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A timely reminder here about the benefits (for most of us) of pen and paper note-taking. #university #teaching #education #learning #technology #academia theconversation.com/which-type-o...

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‘We have created laws to protect other beings such as cows and chickens. Why not give the smaller ones some protection too?’ – Vicki Hird #invertebrates #farming #sentience https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/25/do-worms-feel-pain-are-ants-happy-science-of-invertebrate-feelings?

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‘This is not just a #war between two states. This is a war between two systems: #authoritarianism and #democracy ‘. – Oleksandra Matviychuk #Russia #Ukraine #China #Syria #NorthKorea #freedom #HumanRights #peace https://youtu.be/OSIRA4tPrSo?si=MqieAn41PGSZgoT6

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Anyone trying to claim #Ukraine began this war is should be shown this document I pulled off the 🇷🇺 gov site in the 1st days of the war because I knew they would pull it or lock it. It’s locked. 🧵👇🏻👇🏻

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Honoured to be playing at a rally tomorrow in Federation Square to mark three years of Ukrainian resistance against Russian barbarism. My Russian grandmother would be proud of me. www.facebook.com/events/11846... catgutandair.com #Ukraine #music #charity #concert #peace #war #hope #Melbourne

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'Everything else might change in #music, but the dominant genre always pleases the feet'. – @tedgioia.bsky.social www.honest-broker.com/p/classical-...

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Excellent piece by Rick Morton on ‘handing the right to silence victim-survivors back to the very institutions that harboured their abusers’. #Catholic #Church #survivors #ChildSexualAbuse #DSS www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

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Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled. #art #NGA #censorship #genocide #palestine #colonialsm #racism www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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#Chicago

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In other news, last week a small #Rohingya community organisation in the UK has succeeded in securing the first ever arrest warrant for a head of the #Burmese military'. @burmacampaignuk.bsky.social burmacampaign.org.uk/first-arrest...

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Honoured to be joining fellow artists in supporting the Undefeated Spirit: Ukrainian #Crisis Appeal #Charity #Concert this Saturday at Collins Street #Baptist #Church in #Melbourne this Saturday night. catgutandair.com #Ukraine #music #charity #concert #war #crisis #hope #europe

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Against neutrality. youtube.com/live/5OxigLi...

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Honoured to join fellow artists in supporting the Undefeated Spirit: Ukrainian Crisis Appeal Charity Concert this Saturday at Collins Street Baptist Church in #Melbourne this Saturday night. #Ukraine #music #charity #concert whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do...

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'Gaza now looks like Nagasaki after the war'. Remembering genocide means remembering all victims of genocide.

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#Jews against #genocide. youtube.com/watch?v=Posm...

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I call on Creative Australia to reinstate Khaled Sabisabi as the artist selection for the Venice Bienalle. ‘A shameful call by Creative Australia’: the arts community reacts to Khaled Sabsabi being dropped from the Venice Biennale theconversation.com/a-shameful-c...

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Melanie Schweizer and @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social on the transformation of the #EU into a “war union,” the erosion of free speech in #Germany, and the global spread of #fascism. youtube.com/watch?v=5gob...

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‘Yes, somebody is making money from #music—just not the people who create it. There’s never been a better time in history to be an intermediary, a middleman, a hanger-on, an aggregator, a shyster’. – @tedgioia.bsky.social www.honest-broker.com/p/the-music-...

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In this lecture, 'Yarmouk Camp: From Birth to Destruction', Yousef Alreemawi will tell the story of the Yarmouk camp's construction in 1957 until its destruction in 2018 and why it gained the title of the capital of the Palestinian diaspora. #PublicLecture #Palestine #Lecture

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“The #carbon in #peatlands took hundreds to thousands of years to accumulate and cannot be replaced on timescales relevant to #climate change action.” – Dr Kemen Austin https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/worlds-largely-unprotected-peatlands-are-ticking-carbon-bomb-warns-study

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The #Jewish Council of #Australia opposes Parliamentary Inquiry recommendation to adopt controversial definition of #antisemitism. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish...

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'[A]bstractions like “America;” institutions like the presidency or the military; social phenomena like war or White supremacy. Each of these entities ... brings only death'. – Mac Loftin www.christiancentury.org/features/pol...

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‘US diplomats cannot be trusted’. – Geoffrey Robertson True. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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According to some observers, the ‘hottest topic’ for 2025 is whether universities have lost the public’s support to operate.

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Junta troops have burned down about 50 houses in Ahnankwin Village, in Kyarinnseikgyi Township, #Karen State since 29 January 2025 and were continuing to set houses on fire, as of 7 February. #Burma karennews.org/2025/02/junt...

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'The capacity to critique and challenge the actions of nation states remains a core tenet of socially engaged scholarship across a range of disciplines'. – An open letter, in solidarity w/ Randa Abdel-Fattah, @overlandjournal.bsky.social #Academia #Israel #Palestine overland.org.au/2025/02/open...

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“It is shocking how day after day naked acts of violence, breaches of the law, barbaric opinions appear quite undisguised as official decree.” – Victor Klemperer, 17 March 1933 newfascismsyllabus.com/contribution...

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'[C]apitalist success cannot be a decolonial destination'. – Tina Ngata #capitalism tinangata.com/2025/02/08/t...

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Working on a playlist for my class on suffering and theodicy. Suggestions welcome.

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‘[T]his is a moment to grasp the fascist passions that fuel this shameless grab for authoritarian powers. Those who celebrate [Trump’s] defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage’. – Judith Butler

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🎶 While we sit gloating in our greatness Justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea Living in the wasteland of the free Living in the wasteland of the free Living in the wasteland of the free 🎶 – Iris Dement

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Emergency Lifeline: Challenges to the right to #healthcare, and local efforts, in Southeast #Burma khrg.org/2024/12/24-5...

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The #Palestine #Israel Ecumenical Network is running a series of forums across #Australia with the aim of raising awareness around the situation for #Palestinian communities in #Gaza and surrounds. This first forum is in #Melbourne. events.humanitix.com/who-owns-the...

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It feels like 18 is like the worst age to be in hospital. The kids don’t have a clue and the parents have no power to advocate.

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Healthcare services in refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) were suspended on 27 January 2025, following an order from an American felon. karennews.org/2025/01/trum...

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Imagine if any of the liberal parties had learned anything from the role liberalism played in enabling the rise of fascism in the 20th century

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'The lack of explicit protections for the #dead in international human rights law creates difficulties beyond defining familial boundaries'. A great piece by @tylermcbrien.bsky.social.

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'[T]here are only two businesses that call their clients users—drug dealers and Internet businesses. The East India Company is a role model for both'. – @tedgioia.bsky.social www.honest-broker.com/p/google-is-...

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