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Necropolitics

Support Hamza with Medical Bills Jane Shi on behalf on Hamza:

"Last donation: March 16

Hamza Salha is a 23-year-old journalist who recently left Gaza to attend university in Ireland via the Limerick University scholarship program. He needs support for medical care, as genocide has taken a toll on his body, mind, and soul."

Let me live!

I've seen it 3 times already

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

'In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.'

'Once students got their offers, they were passed on to the visa team, and finally delivered to universities as a fully wrapped, fee-paying package.'

That guardian piece well worth reading. One dark flipside of marketisation is that students aren't just consumers, they're commodities. The neocolonial dynamic of the modern British university is that, through a semi-official scam, global south students are hoovered up for debt.

looking forward to gifting it to my friend who is an elite boxer AND soon-to-be History graduate

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

ay qué alegría ver una ardilla roja!! Aquí en Irlanda hay un problema con las grises invadiéndolo todo 😅

Hi Sarah, I'm a former researcher and I was thinking for a while about exploring depictions of boxing in 1800s literature, but I'm just now teaching full-time. I'm so happy I have found your profile and I'm very excited about your book!! It's an opportunity to keep learning.

Exhausted Palestinians struggle to put lives back together as world’s gaze fixes on Iran Five months after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, airstrikes are still killing civilians, and the humanitarian situation remains dire

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

'We are speaking in a code, the language of catastrophe, where the holes in the ground have also carved out larger holes in the language'

MU student Abdallah Aljazzar writes on the experience of Gazan students in Ireland

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/...

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

University of Galway plans to end and replace arts course amid fall-off in interest ‘Urgent’ reform aims to meet changing needs of students as they seek ‘direct routes to employment’

Funnily enough, I don't see any mention of the corporatisation of third level education.

"A fall-off in interest". “Direct routes to employment”. "Drift away from arts courses." "Perceived lower occupational return." "A shift in emphasis... towards Stem."
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Humiliated in the media, denied healthcare, attacked by the human rights watchdog, shut out by the Supreme Court, bullied by social services and the police, disadvantaged in the jobs market, death figures covered up by the State, harassment de facto legalised, and attackers deified by Ministers.

Bid to encourage protection for hedgehogs as numbers fall A new initiative is to be launched in a bid to encourage people to help protect hedgehogs as numbers of the mammal "dramatically" decline across Europe.

Protect our hedgehog pals!
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Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch Picturing Scholasticide is a traveling exhibition initiated by staff and students of Leiden University to publicize the social and legal effects of Israel's effort to destroy Palestinian institutions ...

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

The other day I thought about Eat the Ones You Love because I went to Dun Laoghaire shopping centre.

Shannon airport has long been put at the disposal of the US military by Irish authorities.

Now it is facilitating ICE deportations which may amount to human trafficking or even crimes against humanity.

For a country that speaks loudly in support of the rights of Palestinians, this is shameful.

it’s so wild when you read Black theorists all throughout the 1900s literally predicting all of this… you cannot maintain a white supremacist, patriarchal state without those same genocidal logics being visited on its own people… it’s only a matter of time.

Racialized Contagion and Defensive Biopolitics in <em>The Last of Us</em> In the opening moments of the video game The Last of Us Part I, players are introduced to an emerging pandemic via Austin’s Texas Herald newspaper. Below a headline warning of mass hospitalizations fr...

"Racialized Contagion and Defensive Biopolitics in The Last of Us" by Robert Yeates (@bobyeates.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/olh...

Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Gaming and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Essays on The Last of Us (2013-)

The OLH Open Access Award 2026: call for applications The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2026, a fund dedicated …

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component.

📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/

Comer menos carne sigue siendo lo mejor para el planeta (aunque su industria diga lo contrario) Las campañas financiadas por la UE para defender la sostenibilidad del vacuno chocan con la evidencia científica: tomar menos productos cárnicos y más legumbres reduce el impacto medioambiental de la ...

¿Comer menos carne sigue siendo mejor para el planeta? Según la dietista-nutricionista Lucía Martínez, sí. elpais.com/gastronomia/...

'Misogyny is not an incidental feature or optional add-on or comorbidity. Misogyny is the beating heart of a fascism that violently safeguards and shores up white male authority—by punishing any social subordinate who questions authority figures.'

He murdered her because she dared to be unafraid.

Me to my cat: Have you had any water today?

My cat: Have YOU had any water today??

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I've dreamt that I was charged €17 for a Coke in UCD.

Home is always where the heart is, no matter how hard the times are ❤️‍🩹🫂