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Richard Hall

@hallymk1.bsky.social

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Prof of Education and Technology #walsallfc NTF PFHEA #decolonising The Hopeless University http://bit.ly/3plYOdB Alienated Academic http://bit.ly/2HjFQL6 #freepalestine 🇵🇸

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 8d

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 9d

Shocked about the Epstein story?

We’re not

It happens in every workplace, school, community organization

Just. Start. Believing. Victims

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Richard Hall, Anne Norton , and 2 more Elizabeth Saunders, Richard Hall, Anne Norton, Aviel Roshwald, Dan Immergluck

Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 12d

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained.

Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 13d

Likewise. I'm off to Rovers too. Idiocy.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 15d

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @ballioloxford.bsky.social

Founded in 1263 by John de Balliol, who kidnapped a bishop and had to support scholars at Oxford in penance

Bonus points if you can i/d the cars

If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard showing college buildings on a road, with a vintage car and pedestrians. The card dates from the 1910s

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 15d

"Vibe citations" 😂😂

www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/n...

AI conference's papers contaminated by AI hallucinations

: 100 vibe citations spotted in 51 NeurIPS papers show vetting efforts have room for improvement

www.theregister.com

Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 16d

Utter fucking garbage. Sadler out.

Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 16d

Exactly this

Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 16d

solidarity to those who fight fascism everywhere

Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 16d

💯

sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 16d

ICE is out here murdering people in cold blood and we can’t get democrats to even SAY “abolish ICE”, much less take any of the actions it would require to do so — investigations, impeachment, prosecutions, even whipping votes.

Democrats needed to be abandoned years ago.

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 16d

"I watch as mask goons beat the living shit out of a man who's buried underneath them. I brace myself for what I was about to see – ICE showed us what they did to Renee Good – and then I saw it: A point black execution."
Raw copy from David Farier www.webworm.co/icekillsagain/

It Was a Point Blank Execution

David Farrier's Webworm reports from the scene as ICE executes another American

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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 16d

ICE is out here murdering people in cold blood and we can’t get democrats to even SAY “abolish ICE”, much less take any of the actions it would require to do so — investigations, impeachment, prosecutions, even whipping votes.

Democrats needed to be abandoned years ago.

Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 16d

Should have stayed in the pub

Reposted by Kimberly A. Prather, Femi Oyebode, Richard Hall , and 6 more Kimberly A. Prather, Femi Oyebode, Richard Hall, Laura Huenneke, Robert B. Reich, Els Torreele, David Rosnick, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Stijn Smismans

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 16d

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 16d

solidarity to those who fight fascism everywhere

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 16d

What are you doing to build your community’s power to defend itself? That seems like the only important question right now. The protection racket our politicians use to exploit and extort us is revealed to be a scam with every new murder. Only we can save us, and only if we’re organized.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, John McLaren, Andreas Ortmann , and 5 more Jason Mittell, John McLaren, Andreas Ortmann, Richard Hall, John Foot, Charles W. Smith, Robert B. Reich, Robert Marten

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16d

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 16d

Francesca Albanese will receive an honorary doctorate from three Flemish universities 👏
www.brusselstimes.com/1924379/belg...

Belgian universities award honorary doctorate to UN rapporteur

Honouring tenacity: universities unite to award human rights lawyer for confronting international opposition and shining a light on Gaza’s plight.

www.brusselstimes.com

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Mark Bray, Richard Hall , and 4 more Shannon Vallor, Mark Bray, Richard Hall, Paul E. Smaldino, David Webster, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Dan Immergluck

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16d

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 17d

Might be a pyramid scheme, but it’s a hell of a pyramid

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Another said the US reliance on the AI boom is equivalent to "putting it all on red" and hoping for the best.

But some are still willing to gamble. "The US might be a one-trick pony with Al but it's a hell of a pony," said a large bank CEO. "It's a racehorse and I'd put my money on that racehorse.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17d

UNOCHA: 100 Palestinian families were forced out of their homes in the occupied West Bank due to zionist jewish settler violence during the past week.

(Motasem A. Dalloul)

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Anthony Gregory @anthonygregory.bsky.social · 18d

Fabulous picture of Kazimierz Deyna in the latest @wsc.co.uk

Kaimierz Deyna and wife in an alleyway between 2 sets of terraced houses with Maine Road in the background

Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 18d

Fuck all you butchers #freepalestine

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 22d

#WATCH | Israeli activists report on yesterday’s vicious, state sponsored, settler attack on the Khallat al-Sidra Mikhmas Bedouin community.

(Herd of Justice)

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Richard Hall , and 4 more Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Richard Hall, Robin Celikates, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Sarah Roberts, Prokla Redaktion

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 22d

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.

Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray

It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Tim Bale , and 7 more Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Tim Bale, Richard Hall, Mary Corcoran, Alan Stewart, Stephen Ryan, Mary Margaret McCabe, John Paul Newman, Lorna Hughes

Carl Maxim @carlmaxim.bsky.social · 25d

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 29d

The scraping of Spotify by the shadow library, Anna's Archive, has made it into Private Eye, where the hypocrisy of Spotify - which originally was a pirate scraper site - is brought to light.

A Private Eye article that reads:

POP EYE

Spotify’s corporate team was outraged when it was hacked in December. “Spotify has disabled nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping,” its press release thundered. “Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we are working with industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights.” Er, but that’s not quite true.

As Liz Pelly detailed last year in her carefully researched book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, back at “day one”, in 2006, the early versions of the Spotify platform utilised unlicensed music scraped from the founder’s personal music libraries as well as from illegal sites such as the Pirate Bay. Heaven forfend that others do the same!

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 29d

#WATCH | Anti-genocide Jews took to the streets to express solidarity with Gaza in Manhattan, New York.

Reposted by Jonathan A. Foley, Scott L. Greer, Richard Hall , and 4 more Jonathan A. Foley, Scott L. Greer, Richard Hall, Véronique Altglas, Karen O’Leary, Christina Pagel, Kevin Grant

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · Jan 11

Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.

‘Add blood, forced smile’:

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral

The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted

www.theguardian.com

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Jan 11

“All this grandstanding and spectacle, this open embrace of the mafia principle, is—consciously or subconsciously—a cover for a policy of retrenchment.”

- @policytensor.bsky.social

policytensor.substack.com/p/retrenchme...

Retrenchment Masquerading as Escalation

News of the kidnapping set off a cottage industry of takes by journalists, academics and opinion makers.

policytensor.substack.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Jan 10

Wrote about the use of misogyny and homophobia to diminish Renee Good's life and excuse her death open.substack.com/pub/autonomy...

Those who wished to diminish, or even celebrate, Good’s murder are galling in their moral depravity, their unmitigated eagerness to lie about the circumstances of her death, and their desperation to turn an avoidable tragedy into yet another gleeful spectacle of shared enemies and open cruelty. Few have been as visible in this display as Vice President J.D. Vance, who, from the White House briefing room to his obnoxious presence on social media, has devoted hours and hours to lecturing the American people on why Renee Good simply deserved to die. Vance has elected to make himself the face of Good’s murder in part, I believe, because Good’s life—full of creative ambition, love lost and gained, and queer freedom—is anathema to Vance’s own narrow, rigid gender ideology. The goal of devaluing her life is consistent with his transparently psychosexual and coercive natalist politics and his frequent jeremiads about the breakdown of the patriarchal family. Vance’s target audience—the only audience capable of looking past his mealy-mouthed distortions and middle-management comportment—is bitter, terrified men delighted by any opportunity to enact revenge on a mythical gynocracy.