What is life without bookshelves?!

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies

Chanting at music festivals is not the actual problem. Israel's genocide is. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

How is this anything other than blatant censorship? Our national broadcaster deciding, preemptively, that some artist may hold certain views and refusing to broadcast their performances in case they express said views.

Strikes kill 94 Palestinians in Gaza, including 45 people waiting for aid, authorities say Airstrikes and shootings killed 82 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 38 while attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid

But Bob Vylan and Kneecap are the bad guys for calling this out apparently

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Israeli forces kill 15-year-old Palestinian boy after settlers attack West Bank towns, officials say | CNN Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian health authorities said, as settler violence against Palestinians surged in the occupied territory.

Ondertussen in de West Bank: o.a. 15-jarig kind en 66-jarige vrouw doodgeschoten, kolonisten vallen Palestijnen aan om ze te verjagen. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/26/m...

Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics.

We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.

Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.

Heartened to see @shannonvallor.bsky.social quoted in this.

Backlash against bad things is good, and I'm glad to see it reach a level necessitating a trend piece like this one.

www.wired.com/story/genera...

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L'Université de Berne interdit un débat d'Amnesty sur la Palestine Le débat sur la situation dans les territoires palestiniens qu'Amnesty International prévoyait d'organiser lundi à l'Université de Berne tombe à l'eau. L'établissement s'est rétracté, retirant l'autor...

BREAKING: The University of Bern @unibe.ch just cancelled Monday's @amnesty.org International event on Palestine & Gaza with UN Special Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social.
Complete destruction of academic freedom and human rights considerations at University of Bern.
www.rts.ch/info/regions...

I have many snarky things to say about this philanthrocapitalist propaganda sponsored by the family that brought you food deserts.

But let’s keep it simple.

Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.

"It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services... more to the point, the idea that only science really matters has been enormously destructive."

There is no research infrastructure without a full research infrastructure.

Once again, the Israeli media has never shrunk from reporting what is actually happening, or from identifying it as a mortifying disgrace.

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Ukrainians who fled to UK being refused asylum on grounds it is ‘safe to return’ Law firm says it hears weekly from Ukrainians, including vulnerable women and children, who were turned down

Appalling and shameful. We should be better than this.

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news

Graphic reading: International Open Access Week Who Owns Our Knowledge? October 20-26, 2025 #OAWeek on the side we see images of various researchers and academics working with the open access logo logo over them. By SPARC Europe, CC-BY licence

Today @sparcopen.bsky.social announced the theme for this year's Open Access Week!

We've already got ideas cooking for this one!

if you're a researcher, what are your biggest concerns when it comes to the ownership of your work? How do they impact your decision to publish open access?

Israeli attacks on Palestinian heritage amount to war crimes, UN report finds The independent UN investigative body released the findings last week

According to the UN, Israel’s attacks on educational and cultural sites in Gaza and the West Bank amount to crimes against humanity.

“Member states’ continued sales of weapons and business relations with Israel [are] acts of complicity.”

What we're doing in the uni sector is shutting off routes for kids with Bs and Cs to do key (and prestigious) subjects, and closing down the ability of young people to go to the local uni just when it becomes ruinous expensive to go way. Will have incalculable consequences for social mobility.

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And *that* is why you're the brains behind Romantic ridiculousness 🤣

Three years without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Three years of cruelty. Three years of women denied care, criminalized for miscarriages, and forced to cross state lines in crisis. Three years of the GOP screaming “freedom” while snatching away our bodily autonomy. (1/2)

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."

Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
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Bleakly depressing but fascinating

Couldn't agree more!

Our statement on our film we made with and inside the BBC; now available to all interested parties; | Ben de Pear Our statement on our film we made with and inside the BBC; now available to all interested parties; We are relieved that the BBC will finally allow this film to be released, which for a period of wee...

BBC has shelved a film about doctors in Gaza wich might "create a perception of partiality". Director and former C4 News editor Ben De Pear, said sorry to film's sources "for not believing them when they said the BBC would never run a film like this" www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Met Police chief 'shocked' by planned Palestine Action protest in London The force says it cannot legally stop Monday's protest in support of the pro-Palestine group.

Embarrassing drivel being mobilised towards the UK government’s aim of making it simply illegal to oppose the Gaza genocide.

Met chief 'shocked' by planned Palestine Action protest www.bbc.com/news/article...

The copyright war between the AI industry and creatives We have surely gone beyond being able to give the tech sector the benefit of the doubt

'the creative industries represent much of the best of what the UK and humanity does. The idea of handing over its output for free is abhorrent.'

The underlying principles here are hardly controversial. We have agreed, as societies, that intellectual property should be protected. It is right that people should benefit from their labour. So, it is also right that the businesses that develop and publish books, music, films and so forth should benefit from their work. Moreover, it is not only right, but economically beneficial. It creates economic value. If companies wish to benefit from the creativity of others, they should pay them. That is why civilised countries recognise copyright.

It amazes me that all this is debatable.

Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

“Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?”