Nicki
@nickinde.bsky.social
writing about work, exploitation and exhaustion in the Nile Valley. direct action may not always win but it does make you feel better
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a Welsh Labour MP and Government minister have had their convictions overturned
Pro-Palestine activists accused of harassing Welsh Labour MP have convictions thrown out
Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a Welsh Labour MP and Government minister have had their convictions overturned. Ayeshah Behit, 32, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, were found guilty of the...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a Welsh Labour MP and Government minister have had their convictions overturned
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I'm in Nairobi this week for the opening of the inquest into my sister Kate's death here, almost four years ago, which is still very much unsolved. The case has been beset by obstructions and evasions; it's taken us a long time to get this far and there may be more to come.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm in Nairobi this week for the opening of the inquest into my sister Kate's death here, almost four years ago, which is still very much unsolved. The case has been beset by obstructions and evasions; it's taken us a long time to get this far and there may be more to come.
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This is what happened at Coventry; I did not apply to their fire and rehire scheme because I couldn't stomach the changes they were making to our contracts - not only getting us off the pension but totally changing our academic contracts.
Vile stuff. At my own university all new staff are employed via a subsidiary company to avoid the TPS pension (remember: pensions are pay) and we all fear the costing staff will be next. Management think staff are so desperate that they’ll accept anything.
Remember: university managements are so…
Remember: university managements are so…
Unprecedented, potentially unlawful retrograde proposals made by @solentuniversity.bsky.social
If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you.
We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals.
#HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you.
We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals.
#HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This is what happened at Coventry; I did not apply to their fire and rehire scheme because I couldn't stomach the changes they were making to our contracts - not only getting us off the pension but totally changing our academic contracts.
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Saint Sinwar said it best.
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Saint Sinwar said it best.
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The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
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BBC Radio 4's hourly news headlines today have been an unrelenting Two Minutes' Hate against immigrants. The UK's national broadcaster is deliberately fomenting hatred against some of the world's most vulnerable people, while license fee payers pick up the tab.
August 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
BBC Radio 4's hourly news headlines today have been an unrelenting Two Minutes' Hate against immigrants. The UK's national broadcaster is deliberately fomenting hatred against some of the world's most vulnerable people, while license fee payers pick up the tab.
“I lived pain in all its details. I tasted grief and loss many times. Yet I never hesitated for a single day to convey the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion. May God be a witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing.”
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‘If You Receive My Words, Know Israel Has Killed Me’: Anas Sharif’s Final Will - Quds News Network
Today, Sunday, August 11, 2025, the world lost Anas Sharif, a brave Palestinian journalist whose voice was silenced by an Israeli strike targeting the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza. After months of v...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
“I lived pain in all its details. I tasted grief and loss many times. Yet I never hesitated for a single day to convey the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion. May God be a witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing.”
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Proud personally to have both written evidence for the Supreme Court lately, AND not signed a facile and racist letter whinging about free speech alongside JK Rowling etc. But then I guess I’m just a different type of historian to Sam here
The history profession is in free fall, but its members can write liberal briefs that are cited in dissents to conservative decisions. Doesn’t seem like a great deal all told.
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As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy
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August 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Proud personally to have both written evidence for the Supreme Court lately, AND not signed a facile and racist letter whinging about free speech alongside JK Rowling etc. But then I guess I’m just a different type of historian to Sam here
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ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.
August 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.
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I would say “extreme views” do not come much more extreme than “this genocide is a golden opportunity”.
July 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I would say “extreme views” do not come much more extreme than “this genocide is a golden opportunity”.
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"No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself."
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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
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July 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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While the focus is rightly on the proscription of Palestine Action please remember that the UK government has criminalised asking your MP to oppose genocide:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Pro-Palestine activists guilty of harassing Pontypridd MP
Ayeshah Behit and Hiba Ahmed harassed Alex Davies-Jones while she was campaigning, a court heard.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
While the focus is rightly on the proscription of Palestine Action please remember that the UK government has criminalised asking your MP to oppose genocide:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I think Palestine Action is right for disrupting the Israeli weapons supply to the genocide in Gaza and they have my full support
July 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I think Palestine Action is right for disrupting the Israeli weapons supply to the genocide in Gaza and they have my full support
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Rachel Reeves crying is great and all, but what I’d really like to see is Keir Starmer weeping openly as the Revolutionary Tribunal carries out sentencing
July 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Rachel Reeves crying is great and all, but what I’d really like to see is Keir Starmer weeping openly as the Revolutionary Tribunal carries out sentencing
“The pace of cuts, commercialisation and techno-speculation at the Welsh flagship institution risk its collapse.”
www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
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Disruption and market futurology at Cardiff University - Institute of Welsh Affairs
Cardiff University academics explain how the pace of cuts, commercialisation and techno-speculation at the institution risk its collapse.
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June 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“The pace of cuts, commercialisation and techno-speculation at the Welsh flagship institution risk its collapse.”
www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
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June 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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As the university's management escalates by pressing ahead with up to 38 compulsory redundancies, after losing over 260 of our colleagues through voluntary severance, our membership’s clear message remains: STOP this. Members are upset angry and aghast by the behaviour of university management.
May 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As the university's management escalates by pressing ahead with up to 38 compulsory redundancies, after losing over 260 of our colleagues through voluntary severance, our membership’s clear message remains: STOP this. Members are upset angry and aghast by the behaviour of university management.
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Alaa and Marysam have both recently been displaced from Gaza City and are heading south with nothing to their name. They're both trying to keep their own families fed and are hoping to raise enough to evacuate!
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Help My Family Evacuate Gaza
Hi everyone,
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May 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Alaa and Marysam have both recently been displaced from Gaza City and are heading south with nothing to their name. They're both trying to keep their own families fed and are hoping to raise enough to evacuate!
chuffed.org/project/1286...
chuffed.org/project/1286...
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Israel has deliberately refused to allow any food, water, medicine, or fuel to enter Gaza for 2+ months.
As Palestinians die from illness and starvation, WHO trucks filled with food and medicine are sitting outside Gaza waiting to be let in.
As Palestinians die from illness and starvation, WHO trucks filled with food and medicine are sitting outside Gaza waiting to be let in.
People in Gaza starving, sick and dying as aid blockade continues
The risk of famine in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the ongoing blockade.
The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged fo...
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May 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Israel has deliberately refused to allow any food, water, medicine, or fuel to enter Gaza for 2+ months.
As Palestinians die from illness and starvation, WHO trucks filled with food and medicine are sitting outside Gaza waiting to be let in.
As Palestinians die from illness and starvation, WHO trucks filled with food and medicine are sitting outside Gaza waiting to be let in.
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Oppose UKIP - Black Bloc 🏴 - 11:30am, Saturday 17th May - The Cenotaph, Bristol City Centre 📍
UKIP's leader Nick Tenconi, has called a protest in Bristol to demand "mass deportations" of migrants and asylum seekers. We will not allow this to happen unopposed.
UKIP's leader Nick Tenconi, has called a protest in Bristol to demand "mass deportations" of migrants and asylum seekers. We will not allow this to happen unopposed.
May 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Oppose UKIP - Black Bloc 🏴 - 11:30am, Saturday 17th May - The Cenotaph, Bristol City Centre 📍
UKIP's leader Nick Tenconi, has called a protest in Bristol to demand "mass deportations" of migrants and asylum seekers. We will not allow this to happen unopposed.
UKIP's leader Nick Tenconi, has called a protest in Bristol to demand "mass deportations" of migrants and asylum seekers. We will not allow this to happen unopposed.