Just had to go to the shop for gin and painkillers, not ideal

Important to realise that one of Alice Sullivan's demands in her legal letter to University of Bristol is for the university to withdraw its Trans Inclusion Policy profalices.co.uk/wp-content/u... (the policy is already listed as under review by the university www.bristol.ac.uk/inclusion/lg...)

"Chris Rea, singer aged 22, from Middlesbrough, promotes his new single, So Much Love, which he wrote while working for his fathers ice cream company." #RIPChrisRea

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.

'On the "bitter cold" Christmas Day of 1830, Mary Ann Macham arrived in North Shields, the northern English fishing port that would become her unlikely home; the endpoint of a 4,000-mile journey filled with fear, courage and a superhuman determination to be free.'

Suing my institution because nobody checks the weekly events newsletter

However

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

He looks like an old school Mancunian who never got over the Hacienda closing.

Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.

Anthony and Darren and Emma's relationship is so wholesome and pure

'OOH Valerie, what a Christmas, implants and a Dyson!!'

wrapping presents while watching Wallace and Gromit. Gromit's hatred for the Norbots is inspiring

Excellent thread this. The NYT interview made me think we need to rediscover shame in the modern world - that is to say, if your reaction to the Coldplay kisscam was anything other than to laugh and go 'wow, what a way to get caught' and thne move on with your day, you should be ashamed.

I love how at Christmas you have a perfectly sensible meal and also a great big wodge of, say, pork pie, because, well, it's Christmas

This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.

An early Christmas present for those of us in the #KidLitUK community who've been waiting YEARS for the other shoe to finally drop. Harper Collins knew all about it. They paid off staff to keep their mouths shut. Shame on them, shame on him, and good riddance.

ProTEct truSTed LocAL nEWS This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.

You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.

I would pick up this 60-pound dog and carry him until I fell over

Well done to @cardiffucu.bsky.social. This is huge progress from where things were not long ago.

We welcome the return of Erasmus. But how welcoming is the UK for international students? Rising costs, visa restrictions and growing uncertainty are driving international students away. Time to make the UK a genuinely welcoming place to study again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

We are deeply concerned for the health of Qesser Zuhrah, who has been on hunger strike for 46 days. We join those calling on the government to act now, and address the serious concerns raised by lawyers acting for the prisoners.

What a Good Dog

www.judiciary.uk/judgments/al... 😍

I cannot see the slightest justification for allowing anti-trans hate group ‘Sex matters’ to comment on this story. If you agree with me, a complaint to the BBC only takes a few moments. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Don't stop talking about the hunger strikers. The government treatment of them should be an enormous national scandal

This is so useful. I don't know how anyone can confidently identify LLM-generated text just from vibes alone, and I think assuming we can presents a real danger of bias. This is a much better way.

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Hope all the transphobes are miserable

Look out everyone, Fukuyama has discovered chatbots

Interesting piece by James Tibbits @labourlist.bsky.social about the hoops Andrea Egan would need to jump through if she wanted @unison.org.uk to disaffiliate from Labour. Unions are champions at constitutional procedurals labourlist.org/2025/12/unis...

Great work from Birmingham UCU. H&S is one of the most effective tools we have at our disposal as trade unionists.

this is it. this is the most bluesky post ever

To get the government to respond to our petition calling for a National Climate Resilience Plan, we need 10,000 of you to help us. We are over halfway now! If you haven't already, please sign it and encourage others to do so as well ✒️ 🌍 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

If they were trying to get the Tyne and Wear Metro built now, they'd never succeed.

Populationists at it again. But of course we're not allowed to call them that, because they're women's rights advocates now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Bongo zoomies? Yes, please!

How to describe a hunger strike without using the words hunger strike. Very interesting choice of words.

I made this and it's incredible. My very own bespoke toddy

We have responded to the OfS consultation on quality regulation. We welcome some proposals, including the expansion of TEF to all providers. Yet we are concerned about proposals to transform the TEF’s core aims and raise the stakes of TEF performance. Here are our key takeaways:

Just walking home through the centre of town. Two blokes had their vehicles in side by side lanes in the traffic, both had their windows down. One was going ‘you’re a fucking idiot who can’t drive’ and the other was going 'no you’re a fucking idiot'. Ah Britain

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

I want a hot chocolate with booze in it

Strike ballot arrived @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, easy double Yes, would be off to the postbox if i wasnt meeting with a Phd student in 20 mins. #wearetheuniversity

Remember the fun with this in previous years. Think I've cracked it, though: they've all travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem, so it counts as an away fixture.

this might be an unpopular opinion but I'm simply not going to get involved in discourse about a union that I'm not a member of