Alison Sidebottom 🇺🇦
@alibobski.bsky.social
Crafting cat lover, with a penchant for books, lego and yoga. Works at UCL supporting apprenticeships. Views are all my own.
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"I have met some very bad people....none as bad as trump.
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"I have met some very bad people....none as bad as trump.
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
Cankles 🤣🤣🤣
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cankles 🤣🤣🤣
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If you don't follow @actualnames.bsky.social I recommend you review your position
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
Pig Chin McIntosh
United States, Census, 1940
United States, Census, 1940
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you don't follow @actualnames.bsky.social I recommend you review your position
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
I have fond memories of working at Froebel in the School of Education some years ago, not quite as long as this though!
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Froebel Institute, now part of @uni-roehampton.bsky.social
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I have fond memories of working at Froebel in the School of Education some years ago, not quite as long as this though!
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Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
January 8, 2021 - "American Week": American Carnage
Simon's live weekly roundup for Eddie Mair's programme on LBC. Live every Friday at 4:50pm.
audioboom.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
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Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
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The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
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Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.
I've signed 👍🏻
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I've signed 👍🏻
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What would we no longer have if fireworks were banned? Terrified pets, yet more pointless plastic released into the environment, antisocial moronic noise. Call me crazy but I reckon we can just about cope with that kind of loss, as a species.
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
What would we no longer have if fireworks were banned? Terrified pets, yet more pointless plastic released into the environment, antisocial moronic noise. Call me crazy but I reckon we can just about cope with that kind of loss, as a species.
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Whitelands College, now part of @uni-roehampton.bsky.social
The card shows the May Day procession, which was (and who knows, maybe still is?) A Thing at the college
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
The card shows the May Day procession, which was (and who knows, maybe still is?) A Thing at the college
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Whitelands College, now part of @uni-roehampton.bsky.social
The card shows the May Day procession, which was (and who knows, maybe still is?) A Thing at the college
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
The card shows the May Day procession, which was (and who knows, maybe still is?) A Thing at the college
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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That Oval Office photograph explained.
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
That Oval Office photograph explained.
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @rcmlondon.bsky.social - the Royal College of Music
Yes, it looks a bit like Manchester University, but no, it isn't part of it
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Yes, it looks a bit like Manchester University, but no, it isn't part of it
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @rcmlondon.bsky.social - the Royal College of Music
Yes, it looks a bit like Manchester University, but no, it isn't part of it
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Yes, it looks a bit like Manchester University, but no, it isn't part of it
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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A warning from August 1941: Thompson wrote it for Harper's magazine. She had written her book "I saw Hitler" in 1932 having interviewed Hitler as head of the New York Post's Berlin bureau. Message -post war generation vulnerable to nazism- prescient!. harpers.org/archive/1941... @lbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A warning from August 1941: Thompson wrote it for Harper's magazine. She had written her book "I saw Hitler" in 1932 having interviewed Hitler as head of the New York Post's Berlin bureau. Message -post war generation vulnerable to nazism- prescient!. harpers.org/archive/1941... @lbc.co.uk
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This is the only pertinent point to be made, really.
She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is the only pertinent point to be made, really.
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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide.
The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
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What the heck?!
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
What the heck?!
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Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.