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Michael Harris
@davidmichaelharris.bsky.social
MA (Hons), MScR, FSA Scot

Archaeologist. Adult Education Tutor. Editor & proofreader.

Member: Friends of the Earth Scotland; Red Rope; Solidarity Federation-IWA
"Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed."
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BBC's "War on Woke" was never enough for the right - Freedom News
Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed ~ punkac…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists – NAI. November 9th, 2025.

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Inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists – NAI.   November 9th, 2025
Over the last few months, various revolutionary internationalist anarchist organisations put their names to the following statement. Though itself ready for an update it was the precursor to establ…
anarcomuk.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The right wing will cry LEFT WING BIAS - until the most liberal voice on air will be someone who is not quite sure lynching was such a good idea - they will hastily be taken off air … and lynched
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Have you heard about this?

"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."

h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I see a lot of pseudoarchaeology & pseudohistory in these spaces, used to begin the process of casting doubt that helps open doors to this pipeline. One influencer on TikTok, with 1.1 million followers, shares pseudoarch/hist Tartaria & Grand Canyon stuff to "question the narrative," as she puts it.
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies.
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
Global body adopts policy to protect Earth’s old, wise and large animals | Charles Darwin University
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recognised Charles Darwin University-led research into the Earth’s oldest animals with the adoption of the ‘Longevity Conservation’ global...
www.cdu.edu.au
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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My unpopular thought on this is that the bling we pay million pound ransoms to land owners & metal detectorsists for... Is not worth that much money. I get that it has that exchange value, that a billionaire would buy it for that so we couldn't see it. But we, as a nation, don't get that much value
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting goods and services than reports of the last climate conference.

#COP30 #COP29

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Climate reporting deluged by high carbon adverts
Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting goods and services than reports of the last climate conference.
theecologist.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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After #EAA2025, with the #EAA apparently kicking the can down the road, the issue of how to respond to archaeology and archaeologists, linked to the Occupied Territories, has once again been highlighted, this time by calls to boycott the Islamic Archaeology Conference in Warsaw, which ends today.
Palestinians Urge Boycott of 2025 Islamic Archaeology Conference Normalizing Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Once again, the Islamic Archaeology Conference is in violation of the BDS movement’s anti-normalization guidelines. Furthermore, it includes speakers from Israeli institutions illegally based on occup...
bdsmovement.net
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This is incredibly sad, unnecessary, and shows a real distain for the actual and honest work of the university:
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social reviews @johnrlister.bsky.social essential new book on Trump's global war on health and science.

It's a real eye-opener.

Don't miss your chance to get your hands on a copy!
keepournhspublic.com/wealth-versu...
Wealth versus Health, John Lister
Book Review: John Lister – Wealth versus Health; Trump’s Global War on Health and Science Reviewed by John Puntis, Co Chair Keep Our NHS Public Published as a paperback by Bite-Sized Books: avai...
keepournhspublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🔴Keir Starmer’s Government Says Elon Musk’s X AI Chatbot Endorsing Hitler Is a ‘Matter for the Company’

The Prime Minister’s spokesman dismisses calls to leave X, despite its official ‘Grok’ bot posting a series of antisemitic comments

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/09/k...
Keir Starmer's Government Says Elon Musk's X AI Chatbot Endorsing Hitler Is a 'Matter for the Company'
The Prime Minister's spokesman dismisses calls to leave the social media platform, despite its official 'Grok' bot posting a series of antisemitic comments
bylinetimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

🗣️📢

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Today's the big day — we're officially on strike all day! We'll be picketing from 8am to 8pm at 1776 Massachusetts NW. Come show your support! @wbng.org @newsguild.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Happy Media Liberation Day! 🎉

(also known as Guy Fawkes Day!)

It's time to say #ByeByeMenticide and light the Touch Paper - on a new media consumer union incubated by Media Revolution.

touchpaper.media

#ConsumerUnion #MediaLiberationDay
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Over five centuries ago, Edinburgh saw its very first fireworks display.

In 1507, James IV – an explosives enthusiast – staged the city’s earliest recorded fireworks on what is now King’s Stables Road.

📸 @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Fancy tackling the billionaire disinformation system?! 🤑 🤑 🤑

Take part in #CoverStory - Media Liberation Day
5th November to direct people to independent, well regulated media & socials. No ads, algorithms or billionaire owners.

It's time to say #byebyementicide
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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this is the deputy leader of durham county council
The police continue to investigate the motive for last night's stabbings. Their initial statement is they don't have grounds to believe it was a terrorist motivated attack

Elected Reform Durham county councillor Darren Grimes posted this political attack on the assumption it was an Islamist attack
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
www.technologyreview.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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🔴How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners

Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist Donnachadh McCarthy on how the UK's billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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"By funding civil nuclear projects, taxpayers and consumers cover military uses of nuclear power in subsidies and higher bills – without the added spending appearing in defence budgets."

theconversation.com/the-hidden-m...
The hidden military pressures behind the new push for small nuclear reactors
If billions are being invested to power submarines not homes, the public deserves to know.
theconversation.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." - Elon Musk

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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This is grim, underfunded National Park passing the misery onto a local charity helping to share the history of the National Park. So few European countries would be anywhere as desperate as this in the management of their most treasured landscapes.
November 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"If tomorrow it was discovered that the President had died long ago and someone resembling him had been substituted to win power for the party, most Americans would shrug their shoulders, so great is the cynicism and distrust of all official pronouncements among the people." - CLR James, 1958
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM