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Dr Sarah Irving
@drtermagant.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
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I’ve just seen Tony Iommi play Paranoid live on a stage full of ballet dancers. I can die happy:
Theatre stage with a large group of people, two with electric guitars, one of them Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath in a long black coat Two men with electric guitars on a theatre stage, with ballet dancers behind, one of them Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
September 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Private Eye on Sabra and Chatila. Plus ca change:

H/t @marchudson.bsky.social
1980s Private Eye cover depicting war criminal Ariel Sharon saying “I vos only obeying orders” in relation to the 1982 massacre at Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Lebanon, which his troops facilitated
September 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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In case anyone needed a laugh/confirmation that Darren Grimes is a total plank:
Screenshot from the Twitter account of right wing blogger Darren Grimes, in which he mistakes Catholic nuns at the funeral of Pope Francis for Muslim women because of their headscarves
September 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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She is gorgeous. These are my three rescue monsters:
Three cats - two black and one tabby - curled up on a pale grey blanket
August 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Numerous Cinnabar Moth caterpillars with bright yellow and black stripes eating vivid green ragwort leaves
June 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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So @matthaig.bsky.social has the measure of Andrew Tate:
Screenshot of author Matt Haig’s description of alleged rapist and trafficker Andrew Tate
June 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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A typically blistering show from the mighty Asian Dub Foundation at @bandonthewall.bsky.social: “Naxalite,” “(Banging on the Walls of) Fortress Europe” and a song dedicated to the Children of Gaza - as MC Aktarv8tr says, none of us are free until Palestine is free:
Asian Dub Foundation bassist Jamil Ahmed - a tall man with long dreadlocks wearing a white T-shirt and holding an electric bass, lit with red stage lights and dry ice ADF drummer Brian Fairbairn - a black man in a white sleeveless T-shirt bearing a large black circle and wearing dark glasses and a bandanna, sitting behind a drum kit MC Aktarv8tr of Asian Dub Foundation - an Asian man wearing a baseball cap and wearing a black T-shirt, rapping into a mic and holding a scarf in the fabric of a Palestinian kuffiyeh Asian Dub Foundation on stage backed by a large Band on the Wall logo of a Wurlitzer outline in red on a purple-lit wall. Ghetto Priest (a tall man with dreadlocks in a head crown and a black T-shirt) and MC Aktarv8tr (shorter, wearing a black T-shirt and Palestinian kuffiyeh-fabric scarf) most prominent on stage.
May 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Here she is with her adopted brother, also a rescue but c. 20 and rather quieter of disposition nowadays. She’s called Ella, after Ella Baker.
Two mainly black cats curled up together on a grey blanket
May 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The Grauniad on fine form:
Guardian screenshot reading: this article was amended on 7 May 2025 to clarify that Greenland is 836,000 sq miles, not sq feet
May 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Rain!
A greyish cloudy sky with a rainbow cutting across
May 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Sepia toned image of a man with a large moustache wearing a black Stetson, pointed directly at the viewer in the style of WW1 recruiting posters. Text reads Lemmy Wants You and gives details of unveiling of statue of Lemmy from Motörhead in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent on 9th May 2025.
April 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Good to see that Manchester graffiti is still on point:
Graffiti in black pen on great concrete, showing a striped cat’s face and the writing: you don’t hate Mondays you hate capitalism Black graffiti on grey concrete, handwriting reading Avenge Brianna Ghey
April 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Transglobal Underground and Zion Train live in Brum
Red lit sign reading Castle and Falcon presents Zion Train Transglobal Underground on stage - silhouettes of three men against blue and red patterned background Transglobal Underground- three silhouetted men on stage playing instruments, with blue lighting and patterned backdrop
March 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Already arrived! Thank you, and props to Hive:
A copy of Moudhy Al-Rashid’s book Between Two Rivers, with a dark blue cover embellished with copper title and wavy patterns, next to a yawning semi-long haired black cat and a black hoodie with a Sisters of Mercy logo
February 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Bit nippy out
Green Bay leaves heavily covered in white frost Green rose leaves heavily covered in white frost
January 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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More frosty canalside fungi:
Brown fungus against green moss Brown fungus on dead wood Three small brown fungi on dead wood Pale brown mushrooms sprinkled with snow, growing out of green moss
January 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Here are a few more:
Chestnut brown fungus nestling in a crack in some old wood Bright orange fungus on green moss and leaves Bright orange fungus shaped like a small ball on green moss Several tiny orange fungi amongst green leaves and moss and brown dead leaves
January 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The world’s a mess: have some cool fungi:
Rich brown fungus on dead wood Golden and frilly brown fungi on the end of a large log Golden and frilly brown bracket fungi on a large log Bright orange-red small fungus next to a dark brown dead leaf
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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This was a nice surprise to get - quite an honour and also somewhat intimidating, given other recent @leftbookclub.bsky.social choices:
Screenshot of email notifying me of Left Book club choice of Leila Khaled book as their January 2025 title
January 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Back in Manchester - always great to see that Rusholme is its crazy vibrant self; gutting though to see that where the beautiful building that was Hardy’s Well stood for 200 years there is now a fucking car park, courtesy of some scumbag arsonist (presumably an insurance/developer job):
A dark asphalt car park behind a fence, where a historic pub building used to stand
December 20, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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Book cover of Acts of Aid, about disasters in colonial India; black and white book cover on a shelf with other books on wooden shelf with other volumes at Cambridge University Press shop
December 1, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Snow building up on the outside of a window, taken from the inside
November 18, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Salford Quays were once known as Manchester’s Barbary Coast because of their diversity. The Lascars here refer to Yemeni sailors - there’s a brief history of the Eccles Yemeni community here: www.yemeni-community-manchester.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Plaque on Salford dockside reading: a Barbary coast of Lascars, Chinese, Norwegians, Dutch, Polish, Russians, West Africans, Maltese, and so many more sailing into Salford’s dock shore
November 17, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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So we’re doing #Caturday on here too, right? Hiya from my rescue beauties #adoptdontshop
Three cats cuddled up together, two black-and-white and one bold tabby striped
November 16, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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First stop in Manchester- always has to be Bundobust:
Indian food and chai
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 PM