Reminder that you never have to hand it to Manchester MP Graham Stringer, who is a climate change denier, wants us to withdraw from the ECHR and spreads anti-trans hate

Week 3 of not being able to breath properly and basically having to spend a day in bed after any mildly physically or mentally taxing task 🫠

“I’m not racist…I’m just frustrated...” 😩 Keir #Starmer, helping out racists yet again…

Compulsory 'voluntary work' is just unpaid Labour. Effectively they want to make migrants do community service for the crime of wanting to live in the UK

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I posted this yesterday, but it appears to be a reoccurring theme, so needs to be posted again

donald trump is going through full brandonization at an alarming rate

Study: Pretending Everything's Okay Works https://theonion.com/study-pretending-everythings-okay-works-1819573735/

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

No mention *anywhere* on the BBC front page of Reform’s latest policy. I guess the deep dives into the details will be along later…?

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When you baselessly call LGBTQ people terrorists who murdered Charlie kirk, this is the result. people.com/charlie-kirk...

First good ratio I've seen on academic Bluesky lol

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Three Russian warplanes that violated Estonian airspace have been intercepted by Nato, the military alliance has said

Yeah I'm sorry these costs don't make sense if you include Oracle. They project to be making $114bn in AI compute in FY2029 (that's June 1 2028 through May 31 2029), which would mean that OpenAI spends way, way more than this in 2028/2029 - FY2030 for Oracle is $144bn in AI revenue! C'mon! C'MON!

Universities that do this have ended any pretense to be interested in knowledge production, in which case what purpose do they serve anymore? 1000 years was a pretty good run, I guess.

I want my country back … from those who profit as public transport is run into the ground , those who get rewards for putting shit in the sea, those financiers and bankers who will destabilise a country for a quick buck, basically everyone Farage will stand up for if he wins an election

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Over 400 staff at the National Education Union are to strike for 3 more days this week over a planned restructure that will have a "catastrophic impact on staff workloads" Staff at the NEU, represented by Unite, are angry over plans for a significant restructure being 'mishandled' by NEU management

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I always want to ask “who hurt you, JD?”, and then remember that he wrote a book about it

I'm not, nor have I ever been, a young woman in the workplace, but I wouldn't be surprised to discover that Ovenden's graphic conversation with a female colleague about her having sex with a Labour MP was NOT ENTIRELY consensual on her part. 1)

REF funding worth a quarter less, UG fees worth a third less and no lovely international students to prop the house of cards up. Unless something changes drastically this is the start of terminal decline for UK HE

I also think this should put the “it was a purely private correspondence” claim to bed.

The leading, indispensable accomplice to this world historic evil will tomorrow be given all the honours of a state visit to the UK by one of the other key accomplices. I know that reads as somewhat polemical but it really is just a bald statement of fact.

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

We don't get much sense in this report of the degrading language that was used, what that might say about the workplace culture in question and how this might affect people. We do hear a lot about how the resignation impacts Starmer, and what a great person Ovenden is. Plus his lengthy non-apology.

Not having a go at this, as the rise of racism and the far right around east Liverpool is a huge problem….but the opposition in Knowsley is the Green Party, and their rise in one of the most deprived bits of the country is a genuinely untold story. Work needs doing in this!

The Guardian’s Jessica Elgot “whatever you think of these messages”?!!! and making Labour factional infighting the focus rather than gross misogynoir. Truly grim stuff. And as for Harry Cole, we know full well what his whatsapps say about Diane Abbott.

Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Sometimes solutions are easy @drjogrady.bsky.social & @ucu.org.uk Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute. Our statement, with support from the following branch committees:

The people who are supposedly 'the voice' of research intensive universities don't understand research funding or even research. A truly embarrassing organisation

A polite reminder that some of the most fundamental and field-shaping research is UNfunded—or rather core-funded through institutional research leave—precisely because it doesn’t have to abide by the fickle trends and tickboxes that govern UKRI & Co. Frankly, this is an insult to the profession.

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”' Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

Any visibly minoritised person is on edge all the time at the moment, btw. Everywhere

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

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I find it very funny that David Lammy utterly debased himself toadying up to JD Vance only for Starmer to bin him off as Foreign Secretary like a week later. Lmao.

Labour have had a year to do something like this, to walk onto Farage's own turf and put the screws to him. Instead, they've taken every opportunity to raise his profile and advance his messaging as part of a deliberate strategy that's killing their own party. Polanski's still in his first week.

Oh fuck. In case you aren’t watching Japanese politics there are two incredibly dangerous far right parties rapidly growing to challenge the already reactionary Liberal Democratic Party’s dominance. For context the LDP was founded by war criminals and the two other far right parties are far worse.

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

Goldsmiths. What utterly rancid management this once proud institution has

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

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