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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 18h

As Rosie relates down the thread, Major McKay was killed in Burma in 1942 while serving with 10th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers.

At the time his battalion was taking part in an offensive that was so grimly unsuccessful as to be almost completely futile.

Rosie Rowley @thehistoryspy.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: Military - hard to choose as most of my photos are of military gravestones and war memorials! Decided this is one of the most poignant headstones in #Macclesfield Cemetery. A family of seven children and their parents; poor Mary Ann lost her husband and all her children...

Black headstone with the Cheshire Regiment crest in gold at the top and gold lettering, naming nine members of the McKay family. The father Robert died in Macclesfield of illness contracted while serving in Africa in 1901. All five sons died while serving with the Cheshire Regiment, one in the Boer war, three in WWI and one in WW2. Two daughters died of influenza at the end of WWI.

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 3d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social · 1d

A wild week beckons, with 'Yde and Olive' in Leamington Spa on Tues and Edinburgh on Fri.
I'm teaching it on my Queer Medieval module too, so my students will likely give me new ideas for the performances!
Leamington: daisyblack.uk/event/storyt...
Edinburgh: daisyblack.uk/event/yde-an...

Yde and Olive at Leamington Literary Society – Daisy Black

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I prefer a society whose members feel some pressure to signal virtue over one where vice is continually rewarded

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t see Dave Cross

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 2d

What a joy to be at St Mary’s Dymock for the Festal Eucharist for ‘A Blackbird Sings’ Art Festival, Dymock

Chancel and Altar at St Mary’s Dymock Gloucestershire

Dymock Poets display at St Mary’s Dymock Gloucestershire

Second display about Dymock Poets St Mary’s Dymock

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Daniel Hansen @danrhan.bsky.social · 3d

The Lord's Supper celebrated at Broadview ICE facility. The request to bring communion to those detained inside was denied.

We are the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ will be free.

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Tim

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 3d

An in-progress shot of a 1/48 Supermarine Walrus. I have to horror of rigging to come… #HistScaleModels

1/48 supermarine walrus port view, in progress

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 6d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 6d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 4d

Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises ⁦‪‬⁩
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Masterclass: Infinite Ways in to Writing Poems | Tackling big subjects with wonder | Arvon

For the third year running, with all new prompts and exercises, Arvon favourite Caroline Bird returns for our final Masterclass of the year, which promises to be a bolt of creativity to kick-start som...

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 4d

This was such a good series and a rerun is excellent news. If you can't access BBC4/iPlayer, you can find it on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Gendered Intelligence @genderedintelligence.co.uk · 4d

Being trans or non-binary is not a mental health problem. But exclusion does cause harm, in our healthcare systems, our schools, and our workplaces.

It’s up to all of us to create the kind of world where trans and non-binary people can thrive.

#WorldMentalHealthDay

World Mental Health Day

Being trans or non-binary is not a mental health problem. But exclusion does cause harm.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 5d

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 5d

Every time I see a post on here with a clip lifted from X or an image from X I think it implies that the poster (who sometimes has been me) still believes that X is the centre of the action.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 6d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 5d

This is truly brilliant. Such a way to communicate,
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 6d

Maureen's been placed in her wooden overcoat. Ralph struggles as he makes a dinner for one. The drawers are filled with memories. Reluctantly, he peels a square of tin foil big enough for one potato. Maureen's ethereal voice echoes, "Bake me a potato! Make me a full, metal jacket!" #NewAlanBennetts

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 6d

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 6d

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 6d

Wild that the "disquieting" scenario in MacIntyre's After Virtue is actually happening right now, to popular acclaim

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 6d

“How far does one have to fall before one starts to think that the crucified and forsaken God is not enough? Where do we go when the broken God dies?”

– @revrachelmann.bsky.social

www.christiancentury.org/voices/silen...

The silent, suffering God

I’ve spent weeks in the hospital this year. I keep waiting for God to...

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