@ustaazatl.bsky.social
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Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.
September 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.
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August 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
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To mark the forthcoming 40th anniversary of the Barrowland sign, I wrote a Small Finds piece celebrating it and the venue it graces. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...
Small Finds #6
The Barrowland sign
smallfinds.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
To mark the forthcoming 40th anniversary of the Barrowland sign, I wrote a Small Finds piece celebrating it and the venue it graces. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...
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#OtD 13 May 2021 local residents in Glasgow won the release of two people who had been detained by immigration officers by surrounding the vehicle and blockading it for several hours stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8509/glasgow-deportat...
May 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
#OtD 13 May 2021 local residents in Glasgow won the release of two people who had been detained by immigration officers by surrounding the vehicle and blockading it for several hours stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8509/glasgow-deportat...
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Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
May 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
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it’s time to outlaw the sale of ancestral remains www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
April 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
it’s time to outlaw the sale of ancestral remains www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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Fun fact about the England flag is that in 1190 English merchants licenced its use from Genoa as a disguise to protect English ships in the Mediterranean & the King paid an annual licencing fee for its use. Eventually England stopped paying the fee & it just.. became the English flag
April 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Fun fact about the England flag is that in 1190 English merchants licenced its use from Genoa as a disguise to protect English ships in the Mediterranean & the King paid an annual licencing fee for its use. Eventually England stopped paying the fee & it just.. became the English flag
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Happy St George's Day.
A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest.
England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy!
whoownsengland.org
A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest.
England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy!
whoownsengland.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Happy St George's Day.
A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest.
England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy!
whoownsengland.org
A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest.
England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy!
whoownsengland.org
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Hello older unionists. I see some of you want to stereotype younger Scots are lazy, fat, low-IQ, poorly educated “neds” who live off an SNP gravy train and struggle with mental health. These prejudices are unusually stupid. &, of course, endlessly repeating them will damage your cause. 🧵
How a demographic time-bomb threatens to fracture the Union. @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social has used Scotland’s gold-standard attitudes surveys to test whether Indy-minded Scots get more unionist as they age. His findings: not yet they don’t. 1/2
www.thetimes.com/article/d02f...
www.thetimes.com/article/d02f...
How a demographic time-bomb threatens to fracture the Union
Older pro-UK voters are being replaced by younger nationalists, and now research suggests that their support for independence won’t fade with age
www.thetimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Hello older unionists. I see some of you want to stereotype younger Scots are lazy, fat, low-IQ, poorly educated “neds” who live off an SNP gravy train and struggle with mental health. These prejudices are unusually stupid. &, of course, endlessly repeating them will damage your cause. 🧵
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this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’
April 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’
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I hope this e-mail does not find you well. I hope your computer is a haunted house untouched by human hands. I hope you no longer remember the inside of an office. I hope the sun rises and sets on you without a single notification. I hope you have destroyed the 2FA machine. I hope you are free.
April 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I hope this e-mail does not find you well. I hope your computer is a haunted house untouched by human hands. I hope you no longer remember the inside of an office. I hope the sun rises and sets on you without a single notification. I hope you have destroyed the 2FA machine. I hope you are free.
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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
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A Spanish way of warning someone that they’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’ is se está rifando una ostia y tu tienes todas las papeletas. It means “there’s a slap-raffle and you have all the tickets”
April 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A Spanish way of warning someone that they’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’ is se está rifando una ostia y tu tienes todas las papeletas. It means “there’s a slap-raffle and you have all the tickets”
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New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Cheap Consumer Goods Are the American Dream, Actually
Trump’s tariffs upend a nearly century-old bargain between politicians and US consumers.
www.bloomberg.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Mass, relentless public protest is all there is. Every other mechanism for stopping despotism has failed. There's a reason that so many state constitutions include the phrase "All political power is inherent in the people"
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Mass, relentless public protest is all there is. Every other mechanism for stopping despotism has failed. There's a reason that so many state constitutions include the phrase "All political power is inherent in the people"
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The earliest surviving animated feature, and a stop-motion masterpiece
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The earliest surviving animated feature, and a stop-motion masterpiece
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
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Tariff is not a beautiful word among economists - but it certainly is the word of the week. As the US hikes its effective tariff by over 850%, what are the likely effects domestically and globally? And how will it affect the UK's economic and fiscal outlook?
Read more below:
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Weekly update: a primer on tariffs | FAI
Despite was the US President says, tariff is – among economists – far from the most beautiful word in the English language. But it’s the word of the week…
buff.ly
April 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Tariff is not a beautiful word among economists - but it certainly is the word of the week. As the US hikes its effective tariff by over 850%, what are the likely effects domestically and globally? And how will it affect the UK's economic and fiscal outlook?
Read more below:
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Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize
Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of science’, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics and ‘skinny jabs’
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
April 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
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Someone on my chat asked me what historical event I wish I could’ve lived through.
My answer was none of them.
I watched 9/11 happen live from my dorm room. I was at work when we invaded Iraq. We remember the start of the pandemic. God only knows what we’re about to hit.
I can’t wait to be bored.
My answer was none of them.
I watched 9/11 happen live from my dorm room. I was at work when we invaded Iraq. We remember the start of the pandemic. God only knows what we’re about to hit.
I can’t wait to be bored.
April 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Someone on my chat asked me what historical event I wish I could’ve lived through.
My answer was none of them.
I watched 9/11 happen live from my dorm room. I was at work when we invaded Iraq. We remember the start of the pandemic. God only knows what we’re about to hit.
I can’t wait to be bored.
My answer was none of them.
I watched 9/11 happen live from my dorm room. I was at work when we invaded Iraq. We remember the start of the pandemic. God only knows what we’re about to hit.
I can’t wait to be bored.