Iwasid
@iwasid.bsky.social
Bookish. Amateur philosopher of the worst kind. Political animal who still believes we can build a better world for all. Banner is the Red Sand sea bell, tolling.
Contemplating not being anonymous.
Standing up for Palestinians.
Contemplating not being anonymous.
Standing up for Palestinians.
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Iwasid
@iwasid.bsky.social
· Dec 1
If you read anything today, tomorrow, this week, this year, this should be that read.
Susan Abulhawa's speech to the Oxford Union debate last week.
Susan Abulhawa's speech to the Oxford Union debate last week.
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Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.
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10. Not enough barristers to cover cases. Often - especially in serious, specialised and difficult work such as Rape and Serious Sexual Offences - the CPS will not be able to find an available barrister, due to so many having quit. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrist...
Barristers to quit RASSO work, survey suggests
Barristers cite poor pay and emotional exhaustion for wanting to quit rape and serious sexual offences work.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
10. Not enough barristers to cover cases. Often - especially in serious, specialised and difficult work such as Rape and Serious Sexual Offences - the CPS will not be able to find an available barrister, due to so many having quit. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrist...
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9. Queues to enter the court building taking over an hour, due to insufficient numbers of security staff to conduct the on-the-door checks. Meaning jurors, witnesses, interpreters and defendants are stuck outside the building while the hours tick by.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
9. Queues to enter the court building taking over an hour, due to insufficient numbers of security staff to conduct the on-the-door checks. Meaning jurors, witnesses, interpreters and defendants are stuck outside the building while the hours tick by.
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8. A lift being broken (lying unfixed for weeks because no engineer can be found/afforded), meaning that a disabled witness cannot attend a trial.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
8. A lift being broken (lying unfixed for weeks because no engineer can be found/afforded), meaning that a disabled witness cannot attend a trial.
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7. The ancient court plumbing giving up, meaning no running water or flushing toilets, meaning everybody is sent home.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
7. The ancient court plumbing giving up, meaning no running water or flushing toilets, meaning everybody is sent home.
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6. The nationwide breakdown of the Crown Court Digital Case System and/or Common Platform.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
6. The nationwide breakdown of the Crown Court Digital Case System and/or Common Platform.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
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5. The Crown Prosecution Service failing to serve key evidence or critical disclosure until the day of trial, giving insufficient time for the defence to consider it, and causing the trial to be adjourned.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
5. The Crown Prosecution Service failing to serve key evidence or critical disclosure until the day of trial, giving insufficient time for the defence to consider it, and causing the trial to be adjourned.
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4. Judge having extra hearings shoved into their courtrooms during a trial, meaning that the trial overruns. Or, if the trial cannot overrun - because jurors or the judge have immovable commitments - the trial collapses and is adjourned for a year or two
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
4. Judge having extra hearings shoved into their courtrooms during a trial, meaning that the trial overruns. Or, if the trial cannot overrun - because jurors or the judge have immovable commitments - the trial collapses and is adjourned for a year or two
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3. The Witness Care Unit forgetting to tell witnesses to attend trial. Meaning the whole trial has to be adjourned.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
3. The Witness Care Unit forgetting to tell witnesses to attend trial. Meaning the whole trial has to be adjourned.
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2. The court forgetting to book an interpreter for a defendant.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
2. The court forgetting to book an interpreter for a defendant.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
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1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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This image is increasingly central to my philosophy of technology
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This image is increasingly central to my philosophy of technology
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I don't want to seem old but remember when you could open a program and not have it beg you to use a feature you've said no to a dozen times?
Or a website didn't beg you for your email address.
Literally this site reminded me of how the interact button works as I wrote this.
Or a website didn't beg you for your email address.
Literally this site reminded me of how the interact button works as I wrote this.
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I don't want to seem old but remember when you could open a program and not have it beg you to use a feature you've said no to a dozen times?
Or a website didn't beg you for your email address.
Literally this site reminded me of how the interact button works as I wrote this.
Or a website didn't beg you for your email address.
Literally this site reminded me of how the interact button works as I wrote this.
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Clicked the link expecting a hefty price tag and I was delighted to see that the paperback is only 36 euro with the discount!
If I've done my sums right, the book is available to pre-order on Tuesday, and Tuesday is also the final day of Routledge's 'Black Friday' sale which means everything is 25% off. So if anyone was thinking about pre-ordering, Tuesday might be a good day for it.
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
www.routledge.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Clicked the link expecting a hefty price tag and I was delighted to see that the paperback is only 36 euro with the discount!
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What's frustrating about #Budget2025 is the wasted year.
Labour could have scrapped the two-child limit, cut energy bills and done a freeze on rail fares in last year's Budget.
Instead they tried to target pensioners and disabled people, and were forced into embarassing u-turns and lost goodwill.
Labour could have scrapped the two-child limit, cut energy bills and done a freeze on rail fares in last year's Budget.
Instead they tried to target pensioners and disabled people, and were forced into embarassing u-turns and lost goodwill.
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What's frustrating about #Budget2025 is the wasted year.
Labour could have scrapped the two-child limit, cut energy bills and done a freeze on rail fares in last year's Budget.
Instead they tried to target pensioners and disabled people, and were forced into embarassing u-turns and lost goodwill.
Labour could have scrapped the two-child limit, cut energy bills and done a freeze on rail fares in last year's Budget.
Instead they tried to target pensioners and disabled people, and were forced into embarassing u-turns and lost goodwill.
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Today and every day, we contemplate parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Today and every day, we contemplate parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine.
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The whitewashed story of unity with the Wampanoag people—who have long lived in what is today southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island—obscures the true history and ongoing violence against Indigenous life.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The whitewashed story of unity with the Wampanoag people—who have long lived in what is today southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island—obscures the true history and ongoing violence against Indigenous life.
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
The IGF.
A crime against humanity that should be on every news bulletin worldwide for days.
It will remain largely unseen and unknown.
This is #Zionism .
This is what genocide looks like.
A crime against humanity that should be on every news bulletin worldwide for days.
It will remain largely unseen and unknown.
This is #Zionism .
This is what genocide looks like.
IGF terrorists executed two Palestinians in Jenin today. The two Palestinians surrendered and left the building with their hands raised. The soldiers forced them to crawl back inside before shooting them. The execution was recorded on a Palestinian journalists camera
#AbolishIsrael #EqualRights
#AbolishIsrael #EqualRights
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The IGF.
A crime against humanity that should be on every news bulletin worldwide for days.
It will remain largely unseen and unknown.
This is #Zionism .
This is what genocide looks like.
A crime against humanity that should be on every news bulletin worldwide for days.
It will remain largely unseen and unknown.
This is #Zionism .
This is what genocide looks like.
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IGF terrorists executed two Palestinians in Jenin today. The two Palestinians surrendered and left the building with their hands raised. The soldiers forced them to crawl back inside before shooting them. The execution was recorded on a Palestinian journalists camera
#AbolishIsrael #EqualRights
#AbolishIsrael #EqualRights
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
IGF terrorists executed two Palestinians in Jenin today. The two Palestinians surrendered and left the building with their hands raised. The soldiers forced them to crawl back inside before shooting them. The execution was recorded on a Palestinian journalists camera
#AbolishIsrael #EqualRights
#AbolishIsrael #EqualRights
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💉 One thing I rarely see explained is how vaccination *is* "natural immunity".
The immunity is developed by your body not the vaccine. The vaccine itself doesn’t do the work.
I think the confusion partly comes from a phrase scientists use. 🧵⬇️
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The immunity is developed by your body not the vaccine. The vaccine itself doesn’t do the work.
I think the confusion partly comes from a phrase scientists use. 🧵⬇️
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RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
Ralph Abraham is “dangerous,” but somehow not the worst among those considered.
arstechnica.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
💉 One thing I rarely see explained is how vaccination *is* "natural immunity".
The immunity is developed by your body not the vaccine. The vaccine itself doesn’t do the work.
I think the confusion partly comes from a phrase scientists use. 🧵⬇️
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The immunity is developed by your body not the vaccine. The vaccine itself doesn’t do the work.
I think the confusion partly comes from a phrase scientists use. 🧵⬇️
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