Dr Mel Gibson
@drmelcomics.bsky.social
I’m an academic and ex-librarian who loves, promotes and researches comics and graphic novels. I also do research around audiences, memory, libraries and childhood. Owned by two ponies, Bailey and Dale.
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Not once did the presented correct that it is NOT foreign nationals but foreign-BORN.
Many of these people are British citizens, e.g. Boris Johnson, born in the US.
And if households with foreign-born people are to be excluded, that would include people like Nigel Farage, who has a German wife.
Many of these people are British citizens, e.g. Boris Johnson, born in the US.
And if households with foreign-born people are to be excluded, that would include people like Nigel Farage, who has a German wife.
This really is not getting the attention it should. The Tories' latest proposal is to exclude *any household that includes any foreign national from any benefit*.
And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA
And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA
July 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Not once did the presented correct that it is NOT foreign nationals but foreign-BORN.
Many of these people are British citizens, e.g. Boris Johnson, born in the US.
And if households with foreign-born people are to be excluded, that would include people like Nigel Farage, who has a German wife.
Many of these people are British citizens, e.g. Boris Johnson, born in the US.
And if households with foreign-born people are to be excluded, that would include people like Nigel Farage, who has a German wife.
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Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!
The founders of independent publisher Bloodhound Books have launched a new AI fiction translation service, Globescribe.ai 👇 #BookSky
Bloodhound Books founders launch AI fiction translation company
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July 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!
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Bad bosses will be banned from using agency staff to replace sacked employees as ministers close a loophole in workers' rights reforms 👏
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Ban on replacing sacked staff with agency workers in fire and rehire crackdown
Deputy PM Angela Rayner tells the Mirror the Employment Rights Bill will be beefed up to stop firms exploiting a loophole on unscrupulous fire and rehire tactics
www.mirror.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Bad bosses will be banned from using agency staff to replace sacked employees as ministers close a loophole in workers' rights reforms 👏
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Familiar from Brexit
Betting on Geopolitical Violence
These are markets in which people with inside information can make a lot of money without risk of exposure, since the exchange is crypto-based and doesn’t have a know-your-client requirement
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
Betting on Geopolitical Violence
These are markets in which people with inside information can make a lot of money without risk of exposure, since the exchange is crypto-based and doesn’t have a know-your-client requirement
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
Betting on Geopolitical Violence
Back in 2003, a Pentagon office led by Admiral John M.
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July 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Familiar from Brexit
Betting on Geopolitical Violence
These are markets in which people with inside information can make a lot of money without risk of exposure, since the exchange is crypto-based and doesn’t have a know-your-client requirement
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
Betting on Geopolitical Violence
These are markets in which people with inside information can make a lot of money without risk of exposure, since the exchange is crypto-based and doesn’t have a know-your-client requirement
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
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We have seen signals which indicate lack of support for adults growing in the last few years. Not everyone needs medication but everyone should have support.
This is where we are. When a charity that receives no government funding, ADHD UK, has to take an NHS Trust to court because it stopped all referrals for over 25s.
Of the 3 million with ADHD in the UK, 75% are adults. Many have nowhere to go for help.
Of the 3 million with ADHD in the UK, 75% are adults. Many have nowhere to go for help.
July 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We have seen signals which indicate lack of support for adults growing in the last few years. Not everyone needs medication but everyone should have support.
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Grok is actually powered by up to 35 portable gas turbines in South Memphis, which is 25 more than the permit they just received. The air quality is so horrible that people don’t go outside. It violates EPA regulations, but it doesn’t matter since Musk gutted the EPA. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/m...
Musk's xAI scores permit for gas-burning turbines to power Grok supercomputer in Memphis
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup attained an official permit to power its Memphis supercomputer facility using natural gas-burning turbines.
www.cnbc.com
July 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Grok is actually powered by up to 35 portable gas turbines in South Memphis, which is 25 more than the permit they just received. The air quality is so horrible that people don’t go outside. It violates EPA regulations, but it doesn’t matter since Musk gutted the EPA. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/m...
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Thousands remain in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
Thousands are in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system
Lord Woodley is right that it’s time IPP prisoners were released, writes Andrea Coomber, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform – but his intervention won’t change the government’s mind
www.independent.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thousands remain in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
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"The media reporting of the "millionaire exodus" was primarily based on a report published by Henley & Partners, a firm that sells golden passports to the super rich... the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires"
#r4today
#r4today
The “millionaire exodus” reported around the world did not happen. Our new investigation reveals that the “droves” of millionaires that the media reported are leaving countries represented near-0% of all millionaires.
#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich bit.ly/3FLveZH
#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich bit.ly/3FLveZH
Page not found - Tax Justice Network
The Tax Justice Network believes our tax and financial systems are our most powerful tools for creating a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone.
bit.ly
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"The media reporting of the "millionaire exodus" was primarily based on a report published by Henley & Partners, a firm that sells golden passports to the super rich... the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires"
#r4today
#r4today
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Here's an incredible opportunity for UK-based Thought Bubble exhibitors both past and present! A cross-cultural residency @entrevinetas.bsky.social, funded by British Council Colombia.
To find out more, go here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/pluralink
The deadline is 5pm BST on Friday 25 July
To find out more, go here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/pluralink
The deadline is 5pm BST on Friday 25 July
July 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here's an incredible opportunity for UK-based Thought Bubble exhibitors both past and present! A cross-cultural residency @entrevinetas.bsky.social, funded by British Council Colombia.
To find out more, go here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/pluralink
The deadline is 5pm BST on Friday 25 July
To find out more, go here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/pluralink
The deadline is 5pm BST on Friday 25 July
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[show exterior of a comprehensive primary school, voice of TEACHER taking assembly emanating from it]:
TEACHER:
Ok children
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[Interior of school hall, TEACHER is taking school ASSEMBLY]
TEACHER:
Now the next hymn we're going to sing is one of your favourites...
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[she puts the words to a hymn up on the interactive whiteboard. It's title is]:
'Better-Off Families Should Pay Less For Their Summer Holidays'
CHILDREN;
Yay!
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[the children all sing]:
God made the cloud of starlings
God made the flock of sheep
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God made the kids at private school
Get holidays for cheap
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God made the herds of Land Rovers
That stream across the plain
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Two weeks before the rest of us
For cut-price stays in Spain!
[show exterior of the school, while Land Rovers stream past it down the road, with surfboards and bikes on top]
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God made the two-tier system
God made the Hidden Hand
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God made two weeks in Bog-nor
Cost upwards of two grand!
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Aaaaaaa-meeeeeen...!
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TEACHER:
Very good children
[show exterior scene again, Land Rovers etc]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreia5wmxguqfmnxju56hohubuk6r7yblfbavly4ghk2hbs27m3kmvkq@jpeg)
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The legal press - whose job it is to help lawyers advise their clients - knows this is a serious change of position. And that's why the public facing press - which understands its job to be spreading transphobic propaganda - won't cover it. www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/3...
EHRC adds “clarification” to interim guidance on practical implications of Supreme Court judgment on definition of sex in Equality Act
www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The legal press - whose job it is to help lawyers advise their clients - knows this is a serious change of position. And that's why the public facing press - which understands its job to be spreading transphobic propaganda - won't cover it. www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/3...
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The HR press also now picking up on the story that our dishonest media won't cover. www.internationalemploymentlawyer.com/news/ehrc-is...
EHRC issues “profound” change to single-sex spaces guidance
The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued an update on its guidance relating to single-sex bathrooms in the workplace following a legal challenge from the Good Law Project.
www.internationalemploymentlawyer.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The HR press also now picking up on the story that our dishonest media won't cover. www.internationalemploymentlawyer.com/news/ehrc-is...
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Millions of children at risk as global vaccine rates fall, study finds
Major progress in rolling out jabs to billions of children in all corners of the globe over the last five decades has prevented the deaths of 154 million children
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Major progress in rolling out jabs to billions of children in all corners of the globe over the last five decades has prevented the deaths of 154 million children
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Millions of children at risk as global vaccine rates fall, study finds
Persistent health inequalities, disruption caused by Covid-19, and soaring levels of misinformation and hesitancy are behind fall, say study’s authors
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Millions of children at risk as global vaccine rates fall, study finds
Major progress in rolling out jabs to billions of children in all corners of the globe over the last five decades has prevented the deaths of 154 million children
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Major progress in rolling out jabs to billions of children in all corners of the globe over the last five decades has prevented the deaths of 154 million children
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
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Super article from @dalevince.com
This is the time to end the absurd Drax power station which is UK's biggest carbon polluter - and Govt know it
For more see my submission to the Subsidy Advice Unit - Drax should receive no more public money👉 scrapcc.org/BOSWELL-DRAX...
This is the time to end the absurd Drax power station which is UK's biggest carbon polluter - and Govt know it
For more see my submission to the Subsidy Advice Unit - Drax should receive no more public money👉 scrapcc.org/BOSWELL-DRAX...
June 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Super article from @dalevince.com
This is the time to end the absurd Drax power station which is UK's biggest carbon polluter - and Govt know it
For more see my submission to the Subsidy Advice Unit - Drax should receive no more public money👉 scrapcc.org/BOSWELL-DRAX...
This is the time to end the absurd Drax power station which is UK's biggest carbon polluter - and Govt know it
For more see my submission to the Subsidy Advice Unit - Drax should receive no more public money👉 scrapcc.org/BOSWELL-DRAX...
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Every Glasgow secondary school set to lose its librarian 📚
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Librarians set to be removed from every Glasgow secondary school - BBC News
A principal librarian and a team of assistants would cover Glasgow's 30 secondary schools if council budget cuts are approved.
www.bbc.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Every Glasgow secondary school set to lose its librarian 📚
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anti-ICE protests are taking place on Roblox.
Kids are Protesting ICE in Roblox
"Despite being primarily a children’s game, Roblox has evolved into a sort of emergent civic theatre for kids online."
www.teenvogue.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Anti-ICE protests are taking place on Roblox.
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Thought Bubble & Travelling Man have teamed up to present micro-bursaries for nine UK-based early career comic creators.
Each recipient will receive £400 in cash, and a table at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025.
Find out more and submit your name here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries
Each recipient will receive £400 in cash, and a table at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025.
Find out more and submit your name here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries
June 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thought Bubble & Travelling Man have teamed up to present micro-bursaries for nine UK-based early career comic creators.
Each recipient will receive £400 in cash, and a table at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025.
Find out more and submit your name here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries
Each recipient will receive £400 in cash, and a table at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025.
Find out more and submit your name here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries
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" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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Super useful from @lukesibieta.bsky.social on school funding choices.
Protecting the total core schools budget means real-terms spending per pupil will rise by around 3%.
We don't know anything on colleges yet - reminder that real-terms per-pupil protection there needs an extra £300m in today's £.
Protecting the total core schools budget means real-terms spending per pupil will rise by around 3%.
We don't know anything on colleges yet - reminder that real-terms per-pupil protection there needs an extra £300m in today's £.
What does £4.5 billion extra for schools in England mean?
My guess is that this is a real-terms freeze in the core schools budget plus some extra money for free school meals
This thread explains why 🧵[1/6]
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@theifs.bsky.social @nuffieldfoundation.org
My guess is that this is a real-terms freeze in the core schools budget plus some extra money for free school meals
This thread explains why 🧵[1/6]
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@theifs.bsky.social @nuffieldfoundation.org
Surprise extra £4.5bn for schools as Reeves goes to wire ...
More money for SEND reforms and teachers’ pay while health and defence are big winners in spending review
observer.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Super useful from @lukesibieta.bsky.social on school funding choices.
Protecting the total core schools budget means real-terms spending per pupil will rise by around 3%.
We don't know anything on colleges yet - reminder that real-terms per-pupil protection there needs an extra £300m in today's £.
Protecting the total core schools budget means real-terms spending per pupil will rise by around 3%.
We don't know anything on colleges yet - reminder that real-terms per-pupil protection there needs an extra £300m in today's £.
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‘Why is it always the posh, private schoolboys who want to act like they’re working-class heroes?’
GMB slams Reform ‘chancers and bankers’ and warns Labour to ‘think again’
‘Why is it always the posh, private schoolboys who want to act like they’re working-class heroes?’
leftfootforward.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
‘Why is it always the posh, private schoolboys who want to act like they’re working-class heroes?’
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if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted
BREAKING: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, Israel's Foreign Ministry says.
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted
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"Campus trade unions have long argued that the VC exaggerates the financial crisis, while the executive hoards excessive cash reserves. They argue that DMU Leicester is being set up to fail. The DMU Dubai website gives the game away..."
De Montfort University: the betrayal of jet-setting executives
Leicester's De Montfort University executives treat the university as an international business, with lavish expenses and financial speculation
centralbylines.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"Campus trade unions have long argued that the VC exaggerates the financial crisis, while the executive hoards excessive cash reserves. They argue that DMU Leicester is being set up to fail. The DMU Dubai website gives the game away..."
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May 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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May 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM