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Lecturer at UAM, Madrid. Linguist (metaphor, CLIL, conversation analysis, CDA), critical theorist (Malabou, Derrida, Deleuze, posthumanism, technicity) mountain biker, cat feeder

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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

License plate readers. Cellphone location data. Social media monitoring. Now, real-time facial recognition on the street.

DHS is building a surveillance apparatus—and you're probably already in it.

Our latest with @france24.com:

07.03.2026 15:02 👍 236 🔁 169 💬 13 📌 10

This framing is indeed truly odious.

Israel bombing Lebanon for any reason is pretty much given as a war crime.

Lebanese people have a right not to be killed on the whim of a corrupt genocidal maniac.

07.03.2026 15:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump to lift some sanctions on Russia now that they are helping kill Americans.

07.03.2026 02:34 👍 604 🔁 224 💬 37 📌 12

Israel attacked UN forces in Lebanon. It’s nowhere near the first time either.

07.03.2026 00:16 👍 125 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 0

That and bombing built up areas in Lebanon full of residential buildings.

It would probably be quicker to try to find the Israeli bombing that wasn't a war crime.

07.03.2026 15:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The govt must do more than express concern over the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and settler violence in the West Bank - they must take action.

Ban trade with illegal settlements and impose new sanctions on Netanyahu and all responsible for this violence.

03.03.2026 12:15 👍 273 🔁 101 💬 9 📌 3
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Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order Residents fled Lebanese capital in panic before assaults on claimed Hezbollah targets while Tehran continues to launch retaliatory attacks

Israeli forces launching massive airstrikes in southern Beirut only hours after issuing an evacuation order for the over 500,000 people living there displays an utter disregard for civilian lives. We saw these patterns in Gaza - it cannot happen again in Lebanon.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

06.03.2026 12:01 👍 146 🔁 79 💬 6 📌 7
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Babies Are Exposed to 42 'Forever Chemicals' Before Birth, Study Finds Babies are exposed to many more 'forever chemicals' before they're born than previously thought, new research suggests, as the potential harms of these substances continue to be investigated.

Why was I making a fuss about government footdragging on #PFAS (forever chemicals) this week?

Here's one more #PublicHealth reason
www.sciencealert.com/babies-are-e...

06.03.2026 18:10 👍 108 🔁 59 💬 4 📌 2

There’s a reason anti-trans activists - especially those controlling the media - will never permit us to engage in fair, level-playing-field “debate” with them. Their campaign against us is based entirely & totally on disinformation and dishonesty masking raw hatred. To do so would mean humiliation.

07.03.2026 10:14 👍 120 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0

Fairly sure they'll eventually lose this against the HRA or Uber the ECHR later.

But this just simply shouldn't happen in a democracy.

Protest is a basic right and planning a protest must be protected by law.

07.03.2026 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

More than 1200 people have been killed across Iran, with many more injured and hospitals under attack.

No nation should be able to break intl law with impunity - civilians and healthcare facilities must be protected and those responsible for illegal attacks held to account.

06.03.2026 12:04 👍 195 🔁 86 💬 6 📌 4
The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!

This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.

Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start

Length: 5.6 cm

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

06.03.2026 06:34 👍 795 🔁 214 💬 13 📌 18

That one time Keir Starmer said something that influenced people.

07.03.2026 10:15 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

That and many people simply are disgusted by blue Labour

07.03.2026 13:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe someone should do a study ranking being thin skinned and petty against effective policy outcomes.

Doubt this would be good for the previous Tory PMs or Blue Labour.

07.03.2026 12:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What I would like are governments that are so keen to act in the interests of their people and the global community that they will listen carefully to criticism rather than ridicule or try to suppress it. Yes, I know I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one.

07.03.2026 10:15 👍 67 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 0
07.03.2026 10:15 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

This. It was in no way justifiable to carpet bomb Gaza.

The threat from Hezbollah in no way justifies destroying whole swathes of a highly urbanised part of a sovereign country indiscriminately.

How many Hezbollah operatives or arms caches is this actually going to hit? Looks like a punishment.

07.03.2026 12:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Both Straw and Blunkett were hugely problematic, and New Labour's record on human rights after the hra was pretty dubious. But there WAS the HRA and serious attempts to make things better for most people.

Cooper has been an unpleasant individual in whatever role.

07.03.2026 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess we'll see if Israel suddenly finds that it needs to occupy a chunk of another country again.

07.03.2026 10:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's not necessarily total slop, but generally has a sort of glassy vacuousness that means the initial "idea" is rarely actually developed. I've never seen a student essay I thought was AI that pushed the outer limits of anything.

As an exercise, I can't see that claim in the quote post either.

07.03.2026 10:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

us adults, foolish idiots: “but what does ‘six seven’ mean?”

THE CHILDREN, harbingers tapping into the immortal zeitgeist: “$6 gas now, $7 gas tomorrow, hahahahHahahHAHAHAHAHA”

07.03.2026 07:59 👍 517 🔁 56 💬 9 📌 2
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Conservative peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.

The VIP lane was rotten to the core.
A national scandal.

07.03.2026 08:00 👍 205 🔁 66 💬 12 📌 3
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Special investigation: The strange case of Allister Heath The Telegraph opinion writer is very strange indeed. An afternoon spent poking around in the archive revealed a trove of relentless, baffling weirdness

The Telegraph opinion writer is very strange indeed. An afternoon spent poking around in the archive revealed a trove of relentless, baffling weirdness

✏️ Matt Withers

07.03.2026 08:00 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Technically, gwt isn't actually a theory of consciousness anyway. Its authors often slip into this, but it's specifically a theory for conscious attention, which is a very big jump to consciousness per se unless defined very reductively.

07.03.2026 08:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

06.03.2026 22:26 👍 961 🔁 338 💬 43 📌 14

No. Ok, I remember when John Smith died. But New Labour were an awful lot better than this lot, at least domestically.

07.03.2026 08:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The BBC news talking about Israel bombing Lebanon is despicable. They repeat the talking points about Hezbollah but neglect to mention that thousands of people have just been told to move out of densely populated areas in a capital city so that Israel can carpet bomb it.

07.03.2026 08:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Glasman (continuing his run of being wrong abt everything) wants the monarchy back? The monarchy that murdered and imprisoned thousands of its opponents just like the current regime?
How abt we let the Iranians decide?

06.03.2026 15:35 👍 86 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.

07.03.2026 07:59 👍 549 🔁 85 💬 22 📌 3