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I know it’s an old and hackneyed point but I always go back to it. Suffragettes fought *against* the notion of sex based rights; sex based rights were the ones men had and women didn’t. It was seen as appalling to deny people rights based on their biology.

This should be self evident but clearly isn’t. From @lewisgoodall.com

This was posted a few days ago but I think it needs more traction. If you cook with gas and have asthma - read this and think about going electric.

Steven Methven: "Whether clapping is now supporting a terrorist group is a really good question" That this question even has to be asked - whether just clapping makes you a terrorist, is a sign of how far our govt has gone in its efforts to protect a genocidal apartheid regime

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Study these, and you'll begin to recognize when a person is being manipulative. www.logicalfallacies.org

30 July 1936 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Jancsi Leitmann, was born. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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I've submitted my proposal to the 'Big Conversation on Care' and encourage you to do the same. Follow the link to vote on my proposal - and to submit your own proposal. Cheers. make.org/GB/consultat...

The view from outside

Time and again climate change is treated as though it were binary: we cannot prevent it, so ok, it’s there let’s embrace it. That’s entirely wrong: it is a sliding scale. We cannot prevent 1.5 degrees. But maybe 3? Or 5?

Available for free download through Aug. 3rd -- Phillip W. Stokes's "The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature," in the Cambridge Elements series. #Classics #AncientBlueSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic LiteratureCambridge Core - History of Religion - The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literaturewww.cambridge.org

France has banned pesticides from towns and cities and many other European nations are trying to do the same. Even though insects are so small they have a huge impact; we need to protect them. Join me and tell the UK Government to follow in their footsteps and protect our pollinators act.gp/3ZExhpi

ACTION: Sign the petition and tell the UK government to protect our pollinators.The UK’s pollinator numbers are dropping heavily - we need the UK government to step in and protect them.act.gp

£27,000 compensation after a Gaza protest banner was seized & destroyed Campaign group Led By Donkeys has won its legal battle against Veolia over the destruction of its banner Peaceful protest is a democratic right that must be protected

Led By Donkeys wins compensation over seizure of Gaza protest bannerWaste firm Veolia pays £27k after ‘Yes It’s A Genocide’ banner taken by Greater London Authority was destroyedwww.theguardian.com

Racists describing refugees to Britain as "Boat people" like our nation's most famous hobby wasn't using the boats of the British Navy to take over other countries. Like... British people are, very famously, boat people. We were boat people all over the world. It was our whole thing.

I've been volunteering with Amnesty since I was a teenager - as an adult trans activist I've been asked for my advice and support from them, and have done whatever I can to keep helping. This is genuinely deeply upsetting and concerning, and I've written to say so. if you feel the same, please write

But it turns out they're in the middle seat.

What's grim about this is that the numbers involved are almost comically small – it needs £2.8m! (Can we just cap bus fares at £2.01 instead?)

His sculptures were both repellent and fascinating

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 7, Annals of the Four Masters, and it is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Thursday. Come visit! Check @rialibrary.bsky.social to learn more about this Manuscript and explore highlights from the Library’s collections.

In 1974, Hewish and Ryle received the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was not included in the award.