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Freya Sierhuis 🟥
@freyas.bsky.social
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Lecturer in early modern literature; interested in literature & intellectual history; environmental humanities. Climate change and global justice. Working on a book on Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Views my own.
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freyas.bsky.social
Really good to see Guy Watson call out the scam that is biodiesel. But let’s not forget Drax, the UK’s largest carbon emitter and destroyer of primal forests #AxeDrax

wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/new...
News from the farm: Fuelling the fire – the biodiesel fantasy
Are biofuels a viable alternative to fossil fuels, or is misinformation fuelling the argument, asks Guy Singh-Watson…
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
freyas.bsky.social
United States of Palantir
timmi-allen.bsky.social Timmi Allen @timmi-allen.bsky.social · 19d
#Thiel #Palantir 👇
westmecklenburg-gegen-rechts.de Joe @westmecklenburg-gegen-rechts.de · 22d
Tech fascists agenda in a few word's.
Sean Morrow auf i***a
October 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl
We gaan nek-aan-nek, maar hebben de PVV bijna ingehaald. Het is mogelijk: voor het eerst in 25 jaar een linkse premier en een progressief kabinet. Maak GroenLinks-PvdA morgen de grootste!
October 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl
De man die zijn partij met ijzeren hand regeert was hier niet van op de hoogte?

Kom op, als je voor de democratie staat, treed je op tegen deze twee Kamerleden en volgen er sancties.

Trek een grens.
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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barbarakathmann.bsky.social
💚❤️ #verkiezingen
Je ziet een wit vlak met zwarte letters erin. Er staat: PVV de grootste? Dat laten wij echt niet gebeuren! En daaronder staat in het groen GroenLinks en in het rood PvdA met naast de A een rode roos.
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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sepiatekst.bsky.social
Het aantal vrouwen dat van plan is om naar de stembus te gaan, ligt 10 procentpunt onder dat aantal mannen. Bij de verkiezingen in 2023 was dat nog 5 procentpunt. Femicide, loonkloof, abortus, kom op vrouwen, laat jullie stem niet verloren gaan!
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
freyas.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
freyas.bsky.social
The Netherlands, Germany, the UK…are there any counter examples of succesful pushback?
amalkc.bsky.social Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler) @amalkc.bsky.social · Oct 18
The Netherlands has long passed over the threshold of normalisation, the questions are how far it will go or will there be real pushback.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Oct 18
'Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.' 1/2
October 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
freyas.bsky.social
c’mmon people, you can spare £6. Less than a pint!
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
freyas.bsky.social
I had a (delicious) coffe here the other day. What a great initiative! www.fairshot.co.uk
Fair Shot CIO
We are a social enterprise cafe in Covent Garden, which trains young adults with learning disabilities to find sustainable jobs through our training and employment programme.
www.fairshot.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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saaupdates.bsky.social
Applications for #digital exhibits at #Shax2026 are now open! Showcase your work on early modern projects — find more information and apply at shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...
Image of the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, overlaid with translucent green text of computer code and strings of binary code. Along the right side of the image, dark text reads "Propose a Digital Exhibit". End ID.
October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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zarahsultana.bsky.social
Last week I wrote to Coventry City Council about their £500,000 contract with Palantir.

Palantir is a partner in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, collaborates with ICE in the US & is embedded in our NHS.

Coventry (& the NHS) must divest from genocide & protect jobs, services & data.
House of Commons letterhead: Dear ClIr Duggins, Re: Coventry City Council's contract with Palantir Technologies I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the recent contract awarded by Coventry City Council to the software company Palantir Technologies UK Ltd, the UK subsidiary of the US-headquartered Palantir Technologies Inc. Coventry City Council's decision to award a £500,000 service contract [procurement reference: COV - 21614] to Palantir for the development of a strategic Al platform for the Council, running from February 2025 to February 2030, raises serious questions given the company's troubling human rights record, including its complicity in Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity. Palantir is one of the tech giants enabling Israel's advanced Al targeting and weapons system by equipping the Israeli military with computing systems as well as surveillance and communications technologies to accelerate the genocide in Gaza and automate apartheid in the West Bank.' I note that the Labour-led Council has passed two motions this year condemning any activity which has been deemed in breach of international law and calling for international laws to be upheld, as well as calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire. The Council's decision to procure services from a company associated with and profiting from Israel's genocide on the Palestinian people seems to undermine those commitments. Beyond continuing to supply the Israeli military with data and Al services used in targeting systems linked to deaths in Gaza, Palantir has also been involved in developing surveillance platforms for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), used in deportations that have been widely condemned. In the UK, Palantir's increasing presence in public institutions such as the NHS, police forces, the Ministry of Defence, and the Crown Commercial Service has been a matter of concern given the implications for transparency, privacy, and democratic accountability. The Council's decision to contract Palantir exacerbates these concerns at a local level. In addition, at a time of ongoing austerity, when the Council has overseen funding cuts to essential public services across Coventry such as libraries and swimming pools, it is concerning that resources of this scale are being directed towards this contract rather than being invested to support local services for residents. Therefore, I urge the Council to divest from companies doing business with Israel - a state being investigated by the ICJ for violating of the Genocide Convention with leaders that have active ICC arrest warrants - and end this contract with Palantir. Furthermore, I am seeking your urgent clarification on the below points : • Can you confirm how this contract was awarded, including what considerations and risk assessments were taken into account in selecting Palantir despite its concerning record? • Will you confirm, what safeguards - if any - are in place to ensure that the personal data of Coventry residents will not be misused or shared in ways that could cause harm? • What assurance can you give that the Al transformation to streamline service provision resulting from this contract will not lead to local job losses? I look forward to your response on this critical matter. It is essential that Coventry residents have full confidence that their Council is acting transparently and protecting them from risks associated with this kind of weaponised Al and its consequences. Yours sincerely, Zarah Sultana MP Member of Parliament for Coventry South
September 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
freyas.bsky.social
It doesn’t even make it to the front page anymore in this new age of crazy. The US is now extralegally killing people in international waters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US conducts ‘kinetic strike’ against drug boat from Venezuela, killing 11, Trump says
Trump says ‘we took it out’ referring to the operation in international waters, amid US-Caracas tensions
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025
In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...
journals.sagepub.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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bellingcat.com
You can find the full list of Bellingcat-built tools on our GitHub: github.com/bellingcat
And video guides on how to use some of those tools within our YouTube Tech Series: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Bellingcat
An independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. - Bellingcat
github.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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tombhamilton.bsky.social
Couldn't make the lecture so really enjoyed this by Lyndal Roper: about the Peasants' War, but also about popular history writing and why it needs to be more creative and less constrained by chronological narrative

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWPM...
Regius Valedictory Lecture: Telling Stories: History, Narrative, and the German Peasants’ War, 1525
YouTube video by Faculty of History | University of Oxford
www.youtube.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
freyas.bsky.social
How many places to loll about in the sun does a cat need….🙂?
August 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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james-bg.bsky.social
Belatedly getting round to reading this from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and it really is a brilliantly concise summary of quite how significant and exciting the clean tech transition is becoming. It remains beyond weird this stuff is not more widely understood. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
freyas.bsky.social
What the fresh hell is this?!
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 7
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life. If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test. OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”
August 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I had a wonderful conversation with two of my heroes, adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown, on one of my favorite podcasts. About hope, change, climate, power, stories, survival, solidarity. Warning: laughter, singing.
The Revolution Will Be Incremental with Rebecca Solnit
Podcast Episode · How to Survive the End of the World · 08/01/2025 · 1h 7m
podcasts.apple.com
August 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
freyas.bsky.social
Anthem for summer ‘25: Still Pigeon’s Adrenaline.

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Adrenaline
Still Pigeon · Adrenaline · Song · 2023
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August 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.
July 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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london.gov.uk
School holidays should be a time to celebrate, not a time of risk.

I’m launching Holiday Hope, a new £6m programme providing young people with something to do, something to aspire to and something to eat.

We're giving young people the support they need to be safe and to thrive.
Mayor launches new £6m Holiday Hope programme for young people as summer holidays begin
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today launched a new £6 million programme to provide holiday activities and opportunities for young people at greatest risk of exploitation and violence.
www.london.gov.uk
July 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
freyas.bsky.social
That describes today. And yesterday and the day before…
mobydickatsea.bsky.social Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 24
Unhinge the lower jaw
July 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM