Alasdair Pettinger
Words | history | sounds. Author, editor, archivist. Autistic. Latchy student of Gàidhlig, Cymraeg, Kreyòl & stringed instruments. Book: Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846. Researching revolutionary slogans. North Pembrokeshire. www.bulldozia.com
- You tell me.
- I know there are bigger issues involved, but did a mouse just run across the screen behind Kemi Badenoch on #Peston?
- White scholars will call it a "hidden history" even though Black scholars have been writing about it for 100 years.
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- 📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
- Trust me, you want this! Coming May 2026: a collection of #solarpunk short stories by @tkrex.bsky.social, built off her story, A Holdout in the Northern California Wildcraft Zone, which you can read/listen to free! grist.org/climate-fict... @torystephens.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/102876/978...
- Are you aghast at the treatment of trans people? Wish there was something you could do? Could you afford to lose £24/year? Donate a recurring £2/month donation to @essehouse.bsky.social, and help the UK community help itself. www.essehouse.co.uk/donate
- The accusation that the Lords are “obstructing democracy” by supporters of the assisted dying bill is a ridiculous one that shows up the flaws in this process that have been there from the very beginning – which have repeatedly been covered up by heated rhetoric (1/?)
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- Tomorrow's front page 📰 Major win in challenge to Palestine Action ban
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- kay @profafinlayson.bsky.social and I have recorded a LESS THAN ONE HOUR long emergency podcast on what the blocking of Andy Burnham's route back to parliament means. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/w... Hope it's useful!
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- Heard the sad news about Sly Dunbar on the school run of all places. I don’t even really know where to start with his immeasurable contribution to music and, well, everything, but watching him at work is best. Here’s Sly and Robbie in action with Black Uhuru at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in 1981
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- It is amusing that, despite how academics *have* been saying for c.40 years that the ancient Britons weren't labelled Celts, most normal people have just carried on assuming they were called Celts so this is only a big reversal for *us* We're very important and impactful, honest
- Only just getting to Patrick Sims-Williams's argument last year that the word "Celts" *really was* applied to Britons in antiquity: if this beds in we are going to have to apologise to a lot of undergraduates... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Only just getting to Patrick Sims-Williams's argument last year that the word "Celts" *really was* applied to Britons in antiquity: if this beds in we are going to have to apologise to a lot of undergraduates... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- LEVEL VIBES: BURNS NIGHT 2026 will feature on The Arts Mix today between 3.30-4pm. Jamaica's former Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison chats about her relationship with Robert Burns and her time at Burns Ellisand Farm. Dr Stephen Mullen discusses his essay on Burns & Slavery. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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- Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
- theconversation.com/travel-as-ac... Just out in the Conversation Africa: My take on moving to be free. A study of black working women in apartheid who “travelled to gain ground for the greater cause of freedom, while discovering new versions of themselves along the way.”
- I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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- “Leave Greenland alone!” Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)
- The Black Panthers are back and they're patrolling Minneapolis. #PowerToThePeople
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- Tim Walz had made it clear he has nothing to offer but voting and the courts, but his people are being brutalized and murdered today You cannot vote war out. You cannot make it go away in the courts or purge it with more training You cannot even protest war away, when they wage it against you
- 🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit Wanna see? 🫣 New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
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- Yesterday was my late grandfather CLR James's birthday! I have two things to share, to honor his memory. The first is a recommendation! To help you understand our current political moment, you should grab his book on Moby-Dick. It's a remarkable treatise on American xenophobic authoritarianism.
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