Samira Nadkarni
@samiranadkarni.bsky.social
Works in Maritime. Independent Academic.
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Come work with me on my UKRI project. It is a 18 month role (0.5 FTE) assisting a team of researchers based in UK & India. Closing date: 31st July
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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July 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Come work with me on my UKRI project. It is a 18 month role (0.5 FTE) assisting a team of researchers based in UK & India. Closing date: 31st July
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Someone has randomly sent me a bunch of synthetic mesh sleeveless vests via Amazon. This is... very baffling. I haven't so much as hinted at wanting these, so who did this? And... why???
July 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Someone has randomly sent me a bunch of synthetic mesh sleeveless vests via Amazon. This is... very baffling. I haven't so much as hinted at wanting these, so who did this? And... why???
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I have nothing profound to say. War is always a calamity.
June 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I have nothing profound to say. War is always a calamity.
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Oh, look, they lied again. This is my surprised face. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...
www.cato.org
June 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh, look, they lied again. This is my surprised face. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
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if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.
The FTC confirms our scoop about an extraordinary political condition on this ad merger, aimed at preventing "collusion or coordination to direct advertising away from media publishers based on the publishers’ political or ideological viewpoints." www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
June 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.
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No words
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
No words
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As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.
June 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.
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Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
June 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
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Local conservationists across Africa face threats, isolation and underfunding, as illustrated by Nigerian conservationist Itakwu Innocent, who survived an assassination attempt and has endured years of violence and ostracism for protecting wildlife and opposing poaching in his community.
Peril and persistence define the path of Africa’s conservationists
On the evening of May 9, 2019, conservationist and teacher Itakwu Innocent narrowly survived an assassination attempt outside his home in Kubong-Bette, a small farming village in the southeastern…
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June 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Local conservationists across Africa face threats, isolation and underfunding, as illustrated by Nigerian conservationist Itakwu Innocent, who survived an assassination attempt and has endured years of violence and ostracism for protecting wildlife and opposing poaching in his community.
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Polite request to please credit the photographers whose L.A. photos you’re sharing. They’re out there risking getting their shins exploded by police munitions to get those shots.
June 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Polite request to please credit the photographers whose L.A. photos you’re sharing. They’re out there risking getting their shins exploded by police munitions to get those shots.
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The arrest and apparent injury of David Huerta, a prominent California union leader, at an immigration protest has drawn condemnation from across the labor movement.
Arrest of Union Leader Highlights Link Between Workers’ and Immigrants’ Rights
David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union of California, was arrested while protesting immigration raids on work sites in Los Angeles.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The arrest and apparent injury of David Huerta, a prominent California union leader, at an immigration protest has drawn condemnation from across the labor movement.
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Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.
This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.
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The deporter-in-chief expanded the detention system that helped get us into this mess! Now is not the time to hear from the man who fought to keep family detention alive.
For the people who say they want to hear from Obama...
The Obama administration deported 3 million people-- a historic number.
What exactly do you want to hear from him about ICE right now? Or does it not matter because of his smooth voice?
www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...
The Obama administration deported 3 million people-- a historic number.
What exactly do you want to hear from him about ICE right now? Or does it not matter because of his smooth voice?
www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...
Lessons learned from when the Obama administration deported millions of people
Could deporting immigrants open up their jobs for Americans? President Obama's administration deported more than 3 million people, and an economist studied those effects.
www.npr.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The deporter-in-chief expanded the detention system that helped get us into this mess! Now is not the time to hear from the man who fought to keep family detention alive.
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Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday from entering an immigration detention facility in Manhattan where the representatives were seeking to investigate reports of overcrowding, stifling heat and migrants sleeping on bathroom floors.
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility
Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez were turned away when seeking to inspect a migrant detention area inside a Manhattan federal building.
trib.al
June 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday from entering an immigration detention facility in Manhattan where the representatives were seeking to investigate reports of overcrowding, stifling heat and migrants sleeping on bathroom floors.
Pudding is still limping but, despite us putting the large pillows down everywhere, refuses to stay downstairs if I'm upstairs in my room. He's always been a very social cat and hates being left alone, though I suspect him constantly making the trip up the stairs is because he also wants sympathy.
April 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Pudding is still limping but, despite us putting the large pillows down everywhere, refuses to stay downstairs if I'm upstairs in my room. He's always been a very social cat and hates being left alone, though I suspect him constantly making the trip up the stairs is because he also wants sympathy.
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Wear your Illegal Lesbian shirts with pride
Dude it's wild. They've legislated on what a lesbian is (www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...)
"The Court concludes that a lesbian “must be a [AFAB] female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) [AFAB] females”. The Court concludes that female here cannot include trans women..."
"The Court concludes that a lesbian “must be a [AFAB] female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) [AFAB] females”. The Court concludes that female here cannot include trans women..."
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Wear your Illegal Lesbian shirts with pride
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
April 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
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Resist. Rebel. Rebuild.
April 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Resist. Rebel. Rebuild.
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We need to fight discrimination and exclusion.
We also need to build autonomous spaces where we can care for each other when no one else will.
We also need to build autonomous spaces where we can care for each other when no one else will.
April 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We need to fight discrimination and exclusion.
We also need to build autonomous spaces where we can care for each other when no one else will.
We also need to build autonomous spaces where we can care for each other when no one else will.
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'Biological sex' is an incoherent concept. The Supreme Court judgement clearly gives it priority over the express will of Parliament.
Is this not beyond the Court's power?
Is this not beyond the Court's power?
April 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
'Biological sex' is an incoherent concept. The Supreme Court judgement clearly gives it priority over the express will of Parliament.
Is this not beyond the Court's power?
Is this not beyond the Court's power?
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It was the clear intention of Parliament in 1999 that trans people be able to move through society on equal terms. It was the clear intention of Parliament in 2004 that people with a GRC be regarded as their acquired gender for all practical purposes. The GRA passed to align with an ECHR judgement
April 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It was the clear intention of Parliament in 1999 that trans people be able to move through society on equal terms. It was the clear intention of Parliament in 2004 that people with a GRC be regarded as their acquired gender for all practical purposes. The GRA passed to align with an ECHR judgement
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Indeed the argument that sex recorded at birth should be an unalterable record of fact that trumped equality was specifically rejected by the European Court and Parliament.
April 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Indeed the argument that sex recorded at birth should be an unalterable record of fact that trumped equality was specifically rejected by the European Court and Parliament.
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Like a number of older trans people, I was involved in consultations around all the legislation of the 90s and 00s around trans equality. At no point was 'biological sex' discussed as a real thing which would impact and reduce my equal human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Like a number of older trans people, I was involved in consultations around all the legislation of the 90s and 00s around trans equality. At no point was 'biological sex' discussed as a real thing which would impact and reduce my equal human rights.
It is the bank holiday weekend before the big move to Scotland and so of course Pudding got in a fight and has a limp. We are out at the emergency vet where, going by sheer numbers, we are likely to remain for the day. Sigh.
April 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It is the bank holiday weekend before the big move to Scotland and so of course Pudding got in a fight and has a limp. We are out at the emergency vet where, going by sheer numbers, we are likely to remain for the day. Sigh.