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Dr Sarah Irving

@drtermagant.bsky.social

History lecturer (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member at @staffsucu.bsky.social

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The most shocking aerial footage yet of Gaza, filmed two days ago from aboard an β€˜aid’ airdrop plane.
(Mosab Abu Toha, X)

#Gaza #IsraeliWarCrimes

04.08.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Fantastic position for any #histmed people!

03.08.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really upset to see you leading with clickbait headlines based on Reform allegations, which you go on to admit are not verified, at a time when asylum seekers’ lives are being put in danger by racist mobs. I thought The Dispatch was better than that. Please consider me an ex-reader.

04.08.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The conditions that some inbred animals get are horrific. People who do that should experience very bad things

04.08.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?

β€œThe more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear” β€” powerful and brave personal essay by my NYU colleague Lihi Ben Shitrit for @forward.com

04.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Three cats - two black and one tabby - curled up on a pale grey blanket

Three cats - two black and one tabby - curled up on a pale grey blanket

She is gorgeous. These are my three rescue monsters:

04.08.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And the way that the breed standards from organisations like the Kennel Club read just sounds like fucking nineteenth century eugenics

04.08.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also buying deliberately bred animals when the shelters are stuffed is human beings suck #3

04.08.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Also please let me know if you’re ever doing guest spots in the UK. Definitely in the market for one of your cattoos 😁

04.08.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, you sound like a sane and decent human being, which is very different from the scum that breed these animals

04.08.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Human beings suck #2

04.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Human beings suck #1

04.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@callymeg.bsky.social @peterwatts.bsky.social

04.08.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This man is a Conservative MP and former No.10 adviser.

04.08.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 876    πŸ” 301    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 72
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Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working β€˜exactly as intended’

"What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster? That's what people who want to get rid of it need to answer."

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

04.08.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

Incredible work.

03.08.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

If we found anyone submitting a piece to POMEPS that used ChatGPT or other AI it would be rejected and the author would go on our do not publish redlist. It’s not something that any serious academic or intellectual should do. It shouldn’t be legitimated or normalized.

03.08.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Default 20mph speed limit on restricted roads | National monitoring report (July 2025) | Transport for Wales Transport for Wales | Buy Cheap Train Tickets and Check Train Times

All the latest data from Transport for Wales is here (updated mid July).

The reduction in casualties is being achieved with minor increases in vehicle journey times (mostly under 2 mins) & greater journey time reliability.

As Drakeford rightly said in 2023: β€œβ€¦ it doesn't seem an unfair bargain”

03.08.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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"Shortly after midnight, Israeli artillery directly struck the upper floors of the Society's building."

"The repeated strikes during evacuation and rescue operations clearly demonstrate that the shelling was deliberate and systematic."

03.08.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@marchudson.bsky.social

03.08.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜the new Reform administration in Kent recently wrote to the home secretary complaining that new rules preventing care homes from hiring from abroad would β€œleave providers on a cliff edge”.’

03.08.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe β€˜grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

03.08.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1401    πŸ” 486    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 28

I am not enjoying the future one bit

03.08.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

The author (I won’t legitimise him with the title of journalist) was in the IDF. He is a liar and he is covering up war crimes.

03.08.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

03.08.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6
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Right to buy in England β€˜fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers Β£200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the β€˜largest giveaways in UK history’ Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost Β£200bn, according to a report into the policy’s contribution to Britain’s housing crisis. In its report into the sale of millions of council homes to their tenants at steep discounts since 1980, the Common Wealth thinktank said the policy had fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality. Continue reading...

Right to buy in England β€˜fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers Β£200bn’

03.08.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 21
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I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA

I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us

03.08.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 349    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 16

Disinterested vs uninterested

03.08.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As A Brown University Alumnus, Let Me Say: Fuck This β€” Assigned A Brown alumnus recalls his time at the β€˜gayest’ university and calls for the Brown community to stand united against the Trump deal.

A reminiscence on trans college life in the closet and a big fuck you to Brown University for trading the rights of their trans students to the Trump Administration in this special Sunday piece by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social.

03.08.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 408    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 11

Is genocide denial part of the job spec?

03.08.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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