@stefanpaetow.bsky.social
@stefanpaetow.bsky.social
Queer, sweary Afro-European immigrant (and despised by right-wingers). River user. eduroam(er) troubleshooter. 🧫🐀 . Shire resident. Haver of many opinions. #saynotofascism. RT ⊆ endorsement. Same handle on 🐘 (rarely used). 💩ter refugee. 🏳️🌈🇳🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧 He/him
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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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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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No one should be fired without just cause. Racially abusing or sexually harassing a customer (or coworker) is quite often a just cause for termination, because we live in a society and people’s actions affect other people. It’s not as simple as “siding with a corporation against a poor racist”
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
No one should be fired without just cause. Racially abusing or sexually harassing a customer (or coworker) is quite often a just cause for termination, because we live in a society and people’s actions affect other people. It’s not as simple as “siding with a corporation against a poor racist”
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We’re betraying the very people who put their lives on the line for our agendas, just because the West is once again having a nervous breakdown over immigration.
Germany drops promise to resettle hundreds of Afghans
Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary ‘there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We’re betraying the very people who put their lives on the line for our agendas, just because the West is once again having a nervous breakdown over immigration.
This is the problem with those who think unions are there to protect you from *everything*. @jamellebouie.net makes a good point that protections of all races (as claimed by the writer of the piece he references) do *not* extend to racial slurs at black customers. Unions should make it clear.
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is the problem with those who think unions are there to protect you from *everything*. @jamellebouie.net makes a good point that protections of all races (as claimed by the writer of the piece he references) do *not* extend to racial slurs at black customers. Unions should make it clear.
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According to DWP the disabilities destroying my life, hugely increasing my cost of living to a point of barely surviving, mean I score a total of ZERO on their PIP eligibility.
Apparently, a department that wants to get disabled people into work, won't support me until I have worked myself to death
Apparently, a department that wants to get disabled people into work, won't support me until I have worked myself to death
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Excellent. Glad to see Bali crack down on 'tourists' who actually work there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bonnie Blue: Adult content creator to be deported from Bali
The adult film actress was cleared of breaking the country's strict anti-pornography laws.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Excellent. Glad to see Bali crack down on 'tourists' who actually work there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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So far Zack Polanski is the only political leader of a mass membership party to come out in support of the hunger strikers. Meanwhile the Justice Secretary refuses even to reply to MPs demanding an urgent meeting to avert what could well be the tragic deaths of unconvicted prisoners. Shameful.
Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
So far Zack Polanski is the only political leader of a mass membership party to come out in support of the hunger strikers. Meanwhile the Justice Secretary refuses even to reply to MPs demanding an urgent meeting to avert what could well be the tragic deaths of unconvicted prisoners. Shameful.
Dear United States, FU, FUVM.
The US Embassy London posted this some hours ago. One more checked box on the authoritarian card.
December 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Dear United States, FU, FUVM.
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"Rachael Reeves’s budget means ... we’ll continue to have less disposable income than we did 20 years ago."
Why is it suddenly Labour's fault? Didn't you notice the 18.5 years of less disposable income BEFORE she delivered her budget? You know: the shit economy your mates delivered? Pricks.
Why is it suddenly Labour's fault? Didn't you notice the 18.5 years of less disposable income BEFORE she delivered her budget? You know: the shit economy your mates delivered? Pricks.
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Rachael Reeves’s budget means ... we’ll continue to have less disposable income than we did 20 years ago."
Why is it suddenly Labour's fault? Didn't you notice the 18.5 years of less disposable income BEFORE she delivered her budget? You know: the shit economy your mates delivered? Pricks.
Why is it suddenly Labour's fault? Didn't you notice the 18.5 years of less disposable income BEFORE she delivered her budget? You know: the shit economy your mates delivered? Pricks.
What did people expect? FIFA are a money racket. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup ticket prices: Fifa's prices a 'monumental betrayal' says Football Supporters Europe
Fans' group Football Supporters Europe says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
What did people expect? FIFA are a money racket. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
The FO phase of FAFO.
The economic backbone for so many communities across America is tourism. Because of this White House it is collapsing. Anyone in the @GOP (The Enablers) should be fired in the 2026 election for letting this happen. Vote for Democrats only and put an end to the destruction of America.
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The FO phase of FAFO.
This is why you should a) get the flu jab (*especially* if you are vulnerable), and b) if you have the flu, stay home or wear a mask when out in public (stay the fuck home, FGS!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Flu wave hits England's busiest A&E - hundreds of patients are arriving a day
The BBC visits Leicester Royal Infirmary to witness first-hand how it's coping with an early surge in cases of winter bugs.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is why you should a) get the flu jab (*especially* if you are vulnerable), and b) if you have the flu, stay home or wear a mask when out in public (stay the fuck home, FGS!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Just...wow.
3 cognitive exams isn't the badge of honour you think it is mate. This post is a cognitive exam!
And the nerdiness and lies to fend off the mean people.
And that corporate sign-off. Could anything more clearly say 'I run the USA like it's my personal company'?
What a time to be alive.
3 cognitive exams isn't the badge of honour you think it is mate. This post is a cognitive exam!
And the nerdiness and lies to fend off the mean people.
And that corporate sign-off. Could anything more clearly say 'I run the USA like it's my personal company'?
What a time to be alive.
He is not well.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just...wow.
3 cognitive exams isn't the badge of honour you think it is mate. This post is a cognitive exam!
And the nerdiness and lies to fend off the mean people.
And that corporate sign-off. Could anything more clearly say 'I run the USA like it's my personal company'?
What a time to be alive.
3 cognitive exams isn't the badge of honour you think it is mate. This post is a cognitive exam!
And the nerdiness and lies to fend off the mean people.
And that corporate sign-off. Could anything more clearly say 'I run the USA like it's my personal company'?
What a time to be alive.
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Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Organisations in the networking, research & education space should take note. @ietf.org, @wballiance.bsky.social et al - Move your events to Canada if necessary.
1984 full blown.
I wonder what my colleagues directing scientific societies, include ones with recent meetings in the US, will do now
Any Scientific Society with international membership which recently organized or is organizing a meeting in the US is not representing their members.
I wonder what my colleagues directing scientific societies, include ones with recent meetings in the US, will do now
Any Scientific Society with international membership which recently organized or is organizing a meeting in the US is not representing their members.
The US is proposing that foreign visitors provide their social media history over the last five years to enter the country, including those from Australia, Germany, Japan and the UK who can now enter without a visa. Full story: bloom.bg/4q3W0y0
📷️📷️:: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
📷️📷️:: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Organisations in the networking, research & education space should take note. @ietf.org, @wballiance.bsky.social et al - Move your events to Canada if necessary.
Sorry Trumpet, not happening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sorry Trumpet, not happening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Buses on Oxford’s main arterial roads are 12% faster in the morning rush hour, following the introduction of the congestion charge, than this time last year. Oxfordshire County Council has released data from the first month of the charge, which suggests traffic has fallen but footfall is holding up.
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Buses on Oxford’s main arterial roads are 12% faster in the morning rush hour, following the introduction of the congestion charge, than this time last year. Oxfordshire County Council has released data from the first month of the charge, which suggests traffic has fallen but footfall is holding up.
See... this is the kind of madness that seems to be consuming politicians. Wasting money on patriotic colour schemes (and wraps) instead of investing it in *services*. Whatever gives the politicians a stiffy is ok.
Not just Great British Rail, also Bavarian regional trains are supposed to get patriotic colours now. (Blue and white in Bavaria's case.) www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...
Bahnfahren in Bayern: Züge gibt's im Freistaat künftig nur noch in Weiß-Blau
Rot, gelb, grün: Auf Bayerns Gleisen geht es bunt zu – noch. Denn in Zukunft sollen die S- und Regionalbahnen im „einheitlichen Landesdesign“ fahren.
www.sueddeutsche.de
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
See... this is the kind of madness that seems to be consuming politicians. Wasting money on patriotic colour schemes (and wraps) instead of investing it in *services*. Whatever gives the politicians a stiffy is ok.
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
Dear Paul Lynch, the part of Wallingford that was 'submerged' after Storm Henk last year was on a river meadow... which is expected to be submerged when the river floods. That's referred to as a 'flood plain', something you might've heard about...
Thousands of flood defences below standard as Storm Bram hits
A BBC study lays bare the scale of flood defences in England that are in need of maintenance.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Dear Paul Lynch, the part of Wallingford that was 'submerged' after Storm Henk last year was on a river meadow... which is expected to be submerged when the river floods. That's referred to as a 'flood plain', something you might've heard about...
Shame on the MoD and the MoJ. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Sexual assault appeal decision sends devastating message'
Jaysley Beck took her own life after being sexually assaulted by former Army Sgt Michael Webber.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Shame on the MoD and the MoJ. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why relocate the cars? Seize them. Make the fines high enough to hurt. A fine for the value of the car will probably do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Supercars removed from outside Mayfair hotel after complaints
A spokesperson for the council says the usual approach of issuing fines has been ineffective.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Why relocate the cars? Seize them. Make the fines high enough to hurt. A fine for the value of the car will probably do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Great reporting.
“Across Tues front pages, the ruling was presented as a clear ‘win’ for the nurse – despite the fact she lost on 43 of her 47 allegations, including every one she made against trans doctor Beth Upton.”
And posting sick racist jokes about Pakistan floods to a WhatsApp group…
“Across Tues front pages, the ruling was presented as a clear ‘win’ for the nurse – despite the fact she lost on 43 of her 47 allegations, including every one she made against trans doctor Beth Upton.”
And posting sick racist jokes about Pakistan floods to a WhatsApp group…
Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Great reporting.
“Across Tues front pages, the ruling was presented as a clear ‘win’ for the nurse – despite the fact she lost on 43 of her 47 allegations, including every one she made against trans doctor Beth Upton.”
And posting sick racist jokes about Pakistan floods to a WhatsApp group…
“Across Tues front pages, the ruling was presented as a clear ‘win’ for the nurse – despite the fact she lost on 43 of her 47 allegations, including every one she made against trans doctor Beth Upton.”
And posting sick racist jokes about Pakistan floods to a WhatsApp group…
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Dead 💀
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Dead 💀
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CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation”
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
December 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I keep thinking of Beth Upton today, who won against an absolutely foul, racist bigot, and should be having the best day, but is still being monstered by our entire media, for the crime of merely existing as her authentic self and doing a job in the NHS that helps people, all day every day.
#C4News went above & beyond, reporting:
"a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton."
No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton.
This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.
"a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton."
No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton.
This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I keep thinking of Beth Upton today, who won against an absolutely foul, racist bigot, and should be having the best day, but is still being monstered by our entire media, for the crime of merely existing as her authentic self and doing a job in the NHS that helps people, all day every day.