William Kerr
@wkerr.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University. He/him
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wow, looks like their aim really was to depopulate that country! - wow, looks like they really were a far-right party! - wow, looks like that ceo really was a fascist! look at us, forever surprised by the utterly obvious and avoidable emergence of existential threats! we came we saw we gawped!
May 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
wow, looks like their aim really was to depopulate that country! - wow, looks like they really were a far-right party! - wow, looks like that ceo really was a fascist! look at us, forever surprised by the utterly obvious and avoidable emergence of existential threats! we came we saw we gawped!
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A direct strike on her home.
Palestinian photog Fatima Hassouna killed in an Israeli air strike with nine family members 24 hours after the announcement that a documentary about her work in Gaza would premiere at Cannes.
deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...
deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...
Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
Palestinian Photojournalist And Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
deadline.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A direct strike on her home.
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“anything we can actually do, we can afford”
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“anything we can actually do, we can afford”
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
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yeah i am not ok
March 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
yeah i am not ok
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The government will be defending its policy of arming Israel in the High Court in May. Clearly it doesn't help the government's case if the foreign secretary acknowledges the plain reality that Israel is in flagrant violation of international law. Therefore reality must be denied.
NEW: No 10 has rowed back from David Lammy’s description of Israel’s aid blockade to Gaza y'day as a “breach of international law”.
PM's official spox says UK govt position remains that Israel’s actions in Gaza are "at clear risk" of a breach, which is obviously different.
PM's official spox says UK govt position remains that Israel’s actions in Gaza are "at clear risk" of a breach, which is obviously different.
March 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The government will be defending its policy of arming Israel in the High Court in May. Clearly it doesn't help the government's case if the foreign secretary acknowledges the plain reality that Israel is in flagrant violation of international law. Therefore reality must be denied.
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i firmly believe one of the main messages we should be telling our students about this whole thing is that generative ‘AI’ by definition will *never* have an original idea,
and if you use it, neither will *you*
and if you use it, neither will *you*
February 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
i firmly believe one of the main messages we should be telling our students about this whole thing is that generative ‘AI’ by definition will *never* have an original idea,
and if you use it, neither will *you*
and if you use it, neither will *you*
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Children who died because the policy is to expose them to the risk of dying, as a warning to others
Record number of children died crossing Channel last year, says UN
Data from UN agency’s Missing Migrants Project should serve as ‘wake-up call’, say officials
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Children who died because the policy is to expose them to the risk of dying, as a warning to others
Preparing next week's slides, and I think I'm going to have fun with these ones
February 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Preparing next week's slides, and I think I'm going to have fun with these ones