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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social

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Queer, sweary Afro-European immigrant (and despised by right-wingers). River user. eduroam(er) troubleshooter. 🧫🐀 . Shire resident. Haver of many opinions. RT ⊆ endorsement. Same handle on 🐘 (rarely used). 💩ter refugee. 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧 He/him

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 24d

I'll post my annual eduroam advice again:
1. *ALWAYS* check your username first. It *MUST* be in email-style format (like [email protected]). Otherwise eduroam doesn't know where you belong!
1. a) Yes, on campus you might find that just 'your_id' works, but that's *bad* configuration!

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 6h

Every single citizen having been illegally detained by ICE should join a lawsuit against Kavanaugh… “You lie. You are making statements that don’t reflect reality. You are a stain on SCOTUS.” As much as it would be dead pretty sharpish, the fact people would be taking a stand should be significant.

Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 10h

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Rachael Koev @rachaelkoev.bsky.social · 8h

@chrischirp.bsky.social has a tracker of authoritarian actions (so it's broader than just crimes). @justsecurity.org still has a tracker of lawsuits, I believe. ⚖️

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 6h

As it should be. Quit when you realise that your orders are about murdering people…

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 7h

"It was unclear why Adm. Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure....But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 7h

Well, finally *someone* shows spine

Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 7h

Stay united against the threat, media.

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 7h

Finally. It’ll be a bit painful but Appleford and Sutton Courtenay will turn into ghost towns as the bypass lets you skip them… that *should* make them happy but won’t because they’ll whinge about the traffic noise. Or something. Sadly no new bridge across the Thames to skip Abingdon…

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18h

On-the-ground work has begun on the £300m+ HIF1 road around Didcot and Clifton Hampden, including site setup and archaelogical investigation. Main construction is expected to start in the spring. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/early-stage-...

Early-stage construction work starts on major infrastructure scheme for Didcot and surrounding areas

Early-stage construction work has started on vital transport infrastructure to reduce congestion and offer more sustainable travel options in and around Didcot and its surrounding villages.The Didcot ...

news.oxfordshire.gov.uk

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

you have the right to not hang out with assholes. you deserve not to hang out with assholes. you are under 0 obligation to socially interact with assholes in your free time.

it is truly terrible that our culture tricked so many people into thinking that they’re obliged to be friends with assholes!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

we have spent the last decade witnessing a national epidemic of “it should be illegal to not hang out with me just because I’m a mean asshole” behavior

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 11h

Aaaaaaaand we’re off to the races. @newcastleuni.bsky.social sounds game. Now to try the other unis in Tyneside.

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited over things happening in our sector: @citywestminster.bsky.social rolling out Connected London Wi-Fi, Newcastle doing something similar that could allow @newcastleuni.bsky.social + others to roam off @eduroam.org into the city, and other cities considering same! @wballiance.bsky.social 😁

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 11h

I hope that blonde witch ends up in jail for anything she says now…

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

I know this ship has sailed so far it's halfway around the world at this point, but White House press secretary is not exempt from the Hatch Act. This is not within the legitimate scope of her taxpayer-funded job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 11h

Hamas is not the one killing people in Gaza… Trumpet is confusing the one party in the deal with the other. Yes, Trumpet, it’s Bibi who does.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

Weird flex for the peace prize.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12h

British.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 12h

If the whole terrorism case against Mo Chara (the Irish rapper/artist) is anything to go by, it’s possible it can’t be refiled because of a statute of limitations on the charges? Just a guess, but @davidallengreen.bsky.social will know better since he’s a legal eagle

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13h

NEW - UPDATE POST

Did the CPS make a fundamental mistake with the charging decision in the Chinese spying case?

How the CPS may have asked the wrong legal question and so made a wrong charging decision

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/did-the-cp...

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 17h

Ach ja, der Teufel. Es ist einfach den Teufel zu blamieren als selbst Verantwortung zu tragen…

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone who labours under the illusion that the minute it starts raining torrentially, hosepipe bans should end, is utterly deluded and needs to learn about geophysics. Sustained rain for a while that recharges aquifers for a sustained period is what ends hosepipe bans.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 17h

Oooh.

If this is correct then the CPS may have made the original charging decision *on the basis of the wrong law completely*

If so, that would explain why the evidential test was “met” and then not met when the correct law was applied.

May write further on this, if correct.

Matt @mrhig.bsky.social · 17h

Hi David, the guardian politics live blog suggests that the second witness statement was incorrectly dated 2024 and was actually from February 2025, does that alter any of your conclusions if true?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

roberts thinks it is an affront that a community of upstanding citizens can not do as it chooses when it comes to voting. if that means that they might discriminate against a racial minority, he has no problem with that either as long as it is facially neutral.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

slate.com

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18h

Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025

the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data

www.ft.com/content/5392...

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 21h

This is why I never supported William Hague for chancellorship of Oxford. This kind of "we're going to get rid of 'woke'" shit that these right-wing Tory wankers spout has no place anywhere near academics.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 21h

The man is deranged.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22h

"expert" is just a word for someone who knows what they are talking about.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 21h

I cannot agree with Katherine here enough. May those academics (and any other men) be found, prosecuted and ostracised from civilised society. Rape has no place anywhere. Fuck those men.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 22h

I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows.

But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished.

Solidarity with the survivors.

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

Snippet from the linked Guardian article beginning "The second person I was lent out to was a psychology professor"

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 21h

Policy Exchange can piss off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotels dilemma: The woman with a bold idea to solve it

Instead of using private contractors to provide hotel rooms to asylum seekers, could paying councils to buy more properties be the solution?

www.bbc.co.uk

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to the shire, Hannah. I hope your eduroam experience will be a good one!