Sue Timmis
@suetim.bsky.social
Recovering academic, HE researcher, social and climate justice, inequalities, geopolitics. Also gardener, art and culture lover. Green/left politics. Bristol, UK
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Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
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But the obvious lesson to learn is this.
When weighing how to act - & even if your group of Downing Street decision-makers is predominantly middle class white men - consider EVERYONE. Including the vulnerable. The voiceless. The overlooked. The people who don't look or sound like you.
When weighing how to act - & even if your group of Downing Street decision-makers is predominantly middle class white men - consider EVERYONE. Including the vulnerable. The voiceless. The overlooked. The people who don't look or sound like you.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
But the obvious lesson to learn is this.
When weighing how to act - & even if your group of Downing Street decision-makers is predominantly middle class white men - consider EVERYONE. Including the vulnerable. The voiceless. The overlooked. The people who don't look or sound like you.
When weighing how to act - & even if your group of Downing Street decision-makers is predominantly middle class white men - consider EVERYONE. Including the vulnerable. The voiceless. The overlooked. The people who don't look or sound like you.
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
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My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.
I spent a lot of time this semester explaining why it produces bad work but at the end of the day, they're being asked to do a thing they find difficult, and this makes it easy for them, without any meaningful consequence. And the university encourages them to use it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.
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Dumb for the people - cunning for his boss. Where is justice? “Now new emails released to Byline Times, following a freedom of information request, reveal the true extent of Dominic Cummings’ subsequent involvement in lobbying senior officials to hand over huge Covid contracts to Thiel’s company”
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Dumb for the people - cunning for his boss. Where is justice? “Now new emails released to Byline Times, following a freedom of information request, reveal the true extent of Dominic Cummings’ subsequent involvement in lobbying senior officials to hand over huge Covid contracts to Thiel’s company”
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
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😂😂 This is spot on - lol
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
😂😂 This is spot on - lol
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For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.
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When you moan that ethnic minorities “won’t integrate” and then complain that TV adverts show integrated, mixed-race families, you’re not defending British culture — you’re just proving Schrödinger’s racism: minorities are wrong whether they fit in or not.
October 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
When you moan that ethnic minorities “won’t integrate” and then complain that TV adverts show integrated, mixed-race families, you’re not defending British culture — you’re just proving Schrödinger’s racism: minorities are wrong whether they fit in or not.
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Beautiful job. This is what just we need Zack.
So impressed I've just joined the Green Party!
So impressed I've just joined the Green Party!
October 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Beautiful job. This is what just we need Zack.
So impressed I've just joined the Green Party!
So impressed I've just joined the Green Party!
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Zack Polanski genuinely gives me hope that we can have a different kind of politics, different kind of government as opposed to the 49 years of shite I’ve lived under.
“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”
Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
October 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Zack Polanski genuinely gives me hope that we can have a different kind of politics, different kind of government as opposed to the 49 years of shite I’ve lived under.
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Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
October 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Thread 🧵
@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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"The film ends with these lines spoken by the character of Gandhi, ‘When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it: always.’"
My reflection on the movie "Gandhi" (1982) notes that for any movement for social justice to achieve its goals, it requires the endurance of the long-distance runner more than the brief burst of speed of the sprinter.
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Gandhi The Movie: A child in the 80s learns about resistance
‘There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.’
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October 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"The film ends with these lines spoken by the character of Gandhi, ‘When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it: always.’"
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I was just talking to my students on Monday about how settler colonialism creates the conditions of data extraction that we encounter today. I ended class by talking about Blackboard (which we use) & asking them if they know how their data is being used and who it is being shared with.
If your institution requires you to use Blackboard for teaching (like me), be aware its parent company is broke and it's getting new private equity owners whose plans for the platform, and how they'll capitalize on it, remain unknown (bet it includes "AI") onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/anthology-...
October 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I was just talking to my students on Monday about how settler colonialism creates the conditions of data extraction that we encounter today. I ended class by talking about Blackboard (which we use) & asking them if they know how their data is being used and who it is being shared with.
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The migrant crisis is a crisis for the migrants. They are in crisis and need safe routes, asylum and compassion
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The migrant crisis is a crisis for the migrants. They are in crisis and need safe routes, asylum and compassion
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"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.
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Explained exactly this yesterday.
In the same studio
In the same studio
This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service
"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."
Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.
Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.
September 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Explained exactly this yesterday.
In the same studio
In the same studio
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Oh. So when you trained them on the notes of medical doctors they repeated the same biases.
Odd that.
Odd that.
The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
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September 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Oh. So when you trained them on the notes of medical doctors they repeated the same biases.
Odd that.
Odd that.
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I fail to see how Reform UK can distance themselves from this - it was Farage and his team that gave Aseem Malholtra a platform for his vaccine conspiracy theories.
As @drrachelclarke.com says, vaccines save lives. If you have concerns then speak to an NHS doctor or nurse.
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As @drrachelclarke.com says, vaccines save lives. If you have concerns then speak to an NHS doctor or nurse.
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This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4
September 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I fail to see how Reform UK can distance themselves from this - it was Farage and his team that gave Aseem Malholtra a platform for his vaccine conspiracy theories.
As @drrachelclarke.com says, vaccines save lives. If you have concerns then speak to an NHS doctor or nurse.
bsky.app/profile/drra...
As @drrachelclarke.com says, vaccines save lives. If you have concerns then speak to an NHS doctor or nurse.
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Nice to see prompt policy coverage from the new Green leader: simple, principled, assertive, clear and progressive proposition we need to hear much more of!
'This country needs migrants'
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Nice to see prompt policy coverage from the new Green leader: simple, principled, assertive, clear and progressive proposition we need to hear much more of!
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Look how easy it is
This is what Labour should be saying
New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on immigration
We need stark truth and some left populism. Let’s hope it brings the same media fascination as it does for Farage’s lies & far right populism
This is what Labour should be saying
New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on immigration
We need stark truth and some left populism. Let’s hope it brings the same media fascination as it does for Farage’s lies & far right populism
'This country needs migrants'
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
September 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Look how easy it is
This is what Labour should be saying
New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on immigration
We need stark truth and some left populism. Let’s hope it brings the same media fascination as it does for Farage’s lies & far right populism
This is what Labour should be saying
New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on immigration
We need stark truth and some left populism. Let’s hope it brings the same media fascination as it does for Farage’s lies & far right populism
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Stop, look and listen, for here comes the AI antichrist
AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Stop, look and listen, for here comes the AI antichrist
AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Stop, look and listen, for here comes the AI antichrist
AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?