Gillian M Sinton
@gms91201.bsky.social
If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven’t slept with a mosquito. She/her
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Top activist. Give the guy on the train free union membership!!
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Top activist. Give the guy on the train free union membership!!
The ‘company now claims to use a global network of 3,000 freelance writers – some of whom he says are lecturers – covering topics including law, business and sociology.'
It’s like the fox guarding the hen house.
It’s like the fox guarding the hen house.
'both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Department for Education, which have powers to prosecute, told the BBC they had no recorded offences reaching a first hearing in a magistrate's court under the Skills and Post-16 Education Act.' 1/2
Essay cheating at universities an 'open secret' despite new law
An essay mill owner says he's made millions, while an ex-lecturer says he quit due to rife cheating.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The ‘company now claims to use a global network of 3,000 freelance writers – some of whom he says are lecturers – covering topics including law, business and sociology.'
It’s like the fox guarding the hen house.
It’s like the fox guarding the hen house.
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A vitally important book by @bschillace.brandyschillace.com that everyone should read. Prescient. Heart-wrenching. Timely. 👇
To my #academic and #history and #genderstudies friends: THE INTERMEDIARIES is exactly the kind of book the current admin don’t want you to teach— #trans history, #LGBTQ fight against nazis, real 🧪 science. Knowing y’all, you may be teaching it anyhow. If so, please say!
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The Intermediaries
A <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> Best Book of the Year <br /><br /> The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermedia...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A vitally important book by @bschillace.brandyschillace.com that everyone should read. Prescient. Heart-wrenching. Timely. 👇
This should be evidence
Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government…
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This should be evidence
The Shining vibes.
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Shining vibes.
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This seems to capture what we’re seeing in the world today.
This seems to capture what we’re seeing in the world today.
The Death of Stalin - Official Clip - Marshal Zhukov (Jason Isaacs)
YouTube video by Madman Films
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December 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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This seems to capture what we’re seeing in the world today.
This seems to capture what we’re seeing in the world today.
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This was a public health policy choice. Sacrificing children on the altar of anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and pro-infection Hybrid Immunity™️ and immunity debt pushers.
A pox on all your houses.
This was a public health policy choice. Sacrificing children on the altar of anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and pro-infection Hybrid Immunity™️ and immunity debt pushers.
A pox on all your houses.
3 children die from influenza A-related complications in Ottawa and eastern Ontario region https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/3-children-die-from-influenza-a-related-complications-in-ottawa-and-eastern-ontario-region/
More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This was a public health policy choice. Sacrificing children on the altar of anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and pro-infection Hybrid Immunity™️ and immunity debt pushers.
A pox on all your houses.
This was a public health policy choice. Sacrificing children on the altar of anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and pro-infection Hybrid Immunity™️ and immunity debt pushers.
A pox on all your houses.
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Truly wonderful and provocative interview this - stay to the end for an argument about the ways that ecological disasters in the twenty-first century may play the same role that proletarianisation played in the nineteenth - allowing us to "organise across difference" in conditions of emergency.
New @thedigradio.bsky.social, the left communist-democratic socialist synthesis you’ve been waiting for: it’s my ecumenical and anti-sectarian interview with Malcolm Harris on his lovely book What’s Left. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/what...
What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris
Featuring Malcolm Harris on What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the left...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Truly wonderful and provocative interview this - stay to the end for an argument about the ways that ecological disasters in the twenty-first century may play the same role that proletarianisation played in the nineteenth - allowing us to "organise across difference" in conditions of emergency.
Population Matters try to wrap their eugenics in environmentalism.
This is what I'm working on next: fascism and the environment. Hoping to finish it before the world burns and/or the fascists take charge. Fingers crossed. Do ask me about it, if you're curious. www.thebookseller.com/rights/manch...
Manchester University Press signs Richard Smyth’s ‘vital’ book on fascism and the environment
Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the la...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Population Matters try to wrap their eugenics in environmentalism.
“The particular object of the Puritans’ hostility towards Christmas was against public celebration and unseemly revelling”
The Puritans are often accused of banning Christmas.
However, as Dr Stephen Roberts investigates, a little myth-busting may be required:
However, as Dr Stephen Roberts investigates, a little myth-busting may be required:
Did the Puritans ban Christmas dinner? - The History of Parliament
The Puritans are often accused of banning Christmas, and although the House of Commons did sit on Christmas Day during the English Republic, Dr Stephen
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December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“The particular object of the Puritans’ hostility towards Christmas was against public celebration and unseemly revelling”
Off to see Woman in Black at Mirvish theartre because it Christmas and Brits love ghost stories at Christmas.
a woman wearing a black veil covering her face
ALT: a woman wearing a black veil covering her face
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December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Off to see Woman in Black at Mirvish theartre because it Christmas and Brits love ghost stories at Christmas.
Our hotel room has a stone fireplace
December 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Our hotel room has a stone fireplace
Note to self. Don’t wear my UK/BC Barbour when I come to Toronto and it’s -8.
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Note to self. Don’t wear my UK/BC Barbour when I come to Toronto and it’s -8.
The inbound flight is delayed due to weather but outbound it is delayed because of mechanical issues hmmm. Last week the excuse was the plane didn’t like mountains. I know the Rockies are high but they aren’t Everest high. That flight had to land in Winnipeg to refuel so the delay was very long.
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The inbound flight is delayed due to weather but outbound it is delayed because of mechanical issues hmmm. Last week the excuse was the plane didn’t like mountains. I know the Rockies are high but they aren’t Everest high. That flight had to land in Winnipeg to refuel so the delay was very long.
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BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
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Okay. This is angering me.
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
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First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
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December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Okay. This is angering me.
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Thinking about whether or not it’s worth it: if even one life was saved, one life was advanced, it’ll be absolutely worth it every day of the week,” Kaepernick said, describing his commitment to social justice.
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Colin Kaepernick says taking a knee was 'absolutely worth it'
Former QB Colin Kaepernick hasn't thrown an NFL in nearly over a decade, but let him tell it, he has no regrets.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thinking about whether or not it’s worth it: if even one life was saved, one life was advanced, it’ll be absolutely worth it every day of the week,” Kaepernick said, describing his commitment to social justice.
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Well, if he ever actually tries to step on that land, I hope not only the first nations people, but every single person that despises this fucking cockroach is there linked arm and arm, physically stopping this fucking bastard from stepping on their land.
#Houston's response🤬 to Sipekne’katik First Nation's banning him & the PC party from their land: #NovaScotia
"Look, it's still Canada," he told reporters. "To have somebody banned from a community with an 'or else' statement is kind of bizarre for me in Canada.
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"Look, it's still Canada," he told reporters. "To have somebody banned from a community with an 'or else' statement is kind of bizarre for me in Canada.
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Sipekne’katik First Nation bans Houston, cabinet ministers | CBC News
Sipekne’katik First Nation is once again chastising the Houston government and says that the premier and two of his cabinet ministers are not welcome on reserve lands. The premier's office says it tak...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Well, if he ever actually tries to step on that land, I hope not only the first nations people, but every single person that despises this fucking cockroach is there linked arm and arm, physically stopping this fucking bastard from stepping on their land.
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165 goose carcasses were removed last week from retention ponds in Niverville, about 20 kilometres south of Winnipeg. Lab tests confirmed they died from the highly pathogenic H5N1
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More than 50 dead Canada geese found on frozen river in Lockport, Man. | CBC News
Another mass die-off of Canada geese has been found near Winnipeg, this time north of the city.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
165 goose carcasses were removed last week from retention ponds in Niverville, about 20 kilometres south of Winnipeg. Lab tests confirmed they died from the highly pathogenic H5N1
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Around this time four years ago we were on the wrong side of the last big atmospheric river that went through BC. Got stuck in Banff for 24 hours, fun, but by the time we made it to Kamloops we were stuck there for days. Then 12 hrs 🚘 through osoyoos & down & across to Seattle and back up to BC. 😮💨
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Around this time four years ago we were on the wrong side of the last big atmospheric river that went through BC. Got stuck in Banff for 24 hours, fun, but by the time we made it to Kamloops we were stuck there for days. Then 12 hrs 🚘 through osoyoos & down & across to Seattle and back up to BC. 😮💨