Great question! Now is the perfect time to be asking me about those plums.

Here’s what it taught me about B2B marketing

I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that a rough beast was slouching this way, and that’s on me.

Our early picket up and running at All Saints. We’re out today and tomorrow against our pitiful national pay offer of just 1.4% @unison.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social

For two days this week our members at both Manchester Met and RNCM have once again made a stand against real terms pay cuts and a funding model for HE that is unfair, impractical and out of date. Thank you to all other union branches the amazing students who sent their solidarity this week.

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

Ended up on the block tonight where Alex Pretti lived. Pretty much every home had his portrait in a window. I’ll never forget what they did to him. I’ll never forget how good we’ve been to each other.

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #5

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #4

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #3

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #2

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #1

I am imploring media to remember that just because someone writes an OpEd doesn't mean you have to publish it

Leaving after 11hrs at work, with a terrible muscle cramp in my lower back, I just boarded the bus and wished the driver a ’Good morning!’ Bless him for letting that go, because it most certainly is not.

I'd be very interested to see the numbers on this, but have no idea where to find the data. How many women athletes must now take this test x £185 = How much money drained from women's sport funding? In order to stigmatise and exclude how many on ideological grounds?

Happy World Book Day! Dragon is going to school as Sophia from the Unicorn Academy series, along with her beloved unicorn Rainbow. They are a bonded pair, obviously, as you can see from the matching colours in their hair and mane.

Pretty fitting given the people in charge of things that basically every attempted official justification for what the US was going for in Iran and why they hadn't foreseen any of the extremely foreseeable consequences is basically at the level of something you'd hear during a field sobriety stop.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.

As well as strike action, next week sees the start of our aggregate AGM. Details and a final agenda have been emailed to branch members. Our guest speaker will be Ian Allinson, trade union activist and author of the book “Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work”.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

cot-caught-court on a British high street ;-) #linguistics

Our branch will be taking a second round of strike action next week against our 2025/26 pay offer of just 1.4%. This time, members at MMU will be joined by the Royal Northern College of Music. Pickets will be formed at both institutions and will run from 6:30 at MMU and 7:30 at RNCM.

Oh! Wow! Yay! One-day worldbuilding conference at Trinity College? I love everything about this!

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

#OtD 1 Mar 1944 a series of general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy involving 1-6 million workers. Superficially about economic issues, they were organised by the anti-fascist resistance to undermine the regime. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

I talked loved one into watching a popular TV show. He apparently feels I did not describe it accurately enough. ‘You said this was about gay hockey players, but they’re just sad. They’re SO sad! This is awful! … And that one’s bi.’

norbert, the aggrieved ever-jovial barnaby the great archibald timid constantine shrewd percival

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

16 years ago today I met this snow llama/alpaca somewhere in Brooklyn

One of my branch members (who’s fasting!!) came to the office this week to discuss their case, and brought me home-made food. We’re both immigrants, so we talked about food and hospitality and cultural differences. And my office smelled aaamaaaziiing for the rest of the day. 🤤

Good luck to other @unisoninhe.bsky.social branches who are being re-balloted for strike action against the 2025/26 pay offer. A second wave of action will only strengthen our fight for fair pay.

Don't forget the 1,400 passport services locations in non-profit libraries were also ordered to shut down. While they're pushing through a law that requires voter ID, which a passport qualifies as.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

UNISON's re-ballot for members in certain universities opens today - voting papers must be received by 27 March AT THE LATEST so if your workplace is being balloted make sure you send a clear message to your employer that 1.4% is not good enough! Find out more at unsn.uk/3ZrKJwu

5* women authors by whom I’ve read at least 5 books: Katherine Addison Stephanie Burgis Gail Carriger CJ Cherryh Robin Hobb MCA Hogarth Andrea K Höst Mary Robinette Kowal Mercedes Lackey Ursula K Le Guin Anne McCaffrey Naomi Novik Elisabeth Wheatley *I lied, shush, it’s fine, let’s move on

a year is a long time in politics

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Tomorrow our branch will be out with many others to say that the racists of Britain First are not welcome here or anywhere!

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

As the saying goes, "If your activism doesn't consider the liberation of children, it is incomplete."

Wow. Just read the opening grafs of this opinion on Trump's ordered removal of an exhibition on the treatment of slaves in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sending support and solidarity to fellow UNISON members striking today at Manchester Met @unisonmmu.bsky.social and Bristol Universities in protest against another insulting pay offer of 1.4% (less than half of current inflation rate). HE financial crisis is not the workers’ fault!

Last week our Branch Chair spoke to reporters from @thenorthernrose.com about our latest strike action against the derisory 2025/26 HE pay offer. Students from University of Manchester and MMU also give their views on trade unions and the state of HE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqn...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.