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · Sep 18

In addition to this, my university and some others don’t employ new staff any more. They’re hired via a subsidiary company so new staff don’t get the USS or TPS pension - a massive pay cut imposed on already badly-paid, precarious people. I hate it.

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Sep 17

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

🗃️

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · Sep 18

a cartoon character with the words come on not again netflix on the bottom

Alt: a cartoon character with the words come on not again on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · Sep 18

I was planning on getting a sub to watch this but it seems like yet another company to boycott. Sometimes I feel like I might as well just live in a shack in the woods.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 18

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Sep 18

Melania: ‘What if I pretend to be the girl from The Ring … will they even notice?’

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · Sep 17

Soldier from the Judeo-Nazi West Bank settlement of Yitzhar wrote to former Hilltop Youth Dov Morell that he is now "in Khan Yunis, trying to kill as many people as possible and longing for the day when the Gaza beach will be red with blood. 'Every one I kill purifies me more'"

(ireallyhateyou)

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · Sep 16

I honestly think Starmer is awful but getting Streeting or Mahmood is like getting Johnson or Badenoch after Major. Huge degrees of awfulness

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Sep 15

Oh this sweet babe

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Liz Ellis (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lizellisphd.bsky.social · Sep 15

Please support Sakher if you can. What he and other people in Gaza is just unfathomable to us in the west. The link to his gofundme is in his bio.

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