Caleb Day

I think these are good commitments and challenges with significance beyond (specifically) feminist theology too.

Somehow it makes the current @labouruk.bsky.social leadership's intentional cruelty towards refugees seem even worse when you consider that 10 years ago the minister in charge did indeed recognise refugees as human beings, visit them, show compassion, and support rational humane solutions.

Wow, doubling down

WAR CRIMES DON'T HIDE SEX CRIMES!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

Wait, got autism and adhd mixed up, autism was indeed two years (in 2022)

Two years? I was told six on the standard nhs list and that was in 2024!

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in no way are God’s plans served by slaughtering children. How Christianity relates to this situation is that Jesus made abundantly clear he suffers and dies with all other victims of empire

An infographic with weighing scales showing that the majority of universities not on X outweigh those still using the platform

If you are part of a university or UK facing research organisation, publisher, funder, learned society and they are still posting on X - they're in a rather uncomfortable minority now. Perhaps point them to the eXit.

My piece for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Starmer must withdraw permission for the US to use UK bases to launch airstrikes on Iran and parliament must be given a vote on any UK involvement.

The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.

And another new low. Helping the US commit war crimes. At least Blair had a pretext. God weeps and bleeds with the victims and all victims of violence.

This is yet another new low for this government. And as Gorton and Denton made undeniable, they’re not even doing it because they think it’s electorally useful, but because they want to.

Here is @ducu.bsky.social ‘s analysis of management’s most recent response to our request to negotiate. Management took extra time to deliver us a response that was a flat and unequivocal “no, we will negotiate NOTHING with you.”

durhamucu.org.uk/ducus-analys...

Durham University staff start industrial action in workload row Durham University says the action, which could last for six months, is

It's ASOS time, everyone! We regularly hear from colleagues that they're working, to use a technical term, "silly hours"; way beyond what could be considered reasonable. It wasn't our first choice to end that via action short of strike, but it was clear SOMETHING needed to be done, so here we are.

I agree. I can’t believe Labour made up a fake tactical voting organisation & am just relieved it didn’t work. It wouldve given Stogia a tainted mandate & added to concerns abt Labour as anti-democratic (eg reducing protest rights, refusing real electoral reform, selecting loyalist candidates only).

Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

This is a good speech. It’s also fun to watch Matt Goodwin in the background, knowing all this and wondering if he might have been better off saying all this directly than deciding about eight years ago that it’s more politically realistic to scapegoat minorities for neoliberal capitalism’s harms.

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility." from "Deep in Admiration" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Our ballot returned another big mandate. I hope we won't have to use it and management do the right thing. There's still time to resolve this by simply stopping the victimisation of our colleague.

🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

🔥 Two week ballot window
🔥 75% turnout
🔥 73% YES to strike action
🔥 81% YES to ASOS

Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated.

UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us.

#HandsOffMarie

All “Labour” have done is various failed attempts to continue that 14 years of austerity through benefit cuts to children, elderly, disabled people, cuts to healthcare services, cuts to aid, cancelling elections, etc, refusing to tax wealth or disrupt increasing inequality.

A new low in @labouruk.bsky.social‘s desperate attempt to get Reform to win the by-election.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

If the paper that supported fascism in the 20s (both 20s) considers you a menace you’re probably doing something right

Sending massive solidarity to Ryan and everyone at @uniteitf.bsky.social and elsewhere whose employers are undermining their own core values.

That comment has to do with the point I was making but ok

It’s my day job to channel and organise worker power. In my free time I sometimes do less constructive pursuits like arguing with people who think left-wing people should vote for a party at war with the left & trying (failing) to defeat the fascists by imitating them & starting their work for them