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People who scream "homo", "paedo", "terrorist", "nonce", at you across a police barrier: it's not about changing their minds

A wee heads-up that @sarahlaurenson.bsky.social & I are organising a symposium on the cultural and material history of peatlands, 18 Nov at the NMS. There are still a few places available so tell your peat pals: my.nms.ac.uk/25176/25177

Even when he's not directly reading out the Whatsapp messages they sent him, Chris Mason's journalism is nothing more than "here's what the government want to say today, and here's how it will affect them". Honestly pathetic.

La présidente de l'UEJF témoigne sur BFMTV de la violence de militants du Rassemblement national contre des étudiants juifs au congrès du parti, venus dénoncer pacifiquement l'antisémitisme du parti. La présentatrice BFMTV lui demande :"Était-ce la meilleure manière de faire ?

If listening to music with no headphones on the bus is a £100 fine what is loudly slurping a drink and going "AHH!" repeatedly worth? Death penalty?

"A GROUP of 20 masked far-right thugs launched a failed attack on a public meeting organised by the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) in Glasgow on Thursday night." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-... Needless to say, this is extremely bad, Glasgow

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"Free event parking is available with registration. Register by November 3 to receive parking registration instructions." American academia and museums, can you please stop promoting car culture? There's not even a suggestion that public transport is in fact obviously and conveniently available

you can drill for oil, but you can't listen to drill on the bus! #burnhamsbritain

Glasgow, 1829. A sad story with a happy ending? @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Sp Coll Bh12-y.27

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Good thing we've still got BBC Scotland oh wait

!!! I am a big big fan of @historyworkshop.org.uk so it's a real honour to have them publish this piece on radical history, print culture and walking. With many thanks to brilliant editor @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social and @btwhite.bsky.social for the encouragement 📚

Reminded of this when the Guardian's France correspondent manages to oddly make what's happening in France all about how lovely things are in the UK by comparison www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is no official number of injured in Toulouse, and info is trickling through the politicised shit bit by bit. Here, a British pensioner visiting Toulouse had part of her calf blown off and plastic shrapnel from the grenades lodged in her knee. Was taken car of by street medic and restauranteur

Je n'ai pas de mots pour dire mon dégoût de la réaction du gouvernment et de la Justice qui suit ses instructions. La repression physique, judiciaire, tout a basculé tellement fort..

🇺🇸🚨 The @hindrajabfoundation.be has filed an urgent request with the U.S. Department of Justice, demanding the immediate investigation, arrest, and prosecution of Sean Glass, currently present in the United States. Glass commanded the Israeli unit implicated in Hind Rajab's murder.

Stupid man says something stupid about London for attention, just ignore him?

This happened on Sunday night during a community meeting in Berlin. www.instagram.com/p/DetCJZpCuJ...

tous les monde deteste la police

The new militarism, and its accompanying discourse of national virility, is capable of taking us to a very dark place indeed.

The government had been promising images of urban warfare, and nothing delivers better than riling up everyone. And I mean EVERYONE. There's not one segment of toulousan population that wasn't swearing at the police yesterday. Remember this is rugby town, and the other party wasn't playing fair.

So what happened at the landing point? The people holding the Union banner (CGT-FSU) were targeted by grenades. And are now recovering in the hospital. This is not how you garantee the freedom to peaceful assembly nor free speech. www.ici.fr/occitanie/ha...

the march was arriving at it's final destination Saint Cyprien, and riot police started charging and gassing the head of the march. The unions. In effect creating a humungous trap. People stuck on the bridge (pont des Catalans) that was packed. Here, supposed to be heading to the right (gas clouds)

Everything is gender as you can see by this graph we are spending more on effete social care than masculine warmongering, as such the tale of modern britain is that we’re girly and gay what do you say minister???

This is what the Labour Party is. Yesterday I burst out crying when someone said the scary thing is that Reform might get in. Some of us are already living under fascism. Some others of us don’t care enough to have noticed.

Just want to remind everyone that Tonia asked wacky 5G conspiracy questions in the House.

"Measurement on the Color Line: Scientific Instruments & Making of Human Categories" curated by Evelynn Hammonds "traces development of present-day notions of race thru sciences, measurements, & data that produced them" @ Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardmuseums #HPS 🧪 🗃️

Last year this was me and they put me in the men’s admission ward, obviously. Now they’d be tying themselves in knots, because they clearly couldn’t put me in women’s even if I was willing

austerity FOMO in action

That makes no sense at all, as any kind of principled antiracism. I see that it makes perfect sense, if the aim is to reimpose the two party system ASAP without anyone caring whether that is good or really giving a fuck what the excuses for doing it are.

Never ceases to surprise me how many of the most awful people from the past 10 are years are in the Lords, and they got there because of the awfulness, not in spite of it

one last call...

well done everybody www.rte.ie/entertainmen...