williamkay.bsky.social
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a column on the brave, brave comedians who went to saudi arabia and told jokes about gay people and women drivers

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew
The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Kemi Badenoch said earlier this year that “silencing free speech harms democracy and “we must fight for it”.

Unless of course its the free speech of a news organisation she happens to disagree with

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
bylinetimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News
April 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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A French #researcher who had come to attend a #conference was randomly checked upon arrival in the US. Messages discussing the Trump administration's treatment of #scientists were found on his phone… (1/2) www-lemonde-fr.translate.goog/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www-lemonde-fr.translate.goog
March 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Jimmy Carter never needed redemption

The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness.

By Mark Damazer

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Jimmy Carter never needed redemption
The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness.
www.newstatesman.com
December 30, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Happy to announce our new Zymo paper (with
@quietscientist.bsky.social) which looks at the amazing long-term survival of asexual spores (blastospores). We argue that primary disease inoculum doesnt have to come from wind-blown ascospores.... bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment - BMC Biology
Background The fungal phytopathogen Zymoseptoria tritici, causal agent of the economically damaging Septoria tritici blotch of wheat, is different from most foliar fungal pathogens in that its germina...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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Tagging #PlantPathology #PlantScience and #MicroSky - and I nearly forgot, the first author of this work is here on Bluesky now, so congrats to @williamkay.bsky.social on the publication of this paper!
November 19, 2024 at 2:47 PM