Working class northern woman wears shirt

Oh right ok

Not now cabra-cabriola now is not a good time

Summer holidays coming up and I'm once again web-searching "French Foreign Legion age limit?"

Don't need culture don't need higher education don't need thought just need PINTS

Guess what @haggistamer.bsky.social

It's a co-ordinated attack

Wait till they need Voight-Kampff tests at scale... they'll come running

Please don't let the controls be AI fash-tech that doesn't work

This is not normal

Is it 'don't blow up your economy by doing Brexit' ?

Fascists always come for educators first—we know why. We teach students to think for themselves, solve problems, question & analyze. We teach them the world's a big place with all kinds of people—and there’s beauty in diversity. They come for us because education is the foundation of democracy.

Kind of feel like "the fine print" is probably important wrt "law" and whatnot.

"People do not need a degree to be eligible." Yes I worked that out because it says the scheme starts at age 16. What is this bloody *obsession*?

Part of a sustained attack on scholars who and disciplines which may be critical of unlimited corporate power/white supremacy (fascism). Obey the overlords or have your career destroyed.

They *want* to destroy HE

My goodness.

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It's not all bad; they made up some contradictory rules about toilets

"As a government we back growth and we back good jobs, paying decent wages, and there'll be plenty of these on this site."

I miss when we had a civil service

🥶🥶🥶

Did Baudrillard make this?

Kier Starmer: “felt cute, might delete the university sector later 👁️ 👄 👁️ “

Roses are red, violets for flirts,

Absolutely

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Labour MP supporting HE staff

There's a 3-month Research and Communications internship going at the Global Labour Institute (Manchester) which might be of interest to current students or those looking for more experience in labour rights, education etc www.gli-manchester.net/2026/05/gli-...

Pantomime politics

I don't know but I'm trying to find out

Welcome to Wrath Month. We have no rainbows and glitter and sideshows for your heterosexual children and drunk girlies in pink cowboy hats to enjoy. We just have the truth of the slide into fascism and who they came for first

Top health official held shares in key children’s home operator - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Bet they didn't buy mine

People could easily get confused. One is a drag queen and one is a clothing brand/company and the words are spelt differently

My TL is basically this + HE collapsing

Women's problems women's fault men's problems women's fault

In and outside of the workplace, AI is used to intensify long standing mechanisms of labor-discipline; executives in every sector are proud to have a new weapon in the class struggle against worker power. Whether it meets their expectations is another story, but their intentions are crystal clear.

No thank you I'm already haunted

Has the marketization or privatisation of anything ever made anything better? Has anyone ever said 'this is good I'm glad we privatised this'?

Fully funded four year PhD: intentional communities of Wales. Closes 1st June. ⏰

ja fragt euch mal

Always money for repression

#Privatisation and #Outsourcing - in the NHS, as elsewhere, a few profit and the rest of us pay www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

For decades I was in awe of political systems that allowed universities to exist as bastions of free, independent, scholarship and teaching even when it was sharply critical of those in power. Seemed to me a litmus test of the liberal democratic spirit. Fearing now I’ve lived through its heyday.

"In this new version of collegiality, the professional academic becomes a manager of metrics, not moral purpose. Professionalism is thus emptied of its collegial content". On managed collegiality - great blogpost by Roy Suddaby. #HigherEd #BusinessSchool globalfocusmagazine.com/managerial-p...

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

For as long as I can remember Nottingham was a major, respected HEI in keeping with a major, attractive British city. That worked. That made sense.

Fell asleep and dreamt I was close to Donald Trump. It looked like he was going to press the button and I tried to talk him out of it. It seemed to work and as the dream ended I met Elon Musk and he told me he'd read my book about the end of work.