🚨COUNTER PROTEST: Defend Refugees! Stop the far-right!
📍 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
🕦 11:30am
🗓️ Saturday 6th September
Join the counter protest and help to stop the anti-migrant racism whipped up by the far right.
#StopTheFarRight
#NoPasaran
Two fingers to #WesStreeting.
Victory to #BMAResident Doctors.
Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.
The government’s disability cuts could breach equality law due to their “devastating” impact on women’s dignity, experts warn.
The new rules won’t take into account menstruation or some women’s extra toilet needs.
My story in tomorrow’s paper: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee.
Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us.
Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.
Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained.
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
"An Atlantic puffin on Maine's on Eastern Egg Rock appears to imitate a decoy on July 9 by standing on one leg. Decoys were used to lure the gregarious birds ashore after they were re-introduced to the island following a 100-year absence." CREDIT: Robert F. Bukaty
Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds.
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Nice photo too
Today is the 500th anniversary of the execution, following extensive torture, of Thomas Müntzer, a radical theologian and leading revolutionary figure in the German Peasants' War.
Thousands to mobilise for Friday's megapicket as Birmingham strike enters eighth week
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thou...
#Birmingham #Megapicket #StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike
Come talk about the megapicket at this on Wednesday?
On the 04 May 1978 racists murdered 25-year-old clothing machinist #AltabAli in Tower Hamlets.
Racism is a murderous ideology.
Unity is the key to fighting racism.
#NeverAgain. #RIP.
This week's podcast features Ian Rintoul looking at how the Labor-style SPD has paved the way for the rise of the far right in Germany and drawing lessons for the federal election in Australia.
LOL
Looking forward to facilitating this collective discussion of how women could design cities - Friday next week at 6.30pm @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/authorsbookmarks-dr-may-east-what-if-women-designed-the-city-tickets-1301081843819
Heard Island shag bird
In need of a good Shag today?
We are here to help. This is the Heard Island Shag, an endemic bird only found in Heard and McDonald Island. We have about 1000 breeding pairs, depending on weather and food conditions.
May the rest of your week be full of gregarious Shags!
New Dundee University plan scales back job cuts www.bbc.com/news/article...
@ducuuo.bsky.social says it’s due to UCU pressure
Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.
bird nest in a tree made of coathangers
Crows nest made of coat hangers
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NEWS: West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley, who is suffering from the early stages of black lung disease, is suing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the admin’s misguided and harmful gutting of the NIOSH facility in Morgantown, WV westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/23/j...
Emperor penguin males huddled while sitting in eggs . We mainly have king penguins on Heard Island but emperors do visit sometimes they just don’t breed here
Toxic masculinity isn’t a concern here, and we don’t view empathy as toxic. For centuries, adult males have huddled together, protecting the colony’s most vulnerable, giving their future a chance amidst the raging storms that threaten them.
“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Image promoting our strike rally on 12-1pm on 1 May outside UCU head office in London.
📣 May Day Rally 📣
We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London.
All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace.
#ThriveNotSurvive
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social in @socialistworker.bsky.social: Why the far right exploits #transphobia: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
Need this every time
