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Swindon Town FC; Clapton CFC; punk; post-punk; indie-pop; retired university librarian 🍉
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My weekly list of must-read articles, along with some organizing resources, thoughts on disappearing data, an update on student repression, and a call to keep fighting. ❤️

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

My favourite LPs of 2024 - 1/3 @oceanator.bsky.social - Everything Is Love & Death Bad Moves - Wearing Out The Refrain Schande - Once Around @supermilk4u.bsky.social - High Precision Ghosts Cherym - Take It Or Leave It

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

🌲🎁 @fightmilkband.bsky.social @healees.bsky.social Schande Mt. Misery

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods. It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’

submitted 79 days ago • 33 comments

We stand with many others urging the Home Office to keep processing asylum claims by people from Syria. Through our services, we're hearing first-hand how fearful the community is that they may be asked to leave. Many have already waited over six months, unable to work or rebuild their lives.

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Genocide: "By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

incredible piece from the legends at Trans Kids Deserve Better on stunning action outside Wes Streeting’s constituency office yesterday. so much of the coverage of the puberty blocker ban has spoken for or over trans kids - now hear directly from them: www.huckmag.com/article/we-a...

submitted 90 days ago • 4 comments

Again, the bigger story is the harm they’re causing in applying a business model to Higher Education that simply doesn’t work. The egregious money-grabbing is a symptom of that disconnect between management and reality of universities.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Listen to The Dig’s Thawra series: In 1949, the CIA conducted its first coup—not in Iran or Guatemala but in Syria. It sparked a history of recurrent coups, undermining prospects for popular democracy—and ultimately leading to the military takeover of the Ba’ath Party and rise of Assad regime 1/

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone else been listening to #FileOn4 & absolutely fuming at the the scandal of university funding? Industrial scale exploitation of foreign students, used as cash cows with no regard for their plausible ability to complete the courses. International recruitment agencies raking in the profits...

submitted 98 days ago • 20 comments

Oxford college referred to charity regulator over ÂŁ1m investment in Israeli settlements - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oxford-college-referred-charity-regulator-over-ps1m-investment-israeli-settlements

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Free-to-read tonight, because I think this one needs it. #stfc

submitted 108 days ago • 5 comments

Photographer Roman Manfredi’s new work Fair Play is a portrait/documentary project featuring players from Clapton CFC’s women and non-binary development and reserves teams. Launches November 21 and runs until December 3 at Handbag Factory, Vauxhall. www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2024/11/07/c...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Moth Club is one of the very best small venues in the whole of the UK. The fact that it's under threat is appalling. Please sign. www.change.org/p/moth-club-...

submitted 109 days ago • 5 comments

as of this moment our government is selling arms to a country being governed by a man now officially wanted for crimes against humanity and war crimes… starmer must act and bring in an immediate halt to arms sales to israel.

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

Good - now how about Starmer and Biden who have been supporting and arming Israel's crimes against humanity?

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation". But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.

submitted 113 days ago • 19 comments

Worth noting that during the '84 miners strike there was no support and zero donations from the local farming community. They treated us with complete disdain

submitted 113 days ago • 22 comments

ANNOUNCING 🍉 The Watermelon Index, a tool for worker-led resistance against the genocide in Palestine. Explore our database of over 400 complicit companies and the campaigns against them: http://bit.ly/3YYu0jv

submitted 112 days ago • 3 comments