UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is

Great match #Gracheva #Eala 🎾 Look forward to seeing them both at @wimbledonltc.bsky.social 👏🏻 #Eastbourne

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UK benefit fraud prosecutions are 23 times more than for tax offences. Tax fraud up to nine times higher than benefit fraud. Laws against the rich are not always enforced. Govt taking powers to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants. Same won't apply to tax abusers, scammers. It is class war

Jess Thom, co-artistic director of Touretteshero, can no longer do her job after a 61% cut to her #AccessToWork support. This is not a unique case - disabled people across the UK are being hit hard. Read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social here and consider writing to your MP: graeae.org/resource/gra...

Median UK annual wage for employees is £30,252. Net pay of £25,301 attacked by corporate profiteering. Hard to survive, raise family even with two wage earners. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%.

#OtD 14 May 1938 the England football team gave a Nazi salute before a match in Berlin. They had been ordered to do so by the govt which had made a pact with Hitler when much of the ruling class supported fascism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8604/England-football...

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#CatsOfBlueSky Monsieur Rooney 🧡

So proud to be watching this ❤️ Shout out to #WIASN and so many other people in the room and not, who have contributed to my dear friend Az feeling brilliant today. “Words create worlds of possibilities” @openuniversity.bsky.social

Nobody is safe until everybody is safe via: @danielgriffinmdphd.bsky.social

Excited to present our @altuk.bsky.social / @ufitrust.bsky.social @amplifyfe.bsky.social Insights research on how innovative #digital pedagogy and #AI narrow the #digitaldivide at the #WorldSkills Professional Exchange today at the wonderful Satellite Catapult Centre Oxford #AmplifyFE #UKFE #EduSky

Do you teach in Further Education? Could you help me with some research? If so please get in touch. #FurtherEducation #AmplifyFE #loveFE #ukfechat #FEResearch

#OtD 16 Mar 1978 Mary Brooksbank, Scottish mill worker, socialist, trade unionist died. She founded the Working Women Guild, helped organize unemployed workers, was critical of Stalinism, and spent several years in prison for her efforts stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

When people feel genuinely understood and acknowledged by others, it activates neural pathways associated with safety and social connection, releasing bonding hormones like oxytocin. This validation goes beyond simple listening www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

...and they think all fields, all change, are button-pushing, not complex human collaborative enterprises, which they prefer to gut for profit 🫠😭

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

bhoys celtic get it. “kick genocide out of football” 🇵🇸🍀

We are looking forward to this! #AmplifyFE #FurtherEducation #LoveFE 🙌

I want Frankie to win because I love her clothes #TheTraitors

Sending love to all my friends in Ireland. Hope you can keep safe and sound during #StormEowyn 😘

This is a clear and authoritative briefing on FE funding in England. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...

Start the day snugly productive, in the company of #JoyFE💛 #BowerbirdWritingRoom opens at 9am. Everyone is welcome. DM for Zoom link.

Saturday afternoons with #LittleEl 🦁 Silent Witness and knitting toys for my doggy grand-daughter Miss Pippin #DogsOfBlueSky 🐶

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

@erinmanning1.bsky.social so happy to see you here 💚

Exploring #livedexperience #sociology

Appreciating Yesterday Me for changing the bedsheets 😌

Start the day snugly productive, in the company of #JoyFE💛 #BowerbirdWritingRoom opens at 9am. Everyone is welcome. DM for Zoom link.

Still enjoying convalescent telly 😌 Imagine actors were queueing up to be in the final episodes of #Vera Lovely to see some stalwarts on the screen 😊 #CathyTyson #ShobnaGulati #KevinWhately #AmandaRoot ❤️ #LittleEl sleeping gently through most of it…

There are worse starts to a year than enforced #RadicalRest due to a particularly brutal but hopefully brief chest cold. Grateful for kind offers, Co-op groceries and Christmas books! And finally watched this. I loved the book so much I hadn’t dared before. It’s beautiful #LifeAfterLife ❄️

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

But I can’t complain, because I spent nearly the whole of yesterday reading this excellent book, while listening to Neneh, Don and Mabel ❤️🍒

Spending the early morning animal wrangling while trying to strip down the turkey…but last night there was finally an entente cordiale 🐈🐕

A third annual listen to @robmacfarlane16.bsky.social and #SimonMcBurney’s incredible winter soundscape. The ending (and Hawkin) as emotional as ever. #TheDarkIsRising on @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

#ResearchAdvent Day 24 And right now I’m looking forward to switching off and letting the year’s learning compost down. Happy Christmas! 🎄

#ResearchAdvent Day 23 In six months I hope that #GreenChangemakers can have initiated honest conversations across #FE about establishing *meaningful* impact.

#ResearchAdvent Day 22 Mr Rose of Nottingham ‘Madame Jojo’ candle ☺️ Part of my writing ritual, lighting the same fragrance helps get me in the focus zone.

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

I actually loved #TheInkBlackHeart #Strike 🖤 The book was bloated in my view (still listened to all 20+ hours of it though 😂) so I appreciated the incisive editing which brought clarity, with characters that still sing.

#ResearchAdvent Day 21 My theoretical framework is a lens, really - #posthumanism Not robots, but a way of making the structures that control us invisible, so that we can glimpse a different future.

#ResearchAdvent Day 20 S/heroes are friends and fellow travellers, so many still that I’ve met online and would love to meet in person!

Yes I may have been trapped by Little El into watching #Emmerdale but I would not have missed tonight’s episode for the world. Powerful and compelling, especially the final moments with the women of the support group. Important work, bravo everyone 🙏🏼 #CoerciveControl

#ResearchAdvent Day 19 My analysis companion is the #Bowerbird, hopping around picking up the blue shiny things and curating them into something new.

A blog post about Slowing Down lornamcampbell.org/women-in-tec... #femedtech #He4Good HT @sokate.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @drloumycroft.bsky.social @catherinecronin.bsky.social @czernie.bsky.social and Helen Beetham.

#ResearchAdvent Day 18 I am excited and motivated for #GreenChangemakers in 2025! Scaling up, out and down across the country, with our changemaking practices and Long Now impact research. I’m tired now, but I’ll be ready 💚

#ResearchAdvent Day 17 I have been intentionally practising #RadicalRest (which also means living more simply) for a couple of years now. I never thought I would be able to do this and then I encountered @thenapministry.bsky.social and I knew it wasn’t a choice 🙏🏼

Kelpie puffa coats for winter ❄️

#ResearchAdvent Day 16 A privilege to step into a #GreenChangemaker space and go public with my own (very steep) learning curve this year.

#ResearchAdvent Day 15 I love to take myself off for a couple of days writing retreat, but that’s not always possible. Closer to home, #HighfieldCoffeeSocial has been an absolute godsend this year.