If you visit the British Library you will see it is chock full of people making use of a free space to work, learn and research. It’s an incubator of scholarship. London already has plenty of fancy commercial co-working spaces but nothing else like the BL. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
The author wrote that media and information literacy helped learners navigate digital spaces safely and responsibly, and called for efforts to strengthen it, address online violence and bullying, and ensure every learner had a safe environment to learn and thrive.
‘Plans to turn British Library’s science and social sciences reading rooms into pay-to-use co-working spaces have divided those who use the space’ As a regular BL user, gonna say this hasn’t ‘divided’ anyone. It’s an awful idea that shouldn’t come to pass But that it’s even mooted speaks volumes
The author described the action as the least they could do personally, saying they repeatedly closed three glass doors leading to small exhibition spaces in the Russia pavilion at the Venice Biennale. They said they told several small groups of visitors that Russia was murdering Ukrainians. https://t.co/A1bbYUy7Wb #BiennaleVenice #RussiaUkraine #ArtForChange #RU #UA
JD Vance casually throwing out “anti-white hatred” in the last stretch of midterm campaigning is wild. That’s a term that not long ago was used pretty much only in white supremacist spaces. That’s where this rhetoric is coming from.
Indeed. As I wrote here, "Truss did not fall into No. 10 from a spaceship like some twin-set Mr Bean". She was the flagbearer for a whole ecosystem of thinktanks, columnists & newspapers, who find it easier to treat her as an aberration than to accept their own culpability unherd.com/2023/01/liz-...
Megan K. Stack wrote that surveillance technology had spread quickly in Uganda since 2019, when the government installed a $126 million closed-circuit television network from Chinese telecommunications company Huawei to monitor public spaces. https://t.co/Jz9lHdHVBE #Surveillance #Uganda #Technology #UG
Congratulations to Pip Adam for winning the Ursula Le Guin Prize 2026 with "Audition"! Audition by Pip Adam A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing. Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves – experiences of imprisonment, violence and misrecognition, of disempowerment and underprivilege. Pip Adam’s uncategorisable new novel, part science fiction, part social realism, asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room – about how we imagine new forms of justice, and how we transcend the bodies and selves we are given.
I'm SO excited about this. Our streets should be seen as public spaces, not just territory filled by and controlled by cars. I love the idea of Oxford street being a human-centred space, designed around pedestrians. It'll take a while to develop but 🎉🎉🎉 www.theguardian.com/cities/2026/...
The author argued that space security was part of national security and said Luxembourg needed effective surveillance capabilities, clear responsibilities and credible contingency plans to protect its satellite infrastructure as geopolitical tensions extended into orbit. #Defense #SpaceSecurity #NATO #Satellites #SpaceSecurity #Satellites #Defense #LU
The author wrote that a satellite had moved from 500 km to 100 km and then 5 km from a potential threat, and questioned when describing its approach as merely passing by would no longer sound convincing. #Defense #SpaceSecurity #NATO #Satellites #Geopolitics #SpaceSecurity #Satellites #Geopolitics #NATO
The post said Russia had manoeuvred a military satellite close to a commercial one and that Cosmos 2612 had repeatedly changed orbit. It described those tracking the satellites as initially finding the activity interesting, then becoming more alert after five further manoeuvres. #Defense #SpaceSecurity #NATO #Satellites #Geopolitics #SpaceSecurity #Satellites #Geopolitics #RU #NATO
The author wrote that space was no longer solely a domain for scientific discovery, arguing that Europe needed the ability to monitor and assess potential threats and respond if military satellites manoeuvred near commercial satellites supporting Ukraine. #Defense #SpaceSecurity #NATO #Satellites #Geopolitics #SpaceSecurity #Defense #Geopolitics #UA #EU #NATO
On April 5, 1977, people with disabilities occupied government buildings across the country with simple demands: access to education, jobs, and public spaces. It has been fifty years since the Section 504 sit-ins, but the fight for those with disabilities continues.
A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth. #MarsExploration #PhobosMission #SpaceScience
The author, who described themself as an Austrian economist and a candidate for Austria’s federal presidency in 2028, called for a common EU-wide ban on face coverings in public spaces and at demonstrations across all 27 member states. https://t.co/0klGQtAlzg #EUBan #FaceCovering #PublicSafety #AT #EU
The author argued that the men would not have responded that way to women discussing the importance of single-sex spaces if they were women themselves or had respect or empathy for women.
The author accused another man of trying to gain access to women-only spaces and said he was portraying enforcement of their intended use as confusing.
The author referred to someone they said viewed single-sex spaces for rape victims as making trans people miserable.
One of the common arguments from so called "gender criticals", transphobes, is "what rights are trans people losing". The answer is so many. Just today we have seen in practice that trans people are being excluded from healthcare., to add to public spaces, education etc. It all costs lives.
