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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 4h

Corporations should not be able to post any profits until they have given all their employees an annual pay rise that exceeds the inflation rate.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 22h

Letter to the editor:

If Germany stripped British residents of healthcare, the UK would be outraged.

So why tolerate such proposals here?

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 17h

According to a new study
by Yale researchers
Covid-19 continues
to be driving a large number
of work absences,
which is an important reminder
that it is not the case
that people are “quiet quitting,”
rather it’s the case
that this virus just won’t quit.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks to the lovely people at Edinburgh for the great hospitality, incisive questions and discussion this evening. Plus the inside of the lecture theatre looked like I was about to perform in panto.

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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yes, entrap impoverish and enslave in a fully privatised corporatist hellscape of SEZs and freeports. No human rights, no public services and no public good.

Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 15

Is Labour killing democracy? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... Young people are losing faith in democracy. You would think Labour would respond to that, but they aren't. Is that because they are in the pockets of those who want to be rid of it?

Is Labour killing democracy?

It is rare for this blog to promote anything related to the Adam Smith Institute, but there have to be exceptions to every rule. This week, they published new survey data on attitudes of young people ...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 17h

Ada Lovelace used mathematics to design the world’s first algorithm intended for a machine. This was done decades before computers were even built!

Who is a woman in STEM that inspires you? 👩‍🔬🧪

#AdaLovelace #WomeninSTEM #Science

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MichaelLondonSF @michaellondonsf.bsky.social · 1d

Public lunchtime lecture at UCL on why public participation is NOT a barrier to infrastructure. Dr Dan Durrant on 4 November www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

Lunch Hour Lecture | Building Better: The Case for Democratic Infrastructure

In this lecture, Dr Dan Durrant discusses the recent (failed) attempt to introduce an amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

Uhhhh....LOL

Oracle CEO Magouyrk: 'Of course' OpenAI can pay $60 billion per year for cloud infrastructure

In July, OpenAI signed a five-year cloud deal with Oracle, which is confident that the startup will be able to pay its bills.

www.cnbc.com

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Shelli @shelliblu.bsky.social · 1d

Israel can't go 24 hours without murdering.

www.patreon.com/posts/141136...

Israel Violates Ceasefire - And Threatens More Genocide | Owen Jones

Get more from Owen Jones on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Arvindjadwa @arvindjadwa.bsky.social · 1d

In 1946, some people in Germany and Poland claimed, "We didn't know."
Today, no one can say they didn't know; you can only say, "you didn't want to know."

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d

Israel’s Defence Minister Just Publicly Confirmed Their Next Attack on #Gaza.

youtu.be/LqNPErIQVv0?...

@kernowdamo.bsky.social

Israel’s Minister Just Confirmed the Ceasefire Was a Lie — On Twitter

YouTube video by KernowDamo

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 1d

I played a small role in this and am very proud :)

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

YES! This is such excellent news. Utrecht University now supports Knowledge Commons.

PLEASE ask YOUR library today if they will consider supporting us. We are free to all to use, but we NEED university support to make that possible.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/13/u...

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Dr William Tozer | RIBA ANZIA 📍 @williamtozer.bsky.social · 2d

‘The problem isn’t the planning system. It’s a broken, profit-driven housing model that banks land and starves supply. Scrapping nature protections won’t build 1.5m homes, it will just bulldoze public trust and the countryside.’

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial

Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

www.theguardian.com

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 1d

I spent a wonderful day exploring the 'hofjes' (courtyard almshouses) of Leiden. I'll post more fully on these later in the week.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 1d

Former police station, Leiden; designed in the style of the Amsterdam School by Jan Neisingh in 1927.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Grief is funny. I'm back on campus to teach today, because work makes me feel close to my father. I'm a second gen academic. My father was so proud of me for managing to get an academic job, delighted in talking about classes and meeting with me, delighted in my work. So. I'm going to teach today.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Hamas to release hostages in Gaza conflict milestone on.ft.com/4q8hyKw

Hamas to release hostages in Gaza conflict milestone

Move in exchange for freeing of Palestinian prisoners comes as Donald Trump set to arrive in the region

on.ft.com

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 2d

Section 230 is basically the first amendment of the internet but many people don’t see it that way. Many people don’t know much about section 230 at all. That’s where we come in www.whatissection230.org

What is Section 230

www.whatissection230.org

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

It is interesting that Jeremy Corbyn has been an MP for 42 years and led the opposition for 5 years.

He's been on Question Time once.

Nigel Farage, 44 times.

Our Media is corrupt, corrupt to the core.

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like a good time for a can of this collab beer between Palestinian brewery Taybeh & Brewgooder, proceeds to Palestinian communities & available in the Co-Op

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 2d

More than 500,000 marched for Palestine in London on 11th October. The reaction of a Labour Government- Bridget Philipson speaking to Trevor Phillips (12th Oct). 'We're bringing in restrictions to curtail the marches'. A Labour Government??
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Over 500,000 marched in London on Oct 11. The 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. The BBC: ‘local London news’

Over 500,000 march in London on 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. BBC ‘local news’ Over 500,000 people marched in central London on 11th October on what was the 32nd national demonstration…

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday in London 600,000 people reflected the Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/we-o...

We oppose genocide; our governments oppose us

Throughout the world people are marching in their tens and hundreds of thousands. These are the humanitarians of the world…

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk

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